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Portrait of Marie Curie (1867-1934), Physicist
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf
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- Date taken: 2009-02-27 17:29:53
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968), standing at meeting with Arthur H. Compton and Katherine Cornell
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- Date taken: 2009-02-27 17:22:35
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Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979), demonstrating equipment in lab
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- Date taken: 2009-02-27 17:32:41
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Physicists at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference, Brussels, Belgium, October 1933
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- Date taken: 2010-03-01 12:11:51
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Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:18:14
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Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), c. 1935
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) with Science Talent Search finalists, 1946
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- Date taken: 2010-03-01 12:08:21
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Pierre Curie (1859-1906) and Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934), c. 1903
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- Date taken: 2010-03-01 12:07:10
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Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934)
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- Date taken: 2009-03-18 15:50:13
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Elizabeth Roemer (1929- ), at her desk at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff (Arizona) Station, c. 1963
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- Date taken: 2010-03-01 11:58:32
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Kathleen May Crossley
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- Date taken: 2009-03-18 15:52:18
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Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1921
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Marion Langhorne Howard Brickwedde (1909-1997) with Ferdinand G. Brickwedde (1903-1989)
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- Date taken: 2009-03-18 15:50:10
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Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:12:17
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) and Otto Hahn (1879-1968), Dahlem, Germany, 1913
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Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
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- Date taken: 2010-06-21 11:50:15
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Herta R. Leng (1903-1997), 1940
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946
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Portrait of Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:11:04
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Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Dr. Brode, and Science Talent Search Winners
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:21:07
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Portrait of Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:09:09
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Morton Churchill Mott-Smith (1877-1944) and his wife, Elvira G. Mott-Smith
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:17:21
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Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), 1940s
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- Date taken: 2010-03-01 12:08:03
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left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997), Y.K. Lee, and L.W. Mo
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:15:21
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Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
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- Date taken: 2010-06-21 11:54:31
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:23
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Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:24:09
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:15
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Portrait of Armande-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau (1819-1896), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:09:46
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left to right: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) and Dr. Brode
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- Date taken: 2010-05-20 11:26:52
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:20
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Portrait of Wilhelm Friedrich Eisenlohr (1799-1872), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:08:54
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(left to right): Edward Uhler Condon (1902-1974), Brien McMahon (1903-1952), Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980), Harlow Shapley (1885-1972); and William Hammatt Davis (1879-1964)
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Portrait of Paul Ehrenfest (1880-1933), Physicist
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- Date taken: 2008-05-20 19:08:46
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Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979)
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- Date taken: 2011-10-12 08:35:10
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Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005)
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- Date taken: 2010-06-21 11:41:47
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