Chemistry and minerology.................a common theme.......here in DC........adn in movies......like the movie the Vanishing about a Dutchman's wife who goes missing.........who is kidnapped by a French chemistry professor while the Dutch couple are taking a trip to France.........he kidnaps her in broad daylight, at a gas station in France..................a man from India went missing here in Dc............in broad day light, like 2 years ago..........his body was found floating in teh tidal basin.............as in the one in front of the Jefferson memorial..............


James Smithson, MA, FRS (5 June 1765 – 27 June 1829) was an English chemist and mineralogist. He was the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution.