Images Dated 30th August 2005

A man looks at a pack of riders cycle during the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain

A man looks at a pack of riders cycle during the fifth stage of the Tour of Spain, from Alcazar de San Juan to Cuenca, August 31, 2005. Norway's Thor Hushovd won the stage. Australian Bradley McGee retains the overall lead. REUTERS/Dani Cardona Pictures of the Month August 2005 Pictures of the Year 2005 DCF/DH - RP6DRNAAMGAD

Hippocrates of Cos, Ancient Greek physician, 1866

Hippocrates of Cos, Ancient Greek physician, 1866. Known as the father of medicine Hippocrates (c460-c359 BC) laid the foundations of a scientific basis for medicine. He taught that the four humours (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile) were the main seats of disease. Engraving after an antique bust in the Louvre, Paris. From Vies des Savants Illustres by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1866)

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Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. Artist: Nadar

Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. In 1896 Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered that uranium, when placed on a sealed, light-tight photographic plate, exposed the plate, producing an image of the uranium on the developed plate. He deduced that uranium was emitting an invisible but penetrating radiation. In 1903 he shared the Nobel prize for physics with Pierre and Marie Curie

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