Circa 1345, Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet, educated at Bologna, traveled in France, Flanders and Rheinland, crowned Poet Laureate in Rome 1341,...
Italian poet Francesco Petrarch, , who was educated at Bologna, traveled in France, Flanders and Rheinland, and was crowned Poet Laureate in Rome in...
Marie Sklodowska Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1904. Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904, together with her husband...
John Dryden, 17th century English poet. Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668. After a portrait by Thomas Hudson . . Artist Unknown.
Circa 1680, John Dryden , English poet, playwright and literary critic of the Restoration, and the first poet to hold the official title of Poet...
The Italian poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch , one of the earliest and greatest of the modern lyric poets, crowned poet laureate in 1341. Pictured...
William Wordsworth English poet, made Poet Laureate in 1843. Original Artwork: Engraved from the painting by R Carruthers, published 1819.
Poet Laureate, Lord Alfred Tennyson . Original Artist - George Frederick Watts. Engraving - J Stephenson
English poet and dramatist Nicholas Lowe, , appointed poet laureate in 1715, circa 1715. Original Artwork: Engraving by R Cooper after original by...
Davenant', , 1830. Sir William Davenant English poet and playwright active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum....
Dryden', , 1830. John Dryden English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, dominated...
Circa 1450, Pope Pius II . Pope from 1458. Originally Enea Sylvio Piccolomini. Served as a church diplomat to the German States 1442-47, poet...
Robert Southey . English author and poet. He was poet laureate in 1813, and was known as one of the Lake school poets. Engraving by H B Hall & Sons.
Robert Southey . English author and poet. He was poet laureate in 1813, and was known as one of the Lake school poets. Engraving by W H Egleton After...
Henry James Pye . English poet. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, became M.P. 1784, succeeded Thomas Wharton as poet laureate 1790, a London...
'Fridtjof Nansen 1861-1930', 1934. Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. From Die...
Circa 1600, An engraving with an ornate border surrounding a sixteenth century poet laureate Andreas Mergiletus.
John Dryden, 17th century English poet, literary critic and playwright, . Taken from the book Old England's Worthies. .
Alfred Lord Tennyson , English poet, 1884. Tennyson was one of England's most popular poets and its Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death. From a...
John Dryden, 17th century English dramatist and Poet Laureate, . Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Poet Laureate, 1900. A print from The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, Volume IV, Cassell and...
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, . Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death. An...
John Dryden, 17th century English poet. Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668. After a portrait by Godfrey Kneller .
John Dryden, 17th century English poet. Dryden became Poet Laureate in 1668. After a portrait by Thomas Hudson .
Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. In 1895, while professor of physics at Wurzburg, (Rontgen discovered X-rays, originally called...
Marie Sklodowska Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1904. Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904, together with her husband...
Jacobus Henricus Van't Hoff, Dutch chemist, 1902. In 1901 Van't Hoff became the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarded for his...
Emil von Behring, German immunologist and bacteriologist, 1902. In 1901 von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for...
Mr Punch thanking Marconi for wireless telegraphy which was saving lives at sea, 1913. Marconi discovered a way in which waves could be used to send...
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy, 1906. Marconi discovered a way in which waves could be used to...
French chemist Pierre Curie , circa 1905. Curie was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903, jointly with his wife, Marie, and Henri Becquerel,...
Alfred Austin , British poet, 1883. Cartoon from the Fancy Portraits series in Punch, London, 3 March 1883, when Austin became editor of National...
Robert Koch (1843-1910, German bacteriologist and physician in his laboratory. In 1890 Koch introduced Tuberculin which he thought a cure for...
Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss philanthropist, 1902. Dunant inspired the foundation of the International Red Cross after the Battle of Solferino and...
Rene Francois Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet, 1902. Sully Prudhomme was awarded the first Nobel prize for Literature in 1901.
Frederic Passy, French economist and writer, 1902. Passy shared the first Nobel Peace prize with Henri Dunant in 1901.
Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, birthplace of John Dryden , c1846. Dryden English poet and playwright, was born in the rectory at Aldwinkle All Saints...
The Italian poet and scholar Francesco Petrarch, , circa 1341, one of the earliest and greatest of the modern lyric poets who was crowned poet...
'Göthe', 19th century. Engraving after a painting by Ludwig von Schwanthaler of a statue designed by him of German writer, poet, dramatist and...
Alfred Tennyson . The most celebrated poet of the Victorian age whose early poems include 'The Lotus-Eaters' and 'The Lady of Shalott'. He later...
Alfred Tennyson . The most celebrated poet of the Victorian age whose early poems include 'The Lotus-Eaters' and 'The Lady of Shalott'. He later...
Alfred Tennyson . The most celebrated poet of the Victorian age whose early poems include 'The Lotus-Eaters' and 'The Lady of Shalott'. He later...
