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Black and white photograph of Lee A. DuBridge (not visible) giving an address at the podium to students at convocation in the Great Court. His topic was the Radiation Laboratory and plans for its closing in the wake of the day-old victory over the Japanese during World War II. Original caption: "The Institute was the center of a vast co-operative program of radar development from which a new industry was developed. From a modest beginning, in which a few dozen scientists were at work in the fall of 1940, the Radiation Laboratory grew to 3,900 employees when Japan surrendered. The photograph shows members of the Radiation Laboratory at convocation in the Great Court, shortly after the Japanese surrendered, listening to Dr. du Bridge [sic] outline planes for the orderly conclusion of the work of the Radiation Laboratory." Used in: Technology Review, April 1946, p. 358.