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Historical Cancer Research Events

Black and white images from historical meetings and conferences related to cancer research. Settings include press conferences and lectures.

1940 meeting of nuclear physicists at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. L-R: Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James Conant, Karl Compton, and Alfred Loomis. (BSLOC_2015_2_20)
1940 meeting of nuclear physicists at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California. L-R: Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, James Conant, Karl Compton, and Alfred Loomis. (BSLOC_2015_2_20)
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Enrico Fermi
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Berzelius days on January 3-4, 1968 at the Technical Museum.
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The 1969 class of graduating apprentices pose for a group photograph during a rehearsal ceremony at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Albert Siepert Points Out Highlights of Apollo 10 Liftoff to Belgium King and Queen
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Dominion Museum Geology class, under Geoff Shaw ..., 18.June 1955, Wellington, maker unknown. Gift of Adkin Family, 1997.
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Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American chemist. won the 1954 and 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948
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Terry White during a change-of-shift briefing in the JSC public affairs facility briefing room. White acted as one of the on-orbit public affairs officers and the landing PAO during the Challenger's STS-6 flight.
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This is the official NASA portrait of astronaut William Anders. Anders was commissioned in the air Force after graduation from the Naval Academy and served as a fighter pilot in all-weather interception squadrons of the Air Defense Command. Later he was responsible for technical management of nuclear power reactor shielding and radiation effects programs while at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in New Mexico. In 1964, Anders was selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Salvador Luria in his office at MIT in Boston 1967. Salvador Edward Luria (1912 ñ 1991) Italian genetics researcher and microbiologist, later a naturalized American citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1969
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Olaus Murie sketching anatomical features of a Wapiti specimen, Fiordlands, New Zealand, 1949. Environmental Sciences; New Zealand. Subjects: History; Biologists (USFWS). Collection: Environmental Sciences.
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1960s MAN PROJECT MANAGER SURVEYOR ON CONSTRUCTION SITE USING TRIPOD MOUNTED THEODOLITE WITH AN OPTICAL LEVEL
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Anefo photo collection. Press conference in connection with the launch of infrared astronomical satellite (Iras) in Delft. Prof. H.J. Habing. January 17, 1983. Delft, South Holland
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Chief astronaut and director of flight crew operations, Donald K. Slayton (right front) reviews lunar charts with Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins (left), Neil Armstrong, and Edwin Aldrin (next to Slayton) during breakfast a short time before the three men launched for the first Moon landing mission. Sharing breakfast with the crew was William Anders (left rear), Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 8 lunar orbit mission. The Apollo 11 mission launched from the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The CM, Columbia”, piloted by Collins, remained in a parking orbit around the Moon while the LM, Eagle’’, carrying astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, landed on the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong was the first human to ever stand on the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. During 2½ hours of surface exploration, the crew collected 47 pounds of lu
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DONALD E KEYHOE UFO Investigator in 1967
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Photographs and Captions courtesy of Joseph and Donna Roizen Telegen, Palo Alto, CA (from) Pioneer 10 and 11 Missions Jupiter encounters - Activities at Ames Research Center December 1973 and December 1974 - As a memento of the highly successful Pioneer 10 and 11 missions to Jupiter, this collection of photographs represents a sampling of those taken at Ames Research Center during the Jupiter encounter periods in December 1973 and December 1974. The captions for these photographs are meant to suggest the lighter side of the intense activities that took place during these periods. I would like to express my gratitude to all participants in the Pioneer 10/11 program for their teamwork in accomplishing the scientific and technical objectives of the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions to Jupiter. (signed) Charles F. Hall - Manager, Pioneer Project Charles F. Hall ' Pioneers 10 and 11 not only made schedule, but they got 51,326.149 miles per gallon and met EPA environment pollution limits.'
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U.S. Atom Scientist Suspended***** in New York that first atomic bomb was made, has been suspended from his official positions and that an official inquiry has began into his security status.He is said to have been denied access, to secret Government documents pending the outcome of the inquiry, which is being, made by a three-man panel of the atomic Energy Commission's board.Dr. Oppenheimer will appear before them on Monday. April 13, 1954.
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Project 26 - Operation Dominic (Johnston Island/Christmas Island/Maui, Hawaii) Test Activities. Personnel cleaning up Thor launch pad receive nose-swipe tests for inhaled contaminants. Photographs of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing at Pacific Island and Nevada Test Sites.
