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Title
Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences, showing a small, metal instrument, ca.1930
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences, showing a small, metal instrument, ca.1930. Dr. Michelson stands on the left in a dark suit facing the small, metal instrument which stands on a wooden plank on the right. A large, dark pipe runs behind them with disk-like grooves around its circumference.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20489
USC-2-1-1-2708 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45839
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20489
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45839.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #1--General
Michelson, Albert Abraham, Dr
Scientists
Laboratories
Research facilities
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
45839 [Accession number]
84-1-2124 [Microfiche number]
CHS-45839 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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