Professor of natural philosophy to the Royal Institution.
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Thomas Young
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St George's Hospital - 2
St George’s Hospital was established on this site in 1733 in a country home b...
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John Newlands
Chemist. Born John Alexander Reina at 19 West Square, Southwark. The first person to devise a periodic table of chemical elements arranged in order of their relative atomic masses. He arranged all ...
1 memorial
Lord Kelvin
Mathematical physicist and engineer. Born Belfast. His family moved to Glasgow when he was aged 11. Worked in thermodynamics and on the transatlantic cable. 1st Baron Kelvin. Died Largs Ayrshire.
5 memorials
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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.
1 memorial
John Wesley Judd
Born Portsmouth. Geologist. Educated and taught at the Royal School of Mines. Died at 30 Cumberland Road, Kew.
1 memorial
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