Physics Collection (page 8)

Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist, c1900s. Artist: Spy
Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist, c1900s. After studying at the Royal College of Chemistry, London, Crookes went on to make significant contributions in several fields of science

Daniel Rutherford, late 18th century. Rutherford, Scottish physicist and botanist, became professor of botany at Edinburgh University in 1786. His portrait is framed at the top by flowers

Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508. A man sheltering under a tree struck by lightning or a thunderbolt. From Margarita philosophica (The Pearl of Philosophy) by Gregor Reisch. (Basel, 1508)

Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz, Russian-German physicist, 19th century. Born in Estonia (then part of the Russian Empire), Heinrich Lenz (1804-1865) is best known for Lenzs Law in electodynamics

Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist, c1890-c1907(?). One of the greatest figures in the history of chemistry, Mendeleev (1834-1907)

Children of the Sklodowski family, Polish, c1870-1875. Left to right: Zosia, Hela, Maria (Marie Curie 1867-1934), Joseph and Bronya

Radium experiment, 1904. Artist: Poyet
Radium experiment, 1904. Paths of alpha, beta, and gamma particles from a radium sample placed between the poles of an electromagnet, as used in Marie and Pierre Curies laboratory, Paris

Rumfords fireplace, c1880. Devised by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (1753-1814), Anglo-American scientist and administrator

The death of Archimedes at the capture of Syracuse by the Romans, 212 BC (late 19th century). Born in Syracuse on the island of Sicily

Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Archimedes Burning Mirror, device used at the Siege of Syracuse, 215-212 BC (1642). A military engine devised by the Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes

Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Swedish physicist and chemist in his laboratory, 1909. Arrhenius work covered a wide range of subjects including immunology, cosmic physics and environmental issues

Archimedes screw for raising water from one level to another, 1815. This device, invented by Archimedes (c287-212 BC), Ancient Greek mathematician, is still used for irrigation today

Archimedes (c287-212 BC), Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor, 1866
Archimedes (c287-212 BC) Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor standing on earth. Four Greek elements, earth, air, fire, water and dome of fixed stars

Funeral of Francois Arago, French astronomer, physicist and politician, Paris, 5 October 1853. Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853) made important discoveries in the fields of astronomy

Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist and politician, 1886. Arago made important discoveries in the fields of astronomy, magnetism and optics

Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965), English physicist. Appleton won the Nobel prize for physics in 1947 for his work on the ionosphere (Appleton layer)

Experiment showing that prismatic colours cannot be split further, 1747. From Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy confirm d by Experiment by Jean Theophilus Desaguliers

Isaac Newtons prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747. English physicist and mathematician Newton (1642-1727)

Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704. English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Foucault using his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, Paris, 1851 (1887). Leon Foucault (1819-1868) demonstrating the rotation of the earth using a freely suspended pendulum in

John Tyndall, Irish born physicist and mountaineer, 1893. Artist: John McLure Hamilton
John Tyndall, Irish born physicist and mountaineer, 1893. Tyndall (1820-1893) studied in Marburg under Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)

Isaac Newtons house, St Martins Street, Leicester Square, London, c1850. English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newtons (1642-1727)

Archimedes in his bath, 1547. Sixteenth-century hand-coloured woodcut of the Greek mathematician and inventor (c287-212 BC)

Sketch of a perpetual motion device designed by Leonardo da Vinci, c1472-1519. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Sketch of a perpetual motion device designed by Leonardo da Vinci, c1472-1519. Da Vincis (1452-1519) scientific drawings featured ideas such as a spinning wheel and a flying machine

Sketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Artist: Alexander Graham Bell
Sketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Scottish-born American inventor Bell (1847-1922) filed the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent Office at 3pm on 14 February 1876

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin in 1869 (c1890). Kelvin (1824-1907) Irish-born Scottish mathematician and physicist

Part of Pierre and Marie Curies laboratory, Paris, 1904. It was here that they did much of their work on magnetism and radioacticity which led to the 1903 Nobel prize for physics which they shared

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist in 1921. Curie (1867-1934) with Dean Pegram of the School of Engineering, Columbia University, New York, during her tour of the United States

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist with members of her family in Warsaw, Poland, 1912. Marie Curie (1867-1934), with her sisters Hela Szalay and Bronya Dluska

Radium Institute, Paris, c1920. Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish-born French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, was director of research at the Radium Institute from 1918 until her death

Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Newtons (1642-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born physicist and the founder of nuclear physics. Rutherford (1871-1937) won a scholarship to Cambridge

Radium Institute, Warsaw, Poland, 1932. The institute was inaugurated on 29 May 1932, in the presence of the Nobel Prizewinning scientist Marie Curie and her sister Bronya Dluska

The Curie family, late 19th century. Standing (left to right): Jacques, Pierre (1859-1908), French chemist who married Marie Sklodowska with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904

Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie) and her sister Bronya (seated), 1886. The future Nobel Prizewinning physicist before she left her native Poland for France

House where Marie Curie was governess, c1887. Before leaving her native Poland to go to Paris in 1891 to study mathematics, physics and chemistry

Mr Sklodowski with his three surviving daughters, c1886
Mr Sklodovski with his three surviving daughters, c1886. Left to right; Manya (Marie Curie) (1867-1934), Bronya ( Bronya Dluska) and Hela Sklodowsaka

Work of Marie and Pierre Curie, 1904. High voltage equipment used by Pierre and Marie Curie to investigate the electrical conductivity of air exposed to radium. From La Nature. (Paris, 1904)

Electroscope fitted with microscope, 1904. This instrument was used in the Curies laboratory, Paris, to detect the presence of radioactivity. From La Nature. (Paris, 1904)

A corner of Pierre and Marie Curies laboratory, Paris, 1904. It was here that they did much of their work on magnetism and radioacticity which led to the 1903 Nobel prize for physics which they

Where Ignorance is Bliss, 1868. Artist: George Du Maurier
Where Ignorance is Bliss, 1868. Invasion of privacy by a seaside camera obscura (left). Theodore thinks he has found a private spot where he can woo Emily

Behaviour of a magnetic compass, 1643. If a compass in a box is carried round a globe-shaped magnet (N, centre of picture) with magnetic poles where lines cross (left and right of N)

Camera obscura, c1840. The illustration shows how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees (B), passed through a meniscus lens between F and C

Camera obscura, 1855. Drawing a landscape using a portable camera obscura in the form of a tent. From The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner. (London, 1855)

Seaside visitors paying a visit to the camera obscura, 1862. The viewers sat in a darkened chamber: the scene around was collected by the mirror (A) and passed through a convex lens (B)

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 1778. Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776

Gunner firing a cannon, 1561. The path of the projectile is shown according to Aristotelian physics. Since he believed that no body could undertake more than one motion at a time

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