Chemist Collection (page 55)

LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895). French chemist and microbiologist. Pasteur in his laboratory. Wood engraving, French, 1885, after a drawing by Adrien Marie

ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691). British physicist and chemist: colored 18th century copper engraving

ANTOINE LAVOISIER. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794). Lavoisier experimenting to determine the composition of water by igniting a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with an electric spark

MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867). English chemist and physicist: English steel engraving, 1845

DMITRI MENDELEYEV (1834-1907). Russian chemist: wood engraving, 1891

ALCHEMIST. Steel engraving, 19th century, after the painting by David Teniers the Younger

ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER (1743-1794). French chemist. Etching and engraving, French, 19th century

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733-1804). English cleric and chemist. Line engraving, English, late 18th century

SIR JAMES DEWAR (1842-1923). Scottish chemist and physicist. Wood engraving, English, 1893

Kodak film wallet for photographs and negatives 1939

Strada Tecuci, Galati, Romania
Strada Tecuci, Galati - a city and municipality in Romania, the capital of Galati County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, in the close vicinity of Braila

Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED FREDERICK BIRD, 1st Baronet (1849-1922) British chemist, Conservative Party politician, food manufacturer and proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons, a company founded by his father Alfred Bird

Uxbridge Chemist s
The attractive shop front of Rayner & Son, Chemists, on the High Street, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. Note the handsome shop sign of an old time apothecary. Date: 19th century

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England / Watford 1948
A birdseye view of The Parade and High Street, Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Note the Odeon Cinema, which is showing Station West. with Dick Powell and Jane Greer! Date: 1948

High-precision spectrometer. Researcher using a spectrometer that has been designed to give results with high accuracy and precision. Spectrometry is the analysis of the electromagnetic spectrum

Haemoglobin blood test. Researcher using optical equipment to test for the presence of haemoglobin in a blood sample. Haemoglobin is the oxygen-carrying pigment that gives blood its red colour

Analysing fuel oil for silicone traces
MODEL RELEASED. Analysing fuel oil for silicone traces, using an absorption spectroscope. Metal and silicone impurities in fuel oil can lead to problems such as inefficient combustion

Determining cetane number for diesel
MODEL RELEASED. Determining cetane number for diesel, using an IQT (Ignition Quality Tester). The cetane number (CN) is a measure of diesel combustion quality

First Soviet jet rocket, 1939
First Soviet jet rocket. Soviet engineer Igor Merkulov (right) and Soviet chemist Vladimir Abramov (left) working with Merkulovs jet rocket

Scientists in a laboratory
MODEL RELEASED. HPLC. Male chemists (right) using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) equipment. HPLC is used to separate out mixtures of organic molecules

Pipette filling a multi-well sample tray
MODEL RELEASED. Pipetting. Scientist uses a pipette to fill a multi-well sample tray with a chemical solution in a fume cupboard

Petrochemical industry research. Laboratory worker carrying out research at a petrochemical factory. A petrochemical factory is a chemical factory where oil is used as a raw material for a wide range

Technician pipetting solution into a microtube
MODEL RELEASED. Pipetting solution. Technician pipetting a liquid into a microtube using a pipettor, a type of automatic pipette

Synthesis of Buckyballs (C60): arcing electrodes

Technician prepares samples for mass spectrometer
MODEL RELEASED. Mass spectrometry. Scientist examines tubes of samples to be analysed in a mass spectrometer. Results of analysis are shown on the computer monitor

Atomic absorption spectroscopy in water analysis
Model Released. Scientist using an atomic absorption (a) spectrometer to analyse water samples. The results are displayed graphically by a computer

Researcher monitoring catalyst experiment
MODEL RELEASED: Chemistry research. A research chemist monitoring an experiment comparing the effects of two catalysts upon the same reaction

Laboratory research
MODEL RELEASED. Laboratory research. Two researchers talking by a computer in a laboratory

Chemist with a low temperature experiment
MODEL RELEASED. Chemistry experiment. Male chemist performing a low temperature experiment. He is pouring liquid gas into a container around the experiment, which is contained within a fume cupboard

Michael Faraday, English chemist
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English chemist and physicist. He devised the first electric motor along with equipment such as transformers and dynamos

Louis-Jacques Thenard, French chemist
Louis-Jacques Thenard (1777-1857), French chemist. Thenard, the son of a peasant, made his fortune by discovering Thenards blue

Benjamin Silliman, American chemist
Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), American chemist. Silliman initially studied law, but in 1802 he was appointed as Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Yale University, USA

Portrait of German chemist Daniel Sennert
Portrait of Daniel Sennert (1572-1637) at the age of 55 from an engraving by M. Merian (1627). Sennert was Professor of Medicine at Wittenberg from 1602

Overworked. Conceptual computer artwork of a man running from paperwork. This could represent a reaction to an overload of work

Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist
Thomas Graham (1805-1869), Scottish chemist. Graham ignored his fathers wish that he should enter the church, and studied science, a decision that led to professorships in Glasgow, Scotland

Gaspard Monge, French mathematician
Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), French mathematician. Monge is remembered as founder of descriptive geometry, the basis of modern engineering drawing, and for his work on the curvature of surfaces

Alexander Williamson, British chemist
Alexander William Williamson (1824-1904), British organic chemist. Williamson is famous for his work on the synthesis of ethers

Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1579-1644), Belgian doctor & chemist. Van Helmonts work represented a transition from alchemy to experimental chemistry

Benjamin Silliman, US chemist
Benjamin Silliman Senior (1779-1864), American chemist. Silliman initially studied law, but in 1802 he was appointed as professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale University, USA

Jean Dumas, French chemist
Jean Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist. In 1830 Dumas challenged the views of Berzelius on chemical structure, proposing in its place his own type theory

Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-1886), Russian chemist. From 1857, Butlerov worked on the newly proposed model of chemical structure

Nikolai Zinin, Russian chemist
Nikolai Nikolaevich Zinin (1812-1880), Russian chemist. Zinin worked in the area of organic chemistry, and is remembered for his role in identifying the chemical aminobenzene (aniline)

Nikolay Semyonov, Soviet physicist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896-1986), Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on chemical kinetics and chain reactions

Semyon Volfkovich, Soviet chemist
Semyon Isaakovich Volfkovich (1896-1980), Soviet chemist, using a microscope. Volfkovich was a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

John Wesley Hyatt, US inventor
John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920), US inventor. Hyatt is best known for discovering a method to simplify the production of the plastic celluloid

Irving Langmuir, American chemist
Irving Langmuir (1881-1957), American chemical physicist. Langmuirs most famous publication was his article The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules in which

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist. He discovered that fermentation is caused by microorganisms and went on to develop the germ theory of disease

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