File:Peter Tait.jpg

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Description Peter Guthrie Tait (April 28, 1831 - July 4, 1901).
Date Unknown date, but 1901 or earlier.
Source Scanned from Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude (ISBN 0-87942-238-6), p. 190. It was scanned on an Epson Perfection 1250 at 400dpi, cleaned up (some text was showing through the back) in Photoshop, reduced to grayscale, and saved as JPG using the 'Save for Web' optimizer. Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia by en:User:Grendelkhan on 21:10, 27 July 2004.
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(Reusing this file)		 The photograph is courtesy of the AIP Niels Bohr Library in New York, but its age implies that it's public domain. (It must have been made in 1901 or earlier.)

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