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ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
History
University of Chicago Research Institutes:
50 years of scientific achievements
Oct. 17, 1995
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Then-Research Associate Gerald Wasserberg conducts an experiment
to determine the temperature of ancient oceans by the chemical
breakdown of sea shells. The experiment was directed by
Nobel laureate Harold Urey. Circa 1955.
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Samuel Allison, the first director of the Enrico Fermi Institute,
stands in front of the kevatron he designed for smashing atoms.
Circa 1959.
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Members of the Research Institutes at a New Years' Eve party
circa 1960. Among the guests are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Harold
Urey, Joseph Mayer, Cyril Stanley Smith, Samuel Allison, Herbert
Anderson, John Simpson, Riccardo Levi-Setti, Yoichiro Nambu,
Roger Hildebrand, Valentine Telegdi, Clyde Hutchison, Edward
Anders, S. Chandrasekhar, and Eugene Parker. |
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