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"Another View of Charlie" [CRC_7]

"BOUNCING" LIGHT BEAM -- Because light waves behave like sound waves, M.I.T. students devised this gadget, a light projector and a tiny auditorium, to find what the acoustics would be in a hall yet to be built. 1949. [PH_306]

350 MeV Lab. for Nuclear Science Synchrotron [PH_1610]

8.031 Lecture. Date: November 30, 1967. [PH_304]

A Close-up of Damage Done to Granite by the Focused Beam in 20 Seconds [PH_1212]

A ruby laser that produces Raman emisssion patterns on film. Chiao, Ray. [PH_1204]

An 8-foot radio telescope is lifted from the top of Building 6 to the roof of Building 26, where it will be nearer the computer that controls it. 1975. [PH_305]

An architect's drawing of the 10,000,000-volt electrostatic generator building now under construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PH_1402]

Anthony Kettaneh and Robert A. Gladstone examine a chunk of Manhattan schist they have just used a laser beam to crumble.

Anthony P. French, Professor of Physics, teaches the new physics curriculum for freshman in 26-100 [PH_300d]

Atom bomb blast. Technology Review, May 1953, p.360. [PH_310]

Automatic changer for counting radioactive blood samples. Radioactivity Center. [PH_1509]

Blocks of granite which have had patterns cut Into their surfaces by the laser. The block on the left has had an equal flux of energy in two circular sweeps around an initial zone in the center. The block on the right had an equal amount of radiation impinge in each pass; thus the flux in the circular passes is much lower than that in the center zone. [PH_1214]

Center for Theoretical Physics [PH_053]

Center for Theoretical Physics [PH_054]

Center for Theoretical Physics [PH_150]

Center for Theoretical Physics [PH_151]

Center for Theoretical Physics [PH_152]

Chess Match, Students vs Faculty [PH_004]

Clay octahedronal 2/3 full Al(OH)_3, silicate sheet structure. These are moduledra crystal modules arranged to show kaolinite's structure in Professor Loeb's materials research. [PH_164]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley (slow meson) [PH_1634.16]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley from Jerrold Zacharias desk [PH_1634.14]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.10]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.11]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.12]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.13]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.15]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.4]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.5]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.6]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.7]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.8]

Cloud chamber photos of synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.9]

Corridor Lab. [PH_114]

Corridor Lab. [PH_116]

Corridor Lab. [PH_156]

Corridor Lab. [PH_157]

Cosmic Ray Research lab assistant Santosh Verma, 1959

Cosmic Terrestrial Research Lab - Needham [PH_1000]

Cosmic Terrestrial Research Lab - Needham [PH_1001]

Cryostat for hybrid magnet. [PH_308]

Crystals mounted ready for sawing into slices. [PH_163]

Cyclotron. Seen here is a scattering chamber setup to measure the numbers of particles deflected by various atomic nuclei. [PH_1106]

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Dr. J. Earle Thomas, Jr., assistant professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T., inspects the electronic control circuits for the 300,000,000-volt synchrotron in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Engineering [PH_1613]

Dr. Thomas Greytak in the lab. [PH_100]

Dr. Uno Ingard, Associate Professor of Physics, lecturing in the new lecture hall in the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories. [PH_008]

East Orange U.S. Radium [Robley Evans_005]

Electrical Lab. [PH_165]

Electrical Lab. [PH_166]

Electrical Lab. [PH_167]

Electrochemical Lab [PH_1101]

Electrochemical Lab. Motor generator. [PH_172]

Electrochemical Lab. Muffler. [PH_173]

Electrochemical Lab. [PH_168]

Electrochemical Lab. [PH_169]

Electrochemical Lab. [PH_171]

Energy levels of a nucleus are measured with this equipment by Nuclear Cross-Sections Group, headed by Dr. R.J. van de Graaff. [PH_122]

Eventually scientists learn to understand engineers. Approx. 1963 [PH_301]

Exepriments [PH_307]

Exhibition 1865-1965. Mueller, Hans. [HM_12]

Exhibition 1865-1965. [PH_300a]

First picture of synchrotron beam. Dec. 16, 1948. [PH_1633]

Four barreled laser head used by M.I.T.-Raytheon team to spotlight moon, generates most powerful light beam reported to date. [PH_201]

