With great pleasure, we welcome Dr. Jacqueline Mitton to Ex Libris Universum to talk about her new book on Vera Rubin, co-written with Dr. Simon Mitton. Vera Rubin: A Life, published February 11, 2021, is the first ever biography on the astronomer, who is regarded as one of the most influential of her era for her monumental contributions to dark matter research and her advocacy efforts for women in the sciences.
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Some very big, very exciting changes are coming to the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives!
ESVA is moving to a new site and adopting an open access approach to digital image sharing. Once we have transitioned to the new site, we will no longer charge for our high-resolution digital images or for usage fees. In addition to this, we hope to offer our users an improved photo research experience. We are excited to implement these changes and adapt with the best practices of our industry.
This year, the 18th of January marked what would have been Japanese-American theoretical physicist Yoichiro Nambu’s 100th birthday!
Back by popular demand, Zoom backgrounds, part two!
It was again pleasant to take a trip to the archives stacks containing the Wenner Collection at AIP’s Niels Bohr Library and Archives back in early 2020. And again, it took little time to find a box containing papers written by two giants of the early 20th century, concerned with one of the basic problems of both physics and chemistry. The papers are:
Join us as we look back at the history of the Arecibo Observatory and some of the research done with this one-of-a-kind telescope!
Welcome to the next chapter of our ABC blog series! All quoted definitions used in this series come from John Carter and Nicholas Barker’s book ABC for Book Collectors. Today, we discuss some book terms that begin with the letter "T." You are welcome to access our entire ABC series here.
“An ugly but useful term, the product of the increasing mechanisation of edition-binding. It means the text part of a book, sewn and trimmed, perhaps, but without endpapers, before casing-in; now used by hand-binders with the same meaning.”
For the next installment of the ABC blog series, we continue to explore the Wenner Collection using vocabulary defined in John Carter and Nicholas Barker’s classic book, ABC for Book Collectors. Today we are highlighting the letter S. You can read the entirety of our ABC series here.
As the holiday season is beginning, we try to keep the balance between being productive and getting ready for the holidays. This year, with the pandemic, we still have to tackle the same concept to keep the work and life balance, with some twist by trying to do it all in one place, at home.
