Atomic Collection

Dounreay
The bottom half of the worlds first electricity-producing fast breeder reactor at Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment in Scotland, 14th July 1956

Robert Oppenheimer At Blackboard
Scene from the See It Now television program which aired from 1951-1958

General Elecric Robot Spinning Hula Hoop
(Original Caption) Schenectady, NY: Developed by the General Electric engineering lab

Men Around Bomb That Dropped On Hiroshim
(Original Caption) "Little Boy" the night before it was dropped on Hiroshima

Lord Ernest Rutherford
(Original Caption) Portrait of Lord Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), English physicist who investigated radioactivity and the structure of atoms. Undated photograph

Photograph Of Lord Kelvin
(Original Caption) Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomsan). Undated photograph

Ernest Orlando Lawrence @ Control Panel
(Original Caption) Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist and inventor of the Cyclotron. Awarded the 1939 Nobel prize for physics. Undated photograph

Max Planck, German Physicist
(Original Caption) ORIGINAL CAPTION (in German) READS: THE DUTCH LORENTZ MEDAL FOR MAX PLANCK

Acme Photographer Harry Leder W/ Camera
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Acme Photographer Harry Leder W/ Camera
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Physicist Sir James Chadwick
(Original Caption) James Chadwick, English physicist; "discoverer" of the neutron (1932); awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Physics. Undated photograph

Danish Atomic Theorist Niels Bohr
(Original Caption) 1925-Niels Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist and atomic theory specialist. Photograph, 1925

Robert Jemison Van De Graaf and Karl T. Compton
(Original Caption) 1931- Dr Robert Jemison Van De Graaf and Dr Karl Taylor Compton, President of MIT with generator

Professor Erwin Schrodinger
(Original Caption) 11/18/1933-The 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded jointly to Professor P.H.M

Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Wolfgang Pauli

Military Men Studying Map Of Nagasaki
(Original Caption) 1945-Pacific Area: Men who helped drop the second war-stopping atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Jap city

Atomic Bomb Scientists at a US Military Base
These scientists are group leaders in the assembly, research and check up of the atomic bombs at a Mariana base. Left to right: Norman Ramsey (Brooklyn, NY); Roger S. Warner (Boston, MA); Edward B

Enola Gay Landing at Tinian
The Enola Gay lands back on Tinian after dropping the first military atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Atomic Bomb Production Area
This factory, run by the Manhattan Project, produced atomic bombs used against Japan during World War II. | Location: Clinton Engineer Works, Tennessee, USA

Atomic Bomb Test/ Sand Seared By Bomb
(Original Caption) 09/11/1945-Alamogordo, New Mexico: SAND SEARED BY ATOMIC BOMB. This closeup shows the particles of sand seared by the atomic bomb when it was tested near Alamogordo, N.M. in July

Test Site and Bomb Crater
(Original Caption) 9/11/45 Alamogordo, N.M.- This aerial view of the atomic bomb testing site near Alamogordo, N.M

Oppenheimer And L.Groves Look At Base
(Original Caption) 9/12/1945-Carrizozok, NM: Here are Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, l, University of California, and Maj. Gen

Senate Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
(Original Caption) Shown as they gathered at the Bureau of Standards to listen to some of the scientists who developed the Atomic Bomb

Scientists Deep in Conversation
(Left to right) Harold C. Urey, Leo Szilard, Lyle B. Borst, and an unidentified fourth scientist talk at Capitol Hill

Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa
(Original Caption) 11/15/45: The newspaper Izvestia has reported that Russian scientists have made recent discoveries which might have a direct bearing on Soviet investigations of atomic energy

Donald Kerst With First Betatron
(Original Caption) 11/17/45-Urbana, Illinois: Professor Donald W. Kerst, 34, University of Illinois physicist, has been presented the Cyrus B

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Original Caption) 11/17/45-New York: Dr. J

Senate Atomic Energy Hearings Open
New York economist Alexander Sachs testifies at the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy with Committee Chairman, Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut, and Major General Leslie R

Senate Hearings About the Atom Bomb
(Original Caption) 11/28/1945-Washington, D.C.: General view during the second day hearings of the Senate Special Committee on the Atomic Bomb. Major General Leslie R

Major General Groves With Senators McMahon and Vandenberg
(Original Caption) 11/28/1945-Washington, D.C.: Senator Brien McMahon (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Atomic Bomb Committee, Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI) and Major General Leslie Groves

Major General Leslie Groves Testifying
Major General Leslie R

Scientist Work on Atomic Research
(Original Caption) 1946-Oakridge, TN- The chemical extraction of Radioactive species in quantity requires a very special type of labratory (a "hot laboratory") and equipment

Researcher Holding Box of First Isotope
(Original Caption) 1946-Oak Ridge, Tennessee- Dr. E.V

J. Robert Oppenheimer And Raymond Berge
(Original Caption) 1/2/46-Berkeley, California: Saying the Moscow declaration on atomic bomb control is a good beginning, Dr. J

Portrait of Dr. Lise Meitner
Lisa Meitner, Austrian-Jewish scientist who is credited with being one of the first to do research on the development of the atomic bomb, is pictured shortly after her arrival by plane in New York

Col. Paul Tibbets Shown In His Office
(Original Caption) 2/28/46-Roswell Field, New Mexico: Col. Paul W. Tibbets of Orlando, Fla

Girls Carrying Their Possessions
(Original Caption) 3/1946-Bikini Atoll: Two Bikini Atoll girls trudge away from their village carrying their possessions on their shoulders

Housing Project In Hiroshima
(Original Caption) 03/11/46-Hiroshima, Japan: The Japanese city of Hiroshima, all but obliterated just seven months ago by an "atomic" bomb

Housing Project Constructed In Hiroshima
(Original Caption) 3/12/46-Hiroshima

Islanders Sitting Outside Army Tent
(Original Caption) 3/13/1946-Rongerik Atoll: Natives of Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific

Baruch Addressing Commission
(Original Caption) 6/14/1946-New York, NY: Bernard Baruch, U.S. representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, addresses the commission as it convened, for the first time, June 14

Mushroom Cloud from Atomic Bomb
A mushroom cloud from the detonation of an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads

Protesters Wearing Costumes Lifting Signs
Demonstrators protest in front of Parliament against the atomic bomb test recently done on Bikini Atoll

A.E. Uehlinger And R.A. Sawyer
(Original Caption) 7/16/46: Capt. A.E. Uehlinger, Director of Ordnance instrumentation, and Dr. R.A. Sawyer, technical director of operations crossroads, confer at Bikini for July 1 atomic bomb test

Goats Eating Hay Aboard Ship
(Original Caption) 7/17/46: Goats munch hay peacefully aboard a target ship in the Bikini Operation crossroads fleet

Rebuilt Hiroshima Railroad Station
(Original Caption) 7/28/46-Hiroshima, Japan: Priority. Hiroshima railroad station has been rebuilt. Necessity for transportation made it one of the first buildings to be reconstructed

Niels Bohr
(Original Caption) 9/22/46-New York, NY: Niels Bohr, Danish atomic bomb expert, and his wife, Margrethe, arrive from Copenhagen at LaGuardia Field September 21st

Cyclotron at Washington University
(Original Caption) 11/12/46-St. Louis, Missouri: Here is the 100-ton, $60, 000 cyclotron at Washington University in St. Louis

Enrico Fermi and Walter Henry Zinn
(Original Caption) 12/5/46: Portrait of Enrico Fermi and Walter H. Zinn, the scientists who developed the first atomic pile

Aerial View of Oak Ridge Nuclear Power Plant
(Original Caption) 12/11/46-Oakridge, Tennessee: Aerial view of section of Oakridge atomic power plant

Lilienthal Testifying On Atomic Energy
(Original Caption) 2/4/1947-Washington, DC: David E

Physicists Looking at the Grinder of a Cyclotron
(Original Caption) 2/28/1947-Brookhaven, NY:Shown looking over the vertical boring mill, used for making large metal parts of the Cyclotron and other atomic instruments, Feb

Rebuilt Hiroshima
(Original Caption) 8/4/1947-Hiroshima, Japan: Two years after the atom bomb leveled Hiroshima to rubble, the Japanese people have built a new city

Worker Placing Radioactive Isotope into Shipping Box
(Original Caption) 12/27/1947-Chalk River, Ontario, Canada: ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT OF CANADA'S NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Truman Presenting Medal to Atomic Scientists
(Original Caption) 5/27/48-Washington, DC: In a ceremony at the White House here today, President Truman presented the medal for Merit and Bronze Oak Leaf cluster to Dr

Van de Graaff Generator
(Original Caption) 7/19/48: This is the Van de Graaff high voltage generator. When in use, the generator is enclosed in the boiler (top center) which is filled with gas under pressure

