Biologists Posters and Prints, "N-Y" pg 3/3
for the science classroom, home schoolers, science education scholars.

John Howard Northrop
b. 7-5-1891; Yonkers, NY
d. 5-27-1987; Arizona

Biochemist John Howard Northrop shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Wendell Meredith Stanley “for . . . preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form”.

Louis Pasteur - Microbiologist and Chemist, developed the first effective vaccine for anthrax in 1881.
b. 12-27-1822; Dole, France
d. 9-28-1895, Paris

Poster Text: “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

French chemist and biologist, Louis Pasteur founded the science of microbiology, proved the germ theory of disease, invented the process of pasteurization, and developed vaccines for several diseases.

• Home Milk Pasteurizer
• Louis Pasteur (biography)
• more Heroes of Science & Technology posters

French Scientist Jean Rostand Doing Biological Study of Toads and Frogs, Photographic Print

Jean Rostand
b. 10-30-1894; France
d. 9-4-1977

Jean Rostand was an experimental biologist who was a philosopher about the responsibilities of humanity and our place in nature, a science writer, and activist against nuclear proliferation and the death penalty.

His father was playwright Edmond Rostand most noted for his play Cyrano de Bergerac.

Jean Rostand quotes ~
• “A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”
• “It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
• “I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
• “Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

Jonas Salk
b. 10-28-1914; NYC
d. 6-23-1995; La Jolla, CA

“To a scientist fame is neither an end nor a means to an end.”

Dr. Salk was a biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine.

• more Heroes of the 20th Century posters
• Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

Frederick Sanger
b. 8-13-1918; England

Biochemist Frederick Sanger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980 for work with DNA. Sanger was the fourth person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes (others Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen).

• Selected Papers of Frederick Sanger

Albert Szent-Györgyi
b. 9-16-1893; Budapest, Austria-Hungary
d. 10-22-1986; Woods Hole, MA

Albert Szent-Györgyi was awarded the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology “for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid”.

• The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young

Edward Lawrie Tatum
b. 12-14-1909; Boulder, CO
d. 11-5-1975; NYC

Biochemist Edward Tatum shared one half of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology with George Wells Beadle “for their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events”.

• Genetics of Microorganisms

Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
b. 7-6-1903; Sweden
d. 8-15-1982; NYC

Biochemist Axel Theorell received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology “for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes”.

Vincent de Vigneaud
b. 5-18-1901; Chicago, IL
d. 12-11-1978

Vincent de Vigneaud was a biochemist who was awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone”.

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
b. 1-15-1895; Finland
d. 11-11-1973

Virtanen was a biochemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method”.

Maurice Wilkins
b. 12-15-1916; New Zealand
d. 10-5-2004; England

Maurice Wilkins was a molecular biologist and 1962 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, with Francis Crick and James Watson, “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”

• The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

Alexandre Yersin
b. 9-22-1868; Switzerland
d. 3-1-1943; Vietnam

Yersin, a physician and bacteriologist, was the co-discoverer, with Kitasato Shibasaburo, of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague.

• Plague by Wendy Orent