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

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• Smithsonian Institution 56 photos & illustrations
• British Library 11 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 10 photos & illustrations
• Museum of Photographic Arts 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Archives of the Law Society of Ontario 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration
• North East Museums 1 photo / illustration

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Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)

from Smithsonian Institution

• Scary Boots said:

  Lovely photo of madame wu. My fave Wu quote: "There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all." if anyone's interested to read a bit more about her, I wrote an article about what she did and why it was great: www.schrodingerskitten.co.uk/articles/lovelace.html

Portrait of Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Chemist and Physicist

from Smithsonian Institution

• Annalisa said:

  it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius

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!