Early 1900s photo album captures the evolution of one loving family

While Paneth built an academic career and became a respected authority on subjects from hydrides and meteorites to the philosophy of chemistry, he continued to travel around Europe with his family, visiting Scotland, Italy, Austria, France and other locales.

In each of these places, he created carefully observed, romantic photographs of his wife, children and their surroundings.

With the rise of Nazism in Germany, Paneth chose not to return from a 1933 lecture tour in England. Instead he became a British citizen. He finally returned to Germany in 1953 to direct the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry until his death in 1958.

Twenty years later, his daughter Eva donated 2,000 of his photographs to the Royal Photographic Society, including many pictures of their travels as a family.