Four-barrelled laser head used by M.I.T.-Raytheon team to spotlight moon, generates most powerful light beam reported to date. Set to trigger action is Dr. Colin Bowness, manager of electronics company's Special Devices Operations in Waltham, Mass. [PH_1201]

Freshman physics lab 1963-64 [PH_250a]

Freshman physics lab 1963-64 [PH_250b]

Freshman physics lab. The "Texas Tower" resonance apparatus, left, is a driven harmonic oscillator for the study of amplitute and phase relationships. 1963. [PH_250c]

Freshman scholarship student in Electrical Engineering Laboratory - 1958 [PH_108]

From this control console, at which two M.I.T. graduate students are working, is directed the intricate operation of the 300,000,000-volt synchrotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PH_1611a]

From this control console, at which two M.I.T. graduate students are working, is directed the intricate operation of the 300,000,000-volt synchrotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PH_1611b]

From this control console, at which two M.I.T. graduate students are working, is directed the intricate operation of the 300,000,000-volt synchrotron. [PH_1611]

Fun & games in the 8.09 lab. [PH_104]

Furrow Cut in Marble by Drawing It Past the Focused Beam. [PH_1211]

General [PH_111]

George R. Harrison with ruling machine 1935 [GRH_1a]

Glass Blowing - often has to be an integral part of theoretical physics. 1962-63 [PH_112]

Hardy Colorimeter. L to R: Vannevar Bush, Arthur C. Hardy, Karl T. Compton, Samuel C. Prescott, Harry M. Goodwin. [PH_119]

IN THIS CLOUD CHAMBER the effects of the 300,000,000-volt electrons from the synchrotron will be studied and photographed. [PH_1614]

Industrial X-ray laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PH_1505]

Inside vacuum chamber is a highly ionized plasma used in studies of the diffusion of charged particles, plasma acceleration, and plasma oscillations. [PH_175]

Instruments - Cyclotron - M. Stanley Livingston & John H. Buch [PH_1102]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1100]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1103a]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1103]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1104]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1105]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1106a]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1106b]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1110]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1112]

Instruments - Cyclotron [PH_1115]

Instruments - Cyclotron, White, Earle. [EFW_3]

Instruments - Cyclotron. Eric T. Clarke. [PH_1107]

Instruments - Cyclotron. 1959. [PH_1111]

Instruments - Masers. 1963 [PH_1301]

Instruments -- Synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.2]

Instruments -- Synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634.3]

Instruments -- Synchrotron experiment by G. Valley [PH_1634]

Instruments -- Synchrotron experiment by G. Valley. [PH_1634.1]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. Drawings and Renderings. [PH_1603]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. Graphs and Exerimental Data. [PH_1609]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1610a]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1612]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1616]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1617]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1618a]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1618]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1619]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1621]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1622a]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1623]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1624]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1625]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1626]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1627]

Instruments -- Synchrotron. [PH_1628]

L-R: Richard Evans, George R. Harrison, & Howard Robinson (above) spectrograph [GRH_30]

L-R: Wahlig, Michael A.; Frisch, David; Lazarus, Alan J. [AJL_3]

Laboratories [PH_110]

Laboratories. Color measurement lab. Hans Mueller. [PH_118]

Laboratories. [PH_121]

Lasers 1969/70 [PH_1209]

Lasers [PH_1200]

Lasers [PH_1202a]

Lasers [PH_1202b]

Lasers [PH_1202c]

Lasers [PH_1202d]

Lasers [PH_1202]

Lasers [PH_1203]

Lasers [PH_1205a]

Lasers [PH_1205]

Lasers [PH_1206]

Lasers [PH_1207a]

Lasers [PH_1207]

Lasers [PH_1208]

Lasers [PH_1210]

Lasers [PH_1216]

Lasers [PH_1217]

Lasers [PH_1218]

Liquid-helium fountain illustrating the transformation of thermal energy into mechanical work by superfluid flow of the liquid. [PH_309]

Marble Blocks Similar to Figure 12. [PH_1215]

Maser - 1963. Maser in Physics Lab. [PH_1300]

Measuring the components of exhaled air in research on radiation effects in the Radioactivity Center. [PH_1502]

Microscopic Nature of the Cracks Induced in Granite by a 10 Second Exposure to Unfocused Radiation [PH_1213]

