Surname P Collection

Plato, Ancient Greek philosopher
Plato (427-347 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher. Platos spirit of rational inquiry led to todays scientific method. His writings shaped and continue to have a profound influence on Western thought

Plato, caricature
Plato. Caricature of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC). Platos spirit of rational inquiry led to todays scientific method

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

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist. Louis Pasteur proved the germ theory of disease, which holds that germs attack the body from the outside

Peter the Great, Russian Tsar
Peter the Great (1685-1766), Russian Tsar. When he became Tsar, Peter modernized and expanded his realm, fighting several wars and founding the Russian Empire in 1721 at the Treaty of Nystad

Joseph Priestley, caricature C015 / 6707
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Caricature of the British chemist and clergyman Joseph Priestley. Priestly is best known as the discoverer of oxygen

Kim Philby, Soviet double agent C013 / 5334
Kim Philby (1912-1988). Portrait of the Soviet double agent Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby (centre) with his wife Rufina

Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, born Ryazan on September 14, 1849, died Leningrad on February 27, 1936, photographed (centre) with dog during a demonstration

Louis Pasteur, French microbiologist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist, in his laboratory. Louis Pasteur proved the germ theory of disease, which holds that germs attack the body from the outside

Ivan Pavlov, caricature C013 / 7594
Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936). Caricature of the Russian physiologist and experimental psychologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, ringing a bell to make a dog salivate

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
Peter the Great (1672-1725), also called Peter I and Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov, Tsar and Autocrat of all the Russias. Crowned in 1682, Tsar Peter instituted reforms which made Russia a global power

Ivan Papanin, Soviet Arctic explorer
Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin (1894-1986), Soviet Arctic explorer, in Arctic clothing in 1938. During the winter of 1937-8, Papanin was leader of the Soviet ice drift station SP-1 in the Arctic

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet movie maker C017 / 9393
Vsevolod Pudovkin. Portrait of the Soviet film director and actor Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953, left) operating an early video camera in a field

Louis Pasteur, French chemist

Max Planck, caricature
Max Planck (1858-1947). Caricature of the German theoretical physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck. Planck pioneered quantum mechanics, revolutionizing classical physics

Pudovkin and Chuvelev cutting film C017 / 9389
Pudovkin and Chuvelev cutting film. Soviet film director and actor Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953, left) and Ivan Chuvelev (right) cutting the film Storm

Yuri Prokhorov, Russian mathematician C013 / 9128
Yuri Prokhorov (born 1929). Portrait of the Soviet-Russian mathematician Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov. Prokhorov works in the field of probability theory

Kim Philby, Soviet double agent C013 / 4864
Kim Philby (1912-1988). Portrait of the Soviet double agent Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby. Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to

Caesium atomic clock, 1956
Caesium atomic clock. Physicists Jack Parry (left) and Louis Essen (right) adjusting their caesium resonator, which they developed in 1955

Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer
Juan Ponce de Leon (c.1460-1521), Spanish explorer and discoverer of Florida. Ponce de Leon retired to Hispaniola (Dominican Republic)

School of Pythagoras in Croton
School of Pythagoras. The Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c.580-c.490 BC, centre) established an eccentric religious community at Croton, in southern Italy

Pliny, Roman encyclopaedist
Pliny (23-79), Roman naturalist & encyclopaedist. Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus) has one surviving work, Historia Naturalis, a 37-volume encyclopaedia summarising the knowledge of the time

Charles Talbot Porter, US engineer
Charles Talbot Porter (1826-1910), American mechanical engineer. He worked mainly on engines, studying their rotational speeds and ways of controlling inertial forces

Pythagoras, Ancient Greek mathematician
Pythagoras (around 580-500 BC), Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Samos, Greece, but left for Croton in Italy in around 520 BC

Ptolemy I Soter, Macedonian general
Ptolemy I Soter (367-283 BC), Macedonian general, descending the steps at the temple of the Muses, coloured historical artwork

William Penn, English coloniser

Pythagoras monument
Monument to Pythagoras. Monument to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (about 580-496 B.C.) in the harbour of Pythagorio, Samos, Greece

Sir William Petty, English physician
Sir William Petty (1623-1687), English physician, surveyor and ship designer. Born in Hampshire, England, Petty travelled to France to study at the age of 13

Ptolemys observatory, 2nd century AD
Ptolemys observatory in Alexandria, ancient Egypt. Coloured historical artwork of Claudius Ptolemy (AD c100-170), an Egyptian or Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician

Alexander Popov, Russian radio pioneer
Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1906), Russian radio pioneer and physicist. After joining the Navys Torpedo School at Kronstadt, Popov started experiments with radio

