RM2NH90AF–Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), German-born American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, after Marie Curie.
RM2NH909M–Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972) with daughter Marianne, summer 1935. Mayer was a German-born American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, after Marie Curie.
RM2NH90C5–Left to right: Joseph Mayer, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Karl Herzfeld in Washington, D.C. for the American Physical Society (APS) meeting, standing in front of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
RM2GGP83N–Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist.
RM2GGP82M–Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist.
RMT950GN–Entitled: 'Charlie Becker, midget trainer with Singer's Midgets, walked the smallest elephant of his troupe to Merchant's Bank, and made a deposit for Keith's Theatre. The elephant delivered the money satchel directly to the receiving teller.' Singer's Midgets were a popular vaudeville group in the first half of the 20th century. Karl Becker (November 24, 1887 - December 28, 1968) billed as Charlie Becker, was a German American actor.
RM2NH905R–Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974), Swiss astronomer who worked on dark matter, and Otto Stern (1888-1969), German-American physicist and 1943 Nobel laureate in physics.
RM2HJCMD5–Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was an American expert cryptanalyst and is considered America's first female one. Smith Friedman worked at Riverbank Laboratories, one of the first facilities in the U.S. founded to study cryptography. In 1923, Friedman was hired as a cryptanalyst for the U.S. Navy. During World War II, Friedman's unit was the principal U.S. source of intelligence on Operation Bol√≠var, the clandestine German network in South America.
RM2HJCPH7–Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889-1971), known as Miss Aggie or Madame X, was a key American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. She co-developed one of the U.S. Navy's cipher machines, the Communications Machine. This cipher machine became a standard enciphering device for the Navy for most of the 1920s. Driscoll led the attack on the Japanese M-1 cipher machine. In October 1940, she worked on breaking the German naval Enigma cipher.
RMT953NH–Illustration of a pterodactyl fossil (Pterodactylus brevirostris), from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. Figuier describes pterodactyls as ''half-vampire, half-woodcock, with crocodile's teeth.'' This fossil was discovered in Germany's Solenhofen limestones.
RMT81PRB–Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun Relaxes After Launch, 1969
RMT81R14–Army Ballistic Missile Agency, 1956
RMT81PRE–Apollo 11, Wernher von Braun with Saturn V, 1969
RM2F61NE8–World Heavyweight Championship, Louis vs. Schmeling, 1938
RM2BDY54B–WWI, True Sons of Freedom, 1918
RMT80ADG–Sutter's Mill, 1851
RMT807G3–Zimmermann Telegram, 1917
RMT807G4–Zimmermann Telegram, 1917
RM2HJCMAH–Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1963. Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter, who was a mentor and teacher to many abstract expressionist artists, including Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell.
RM2NH90KF–German and American physicists and chemists (left to right): Walther Nernst, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Robert Andrews Millikan, and Max von Laue, at a dinner given by Max von Laue on 12 November 1931 in Berlin.
RM2BDY8AN–Albert Einstein Honored at Lunch, c. 1920s
RM2F61E7X–5th Solvay Conference of 1927
RM2DCD54X–5th Solvay Conference of 1927
RM2NH946X–The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry in Brussels held the first world physics conference in 1911 and began to host them every three years. The most famous conference was the fifth conference on Electrons and Photons in 1927. Attendees included Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, to name a few. Of the 29 attendees, 17 were current or future Nobel Prize winners. Colorized.
RMJR31XD–Graf Zeppelin,U.S. Postage Stamp,1930
RMJR31XE–Graf Zeppelin,U.S. Postage Stamp,1930
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