MIT Open House May 2, 1948. Miss Elizabeth Beaman beside recording spectrophotometer in Color Measurement Laboratory of Dept. of Physics [PH_155]

Mr. W. Carrasco with cyclotron experimental apparatus. [PH_1113]

n the right foreground, on the truck which moves on rails in the floor, are mounted the round vacuum housing for the rotating condenser, its associated vacuum pump, and behind them the oscillator housing. At the left can be seen the target probe, a shaft entering a port in the main vacuum chamber. [PH_1116]

New colorimeter, an instrument for measuring color, developed at MIT by Prof. Authur C. Hardy (left) and Frederick W. Cunningham (right). [PH_120]

Nuclear Disintegration (Star) Produced By A Negative pi-Meson. [PH_1605]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. Buechner, William W. [WWB_5]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. Buechner, William W. [WWB_7a]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. Buechner. [PH_1401a]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1400a]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1400b]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1400d]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1400]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1403]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1404]

O.N.R. Electrostatic Generator. [PH_1405]

Oboe Study [PH_261]

Optics kit for lab homework [PH_109]

Orange U.S. Radium Extraction Plant. [Robley Evans_006]

P.S.S.C. Celebration Marks PSSC's Millionth English-language edition. L to R: Frank Fox, president of D.C. Heath and Company, publishers; James R. Killian, Jr.; Jerrold R. Zacharias ; Harley Mutzfield, executive editor of science publication [PH_005a]

P.S.S.C. Celebration Marks PSSC's Millionth English-language sale [PH_005]

Paradise Valley Uranium Mine. [Robley Evans_002]

Paradise Valley Uranium Mine. [Robley Evans_003]

Paramagnetic Resonance Spectrometer. [PH_123]

PENCIL-LIKE POCKET DOSIMETER and film badge are standard equipment in M.I.T. laboratories to warn of radiation exposure before it reaches the danger point. [PH_1504]

Perry Greenfield & Susan Sweigert, '76. Alpha-range experiment: testing how far particles will pass thru air or other gases [PH_117]

Physics (1940?) [PH_113]

Physics 8.01 T, Assignment No. 7, November 4, 1964. [PH_300]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-602]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-603]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-604]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-605]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-606]

Physics Corridor Lab, Building 4 [CC-04-607]

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Plasma Physics & Fusion Research Lab. Buchsbaum, Solomon J. [SJB_1a]

Plasma Physics and Fusion Research Lab. [PH_176a]

Plasma Physics and Fusion Research Lab. [PH_176]

Plasma [PH_175a]

Plasma [PH_175b]

Plasma. Buchsbaum, Solomon J. 1958 [SJB_2]

Plasma. Buchsbaum, Solomon J. [SJB_1]

Plasma. Buchsbaum, Solomon J. [SJB_2a]

Racks in a radial tunnel between the powerhouse and magnet ring of the synchrotron carry electrical conduits that furnish current for experiments in the nuclear sciences. [PH_1622]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1501]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1503]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1507a]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1507]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1508a]

Radioactivity Center [PH_1508]

Radioactivity Center. [Robley Evans_001]

Reception celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Physical Science Study Committee and the sale of the miilionth, English-language edition of the PSSC Physics. L to R: Harley Mutzfield, Frank Fox (both of D.C. Heath & Co, publishers), Jerrold R. Zacharias, James R. Killian Jr. [PH_005b]

Research on plasma physics and fusion in the Lab for Nuclear Science. 1958. [PH_174]

Richard Olsen, `63, a major in physics, works on his senior thesis. Here he works with an amplifier. [PH_102a]

Richard Olsen, `63, a major in physics. Here he looks at a musical score in Kresge Auditorium. [PH_102b]

Scattering experiments acquaint the student with the "atomicity of matter". [PH_103]

Seen here is a scattering chamber setup to measure the numbers of particles deflected by various atomic nuclei. [PH_1106c]

Steve Knowlton, Versator Guide [PH_101]

Student, 1989. [94.36.26]

Students working in Physics lab

Students [PH_105]

Students [PH_106]

Students [PH_107]

Students. 1989. [94.36.30]

Students. 1989. [94.36.28]

Students. 1989. [94.36.29]

Students. 1989. [94.36.31]

Students. 1989. [94.36.32]

Students. 1989. [94.36.33]

Students. Villars, Felix. 1989. [94.36.27]

