Royal apothecary
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Allen
Commemorated ati
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George Hornidge Porter, Lord Porter of Luddenham
Born Yorkshire. 1967 Nobel Laureate for his work on photosynthesis relating to the potential use of hydrogen to supply energy.
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
William Glanville
Engineering research. FRS.  Born 75 Kempe Road, Willesden.  Carried out research on concrete at first the Building Research Station and then the Road Research Laboratory.  During WW2 he was scienti...
William Gilbert
Physician, physicist and natural philosopher.   Born Colchester. Regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism. Died in London, probably of the bubonic pla...
Sir Richard Arkwright
Industrialist and inventor. From Preston. Set up a factory with a newly designed method of cotton-spinning. He worked his employees, including children, very hard and became very rich.
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