National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Mineral Sciences Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites Search this
Physical description:
Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Color; Size: 1"w x 1 3/8"h; Type of Image: Group, candid ; Medium: Slide
Type:
Group, candid
Slide
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
1975
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Brian Harold Mason (1917-2009), was a curator, Meteorites Division, Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History. Mason classified the meteorites recovered each year from Antarctica under a joint Smithsonian-NASA-NSF program. His research focused on the mineralogy and petrology of meteorites.
After several years as an analytical geochemist in a United States Geological Survey laboratory, Dr. Roy S. Clarke, Jr., an authority on meteorites, came to the Smithsonian in 1957 as a chemist in the Division of Mineralogy and Petrology. Starting from 1966, he was an Associate Curator in the Department of Mineral Sciences, a division of National Museum of Natural History, and in 1970, named curator. He is famous for his chemical analysis of meteorites and minerals.
See Negatives SIA2013-03880 through SIA2013-03882 for additional photos of Dr. Clarke and Brian Mason.
Kjell Bloch Sandved of the Office of Exhibits, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), at the commission of Porter Kier, then Director, NMNH, prepared these photographic materials to document personnel and activities of NMNH in 1975.
Summary:
Dr. Roy S. Clarke, on the left, holds a meteorite as he talks to Brian Mason, right, holding a data ledger. Other meteorites can be seen on the shelving behind them.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95-013, Box 1, Folder: 1: A-Kier