Notable Chemists & Physicists Posters & Prints, pg 4/5
for science classrooms, laboratories, home schoolers.

Notable chemists and physicists posters, prints and curriculum enrichment resources: Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Pilartre de Rozier, Joseph Priestley, Joseph Proust, Ellen Richards, Roentgen, Ernest Rutherford, study the atomic level of matter and the physical universe made up of matter.

Blaise Pascal
b. 6-19-1623; France
d. 8-18-1662; Paris

Pascal, a child prodigy educated by his father, was a mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher whose earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, study of fluids, clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli, and corresponded with Fermat on the probability theory. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method, and after a mystical experience, abandoned his scientific studies.

• Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Sickbed with a pox victim, illustration from a medical treatise by Paracelsus (1493-1541) pub. 1553, Giclee Print

Paracelsus, nee Phillip von Hohenheim
b. 11-11-1493; Switzerland
d. 9-24-1541; Austria - burned at the stake as a witch

Paracelsus, a medieval alchemist who offended everyone with his arrogance, was the name chosen by Phillip von Hohenheim later Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim as a title to mean 'equal to or greater than Celsus. He was also a physician and astrologer.

Fellow Swiss Carl Gustav Jung wrote about Paracelsus in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature.

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

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
b. 4-25-1900; Vienna
d. 12-15-1958; Switzerland

Wolfgang Paui was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for "decisive contribution through his discovery in 1925 of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle", (no two identical fermions may occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.

Pauli also consulted the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung who interpreted Pauli's deeply archetypal dreams, documented in “Psychology and Alchemy”. Their letters are published as “Atom and Archetype”.

• Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds
• Theory of Relativity, by Wolfgang Pauli

Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier
b. 3-30-1754; France
d. 6-15-1785

Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, a chemistry and physics teacher, became, along with his flight companion Pierre Romain, the first known victims of an air crash, in their attempt to cross the English Channel.

Joseph Priestley, a natural philosopher, theologian, Dissenting clergyman, political theorist, and teacher, is generally considered the discoverer of oxygen gas (Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier are contenders).
b. 3-13-1733; England
d. 2-8-1804; Pennsylvania

• Joseph Priestley and the Discovery of Oxygen (Grades 6-8)
• Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

Joseph Proust
b. 9-26-1754; France
d. 7-5-1826

Joseph Proust is best known for his "Law of definite proportions", stating, in compounds, the elements combine in proportion with each other, by mass.

Proust, with Pilâtre de Rozier, went on an early balloon flight. He was also a chemistry and physics teacher.

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.

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

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.

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