Photos of the Month

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

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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

From left to right, Yakov Zeldovich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich, and Vera Rubin sit on a couch around a coffee table decked with a china tea set. Zeldovich and Rubin look towards the camera smiling while Masevich opens a bottle of a cold drink.

Tea, Earl Grey, Hot

Süd-Polar-Karte created by August Petermann in 1912

Antarctic Research

four portraits in a row of men in wwi uniforms. from left to right is Norman Ricker in a U.S. Army uniform and a broad brimmed hat, Max Born in a German uniform with no hat, Albert Taylor in a U.S. Navy uniform with cap, and Otto Struve in a Russian army uniform and cap holding a sword.

1976 Nobel Prize Ceremony

How Science Celebrities Are Born

Woman wearing the double dome experiment.

Portrait of Mattei sitting with flowers

Complementary Colors in the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

Ex Canis Universum

Richard McCrosky posing with the Baker Super-Schmidt Meteor Camera, circa 1952.

POTM: Asteroid Day

POTM: Initial Visual Conditions

ALA National Library Week, April 3-9 2022

National Library Week

Cover of the book "America is Immigrants" with a drawing of the Statue of Liberty on it.

Physics is Immigrants

POTM: What's New?

USS Kane

Photos of the Month: The USNS Kane

Portrait of Beatrice Tinsley

POTM: National Novel Writing Month

Harold Urey schoolhouse

POTM: Back to School

Joseph McKibben

POTM: The Letter R

POTM: The letter H

POTM: The letter S

From Artificial Radioactivity to Mainstream Medicine

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