Nikolay Pirogov, Russian surgeon
Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (1810-1881), Russian surgeon and teacher. Pirogov was a pioneering battlefield surgeon and one of the most famous doctors in Russia

Ambroise Pare, French surgeon
Ambroise Pare (1504-1590), French surgeon. Pare, who worked in the army as a barber-surgeon, is considered to be the father of modern surgery

Pythagoras and Egyptian priests
Pythagoras (c.580-c.490 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher, with Egyptian priests. Pythagoras is thought to have studied in Egypt for 21 years

Samuel Plimsoll, British politician
Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898), British politician, social reformer and inventor of the Plimsoll line. Plimsoll was a Member of Parliament who was concerned that sailors were being put at risk because

Robert Pelham, US inventor
Robert Pelham (1859-1943), US inventor. Pelham invented a device to automate clerical tasks such as gluing slips of paper together

Vladimir Petlyakov, aircraft designer
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov (1891-1942), Soviet aircraft designer. Petlyakov studied under Nikolai Zhukovsky, the founder of modern aerodynamics and hydrodynamics

Vladimir Platonov, Soviet mathematician
Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (born 1939), Soviet mathematician. Platonov, a member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, was the Director of the Institute of Mathematics for that Academy from 1977 to

Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist
Bruno Pontecorvo (1913-1993), Italian physicist. Pontecorvo studied at the University of Rome, working with Enrico Fermi. He was working in France when World War II broke out

Alexander Prokhorov, Russian physicist
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1916-2002), Russian physicist and Nobel laureate, wearing his Hero of Socialist Labor (stars, double award) and Order of Lenin (round) medals

Pythagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
Pythagoras (c.580-c.490 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher. Pythagoras is most famous for the theorem, a mathematical proof concerning triangles, that is named after him

Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French engineer
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (1708-1794), French engineer. Perronet is best known for the bridges that he designed and supervised the building of, including the Pont de la Concorde (completed 1791)

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

Svante Paabo, Swedish paleontologist
Professor Svante Paabo, Swedish pioneer of recovering DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) genetic material from ancient fossils. Paabo has conducted research at the Universities of Munich, Germany

Prokhorovs research group, Russia. Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (far left, 1916-2002), head of the Oscillation Laboratory at the Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

Death of Pliny the Elder, Roman naturalist
Death of Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Roman naturalist and author, on the beach at Stabiae during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Pliny the Elder, Roman naturalist
Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Roman naturalist and author, shown with some of the animals, minerals and plants described in his 37-volume encyclopedia Historia Naturalis

Gaston Plante, French physicist
Gaston Plante (1834-1889), French physicist. Plante is famous for inventing the lead-acid battery in 1859. In 1854 he became a lecture assistant at the Paris-based Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers

Portrait of Aleksandr Popov, Russian radio pioneer
Portrait of Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov (1859- 1906), Russian physicist and radio pioneer. Popov was born the son of a priest, and was educated in a seminary

Portrait of Lord George Porter, Nobel chemist
Sir George Porter, British physical chemist (born 1920). In World War II Porter worked with radar as a naval officer. From 1945 he worked in Cambridge with R.G.W

Pasteur supervising inoculation of rabies vaccine
Illustration of the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), left, supervising his assistants experimenting on a rabbit during research into a rabies vaccine

A. Parmentier, French nutritional chemist
Antoine Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), French nutritional chemist. Parmentier promoted the potato as a food in France and Europe

Bernard Palissy, French geologist
Bernard Palissy (1509-1589), French potter, geologist and naturalist, stoking his furnace with wooden furniture. Originally a glass-painter by trade

Portrait of John Parkinson, apothecary & botanist
Portrait after a woodcut of John Parkinson (1567- 1650). Parkinson was an apothecary, and also became the first royal botanist (to Charles I of England)

Engraving of Claudius Ptolemy (ad c100-170)
Sixteenth century engraving of Claudius Ptolemy (AD c100-170), an Egyptian, or possibly Greek, astronomer, using a quadrant and being guided by the muse Astronomy

Portrait of Priestley & his equipment
Portrait of Joseph Priestley an English chemist who was born in 1733 and died in 1804. Priestly is given credit for the isolation of oxygen although he never recognized it as such & continued to

Ivan Pavlov in his laboratory
Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, born Ryazan on September 14, 1849, died Leningrad on February 27, 1936, photographed (2nd from right) in his laboratory

Woodcut of 16th Century Swiss physician / alchemist
Woodcut of the 16th century Swiss physician & alchemist, Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (1493-1541). It was made by August Hirschvogel, 1540

Engraving of Ptolemy, an Egyptian astronomer
Engraving of Ptolemy (AD c100-170), an Egyptian astronomer. The Ptolematic system held that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe with the planets revolving about it

