Guide to the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: About this Guide

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This guide is intended to help provide clarity on how to use the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives (ESVA) on our digital repository, part of the Niels Bohr Library & Archives of the American Institute of Physics. If your questions are not answered by this guide, please reach out to us at nbl@aip.org. 

The ESVA collection contains more than 30,000 historical digital images, photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, drawings and other visual materials. Most of the collection is digitized and available online. The collection is richest in portraits and snapshots of modern American physicists, astronomers and geophysicists but includes many other scientists as well as photos and illustrations of laboratories, telescopes, accelerators and other instruments, objects and places.

The collection is named in honor of Emilio Segrè, best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work in nuclear and high-energy physics, but also an avid photographer and author of books on the history of modern physics.