Object 8 of #Carnegie125 is an embosser from the early 1900s that once stamped our official seal.
For more than a century, that mark appeared on publications, the Year Book, swag, and even a ceramic core used to cast a Magellan telescope mirror.
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On the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, we're sharing the story of a female first!
Object 7 in our #Carnegie125 series is the first known spectrographic plate taken by a woman at Mount Wilson Observatory.
Meet Jennie Belle Lasby: https://bit.ly/4s5yFfI
#WomensHistoryMonth
Some of us doodle cubes & daisies. Vera Rubin, unsurprisingly, doodled galaxies.
Object 6 in our #Carnegie125 series is a page of spiral doodles from the Carnegie astronomer who showed dark matter exists—w/ clues about her day hidden in the margins. #WomensHistory
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This month, we'll be sharing more of the objects, stories, and women that shaped our first 125 years. Stay tuned! #Carnegie125 🔗 carnegiescience.edu/nettie-steve...
It's #WomensHistoryMonth, and we're kicking it off with object No. 3 in our #Carnegie125 series: a $1,000 grant application that helped change biology forever.
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Object 2 | The Yale Embryo
In 1932, Elizabeth Ramsey discovered a 14-day-old embryo so tiny (2.75 mm) it was mistaken for an insect. The embryo became a cornerstone of our Carnegie Collection & launched Ramsey's 60-year career. #Carnegie125
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We’re kicking off the countdown to #Carnegie125 next year! To celebrate, we're opening the archives to share 125 objects that tell our story of scientific excellence.
📸 Object 1
On this day in 1902, Andrew Carnegie convened our first Board of Trustees—founding Carnegie Science.
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