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- Author(s): Edwards, Owen
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Smithsonian. Jan2005, Vol. 35 Issue 10, p30-31. 2p. 8 Black and White Photographs.
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Profiles amateur photographer Wilson A. Bentley and his attempt to photograph individual snowflakes. Popular belief that no two snowflakes share the exact same structure; Discovery of Bentley's snowflake photographs by researchers from the Smithsonian Institution; Invention of a camera that captured small and fragile snowflakes individually; Decision to publish Bentley's photographs in a book called "Snow Crystals," on which he collaborated with meteorologist William J. Humphreys in 1931.
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