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

Item Overview

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

June 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The men stand tightly together in front of an open door.
The objectives of the weather conference are forecasting methods, cooperation between eastern and western meteorologists, and adoption by the Weather Bureau.
Photograph appears with the article, "Weather Experts Discuss Program for New Service," Los Angeles Times, 12 June 1934: A1.

Caption

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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Teachers--California--Pasadena
Military officers--American--California--Pasadena
Meteorology--California--Pasadena
Physicists--American--California--Pasadena

Names

California Institute of Technology
O'Brien, T.J., (Lieutenant)
Willett, Hurd C. (Hurd Curtis), 1903-
Thiessen, Alfred H., 1872-1956
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953
Gregg, Willis Ray, 1880-1938
Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image