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Drawn To, Drawn From Experience

November 14, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright España Senior Research Fellow

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A nurse in dark goggles sits by a patient lying with skin exposed to a bright electric light.

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

December 20, 2016 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

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A man receives an award before a room full of people in formal dress.

Celebrating the Nobel Prize

December 9, 2016 Circulating Now

By Christie Moffatt The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony takes place tomorrow, December 10, in Stockholm, Sweden, as it does each year, on the anniversary of

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Two white men take blood from a young black youth outside a building, other black adults and youths look on.

D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea

April 7, 2015 Circulating Now

By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918–2000, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for those interested in

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Tuberculosis notice listing danger signs.

World Tuberculosis Day

March 24, 2015 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth On March 24, 1882, a medical milestone was achieved. Dr. Robert Koch reported his discovery that Mycobacterium tuberculosis was the cause of

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Nirenberg, ina lab coat, sitsin his office by a blackboard and a cart of molecule models.

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg

March 16, 2015 Circulating Now

Tomorrow, March 17, 2015 the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will host the first of a “triplet” of events at the National Institutes of Health

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Einstein: The Shy Genius

October 2, 2014 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth Fee Once Einstein became famous, people would stop him in the street and cry out: “Professor Einstein!” He would say; “Oh yes, many

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Colored newspaper illustration of Marie Curie in a lab.

The Revolutionary who Discovered Radium

July 3, 2014 Circulating Now

By Elizabeth Fee Albert Einstein said “I have always admired . . Marie Curie. Not only did she do outstanding work in her lifetime, and

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Detail of the engraved title page of Observations including a portrait of a woman and baby

Three Rare Volumes Go to New York

September 18, 2013 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North I was quite excited when I heard that The Grolier Club of New York was staging an exhibition on the history

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