Shade Glass
notes: label: Description
content: This shade glass belonged to Emilio Segre (1905-1989), a Jewish Italian physicist who moved to the United States in 1938, became a naturalized American, and worked on the Manhattan Project. And it may have been used this shade glass during the Trinity Test in the summer of 1945. Segre and Owen Chamberlain won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rosa M. Segrè
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0490.04
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0490.04
label: accession number
content: 1993.0490
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shade glass