Doron Blake, the first test tube baby from the sperm of a genius sperm bank February 3, 1986 San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California
Dr. Afton Blake with her son, Doron, the first test tube baby from the sperm of a genius sperm bank February 3, 1986 San Fernando Valley, Los...
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Randy Adamadama's Universe of You, An exercise gym for the brain in Sausalito .They look like hapless subjects in a mad scientist's research project....
Famous psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner, known as B.F. Skinner, poses for a portrait, 1989. Boston, Massachussetts.
Famous psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner, known as B.F. Skinner, poses for a portrait, 1989. Boston, Massachussetts.
Attendants from the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College Of Surgeons packing up some of the 3000 human skulls stored in a shed in Lincoln's Inn...
Fingerprint expert Captain Howard L. Barlow of the Los Angeles Police Department, examines a fingerprint, enlarged 500 times, circa 1925. Barlow...
American doctor Virginia Apgar , newly-appointed head of the Division of Congenital Malformations of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis...
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead at an International Earth Day event in New York, where she gave a speech at the United Nations, 20th...
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead with a model of a New Guinean Manus village during the making of the documentary film 'New Lives For...
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead addressing students at San Francisco State College, September 1959. Her address was televised on the...
American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead in her office at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where she is assistant curator,...
Ancient Greek historian Herodotus reads his 'Histories' to a large crowd of assembled Greeks in a late 19th Century engraving by Heinrich Leutemann .
Portrait of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud as he sits behind his desk in his study, Vienna, Austria, 1930s. The office is filled with figurines...
Three Peruvian Indians stand in traditional dress on a masonry ledge of the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu and look out over a deep valley at one...
An Egyptian doll from approximately 900 BC made from paper and wax, mid 20th Century. It is supposed that this was a toy doll for children to play...
Portrait of British physiologist Robert Edwards, one of the medical pioneers responsible for in vitro fertilization, late 1960s. The Cambridge...
British physiologist Robert Edwards and biologist Patrick Steptoe , the medical pioneers responsible for in vitro fertilization, smile at a press...
Portrait of American physician John Rock , one of the developers of the birth control pill and founder of the first fertility clinic in the United...
British physiologist Robert Edwards and his team of scientists work in their laboratory at Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, March 28, 1969....
British physiologist Robert Edwards and biologist Patrick Steptoe , the medical pioneers responsible for in vitro fertilization, England, 1969. The...
Portrait of Moorish philosopher and physician Averroes in a turban, 12th Century. Averroes adapted Aristotle's theories to Islamic theology and much...
Portrait of American philosopher, psychologist, and educator William James , late 19th Century. James applied his philosophy, which he called...
Portrait of American philosopher, psychologist, and educator William James , 1903. James applied his philosophy, which he called Pragmatism, to...
Portrait of influential American sociologist and Columbia University professor Robert K. Merton , mid Twentieth Century. Merton studied social...
Circa 1740, Portrait of Voltaire . French writer and philosopher. Born Francois-Marie Arouet, a brilliant wit, his histories 'Henry IV' and 'Louis...
Circa 1710, Cotton Mather . American Congregational clergyman, colleague of his father, Increase Mather in the North Church, Boston, Massachusetts...
Circa 400 BC, Portrait of Hippocrates . Greek physician. Known as the 'father of medicine', he developed the belief that four fluids of the body are...
Circa 1510, Profile portrait of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim , a German occultist philosopher, doctor of law and medicine at Pavia, who...
Circa 1660, Benedict Spinoza , aka Baruch Spinoza. Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish heritage whose independent thinking led to expulsion from...
Circa 1660, Benedict Spinoza , aka Baruch Spinoza. Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish heritage whose independent thinking led to expulsion from...
Circa 135 AD, Ptolemy c. 2nd century AD. Alexandrian astronomer, mathematician and geographer. He described a system of astronomy based on the theory...
Circa 1750, Swiss born French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Abandoned age 10, settled in Paris circa 1741, contributed to Diderot's...
Circa 1675, Baron Samuel von Pufendorf . German jurist, historian. Professor of natural law, Heidelberg 1661-68, at Lund, Sweden 1670-77, historian...
Circa 1497, Leonardo da Vinci . Study in black chalk for the Apostle Philip in the fresco The Last Supper, painted by da Vinci in the refectory of...
Circa 1509, Leonardo da Vinci . A detail from one of da Vinci's sketchbooks: Bones of the Foot and Shoulder, pen and brown ink with wash over black...
Circa 1505, Leonardo da Vinci . A detail from one of da Vinci's sketchbooks, which depicts a man's profile in red chalk with mirror writing notes in...
Circa 1570, Gerardus Mercator . Flemish geographer and mapmaker . To aid navigators, in 1569 he introduced the map projection that bears his name and...
Circa 1660, Thomas Stanley . English poet and scholar whose works include translations of Tasso and Petrarch. He is known for his 'History of...
Circa 1730, Brook Taylor . English mathematician who was the originator of Taylor's Theorem, which is important in differential calculus. His 'Linear...
Circa 540 BC, Pythagoras . Greek philosopher and mathematician. Born in Samos, after extensive travels settled in Crotona, a Greek colony in southern...
Circa 220 BC, Illustration of Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes, , surrounded by armored soldiers who direct mirrors at invading Roman...
Circa 430 BC, Herodotus Greek historian. Wrote a history of the Greco-Persian Wars, 500-479 BC, called the 'Father of History.'
During a sleep deprivation experiment, American student Bruce McAllister takes notes while Randy Gardner describes scents offered to him by Joe...
During a sleep deprivation experiment, American student Bruce McAllister takes notes while Randy Gardner describes scents offered to him by Joe...
During a sleep deprivation experiment, American student Bruce McAllister takes notes while Randy Gardner closes his eyes and listens to a tunign fork...
Dr. William Dement talks with American students, from left, Bruce McAllister, Randy Gardner, and Joe Marciano Jr. About a sleep deprivation...
