Baseball-style Cards for Scientists

The Simpsons made a joke about religious trading cards, particularly on John the Baptist's "stats". So it is long overdue that actual scientists finally get the same recognition that American athletes have enjoyed for ages. Scientist cards are available that are based on (purportedly) actual baseball cards. Here, for example, is the one for Niels Bohr. If you've ever eaten dinner with me, then you have probably heard me explain how much of a goddamn action hero Bohr was: he dissolved his Nobel prize medal to keep the Nazis from taking it and then flew out of Copenhagen by clinging to the landing gear of a plane bound for England.

Goddamn action hero. And now he finally gets a trading card. Of sorts. Cool.

Hell, if Bohr isn't your cup of tea, try another. They're all there: Snell, Newton, Edison, Bill Nye, Stephen Hawking, Claude Shannon. The folks who made these cards definitely did their homework.

(The "Niels Bohr dissolved his Nobel prize medal in acid" story may be apocryphal: multiple sites online attribute a similar story to the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy.)