Notable Chemists & Physicists Posters & Prints “Q...-R...-”
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Notable chemists and physicists ~

Isidor Isaac Rabi
C. V. Raman

Ellen Richards
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen

Ernest Rutherford

Isidor Isaac Rabi, American Physicist Born in Austria, Giclee Print
Isidor Isaac Rabi,
Giclee Print

Isidor Isaac Rabi
b. 7-29-1898; Austria-Hungary
d. 1-11-1988; NYC

Isidor Isaac Rabi was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics for “his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei”.

Isidor Isaac Rabi quotes ~
• “[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.”

Isidor Isaac Rabi, American Physicist Born in Austria, Giclee Print
C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
b. 11-7-1888; British India
d. 11-21-1970; India

Physicist C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”.

Ellen Richards,
Heroes of Science & Technology, Poster

Ellen Richards
b. 12-3-1842; Dunstable, MA
d. 3-30-1911

Ellen Richards was a chemist and is consided a founder of the science of ecology.

Poster Text: "The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach its members how to live in harmony with their environment – defined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources." Ellen S. Richards

Among the first women to formally work as a scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards profoundly impacted people's daily lives. A pioneer in the field of sanitary engineering, she also applied scientific principles to domestic life in creating the field of home economics.

• Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology
• Women of Science composite poster
• food safety posters
• Heroes of Science & Technology posters

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen circa 1896, Giclee Print

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
“Father of Diagnostic Radiology”
b. 3-27-1845; Germany
d. 2-10-1923

Roentgen, known as the “Father of Diagnostic Radiology”, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range popularly known as x-rays in 1895. He was awarded the 1901 Noble Prize in Physics for ”the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”.

• Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen and the Early History of the Roentgen Rays

Ernest Rutherford Physicist, Giclee Print
Ernest Rutherford,
Giclee Print

Ernest Rutherford
b. 8-30-1871; NZ
d. 10-19-1937

Ernest Rutherford is known as the “Father of Nuclear Physics”. Among his notable students were Niels Bohr and numerous Nobel Prize winners. Rutherford was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances”.

Ernest Rutherford quotes ~
• “All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.”
• “If your experiment needs statistics, then you ought to have done a better experiment.”

• Ernest Rutherford: Father of Nuclear Science (Grades 6 up)

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Notable Chemists & Physicists Posters & Prints “Q...-R...-” for science classrooms, laboratories, home schoolers.

Notable Chemists & Physicists Posters & Prints “Q...-R...-”
for science classrooms, laboratories, home schoolers.