Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Dibner Library Lectures On The
History Of Science And Technology
Supported By The Dibner Fund
- 2000 Scientific Discoveries
Kenneth L. Caneva (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) on "The Form and Function of Scientific Discoveries," November 16, 2000
- 2000 Astronomy
Steven J. Dick (U. S. Naval Observatory) on "Extraterrestrial Life and Our World View at the Turn of the Millennium," May 2, 2000
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1999 History of Architecture
Charles Brownell (Virginia Commonwealth University) on "Horrors! Changing Views of the American Victorian House" in conjunction with the Washington Collegium for the Humanities Lecture Series on Shifting Perspectives in History, Culture, and the Arts, May 21, 1999
- 1998 History of Medicine and Anatomy
Katharine Park (Harvard University) on "Visible Women: Anatomical Illustration and Human Dissection in Renaissance Italy," June 3, 1998
- 1997 Technology and Invention (Centenary of Bern Dibner's Birth)
Henry Petroski (Duke University) on "Pencils, Paperclips, and Invention," November 18, 1997
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1996 Earth Sciences
(Smithsonian 150th Anniversary, Honoring the Institution's Benefactor James Smithson, Geologist)
Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory and George Mason University) on "Earth Sciences, Unanswered Questions, and the Dibner Legacy," September 25, 1996
- 1995 Chemistry and Art
Roald Hoffmann (Cornell University) on "Chemistry Imagined" in conjunction with Smithsonian Libraries-Washington Project for the Arts exhibition, Science and the Artist's Book, May 30, 1995
- 1994 History of Technology. The Telephone
Bernard Carlson (University of Virginia) on "Making Connections: Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, and Thomas Edison and the Race to the Telephone," March 17, 1994
- 1993 Natural History of the Renaissance
William B. Ashworth, Jr. (University of Missouri, Kansas City) on "Animal Encounters of the Emblematic Kind: Re-writing the Book of Nature in the Late Renaissance", May 13, 1993
- 1992 History of Technology. The Printing Press, 15th to 20th Centuries
Elizabeth Eisenstein (University of Michigan Emerita) on "Celebrating Western Technology in the Age of the Hand Press," June 4, 1992
