Einstein with Edwin Hubble and Walter Adams at the Mount Wilson Observatory, 1931-01

Item

Identifier: 1.6-16

Staff Only

Einstein with Edwin Hubble and Walter Adams at the Mount Wilson Observatory still image

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Caltech Images is a collection of over ten thousand images representing Caltech's history and the people who have contributed to the Caltech story. It includes historic and contemporary photographs of people and places, reproductions of historic scientific artifacts and art, and illustrations drawn from Caltech's rare book collection in the history of science and technology.

Dates

Creation: 1931-01

Conditions Governing Access

For more information consult the Caltech Archives Reproduction and Permissions.

Extent

1 photographs

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Einstein visited Caltech for the first time in the winter of 1931, to discuss the cosmological implications of the theory of relativity with physicists and astronomers at Caltech and at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. Here he is looking iinto the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope.