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, during the period 1930 - 1970, pioneered our understanding of the electronic basis of structure, mechanism and reactivity in organic chemistry, which is fundamental to modern-day chemistry.
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Professor Sir Christopher Ingold
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Sir Christopher Ingold
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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
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Sir Ronald A. Fisher
Statistician, geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Born in East Finchley. His family moved into Hill House in 1896 but in 1906 his father lost his fortune and the family moved to Streatham.In 1...
1 memorial
Marcellin Berthelot
Organic and physical chemist. Born and died in Paris. Very successful and well-known in his lifetime. Achieved high office in the Chemical Society of Paris and in the French Academy of Sciences.
1 memorial
Sir Frederick Hopkins
Biochemist. Born Frederick Gowland Hopkins at 16 Marine Parade, Eastbourne. He studied at Guy's Hospital, where he received the University of London gold medal. In 1897 he became the first lecturer...
2 memorials
Johannes Kepler
Mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Best known for his laws of planetary motion.
1 memorial
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Dr. L. M. Singhvi
High Commissioner for India in the UK, 1991-7: after V. K. Krishna Menon, he was the second-longest-serving. Described on the web as "a great planter of trees. In England he has been planting trees...
10 memorials
Leysian Mission
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
8 memorials
Rules Restaurant
London's oldest restaurant. Opened by Thomas Rule primarily as an oyster bar. It specialises in game and owns the Lartington Estate in the High Pennines. The restaurant stayed in the Rule family un...
1 memorial
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