The American Museum of Science and Energy has been involved in nuclear science education since it opened in 1949. For a period between the mid-1950's and the early 1980's, a series of traveling exhibits and demonstrations provided the nation with programs about basic nuclear science and ...
institutions of natural history, including the Smithsonian and Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. One of his most notable finds is the holotype of the first recognized "bird with teeth", Ichthyornis. While working for Marsh, he also discovered the type species of ...
American Museum of Asmat Art American Museum of Atomic Energy American Museum of Natural History American Museum of Papermaking American Museum of Radio and Electricity American Museum of Science & Energy American Museum of the Moving Image American Museums Association American Mushroom Institute American...
The Exploratorium: The Museum As Laboratory. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1991. Herken, Gregg. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002. ———. Cardinal Choices: Presidential Sci...
1.Of, relating to, or including several cultures. 2.Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture. mul′ti·cul′tur·al·ismn.
One man who it particularly intrigued was Frederick Ward Putnam of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Putnam was fascinated with the mounds, specifically the Serpent Mound. When he visited the mounds in 1885, Putnam found that they were gradually being destroyed by plowing. Putnam raised fu...
In 2002, he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his development and implementation of reduced instruction set computer architecture and program optimization technology."He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and died in Valhalla, New York. Birthplace:...
The Museum of Flight, headed by Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, is the largest private aviation museum in the world and an affiliate of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. While at the museum, the artists spent part of one day painting subjects of their choice. ...
When I worked full time for the Smithsonian, I was asked to videotape the 1995 Enola Gay exhibit at the Air and Space Museum before it's official opening for security purposes. I actually stood in the fuselage of the plane, right where the bomb hung before it was released...I still get...
“Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum,” a building altogether too small to contain such a rich history, you might not know a quarter of what’s happened in this place. The ninth ward is the largest of the seventeen wards of New Orleans. The wards were drawn in1852 ...