Monday, March 26, 2007

Top 5 Chemist statues

1) Joseph Priestly
Birmingham, Birstall, Leeds,UK

2) Justus von Liebig

Giesen (destroyed during WOII), Munich, Germany

3) Robert Bunsen

Heidelberg, Germany


4) Antoine Lavoisier

Paris, France

5) Benjamin Silliman
Yale's Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, USA

There are more chemist statues. For instance Mendeleev has two in Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Marie Curie in Japan (Soka University, Japan) and Kekulé in Bonn, Germany.

6 comments:

Chemgeek said...

It would be interesting to see a list of top five American statues of chemists (or any scientists for that matter). I cannot think of any (I didn't know of the Silliman one until now).

We put statues up of fictional movie characters (Rocky) and of sports stars (Micheal Jordan) but not of scientists. At least, that I know of.

Are there more statues of scientists in the United States that I don't know about?

Anonymous said...

Sorry to be a pedant, but the second Joseph Priestley statue is in the marketplace of his hometown of Birstall (not Bristall). There used to be a pretty good curry house opposite, but I don't think it's there any more :(

snaack said...

Birstall indeed... Corrected it.

snaack said...

Are there more statues of scientists in the United States that I don't know about?


Not many I think. I found two other scientist statues in USA.

Einstein statue in Washington
Nikola Tesla statue in New York

Anonymous said...

Hey, I have a (sorry, not digital) photo with ny friends under the Baeyer's statue in Munich! There is also a statue of Berzelius in Stockholm, right at the center of the, well, "Berzelii Park".

Anonymous said...

Sorry I just realized that I wrote "Baeyer" instead of "Liebig"!!!