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Born January 25, 1774 • London • England
Died May 13, 1852 (aged 78) • London • England
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
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Peter Dollond
British optician
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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H.L. Callendar
British scientist
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
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Jesse Ramsden
British toolmaker
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Edmund Cartwright, engraving by James Thomson
Edmund Cartwright
British inventor
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John Dollond
British optician
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Sir Charles Vernon Boys
British physicist and inventor
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer

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