Surname M Collection

Mendeleyevs periodic table, 1869. Mendeleyevs periodic table of 1869. This is the first version of the periodic table drawn up by the Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907)

Dmitri Mendeleev, caricature
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907). Caricature of the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev. Mendeleyev (also spelt Mendeleev)

James Clerk Maxwell, caricature
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). Caricature of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwells works cover a wide area of science

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

Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), Austrian botanist and founder of genetics. Mendel, the abbot of an abbey in Brno, carried out breeding experiments with pea plants (held in hand)

Wolf Messing, German psychic
Wolf Grigorevich Messing (1899-1974), German psychic. Messing, born to a Jewish family in Germany, fled to the USSR before World War II

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

Guglielmo Marconi, radio inventor
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist and inventor of the radio. Marconi patented his radio system in Britain, established the Marconis Wireless Telegraph Company in London in 1897

Mendels peas. Historical artwork of the peas (Pisum sp.) used by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in his experiments into heredity. He cross-bred peas that produced yellow (A) and green (B) peas

Artem Mikoyan, Soviet aircraft designer
Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), Soviet aircraft designer. Mikoyan, of Armenian descent, was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist, born Tobol sk, Siberia on February 7, 1834, died St Petersburg (now Leningrad), February 2, 1907

John Maynard Smith, caricature
John Maynard Smith (1920-2004). Caricature of the British biologist John Maynard Smith. Maynard Smith studied engineering at Cambridge

Demonstration of the wireless telephone, June 1920. In the 1920s, broadcasting was still in its infancy, with radio transmitters and receivers owned only by amateur enthusiasts

Benoit Mandelbrot, caricature C013 / 7590
Benoit Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Caricature of the French-American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. Mandelbrot is best known as the father of fractal geometry, a branch of complex number theory

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

Gregor Mendel, caricature
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884). Caricature of the Austrian botanist and founder of genetics Gregor Johann Mendel. Mendel, the abbot of an abbey in Brno, Austria

Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer C018 / 7016
Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594). 1870 engraving of the Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician Gerardus Mercator, measuring a globe with a pair of dividers

Carl Merck, German naturalist C018 / 7041
Carl Merck (1761-1799). 1869 engraving of the German physician, naturalist and explorer Carl Heinrich Merck. Merck was the naturalist onboard the 1785-1794 Slava Rossy Arctic expedition

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian radio inventor C013 / 7708
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937). 19th Century artwork by Leslie Ward ( Spy ) of the Italian physicist and radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi

Charles Marvin, American meteorologist C013 / 7261
Charles F Marvin (1858-1943), American meteorologist, standing next to a triple register device. Marvin was the chief of the US Weather Bureau between 1913 and his retirement in 1934

Cosmonauts in training C014 / 0154
Cosmonauts in training. Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Mendez (right, born 1942) and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko (centre, born 1944) during water landing training for the Soyuz 38 mission

Alexander Popov with Stepan Makarov C013 / 5349
Alexander Popov with Stepan Makarov. Russian radio pioneer and physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859-1906, right), showing the worlds first radio to the Russian navy commander

Stepan Makarov, Russian navy commander C013 / 5346
Stepan Makarov (1849-1904). Painting of the Russian navy commander and vice-admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov in his military uniform

Vladimir Migulin, Soviet physicist
Vladimir Vasilevich Migulin (1911-2002), Soviet physicist. Migulin, who specialised in radio physics, was the director of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism

Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-US typesetter
Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899), German-US typesetter. Mergenthaler is best known as the inventor of the Linotype, the first fully-automated typesetting machine

A. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer
Alexander Fedorovich Mozhayskiy (1825-1890), Russian aviation pioneer and naval officer. Mozhayskiy pioneered heavier-then-air flight in the 1880s

Samuel Morse, American telegraph inventor
Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American painter and telegraph inventor. Samuel Finley Breese Morse is most famous as the creator of a single wire telegraph system, and co-inventor, with Alfred Vail

Mesue the Elder, Persian physician
Mesue the Elder (777-857), Christian Persian physician, at left, being received by the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid. This Caliph was the fifth

N. Miklukho-Maklai, Russian ethnologist
Nicholai Nicholaevich Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888), Russian cultural anthropologist. Miklukho-Maklai carried out pioneering ethnology work in New Guinea from 1878

