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Abdus Salam
Author: Molendijk, Bart / Anefo
Source: [1] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANeFo), 1945-1989, Nummer toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer 933-9976
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Ada Lovelace
Author: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q3290472
Source: File copied from english wikipedia at en:File:Ada_Lovelace.jpg
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Ada Lovelace
Author: Alfred Edward Chalon (1780–1860) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q736316
Source: Science & Society Picture Library
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Adam Sedgwick
Author: Thomas Phillips, R.A., 1770 - 1845
Source: transferred from german wikipedia. Original description of source was Adam Sedgwick Collection (Link ist dead, see New Location)
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Alan Turing
Author: Unknown
Source: http://www.turingarchive.org/viewer/?id=521&title=4
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Alan Turing
Author: null
Source:

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Albert Einstein
Author: Unknown
Source: Official 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics photograph
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Albert Einstein
Author: Photograph by Oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J.
Source: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b46036.
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Albert Einstein
Author: Ferdinand Schmutzer (1870–1928) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q370800
Source: http://www.bhm.ch/de/news_04a.cfm?bid=4&jahr=2006 [dead link], archived copy (image)
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Albert Günther
Author:

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Alessandro Volta
Author: Garavaglia Giovita (1790-1835) - Gaetano Bonatti (inc.)
Source: Edgar Fahs Smith collection
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Alessandro Volta
Author: Original uploader was Dr. Manuel at de.wikipedia
Source: http://www.anthroposophie.net/bibliothek/nawi/physik/volta/bib_volta.htm
Liscence(s): public domain
Alexander Fleming
Author: Nobel Foundation
Source: http://nobelprize.org/
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Alexander Fleming
Author: Calibuon at English Wikibooks, cropped by User:AlanM1
Source: File:Alexander Fleming.jpg
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Alexander Fleming
Author: Official photographer
Source: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//32/media-32192/large.jpg
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Alexander Graham Bell
Author: Moffett Studio
Source: Library and Archives Canada / C-017335
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Alexander Graham Bell
Author: null
Source: null
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Author: Unknown
Source: scan of old photograph
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Alfred Nobel
Author: Unknown
Source: Popular Science Monthly Volume 68
Liscence(s): public domain
Alfred Nobel
Author: Gösta Florman (1831–1900) / The Royal Library
Source: Sweden.se credits image to www.imagebank.sweden.se, Gösta Florman / The Royal Library
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Author: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (active 1855-1922)
Source: First published in Borderland Magazine, April 1896
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Alfred Tarski
Author: George M. Bergman
Source: The Oberwolfach photo collection, http://owpdb.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=6091
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Alonzo Church
Author: null
Source:
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    Andrei Sakharov
    Author: Vladimir Fedorenko / Владимир Федоренко
    Source: RIA Novosti archive, image #25981, http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/gallery/#25981 Digital / Цифра
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Andrei Sakharov
    Author: Anefo / Croes, R.C.
    Source: Aankomst op Schiphol van voorvechter van mensenrechten en hervormingen in de Sovjet-Unie Andrei Sacharov en zijn vrouw Jelena Bonner voor de uitreiking van het eredoctoraat in de rechtsgeleerdheid
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Andrey Kolmogorov
    Author: Konrad Jacobs. Original uploader was Taxiarchos228 at de.wikipedia
    Source: Transferred from de.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Ireas using CommonsHelper.
