Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

man standing in front of chalkboard with both hands going in a circular motion

February Photos of the Month

Man with mustache and glasses sitting with a pencil and a notebook indoors

Stories from Black Physicists in Our Collections: Part Two

January Photos of the Month

snowy field with foot prints leading up to an observatory in the far background.

A Winter Wonderland of Physics

World Space Week: Curiosity for the Cosmos

"Virgo", plate 21 in Urania's Mirror

What baseball game is complete without enjoying a good old fashioned hot dog? Isidor Rabi knows that the secret to cooking the perfect hot dog is the cyclotron!

Physics and Food! A Guide to Cookbooks at NBLA

Pierre and Marie Curie stand in a garden with their bicycles

The ESVA Summer Olympics Dream Team

Nancy Roman holding a model of OSO

Nancy Grace Roman and Early Space Telescopes

Norton Hintz, Harry Gove, and Ben Mottelson do headstands on a beach to demonstrate "spin down state." A city buildings are visible in the background.

June Photos of the Month: Summer Days

May Photos of the Month: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Eclipse Expeditions 101: How to plan a solar eclipse expedition in the 19th and 20th century.

Roman demonstrates models of spacecrafts to a group of female college students

Women Leaders in Astronomy

Ron Mickens in his office at Clark Atlanta University, March 2002

In Celebration of Dr. Ronald Mickens

Turn on the Lights

Uranium club cover with cube

The Uranium Club

Strandeber stoops down to hold a light bulb near one end of a metal tube with many bends.

December Photos of the Month: Microwaves

12 gemstones arranged in a grid, some rough hewn, some still in geodes, and some cut and polished

Birthstones According to the History of Science

October Photos of the Month—National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Niels Bohr and J. Robert Oppenheimer conversing in 1950

Niels on the Big Screen

Lia Telegdi

Physics with a “Capital” P: An Interactive Photo Series

Four men stand side-by-side holding pieces of paper; all are in suits

Wikipedia Dispatches: Bringing the Ronald Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists to Wikipedia

Albert Einstein and Marie Curie outdoors

When Marie Went Arm in Arm with Albert

The Anarchist Riot in Chicago - A Dynamite Bomb exploding among the police [McCormick Strike, Haymarket Square]

May Photos of the Month

Professor Richard Zallen at the center of the photo in front of a 'art show' of physics-as-art at Wallace Hall, Virginia Tech, with seven images posted on a dark background

Art and Physicists, Physicists in Art

Female students in Physics Laboratory at Wellesley College

Before the War: Women Physicists in the US

One of Robert Williams Wood's East Hampton telescopes mounted on a bicycle frame

The Balancing of Bicycles

Eight men and three women sit or stand behind a laboratory table on which is visible drinking cups and beakers with stirers in them. Some laboratory equipment is visible in the background.

A History Mystery: Adventures Identifying People in a Photograph

A gray table with, from left to right, a laptop, and open manila folder, and an open carton box with folders inside it. A file cabinet is visible in the background.

Wikipedia Dispatches: What Does a Wikipedian-in-Residence Do?

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