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Happy Father’s Day from ESVA!

JUN 01, 2017
June 2017 Photos of the Month
NBLA Staff

Photos of the Month - June 2017

Just as we featured photos of mothers of all kinds in May, we’re reflecting this month on fathers. We’re spending some time this June leading up to Father’s Day remembering physicists who were fathers and the men who raised some of the most prominent physical scientists. Did you know there are four father-and-son pairs who have both won Nobel Prizes in Physics and one father-and-daughter pair who have won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, respectively? One of these pairs will be pictured as a bonus photo this month on our social media accounts!

Among this month’s photos are snapshots of A. David Thackeray, the director of the Radcliffe Observatory, holding his son at the observatory, noted astronomer Martin Harwit at age 9 with his father in Istanbul, as well as Hans Kramers sharing a moment with one of his daughters named Susan. To browse more pictures of fathers from our archives, search for “Father ” using the quick search box on our site.

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