AIP Niels Bohr Library & Archives

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Informal portrait of Carl Rouse and his wife, Lorraine, sitting outside their Del Mar home.
Informal portrait of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin at an International Union of Crystallography conference.
Informal portrait of astronomer Wanda Diaz-Merced. She holds a white cane.
Chanda Prescod Weinstein speaks at the AAS 241st annual meeting.
This black and white image features Robert Oppenheimer standing in a field next to a horse named Crisis. Oppenheimer is adjusting the horse's hoof. The photo is labeled circa 1940 with a caption stating, "a stallion no one but Robert could ride."
Black and white photo of two men seated indoors, sipping tea
A large table covered with numerous documents and papers, situated in a carpeted office space. In the background, there are two patterned chairs, a desk with a computer, and a large scanner.
Three people working at a desk
📷 German physicist Lucy Mensing, seated, facing the camera, circa 1928. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Mensing Collection, Gift of Dr. Dorothea Roloff
Portrait of Ida Noddack
Victor Weisskopf (left) and Cécile DeWitt-Morette (right) sit outdoors conversing among students on a meadow at the Summer School in Les Houches, France. AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
A Black woman stands at a blackboard full of equations, teaching. There is a computer in the foreground. The image is in black and white.
Emilio Segre takes a photograph.
Black and white portrait of Dr. Chu
Typewritten letter from Samuel Goudsmit to J. H. Van Vleck asking for a letter of recommendation.
Stephen Hawking
Elfriede Segrè leans out of a car door to look at two bears nearby. The word Fearless is written across the bottom of the photo to appear as a Taylor Swift album cover.
Hedwig Kohn (back row, on left) possibly with family or on a school trip enjoying a sunny day at the beach with cliffs in the background. 1911