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Born June 19, 1851 • York • England
Died June 12, 1916 (aged 64) • London • England
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
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John Hopkinson
British physicist
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Francis Robbins Upton
American mathematician and physicist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
The discoverer of the principle of the aplanatic focus
Joseph Jackson Lister
British opticist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
British physicist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
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Oliver Heaviside
British physicist
Powell, Cecil Frank
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist

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