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The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics

  1. Sir John Frederick William Herschel

    1792 – 1871

    Posted in - Innovation + Understanding, Astronomy, Botany, South Africa.
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  2. Anna Atkins

    1799 – 1871

    Posted in Botany.
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    Dr. James Deane

    1801 – 1858

    Posted in Paleontology.

  4. Thomas Easterly

    1809 – 1882

    Posted in - FIRST PEOPLES, Dakota, Lightning, Sac and Fox band of the Mississippi.
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    Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

    1813 – 1871

    Posted in Insects, Photomicrography.
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    James Anderson

    1813 – 1877

    Posted in Moon of Earth.
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  7. Charles Marville

    1816 – 1879

    Posted in Clouds, Paris.
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  8. Lewis Rutherfurd

    1816 – 1892

    Posted in Moon of Earth, The Sun.
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  9. J. Leon Foucault

    1819 – 1868

    Posted in The Sun.
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  10. Hermann von Helmholtz

    1821 – 1894

    Posted in Eyes.

  11. Francis Galton

    1822 – 1911

    Websites
    composite portraiture

    Posted in Bogus Science.

  12. John Adams Whipple

    1822 – 1892

    Posted in Boston, Moon of Earth.
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  13. Étienne-Jules Marey

    1830 – 1904

    Websites
    Musée d'Orsay

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion.
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  14. Eadweard Muybridge

    1830 – 1904

    Posted in 1872 - 73 Modoc War, Biomechanics, Guatemala, Modoc, Motion, Paiute.
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  15. William Mumler

    1832 – 1884

    Posted in Bogus Science.

  16. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

    1844 – 1916

    Posted in Biomechanics, Motion, Philadelphia.
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  17. Ottomar Anschütz

    1846 – 1907

    Posted in Aerospace, Biomechanics, Motion.
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  18. Alfred Cort Haddon

    1855 – 1940

    Posted in Borneo, Post-mortem.
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  19. Edward Emerson Barnard

    1857 – 1923

    Posted in Astronomy.

  20. Albert Londe

    1858 – 1917

    Posted in Biomechanics, Medicine + Disease, Motion.
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  21. William N. Jennings

    1860 – 1946

    Posted in Lightning, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia.
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  22. Wilson Bentley

    1865 – 1931

    Posted in Snow Flakes.
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  23. Karl Bloßfeld

    1865 – 1932

    Websites
    Soul Catcher

    Posted in Botany.

  24. Eugen Fischer

    1874 – 1967

    Posted in Bogus Science, Herero, Namibia.
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    Rolla Kent Beattie

    1875 – 1960

    Websites
    National Agriculture Library

    Posted in Botany, China.
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  26. Bernhard Schmidt

    1879 – 1935

    Posted in Moon of Earth, The Sun.

  27. Imogen Cunningham

    1883 – 1976

    Websites
    Granddaughter Meg Partridge's site

    Posted in Botany, Portraits of Photographers.
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  28. Weegee

    1899 – 1968

    Posted in CRIME, Hollywood, Post-mortem.
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  29. Ukichiro Nakaya

    1900 – 1962

    Posted in Snow Flakes.
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  30. James Nasmyth

    1908 – 1890

    Posted in Fauxtography, Moon of Earth.
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  31. Homer Page

    1918 – 1985

    Posted in NYC 1940s, Trachoma, Yaws.

  32. Charlotte Brooks

    Born: 1918

    Posted in Education, Medicine + Disease.
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  33. Lennart Nilsson

    Born: 1922

    Posted in 1939 - 45 WWII, human embryos + fetuses, Sweden.
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  34. Don Worth

    1924 – 2009

    Posted in Botany.
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  35. Grey Villet

    1927 – 2000

    Posted in Drugs + Addiction.

  36. Neil Armstrong

    Born: 1930

    Posted in Moon of Earth.
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  37. William Anders

    Born: 1933

    Posted in Moon of Earth.
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  38. Enrique Metinides

    Born: 1934

    Posted in México, Post-mortem.

