{"id":420,"date":"2012-10-10T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/bacteriogoraphs-of-famous-scientists-in-petri-dishes\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T17:22:00","slug":"bacteriogoraphs-of-famous-scientists-in-petri-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/bacteriogoraphs-of-famous-scientists-in-petri-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacteriogoraphs of famous scientists in petri dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Wwjeztpe_GA\/bacteriogoraphs-of-famous-scie.html\">Bacteriogoraphs of famous scientists in petri dishes<\/a>: <br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NewImage\" border=\"0\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/NewImage61-300x300.png?resize=600%2C600\" title=\"NewImage.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n<p>Zachary Copfer is a microbiologist and artist who creates portraits of his favorite scientists from living bacterial emulsions in petri dishes. I find what he wrote here to be inspiring:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was an undergraduate perusing a degree in Biology, I found myself utterly mesmerized by what I was learning. Each day\u2019s lecture brought to my attention new insights into the complex systems at work in the world around me. The more I learned, the more mystified I became. Science grew into a way for me to revel in the beauty of the universe. I began to better understand and appreciate my place among all of the other particles floating in space. After obtaining my bachelors degree, I began working as a microbiologist in a commercial lab setting. Quickly I began to lose sight of all that I had found romantic about science. Shortly after this disinfatuation of science, I began an adventure into the field of photography. Photography developed into my new method of inquiry. Everything that I had missed about science I rediscovered in photography. For me, the two seemingly disparate fields of study served the same purpose, a way to explore my connection to everything else around me. As a former microbiologist recently turned visual artist, I seek to create work that is less of an intersection of art and science and more of a genuine fusion of the two.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sciencetothepowerofart.com\/2012\/06\/03\/bacteria-portraits-bacteriogoraphy\/\">Bacteria Portraits, Bacteriogoraphy<\/a>&#8221; <em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.smithsonianmag.com\/artscience\/2012\/10\/painting-portraits-with-bacteria\/\">Smithsonian<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>Previously: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002\/06\/23\/photosensitive-bacte.html\">Photosensitive bacteria art<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=4780481d7bbc52d40bc6e908aab6b7d2&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=4780481d7bbc52d40bc6e908aab6b7d2&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\" width=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/Wwjeztpe_GA\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacteriogoraphs of famous scientists in petri dishes: Zachary Copfer is a microbiologist and artist who creates portraits of his favorite scientists from living bacterial emulsions in petri dishes. I find what he wrote here to be inspiring: When I was an undergraduate perusing a degree in Biology, I found myself utterly mesmerized by what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-6M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}