• Thumbnail for James Smithson
    James Smithson FRS (c. 1765 – 27 June 1829) was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during...
    31 KB (3,343 words) - 21:48, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Cosmo
    James Ronald Gordon Copeland MBE (born 1947), known professionally as James Cosmo, is a Scottish actor. Known for his character work, he has played supporting...
    26 KB (641 words) - 23:11, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smithsonian Institution
    The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the United States National Museum, but...
    82 KB (7,292 words) - 07:37, 28 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
    Hugh Smithson was born c. 1714, the son of Langdale Smithson (b. 1682) of Langdale, and Philadelphia Reveley. He was a grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd...
    15 KB (1,016 words) - 09:39, 29 August 2024
  • The James Smithson Medal, established in 1965, is awarded to those who have made "exceptional contributions to art, science, history, education and technology...
    5 KB (204 words) - 20:14, 28 September 2024
  • by James Smithson, Market Technician, no. 84, March 2018 "Rediscovering W. D. Gann's Method Of Forecasting The Financial Markets" by James Smithson, Market...
    12 KB (1,391 words) - 17:19, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alison and Peter Smithson
    Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects who together...
    16 KB (1,746 words) - 04:28, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smithsonite
    François Sulpice Beudant in honor of English chemist and mineralogist James Smithson (c. 1765–1829), who first identified the mineral in 1802. Smithsonite...
    6 KB (430 words) - 16:15, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smithson baronets
    with the legacy of James Smithson, illegitimate son of Sir Hugh, 4th Baronet (Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland). Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet (c...
    4 KB (456 words) - 18:18, 23 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Susan Tedeschi
    for Best Contemporary Blues Album for Live from the Fox Oakland 2022 James Smithson Bicentennial Medal for “her embodiment of the American Experience through...
    18 KB (1,698 words) - 15:07, 29 July 2024
  • Smithson Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist Robert Smithson, American artist Carly Smithson, singer Florence Smithson, singer and actor Harriet Smithson,...
    3 KB (334 words) - 18:25, 12 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Smithson (crater)
    Smithson is a small lunar impact crater located in the northeast part of Mare Fecunditatis. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with a slightly higher...
    4 KB (294 words) - 02:16, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harriet Smithson
    Constance Smithson (18 March 1800 – 3 March 1854), who also went by Henrietta Constance Smithson, Harriet Smithson Berlioz, and Miss H.C. Smithson, was an...
    19 KB (2,222 words) - 03:04, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Smithsonian Institution Building
    Smithsonian Institution Building (category James Renwick Jr. buildings)
    to the upper floor of the building, destroying the correspondence of James Smithson, Henry's papers, two hundred oil paintings of American Indians by John...
    14 KB (1,494 words) - 01:36, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Calamine (mineral)
    person to separate the minerals was the British chemist and mineralogist James Smithson in 1803. In the mining industry the term calamine has been historically...
    5 KB (523 words) - 16:02, 19 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776)
    remainder and changed his family name from Smithson to Percy that year. Sir Hugh's illegitimate son James Smithson, otherwise Jacques Louis Macie, born in...
    8 KB (701 words) - 08:00, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Quincy Adams
    1829, British scientist James Smithson died, and he left his fortune for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge". In Smithson's will, he stated that should...
    129 KB (14,229 words) - 21:20, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Rollins
    Congress, Elena Delgado, follow a trail of clues left across Europe by James Smithson, the mysterious founder of the Smithsonian Institution, to discover...
    39 KB (4,598 words) - 15:20, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Ordway Partridge
    pedestal approximately 15 ft (4.6 m) in height. A bequest from Englishman James Smithson (c. 1765–1829) funded the creation of the Smithsonian Institution. Partridge...
    49 KB (4,471 words) - 20:14, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of people associated with Pembroke College, Oxford
    Sikorski, Polish politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs James Smithson, mineralogist, benefactor of the Smithsonian Institution John Snagge...
    14 KB (1,477 words) - 06:12, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Smithsonian museums
    Institution can be traced to the acceptance of James Smithson's legacy, willed to the United States in 1826. Smithson died in 1829, and in 1836, President Andrew...
    31 KB (1,144 words) - 22:33, 19 November 2023
  • between the heads of Krout and Harwell Glaciers. Named by US-ACAN for James Smithson, English philanthropist. In 1835, his property came into the possession...
    18 KB (3,094 words) - 00:04, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pembroke College, Oxford
    Samuel Johnson, essayist, moralist, literary critic and lexicographer James Smithson, English chemist, founder of the Smithsonian Institution Sir William...
    28 KB (2,701 words) - 03:19, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
    visitors saw the 850-work inaugural show in the first six months. In 1984, James T. Demetrion, who had served as director of the Des Moines Art Center in...
    29 KB (3,306 words) - 01:43, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ralph Lauren
    Architectural Design. 2014 The Smithsonian presents Ralph Lauren with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. The medal recognizes Lauren's lifetime contributions...
    49 KB (3,656 words) - 15:31, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tito Puente
    into the National Congressional Record and in 1993, he received the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal from the Smithsonian Institution. Puente is one of...
    21 KB (2,113 words) - 20:49, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Museum
    are, above all, storehouses of knowledge. [citation needed] In 1829, James Smithson's bequest funding the Smithsonian Institution stated that he wanted to...
    83 KB (9,212 words) - 20:30, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for David Baker (composer)
    recordings, 70 books, and 400 articles to his credit. He received the James Smithson Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, an American Jazz Masters Award...
    26 KB (2,817 words) - 03:00, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Howard Florey
    in 1946 and was awarded the American Medal for Merit in 1948 and the James Smithson Medal in 1965. Florey was elected to the United States National Academy...
    114 KB (13,612 words) - 17:28, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Warren Winiarski
    through its National Museum of American History, awarded Winiarski the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal on November 21, 2019. Warren Winiarski was born to...
    27 KB (2,831 words) - 04:11, 15 September 2024