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Born August 5, 1855 • London • England
Died December 24, 1927 (aged 72) • England
Inventions anemometer • meteorograph
John Frederic Daniell, undated engraving
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Frederick Augustus Abel, engraving.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel
British chemist
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Sir Napier Shaw
British meteorologist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer and astrophysicist
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Henry Augustus Rowland
American physicist
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
James Dyson
James Dyson
British inventor and industrial designer
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
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
Forecasting D-Day
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
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Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
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
Swan, Joseph
Joseph Swan
English physicist and chemist

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