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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
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Macro image of pollen-covered bee on purple crocus. (flowers, stamen, pollination, insects, nature)
5 Fast Facts About Flower Anatomy
Asa Gray, 19th-century lithograph.
Asa Gray: The Father of American Botany
Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone, Spanish marigold, or windflower, is a species of flowering plant.
What’s the Difference Between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms?
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Sunlight shining on leaves. Photosynthesis
What Does Photosynthesis Produce?
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.
Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?
Monitor. Varanus salvadorii is a monitor lizard found in New Guinea can grows to 2.7 metres (9 ft.) aka Tree crocodile, Crocodile monitor, Salvadori's monitor, artellia, reptile
7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Lizards and Turtles
Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza
Cinco de Mayo
Computer mapping, woman at early 1990s computer
Timeline of the 1990s
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Candles Burning On Table In Church
What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Born May 8, 1842 • Ribe • Denmark
Died August 27, 1909 (aged 67) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study brewer’s yeast • yeast
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
French botanist
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet
Russian botanist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
telegraphone
Valdemar Poulsen
Danish engineer
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
Danish botanist
Sigurd F. Varian
American engineer
Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
Orville Wright
American aviator
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Russell H. Varian
American physicist
Wilbur Wright
American aviator
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Amos Eaton
American botanist, geologist, and lawyer
Bill Bowerman
American entrepreneur
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science