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A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31, 1961, a Mercury-Redstone launch from Cape Canaveral carried the chimpanzee Ham over 640 kilometers down range in an arching trajectory that reached a peak of 254 kilometers above the Earth. The mission was successful and Ham performed his lever-pulling task well in response to the flashing light. NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test the Mercury Capsule before launching the first American astronaut Alan Shepard in May 1961. The successful flight and recovery confirmed the soundness of the Mercury-Redstone systems.
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On March 26, 1976, the NASA Flight Research Center opened its doors to hundreds of guests for the dedication of the center in honor of Hugh Latimer Dryden. The dedication was very much a local event; following Center Director David Scotts opening remarks, the Antelope Valley High Schools symphonic band played the national anthem. Invocation was given followed by recognition of the invited guests. Dr. Hugh Dryden, a man of total humility, received praise from all those present.Dryden, who died in 1965, had been a pioneering aeronautical scientist who became director of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1949 and then deputy administrator of the NACAs successor, NASA, in 1958. Very much interested in flight research, he had been responsible for establishing a permanent facility at the location later named in his honor.As Center Director David Scott looks on, Mrs. Hugh L. Dryden (Mary Libbie Travers) unveils the memorial to her husband at the dedication ceremo
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Princeton, New Jersey high school student, Alison Hopfield, is greeted by astronauts Russell L. Schweickart (left) and Owen K. Garriott (center) during a tour of the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Hopfield was among 25 winners of a contest in which some 3,500 high school students proposed experiments for the following years Skylab mission. The nationwide scientific competition was sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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S64-31459 (10 Sept. 1964) --- Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. portrait.
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James C. Fletcher, Director of NASA from 1971-1977 and 1986-1989.
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment Brabant Pers, Prof. dr. Chest maker (head). December 17, 1980
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Anefo photo collection. BOOst furnace guidance 1976; Olafson, head. January 17, 1976
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OCHOA , SEVERO. CIENTIFICO ESPAÑOL . LUARCA 1905 - 1993. OLEO DE DANIEL QUINTERO , AÑO 1988.
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Gene Porter Bridwell served as the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center from January 6, 1994 until February 3, 1996, when he retired from NASA after thirty-four years service. Bridwell, a Marshall employee since 1962, had been Marshall's Space Shuttle Projects Office Director and Space Station Redesign Team deputy manager. Under Bridwell, Marshall worked to develop its role as a Center of Excellence for propulsion and for providing access to space.
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Andrew Huxley (b. 1917), shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and John Carew Eccles for their discoveries in electrophysiology, study of the electrical properties of biological tissues. 1963.
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Russian theoretical physicist, astrophysicist Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anonymous
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Apollo astronaut Gerald Carr shares his experiences with spectators crowd gathered for NASA's 40th Anniversary of Apollo Celebration of the July 1969 launch and landing on the moon. Carr served as CAPCOM for the Apollo 8 and 12 flights, and was involved in the development and testing of the lunar roving vehicle which was used on the lunar surface by Apollo flight crews. He also was commander of Skylab 4 launched in 1973 on the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop.
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S64-29933 (1964) --- Astronaut Elliot M. See Jr.
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Anefo photo collection. DHR Offringa shows eavesdropping equipment. October 4, 1983
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Dr. Peter Schultz, Brown University at NASA Ames Vertical Gun Range Facility during running of tests simulating LCROSS impact debris in preparaton for the real thing on October 9, 2009 when LCROSS impact the Moon southpole in search of hidden water.
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STS-34 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Pilot Michael J. McCulley reflects on a question during the thirty days before launch (T-30) press briefing in the JSC Auditorium and Public Affairs Facility Bldg 2 briefing room.
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Project Gemini:On Jan. 3, 1962, NASA announced the advanced Mercury Mark II project had been named "Gemini." After 12 missions - 2 uncrewed and 10 crewed - Project Gemini ended Nov. 15, 1966, following a nearly four-day, 59 orbit-flight. Its achievements included long-duration spaceflight, rendezvous and docking of two spacecraft in Earth orbit, extravehicular activity, and precision-controlled re-entry and landing of the spacecraft. Poster designed by Kennedy Space Center Graphics Department/Greg Lee.
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1970s TELEVISION WEATHERMAN REPORTING POINTING TO EASTERN SEABOARD WEATHER MAP
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Astronaut Fred Haise visiting the gantry at Langley Research Center; a place where he once trained for the Apollo Mission.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Prior to the arrival of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Prof. S.C. Lee, AMS Taiwanese Coordinator, speaks to the media.AMS, a state-of-the-art particle physics detector, is designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. The STS-134 crew will fly AMS to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour, targeted to launch Feb. 26, 2011.