Discharge Tube
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Kaplan (1902-1991) came from Hungary to the United States at a young age, studied physics at the Johns Hopkins University, established the Institute of Geophysics at the University of California at Los Angeles, became a Member of National Academy of Sciences, and led pioneering studies of the physics and chemistry of the stratosphere. Among his many honors were membership in the National Academy of Sciences, a Sigma Xi lecture, and the Hodgkin Medal of the Smithsonian Institution (1965). Kaplan donated this apparatus to the Smithsonian in 1973.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Joseph Kaplan; Pioneered in Study of Stratosphere,” Los Angeles Times (Oct. 5, 1991), p. OCA30.
label: Description
content: “Joseph Kaplan, 89, a Researcher of Atmospheric Phenomena, Dies,” New York Times (Oct. 7, 1991), p. B10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Judaica
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334257
label: catalog number
content: 334257
label: accession number
content: 308422
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flask
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content: flask
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: glass apparatus: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in x 1 in; 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 18 1/2 in x 14 in; 116.84 cm x 46.99 cm x 35.56 cm