Soviet North Pole-1 station crew, 1939
Soviet North Pole-1 station crew members. Seated at left is Ivan Papanin (1894-1986), expedition leader and Arctic explorer. Seated at centre is Ernst Krenkel (1903-1971), radio operator

The Seven Sages of Greece, 7th century BC
The Seven Sages of Greece. The traditions of Ancient Greece named seven philosophers and statesmen from the 7th and 6th centuries BC as the wisest of men

William Penn statue, 19th century
William Penn statue. This statue was erected on top of the Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Construction of the building began in 1871 and was completed in 1901

Josef Petzval, Hungarian mathematician
Josef Max Petzval (1807-1891), Hungarian mathematician and inventor of pioneering camera lenses. In 1840, in collaboration with Peter Voigtlander

Pasteur in his study, 19th century
Pasteur in his study. French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) found that fermentation is caused by micro-organisms, and also proposed the germ theory of disease

Joseph Priestley, English chemist
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Historical artwork of the English chemist Joseph Priestley wrote books on optics and electricity but is best remembered for discovering a number of new gases including

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601), Italian humanist and mentor of Galileo. Pinelli is most famous for his lifetime of correspondence with most of the intellectual giants of Europe

A. Parmentier, French food scientist
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), French food scientist. This statue was inaugurated on 11 March 1888, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France

Achilles consulting Pythia, Roman carving. Circular stone carved relief of the Greek hero Achilles (left) consulting Pythia, the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi

Samuel Plimsoll commemorative plaque
Samuel Plimsoll. Plaque commemorating the British politician and social reformer Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898). Plimsoll is best known as the inventor of the Plimsoll line

Samuel Plimsoll commemorative monument
Samuel Plimsoll. Monument commemorating the British politician and social reformer Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898). Plimsoll is best known as the inventor of the Plimsoll line

Denis Papin and Robert Boyle, engraving
Denis Papin and Robert Boyle. Engraving of the French scientist Denis Papin (1647- 1712), and Irish chemist Robert Boyle (1627- 91), discussing their experiments using air pumps in 1675

Engraving of Denis Papin, French inventor
Denis Papin (1647-1712), French physicist and steam engine pioneer. Papin was an assistant to both Huygens and Boyle, moving to London in 1675

Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer
Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Russian explorer, geographer and student of Central Asia. Przhevalsky, from a noble Polish family

Bernard Palissy, French potter
Bernard Palissy (1509-1589), French potter, geologist and naturalist, stoking his furnace, coloured artwork. Palissy spent 16 years on experiments to produce enamels for ceramics

Bernard Palissy, French potter
Bernard Palissy (1509-1589), French potter, geologist and naturalist, coloured artwork. Originally a glass-painter by trade, Palissy spent 16 years on experiments to produce enamels

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping

"Surname P: A Legacy of Intellectual Giants and Intriguing Figures" From the ancient Greek philosopher Plato to the renowned French microbiologist Louis Pasteur, the surname P has been associated with brilliance and innovation throughout history. Plato, a name synonymous with wisdom and philosophical enlightenment, continues to inspire generations with his profound teachings on ethics, politics, and metaphysics. His intellectual legacy remains as relevant today as it was in Ancient Greece. Louis Pasteur revolutionized the field of microbiology through his groundbreaking discoveries on vaccination and pasteurization. His tireless efforts in combating infectious diseases have saved countless lives and paved the way for modern medicine. Joseph Priestley, another notable figure bearing this surname, left an indelible mark on science as a chemist and theologian. Known for his discovery of oxygen gas, he challenged conventional beliefs during his time while leaving behind caricatures that capture his vibrant personality. Steven Pinker represents a contemporary addition to the lineage of Surname P. As a Canadian psychologist known for his insightful research on language acquisition and cognition, Pinker's work sheds light on our understanding of human nature. Kim Philby stands out among these luminaries due to his controversial role as a Soviet double agent during the Cold War era. Despite being shrouded in secrecy, Philby's actions continue to intrigue historians fascinated by espionage tales. Ivan Pavlov's contributions to psychology are legendary; he is best remembered for discovering classical conditioning through experiments involving dogs' salivation responses. Caricatures depicting Pavlov further emphasize how deeply ingrained he is within scientific consciousness. Peter the Great emerges from Russian history as one of its most influential Tsars who transformed Russia into a major European power through extensive reforms across various sectors such as military tactics or administrative structures. Nikolay Pirogov made significant advancements in surgical techniques during 19th-century Russia. As one of its pioneering surgeons, he introduced new methods and instruments that revolutionized the field of medicine.