The National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, D.C. 1924
The National Academy of Sciences Building was the last building completed during its architect, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s lifetime. It is believed that Hartley Burr Alexander may have coached Lawrie on the themes of the sculpture, and which of the Greats of science that were to be the subjects of the building’s statuary and bronze panels.
Cobra on the cheneau, or crest of the building
The Seal of the National Academy of Sciences.
Library Fireplace, National Academy of Sciences, Wahshington, D.C..
Female Figure
Lawrie's Lockset with Owl Key
Doors featuring History's Greatest Scientists. https://trevorowens.org/2009/01/10/scientists-in-action-front-door-iconography-at-the-national-academy-of-sciences/
Detail: South Door Bison
Aristotle
Egyptian Figure.
Cheneau with Owl and Cobra
Angel with a lamp.
Humbolt, Dalton, Lamar, Watt, Franklin, and Huygeny
Descarte, Newton, Linneus, Lavorsier, Laplace, Culver and Gauss
Scientists from History. Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Copernicus, Vesalius Harvey