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Coloring Pages!

MAR 23, 2020
NBLA Staff

Our Emilio Segrè Visual Archives is a unique collection of photos, but not everyone knows that it also has an associated unique collection of printable coloring pages!

Please click on the PDFs to print and enjoy these custom coloring pages based on ESVA images:

Early photo of astronomer Vera Rubin looking through a telescope

Rubin_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Early photo of astronomer Vera Rubin looking through a telescope

Vassar College, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives


Einstein Playing the violin

Einstein_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Einstein Playing the Violin

Bilderdienst Süddeutscher Verlag; Brown Brothers


Calutron operators at an electromagnetic isotope separation plant in Oak Ridge National Laboratory during World War II.

Calutron operators at an electromagnetic isotope separation plant in Oak Ridge National Laboratory during World War II.

Coloring page jpeg of Calutron operators

OakRidge_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Calutron operators at an electromagnetic isotope separation plant in Oak Ridge National Laboratory during World War II. Note that many of them are women! Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Digital Photo Archive, Department of Energy (DOE), courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives


Photo of The Barton Family in France on a boat ride

Photo of The Barton Family in France on a boat ride

Coloring page jpeg of Photo of the Barton family in France on a boat ride

Bartons_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Henry Barton, first director of AIP, riding a log flume ride in France with his family

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Barton Collection


Palomar Observatory -- the huge dome on Palomar Mountain 65 miles north of San Diego City, housed the world's largest telescope (1948-1993)

PalomarObservatory_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Palomar Observatory -- the huge dome on Palomar Mountain 65 miles north of San Diego City, housed the world’s largest telescope (1948-1993)

San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection


Physicist William Meggers holding a trombone

MeggersTrombone_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Physicist William Meggers holds his trombone

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W.F. Meggers Collection


Architect's Drawing of the Martin Erdman House located at 57 E. 55th Street, New York City before it became the headquarters of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

AIP_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Architect’s Drawing of the Martin Erdman House located at 57 E. 55th Street, New York City before it became the headquarters of the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives


Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel ride bicycles in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel ride bicycles in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Coloring page jpeg: Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel ride bicycles in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Coloring page jpeg: Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel ride bicycles in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Photo: Hans Bethe and Boyce McDaniel ride bicycles in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring

Credit: Copyright Cornell University


Searching for quasars with a radio telescope rolling on a railroad track in Australia

RadioTelescope_ColoringPage.pdf Photo: Searching for quasars with a radio telescope rolling on a railroad track in Australia

AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection


Niels and Margerthe Bohr riding George Gamow’s motorcycle at the summer home in Tisvilde, Denmark

bohr to be wiiiiiiiild2.pdf Photo: Bohr to be wild! Niels and Margerthe Bohr riding George Gamow’s motorcycle at the summer home in Tisvilde, Denmark

Niels Bohr Archive, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Uhlenbeck Collection

Note: Most of these coloring pages were made for you by Niels Bohr Library and Archives Staff in 2017 .

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