The 11 Most Important Cats Of Science

I can haz scienz?

[Special thanks to materials scientist Joe Spalenka for letting us use his photoshopped image of Watson And Crick Plus Chloe The Cat.]

CC the first cloned cat
Larry Wadsworth/Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Edwin Hubble holds his cat, Nicolas Copernicus
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
cat crawling through a computer hard drive
Suzi Duke via Flickr CC By SA 2.0
cats hide behind window blinds
Romana Klee via Flickr CC By SA 2.0
cat with prosthetic legs
Irish Times
cat glows green in the dark
Mayo Clinic
mrs chippy cat sits on owner's shoulders
cat floats upside down in microgravity
Photoshopped by Reddit user tone_is_everything
old video footage of cats wearing boxing gloves, fighting
Library Of Congress
felicette the cat
cat sits on electrical wire
Melissa Wang via Flickr CC By SA 2.0
maru the cat sits in a box
Evan P. Cordes via Flickr CC By 2.0
 
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