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Scientists
The selection of the personalities included in this exhibition includes well known scientists such as Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, T.H. Huxley, and Sir Charles Lyell along with lesser-known geologists, palaeontologists, botanists and biologists. It includes Peter Mark Roget who was a British physician along with being the creator of "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" - more generally known simply as "Roget's Thesaurus" - the reason for his inclusion being that the classification of everything was such a key issue within nineteenth century science. Perhaps not surprisingly photographers and those associated with early photography are well represented including Daguerre who usually refused being photographed because of his face was so scarred by smallpox, Arago who announced the discovery of photography and William Henry Fox Talbot and his assistant Nicolaas Henneman, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse who was significant in the early acceptance of photography in the United States, Sir David Brewster who was so important in stereo-photography and Hippolyte Bayard who feigned death when his discoveries were overlooked by the French government. We also have André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri remembered for his portraits of French society and the introduction of the carte-de-visite, Gabriel Lippmann a key figure in early colour photograph and the Lumière brothers who released the first commercially viable colour process, the autochrome, in 1907.
As with all exhibitions on Luminous-Lint we welcome other examples for inclusion.
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