Born Bradford. Physicist. Professor at King's College London. Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924.
Died Edinburgh.
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Sir Edward Appleton
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Edward Appleton
Professor Sir Edward Victor Appleton King's College London Nobel Laureate I...
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Sir Humphry Davy
Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
1 memorial
Antoine Lavoisier
Born in Paris to a family of nobility. Â Considered "the father of modern chemistry", by the French anyway, who no doubt would also claim that he discovered oxygen, when we all know that was Priestl...
1 memorial
Sir William Crookes
Chemist, physicist and science journalist. Born 143 Regent Street, presumably in a residential apartment above his father's gentlemen's outfitters shop in the Nash-designed terraces. Worked on spec...
1 memorial
Richard Sheepshanks
Astronomer. Trained as a barrister and also as a Church of England minister. But he inherited enough wealth that he instead was a practicing astronomer at Trinity College Cambridge. Publicly critic...
1 memorial
Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC.
2 memorials
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