Images of Physicists

[Harry N. Nelson]

[Harry Nelson] [HEP People] [HEP] [Physics] [UCSB]

Image links start about one page down

note - all images appear here as `fair use' for my research and teaching. I hold no copyrights to these images.

Other Resources

The American Institute of Physics maintains an informative site on the History of Physics here. Among the resources available there is the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, a collection of over 25,000 images of scientists, some of which are available online.

An excellent site of images maintained in Frankfurt, Germany by Joachim Reinhardt is here. Some images from that site are available on this page.

A very nice searchable site of images is maintained at Caltech, here. Some links to Caltech images are available from this page.

A page containing images of many Chemists, as well as Physicists, is maintained by John L. Park of Diamond Bar High School, and may be found here.

Concise biographical and scientific information on many of the physicists whose images are linked to this page may be found on a West Chester University site, here.

Large are usually JPEG format; width by height is in pixels. Thumbnail are usually GIF format, always 100 pixels wide.

(note: this site was started in 1994 or so, as an exercise; I think that some of the sites above have become more developed than this one. In any case, I don't actively update this site much anymore. hn)

L. Alvarez
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color, older, seated at desk, body facing toward right, head facing into camera

C. Anderson- Caltech Images
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, shoulders to his left

Backer, Alvarez, Serber, Lawson, Thornton
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greyscale, younger, in suits, conversing

Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley
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greyscale, in lab in shirt and tie, order from left is Bardeen, Shockley (seated), Brattain
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color, in lab in shirt and tie, order from left is Shockley (seated), Bardeen, Brattain

Bethe
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color, seated in office, from thighs up, suit and tie, right hand on chin, left arm on chair arm, gazing upward, folders to his right, stack of papers to his left

Bohr and Sommerfeld
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greyscale, outdoor, Sommerfeld on left with something in his hand, Bohr on right, in front of brick building with wooden doors. Sommerfeld has a little grey hair, Bohr none.

Boltzmann
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greyscale, formal portrait, Boltzmann, with glasses on, looks to his right
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greyscale, somewhat less formal portrait, Boltzmann, with glasses on, looks to his right

Born
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greyscale, formal portrait, Born looks straight ahead

Bothe
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, looks up and to his right

Budker
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greyscale, informal, sitting at table, waist up, in turtleneck, facing to his left

S. Carnot
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greyscale, formal portrait, in uniform, looks slightly to his right

Cerenkov
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie

Chadwick
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greyscale, formal portrait, glasses, coat and tie, shoulders to his left

Chandrasekhar
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greyscale, older, in coat and tie, head tilted to his right

Coulomb
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greyscale, photo of bust, in uniform, looks slightly to his right

Cronin
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie

I. Curie
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greyscale, in lab with spouse, white coats, seated, facing her right

M. Curie
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greyscale, portrait, facing viewer, shoulders to her right
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greyscale, seated, older, facing to her left
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greyscale, seated, holding press conference/photo op
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greyscale, standing with U.S. President Harding, to his right

Dirac
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greyscale, formal portrait, Dirac looks slightly to his right

A. Einstein-Caltech Images
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greyscale, formal portrait, late middle age
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greyscale, portrait, looking to his right, pipe in mouth facing to his left, wearing sweater, older
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greyscale, formal portrait, suit and tie, shoulders to his right, facing forward, younger
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greyscale, at Zurich patent office, in plaid suit with tie, from thighs up, seated, leaning on desk
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, shoulders to his right, turned to camera
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greyscale, casual portrait, in sweater with pipe, older
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greyscale, contempletive, looking to his left
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greyscale, riding bicycle at Caltech
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greyscale, casual portrait on boat, looking to his right, pipe in mouth facing to his left
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greyscale, full length childhood portrait, formal dress with large bow tie, boots, facing his left, leaning on chair behind
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greyscale, casual portrait with tongue sticking out, older
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greyscale, paste-up, Einstein's head on a torso with `Al' on it's shirt

A. Einstein and M. Mariç
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greyscale, wedding portrait, Einstein on right

Fermi
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greyscale, body facing blackboard, head turned back over his right sholder, right hand writing on blackboard.
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greyscale, waist up, shoulders to his left, striped tie, coat, holding sphere with both hands

Fermi, Szilard, et al
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greyscale, group who achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction on Dec. 2, 1942, on steps of building

Feynman-Caltech Images
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color, casual portrait, Feynman, with face leaning on left hand, looks straight ahead

Galileo
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greyscale, formal portrait, facing slightly to his right

de Gennes
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greyscale, lecturing, shoulders to his right, looking toward camera and up

