Person    | Male  Born 24/5/1544  Died 30/11/1603

William Gilbert

Categories: Science

Physician, physicist and natural philosopher.  Born Colchester.  Regarded by some as the father of electrical engineering or electricity and magnetism.  Died in London, probably of the bubonic plaque.

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William Gilbert

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