Person who systematically observes and analyzes phenomena and tests hypotheses using scientific methods

The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson.

Scientists of the Austrian Empire at a large banquet in a tent, drinking a toast. Coloured lithograph by F. Wolf after J.N. Höchle, 1832.

Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.

Scientists investigating the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Darwin : "the descent of man".

A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.

Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.

John Dalton shaking hands with Gerrit Moll, 1834, thanking him for defending British science. Coloured etching by Crichton.

Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

More letters of Charles Darwin : a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters / edited by Francis Darwin ... and A.C. Seward.

Three Fellows of the Royal Society offering the presidency of the Society to Michael Faraday in 1857. Photogravure by Hanfstaengl after E. Armitage.

237 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm slide transparency; 6 x 6 cm

M0006613: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

xiii, 335 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

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Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

M0006613: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

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Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

M0006613: Portrait of Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

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