Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Schultz, Leonard P (Leonard Peter) 1901-
- Morrison, Joseph
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Operation Crossroads was an expedition to Bikini Atoll and the northern Marshall islands iunder the auspices of the Department of the Navy. Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, was in charge of the biological investigation of the reef fishes in the area. His investigations centered on the relative abundance of fauna before and after atom bomb tests. Specimens were collected for the purpose of comparison and to make possible a study of anatomical variations among the various island fish populations.
- In 1947 scientists returned to resurvey the region to determine the impact of the atomic tests.
- See Neg. #s for Operation Crossroads 1947: 92-11701, SIA2010-0924, SIA2010-0925, SIA2010-0927, SIA2010-0928, SIA2010-0929, SIA2010-0964, SIA2010-0965, SIA2010-0966, SIA2010-0967, SIA2010-0968, SIA2010-0969, SIA2010-0970, SIA2010-0971, SIA2010-0972, SIA2010-0975
- Summary
- Gathered on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, are scientists who were sent to resurvey the region to determine the impact of the atomic bomb tests of 1946. J.I. Tracy, Geologist with the USGS, is in the front row, fourth from the left. Leonard Peter Schultz, ichthyologist at the National Museum of Natural History, is sitting in the front row, third from the left. Second from the left in the front row is likely A.C. Cole, professor of zoology and entomology, University of Tennessee and Joseph P.E. Morrison, invertebrate zoologist at the National Museum of Natural History, is likely in the front row, far left.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7222, Box 24
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1947
- Standard number
- 92-11701
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 4.5w x 3.5h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Marshall Islands
- Pacific Ocean
- Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Atomic Bomb Tests
- Collecting and collections
- Explorations and Expeditions
- Ichthyology
- Invertebrate Zoologists
- Nuclear weapons--Testing
- Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946/1947
- Scientific expeditions
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Scientists
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9796
