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Jack Aeby

American physicist, mechanical engineer and photographer (1923-2015) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 91

Jack W. Aeby was an American environmental physicist most famous for having taken the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico.

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Country
United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 2015 · aged 91