Born Portsmouth. Geologist. Educated and taught at the Royal School of Mines.
Died at 30 Cumberland Road, Kew.
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John Wesley Judd
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John Logie Baird
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Â Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. An illness meant he was always cold so in photos...
Linnean Society
Named for Carl Linnaeus. 2025: Londonist visited the library and came back with some lovely photos.
Nicholas Culpeper
Physician, botanist, herbalist, astrologer and writer. Probably born at Ockley, Surrey. In about 1635 left Cambridge and came to London. This was prompted by the death of his intended. On her way t...
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel...
Sir Francis Beaufort
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