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Title
Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences, standing next to the vacuum tube he used to measure the velocity of light, 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, standing next to the vacuum tube he used to measure the velocity of light, ca.1930. Dr. Michelson man stands at center in a dark suit and tie with a pocket watch in his vest pocket and a handkerchief clutched in his right hand. His left hand touches the grooved surface of the long, lightly-colored pipe which stands on the right in wooden supports.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w
26 x 21 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2645
USC-2-1-1-2708 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45838
CHS-45838B
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2645
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45838.jpg
Subject
Engineering--Aqueducts #1--General
Michelson, Albert Abraham, Dr
Scientists
Laboratories
Research facilities
Time Period
circa 1930
Place
California
Irvine Ranch
Orange
USA
Source
45838; 45838B [Accession number]
84-1-2126; 84-1-2127 [Microfiche number]
CHS-45838; CHS-45838B [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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