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Professor H. C. Willett, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Dr. Willis Gregg, Lieut. T. J. O'Brien, Dr. Theodore Von Karman, and Capt. A. H. Thiessen gather at conference, Pasadena, 1934

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Title: Professor H. C. Willett, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Dr. Willis Gregg, Lieut. T. J. O'Brien, Dr. Theodore Von Karman, and Capt. A. H. Thiessen gather at conference, Pasadena, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: June 1934
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Weather Experts Discuss Program for New Service," Los Angeles Times, 12 June 1934: A1.
The objectives of the weather conference are forecasting methods, cooperation between eastern and western meteorologists, and adoption by the Weather Bureau.
The men stand tightly together in front of an open door.
Text from newspaper caption: Scientists Attending Momentous Weather Conference at Caltech Left to right in both pictures: Prof. H. C. Willett of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology; Dr. Willis Gregg, chief of the Weather Bureau; Lieut. T. J. O'Brien of the United States Navy; Dr. Theodor von Karman, director of Caltech's Guggenheim Laboratory of Aeronautics and Capt. A. H. Thiessen of the United States Army.
Text from negative sleeve: WILLETT, H.C. PROF.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4477
ark:/21198/zz002cq8r9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Physicists--American--California--Pasadena
Meteorology--California--Pasadena
Military officers--American--California--Pasadena
Teachers--California--Pasadena
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963
Willett, Hurd C. (Hurd Curtis), 1903-
Gregg, Willis Ray, 1880-1938
California Institute of Technology
O'Brien, T.J., (Lieutenant)
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Thiessen, Alfred H., 1872-1956
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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