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Notable chemists and physicists posters, prints and curriculum enrichment resources: Alchemist Geber, Andre-Marie Ampere, Roger Bacon, Antoine-Henri Becquerel, J. J. Berzelius, Niels Bohr, Robert Boyle, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Henry Cavendish, Emilie du Chatelet-Lomont, Marie Alfred Cornu, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, and Marie & Pierre Curie, study the atomic level of matter and the physical universe made up of matter.

The Alchemist Geber Illustration from 'Science and Literature in the Middle Ages, Giclee Print
b. c. 721, d. c. 815

Geber was the Latinized name of Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, an Islamic alchemist, philosopher and astronomer.

Illustration of an alchemist at work, German, 1519 (woodcut), Giclee Print

The Swiss psychoanalysis Carl Gustav Jung came to understand the alchemical experiments as symbolic of inner personal desires and the collective unconsious of the late Middle Ages projected onto the outer material world.

Andre-Marie Ampere
b. 1-20-1775; Lyon, France
d. 6-10-1836

French physicist Ampere is one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The International System of Units (SI) of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. He is considered a "polymath" (Greek=one who has learned much), a person well educated in a wide variety of subjects.

• Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

Roger Bacon, aka Doctor Mirabilis (wonderful teacher)
b. 1214; England
d. 1294

Roger Bacon was a medieval Franciscan friar and philosopher who wrote on alchemy, mathematics, optics, astronomy, astrology and theology. He is recognized as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method.

• The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon: Edited, with Introduction and Analytical Table, by John Henry Bridges. Volume 1 (Paperback)

Antoine-Henri Becquerel
b. 12-15-1852; Paris, France
d. 8-25-1908

Physicist Antoine-Henri Becquerel was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 with Marie and Pierre Curie, "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity".

• The Becquerel Rays and the Properties of Radium

Jons Jakob Berzelius
b. 8-20-1779; Sweden
d. 8-7-1848

J. J. Berzelius was trained as a physician, and when writing a chemistry text book for his medical students, invented modern chemical notation. Berzelius, the first person to make the distinction between organic compounds (those containing carbon), and inorganic compounds, is considered a "father of modern chemistry" together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle.

• Enlightenment Science in the Romantic Era: The Chemistry of Berzelius and its Cultural Setting

Niels Bohr
b. 10-7-1885; Denmark
d. 11-18-1962; Copenhagen

Physicist Niels Bohr made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 and was also part of the team of physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

• Suspended in Language : Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped

Robert Boyle
b. 1-25-1627; Ireland
d. 12-30-1691; London

Robert Boyle, whose research has it's roots in the alchemical tradition, is considered one of the "Fathers of Modern Chemistry" along with J. J. Berzelius, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier. Boyle is is best known for the formulation of Boyle's law (1662) - "For a fixed amount of gas kept at a fixed temperature, P and V are inversely proportional (while one increases, the other decreases."

• The Sceptical Chymist

Walter Brattain
b. 2-10-1902; China
d. 10-13-1987; London

Physicist Walter Brattain was co-awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the transistor.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
b. 7-15-1943; Northern Ireland

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, as a postgraduate student, participated in discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis advisor Antony Hewish.

She is very active in the Quaker Peace and Social Witness organization promoting and practicing equality, justice, peace, simplicity and truth.

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Marie Alfred Cornu
b. 3-6-1841; France
d. 4-12-1902; Paris

Marie Alfred Cornu was a physicist and professor of experimental physics. A graphical device for the computation of light intensities, called the Cornu spiral, is named for him.

• The optical study of the elasticity of solid bodies

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is regarded as one of the foremost scientists in the field of X-Ray crystallography studies of natural molecules.
b. 5-12-1910, Cairo; Egypt
d. 7-29-1994

• Women in Science composite poster

Pierre & Marie Curie,
b. 11-7-1867; Poland
d. 7-4-1934, France

Marie Curie, physicist and chemist, is best known as the discoverer of the radioactive elements polonium and radium. With her husband Pierre, they shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Becquerel; she was also awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Curie's daughter Irene was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frederic Joliot, her daughter Eve's husband H. R. Labouisse was the Director of United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) when it was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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