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Are you curious about the people who have named all the different rooms in the library? Learn more about the people who inspired us.

Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Louise Hammarström
Louise Hammarström
Sonja Kovalevsky
Sonja Kovalevsky
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Hilda Lindstedt
Hilda Lindstedt
Leopold de Medici
Leopold de Medici
Sven Rinman
Sven Rinman
Vitruvius
Vitruvius
Al-ʻIjliyyah
Al-ʻIjliyyah
Eva Ekeblad
Eva Ekeblad
Urban Hjärne
Urban Hjärne
Erik Lallerstedt
Erik Lallerstedt
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Katsuko Saruhashi
Katsuko Saruhashi
Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani
Hypatia
Hypatia
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Maryam Mirzakhani 
Maryam Mirzakhani
S. R. Ranganathan
S. R. Ranganathan
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Louis Braille
Louis Braille
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Léonie Geisendorf
Léonie Geisendorf
al-Khwarizmi
al-Khwarizmi
Antoine Lavoiser
Antoine Lavoiser
Picture of Anna Sundström from the The Royal Swedish Academy of Science's portrait collection (KVA no. 4311), Center for the History of Science. The portrait is a watercolor on paper signed M. E. Winge 1872.
Anna Sundström
Santorio Santorio
Santorio Santorio
James Watt
James Watt