Raw Materials of the Atomic Bomb (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1945 August 10 - unknown

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened August 10, 1945. Located in the Grand Gallery and the Morgan Memorial Hall of Minerals and Gems at the American Museum of Natural History. "Raw Materials of the Atomic Bomb" showed how strategic minerals were essential to the war effort.

Summary

"Raw Materials of the Atomic Bomb" showed how strategic minerals were essential to the war effort. Specimens of pitchblende, carnotite and beryl, sources of radium uranium and beryllium were on display. Three maps showed the geographical distribution of these minerals throughout the world. The explosion of the uranium atom was diagrammatically represented. The exhibit was on view in the 77th St. Foyer and the Hall of Minerals and Gems at the American Museum of Natural History starting August 10, 1945.

Individuals and institutions involved in the creation of the exhibition: Names that turn up in the other columns

Sources

American Museum of Natural History Press Release, August 10, 1945. Departmental Records, 101; American Museum of Natural History Library Archives.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Grand Gallery.
Location of exhibition.

American Museum of Natural History. Morgan Memorial Hall of Minerals and Gems.
Location of exhibition.

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