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Paul Theerman, Ph.D.,

Head of Images and Archives

Paul Theerman, Ph.D.,
Head of Images and Archives

• Personal Data
• Professional Experience
• Articles and Chapters

• Personal Data

  Paul Theerman, Ph.D.

  Head of Images and Archives,
  History of Medicine Division
  Building 38, Room 1E21
  National Library of Medicine
  8600 Rockville Pike
  Bethesda, MD 20894-3819

  Citizenship: USA

  theermp@mail.nih.gov
  Office phone: 301.594.0975
  Fax: 201.402.0872

  
  

  

  
  

• Professional Experience

  
  

  Current Position

  
  

  Head of Images and Archives

  National Library of Medicine
  Bethesda, MD

  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.
  
  

  

  
  

• Articles and Chapters

  Selected other publications:

  
  

  "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)

  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.