Scientist Collection (page 3)

J. Davies Enys, Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929)
Oil on canvas, Newlyn School, early 20th century. John Davies Enys (1837-1912) was born at Enys, near Penryn, Cornwall, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1861

Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Walt Disney, and Heinz Haber in preparation for the
RYS336035 Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Walt Disney, and Heinz Haber in preparation for the film " Secrets of Life"

Charles Darwin, British naturalist, c1870s. Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron
Charles Darwin, British naturalist, c1870s. Darwin started his career on board the HMS Beagle and spent six years surveying the South American seas

Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770. James Cook (1728-1779), English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, made three voyages of discovery

Carlos Juan Finlay, Cuban biologist
Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915), Cuban biologist noted for work on yellow fever. Date: circa 1900

Amazing Stories Scifi magazine cover - Futuristic Human Cloning
THE 4-SIDED TRIANGLE, by William F Temple. A scientist clones the body of a young woman in his laboratory in this futuristic science fiction magazine cover 1939

JUNG, Carl Gustav (1875-1961). Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist. Founder of analytical psychology. Oil

John Dalton, British chemist C017 / 7114
John Dalton (1766-1844), British chemist, physicist and meteorologist. Daltons atomic theory that explained chemical changes was published in A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808)

Ernest Rutherford, caricature
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937). Caricature of the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, with an electron orbiting his head

Hoba West meteorite
Team of scientists with the Hoba meteorite which fell in Namibia. Photograph taken by W. T Gordon in 1920

MILTON VISITING GALILEO. John Milton visiting Galileo Galilei during Miltons Italian tour of 1638-1639. Line engraving after a painting by Annibale Gatti

ALCHEMY: MOUNTAIN. The Mountain of the Adepts, containing the Philosophers Stone
ALCHEMY:MOUNTAIN. The Mountain of the Adepts, containing the Philosophers Stone. Engraving from Stephan Michelspachers Alchemia, 1654

Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian botanist and founder of genetics. Mendel, the abbot of an abbey in Brno, carried out breeding experiments with pea plants (held in hand)

Marie Curie, caricature
Marie Curie. Caricature of the Polish chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934), holding a round bottomed flask. Curie is known for her pioneering early work with radioactivity

Lee De Forest, US radio pioneer
Lee De Forest (1873-1961), American radio pioneer, holding the triode valve, or Audion tube, that he invented. De Forest studied at Yale, gaining his doctorate with a thesis on radio waves

Albert Einstein, caricature
Albert Einstein. Caricature of the Swiss-German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on the photoelectric effect

Steven Pinker, Canadian psychologist
Steven Pinker. Caricature of the Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and author Steven Arthur Pinker (born 1954)

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Rene Descartes at Amsterdam. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

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Arrest of Archimedes, leading to his death. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Greek astronomer Hipparchus mapping the stars over Alexandria, ancient Egypt. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Einstein and Eddington, 1930
Einstein and Eddington. German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), at left, was famous for his theories of relativity

Market Jew Street with Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall
Market Jew Street with Humphry Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall. The name of the street comes from the Cornish Marghas Yow, meaning Thursday Market. The scientist Humphry Davy was born in Penzance

Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)
The younger brother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild, Charles was a keen entomologist, discovering the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, in Shendi, Sudan

Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving

Isaac Newton, caricature C013 / 7593
Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Caricature of the English physicist, mathematician and alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, holding a rainbow

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer C017 / 7118
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer

Johannes Kepler, German astronomer C017 / 7113
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer, holding a divider used to plot distances. Kepler devised three fundamental laws of planetary motion

Pierre de Fermat, caricature C015 / 6714
Pierre de Fermat, caricature

Leonard Euler, caricature C015 / 6711
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Caricature of the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler. Euler made discoveries in a wide range of fields, including geometry, infinitesimal calculus

James Watt, caricature C015 / 6706
James Watt (1736-1819). Caricature of the Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt. Watt made numerous practical improvements to the steam engine of his day

Augustin Cauchy, caricature C015 / 6700
Augustin Cauchy (1789-1857). Caricature of the French mathematician Augustin Cauchy. Cauchy was a pioneer of analysis and the theory of permutation groups

