Scientist trained in the study of chemistry

William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.

Perkin jubilee : American committee.

Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949) Chemist of Heidelberg

The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.

A chemist creates a new form of gunpowder - incombustible; representing a futile new invention. Coloure lithograph by J.-B.-D. Bourdel, 1835.

A chemist preparing medicine; advertising Schering's Urotropina tablets. Lithograph after Leonhard Fries.

A French chemist in his laboratory. Photograph, 1880/1890.

A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.

Joseph Priestley (above) and Antoine Lavoisier (below) Line engraving by R. Caldwall, 1801, after J. Opie and J.-L. David.

A chemist gives a demonstration involving arsenic to an audience. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1841.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0006668: Plaster relief of Peter Squire (1798-1884)

Friedel, Charles (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16 x 21.5 cm

M0001331: Reproduction of a photograph of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883), English chemist and pioneer of the development of quinine

vii, 166 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach / Alex Baenninger [and others].

Joseph Priestley, man of science, 1733-1804 : an iconography of a great Yorkshireman / John McLachlan.

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M0006668: Plaster relief of Peter Squire (1798-1884)

Friedel, Charles (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist.

M0001331: Reproduction of a photograph of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883), English chemist and pioneer of the development of quinine

Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach / Alex Baenninger [and others].

Joseph Priestley, man of science, 1733-1804 : an iconography of a great Yorkshireman / John McLachlan.

Chemists

Images from the collections

Images referencing Chemists

Works from the collections

M0006668: Plaster relief of Peter Squire (1798-1884)

Friedel, Charles (1832-1899), chemist and mineralogist.

M0001331: Reproduction of a photograph of John Eliot Howard (1807-1883), English chemist and pioneer of the development of quinine

Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach / Alex Baenninger [and others].

Joseph Priestley, man of science, 1733-1804 : an iconography of a great Yorkshireman / John McLachlan.

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