EARLY BIRD chapters in the history of palaeontology

…being a scientist at the beginning of the 20th century. The beard, the glasses, the baldness… and note a similarity in clothing style that appears to transcend the fashion of the age.

Although hard to believe, these three were all Dutch scientists working more or less contemporaneously in the Netherlands around 1900. These are: physicist Hendrik Lorentz, historian Petrus Blok, and physicist Johannes van der Waals.

Lorentz and Van der Waals were both Nobel laureates (both in physics, 1902 and 1910 respectively), and Blok wrote possibly the most influential work in Dutch History of the early 20th century, The History of the Dutch Peoples (1892-1907). Maybe I ought to whiten my facial fuzz as well…