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Title: Cosmic Radiation Research Group, Stagg Field Balloon Launch

Caption: This balloon launch experiment was held in October, 1948. While Fermi is not identified in this photo, he was involved in cosmic ray experimental and theoretical research about this time. There is an anecdote about one of these experiments in a letter published in the University of Chicago Magazine.

Photography: Chicago Sun-Times

Format: 19.5 x 24.2 cm

Publisher: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center

Identifier: apf3-00569

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