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Born 1724 • Nottinghamshire • England
Died April 21, 1793 (aged 69) • England
Subjects Of Study earthquake
Richter, Charles F.
Charles F. Richter
American physicist
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Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
Dutton, Clarence Edward
Clarence Edward Dutton
American geologist
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John Milne
British scientist
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Richard Dixon Oldham
British geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
James Bradley
James Bradley
English astronomer
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Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
British-German astronomer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist

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