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

Vincent de Vigneaud
b. 5-18-1901; Chicago, IL
d. 12-11-1978

Vincent de Vigneaud was a biochemist who was awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone”.

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
b. 1-15-1895; Helsinki, Finland
d. 11-11-1973

Virtanen was a biochemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method”.

Alessandro Volta
b. 2-18-1745; Como, Italy
d. 3-5-1827

Alessandro Volta was an Italian professor of physics, is known for his development of the electric battery in 1800 (voltaic pile). The SI derived unit of electicity, the volt, is named for Volta.

• Volta: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

Chien-Shiung Wu
b. 5-29-1912; Shanghai, China
d. 2-16-1997; NYC

Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, while at Columbia University, worked on the process for enriching uranium into U-235 fissile metal for the Manhattan Project, and performed very early experiments that contradicted the hypothetical “Law of Conservation of Parity”. Her honorific nicknames included the “First Lady of Physics”, the “Chinese Marie Curie”, and “Madame Wu”.

• Chien-Shiung Wu in Women of Science composite poster
• Notable Asian-Americans posters
• Chien-Shiung Wu: Pioneering Physicist and Atomic Researcher