Born Glasgow. Geologist.
In 1851 first Chair of Geology at the School of Mines (later Imperial College). Specialised in the geology of Arran and Wales.
Died at home in Anglesey.
Sir William Ramsay, the chemist, was his nephew.
Born Glasgow. Geologist.
In 1851 first Chair of Geology at the School of Mines (later Imperial College). Specialised in the geology of Arran and Wales.
Died at home in Anglesey.
Sir William Ramsay, the chemist, was his nephew.
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Sir Andrew Ramsay
From the picture source website: "... conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields .... the new Society was born on 10 March ...
Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas day, according to the calendar in use at the time. Died in Kensington (where he had gone in search of country air). The exact dates of birth and dea...
Epidemiologist, a founder of medical statistics. Born Kenley, Shropshire.
Physiologist. Born Archibald Vivian Hill in Bristol. One of the founders of the disciplines of biophysics and operations research he shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his el...
Physicist. Born Kensington, Served in the navy in WW1. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. Government and military advisor in WW2. Created a life peer in 1969 as Baron Blackett of Chelsea....
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