Charles Greeley Abbot (May 31, 1872 – December 17, 1973) was an American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 1928 until 1944.
 Abbot went from being director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, to becoming Assistant Secretary, and then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution over the course of his career.
 As an astrophysicist, he researched the solar constant, research that led him to invent the solar cooker, solar boiler, solar still, and other patented solar energy inventions.
Gore Vidal's 1998 novel The Smithsonian Institution is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
Norma Alvares is an Indian social worker, environmental activist, lawyer and a founding member of "Goa Foundation", an environmental action group.
 An alumnus of St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, she graduated in law and entered environmental activism.
 Under the aegis of Goa Foundation, she initiated a public interest litigation (PIL), in 1987, to save the sand dunes of Goa, the first ever PIL filed in the state.
 She has been involved in over 100 PILs and has served as an amicus curiae.
 Her efforts are reported in winning a favourable court order for blocking a DuPont factory and in another one which restricted the mining activities in Goa.
 She is the president of "People for Animals", an animal support group and is the founder of "Other India Book Store" and Other India Press, environmental initiatives.
 Alvares is married to Claude Alvares, a known environmental activist and the couple lives in Parra, Goa with their three children, Rahul, Samir and Milind.
 She was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri
Smithsonian Libraries (SIL), formerly known as Smithsonian Institution Libraries, is a library system comprising 20 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers, as well as central support services which include a Book Conservation Laboratory and an Imaging Center.
 The Libraries serve Smithsonian Institution staff as well as the scholarly community and general public with information and reference support.
 Its collections number over 1.5 million volumes including 40,000 rare books and 2,000 manuscripts.
 The Libraries also holds the United States' largest trade literature collection, which includes over 300,000 commercial catalogs dating from the early nineteenth century and representing more than 30,000 companies.
Betty Jane Belanus (February 12, 1954) is an American writer and folklorist.
 Belanus completed her graduate work in folklore at Indiana University and has been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1987, ultimately working with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an education specialist.
 Part of her work with the Smithsonian has been the curating of programs for the Smithsonian's annual Folklife Festival, including the 2009 Wales program.
 She has worked on "Smithsonian Inside Out", on the occupational life of the Smithsonian.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Slim, Lucky Lindy, and The Lone Eagle, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist.
 At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prizewinning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
 He covered the 33 ⁄ -hour, 3,600 smi alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St. Louis".
 This was the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and mainland Europe.
 Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.
Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.
 It is a part of the Smithsonian's Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C. The label was founded in 1987 after the family of Moses Asch, founder of Folkways Records, donated the entire Folkways Records label to the Smithsonian.
 The donation was made on the condition that the Institution continue Asch's policy that each of the more than 2,000 albums of Folkways Records remain in print forever, regardless of sales.
 Since then, the label has expanded on Asch’s vision of documenting the sounds of the world, adding six other record labels to the collection, as well as releasing over 300 new recordings.
 Some well-known artists have contributed to the Smithsonian Folkways collection, including Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, Woody Guthrie, and Lead Belly.
 Famous songs include "This Land Is Your Land", "Goodnight, Irene", and "Midnight Special."
 Due to the unique nature of its recordings, which include an extensive collection of traditional American music, children's music, and international music, Smithsonian Folkways has become an important collection to the musical community, especially to ethnomusicologists, who utilize the recordings of "people's music" from all over the world.
David Crockett Graham (葛維漢, Ge Weihan), D.Sc.
, Ph.D., B.D., F.R.G.S. (21 March 1884 – 15 September 1961) was a polymath American Baptist minister and missionary, educator, author, archeologist, anthropologist, naturalist and field collector in Szechuan Province, West China from 1911 to 1948.
 From 1921 to 1942, Graham collected and sent to the Smithsonian Institution nearly 400,000 zoological specimens, including more than 230 new species and 9 new genera, of which 29 were named after him (see below).
 From 1932 to 1942 he was curator of the Museum of Art, Archeology and Ethnology at the West China Union University, which still stands as part of Sichuan University, in Chengtu.
 There, he taught comparative religions at the Theological College, and archeology and anthropology at the University.
 He wrote extensively and spent his retirement years, from 1950 to 1961, in Englewood, Colorado compiling his writings and research into three books that were published by the Smithsonian Institution.
 McKhann refers to Graham as "One of a handful of Western missionaries whose scientific work was respected by other scientists—and of even fewer scientists whose religious work was respected by other missionaries."
Shane Balkowitsch (born January 24, 1969) is an American wet plate photographer from Bismarck, North Dakota.
 The subject of his photos is the human condition.
 Since 2012 he has photographed over 2,000 individuals, including various celebrities and historical figures.
 On October 20, 2016 the Smithsonian Institution acquired "The Real Deal," A wet plate collodion photograph of American former professional boxer Evander Holyfield taken by Balkowitch on February 28, 2015.
 Balkowitsch is a self-taught photographer.
Rawley Silver is an American art therapist, artist, author and educator.
 She has worked with different populations with her strong belief in using art as a form of language.
 She has created tests to screen for cognitive and emotional disturbances in children with hearing impairments, stroke patients and individuals with learning disabilities and those with emotional issues such as aggression and depression.
 Through her work in the field, Silver has contributed over eighty published works, including journal articles, books and other publications, and she has presented at over seventy conferences and universities.
 A collection of her journal articles is archived with the American Art Therapy Association, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and with the Smithsonian Institution.
 Two traveling exhibits, held by the Smithsonian Institution, circulated her work with artwork from both children and adults with hearing impairments - "Shout In Silence" - and adult stroke patients - "Art As Language".
 Silver has been an honorary member of the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) since 1983, and has earned awards for her research in the field in 1976, 1989, 1992 and 1996.
 Silver is an honorary lifetime member of AATA and has been further honored by AATA creating an award in her name, the Rawley Silver Award for Excellence.
 This award is given to one student every year that has been accepted into an art therapy program and has at least a 3.5 grade point average.

Question: What is the name of this American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist, who was one of the historical figures encountered in the book The Smithsonian Institution?
Answer: Charles Augustus Lindbergh