Photos of the Month

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

February Photos of the Month

January Photos of the Month

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

A Winter Wonderland of Physics

(L-R): Jay Frogel, Allan Sandage, Vera Rubin, and Martin McCarthy share a meal. Image information: Frogel Jay D1, AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Rubin Collection

Friends, Fellowship, and Feasts

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

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

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

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.

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