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Nature 448, 649 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448649b; Published online 8 August 2007

Exhibition: Famous faces

EXHIBIT REVIEWEDFaces of Science

exhibition at the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC until 30 September.

This arresting portrait of Nobel prizewinner Harold Varmus is one of many images of scientific luminaries by Mariana Cook on public display in the Faces of Science exhibition at the US National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC until 30 September.Cook, who studied with the pioneering nature photographer Ansel Adams, hopes to "humanize" scientists through her work, to illuminate individual characters and explore possible commonalities.