Mathematician and astronomer. Born Cornwall and died Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. He also explained the origin of meteor showers.
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John Couch Adams
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Imperial Institute
Established in 1887 to promote research that would benefit the British Empire. From 1893 it was housed in a building in Exhibition Road, designed by T. E. Collcutt. This was demolished in the 1950s...
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John Desmond Bernal, MA, FRS.
Crystallographer. John Desmond Bernal was born on 10 May 1901 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, the eldest of the five children of Samuel George Bernal (1864-1919) and Elizabeth Bernal née Mil...
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Alexander Parkes
Born Birmingham. Initially worked on improved methods of electroplating. 1856 patented Parkesine, a celluloid recognised as the first man-made plastic (chewing gum, shellac and natural rubber are a...
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
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