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Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet: Quick Facts

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Born January 17, 1761 • Scotland
Died June 23, 1832 (aged 71) • Edinburgh • Scotland
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John Joly
Irish geologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
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Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Swiss physicist
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William Penney
British scientist
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William Maclure
American geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
James Hutton
James Hutton
Scottish geologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist

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