Notable Chemists & Physicists Posters & Prints “F...-”
for science classrooms, laboratories, home schoolers.

Enrico Fermi
b. 9-29-1901; Rome, Italy
d. 11-28-1954; Chicago, IL

Enrico Fermi is most known for his work in developing of the first nuclear reactor (with Leo Szilard), developments in quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics. His work eventually lead to the Manhattan Project.

Fermi was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons”.

• Nuclear Physics: A Course Given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago

Richard Feynman
b. 5-11-1918; Queens, NY
d. 2-15-1988; LA, CA

Richard Feynman expanded the theory of quantum electrodynamics, developing a graphical representation of mathematical expressions known as Feynman diagrams.

He was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize for Physics with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”.

Feynman participated in developing the atomic bomb, pioneered quantum computing and introduced the idea of nanotechnology.

Richard Feynman quotes ~
• “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.”
• “Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.”
• “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
• “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
• “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
• “I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
• “But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.”

Nicholas Flamel
c. 1330-1418; Paris, France

Scriver and book seller Nicholas Flamel is best remembered as an alchemist who made the Philosopher's Stone – turning lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality through the “Elixir of Life”.

FYI - A scriver was someone who could read and write, probably keeping records, for those who were illiterate.

• The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton