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Happy birthday, Virginia Apgar! This groundbreaking physician as born #OTD in 1909. Dr. Apgar designed the Apgar Score, which is still used today to evaluate the health of infants immediately after birth. #WomenInScience #OthmerLibrary https://t.co/kBnky8fk3V
Cement is boring, right? Not according to Helinews! This wacky illustration appeared on the cover of the spring 1966 issue of the in-house publication of Beckman's Helipot Division, which featured a two-page spread about cermet trimmers. #OthmerLibrary https://t.co/78fgfNqKcT
This painting of the rolling West Virginia hills actually depicts the site of the world's first petrochemical plant, built by the Union Carbide Corporation in 1920. #MuseumMonday #MuseumMomentOfZen https://t.co/OyGf5byIT1
The draw of microscopic imagery for C19 consumers resembles the appeal of atomic imagery 100 years later: textiles inspired by new techs imaging crystals, minerals, & proteins were shown at the 1951 Festival of Britain https://t.co/bzYyoiDHAt #FellowFriday
Happy birthday, Elizabeth Blackwell! The 1st woman in the US to receive a medical degree, Blackwell, born #OTD in 1821, championed women in medicine and opened her own medical college for women. More about her from @womenshistory.
#WomenInScience https://t.co/sJBBiDCkoC
This 1964 Iranian stamp commemorates the 1100th birthday of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, known as Rhazes, a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher. See more science-themed postage stamps from the #OthmerLibrary collection. ▶️ https://t.co/iJi7guc3Gc
This angry bird has some very good advice for all of us! #NationalBirdDay #OthmerLibrary https://t.co/wzpPVuOqDV
This week in 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was published anonymously in London with 500 copies printed. She was 21. Shelley had started writing it at age 18, on 16 Jun 1816. #WomenInScience #SciFi https://t.co/zetGLbQo3K
And this biplane! #OthmerLibrary https://t.co/MfNGyxzue4
Linus Pauling was awarded the @NobelPrize in chemistry #OTD in 1954. Learn more about his life and work: https://t.co/03PO0uUF6V #IYPT2019
(Image: caricature of Pauling by J.C. Weller, 1931 #OthmerLibrary https://t.co/veewV6JkR5)