Corbitt, Whipple & Udall at Mt. Hopkins Observatory

Summary

(Left to right) Tucson mayor James Corbitt, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Director Dr. Fred Whipple (1955-1973) and Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-AZ) stand in front of a 34-foot gamma-ray collector at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, October 23, 1968. The large surface light collector, really a mosaic of 252 polished glass mirrors, searches for sources of gamma-ray radiation in the heavens, a feat never attempted before from a ground-based observatory.

Subject

• Whipple, Fred Lawrence 1906-
• Mt. Hopkins Observatory
• Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• United States Congress House

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Of a series featured in TORCH, May 1974 (in TORCH May 1974 folder, but not the newspaper). See also TORCH, August, 1968. For an amusing story about the gamma-ray collector, see TORCH, May 1974

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: May 1974

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1968

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Legislators
• Observatories
• Field stations
• Gamma ray detectors
• Corbitt, James
• Udall, Morris
• Observing (field) stations
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
• Gamma ray astronomy
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory--Field stations

Place

• United States
• Arizona

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Group, candid

ID Number

92-1773

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 5w x 5h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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