1. 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.
12 Facts About Jack Aeby
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Jack W Aeby was born on August 16,1923, in Mound City, Missouri.
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In 1942, Aeby joined the Manhattan Project by filling out an employment application in Albuquerque.
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Jack Aeby did a lot of jobs, including ferrying scientists and equipment between Albuquerque and Los Alamos.
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On July 16,1945, Jack Aeby took the only well-exposed color photograph of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico.
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Jack Aeby was a civilian assigned to the Physics Group 5 with Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain at the time his snapshot was taken.
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Jack Aeby was not an official observer at the test site, but was invited along to take informal photos of the work, which he had commonly done since he arrived at Los Alamos.
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Jack Aeby says he took the photos of the blast on a whim, "it was there so I shot it".
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Jack Aeby took the film, a non-standard piece of Ansochrome movie stock film, out of the camera that night at a local photo lab, and worked it through the 21 step procedure for color film developing.
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Jack Aeby says in most uses of the photo it is reversed.
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Jack Aeby is a source for a story about a notable estimate made by Enrico Fermi at that test:.
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Jack Aeby lived in the Espanola Valley in northern New Mexico with his wife Jeanne.