Nobel Prize Collection

Wilhelm Roentgens X-ray photograph of his wifes hand, 1896. Artist: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Wilhelm Roentgens X-ray photograph of his wifes hand, 1896. For his work on electromagnetic radiation and the discovery of X-rays, Roentgen (1845-1923) was awarded the 1901 Nobel prize for Physics

Pierre and Marie Curie in their Laboratory, pub. 1898 (photograph). Pierre Curie (1859-1906); Marie Curie (1867-1934); discovered Radium in 1898;

Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie, French scientists, 1935. Joliot (1900-1958) became assistant to Marie Curie in 1925

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1930s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1920s, (2023). Shaw, (1856-1950), was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Signor Marconi, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Signor Marconi, c1900. Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system

Mrs. Pearl Buck, portrait photograph, 1932. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Mrs. Pearl Buck, portrait photograph, 1932. American writer, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner

Italian Commission To U.S. - Marconi Leaving Car, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Italian Commission To U.S
Italian Commission To U.S. - [Guglielmo] Marconi Leaving Car, 1917. During the First World War, Marconi was in charge of the Italian military's radio service

Italian Commission To U.S. - Marconi Leaving Boat, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Italian Commission To U.S
Italian Commission To U.S. - [Guglielmo] Marconi Leaving Boat, 1917. During the First World War, Marconi was in charge of the Italian military's radio service

Italian Commission To U.S. - Commission at Mount Vernon. Front: Ambassador Macchi Di... 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Italian Commission To U.S. - Commission at Mount Vernon. Front: Ambassador Macchi Di Celleri [sic]; [Prince] Ferdinand; Unidentified Lady; [Guglielmo] Marconi, 1917

Portrait of Anatole France (1844-1924), writer, c1900. Creator: Eugene Carriere
Portrait of Anatole France (1844-1924), writer, c1900

Anatole France, 1906. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Anatole France, 1906

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, (c1924). On 8 November 1895, Roentgen (or Rontgen, 1845-1923) discovered what came to be known as X-rays

Anatole France, 1906. Creator: Anders Leonard Zorn
Anatole France, 1906

Arthur Henderson, 1929, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Arthur Henderson, 1929, (1935). British iron moulder and Labour politician Arthur Henderson (1863-1935) was the first Labour cabinet minister

Frank Billings Kellogg, US Secretary of State, 1928, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Frank Billings Kellogg, US Secretary of State, 1928, (1935). Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) was US Ambassador to Great Britain from 1923-1925

George Bernard Shaw, 1926, (1935). Creator: Unknown
George Bernard Shaw, 1926, (1935). Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

M. Aristide Briand, 1927. Creator: Unknown
M. Aristide Briand, 1927. Aristide Briand (1862-1932), French statesman, served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic

Moissan, c1893. Creator: Unknown
Moissan, c1893. Portrait of Ferdinand Moissan (1852-1907), French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds

Marconi, c1893. Creator: James Lafayette
Marconi, c1893. Portrait of Italian physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937). Marconi discovered a way in which waves could be used to send messages from one place to another without

Mr. G. B. Shaw, 1927. Creator: Unknown
Mr. G. B. Shaw, 1927. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish author, photographer, dramatist, literary critic, socialist and Nobel Prize winner

Signor Marconi, 1927. Creator: Unknown
Signor Marconi, 1927. Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Italian inventor and electrical engineer, Nobel prize winner, entrepreneur and businessman

Madame Curie, c1900, (1914). Creator: Unknown
Madame Curie, c1900, (1914). Portrait of Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934). She and her husband Pierre were two of the first people to work on radioactivity

Professor Albert Einstein, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Professor Albert Einstein, c1928. Portrait of German mathematician and physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) whose main contribution to science was the theory of relativity

Professor Max Planck, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Professor Max Planck, c1928. Portrait of German theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947), winner of the Nobel Prize for physics, responsible for development of Quantum Theory

Professor Walther Nernst, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Professor Walther Nernst, c1928. Portrait of German chemist Walther Nernst (1864-1941), winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry

George Bernard Shaw, c1940s, (c1950). Creator: Bassano Ltd
George Bernard Shaw, c1940s, (c1950). George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950), Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. From The Outline of Literature, edited by John Drinkwater

Dalai Lama of Tibet (1935 -), spiritual leader of the Buddhist religion

Jose Echegaray, (Madrid, 1832-1916), Spanish playwright, writer, engineer and mathematician, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904

John Steinbeck, American novelist, c1939. John Ernst Steinbeck III (1902-1968) won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath

Frank Billings Kellogg, former US Ambassador to Great Britain, making a speech, 1928
Frank Billings Kellogg, US Secretary of State, making a speech, 1928. Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) was US Ambassador to Great Britain from 1923-1925

Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, c1930s. Fleming (1881-1955) discovered the first antibiotic drug, penicillin, in 1928

Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, preparing to go cycling. Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

Marie Sklodowska Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1904. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904, together with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel

George Bernard Shaw, c1925. George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950), Irish playwright and Nobel Prize in Literature. From Cassells Romance of Famous Lives, Volume 2 by Harold Wheeler

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, c1920. Curie (1867-1934), double Nobel Prize winner, seated in her laboratory. (Colorised black and white print)

JJ Thomson, British physicist, c1896-c1915
JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1896-1916. Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) discovered the electron and was a pioneer of nuclear physics

Max Planck (1858-1947), c1918. Winner of the 1918 Nobel prize for physics, responsible for development of Quantum Theory. (Colorised black and white print)

W. B. Yeats, c1900, (1934). William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) a prominent figure of the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms

Fridtjof Nansen, 1897. Artist: Johan Nordhagen
Fridtjof Nansen, 1897. In 1888 Nansen (1861-1930) made the first crossing of Greenland. He is best known in exploration terms for his three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram

Dr Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic Explorer, 1893. In 1888 Nansen (1861-1930) made the first crossing of Greenland. He is best known in exploration terms for his three year expedition (1893-1896)

Fridtjof Nansen after his wash and brush up, 1896 (1899). Artist: Frederick George Jackson
Fridtjof Nansen after his wash and brush up, 1896 (1899). In 1888 Nansen (1861-1930) made the first crossing of Greenland

Swedish author Selma Lagerlof and her mother, Louise, 1909. In 1909 Lagerlof (1858-1940) became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Girls of Strimi Island, Denmark, c1922. Artist: Danish Legation
Girls of Strimi Island, Denmark, c1922. Pictured standing beside the memorial stone of Niels Finsen (1860-1904), the Nobel Prize-winning Danish physician

Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, 1898 (1951)
Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory. 1898, (1951). Polish-born Marie Curie and her husband Pierre continued the work on radioactivity started by Henri Becquerel

George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. Artist: W&D Downey
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. The author of such well known works as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, Shaw (1856-1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925

Vitalism: Henri Bergson, French philosopher, early 20th century, (1956). Bergson (1859-1941) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. From the Picture Post Library

Sir JJ Thomson, British physicist, 1932 (1956). In 1896 Thomson (1856-1940), began experiments on cathode rays, proving that they are particles with a negative charge and much smaller than an atom

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