The scientist and his values

The Experimental Scientist and His Literature Searches

Jared Eliot, Minister, Doctor, Scientist, and His Connecticut

The harsh and demanding life of the New England colonies in the early eighteenth century produced sturdy men and women. To be a successful leader among them required wisdom and determination. Jared Eliot won distinction as a leader. His intellect, compassion, vigor, and good sense must have been extraordinary, for he served his fellow man as clergyman, physician, educator, and agriculturist. Wh...

Rod Porter: his gifts to a young scientist.

The cephalosporins and sir Edward Abraham: recollections about a great scientist and his part in the discovery of these antibiotics.

I had the great good fortune-that I did not fully appreciate at the time-of working as a post-doctoral Fellow for 3y years (between 1967 and 1971) at The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University, in the very laboratories where penicillin and the cephalosporins had been developed. At that time Sir Edward was just Dr EP Abraham, Reader in Chemical Pathology. The Professor of Path...

Stereotypic Images of the Scientist : The Draw - A - Scientist Test *

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries visual and verbal images of the scientist were many and varied. Caricaturists, cartoonists, artists, and writers produced a diverse range of stereotypic figures: diabolical madmen, distinguished professors, harmless eccentrics, learned buffoons, and fashionable dilettantes. Naturalists in the field among flora and fauna were often pictured, as were...