Othniel C. Marsh, US palaeontologist
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899), American palaeontologist. Marsh attended Yale University and was made professor of palaeontology there in 1866

Othniel Marsh, American palaeontologist
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899), American palaeontologist. Marsh attended Yale University and was made the first professor of palaeontology in the USA in 1866

Samuel Morse, US telegraph inventor
Samuel Morse (1791-1872), US inventor of the electric telegraph and Morse code. Morse started his career as a painter, but developed an interest in the study of electricity

Computer artwork of Mendels Second Law
Mendels Second Law. Computer artwork of Mendels Second Law, the genetic law of independent assort- ment. It was formulated by the Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), top left

Computer artwork of the botanist Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel. Computer artwork of the Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) with a pea plant, DNA strand (orange) and sequence of genetic code (pink)

Computer artwork of Mendels First Law
Mendels First Law. Computer artwork of Mendels First Law, the genetic law of segregation. It was formulated by the Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), top left

Arkady Migdal, Russian physicist
Arkady Beinusovich Migdal (1911-1991), Russian physicist, giving a lecture. Migdal was born in Lithuania. He worked in the fields of particle and quantum physics

Window where Marconi transmitted radio
Marconis window. The window from which Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) first transmitted radio signals from Villa Griffone at Pontecchio, near Bologna, Italy

Marconi birthplace and tomb
Marconis birthplace and tomb. Villa Griffone at Pontecchio near Bologna, Italy, the birthplace of Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian physicist

Statue of Marconi
Marconi statue. Bust of Guglielmo Marconi (1874- 1937), Italian physicist, located at Villa Griffone near Bologna, Italy. It was at this villa that Marconi was born

Soviet engineers and physicists, 1954
Soviet engineers and physicists. From left to right: Vasily Mishin (1917-2001), rocket engineer; Mstislav Keldysh (1911-1978), mathematician; Igor Kurchatov (1903-1960)

Henri Milne-Edwards, French zoologist
Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885), French zoologist. Artwork from the ninth volume (first period of 1892) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

Lorenzo de Medici, Italian statesman
Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492), Italian statesman, historical lithograph. The powerful Medici family combined running the Medici bank with being the de facto rulers of the Republic of Florence

Bernard de Vargas Machuca Spanish explore
Bernard de Vargas Machuca (1557-1622), Spanish explorer. 16th Century portrait of Bernard de Vargas Machuca from the cover page of his book Milicia y descripcion de las Indias

Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
Ferdinand Magellan (c.1480-1521), Portuguese navigator and explorer. Magellan is most famous for heading the first expedition to eventually circumnavigate the world

Elie Metchnikoff, Russian biologist
Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), Russian biologist and Nobel laureate. Metchnikoff, also known as Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, is best known for his pioneering research into the immune system

Patrick Moore, British astronomer

Maimonides, Jewish philosopher
Maimonides statue. Moshes Ben Maimon (Maimonides, 1135-1204), born in Cordoba, was a Jewish rabbi and philosopher. He wrote the Mishneh Torah (1180), the first systematic code of all Jewish law

John Mill, caricature
John Mill. Caricature of the English philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-1873). Mill advocated utilitarianism and fought for womens suffrage

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Surname M has been associated with some of the greatest minds in history. From Dmitri Mendeleev, the brilliant scientist who revolutionized chemistry with his creation of the periodic table in 1869, to James Clerk Maxwell, the Scottish physicist known for his groundbreaking work on electromagnetism. These caricatures capture their genius and unique contributions to science. Not only did surname M produce scientific geniuses like Gregor Mendel, an Austrian botanist whose experiments with pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics, but it also gave us individuals like Wolf Messing, a German psychic renowned for his extraordinary abilities. James Clark Maxwell's famous demon experiment challenged our understanding of thermodynamics and paved the way for future discoveries. Meanwhile, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev's name will forever be synonymous with organization as he arranged elements in a logical order that still guides scientists today. Even beyond science, surname M boasts exceptional talents such as John Maynard Smith, whose caricature showcases his influential work in evolutionary biology. And let's not forget about Artem Mikoyan – a Soviet aircraft designer who played a crucial role in shaping aviation history. From wireless telephones to peas and demons – this diverse collection of hints reflects how surname M has left an indelible mark on various fields throughout history.