Jerry R. Faust began his childhood on his father's farm in rural Texas. When his parents divorced he moved with his mother, a nurse, and his brother to Dallas, Texas, where he attended junior high school and high…

Cheng-Ming Chiang was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, the second youngest of four siblings, and the first to attend college. Chiang was raised by his mother who worked as a taxi driver in Taiwan for over twenty…

Sarah A. Woodson was born and raised in Warren, Michigan. Her father was a music teacher; Sarah's mother, who was from Amsterdam, Holland, was a housewife until her children were older, when she finished college and…

Tian Xu was born in Jiaxing City in Zhejiang Province in China, the older of two children. His father, who was from a wealthy family, was a dean; his mother began work in a silk factory and rose to become a CEO until…

Zhaohui Xu was born in Suzhou, China, during the Cultural Revolution. His father was a supervisor of quality engineering in a textile factory, his mother a teacher of deaf children. Because the Revolution dictated a…

Lili Yamasaki grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan, the second youngest of six siblings. Yamasaki's father was a physician and her mother a nurse, until she began raising her children. Yamasaki had an early interest in…

Susan J. Birren spent time in New York and Washington, D.C., though grew up mostly in Kentfield, California, just north of San Francisco, the second youngest of four siblings. Her father was a lawyer, and then an…

Alison E. M. Adams was born in Penang, Malaysia, the third of six children. Her parents were British citizens: Her father, a British citizen, had worked for the British government for many years; her mother, also a…

Brenda L. Bass grew up in the 1960's in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her parents were young and had no opportunity to finish college, taking jobs as realtors. As a result, Bass was often cared for by her maternal…

Ann M. Pullen was born in Eastbourne, a small town on the south coast of England, though was raised in Sutton Coldfield just outside of Birmingham, the elder of two sisters. Both of her parents were university-educated…

Robert C. De Lisle was born in Buffalo, New York, the fourth of seven children. His father was an electrical engineer who holds patents on several of his inventions and who, now that he is retired, is studying cosmology…

Ann Marie Craig was born in Ithaca, New York, the second of three children. Her father was a graduate student in business administration at Cornell University, and her mother was a nurse. Both parents came from small…

Lynn Cooley grew up in Portland, Connecticut, the middle child of five. Her father was in aeronautical engineering and her mother in physics, so she had a very early introduction, if not a genetic predisposition, to…

Volume two of three, compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The volume consists of a collection of pseudo-scientific printings outlining fraudulent medicinal treatments. The quackery included in…

Color print advertisement for Dow Pharmaceuticals. The advertisement features a color illustration of an industrial plant, overlaid with illustrations of glass scientific instruments and beakers. Inside the instruments…

Photographic reproduction portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a French microbiologist who investigated the fermentative properties of bacteria, developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax, discovered the…

Photographic reproduction portrait of Charles Chamberland (1851-1908), a French microbiologist and colleague of renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Chamberland and French physician Pierre Paul Émile Roux…

Photographic reproduction portrait of Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853-1933), a French physician and assistant to renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) from 1878 until 1883. Roux and French microbiologist, Charles…

Photographic reproduction portrait of German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology due to his identification of the causative agents of…

Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine (1860-1930), a native Russian bacteriologist who worked at the Pasteur Institute to develop an anti-cholera vaccine. Haffkine is recognized as the…

Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology…

Portrait of Thomas Dimsdale, a practitioner of medicine recognized as a specialist in inoculation. Dimsdale was summoned by the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, in 1768 to introduce the practice of inoculation in…

Black and white reproduction of an oil painting portrait of Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736-1816). Jesty, a cattle farmer from Dorset, England, gained notoriety as a key contributor to the linkage of cowpox and smallpox. He was…

Color print advertisement for Dow Chemical Pharmaceutical Division. The advertisement features an illustration of a man in a well-furnished study consulting a book, with a microscope in view on his desk. He is seen…

Cyanotype depicting a group of female students participating in an anatomy class at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The group is gathered around a table working on a human cadaver. The students' names are…