Last week Google put the photo archives of Life magazine online, and in the process put up some of the best science photos I’ve seen for some time.
As Life has retained the copyright we can’t put them up here, but have a look at some of the Nature team favourites and feel free to add any of your own favourites below.
Paracutin Volcano in San Juan, Mexico, 1945
Roald Amundsen on his South Pole expedition, 1911
Weather ballon experiment, Antarctica, 1951
Astronomers use the McDonald Observatory telescope, 1948
Einstein & Oppenheimer in Princeton, 1947
Warning: browsing the Life photo archive may become addictive.
UPDATE – More science Life photo favourites:
Gorgeous physics photos from the LIFE archives – Symmetry Breaking
Kicking it Old School – Cosmic Variance