laureate

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Untermeyer

OMG I am in love with these glass negatives!

Pince-nez type eyeglasses were the most popular eyewear in the USA, Canada and much of Europe during the period 1885 to 1920. A pince-nez had no arms or temples and clipped on the bridge of the nose. It was held in place by either spring powered nose guard grips in the fingerpiece type or a spring bridge with nose guard grips in the hoopspring or C bridge type. Properly fitted and adjusted to each individual, a pince-nez remained securely attached to the bridge of the nose at all times and was very comfortable even during full time wear. Eyeglasses (pince-nez) and spectacles (glasses with temples) : were unisex then. The terms eyeglasses and spectacles had distinct meanings. The rimless pince-nez was the most popular and stylish for all ages. For soldiers,it was great for wear under a gas mask or goggles and army officials stated the a pince-nez was the ideal eyewear. See pincenez1.blospot.com Pince-nez Renaissance blog/site the only place on the web or anywhere for very detailed,accurate info re: pince-nez.Click on table of contents. Many of the photos can be enlarged by clicking on them. The site encourages people to wear a pince-nez.

I remember reading about him in Feynman's books. This man was a boy genius, I think he was the youngest professor of physics at a major university in the US. He was gifted also in Math.

See a blog post featuring this photograph at THE BIGGER PICTURE.

Added to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Schwinger Thanks for posting these!

Prussian-born Nernst (1864-1941) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1920): nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1920/nern... Here he is as an older man: Given the later portrait, it seems unlikely this image was made in 1941.

Thank you for taking the time to comment on our photo! Since these photos were acquired from various print dealers by our donor, Bern Dibner, in the 1940’s, our records for the collection are a bit sparse. Your comments have been extremely valuable in helping us update information for this image. Since the exact date of this image is still unknown, we've changed the date to read "Prior to 1941".