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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Sir Francis Ronalds
Inventor and meteorologist. Probably born in London. He successfully sent messages through an eight mile long primitive electric telegraph by looping wire enclosed in glass tubes all around his bac...
Alexander Parkes
Born Birmingham. Initially worked on improved methods of electroplating. 1856 patented Parkesine, a celluloid recognised as the first man-made plastic (chewing gum, shellac and natural rubber are a...
Sir Roderick Murchison
Born Tarradale, Ross and Cromarty. Had a successful army career and was set to dedicate the rest of his life to fox-hunting, before, with his wife's encouragement, turning to science. Geologist. Wo...
Herbert Rees Wilson, FRSE
Physicist. Â 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...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist, artist, etc. - a polymath, the first "renaissance man". Born in Vinci, Italy (No? Really?). Died in France.
Frank Edward Flack
A parishioner or member of the congregation of St Matthias, N16, who died in WW1.
Tunnel Trench - play
A war play by Hubert Griffith, set in WW1. Shown as a ITV Play of the Week in 1963. This play opened The Duchess Theartre in 1929.
Fusilier W. G. Heron
Killed while serving with the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in the Korean War, July 1952 to August 1953.
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