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Born June 16, 1806 • England
Died January 26, 1885 (aged 78) • Australia
Notable Works “Experimental Guide to Chemistry”
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Portrait of Alexander Graham Bell with white hair and beard, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking directly at the camera.
Alexander Graham Bell
British-American inventor
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
German-born English engineer and inventor
British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 2014, wearing a light blue shirt and dark jacket, shown from the shoulders up against a blurred background.
Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist

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