Physicist Collection

Atomic Bomb Scientists at Test Site
At a nuclear test site near Alamogordo, New Mexico

Einstein Plays Violin
ALBERT EINSTEIN German born physicist. Playing the violin on board the steamer Deutschland from Europe to the USA

CMS detector, CERN
CMS detector. Part of the CMS (compact muon solenoid) detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland

E. Rutherford in the Cavendish Laboratory
The New Zealand born physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937, right) seen in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University

Paul Dirac / Nobel 1933
PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE DIRAC British physicist

Mass spectrometer, 1954
Mass spectrometer. Researchers adjusting the controls of a mass spectrometer. This is an all-metal demountable mass spectrometer

Ernest Rutherford, caricature
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937). Caricature of the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, with an electron orbiting his head

Richard Feynman, caricature C015 / 6715
Richard Feynman (1918-1988). Caricature of the American theoretical physicist Richard Phillips Feynman. As a young man, Feynman worked on the American atomic bomb project at Los Alamos

Erwin Schrodinger
ERWIN SCHRODINGER Austrian physicist whose research into subatomic particles is the basis of quantum mechanics

ATLAS detector, CERN
ATLAS detector. Engineer standing on a platform in front of the ATLAS (a torodial LHC apparatus) detector (circular) at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland

Fifth Physics Congress Solvay, Brussels, 1927 (b/w photo)
ACD157380 Fifth Physics Congress Solvay, Brussels, 1927 (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); Academie des Sciences, Paris, France; (add.info.: First row : Irving Langmuir (1881-1957)

Marie Curie - Nobel Prize-winning Polish Scientist
Marie Curie (1867-1934) - Polish Scientist, twice the recipient of the Nobel Prize for her pioneering research on radioactivity, the first woman Nobel winner. Date: 1911

5th Solvay Conference of 1927 The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry in Brussels held the first world physics conference in 1911 and began to host them every three years

Marconi with his radio, 19th century
Marconi with his radio, 19th-century artwork. The apparatus consists of a receiver and a transmitter

Immanuel Kant, caricature
Immanuel Kant. Caricature of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Kant published various influential philosophical works on the natural sciences, particularly geophysics and astronomy

Werner Heisenberg
WERNER HEISENBERG German physicist

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Albert Einstein, 1915 (b/w photo)
1711786 Albert Einstein, 1915 (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (19th-20th century)

Niels Bohr, caricature
Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Caricature of the Danish physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, blowing orbiting electrons out of his pipe. Bohr won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922

Humphry Davy, caricature
Humphry Davy. Caricature of the British chemist and physicist Humphry Davy (1778-1829), holding a Davy lamp. The Davy lamp was a safety lamp designed for use in coal mines

Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby
JLJ4657580 Alchemist tempting to discover the philosophical stone Painting by Joseph Wright Of Derby (1734-1797) 18th century Sun

LUDWIG BOLTZMANN (1844-1906). Austrian physicist

James Clerk Maxwell, caricature
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). Caricature of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell

Kapitsa and Androv, Russian physicists. Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (left, 1894-1984) is listening to a graduate student called Androv (right), who is defending his doctoral thesis

E. Rutherford together with Niels Bohr
The New Zealand born physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford (left) with the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. Their work greatly contributed to improve the understanding of the atomic structure

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). American (German-born) theoretical physicist
ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955). German-American theoretical physicist. At his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Photograph by Lucien Aigner, 1940, digitally colored by Granger, NYC

Niels Henrik David Bohr
NIELS HENRIK DAVID BOHR Danish physicist

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Bolts of electricity discharging in the lab of Nikola Tesla
Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla in his lab while his magnifying transmitter high voltage generator produces bolts of electricity. December 1899

Tokamak-15 nuclear fusion reactor C013 / 1348
Tokamak-15 nuclear fusion reactor. Nuclear engineer standing on top of the Tokamak-15 (T-15) nuclear fusion reactor at the Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Power, near Moscow, Russia

MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867) establishing the fundamental law of electrolysis: colored engraving, 19th century

Biomechanics, historical artwork
Biomechanics. Historical artwork of two humans bearing loads. This illustration is taken from De Motu Animalium (On Animal Motion, 1680) by Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679)

James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist. Maxwells works cover a wide area of science, and he is regarded as one of the finest minds of the 19th century

Lev Landau, Soviet physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968), Soviet physicist

Newtons Opticks with colour Spectrum
Opticks by the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), published in 1704 with a colour spectrum produced by a prism projected across the title page

Albert Einstein, artwork
Albert Einstein. Cartoon of the Swiss-German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Isaac Newton using a prism to analyze the colors in a ray of light. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Albert Einstein 1921
ALBERT EINSTEIN German physicist in 1921

The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 (oil on canvas)
XKH141316 The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 (oil on canvas) by Friedrich, Caspar David (1774-1840); 98.4x74.8 cm; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). British chemist and physicist. Faraday in his laboratory. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London. The British Museum

Alexander Friedman, Soviet cosmologist
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman (1888-1925), Russian and Soviet cosmologist and mathematician. Friedman, who lived and worked in Leningrad, is considered the founder of modern cosmology

Valentin Glushko, Soviet scientist
Valentin Glushko (1908-1989), Soviet rocket scientist. Glushko was one of the most important scientists in the development of the Soviet space programme

Albert Einstein. Computer illustration of the German-American physicist Albert Einstein (1879- 1955) seen with an astronomical artwork and equations including E=mc2

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (19th century). Newtons (1643-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

GAUSS, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855). German mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Portrait of Carl Friederich Gauss. Engraving

Historic
MAXWELL, James Clerk (Edinburgh, 1831-Cambridege, 1879). Scottish physicist. Noted for his work on magnetism and electricity

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879). Scottish physicist. Wood engraving, 19th century

Nikola Tesla, Serb-US physicist
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serb-US physicist and electrical engineer. Tesla was educated at Graz and Prague, but in 1884 he emigrated to the USA

Computer artwork of Albert Einstein and E=mc2

Prof. Peter Higgs
British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs (b. 1929). In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new type of fundamental particle, commonly called the Higgs boson

Ernest Rutherford
ERNEST RUTHERFORD British physicist, awarded 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry, president of the Royal Society 1925-30

James Clerk Maxwell
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL physicist

British physicist Prof. Peter Higgs C015 / 4138
British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs (b. 1929). In 1964, Higgs predicted the existence of a new type of fundamental particle, commonly called the Higgs boson

Albert Einstein
ALBERT EINSTEIN German born physicist in 1920

Guglielmo Marconi
GUGLIELMO MARCONI Italian physicist and inventor in yachting attire and with communications apparatus

Physicist Albert Einstein Aboard Ocean Liner
Physicist Albert Einstein in a window on S.S. Belgenland upon arrival at Pier 59 in New York City

Albert Einstein Shaking Hands with Mayor John O'Brien
(Original Caption) Einstein honored at dinner...Dr. Albert Einstein (left), famous German physicist, shakes hands with Mayor John P. O'Brien of New York, at a dinner given in Dr

British particle physicist Adrian McKemey
Adrian McKemey. British particle physicist Adrian McKemey with one of the caesium iodide scintillat- ion crystals he has helped produce and maintain

John Dalton, British chemist C017 / 7114
John Dalton (1766-1844), British chemist, physicist and meteorologist. Daltons atomic theory that explained chemical changes was published in A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808)

Marie Curie, caricature
Marie Curie. Caricature of the Polish chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934), holding a round bottomed flask. Curie is known for her pioneering early work with radioactivity

Albert Einstein, caricature
Albert Einstein. Caricature of the Swiss-German physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on the photoelectric effect

Einstein and Eddington, 1930
Einstein and Eddington. German-born physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), at left, was famous for his theories of relativity

Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving

CHARLES PEIRCE (1839-1914). American physicist, mathematician and logician

GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Under house arrest. Mezzotint, 19th century, after a painting, c1820, by Jean Antoine Laurent

Letter fom Albert Einstein to American astronomer George Ellery Hale
EINSTEIN: LETTER, 1913

(1904-1967). American physicist
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (1904-1967). American physicist

Isaac Newton, caricature C013 / 7593
Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Caricature of the English physicist, mathematician and alchemist Sir Isaac Newton, holding a rainbow

Pierre de Fermat, caricature C015 / 6714
Pierre de Fermat, caricature

Leonard Euler, caricature C015 / 6711
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). Caricature of the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler

Erwin Schrodinger, caricature C013 / 7591
Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961). Caricature of the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger holding a cat

NEWTONs TELESCOPE, c1670. Isaac Newtons reflecting telescope, c1670: line engraving, 19th century

Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist
Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), Polish-French physicist. With her husband Pierre, she isolated the radioactive elements polonium and radium in 1898

Marie and Pierre Curie, French physicists
Marie and Pierre Curie. Marie Curie (1867-1934, nee Marya Sklodowska), was born in Poland. In 1891 she became a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris, France

James Clark Maxwell with his demon
James Clark Maxwell and his demon, artwork. Maxwell (1831-1879) is best known for his laws of electromagnetism, which laid the foundations for modern physics

Galileo and his daughter Maria Celeste
Galilei Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer, being guided by his daughter Maria Celeste (1600-1634), a nun

Pierre Curie, French physicist
Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Nobel Prize-winning French physicist. Curie studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he subsequently became an assistant teacher

Joseph John Thomson
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON physicist, working at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, circa 1904

JJ Thomson, British nuclear physicist, 1898. Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940), the discoverer of the electron, with his students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

ROBERT GODDARD (1882-1945). American physicist. Goddards first successful launching of a liquid-fuel rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, 16 March 1926

Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla. circa 1890, by Napoleon Sarony

JJ (Joseph John) Thomson (1856-1940) British Nuclear physicist, discovered electron, here with his research students at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, in 1898

James Chadwick, British physicist C017 / 7111
James Chadwick (1891-1974), British physicist. Educated in Manchester, Chadwicks research under Rutherford was mainly with alpha particles (helium nuclei)

Werner Heisenberg, German physicist C017 / 7123
Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on a matrix theory of quantum mechanics

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"Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe: A Glimpse into the World of Physicists" Step back in time to the historic Fifth Physics Congress Solvay, Brussels, 1927. This captivating black and white photo captures a gathering of brilliant minds, including renowned physicist Paul Dirac, who would later be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933 for his groundbreaking contributions. Did you know that even Albert Einstein had a musical side? Witness him playing the violin with passion and grace, showcasing his multifaceted talents beyond physics. Another notable figure in this illustrious field is Erwin Schrodinger, whose pioneering work laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. His famous thought experiment involving a cat both alive and dead simultaneously continues to baffle and intrigue scientists today. Richard Feynman's caricature adds a touch of humor to this collection. Known for his charismatic personality and exceptional teaching skills, Feynman made complex concepts accessible to all. Fast forward to modern times at CERN's CMS detector – an awe-inspiring feat of engineering that allows physicists to explore fundamental particles like never before. The pursuit of knowledge knows no bounds. The invention of the mass spectrometer in 1954 revolutionized scientific research by enabling precise analysis of atomic and molecular structures. It opened up new avenues for understanding matter on a microscopic level. Ludwig Boltzmann left an indelible mark on physics during his lifetime from 1844-1906. As an Austrian physicist, he made significant contributions to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Witness E. Rutherford conducting experiments at Cavendish Laboratory – where groundbreaking discoveries about atomic structure were made under his guidance. His work paved the way for our understanding of nuclear physics. Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle challenged our perception of reality itself – revealing inherent limitations in measuring certain properties simultaneously with precision. Lastly but certainly not least is Niels Henrik David Bohr, a towering figure in quantum mechanics.