L-R: Gus Petitt, Bill Mallard, Frank Hsu, Rod Nave, Jim Purcell, Martin Meder, Dave Wingert, Bill Nelson, Dick Miller, Steve Manson, Bob Hankla, Hal McAlister, Joe Hadley, Kathy Duggleby. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Jim Purcell and Martin Meder at the board in Martin's office. Rod Nave doesn't see how they can make anything out of what's on the board. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Hal McAlister with optical bench and electronics - maybe part of an interferometer? His interferometers got a lot bigger! [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Three graduate students of that time: Doug Garland, Kevin Carpenter and Chuck Antoine. Doug was working with Rod Nave on a Master's thesis project in acoustics. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Phil Outlaw with X-ray unit. The X-ray machine is shown with the precession camera mounted. Precession photographs confirmed that we had a single crystal and allowed us to allign crystals of organic solids with respect to their crystallographic…
Dan Witt, Shop Manager and Machinist, in the Physics and Astronomy Shop. Graduate Student Kerry Pullen at bandsaw at left. [Description from Rod Nave's personal photograph website]
Rod was doing electron spin resonance (ESR) research at this time with Bill Nelson. Since it involved liquid nitrogen, Jeff was interested and went in to the lab with Rod on July 28. He is looking at the powerful magnet used in the research. The…