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

Title: William Edwards Stephens working on an atom smasher at Caltech, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created: August 3, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1307—W. E. Stephens + Atom Breaker Tube 8-3-35. [Stamped:] AUG 8-1935.
Handwritten on negative: W. E. Stephens + Atom Breaker Tube 8-3-35.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
news photographs
Subjects: California Institute of Technology
Research facilities--California--Pasadena
Physics--California--Pasadena
Physicists--American--California--Pasadena
Particle accelerators--California--Pasadena
Names: California Institute of Technology
Stephens, William Edwards, 1912-1980
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.139011
Latitude: -118.124514
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_7747
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfh04
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.