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Bertillon’s Statistical Analysis of the 1889–1890 Influenza Epidemic

July 14, 2022 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest bloggers E. Thomas Ewing, PhD, Anna Pletch, and Brooke Breighner from Virginia Tech to share their research on French statistician Jacqes

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A chart showing how transfer of evacuees were done starting with Mayer in May and ending with Fresno in October.

Wartime Incarceration of Deaf Japanese Americans

December 16, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes Selena Moon, MA, a public historian researching Japanese American mixed race history, military history, and disability history. Today she joins us to

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A map of Europe indicating regions in northern Finland and Spain and associated with different dyes.

Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data II

November 4, 2021 Circulating Now

By Brianna Chatmon ~ Imagine you are building a house from ground up, every single decision must coordinate with the next. If you choose a

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Leather bound books on library shelving showing considerable deterioration with discoloration, roughness and separation.

Leather Bindings: Mapping Spatial Data

April 29, 2021 Circulating Now

By Brianna Chatmon ~ I wasn’t surprised when I learned that some of the world’s oldest leather-bound manuscripts housed at The Nag Hammadi Library and

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Map of Bethesda, MD from 1879 naming the local land owners

Who Was Here First

November 25, 2019 Circulating Now

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) sits on the southeast corner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

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A street map of New Orleans.

Data Science in Politics of Yellow Fever: Medical Research before “Data”

June 5, 2019 Circulating Now

When data is processed and analyzed it becomes actionable information.

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An open book showing a hand drawn circular map of water and landmasses.

The Wonders of Creation

January 21, 2016 Circulating Now

By Homira Pashai The National Library of Medicine holds an important collection of over 200 manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century in Arabic, Persian,

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Detail of map of Europe.

Mapping the 1889-1890 Russian Flu

August 11, 2014 Circulating Now

In November 1889, a rash of cases of influenza-like-illness appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Soon, the “Russia Influenza” spread across Europe and the world. This

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What motivates a rare book collector? This week's Circulating Now blog post looks at the legacy of Thomas Windsor, whose lifetime investment in books enriched the growing collections of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office (now NLM!).
Maxine Singer (born 1931) is a leading molecular biologist and science advocate. She has made important contributions to the deciphering of the genetic code and to our understanding of RNA and DNA, the chemical elements of heredity. She helped organize the landmark Asilomar Conference in February 1975, at which scientists agreed to impose restrictions on the new and controversial science of recombinant DNA, and to develop a framework for removing these restrictions as knowledge of the science advanced. From 1988 to 2002, Dr. Singer was president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position in which she not only reinvigorated the Institution's scientific programs, but served as an effective champion of women in science, of improvements in science education, and of scientists who engage in public policy debates.
"To use what I saw—as a 12-year-old girl—my God-given talents to help someone. Medicine seemed to me to be the most noble of endeavors."— Dr. Bernadine Healy
#OTD in 1845, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born in Lennep, Germany. Fifty years later, his discovery of the #XRay (also known as the #Roentgen ray) changed the world and laid the foundation of modern radiology. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we are featuring a portrait of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864-1940), best known as the founder of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901.
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