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Prof. Sir Ernst Chain
Born Ernst Boris Chain in Germany. Biochemist. Moved to England in 1933. 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on penicillin. Founder of Imperial College's Bioche...
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. A prominent intellectual and cultural figure. Born Pennsylvania.Â
Person, History, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Science, USA
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Captain Alexander Ross Clarke
Surveyor. Â Born Reading. Served in Canada and on his return worked on the ordnance survey in Southampton. Â Died Reigate. Â the picture source has a bio.
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Sydney Monckton Copeman
Medical Scientist. Born as Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman in the cathedral close, Norwich. He was a medical inspector in the Local Government Board (forerunner to the Ministry of Health), where Sir...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer. Â Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
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Francis Crick
Molecular biologist. Born Francis Harry Compton Crick at Holmgarth, Holmfield Way, Weston Favell, near Northampton. He met James Watson at Cambridge in the early 1950s where they worked on the stru...
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Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
Electrical engineer.  born Yorkshire.  Aged 11,  enrolled as a naval cadet and arrived in the Crimea just as the war ended.  He retired from the army to develop his engineering business interests. ...
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