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Albret Einstein and Ernest Fox Nichols at the Nela Laboratory, circa 1920

Object summary

Title
Albret Einstein and Ernest Fox Nichols at the Nela Laboratory, circa 1920
Object ID
GCP-00020307
Date made
circa 1920
Place made

United States, Ohio, Cleveland

Object type
Photograph
Major collection
MIT History
Named collection
Biographical/Subject Files Collection
On view
No
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Description

Black and white photograph of Ernest F. Nichols, left, with Albert Einstein on the steps of the Nela Laboratory in Cleveland.

Original caption: "Dr Ernest Fox Nichols and Dr Einstein on the steps of the Nela laboratory in Cleveland which Dr Nichols is leaving to become president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology". Used in: Technology Review, no date given but likely between 1920 and 1921.

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