COSMIC DONATION
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Dr. Bert Stiller, a former physicist in the Cosmic Rays Branch of the Nucleonics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, shows Mike Simons, the museum's registrar, the different parts of the MS-2. This microscope was custom built in Italy and used in the 1950s to view cosmic rays on film.The microscope, although not currently functional, will become a permanent part of the museum's collections.