Inspired by the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men“, investigator Steve Dahms alerts us to a legend about chrystallographers’ beards. One account appears in the study: “Gerhard M.J. Schmidt, 1919-1971“, David Ginsberg, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 10,1972, pp. 59-72. [Schmidt is pictured here, at right.] The author writes: “Both as […]
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The beard-ome & lab aesthetics
This five-minute video conjures up an imaginary genetics of the beard. Best of all, it shows the aesthetics of everyday life in a modern major general laboratory:
Bearded ornithologists (2)
Theobald Johannes Krüper (1829-1921). German by birth. Connoisseur and collector of the avifauna of Greece and Turkey. Collected the Turkish nuthatch near Smyrna (Izmir) in 1862. August von Pelzeln (Vienna) described the species in his honor as Sitta. krueperi. Founder of the bird collection of the Museum of the University of Athens. Still going on […]
Bearded ornithologists (1)
Rudolf Zimmermann (1878-1943) founder of the Vereins Sächsischer Ornithologen (VSO), and eccentric self-taught ornithologist, early mentor ofErnst Mayr. Occupied a one-room apartment in Dresden full of books and periodicals. Cooked on an alcohol burner. Was always dressed for the outdoors. Smoked cigars constantly, died of throat cancer.