Born Portsmouth. Geologist. Educated and taught at the Royal School of Mines.
Died at 30 Cumberland Road, Kew.
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John Wesley Judd
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Antoine Lavoisier
Born in Paris to a family of nobility. Considered "the father of modern chemistry", by the French anyway, who no doubt would also claim that he discovered oxygen, when we all know that was Priestl...
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Prominent botanist and mycologist (fungi). Leader of the first women's army corps. Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE During WW1 she served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and...
Roger Bacon
Philosopher and Franciscan friar. Born Somerset. An early proponent of the modern scientific method. He studied at Oxford where there is a statue.
Sir William Reid
A member of the Executive Committee for the Great Exhibition 1851.Born Kinglassie, Fifeshire. Soldier, Fellow of the Royal Society (of Science) and Governor of Bermuda, Barbados & Malta.
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Science, Caribbean Islands, Malta, Scotland
Dmitri Mendeleev
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
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