Studies of this pure calcium structure in the M.I.T. Radioactivity Center are leading to new methods of detecting radioactivity in the human body. (1956) [PH_1506]

Submicron Structures Lab [PH_115c]

Submicron Structures Lab. [PH_115b]

Submicron Structures Lab/X-ray Lithography Station/ A. Haryluk. [PH_115a]

Synchrotron experiment in synchrotron counting room. Luckey, Paul D. [PDL_2]

Target Area. Prof. Buechner adjusting van de Graff Accelerator Spectrometer. [PH_1401]

Target Room. Gamma-rays bounce off carbon block into cloud chamber. [PH_1615]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 24 [PH_302e]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 24 [PH_302f]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 24 [PH_302g]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 25 [PH_302h]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 27 [PH_303a]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 27 [PH_303b]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 27 [PH_303c]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 27 [PH_303d]

Technology Review pendulum article Jan 1967 p. 27 [PH_303]

The 100-ton cyclotron will be open to the public at the Institute's first postwar Open House. [PH_1109]

The 100-ton cyclotron will be open to the public at the Institute's first postwar Open House. [PH_1114]

The lattice in the foreground represents a crystal of uranium oxide, complete with flashing lights to symbolize steps in the production of electricity. [PH_162]

The magnet of the M.I.T. synchrotron consists of 24 C-shaped magnets, each magnet weighing over two tons. 1948. [PH_1602]

THE MAN WITH THE "FISH POLE" is lefting a sample of radioactive material into a round container (bottom, center), from which it will send disintegration particles into the tank where the effectiveness of various combinations of shielding materials can be studied [PH_1500]

The spectrum interval recorder, a new machine developed under the direction of George R. Harrison in the Department of Physics to supplement two previous machines: the spectrum interval sorter and the automatic wavelength comparator [PH_160]

The Technology Review, Jan. 1967, p.23. [PH_302]

The Technology Review, Jan. 1967, p.25. [PH_302d]

The Technology Review, Jan. 1967, p.26. [PH_302b]

The Technology Review, Jan. 1967, p.26. [PH_302c]

The Technology Review, Jan. 1967, p.28. [PH_302a]

The temperature in the furnace shown here is nineteen times the boiling point of water. [PH_170]

The touchstone of a creative teacher - the after-class bull session. Physics students gather around Professor Hans Mueller. [PH_007]

Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Victor F. Weisskopf. [VFW_6]

This artist's sketch shows the "swimming pool" type of nuclear reactor which is to be built at M.I.T. before 1956. [PH_1604]

This bank of condensers, one of the largest high-voltage electrical reservoirs in the world, supplies energy for the high-voltage pulses in the 300,000,000-volt synchrotron at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PH_1629]

This new building, which houses M.I.T.'s 23-year-old cyclotron, greatly increases the experimental area, opens up a whole new reservoir of experiments, and extends the capabilities of the instrument well into the next decade. [PH_1117]

This student studies physical processes of highly concentrated plasmas using a gas discharge laser. July 1969. [PH_312]

Transformations that create optical illusions are important to our understanding of visual information processing. [PH_161]

Typical experiment in the X-ray beam from the Synchrotron [PH_1620]

Utah Uranium Mine [Robley Evans_004]

Vapour trails left by passage of atomic particles through cloud chamber. [PH_1606a]

Vapour trails left by passage of atomic particles through cloud chamber. [PH_1606]

Ward Harriman with ten-thousand revolution per min. motor 1974 [PH_311a]

Ward Harriman with ten-thousand revolution per min. motor that he invented. With Prof. Michael Feld looking on. Tech Talk, vol.18, no.40, 4/24/74. [PH_311b]

What they studied in 1865. The Technology Review, April 1965, p.16. [PH_300b]

What they studied in 1865. The Technology Review, April 1965, p.16. [PH_300c]

When these octahedral and tetrahedral blocks are packed together as models of crystal structures, the pointa at which corners meet represent atoms or ions; a sphere in the center of a module indicates an interstitial ion. [PH_158]

Wliiam E. Rudge, George Koster '48, John C. Slater. [PH_251]

X-ray diffraction pattern of asbestos, an example of the study of bulk materials (crystal structures) in Dept. of Physics [PH_159]

[PH_1108] This cyclotron counter correlates the direction in which particles are discharged from a radioactive sample placed in the center. 1948.

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