architect Mies Van Der Rohe
photo by Slim Aarons, Chicago 1960

J. Robert Oppenheimer by Philippe Halsman, 1958

Victor Borge in Copenhagen, 1990
photo by Jesper Jurcenoks

Peter O’Toole
photo by Bob Willoughby, 1962

(thanks to once time is lost for the photo information)

inventor Hugo Gernsback demonstrates his TV Glasses
photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1963

John Malkovich by Sandro Miller

In a stunning turn of events (and with the full support of the United States Postal Service) Anthony Hopkins reveals he is, in fact, Santa Claus.

photo by Armando Gallo

a handsome gentleman at the London Tweed Run
photo by Style Salvage Steve

Edward Gorey
from The Photographed Cat (Doubleday, 1980)

UPPER PHOTO: Mary Quant, creator of the mini skirt, has her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon, inventor of the Five Point Cut (c. 1960s, Getty Images Entertainment)
LOWER PHOTO: Vidal Sassoon and Mary Quant reminisce (Vidal Sasson: The Movie, 2010)

Anthony Hopkins by Armando Gallo
at a press conference for The Rite, 2011 

a Teddy Boy, 2004
photo by Ben Watts 

Philip Johnson
photo by Josef Astor

In 1956, John Bardeen, William B. Shockley and Walter Brattain shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor.