The 11 Most Important Cats Of Science

I can haz scienz?

Published Nov 28, 2014 9:12 PM EST

[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