Tjaden Hall Exterior Inscriptions
- Title:
- Tjaden Hall Exterior Inscriptions
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Location:
- Tjaden Hall, exterior, Cornell University
- ID Number:
- artsdb_1679
- Accession Number:
- W84-(191-193)
- File Name:
- Dalton.jpg
- Work Type:
- inscriptions
- Subject:
- Cornell University. Tjaden Hall
- Image View Type:
- Partial
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Franklin hall, was completed in 1883 of red Medina sandstone with "white" (actually gray) Medina sandstone trim. The exterior is lavishly ornamented with medallions and lunettes bearing the names of 48 great physical scientists, appropriate to the original teaching function of the building. Draper, John William (1811-1882). American chemist. Clausius, Rudolf (1822-1888). German physicist. Pictet, Jean-Louis (1739-1781). French astronomer. Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim). (1493-1541). Swiss alchemist, physician. Agricola, Georg (Bauer) (1494-1555). German mineralogist. Helmont, Jan Baptista (1577-1644). Flemish physician, chemist. Stahl, Georg Ernest (1660-1734). German physician. Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642). Italian astronomer. Newton, Isaac (1642-1727). English mathematician, scientist. Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798). Italian physicist. Volta, A1essandro (1745-1827). Italian physicist. Rumford, Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814). American physicist. Wolff, Christian (1679-1754). German philosopher. Boussingault, Jean Baptiste (1802-1887). French chemist. Hoffmann, von, August Wilhelm (1818-1892). German chemist. Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899). German chemist. Brewster, David (1781-1868). Scottish physicist. Young, Thomas (1733-1829). English physicist. Boyle, Robert (1627-1691). Irish chemist, philosopher. Ampere, Andre Marie (1775-1836). French physicist. Oersted, Hans Christian (1777-1851). Danish electro-magnetist. Black, Joseph (1728-1799). Scottish chemist, anatomist. Avogadro, Amadeo (1776-1856). Italian chemist, physicist. Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850). French chemist. Proust, Louis Joseph (1754-1826). French chemist. Mitscherlich, Eilhard (1754-1863). German chemist, mineralogist. Richter, Jeremias Benjamin (1762-1807). German chemist. Wohler, Friedrich (1800-1882). German chemist. Dumas, Jean Baptista Andre (1800-1884). French chemist. Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895). French chemist. Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcel 1 in (1827-1907). French chemist. Wheatstone, Charles (1802-1875). English physicist. Regnault, Henri Victor (1810-1878). French chemist, physicist. Joule, James Prescott (1818-1889). English physicist. Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879). English physicist. Fresnel, August Jean (1788-1827). French optician, geometer. Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon (1819-1868). French physicist. Henry, Joseph (1797-1878). American physicist.
- Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.