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Photos of the Month —October 2015
It’s that time of year again … the world awaits the announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, and Peace. We will have to wait until Tuesday, October 6th, to learn who has won the Physics prize. In the meantime, let’s celebrate this occasion with some historical photos.
The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives is named in honor of Emilio Segrè, best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work in nuclear and high-energy physics but who was also an avid photographer and author of books on the history of modern physics. Following his death in 1989, his widow, Rosa Segrè, donated his photo collection to ESVA and provided endowment funds to help support the program.
Here are some of our favorite photos of Segrè, pictured with other Nobel Prize winners. They include Pieter Zeeman (Physics, 1902), Enrico Fermi (Physics, 1938), Edwin McMillan and Glenn Seaborg (Chemistry, 1951), Tsung-Dao Lee (Physics, 1957), Owen Chamberlain (Physics, 1959), Hans Bethe (Physics, 1967), and Klaus von Klitzing (Physics, 1985).
Please enjoy these photos of Segrè and our other favorite scientists. To see more images like the ones we’ve selected type the name of a scientist in the search engine.
