Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Eclipse Expeditions 101: How to plan a solar eclipse expedition in the 19th and 20th century.

Roman demonstrates models of spacecrafts to a group of female college students

Women Leaders in Astronomy

Ron Mickens in his office at Clark Atlanta University, March 2002

In Celebration of Dr. Ronald Mickens

Turn on the Lights

Uranium club cover with cube

The Uranium Club

Strandeber stoops down to hold a light bulb near one end of a metal tube with many bends.

December Photos of the Month: Microwaves

12 gemstones arranged in a grid, some rough hewn, some still in geodes, and some cut and polished

Birthstones According to the History of Science

October Photos of the Month—National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer conversing in 1950

Niels on the Big Screen

Lia Telegdi

Physics with a “Capital” P: An Interactive Photo Series

Four men stand side-by-side holding pieces of paper; all are in suits

Wikipedia Dispatches: Bringing the Ronald Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists to Wikipedia

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie outdoors

When Marie Went Arm in Arm with Albert

The Anarchist Riot in Chicago - A Dynamite Bomb exploding among the police [McCormick Strike, Haymarket Square]

May Photos of the Month

Professor Richard Zallen at the center of the photo in front of a 'art show' of physics-as-art at Wallace Hall, Virginia Tech, with seven images posted on a dark background

Art and Physicists, Physicists in Art

Female students in Physics Laboratory at Wellesley College

Before the War: Women Physicists in the US

One of Robert Williams Wood's East Hampton telescopes mounted on a bicycle frame

The Balancing of Bicycles

Eight men and three women sit or stand behind a laboratory table on which is visible drinking cups and beakers with stirers in them. Some laboratory equipment is visible in the background.

A History Mystery: Adventures Identifying People in a Photograph

A gray table with, from left to right, a laptop, and open manila folder, and an open carton box with folders inside it. A file cabinet is visible in the background.

Wikipedia Dispatches: What Does a Wikipedian-in-Residence Do?

Süd-Polar-Karte created by August Petermann in 1912

Antarctic Research

four portraits in a row of men in wwi uniforms. from left to right is Norman Ricker in a U.S. Army uniform and a broad brimmed hat, Max Born in a German uniform with no hat, Albert Taylor in a U.S. Navy uniform with cap, and Otto Struve in a Russian army uniform and cap holding a sword.

1976 Nobel Prize Ceremony

How Science Celebrities Are Born

Woman wearing the double dome experiment.

An image of a green lion devouring the sun, commonly used in alchemical texts.

Initial Conditions Episode 10: The Newton You Didn't Know

Portrait of Ronald Mickens

Initial Conditions Episode 8: An Interview with Dr. Ronald Mickens

A photograph of Ron Mickens at his graduation from Fisk University in 1964.

Initial Conditions Episode 7: The African American Presence in Physics

Portrait of Mattei sitting with flowers

Complementary Colors in the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Lester Machta sitting outdoors.

Initial Conditions Episode 3: Climate Change Science in the 1970s

Ex Canis Universum

Guy S. Callendar sitting outdoors.

Initial Conditions Episode 2: Arrhenius, Callendar, and Keeling

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