Photo Credits
| Page facing inside cover | The “Horsehead” Nebula in Orion. Hale Observatories. |
| Author’s Photo | Jay K. Klein |
| Contents page | Lick Observatory |
| 116 | Samuel A. Goudsmit |
| 118 | From Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi, 1954. Copyright © by the University of Chicago Press. |
| 120 | Top row, left, Institut fur Radium-forschung und Kemphysik, right, Lotte Meitner-Graff, middle row, left, Nobel Institute, right, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; bottom row, right, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, left, P. H. Abelson. |
| 123 | Addison-Wesley Publishing Company |
| 130 | Top, Ike Verne; bottom, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
| 132 & 133 | Letter and Roosevelt picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; Johan Hagemeyer. |
| 136 & 137 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| 141 | U. S. Navy |
| 143 | Right, Westinghouse Electric Corporation |
| 145 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| 152 | Lick Observatory |
| 155 | Gulf Energy and Environmental Systems |
| 156 | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
| 158 | Nobel Institute |
| 159 | Left, C. D. Anderson; right, Nobel Institute. |
| 161 | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
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