Chemist Collection (#49)

Smelting ore, 16th century C017 / 6995
Smelting ore. 16th-century woodcut showing a man smelting ore using bellows to provide oxygen to the fire. Glassware and a furnace are at left

James Watt in his Glasgow workshop
James Watt in his garret workshop in Glasgow University. Watt was appointed mathematical instrument maker after restoring astronomical instruments for the University in 1756

Researcher pipetting liquid F006 / 9084
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Biological research F006 / 9086
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Researcher pipetting liquid F006 / 9085
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Researcher pipetting liquid F006 / 9083
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Chemistry research F006 / 9082
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Chemistry research F006 / 9081
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Aleksey Bakh, Soviet biochemist C016 / 7629
Aleksey Nikolayevich Bakh (1857-1946), Soviet biochemist. Bakh was the founder of Soviet biochemistry, and became a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1929

Science hierarchy, artwork
Science hierarchy. Artwork representing science as a hierarchy, with a single scientist at top overseeing experimental scientists in a laboratory

State-controlled science, artwork
State-controlled science. Artwork of two state security guards and a scientist. This can represent state control of science, or the development of science and military technologies as state secrets

Genders of Nobel laureates, artwork
Genders of Nobel laureates. Artwork showing the gender divide between women (left) and men (right) who have won Nobel Prizes

Vat colour dye research, 1940s C018 / 0657
Vat colour dye research. Industrial chemist working on vat colour dyes in a laboratory at a factory. Vat colours are fast dyeing agents, and are used on cotton, viscose process rayon and linen

Rayon research, 1950s C018 / 0661
Rayon research. Close-up of an industrial chemist drawing out filaments of rayon from a test tube. Rayon is a polymer fabric that can be produced in a number of ways

Teflon research, 1940s C018 / 0646
Teflon research. Laboratory technician testing a piece of Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE), a DuPont industrial plastic

Rayon production research, 1950s C018 / 0659
Rayon production research. Industrial chemists using an ultraviolet photometer (left) to detect and analyse the amount of carbon disulphide present during the production of rayon

Nylon toothbrush research, 1930s C018 / 0677
Nylon toothbrush research. Laboratory assistant Edward Burke working on early designs of toothbrushes using nylon bristles. Nylon was a new material discovered by the DuPont Company in 1935

Hilaire de Chardonnet, French engineer C018 / 0622
Hilaire de Chardonnet (1839-1924), French engineer. Chardonnet was a French engineer, chemist and industrialist who invented the process of manufacturing rayon

Discovery of nylon, 1941 re-enactment C018 / 0675
Discovery of nylon, 1941 re-enactment. DuPont chemist Julian Hill (1904-1996) carrying out a re-enactment in 1941 of the discovery of nylon in 1935

Teflon research, 1940s C018 / 0647
Teflon research. Laboratory technician carrying out a test to compare Teflon with another plastic. She has dipped rods of the two plastics in a boiling bath of hot sulphuric acid

Rayon research, 1950s C018 / 0655
Rayon research. Laboratory researcher testing viscosity in the viscose process used in the manufacture of rayon. Liquid viscose, under carefully controlled temperature

Early nylon research, 1940s C018 / 0676
Early nylon research. DuPont research chemist working with nylon 6-6, the original nylon polymer discovered in 1935. First synthesized in February 1935, this new polymer was later commercialised

Wallace Carothers, US chemist C018 / 0621
Wallace Hume Carothers (1896-1937), US industrial chemist, handling a sample of neoprene. Carothers studied at the University of Illinois, receiving his doctorate in 1924

DuPont research, 1950s C018 / 0678
DuPont research. Industrial research chemist watching an organic reaction. The program of fundamental research in organic chemistry at DuPont began in 1927

Hermann Kolbe, German chemist C018 / 7110
Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884). 1889 engraving of the German organic chemist Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe. Kolbe was an inspirational teacher and a talented researcher

J. Wickersheimer, German chemist C018 / 7072
J. Wickersheimer (1832-1896). 1883 engraving of the German chemist and taxidermist J. Wickersheimer in his laboratory. Wickersheimer is best known for developing a method for preserving corpses

Allegory of the elements, 17th century
Allegory of the elements. 17th-century artwork showing an allegorical scene depicting a central nude female figure surrounded by men engaged in occupations symbolising the four Aristotelian elements

Alchemy experiment, 19th century
Alchemy experiment. 19th-century artwork showing an alchemist bending over to observe the results of an experiment. The flask in front of him, connected to the furnace at left

Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist (1810-78). He worked with Liebig and succeeded Gay-Lussac as professor of chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

Alchemist at work, 19th century
Alchemist at work. 19th-century artwork of an alchemist writing at a desk in a cluttered room which includes chemical equipment (lower centre)

Joseph Black and latent heat
Joseph Black giving a practical demonstration of latent heat to students of Glasgow University in the 1760s. The Scottish chemist and physicist found that as ice is heated

Roger Kornberg, US chemist
Roger Kornberg (b.1947), US biochemist and Nobel Laureate. Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on eukaryotic transcription

Scientist holding a test tube C014 / 4628
Scientist holding a test tube

Juozas Matulis, Lithuanian scientist
Juozas Matulis (1899-1993), Lithuanian-Soviet physicist and chemist. Matulis was born at Tatkonyse and studied at Vilnius and the University of Leipzig

Scientist holding a test tube C014 / 4627
Scientist holding a test tube

Early 19th Century drugs jars. Two ceramic jars made to hold apiastrum. Made in 1800

John Bernal speaking in Moscow, 1962
John Bernal speaking in Moscow. Bernal (1901-1971) was a gifted physicist, chemist and biologist. He pioneered many techniques in X-ray crystallography and the determination of molecular structures

Scientist holding a test tube C014 / 4626
Scientist holding a test tube

Scientist holding a test tube C014 / 4568
Scientist holding a test tube

Ambrose Godfrey, German chemist
Ambrose Godfrey (1660-1741), German chemist, also known as Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz. Godfrey was assistant to Robert Boyle and was the first to manufacture and sell phosphorus

George Downing Liveing, British chemist
George Downing Liveing (1827-1924), British chemist. Liveing studied at St Johns College, at the University of Cambridge. He went on to become a Fellow of the College and later its President (1911)

Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738), Dutch physician, botanist, chemist, and founder of modern clinical medicine. After studying philosophy and medicine, Boerhaave began teaching at Leiden University

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist. In 1804, Gay-Lussac made balloon ascents to measure changes in magnetism and air composition with altitude

From alchemy to chemistry, 19th century
From alchemy to chemistry, 19th-century artwork. Alchemy is represented by the middle-aged man in the foreground, carrying out a distillation with an alembic

Scientific demonstration, 18th century
Scientific demonstration. 18th-century artwork depicting one of the first lectures in experimental philosophy. The man at right is giving a lecture

Chemistry experiment, 19th century
Chemistry experiment, 19th-century artwork. The apparatus at left is being used for distillation, with gas-fuelled bunsen burner at far left heating liquids in glass retorts

Chemistry laboratory, 19th century
Chemistry laboratory, 19th-century artwork. At right is a workbench with bellows at which a chemist is working below a large skylight

Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish chemist and inventor. Working for his father, Nobel studied explosives like nitroglycerin, and discovered ways to make them safer to use

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