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Botanical Illustration of the Larkspur plant including blue flower, thin leaved foliage, and seedpod.

July Blooms

July 8, 2015 circulating now

A botanical illustration of the flower, fruit, and seed of the Larkspur, the July birth flower, and one of the plants featured in Elizabeth Blackwell’s 1737 book A Curious Herbal.

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A banner reading "UUU are Great Marshall" hung in a hallway.

A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg—David Serlin

March 20, 2015 Circulating Now

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at

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A screenshot from the turning the pages interactive shown highlighting the UUU cell on the chart.

A Tribute to Nirenberg—George Thoma

March 19, 2015 Circulating Now

On March 17, 2015, the National Library of Medicine held a special event, “A Tribute to Marshall Nirenberg,” the first of a “triplet” of events at NIH

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Lindberg speaks at a podium in front of the entrance to the Against the Odds exhibition at the National Library of Medicine.

Donald Lindberg: A Leadership Legacy for the Future

March 5, 2015 Circulating Now

By Jeffrey S. Reznick At the end of this month, Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, Director of the National Library of Medicine since 1984, will retire

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A complex hand drawn and colored chart labeled in Asian script and featuring many small boxes filled with text and stylized illustrations of a long green snake and a man with a snakes body holding a round red object in his hand.

Mongolian Manuscript comes to Turning the Pages

November 13, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North The latest addition to the Turning the Pages collection is a Mongolian manuscript entitled, Manual of Astrology and Divination. This colorfully

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A woodcut illustration of large number of saws, knives, probes, scissors and other tools laid out on a table.

Andreas Vesalius and De Fabrica

April 9, 2014 Circulating Now

By Michael J. North This year we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) who is best known for changing how

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Detail from a botanical illustration of a red poppy flower.

The Red Poppy: A Curious Herbal

August 30, 2013 circulating now

By Laura McNulty and Ginny A. Roth ~ This image, rightly called “Red Poppy,” appears in the eighteenth century herbal  by Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758) titled

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three engravings of unicorns

Medicine, Museums, and Unicorns

July 23, 2013 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ One of the fun parts of working at the reference desk in the History of Medicine Division at the National

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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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