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

Item Overview
- 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
Notes
- Description
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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
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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.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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Portrait photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
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California Institute of Technology
Particle accelerators--California--Pasadena
Research facilities--California--Pasadena
Physics--California--Pasadena
Physicists--American--California--Pasadena - Names
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California Institute of Technology
Stephens, William Edwards, 1912-1980 - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.139011
- Latitude
- -118.124514
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local identifier
- uclamss_1429_7747
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dfh04
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .