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Born February 8, 1727 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 7, 1817 (aged 90) • Windsor • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1791)
Subjects Of Study density • water • mercury barometer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Roderick Impey Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
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William Morris Davis
American geographer
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist
Adam Sedgwick, engraving, 1875
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist
Charles-François Sturm
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
William Buckland
William Buckland
British geologist
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Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
Forecasting D-Day
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
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Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist

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