John Napier
Mathematician. Born Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, his family home. 7th Laird of Merchiston (though Wikipedia says 8th). Inventor of logarithms, so beloved of school children everywhere. Died Edinbu...
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National Physical Laboratory
The NPL's history page concentrates on their work (e.g. they weighed Concorde, no mean feat) rather than their buildings. Â NPL began its life housed in the former royal residence, Bushy House, in B...
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Nature
Scientific Journal published by Macmillan's. Created by Norman Lockyer to 'provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge' The journal's name...
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Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
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John Newlands
Chemist. Born John Alexander Reina at 19 West Square, Southwark. The first person to devise a periodic table of chemical elements arranged in order of their relative atomic masses. He arranged all ...
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Sir Isaac Newton
Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas day, according to the calendar in use at the time. Â Died in Kensington (where he had gone in search of country air). The exact dates of birth and dea...
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Chambers Nicholson
Chemist and dye manufacturer. We found this man in Grace's Guide: Born in Lincoln as Edward Chambers Nicholson. 1845 became one of the first students at the Royal College of Chemistry. 1853 he form...
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Alfred Nobel
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Â Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. Â An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
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Dr Alphonse Normandy
Full name: Dr Alphonse Rene Le Mire de Normandy. Born Rouen, France. He completed a medical course but then devoted himself to chemistry. Came to England in the late 1830s/early 1840s, initially li...
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