Where in the World is John Irwin?
During his 30+ year career, American astronomer John Irwin did not stay in the same place for very long. He worked and traveled to numerous meetings in all corners of the world and brought his camera along, taking portraits of physicists and astronomers wherever he went.
July’s Photos of the Month take us around the world with John Irwin, showcasing some of the portraits taken in his professional travels. In total, Irwin took over 1,300 photographs of astronomers on 6 continents from 1950 – 1988, resulting in an impressive collection, including nine Nobel Prize winners. In this month’s selection of portraits, you’ll see Martha Liller, who served as the Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard for 33 years, Christopher Corbally from the Vatican Observatory, Jeannette Barnes of Kitt Peak National Observatory, and others as they traveled the world attending astronomy meetings. For more portraits of astronomers around the world, feel free to view our entire collection of digitized John Irwin slides. Happy travels!
Jeannette Barnes of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. December 29, 1972.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Barnes Jeannette B1.
Merle Tuve, founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Villa Elisa, Argentina. March 26, 1966.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Tuve Merle B2.
Lawrence Aller, notable astronomer and professor at UCLA, in Pasadena, California for an American Astronomical Society meeting. January 4, 1987.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Aller Lawrence B3.
Christopher Corbally, research astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, in front of the Taj Mahal while attending an International Astronomical Union meeting in New Delhi, India. November 23, 1985.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Corbally Christopher B1.
Martha Liller, Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. December 5, 1971.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Liller Martha B1.
J. Derral Mulholland, astronomer and senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, visiting Chaco Canyon while attending the American Astronomical Society meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 11, 1981.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Mulholland John Derral B1.
John Irwin at Cerro Calan, Santiago, Chile. He worked and lived in Chile from 1964-67. January 12, 1966.
AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, John Irwin Slide Collection. Irwin John B4.
