Mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC.
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Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
Chemist. One of chief pioneers of physical organic chemistry. Born 142 Windsor Road, Forest Gate. Brought up on the Isle of Wight. Working in the Chemistry department, University College London, du...
William Gilbert
Physician, physicist and natural philosopher. Born Colchester. Regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism. Died in London, probably of the bubonic pla...
John Logie Baird
Born in "The Lodge" in Helensburgh, near Glasgow. Inventor of mechanical television. Picture of him demonstrating a prototype at Selfridges, 1925. Died in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.
Royal Socity of Chemistry
Formed as a merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry. It carries out research, publishes journals, books and da...
Henry Cavendish
Chemist. Born in Nice, France, to a British aristocratic family. Became a member of the Royal Society and discovered hydrogen. Following his father's death in 1783 he bought a house on Clapham Comm...
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