Astronomer. born Haggerston, London. Correctly predicted the return of a comet in 1758 but died before the date. Invented the diving bell. Died Greenwich.
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Dr Edmond Halley
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Sir Isaac Newton's house- detailed
plaque inside building at top of stairway directly facing entrance
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Sir William Ramsay
Born at 2 Queen's Crescent, Glasgow. he studied in Tübingen and Glasgow. Following the discovery of helium, it occurred to him that there was room in the periodic table for a new eighth group of el...
1 memorial
Herbert Rees Wilson, FRSE
Physicist. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Stokes and Wilkins. Our picture shows, Left to right: Gosling, Wilson, Wilkins, Stokes. In...
2 memorials
Daniel Solander
Swedish botanist. Came to London in June 1760 to promote Carl Linnaeus’ taxonomy and used it to catalogue the natural history collections at the British Museum. Travelled with Joseph Banks on Capta...
1 memorial
Alan Blumlein
Electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereophonic sound, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered one of the most si...
1 memorial
Sir Julian Huxley
Zoologist and philosopher. Born 61 Russell Square. Son of Leonard Huxley and grandson of zoologist Thomas Huxley. Brother of novelist Aldous Huxley. Researched in support of Darwin's theory of e...
2 memorials
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Black Prince Road ceramics - plaque 08
SE11, Black Prince Road, Tunnel underneath railway bridge
These lovely ceramics plaques were installed some time in or before 2008. There are 12 oval ceramics of which 7 nos 1-7) are mosaic and r...
1 subject commemorated
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