Scientists who make art or Artists who study science?

While looking for intersections between the scientific community and the art world, I discovered that there are a plethora of people who have had success in both fields. US avant-garde composer George Antheil worked with Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamar on an early technique to spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day. Hedy was a famous actress known for many movie roles in the 1930s and 1940s. John James Audubon was an American ornithologist who studied and documented all types of American birds for his book, The Birds of America. He illustrated his ornithological works with lively and beautifully composed paintings which identified 25 new species.

Samuel Morse who invented Morse code was an avid painter and was known for his portraits before his inventions. Helen Beatrix Potter, known as the writer and illustrator of The Tale of Peer Rabbit, a classic children’s story was also a natural scientist and conservationist. She created mycological illustrations of the reproduction of fungi spores. Albert Einstein played the violin and the piano. There are many people who have been able to meld their love of science and art together and have the best of both worlds!