NMSI is the umbrella name for three great museums and one in the making. What binds us together is and a vision that can be stated in one senatnce. 'We engage peopl in a dialogue to creat meanings from the past, present, future of human ingenuity.
Begun formally in 1990, the U.S. Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. The project originally was planned to last 15 years, but rapid technological advances have accelerated the expected completion date to 2003. Project goals are to
identify all the approximate 30,000 genes in human DNA,
determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical base pairs that make up human DNA,
store this information in databases,
improve tools for data analysis,
transfer related technologies to the private sector, and
address the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) that may arise from the project.
Museum Victoria, Australia's largest public museums organisation, is the State Museum for Victoria (Australia), responsible for the care of the state's collections, conducting research, and providing public access. Museum Victoria has a proud history of scientific and cultural research and collection development. The organisation operates three public campuses and one of Australia's major education and research-based web sites, and is custodian of the State's immense museum collection.
The Natural History Museum is the UK's national museum of natural history, and a centre of scientific excellence in taxonomy and biodiversity.
The Museum's mission is to maintain and develop its collections and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
The Museum's collections include millions of specimens, and their size and quality place the Museum among the best in the world. The collections provide the basis for the research carried out in the scientific departments, and, through loans and visits by guest researchers, are constantly used by scientists and institutions throughout the world. It is a crucial role of the Museum to keep these collections available for international research, and to preserve them for future generations. Parts of the collections, presented on the Museum's web pages, are also registered in searchable databases.
Written in English and Swedish, this site provides a detailed description of the many collections housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Collections include a historical collection first catalogued by Carl Linnaeus, collections resulting from Swedish expeditions to the Gambia. Essays describe the history of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, a history of the Ornithological Collection, and the History of Molluscan research.
This chronology of Information Science and Technology has been prepared by Robert V. Williams, Univ. of South Carolina, College of Library and Information Science. The chronology should be considered a DRAFT version and all comments regarding corrections, changes, additions, etc. are welcome. Please e-mail me at: bobwill@sc.edu regarding changes.
The history of women, science, and technology: a bibliograpahic guide to the professions and the disciplines.
Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804), a native of Bratislava (Pressburg), was in his time an unsurpassable inventor, mechanic and automata constructor, polyhistor, artist and dramatist, even counsellor of Vienna imperial court.
Although the collecting of special materials in the biological sciences dates back to the beginnings of the University of 1913, the first major acquisition of historical medical material occurred in 1963 when a grant from the Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward Foundation enabled the University to purchase a well-chosen collection of rare medical books from Dr. C.D. Leake.
