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72 photos and 12 illustrations tagged physicist, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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Mme. Curie & daughters & Mrs. Meloney (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  See

Dr. Austin O'Malley (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  Perhaps the professor who was described in NYT of Feb 19, 1916 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F3081EFC345C13738... as saying, "Climate governs and determines the success, assimiliation, and progress of this country's new citizens, and any form of Americanization that leaves out this vital and controlling factor is without avail, according to a paper read by Dr. Austin O'Malley tonight in Houston Hall." The speech was in Philadelphia on Feb 18, 1916.

• B-59 said:

  Yes, that's him. "Austin O'Malley was a famous Physicist from USA, who lived between October 1, 1858 and 1932." fixquotes.com/authors/austin-omalley.htm

• B-59 said:

  He predicted that in that in 40 years (from 1921 on), the blonds would have been vanished in the USA, see The Bismarck tribune., November 08, 1921, Image 8, with photo. He was the author of the "Keystones of Thought" - "the only book of original and genuine aphorisms in English. Written by the World's master of aphoristic thought and expression." (The sun., October 12, 1919, Section 6 Books and the Book World, Page 3, advertising)

Joseph Swan in his Laboratory

from North East Museums

• John keys said:

  Sound chap This Mr Swan...

• Timothy Jones said:

  "... Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its invention by the American Thomas Edison ..." Now consider the idiocy of this. Swan demonstrated the light bulb, so he invented it. OK so the filament was a bit naff, and it was hard to achieve a good vacuum. Thomas Edison cannot have invented it AFTER Swan had already demonstrated it. Give Edison the credit for improving it, and creating a production line for its manufacture, but please, do not fall into that Transatlantic error of thinking Edison invented the light bulb. He did not.

• Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:

  Timothy Jones thanks. We've reworded the caption - we certainly don't believe it was Edison who invented the lightbulb!