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Historical Figures in Science

Engravings of notable scientists from the 19th century, featuring detailed portraits in an artistic style that reflects their era.

SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD American naturalist and museum  director associated with the  Smithsonian Institution.       Date: circa 1855
SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD American naturalist and museum director associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Date: circa 1855
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Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, 1825 - 1909, German chemist, digitally edited
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PASTEUR, Louis (Dole 1822-Villeneuve-l 'Etang, Marnes-la-Coquet, 1895). French biologist, creator of Microbiology. It was the first to discover that fermentation was caused by living organisms, microbes. Creator of aseptic technique.
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Illustration showing William CROOKES (1832-1919); English chemist and physicist. Vacuum tube: psychical research
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Pierre Paul Broca, 1824 - 1880, French physician, anatomist and anthropologist, digitally edited
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (born 24 October 1804 in Wittenberg, died 23 June 1891 in Göttingen) was a German physicist. The derived SI unit Weber, unit symbol Wb, of the magnetic flux is named after him, co-inventor of the electromagnetic telegraph, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, exact date of depiction unknown, Historical
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Photographic print of Sir William Bowman (1816-1892), the English histologist and ophthalmic surgeon, pictured c.1880.     Date: 1880
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David Bruce (1855-1931) Australian-born Scottish physican and microbiologist. Identified bacterium causing human undulant fever (Brucella, 1887) and in 1895 in South Afica, found the Tsetse fly to be the carrier of the parasite responsible for sleeping si
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Thyroid of thyroid, tomas.
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Head and face of one of the last survivors of the totally exterminated primitive inhabitants of Tasmania, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Karl Gindra, Eduard Suess, 1831 1914, Geologist (obverse), 1897 Eduard Suess, 1831-1914, Geologist obverse
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