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Born July 11, 1811 • Swansea • Wales
Died August 1, 1896 (aged 85) • London • England
Notable Works “On the Correlation of Physical Forces”
Subjects Of Study conservation of energy • decomposition reaction • dissociation
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
English lawyer and horologist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
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Cherie Booth
British attorney
Henry Peter Brougham, detail of an oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
British politician
Alexander Cockburn, detail of an oil painting by A.D. Cooper; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 10th Baronet
British chief justice
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Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
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Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart
lord chief justice of England
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Denis Papin
Denis Papin
British physicist
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Charles Russell, detail of an oil painting from the studio of John Singer Sargent; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Russell, Baron Russell
British jurist
John Mortimer, c. 1971.
Sir John Mortimer
British writer and lawyer
Joule, James Prescott
James Prescott Joule
English physicist
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
British physicist
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Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham
British lawyer and politician

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