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Black and white photograph of James Rhyne Killian sitting at conference table with Officers and Trustees of the Atoms for Peace Awards. Stamp on verso reads "MIT Archives Info, Source Atoms for Peace Award, Inc. Collection, Acc # 78-5". Original caption: "Officers and Trustees of Atoms for Peace Awards, honoring Henry and Edsel Ford, are shown here as they met in the Proctor Room at the Faculty Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass, on March 6, 1957, to select the recipient Niels Bohr of the first Award. Pictured (left to right) are M. Bryce Leggett, Executive Secretary; Harvey H. Bundy, Secretary; Mildred McAfee Horton, Trustee; James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Joseph J. Snyder, Treasurer; Mervin J. Kelly, Detlev W. Bronk, and Alan T. Waterman, all Trustees. Other Trustees not shown here are Ralph J. Bunche and Arthur H. Compton. 3/12/57". Original credit line: Ralph Jackson.