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Concept

Chemists

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

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

    | Date: 01 April 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/56/43
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

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

    | Date: 15 October 1930 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/12/42
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

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

    | Date: [2004], ©2004
    • Books

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

    McLachlan, John. | Date: 1983
    • Books

    Science and the sons of genius : studies on Humphry Davy / edited by Sophie Forgan.

    Davy Bicentenary Symposium (1978 : Royal Institution of Great Britain) | Date: 1980
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