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Dr. Carleton Moore, University Portrait

Dr. Carleton Moore was appointed to serve as the first director of ASU’s Center for Meteorite Studies, which exists to this day. Dr. Moore acquired thirty-five research grants in materials science and...

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Memo from April 30, 1965 by Homer G. Durham establishing the Center for...

Memo from April 30, 1965 by Homer G. Durham establishing the Center for Meteorite Studies under Dr. Carleton Moore.

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H. H. Nininger in the field, original collector of the Meteor Crater materials

H. H. Nininger was a lay scientist and collector of meteorites who became an internationally recognized expert on the subject. In the late-1950’s he expressed interest in an association with ASU to...

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H. H. Nininger in the lab, original collector of the Meteor Crater materials

H. H. Nininger was a lay scientist and collector of meteorites who became an internationally recognized expert on the subject. In the late-1950’s he expressed interest in an association with ASU to...

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H. H. Nininger, original collector of the Meteor Crater Materials

H. H. Nininger was a lay scientist and collector of meteorites who became an internationally recognized expert on the subject. In the late-1950’s he expressed interest in an association with ASU to...

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Dr. Charles Woolf, University Portrait

Charles Woolf left the University of Utah to join the ASU faculty in 1961. He taught biology, zoology, and genetics in addition to running ASU’s biology research laboratory. His genetics research has...

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Dr. LeRoy Eyring, Founder, Center for Solid State Science

LeRoy Eyring, was a research chemist and founder of The LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University. Before coming to ASU, he spent 1958-1960 in Europe and Australia, as the...

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Dr. LeRoy Eyring, Founder, Center for Solid State Science meets Willard Libby

LeRoy Eyring and Willard Libby meeting on the tarmac at Terminal One, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, probably in the mid 1960’s. Libby was the 1960 Nobel Prize winning chemist who developed radiocarbon...

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Dr. LeRoy Eyring, Founder, Center for Solid State Science meets Willard Libby

LeRoy Eyring and Willard Libby chatting at Terminal One, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, probably in the mid 1960’s. Libby was the 1960 Nobel Prize winning chemist who developed radiocarbon dating.

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Dr. LeRoy Eyring in the lab at ASU's Center for Solid State Research

Dr. LeRoy Eyring in the lab at ASU's Center for Solid State Research

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Dr. LeRoy Eyring and colleague in the lab at ASU's Center for Solid State...

Dr. LeRoy Eyring and colleague in the lab at ASU's Center for Solid State Research.

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Dr. Troy Péwé, University Portrait

Troy Péwé studied permafrost and geology in the Arctic, Antarctica, Tibet, Norway, Alaska and Arizona. He was the Head of the University of Alaska’s Geology Department and President of the Alaska...

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Dr. Troy Péwé surveying crevasses left from ground water subsidence in Arizona

Dr. Troy Péwé surveying crevasses left from ground water subsidence in Arizona.

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Map by Dr. Troy Péwé showing ground water movement in central Arizona

Map by Dr. Troy Péwé showing ground water movement in central Arizona.

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Map by Dr. Troy Péwé showing ground water movement in central Arizona

Map by Dr. Troy Péwé showing ground water movement in central Arizona.

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Biology Lab, Tempe Normal School, early 1900's

Science classes at the Territorial Normal School were intended to teach basic concepts of biology, chemistry, and physics to Arizona’s future teachers. The original laboratories and equipment, which...

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Chemistry Lab, Tempe Normal School, early 1900's

Science classes at the Territorial Normal School were intended to teach basic concepts of biology, chemistry, and physics to Arizona’s future teachers. The original laboratories and equipment, which...

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Cap Fred Irish's Chemistry Class, Tempe Normal School, early 1900's

Science classes at the Territorial Normal School were intended to teach basic concepts of biology, chemistry, and physics to Arizona’s future teachers. The original laboratories and equipment, which...

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Chemistry Class, Tempe Normal School, early 1900's

Science classes at the Territorial Normal School were intended to teach basic concepts of biology, chemistry, and physics to Arizona’s future teachers. The original laboratories and equipment, which...

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Dr. Herbert Stahnke, University Portrait

In the mid 1940’s Dr. Herbert Stahnke received research support from the Arizona State Legislature through two appropriations bills for research projects relating to scorpions, snakes and other...

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