The Penn State Alumni Association has produced trading cards featuring the best and the brightest of the university's faculty (Pa. trading cards highlight brains, not brawn). The cards are only available at University President Graham Spanier's tailgate parties on home football weekends. The biologists featured include entomologist Jim Tumlinson and molecular evolution pioneer Masatoshi Nei.
I haven't been able to find a complete list of all ten faculty members featured, and I don't think that individual images of the ten cards are available online. If anyone can track them down, post a link in the comments.
Update: Nina Fedoroff has a card as well.
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I'm just getting sick of the whole "atheism is a religion" crap that I seem to keep running into lately. Here's a little story for your entertainment.
Did you ever hear the expression, "You're a real card!" Well, if you are a notable woman in the physical sciences, you just might be a card!
War is a classic kids card game. I spent many an hour wiling away the time playing war growing up. Enough so that I actually developed a strategy for the game. A strategy for the game of war? That's crazy talk.
While looking for a birthday card for a relative a while back, I found this card and was intrigued enough to buy it, even though it wasn't appropriate for the person for whom I was seeking a card:
the bubble burst on cards in the early '90s. no investment return....
imho -- they missed the boat on dr.rao < http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Rao7-2008.htm > or .
i believe he is the last living grad student of R.A.Fisher.
Richard Alley - climate science
Alexander Wolszczan - astronomy
Mary Willard - chemistry
John Almquist - dairy science
Robert Bernreuter - psychology
Joseph Heller - writer
Victor Lowenfeld - art education
Erwin Mueller -physics
Hans Panofsky - meteorology
Fred Lewis Pattee -English
C.R. Rao - statistics
Alan Walker - chemistry
James Tumlinson - entomology
Catherine Ross -nutrition
William Pierce - medicine
Masatoshi Nei - biology
Russell Marker - chemistry
Nina Federoff -plant genetics
Moses Chan - physics
Stephen Benkovic - chemistry
Just want to note that A.F. Edwards (of Likelihood fame) and Cavalli-Sforza are also living students of Fisher.