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

Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Sonja Kovalevsky
Sonja Kovalevsky
James Watt
James Watt
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Urban Hjärne
Urban Hjärne
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Georgius Agricola
Georgius Agricola
Eva Ekeblad
Eva Ekeblad
Luigi Galvani
Luigi Galvani
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr
Sven Rinman
Sven Rinman
Louise Hammarström
Louise Hammarström
Santorio Santorio
Santorio Santorio
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Erik Lallerstedt
Erik Lallerstedt
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
Léonie Geisendorf
Léonie Geisendorf
Antoine Lavoiser
Antoine Lavoiser
Leopold de Medici
Leopold de Medici
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell