Scientists

General Leslie R. Groves and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer lean over a desk and glance up from a file of paperwork. A wall-sized map showing the Arctic Ocean is behind them.

Three leading physicists (L-R), Ernest O. Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor I. Rabi, gather at Los Alamos National Laboratory during their work on the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project).

Seated at the dinner table are, left to right: Father John La Farge, Arthur Compton, James F. Twohy (Co-Chairman), Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The event was a National Conference of Christians and Jews banquet in New York City at which a portrait of Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes was unveiled.

Portrait of Dr. Leonard Schultz, Washington, D. C. (of the Smithsonian Institution), who is among the Washington men appointed to study the effect of the atom bomb tests held at Bikini Atoll. From: Beth Gore.

Dr. Vannevar Bush (left) is sworn in as Chairman of the Research and Development Board by Major General Thomas Green, Judge Advocate General, United States of America.

Photo of Dr. Harry A. Curtis, successor to Dr. Harcourt Morgan, Vice-Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He is a chemical engineer. From: Beth Gore.

Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, strongly endorsed the appointment of Carroll Wilson as General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commission. He told the Senate Atomic Committee, which must pass on the nominations of the Commissioners and General Manager, that he did not know of any better man than Wilson for the job. Compton also said he approved of the policies of the Commission developed thus far. From: Beth Gore.

Dr. Vannevar Bush today warned Congress that it would "disastrous" to seek to outlaw the atomic bomb before a strong international control agency is in operation. He appeared before the Senate Atomic Committee. From: Beth Gore

Dr. Vannevar Bush, President of the Carnegie Institute, today appeared before a House Committee investigating Armed Services procurement. Dr. Bush was head of the office of Scientific Development and Research and also directed the original Atom Bomb Project. From: Beth Gore

Dr. Vannevar Bush, Director, Office of Scientific and Research Development, posed for this Harris and Ewing portrait a few days ago. From: Beth Gore