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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons: Quick Facts

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Born June 13, 1854 • London • England
Died February 11, 1931 (aged 76) • Kingston • Jamaica
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1928)
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George Stephenson
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Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
William Hyde Wollaston
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British scientist
John Herschel
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Howard Walter Florey
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Australian pathologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
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J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
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Herbert Thacker Herr
American engineer
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Joseph Bramah
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
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Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval
Swedish scientist and engineer