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Title: Flea
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1665
Series: History of Science
Description: From Robert Hooke’s Micrographia. Image was printed from modern reprint edition. Photographs: Concerning History of Science

Title: James Watt, 1736-1819
Format: photograph: print
Series: History of Science
Description: From an oil portrait by Sir T. Lawrence, The Science Museum, London. Photographs: Concerning History of Science

Title: International Congress for Applied Mechanics
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1924
Series: History of Science
Description: Mathematicians - Intern. Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1924, 1934, 1948, 1956

Title: Portrait of Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
Format: print: etching
Series: History of Science
Description: Photograph of an etched print portrait of chemist Amedeo Avogadro (full name being, Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregua e di Cerreto), from a drawing. Avogadro, who became a physics professor at the University of Turin in 1820, is noted for the theory of molarity and molecular weight, as well as Avogadro’s Law, which states that equal volumes of gases, at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules.

Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: In 1928 he was Asst. Prof. of Theoretical Physics at Caltech. He was also at the Univ. of CA at the same time until WWII. Physicists--Individual.

Title: Richard Willstatter
Format: photograph: negative
Series: History of Science
Description: Biochemistry and Chemistry [incl. Individuals; Pasadena Conf. on the Structure of Proteins. 21-25 Sept., 1953]