Gibbs
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greyscale, formal portrait, facing to his right

Goeppert-Mayer
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greyscale, facing to her left

Hawking
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color, seated, from knees up, glasses on

Heisenberg
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greyscale, informal portrait, facing into camera, wearing sweater, youthful

Kapitza
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greyscale, portrait, facing his left

Kepler
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color, painting, formal clothing, right hand on waist, left hand on globe, holding compass

Kurchatov
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greyscale, suit and tie, five-pointed star medal on left lapel, facing his right

Landau
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greyscale, formal portrait, facing into camera, head resting on right hand

Langevin
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greyscale, formal portrait, glasses, neck up, facing his right

Lawrence
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color, cover of Time Magazine, working with tools, glasses on, looking straight ahead
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greyscale, formal, chest up in suit, facing to his left

Lawrence, Fermi, and Rabi
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greyscale, Lawrence looks to his left, arm resting on a refrigerator, behind Fermi, who is pointing with his right hand to the open palm of of his left hand, while facing Rabi, on his left

Lawrence and Livingston
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greyscale, Livingston on left, both men in suits, next to cyclotron

Majorana
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greyscale, youthful portrait, cursive handwriting around edges

Maxwell
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greyscale, formal portrait, his left profile

van der Meer
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie

Meitner
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greyscale, younger, seated in lab, facing to her left
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greyscale, seated with cigarette, slightly to her left
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color poster, announcing UCSB Colloquium of Ruth Sime

Mott
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greyscale, formal portrait, glasses, neck up

Neddermeyer
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greyscale, coat and tie, from neck up, facing forward, looking upward

Newton
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poor color, youthful Kneller portrait, he faces to his left
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greyscale, formal, he faces to his left

E. Noether
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greyscale, formal, she faces to her right

Oliphant
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greyscale, portrait, facing to his left and downward, glasses, eyes downcast

Oppenheimer- Caltech Images
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greyscale, formal portrait, head facing toward his right

Planck
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greyscale, formal, he faces to his right

Purcell
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greyscale, seated, from knees up, in lab, turned to his right, bowtie and shirt, glasses

Rayleigh
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greyscale, formal, he faces to his right

Rubbia
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greyscale, young, coat and tie, waist up, facing to his left and looking down, between two other men
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, from chest up, wall of leaves in background, smiling
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, from chest up, wall of leaves in background.

Rutherford
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greyscale, formal portrait, coat and tie, shoulders square, he looks to his right
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greyscale, in laboratory, coat and tie, faces his right, eyes downward

Rutherford and Geiger
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greyscale, in laboratory, both in coat and tie, Geiger on our left leaning on bench, Rutherford on right, touching apparatus; this image was cropped to make the previous image

Schrieffer
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color, seated at desk, shoulders facing his left, face turned toward camera

Schrödinger
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greyscale, formal portrait, glasses on, facing directly forward

Segrè
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greyscale, sitting at desk, in coat and tie, in the control room at a particle physics lab

Shelter Island
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greyscale, indoor, 6 men, 3 on couch (Feynman in middle), 2 men standing, (Wheeler behind couch), 1 kneeling

Sommerfeld
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greyscale, formal portrait facing to his right

Steinberger
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greyscale, portrait, sport shirt, he faces to his left

Teller
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greyscale, formal, waist up in suit, facing to his right, with glasses in right hand

Tesla
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greyscale, formal, waist up in suit, shoulders facing to his right, head turned toward camera, younger
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color, of Tesla statue on U.S. side of Niagra falls, seated bronze
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greyscale, Tesla seated in lab, beneath large electric discharge
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color, poster, `The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla'
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greyscale, poster for film `Nikola Tesla, the Genius who lit the World'

Ting and the Yangs
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color, three sitting on a red leather sofa, Ting in coat and tie at left, Mrs. Yang in orange in middle, and Yang in shirt and tie at right.

Touschek
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greyscale, cartoon drawn by Touscheck, of figure sitting with left hand index finger pointed into temple, right hand drawing self portrait, which extends tongue back at drawer, signed `Bruno Touschek'

Uhlenbeck, Kramers, and Goudsmit
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greyscale, three standing in front of brick building, coat and tie

E. Wigner
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greyscale, formal, portrait, facing to his left
Taken from Oak Ridge, thanks to Bill Cabage.

C.S. Wu
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greyscale, formal, portrait, facing into camera

[Harry Nelson] [HEP People] [HEP] [Physics] [UCSB]

hnn@charm.physics.ucsb.edu, 6/26/96. I maintain this page strictly for teaching and research purposes.