2) Mendeleev dreaming over his potential election to the Russian academy of sciences (Strekoza, 1880, reprint here) 
3) Joseph Priestley as Doctor Phlogiston
4) Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (William Barry Jensen)
5) Curie (Vanity Fair 1904)
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Top 5 chemist caricatures
1) Lavoisier experimenting on Napoleon (James Gillray, he used the same scene for this caricature)2) Mendeleev dreaming over his potential election to the Russian academy of sciences (Strekoza, 1880, reprint here) 3) Joseph Priestley as Doctor Phlogiston4) Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (William Barry Jensen)
5) Curie (Vanity Fair 1904)
2) Mendeleev dreaming over his potential election to the Russian academy of sciences (Strekoza, 1880, reprint here) 3) Joseph Priestley as Doctor Phlogiston4) Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (William Barry Jensen)5) Curie (Vanity Fair 1904)
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There's a meeting room at Columbia with a number of caricatures of various faculty members including Stork, Danishefsky, Breslow, and Nakinishi. Nakinishi is drawn as a magician.
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