Museum scientists holding Oarfish specimen
Regalecus glesne. From left to right: Graham Pellow, Colin McCarthy, Prof. Philip Rainbow, Dr. Roger Lincoln, Ollie Crimmen and Sir Neil Chalmers

HIPPARCHUS (146-127 BC). Greek astronomer. Hipparchus observing the stars. 19th century line engraving

EARTH / UNIVERSE ALLEGORY. An allegorical representation of the microcosm, or Earth, and the macrocosm
EARTH/UNIVERSE ALLEGORY. An allegorical representation of the microcosm, or Earth, and the macrocosm, or the universe: German engraving, 1618

Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist
Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), Polish-French physicist. With her husband Pierre, she isolated the radioactive elements polonium and radium in 1898

Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists
Marie and Pierre Curie. Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), was born in Poland. In 1891 she became a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris, France

James Van Allen, US astrophysicist
James Van Allen (1914-2006), US astrophysicist, holding a model of the rocket launcher Juno 1 with the satellite Explorer 1 on the nose cone

Nikolay Urvantsev, Soviet geologist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Urvantsev (1893-1985), Soviet geologist, speaking in public at his 80th birthday celebration. Urvantsev is best known for his exploration of northern Siberia and the Arctic

James Clark Maxwell with his demon
James Clark Maxwell and his demon, artwork. Maxwell (1831-1879) is best known for his laws of electromagnetism, which laid the foundations for modern physics

Galileo and his daughter Maria Celeste
Galilei Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer, being guided by his daughter Maria Celeste (1600-1634), a nun

Konstantin Buteyko, Soviet doctor
Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (1923-2003), Soviet medical doctor and researcher. In the 1950s, Buteyko, a Ukrainian, developed a theory on the effects of deep breathing (hyperventilation)

Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist
Alfred Adler (1870-1937), Austrian psychologist. Adler was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud, and was invited by him to join the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society

Stephen Gould, US palaeontologist
Stephen Gould. Caricature of the US palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, science historian and author Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) holding a collection of his essays called The Pandas Thumb

Royal Society endorsement of a lens-grinder, 1600s
Opticians advertisement illustrated with Archimedes at a telescope, London, 1694. Hand-colored woodcut of a 17th-century illustration

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Bacteriologist Elie Metchnikoff in his laboratory. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

Theodor Schwann, German physiologist who made many contributions to biology and coined the term metabolism

Louis Pasteur. Artist: Edelfelt, Albert Gustaf Aristides (1854-1905)
Louis Pasteur. Found in the collection of Musee d Orsay, Paris

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"The Unveiling of the Scientific Mind: A Journey through Time and Space" In Joseph Wright's masterpiece, "The Orrery, " we witness the birth of scientific curiosity. The scientist, illuminated by candlelight, gazes intently at the intricate model of our solar system. Inspired by this scene, we embark on a voyage to explore the minds that shaped our understanding of the universe. Rosalind Franklin's pioneering work in X-ray crystallography unraveled DNA's double helix structure, forever changing biology. Her determination and brilliance paved the way for modern genetics. A young Sir Isaac Newton stares out from his portrait with an air of contemplation. His groundbreaking laws of motion and universal gravitation revolutionized physics and laid the foundation for centuries to come. At Brussels' Fifth Physics Congress in 1927, a black-and-white photograph captures luminaries like Einstein and Bohr discussing quantum mechanics. This gathering marked a turning point in our comprehension of reality at its most fundamental level. Carl Sagan, renowned astronomer and science communicator extraordinaire, captivated millions with his infectious enthusiasm for space exploration. Through his TV series "Cosmos, " he inspired generations to ponder humanity's place in an infinite cosmos. Richard Feynman’s caricature depicts him as both brilliant physicist and charismatic teacher—a true iconoclast who demystified complex concepts while making learning fun. Marie Curie's photograph immortalizes her groundbreaking research on radioactivity—the first woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields—physics and chemistry—her legacy continues to inspire aspiring scientists worldwide. The Emerald Tablet—an ancient alchemical text—symbolizes humanity's quest for knowledge since time immemorial. Its enigmatic verses have intrigued scholars across centuries as they sought wisdom hidden within its cryptic words. An Apollo 17 astronaut floats weightlessly above Earth—a testament to human ingenuity reaching beyond our planet’s boundaries; their daring exploration expanded our understanding of the cosmos.