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Baptized September 10, 1713 • England
Died June 8, 1772 • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1747)
Subjects Of Study magnet • compass
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British chemist and physicist
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John Canton
British physicist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
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
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John Hadley
British mathematician
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Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
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John Dollond
British optician
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish instrument maker and inventor
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
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
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
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Charles Chubb
British inventor
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Thomas Godfrey
British-American colonial artisan, inventor, and mathematician
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Richard Roberts
British inventor

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