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We are the Niels Bohr Library & Archives at the American Institute of Physics. We preserve and make known the history of physics and allied fields.
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Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning - by Karen Barad (2007). In this ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields, Dr. Barad elaborates [their] theory of agential realism.

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This NASA art shows a proposed 1984 Mars mission, with rovers returning data via a mother orbiter. This was to follow the Viking landers of 1976. Earth wouldn't successfully put a vehicle on Mars until Sojourner in 1996.

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Catharine Garmany, who won the Annie Jump Cannon Award in 1976, specializes in the study of O- and B-type stars, which are very large, very hot, and eventually explode into supernovas. She credits the award as being an important achievement in her career.

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the first person to win the Annie Jump Cannon Award in 1934. In her doctoral thesis, Payne-Gaposchkin proposed that the sun and stars were made up of different elements than the earth, an idea which was not popular in the 1920’s.

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It’s the final day of Women’s History Month, so let’s celebrate! Here are our photos of the month: images of some of the remarkable recipients of the AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy!

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Or if you’re a beginner cook (no shame) check out this one on the toaster! https://t.co/5cmO9JKqph

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Theoretical & physical chemist, Henry Eyring (L) and particle physicist Gerson Goldhaber (R) were both born (Eyring in 1901, & Goldhaber in 1924). In honor of their shared birthday, we thought we'd highlight another similarity: their participation in phone prop portraiture.

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When you love your cats as much as Val and Lia Telegdi, you take them everywhere. 😻

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Some last the test of time. Here's Homer Dodge, 1st President of , and his wife Margaret enjoying a meal in Iowa City after their wedding and then paddling on the Patuxent River 60 years later, celebrating their anniversary

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What a nice surprise to listen to the most recent episode featuring Lonnie G. Bunch III and hear about Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, & the women who worked with the Harvard-Smithsonian Glass Plates ✨ https://t.co/LmsbdgD79u

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