Planets in My Head, Physics
Literature. Names of Physicists and Astronomers on Shonibare's Celestial Globe Head: Nicolaus Copernicus, Democritus Donald, Edwards Marcelo, Danny de Sousa, Samos Al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham, Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, Enrique Lodel Palumbo, Ghulam Murtaza, Leo Esaki, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles Edouard Guillaume, Archimedes of Syracuse, Brahmagupta, Abdul Hameed Nayyar, Dignaga, Zhang Heng, Hafeez-ur-Rehman Hoorani, Lev Gorkov, Leucippus, Yuval Ne'eman, Richard Gans, Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholz, Hideki Yukawa, Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Slu Shen, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Al-Kindi (Abu Yusef Yaqoub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi), Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley, Pakudha Katyayana, Hugh Le Caine, William Henry Eccles, Su Song, Nikola Tesla, Hans Bethe, Keith Alexander Nugent, John McNeil Hunter, Gan De, Hipparchos, Ashok Das, Rutherford Adkins, Mohammed Masud Ahmad, Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, Isaac Newton, Al-Biruni (Abu Rayhan Muhammed ibn Ahmad Biruni), Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, Stephen William Hawking, G.O.S. Ekhaguere, Galileo Galilei, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Al-Farabi, Al-Tusi, Sir Roger Penrose, Xu Guangqi, Yoichiro Nambu, Sundance Osland Bilson-Thompson, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes, Thomas Young, Sima Qian, Toshihide Maskawa, Satyendra Nath Bose, Ibn Taymiyah, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger, Terence James Elkins, Shen Kuo, Werner Israel, Leonhard Euler, Pierre-Simon, Marquise de Laplace, Ibn Rushd, Yoshio Nishima, Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Sina, Blaise Pascal, Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran, Halson V. Eagleson, Miguel Alcubierre Moya, Dharma Kiru, Behram Kursunoglu, and Sekazi Mungwa
Purchase: acquired through the generosity of G. Kenneth Baum in honor of Ann Baum on the occasion of her birthday
Image: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/ Shanghai / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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