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Title: The Athenaeum Round Table Gang
Format: photograph: print
Description: L-R: Walter Jordan, John Read, Henry DeVore, Richard Crane, Wolfgang Finkelnburg, Lucas Alden, Norton Moore and William Fowler. Fowler Papers.

Title: Albert Einstein
Format: photograph: print
Description: Original inscribed to Robert A. Millikan and signed Albert Einstein 1935.

Title: Richard Chace Tolman
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Individuals

Title: 1911 Pierce Arrow
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Individuals, Anderson, Carl D.
Description: This 1911 Pierce Arrow spent several years parked in an alley next to the aeronautics building. It housed a motor generator--donated by alumnus Frank Capra--that provided power for the cloud chamber magnet used in experiments that won a Nobel Prize for Carl Anderson.

Title: Vito Volterra in his library in his Via in Lucina home in Rome
Format: photograph: print
Description: Enrico Volterra Papers.

Title: Cloud chamber photo of particles
Format: photograph: negative
Description: Per Carl Anderson elelctrons and positrons are visible. Carl Anderson Papers.

Title: Optical secondary emission amplifier, C61
Format: photograph: negative
Description: Invented by William Shockley and John Pierce. Cylindrical shape, 14 contacts. Glass is broken. Mfg. RCA.

Title: Quartz ultraviolet lamp, Life-Lite (2 views)
Format: photograph: negative
Description: Serial no. 4502. Trapezoidal hand-held UV lamp, dark brown plastic housing with cord and cord switch, in black carrying box. Instructions inside box lid. Mfg. Ultra-Violet Home Products, Los Angeles, CA.