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    André-Marie Ampère
    Author: null
    Source: null
    Liscence(s): public domain
    André-Marie Ampère
    Author: Ambrose Tardieu
    Source: The Dibner collection at the Smithsonian Institution (USA),
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Annie Jump Cannon
    Author: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper
    Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/92776/Annie-Jump-Cannon
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Antoine Lavoisier
    Author: Louis Jean Desire Delaistre, after Boilly
    Source: Rev. Superinteressante, n. 23
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
    Author: Jan Verkolje (I) (1650–1693) Link back to Creator infobox template
    Source: www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info : Pic
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Archimedes
    Author: Unknown
    Source: André Thévet () Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres grecz, latins et payens, Paris, pp. 46 Retrieved from http://math.nyu.edu/~crorres/: Page, Picture
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Archimedes
    Author: Domenico Fetti (1588–1623) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q551695
    Source: http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates/popup.htm
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    Aristotle
    Author: null
    Source: null
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Aristotle
    Author: Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q223725
    Source: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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    Aristotle
    Author: Copy of Lysippus
    Source: Jastrow (2006)
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Arnold Sommerfeld
    Author: Unknown
    Source: here
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Arthur Compton
    Author: Nobel foundation
    Source: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/compton-bio.html
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    Arthur Eddington
    Author: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)
    Source: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ggbain.38064.
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    Arthur Kornberg
    Author: null
    Source: null
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Arthur Leonard Schawlow
    Author: Jose Mercado / Stanford News Service
    Source: Stanford News Service
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Asa Gray
    Author: John A. Whipple
    Source: University of South Carolina
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Augustin Pyramus De Candolle
    Author: Jules Pizzetta (1820–1900) Link back to Creator infobox template
    Source: Galerie des naturalistes de J. Pizzetta, Ed. Hennuyer, 1893
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    Augustus De Morgan
    Author: Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan
    Source: Memoir of Augustus De Morgan
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Averroes
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Avicenna
    Author: Unknown
    Source: http://umma.ua/uploads/article/2012/02/23/11/ac1ece6b5b3eb78b6316f4a3f0498ac1b61f22f6.jpg
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Barbara McClintock
    Author: Smithsonian Institution
    Source: Flickr: Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
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    Benjamin Franklin
    Author: David Martin (1737–1797) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q2915164
    Source: The White House Historical Association
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Benjamin Franklin
    Author: Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis (1725–1802) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q2286906
    Source: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/ben.htm
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    Benjamin Franklin
    Author: Benjamin West (1738–1820) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q313498
    Source: Philadelphia Museum of Arts
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    Benjamin Franklin
    Author: Joseph-Siffrein Duplessis (1725–1802) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q2286906
    Source: metmuseum.org
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    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Author: Rama
    Source: Own work
    Liscence(s): none
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Author: null
    Source:

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    Bernhard Riemann
    Author: (Reusing this file)
    Source: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/explore.htm according to the German Wikipedia.
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Bernhard Riemann
    Author: Unknown
    Source: Familienarchiv Thomas Schilling
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Bertrand Russell
    Author: Bassano Ltd
    Source: National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG x84663
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Blaise Pascal
    Author:
    English: unknown; a copy of the painture of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691.
    Source: Own work
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Brian Josephson
    Author: Brian Josephson
    Source: Released by Brian Josephson by email; taken from his homepage
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Brian Schmidt
    Author: Tim Wetherell
    Source: photo taken by Tim Wetherell
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Brian Schmidt
    Author: Markus Pössel (User name: Mapos)
    Source: Own work
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Bruno Rossi
    Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Source: Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    C. V. Raman
    Author: Nobel Foundation
    Source: From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1922-1941, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1965
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    Author: Siegfried Detlev Bendixen
    Source: published in "Astronomische Nachrichten" 1828
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    Author: Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792–1870) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q21055
    Source: http://archiv.bbaw.de/archiv/archivbestaende/abteilung-sammlungen/gesamtbestand-des-kunstbesitzes/gelehrtengemaelde/gelehrtengemalde-seiten/ZIMM-0001.html
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    Carl Linnaeus
    Author: Alexander Roslin (1718–1793) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q315102
    Source: Unknown
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Carl Linnaeus
    Author: Per Krafft the Elder (1724–1793) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q982053
    Source: found on the 'net
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Carl Sagan
    Author: NASA/JPL
    Source: Image:Planetary society.jpg
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Carl Woese
    Author: Don Hamerman
    Source: Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Carol W. Greider
    Author: Gerbil
    Source: Own work
    Liscence(s): 3.0 Unported
    Carolyn S. Shoemaker
    Author: Gene Shoemaker
    Source: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/About/People/CarolynShoemaker/
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    Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Charles Babbage
    Author: Unknown staff artist for The Illustrated London News
    Source: A scan or photograph of a page from The Illustrated London News newspaper.
