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

Theodore Harold “Ted” Maiman
b. 7-11-1927; Los Angeles, CA
d. 5-5-2007; Canada

Physicist “Ted” Maiman made the first LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) May 16, 1960.

• The Laser Odyssey

Guglielmo Marconi
b. 4-25-1874; Italy
d. 7-20-1937

Guglielmo Marconi was an inventor of radio telegraph equipment and won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun.

• Guglielmo Marconi and Radio Waves

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
b. 2-8-1834; Siberia
d. 2-2-1907; St. Petersburg

Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev was a chemist and inventor credited with the first version of the periodic table of elements where he predicted the properties of elements yet to be discovered.

Periodic Law of Chemical Elements by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev Giclee Print

Periodic Law of Chemical Elements by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev Giclee Print

Otto Fritz Meyerhof
b. 4-12-1884; Germany
d. 10-6-1951

Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a physician and biochemist who was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine “for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle”. Meyerhof shared the prize with Archibald Vivian Hill.

Albert Abraham Michelson
b. 12-19-1852; Prussia
d. 5-9-1931; Pasadena

Albert Abraham Michelson won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics for “his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”.

FYI - Michelson was raised in California where his father was a merchant in mining camps. This fact was woven into a story for the TV show Bonanza (Look to the Stars, broadcast March 18, 1962), Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) helps the 16-year-old Albert Abraham Michelson get into the US Naval Academy. Michelson was in fact appointed to the Academy in 1869 by President U.S. Grant, later to be an instructor at the Academy.

Jacques-Lucien Monod
b. 2-9-1910; France
d. 5-31-1976

Jacques-Lucien Monod was a biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis” with Francois Jacob and Andre Lwoff.

• Origins of Molecular Biology: A Tribute to Jacques Monod