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Paul Theerman, Ph.D., Head of Images and Archives
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Paul Theerman works is the Head of Images and Archives in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, a position he has held since 1998. In that position he oversees programs in modern manuscripts, archives, prints, photographs, and other still images, and historic films and videos, as well as public programs based on those collections. He has special responsibility for acquiring new materials for the collections. Prior to the NLM, he served as Preservation and Science Archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, and as an editor of The Papers of Joseph Henry, a multi-volume documentary edition of the letters, papers, and scientific work of Joseph Henry, a pioneering scientist of electricity in mid-nineteenth century America and the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1980, in the field of the history of science, with a dissertation on science and religion in nineteenth-century Britain. He also holds advanced degrees in history and chemistry, and received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974. He is the author of "The National Library of Medicine: Public Health Films," in Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries, edited by Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, and Samuel A. Streit, with an introduction by Nicolas Barker (Washington, D.C.: Association of Research Libraries, 2007); and "Dionysius Lardner's American Tour: A Case Study in Antebellum American Interest in Science, Technology, and Nature," in Experiencing Nature: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of Allen G. Debus, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, volume 58 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), as well as serving as the editor of this volume, with Karen V. H. Parshall. |
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Paul Theerman, Ph.D. Historian, History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bldg. 38, Rm. 1E-21 Bethesda, MD 20894 theermp@mail.nih.gov 301.594.09758 office 201.402.0872 fax |
Last reviewed: 16 June 2009
Last updated: 16 June 2009
First published: 16 June 2009
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