Film
date: label: date made
content: 1945
name: label: maker
content: Eastman Kodak Company
notes: label: Description
content: 16 mm color film showing the explosion of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki, Japan, as seen from an airplane. 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: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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: 1995.0003.01
label: accession number
content: 1995.0003
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0003.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motion picture film
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (can material)
label: Physical Description
content: paperboard (reel material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 9.525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 9.4 cm; 25/32 in x 3 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: reel: 9.3 cm; 3 21/32 in
label: Measurements
content: film: 16 mm; 5/8 in