Photos of the Month
The Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on October 4th and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the day after; we are celebrating by highlighting some of the scientists in our W.F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates. In 1958, William F. Meggers gave the American Institute of Physics (AIP) his collection of photographs of 33 Nobel Laureates in spectroscopy and related fields, many of them signed. The Institute subsequently undertook the task of augmenting the collection to include photographs of all winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as physicists, who had received a Nobel Prize in other areas (for example, Chemistry or Peace).
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