British Science Association

…the 1874 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, when he claimed that cosmological theory belonged to science rather than theology and that matter had the power within itself to produce life. In the ensuing notoriety over this “Belfast Address,” Tyndall’s allusions to the limitations of science…

…process in 1856 before the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, brought many ironmasters to his door, and many licenses were granted. Very soon, however, it became clear that two elements harmful to iron, phosphorus and sulfur, were not removed by the process—or at least not…

…Anning collected annuities from the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of London, which were set up in recognition of her contributions to science. After she died of breast cancer in 1847, the president of the Geological Society eulogized her in his annual address, even…

…of Electrical Standards of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. There Jenkin helped compile and publish reports that established the ohm as the absolute unit of electrical resistance and described methods for precise resistance measurements. He was also professor of engineering at University College London and the University…

…section F of the new British Association for the Advancement of Science. The intellectual ties to natural science were uncertain at first, but there were some influential champions of statistics as a mathematical science. The most effective was the Belgian mathematician Adolphe Quetelet, who argued untiringly that mathematical probability was…