Piggott Core Sampler
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Snowden Piggot (1892-1973) was an American chemist who in the 1930s, while working for the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, developed a coring technique for sampling material from the ocean floors, providing the first reliable dates for sediments and sedimentary rates.
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content: Ref: “OCEAN BED STUDIED WITH NEW DEVICE,” New York Times (Dec. 26, 1935), p. 19.
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content: Charles Snowden Piggot, “CORE SAMPLES OF THE OCEAN BOTTOM AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE,” The Scientific Monthly 46 (March 1938): 201-217.
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content: “Dr. Charles S. Piggot Dies,” Washington Post (July 9, 1973), p. C4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Carnegie Institute through Dr. G. W. Morey, Director
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.314313
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content: 314313
label: accession number
content: 185754
objectType: label: Object Name
content: core sampler, ocean bottom
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 8 in x 3 in; 116.84 cm x 20.32 cm x 7.62 cm