Looking Back 50 Years
As 2016 ends and we reflect back on the year, this December, we’re looking back 50 years to 1966 and bringing you a variety of images from the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives that were taken a half-century ago.
On March 14, a group of renowned scientists gathered at Alexander Hall in Princeton, New Jersey, to attend a ceremony celebrating the release of the U.S. Post Office’s new Albert Einstein stamp. The 8th Conference on Physics of Free Atoms was held in Berkeley, California, in September, and construction was completed on the Space Sciences Building at Rice University later in the year. Look for images of these events and more throughout the month of December and feel free to browse our selection of photographs from 1966.
What archival photographs will we feature from this year when we’re looking back 50 years in 2066? If you have photographs you’re interested in donating to the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, please let us know – we would love to work with you to preserve the history of physics for 50 years and beyond!
Donald Clayton in front of the Space Sciences Building at Rice University, still under construction. It was completed in late 1966.Date: Fall 1966
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Clayton Collection
Lucy Hagan lecturing at the 8th Brookhaven Conference on Physics of Free Atoms in Berkeley, California.Date: September 1966
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, V.W. Cohen Collection
Nancy Grace Roman, then Chief of the Astronomy and Relativity Programs in NASA’s Office of Space Science, holding a model of the Hubble Space Telescope.Date: circa 1966
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Roman Collection
Ceremony at Alexander Hall in Princeton, New Jersey, commemorating the release of a new Albert Einstein stamp by the United States Postal Service.Date: March 14, 1966
Photo by Sam Tamashiro, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Lawrence Jones, one year into directing a cosmic ray experiment based in Echo Lake and Mount Evans, Colorado, enjoys the view from Mt. Evans 14,200 ft. above sea level.Date: 1966
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Lawrence W. Jones Collection
M.S. Zverev at the observatory at Cerro Calan, during his time spent in Santiago, Chile. Date: January 12, 1966
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection