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    Charles Babbage
    Author: Unknown
    Source: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=Charles+Babbage&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCharles%2BBabbage%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D916%26tbs%3Disz:l%26tbm%3Disch&imgurl=19fc9fba4ea4a1cb
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    Charles Darwin
    Author: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q230120
    Source: Reprinted in Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters, edited by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1892.
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    Charles Darwin
    Author: John Collier (1850–1934) Link back to Creator infobox template wikidata:Q453972
    Source: National Portrait Gallery, London: NPG 1024
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    Charles Darwin
    Author: Leonard Darwin
    Source: Woodall 1884
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Charles Darwin
    Author:
  • Charles_Darwin_seated.jpg: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907) (Maull & Fox) [1]
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    Charles David Keeling
    Author: National Science Foundation
    Source: [1] [2]
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    Charles Hard Townes
    Author: (Reusing this file)
    Source: (Reusing this file)
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    Charles K. Kao
    Author: David Dobkin [1]
    Source: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpd/DeanOfFaculty/person_FILES/Charles.Kao.html
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    Charles Lucien Bonaparte
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Charles Lyell
    Author: Unknown
    Source: http://www.glowimages.com/imagedetails/32927067/image_of_2356256.Sir%20Charles%20Lyell%201st%20Baronet%20Scottish%20lawyer%20and%20geologist%201875.html (watermark removed)
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Charles Lyell
    Author: John & Charles Watkins
    Source: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw156970/Sir-Charles-Lyell-1st-Bt?LinkID=mp02832&search=sas&sText=Charles+Lyell&role=sit&rNo=9
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    Charles Lyell
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Charles Messier
    Author: Ansiaume (1729—1786)
    Source: Stoyan R. et al. Atlas of the Messier Objects: Highlights of the Deep Sky. — Cambridge: Cambridge Univercity Press, 2008. — P. 15.
    Liscence(s): public domain
    Charles Richet
    Author: Unknown
    Source: http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/images/B22252
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    Charles Sanders Peirce
    Author: Unknown
    Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/35130/Charles-Sanders-Peirce-1891 credits it as "public domain"
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    Charles Wheatstone
    Author: Samuel Laurence (1817–1884) Link back to Creator infobox template
    Source: Page 53 of Apples to Atoms by W. D. Hackmann (London, ca. 1986)
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    Charles Wheatstone
    Author: J. Munro
    Source: Frontispiece of Heroes of the Telegraph
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    Chen-Ning Yang
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Chien-Shiung Wu
    Author: Smithsonian Institution from United States
    Source: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
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    Chien-Shiung Wu
    Author: Smithsonian Institution
    Source: Flickr: Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997)
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    Christiaan Huygens
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Christiaan Huygens
    Author: Original uploader was Kelson at fr.wikipedia
    Source: Transferred from fr.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by User:Bloody-libu using CommonsHelper.
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    Chu Ching-wu
    Author: University of Houston
    Source: Paul Chu standing with unidentfied machines, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries.
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    Claude Shannon
    Author: null
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    Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
    Author: null
    Source: null
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    Craig Venter
    Author: Article by Liza Gross, but no photo credit given
    Source: A New Human Genome Sequence Paves the Way for Individualized Genomics Gross L PLoS Biology Vol. 5, No. 10, e266 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050266
    Liscence(s): 2.5 Generic
    Dana Scott
    Author: Andrej Bauer
    Source: http://andrej.com/mathematicians
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