Dr. Fitz-Hugh Marshall Demonstrating a Particle Accelerator
(Original Caption) 8/12/48-NY: How scientists may one day harness atomic power to drive motors and other machinery is demonstrated here by Dr. Fitz-Hugh B

Man Standing Between Two Huge Discs
(Original Caption) 12/2/1948-Chicago, IL: Monster atom smasher of the University of Chicago, already the focus of the nuclear physics world

Physicist with Cyclotron
Professor P. Gerald Kruger of the University of Illinois shown with the 1, 000, 000 volt cyclotron. Dr

Enrico Fermi At Lecture In 1949
(Original Caption) Enrico Fermi, Italian atomic physicist during a lecture in 1949. Front view photograph

Profile View Of Enrico Fermi
(Original Caption) Enrico Fermi, Italian atomic physicist during a lecture in 1949. Profile view photograph

Truck Carrying Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods
(Original Caption) 1/4/1985-Lacey Township

Greenpeace Anti-Nuclear Demonstration
(Original Caption) 1/14/1987-Washington, DC- Members of Greenpeace, wearing gas masks and white coveralls

"Heading" for an Atomic Age
Liliana Orsi, a 22-year-old and Roman beauty, displays her new "Atomic Hairdo" and the photo of the atomic blast which inspired Rome hairstylist Eusebio De Luca to create it

Woman Inspecting Mannequins; Atomic Test
(Original Caption) 5/6/1955-Atomic Test Site, NV: A mannequin "family" of a survival town located 4, 700 feet from ground zero of Operation Cue's Atomic Blast is inspected by Mrs

Engraving of John Dalton
Engraved profile portrait of John Dalton (1766-1844), British chemist famous for his revival of atomic theory and his work with gases and color blindness (Daltonism). Undated illustration

J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Original Caption) 6/8/1949-Washington, D.C.: J. Robert Oppenheimer, brother of the noted Atomic scientist, waits to testify at a closed hearing of the House on Un-American Activities Committee

J.Robert Oppenheimer Testifying
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, key scientist in the development of the atomic bomb

People Buy Newspapers At Stand/Russia
(Original Caption) 9/23/1949-New York, NY- When the New York City lunch time crowd passed Jack Schiff's newsstand at 34th St. and Eighth Ave

Researcher Studies Effect of Atomic Blast
(Original Caption) 9/26/49-Headquarters Ship in Bikini Studies: Seattle, Washington researchers who have been intensively studying Bikini's waters, sea life, birds, plants and animals

John S. Wood Scanning Headline
(Original Caption) 12/5/1949-Washington

Lieutenant General Leslie Groves
(Original Caption) 12/6/1949-South Norwalk, CT: Lt. General Leslie R

Oppenheimer with Pipe
(Original Caption) J. Robert Oppenheimer prominent American physicist and expert in atomic energy research. Undated photograph

Group of Scientists Who Condemn H-Bomb
(Original Caption) 2/4/50-New York, New York- A group of American Scientists gathered at Columbia Univ

F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover Outside FBI Building
(Original Caption) 02/06/1950-Washington, D.C.: Portrait of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover outside the FBI building in Washington

Boy Playing with Toy Atomic Laboratory
(Original Caption) 3/6/1950-New York, NY-: With youngsters like eight-year-old Stefan Olsen of New York getting an early start with the mysteries of atomic energy, using this toy atomic laboratory

Boy Playing Atomic Laboratory Set
(Original Caption) 3/6/1950-New York, NY: 47th Annual American Toy Fair, Atomic Lab for Junior - Bobby Miller, 7 1/2 years old, plays with an Atomic Laboratory set for junior scientists

Composite Of Harry Gold After Arrest
(Original Caption) 5/24/1950-Philadelphia, PA: Harry Gold, 39-year-old Philadelphia man arrested last night on espionage charges

FBI Special Agents Standing In Airport
(Original Caption) 6/3/1950-New York

Unharmed Area of Nagasaki
An area of Nagasaki was protected from the atomic bomb blast by the surrounding hills. | Location: Nagasaki, Japan

Harold Urey with Map of Moon
11/9/1950- Chicago, IL: Dr

Harold Urey at His Desk
(Original Caption) 11/9/1950- Chicago, IL: Dr

Proton Colliding with Nuclear Particle
(Original Caption) 11/9/1950- This is a photograph of the most powerful collision yet recorded of a proton (the stripped nucleus of a hydrogen atom) striking a nuclear particle

Abraham Brothman Arriving at Federal Court
(Original Caption) 11/16/1950-New York, NY- Abraham Brothman (Left)

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