New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
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Ernest Rutherford
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Virtues - Curiosity
Lord Rutherford wears a coronet - he had been raised to the peerage in 1931. ...
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Benjamin Franklin
Natural philosopher, writer, revolutionary politician and inventor. Born Boston, Massachusetts. Crossed the Atlantic 8 times, living for many years apart from his wife and children. A keen swimmer...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, Seriously Famous, USA
2 memorials
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an astronomer who held some controversial views. He coined the term"Big Bang", even though he rejected the theory, preferring the "steady-state model". He also believed that...
1 memorial
Sir William Siemens
Born Germany. Electrical engineer, inventor and businessman. Came to England in 1843 with an electro-plating invention. Became naturalised British subject in 1859. Also worked with the regenerativ...
1 memorial
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
1 memorial
Hipparchus
Astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. 190 BC – c. 120 BC. Founder of trigonometry. Possibly invented the armillary sphere, which we've discovered is occasionally used as a memorial, e.g. ...
1 memorial
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