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Perkin-Elmer gas chromatography system in use at Centers for Disease Control
- 1970s
Two views of laboratory technician Cynthia A. Alley operating a Perkin-Elmer gas chromatograph and data station in a laboratory at the Analytical Bacteriology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control. In the first…
- Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
- Subject Women in science, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Life sciences, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), Communicable diseases, Corporations, Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography--Instruments, Women employees, Laboratories
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Perkin-Elmer infrared spectrophotometer in use at Calgon Water Management laboratory
- 1970s
General view of a Perkin-Elmer Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the spectrophotometer is being used to characterize…
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Perkin-Elmer infrared spectrophotometer in use at Calgon Water Management laboratory
- 1970s
General view of a Perkin-Elmer Model 337 Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. The female technician visible in the photograph is unidentified.
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Perkin-Elmer infrared spectrophotometer in use at Environmental Protection Agency
- 1970s
General view of Dr. Eva Wittgenstein inserting a sample into a Perkin-Elmer Model 621 Grating Infrared Spectrophotometer in use at a facility associated with the Laboratory Methods Research Section of the Environmental…
- Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
- Subject Women in science, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Corporations, Women chemists, Pollutants, Laboratories, Air--Pollution, Chemists
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Perkin-Elmer infrared spectroscopy equipment in use at Broome Community College laboratory
- 1970s
General view of two unidentified students operating Perkin-Elmer infrared spectroscopy equipment in the chemical analysis instrument laboratory at Broome Community College in New York State. Per notations accompanying…
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Perkin-Elmer instruments in use at Broome Community College laboratory
- 1970s
General view of assorted Perkin-Elmer instruments in use in the chemical analysis instrument laboratory at Broome Community College, including a differential scanning calorimeter (foreground), an atomic absorption…
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Perkin-Elmer instruments in use at Calgon Water Management laboratory
- 1970s
General view of an unidentified employee operating a Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with a heated graphite atomizer (HGA) attachment in use at a Calgon Water Management laboratory facility. Per…
- Creator Of Work Perkin-Elmer Corporation
- Subject Water--Testing, Employees, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Corporations, Water, Women employees, Atomizers, Laboratories
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Perkin-Elmer instruments in use at Hershey Company facility
- 1970s
General view of laboratory technician Margaret Kreiser using assorted Perkin-Elmer atomic absorption instruments at a Hershey Company facility to determine the metal constituents of finished food items and raw…
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SILASTIC demonstration mammary sizer implant seamless design 350 CC
- 1970
SILASTIC demonstration mammary breast implant/sizer/prosthesis in original packaging and box with accompanying paperwork.
A: White cardboard box with blue product label adhered to top of box. Box opens to reveal…
- Manufacturer Dow Corning Corporation
- Subject Silicone rubber, Breast implants, Implants, Artificial, Prosthesis, Women--Health and hygiene
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Water testing at Environmental Protection Agency facility
- 1970s
General view of an unidentified female employee pouring a water sample into the tray of a Perkin-Elmer Autosampler at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laboratory facility located in Edison, New Jersey. Per…
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Woman using Beckman Glucose Analyzer and BUN Analyzer
- 1970s
An unidentified woman in a laboratory works in front of a bench holding a Beckman Glucose Analyzer and a Beckman BUN (Blood Urea Nitrogen) Analyzer.
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and…
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Blood alcohol analysis using Perkin-Elmer gas chromatograph
- 1973
General view of an unidentified female technician loading blood serum samples into a Perkin-Elmer Model F-40 Multifract Gas Chromatograph in a laboratory at the Institut für Rechtsmedizin located in Göttingen, Germany. …
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Letter from Philip Handler to Harrison Shull, 1974
- 1974-May-24
Describes recent accomplishments of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Includes a passage on the significant increase of membership among "women and blacks" on NRC committees, but notes,…
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Postage stamp from Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorating Marie Curie
- 1975
Stamp issued during International Women's Year (1975), depicting Marie Curie, "discoverer of radium," by the former British colony Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (now called the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.)
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women scientists, Chemists, Women physical scientists, International Women's Year (1975), Commemorative postage stamps, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Anguilla, Women Nobel Prize winners
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16m 30s
Baseline: The Chemist
- 1977
This film from the American Chemical Society showcases the skills of the chemist with artful shots of chemical reactions, laboratory procedures, and instruments, and free verse, first-person narration connecting the…
- Creator Of Work American Chemical Society
- Producer Screen Presentations, Inc.
- Subject Chemistry, Chemists, Women chemists, American Chemical Society, Chemical laboratories
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Jogbra
- 1977 – 1979
Invented by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith in 1977, the Jogbra was the first sports bra. Lindahl and Smith's initial prototype was in the style of two jockstraps sewn together to create a crude brassiere with two pouches…
- Manufacturer Jogbra, Inc.
- Subject Jogbra, Inc., Athletics--Equipment and supplies, Brassieres, Women athletes, Exercise, Women inventors, Women--Health and hygiene
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Portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
- Circa 1977
Portrait of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011), an American medical physicist and co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique.
Rosalind…
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Postage stamp from Martinique commemorating Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie's 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1977
Stamp depicts Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, along with a model of an unidentified molecule.
- Artist Vásárhelyi, Gyula László 1929-
- Subject Women in science, Joliot-Curie, Irène, 1897-1956, Postage stamps, Women physicists, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, Physicists, Martinique, Women in chemistry, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Woman assembling a Beckman Immunochemistry Analyzer
- Circa 1977
Beckman Instruments debuted an Immunochemistry Analyzer in 1977 and an Auto ICS (Immunochemistry System) in 1980.
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Letter from Sidney L. Hantler to Shirley Ann Jackson, January 1977
- 1977-Jan-12
Sidney L. Hantler asks Shirley Ann Jackson (1946-) to fill out an application in order to visit the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM.
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First day cover commemorating Maria Goeppert Mayer
- 1977-Oct-20
Philatelic First Day Cover features a Colorano "Silk” cachet. These First Day Covers, produced by Colorano, were introduced in 1971 and produced until 2016. Each color illustration is printed on satin-finish fabric…
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Letter from Shirley Ann Jackson to Sidney L. Hantler, November 1977
- 1977-Nov-08
Shirley Ann Jackson (1946-) writes to Sidney L. Hantler, informing him that she would like to be considered for employment at the I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
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Shirley Ann Jackson's application for employment at IBM
- 1977-Nov-08
Shirley Ann Jackson's (1946-) application for employment at IBM.
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Professor Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1978
Study for a never-finished portrait of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin OM FRS (1910-1994), by English artist Graham Sutherland. Hodgkin was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for her work in…
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First Day Cover commemorating Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow
- 1979
Cachet created by Colorano is a silk depiction of Rosalyn S. Yalow with text that describes the work which earned her the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Part of the Women's History Series (No. 83) by the National…
- Creator Of Work Colorano
- Subject Women in science, Postage stamps, Jewish scientists, Women scientists, Postmarks, Yalow, Rosalyn S. (Rosalyn Sussman), 1921-2011, Science on postage stamps, Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Women in medicine, Women Nobel Prize winners