  39. Penny Tweedie

    1940 – 2011

    Posted in 1973 Yom Kippur War, Aboriginal Australians, East Timor, Glasgow, HIV, Uganda.
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  40. Sebastião Salgado

    Born: 1944

    Posted in Botswana, Children, Drought, Ethiopia, Kamchatka, Mining + Metallurgy + Drilling, Namibia, Polio, Refugees Immigrants Diaspora, Venezuela.
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  41. Sergio Dorantes Zurita

    Born: 1946

    Posted in 1994 - Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, Forestry + Lumber, HIV, Islam, London, México, Recreational Drug Industry, Tarahumara.

    Alon Reininger

    Born: 1947

    Posted in 1973 Yom Kippur War, China, HIV, Malawi, Zambia.
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  43. Nicholas Nixon

    Born: 1947

    Posted in HIV, Re-photography: People.

  44. James Nachtwey

    Born: 1948

    Posted in 2001 September 11 attacks, 2003 Iraq Invasion, 2004 Asian Tsunami, China, Coal, Congo, HIV, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Thailand, Tuberculosis, Water.
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  45. Kent Klich

    Born: 1952

    Posted in Children, Denmark, Drugs + Addiction, México.
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  46. Tom Stoddart

    Born: 1953

    Posted in 1986 Chernobyl, 1991 - 95 Yugoslav Wars, HIV, Sex Industry, Sudan.
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    Mark Ruwedel

    Born: 1954

    Posted in Hanford Site, Nevada Test Site, Paleontology.
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  48. Didier Lefèvre

    1957 – 2007

    Posted in HIV.
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  49. Gideon Mendel

    Born: 1959

    Posted in Fishing, HIV, Kenya, Orphans, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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  50. Brent Stirton

    Born: 1960

    Posted in HIV, Sierra Leone.
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  51. POES

    Born: 1960

    Posted in Weather.
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  52. Zwelethu Mthethwa

    Born: 1960

    Posted in HIV, South Africa.

  53. Darcy Padilla

    Born: 1960

    Posted in HIV, Prison.

  54. Kenneth Libbrecht

    Born: 1960

    Posted in Snow Flakes.
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  55. TIROS

    1960 – 1967

    Websites
    Scientists mark N.J.'s role in first weather imaging satellite on 50th anniversary at nj.cm

    Posted in Weather.
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  56. Doug Menuez

    Posted in Ethiopia, Famine, HIV, México, Uganda.

  57. David Binder

    Posted in HIV.
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  58. Monica Migliorino Miller

    Posted in human embryos + fetuses.

  59. Lu Guang

    Born: 1961

    Posted in China, HIV, Pollution.

  60. John Stanmeyer

    Born: 1964

    Posted in Haiti, HIV, India, Indonesia.
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  61. Ranger 7

    Born: 1964

    Posted in Moon of Earth.

  62. ESSA

    Born: 1966

    Posted in Weather.
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    Adam Nadel

    Born: 1968

    Posted in Civilians, Malaria, Vietnam War - aftermath.
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  64. Bret Tobalske

    Posted in Biomechanics.
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  65. Aaron Haley Deemer

    Posted in China, Hepatitis, HIV.

  66. Jean Marc Giboux

    Posted in HIV, Polio.

  67. Kristen Ashburn

    Born: 1973

    Posted in HIV, Tuberculosis.
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  68. METEOSAT

    Born: 1977

    Posted in - WORLD REGIONS, Weather.
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  69. Nichole Sobecki

    Born: 1980

    Posted in HIV, Lebanon, Turkey, Uganda.

    Heather Flores

    Born: 1980

    Websites
    fruit fly ovaries

    Posted in Biology.

  71. ENVISAT

    Born: 2002

    Posted in - WORLD REGIONS, Weather.
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  72. MTSAT

    Born: 2005

    Posted in Australia, Japan, Weather.
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  73. STEREO spacecraft

    Born: 2006

    Posted in The Sun.
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  74. LROC

    Born: 2009

    Posted in Moon of Earth.
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  75. GOES

    Born: 2009

    Posted in Weather.
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