Science is short on saints. History’s greatest scientists and science communicators are just people with a passion for empiricism. However, some have risen to the top with their discoveries, contributions, and dedication to science as a whole. Maybe the man who laid the groundwork for the digital revolution deserves a classic stained-glass painting too!
In celebration of this year’s Pi Day, Shutterstock commissioned five stained glass lithographs from artist Aaron Coleman for some of science’s most renowned names (using Shutterstock assets of course). The result is a collection that could hang in any science lab:
Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer
Nicola Tesla: Inventor, Engineer, Death-Ray Enthusiast
Alan Turing: The Father of Artificial Intelligence
Isaac Newton: Motion, Light, Calculus, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Age 25
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysicist, Communicator, Science Rock Star
Head over to Shutterstock to read Coleman’s descriptions of the thinking behind each piece.
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Who is another scientist or thinker who deserves to be preserved in stained glass style?
Real scientist, real scientist, real scientist, real scientist… black science man.
Keep adding scientists and you’ll have a heck of a coffee table book. I love the pics, but agree there are so many missing from the flock.
Humboldt
Darwin, bill bye, and stephen hawking???
Feynman!
MICHAEL SERVETUS, brutally murdered – the slow agonizing death that religion does so well – by mad mass murderer JOHN CALVIN, the Butcher of Geneva.
BILL NYE WHERE ARE YOU!?
Marie Currie
Madame Curie!
CHARLES DARWIN
Louis Pasteur.
Where’s Carl Sagan? Einstien?! STARK?! Come on, people.
Where is Sagan???? What dork chose Tyson over Carl Sagan?!
I really like Tyson, but I have to second this. WHERE IS SAGAN!!!
At the end, they asked for more nominations. Nominate,