About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0533
  • TitleDr. Irving Langmuir
  • SummaryPortrait. Caption: "Dr. Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) won the 1932 Nobel prize in chemistry ... Langmuir was born in Brooklyn ... This picture was taken in 1945 at the Atomic Bomb hearing [with Langmuir speaking into a microphone] in Washington, D.C."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: Jan. 3. 1950. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectLangmuir, Irving, 1881-1957 ; Microphone ; Scientists -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Langmuir, Dr. Irving