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Portrait of Friedrich Kohlrausch
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Black and white portrait of Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840 -1910).
Kohlrausch was a German experimental physicist who researched electrolytes, elasticity, thermal conduction, and magnetic and electrical precision…
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Portrait of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz
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Portrait of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
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Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
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Portrait of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1902) wearing a suit and a bow tie.
Lorentz was a Dutch physicist. In 1902, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) for their discovery of the…
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Portrait of Hans Heinrich Landolt
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Portrait of Hans Heinrich Landolt (1831-1910). Landolt was a Swiss chemist who discovered the iodine clock reaction. He was additionally a co-founder of the Landolt–Börnstein database.
- Artist Jütte, H. F.
- Publisher Engelmann, Wilhelm, 1808-1878
- Subject Chemists, Landolt, H. (Hans), 1831-1910
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Portrait of Ernst Mach
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Portrait of Ernst Mach (1838 -1916) an Austrian physicist and philosopher.
- Publisher Engelmann, Wilhelm, 1808-1878
- Printer Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
- Subject Mach, Ernst, 1838-1916, Portraits, Physicists, Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
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Illustrated portrait of Ernst Cohen
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Illustrated ortrait of Ernst Cohen (1869-1944), a Dutch scientist and professor, who was known for his research in the allotropy of tin. Cohen worked under Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Henri Moissan (1852-1907), and…
- Subject Cohen, Ernst, 1869-1944, Chemists, Jewish scientists
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Christmas card featuring Henri Becqurel
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Christmas and New Years' card featuring a black and white portrait of Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852-1908).
Becquerel was a French physicist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in radioactivity. He…
- Publisher Academic Press
- Subject Nobel Prize winners, Becquerel, Henri, 1852-1908, Physicists, Christmas, New Year
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Portrait of Svante Arrhenius
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Portrait of Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927).
Svante Arrhenius is known as one of the founders of Physical Chemistry. In 1903, Arrhenius was the third person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic…
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Portrait of Ernst Cohen
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Portrait of Ernst Cohen (1869-1944), a Dutch scientist and professor, who was known for his research in the allotropy of tin. Cohen worked under Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Henri Moissan (1852-1907), and Jacobus van…
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Portrait of Robert Bunsen
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Portrait of Robert Bunsen (1811-1899).
Bunsen, a German chemist, developed several techniques used for separating, identifying, and measuring chemical substances and is credited with the invention of the Bunsen burner.…
- Printer Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
- Publisher Engelmann, Wilhelm, 1808-1878
- Subject Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899, Chemistry, Portraits, Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
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Portrait of Max Planck
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Portrait of Max Planck (1858-1947). Max Planck is known as the father of quantum theory. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for his discovery of energy quanta. Planck made significant contributions to the world…
- Subject Planck, Max, 1858-1947, Physicists
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Portrait of Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Portrait of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Gibbs, a Yale alumnus, was an American chemist and pioneer in the field of physical chemistry. Gibbs developed statistical mechanics and the concept of Gibbs free energy in…
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Portrait of William Ramsay
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Portrait of William Ramsay (1852-1916).
The Scottish chemist William Ramsay (1852–1916) is known for his work introducing the noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon) as a new group on the periodic…
- Printer Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
- Publisher Engelmann, Wilhelm, 1808-1878
- Subject Ramsay, William, 1852-1916, Chemists, Portraits, Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
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Notes on scrap paper written by Georg Bredig
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Notes on scrap paper written by Georg Bredig (1868-1944). Notes include scientific diagrams, addresses, equations, and citations for publications and books.
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Equations, Bibliographical citations
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Beobachtungsresultate aus dem Praktikum über Optik
- Observation Results from the Practicum on optics
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A printed booklet of observation results from a practicum on optics from the University of Göttingen. Inside the booklet is a fold-out with illustrations of lenses, magnifying glasses, microscopes, and telescopes.
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Notebooks, Optics, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemistry, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Universität Göttingen
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Blank receipt from Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft
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The Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft (Emergency Association of German Science) was founded in October 1920 by Fritz Haber (1868-1934), Max Planck (1858-1947), Ernst von Harnack (1888-1945), and former Prussian…
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Portrait of H. Jermain Creighton
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Sepia toned photograph of H. Jermain Creighton. The lower right has a note from Creighton to Georg Bredig (1868-1944).
Creighton was the head of the chemistry department at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania in 1928. He…
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Portrait of Carl Wilhelm Scheele
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Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) was a German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist whose discoveries include oxygen and chlorine gas.
- Engraver Meisenbach Riffarth & Company
- Publisher Engelmann, Th. W. (Th. Wilhelm), 1843-1909
- Subject Portraits, Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786, Chemists
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Portrait of Jeremias Benjamin Richter
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Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762 – 1807) was a German chemist and mining official. He introduced the term stoichiometry, which is the study of the quantifiable relationships between two or more substances undergoing a…
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Portraits of John Dalton
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Profile etching of John Dalton (1766-1844).
Widely known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, Dalton was a noted English meteorologist and chemist. His research on meteorology resulted in its acceptance as…
- Engraver Jeens, Charles Henry, 1827-1879
- Publisher Macmillan & Co.
- Subject Dalton, John, 1766-1844, Jeens, Charles Henry, 1827-1879
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Letter from Marianne Homburger to Max Bredig
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Marianne Homburger (1903-1986) gives Max Bredig (1902-1977) Mrs. Raphael's address.
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Telegram from Marianne Homburger
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Marianne Homburger (1903-1987) requests that money be cabled to a bank in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Letter regarding binocular repairs
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Draft of a letter regarding the repair of Max Bredig's (1902-1977) binoculars.
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Telegram from Fridel G. Halstead to the Homburgers
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Fridel G. Halstead asks Marianne (1903-1986) and Viktor Homburger (1888-1968) if they have received affidavits.