Image / William Edwards Stephens working on an atom smasher at Caltech, Pasadena, 1935

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Title: William Edwards Stephens working on an atom smasher at Caltech, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: August 3, 1935
1935-08-03
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph may be associated with the article, “ATOM FACES NEW ATTACK: More Powerful ‘Gun’ Build Caltech Scientists Improve on Device Producing 16,000,000-Volt Rays,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 1935: A3.
William Edwards Stephens, graduate research physicist at Caltech, assembled the atom smasher pictured.
Handwritten on negative: W. E. Stephens + Atom Breaker Tube 8-3-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 1307—W. E. Stephens + Atom Breaker Tube 8-3-35. [Stamped:] AUG 8-1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7747
ark:/21198/zz002dfh04
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Physics--California--Pasadena
Research facilities--California--Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Particle accelerators--California--Pasadena
Physicists--American--California--Pasadena
Stephens, William Edwards, 1912-1980
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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