The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research using the NLM collection, which spans eleven centuries, encompasses a variety of digital and physical formats, and originates from nearly every part of the globe.
Details of the fellowship and its 2025 application cycle are here.
The application deadline is midnight ET, Monday, September 30, 2024.
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These confection-like illustrations are actual representations of objects viewed under a polariscope, spotted in the title The microscope (1867) by Jabez Hogg. According to the text, “This plate is especially intended to illustrate the beautiful and gorgeous spectacle produced by polarized light on the various objects here grouped together. Image courtesy of Yale University.