Frederick Seitz, Ava Pauling, Detlev Bronk, Paul Weiss

Description: Ava Helen Miller Pauling (1903-1981) was a noted pacifist, human rights activist, and conservationist, and a leader in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, American Civil Liberties Union, and the "Women Strike for Peace" movement. Her husband Linus Pauling received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. This 1963 photograph shows Ava Pauling with (left to right) scientists Frederick Seitz (1911-2008), Detlev Wulf Bronk (1897-1975), and Paul Weiss.

Creator/Photographer: Fremont Davis

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Date: 1963

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5802

Collection: Accession 90-105: Science Service Records, 1920s – 1970s - Science Service, now the Society for Science & the Public, was a news organization founded in 1921 to promote the dissemination of scientific and technical information. Although initially intended as a news service, Science Service produced an extensive array of news features, radio programs, motion pictures, phonograph records, and demonstration kits and it also engaged in various educational, translation, and research activities.