Born Manchester.
Electrical engineer. Invented and patented the three-wire distribution system (if you've ever wired in a plug you will know what this means).
Died, with three of his children, in a mountaineering accident in Switzerland.
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John Hopkinson
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Johannes Kepler
Mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Â Best known for his laws of planetary motion.Â
1 memorial
John Dolland
Optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. The business, founded in 1750, became Dollond & Aitchison in 1927, and was su...
1 memorial
William Herschel
Frederick William Herschel was a German-British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born Hanover. Originally a musi...
1 memorial
Justus von Liebig
Born Germany.  Considered the founder of organic chemistry and "father of the fertilizer industry".  He also was behind the company that trademarked the Oxo cube and made the invention of Marmite p...
1 memorial
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...
1 memorial
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