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Kodachrome colour slides of Los Alamos, 1945-66

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRER A.62 a

Scope and Contents

Comprising Kodachrome colour slides and digitised images of Egon Bretscher and his family at Los Alamos, New Mexico,1945-6, including photographs of the buildings on the site, natural scenery, scientists and military personnel, families, people of the Tribal nations, and the Trinity nuclear test site. With later photographs of return visits to Los Alamos, 1951 and 1957.

People pictured include Egon Bretscher and his family, Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi, Herbert L. Anderson, Felix Bloch, and Hans H. Staub.

With photographs of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, 1946-66, and Cambridge, 1946 and late 1950s.

Also with photographs of a conference in Copenhagen including Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, John Cockcroft and Hans Bethe, 1951, and a conference in Chicago including John Cockcroft and Otto Frisch, 1951.

Dates

  • Creation: 1945-66

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Digital access copies are available.

Extent

139 photographic slide(s) (2 boxes of photographic slides)

139 digital images

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

A detailed list of the slides, compiled by the depositor Mark Bretscher, may be consulted on request.

Related Materials

See also the black-and-white negative photographs of Los Alamos at BRER A.63.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
Churchill Archives Centre
Churchill College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0DS United Kingdom
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