Scientists

Miss Vernice Anderson (second from left) with the National Science Board chairman Dr. Philip Handler (left), Dr. Detlev Bronk (second from the right), and Representative Emilio Daddario at the Great Hall at the Smithsonian Institution. She received a gift at this event in commemoration of her fifteenth anniversary with the National Science Board.

Miss Vernice Anderson (left), with National Science Board Chairman Lewis M. Branscomb (right), being honored at the National Science Board Dinner, held in the Diplomatic Functions Area of the Department of State.

Miss Vernice Anderson (left) with Norman Hackerman (second from left) and Lewis M. Branscomb (right), Chairman of the National Science Board, at the National Science Board Dinner, held in the Diplomatic Functions Area, Department of State. Vernice received an award for her long service to the National Science Board. All other individuals are unidentified.

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.