Photographs (20)
name: label: Photographer
content: Ramsey, Norman F.
notes: label: Description
content: Photographs (20) of Tinian Island, in the Pacific Ocean, in 1945, where Americans prepared to fly planes carrying atomic bombs to Japan. Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915–2011), the donor, was an American physicist who worked in the Radiation Laboratory at M.I.T. and on the Manhattan Project during World War II. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Norman Ramsey, 96, Dies; Work Led to Atomic Clock,” New York Times (Nov. 7, 2011), p. A23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: Northern Mariana Islands: Tinian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Norman Ramsey.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0003.02
label: accession number
content: 1995.0003
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0003.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Photographs
label: Object Name
content: photographs
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.1 cm x 10.1 cm; 5 15/16 in x 3 31/32 in