Country in northwest Europe off the coast of France, comprising England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Government The UK is a multiparty
Place: United Kingdom, Scotland Subject : biography, physics Scottish physicist who discovered that light consists of electromagnetic waves and
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry Scottish chemist famous for his discovery of the noble gases (rare gases), for which
Place: United States of America, Germany Subject : biography, physics German-born US theoretical physicist who revolutionized our understanding of
Place : Italy Subject : biography, physics English natural philosopher whose main interests lay in the fields of chemistry and physics. His chief
( är'gŏn ) [Gr.,=inert], gaseous chemical element; symbol Ar; at. no. 18; at. wt. 39.948; m.p. -189.2degrees Celsius; b.p. -185.7degrees Celsius;
branch of science traditionally defined as the study of matter , energy , and the relation between them; it was called natural philosophy until the
reconstruction in print or on film, of the lives of real men and women. Together with autobiography—an individual's interpretation of his own life—it
the largest and most populous portion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2011 pop. 53,012,456), 50,334 sq mi (130,365 sq
English astronomer. He installed a transit telescope at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, and accurately measured Greenwich Mean Time by
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Stokes, George Gabriel (1819 - 1903)
Irish physicist who studied the viscosity (resistance to relative motion) of fluids. This culminated in Stokes' law , F = 6πη rv , which applies to a
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Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
Within a short time of its 1859 publication, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection evoked a wide variety of
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Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817 - 1911)
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, biology English botanist who made many important contributions to botanical taxonomy but who is
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Davy, Sir Humphry (1778 - 1829)
Place : United States of America Subject : biography, chemistry English chemist who is best known for his discovery of the elements sodium and
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Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856 - 1940)
1856–1940, English physicist. From 1884 to 1919 he was Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge. J. J. Thomson was one of the founders
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Pepys, Samuel (1633 - 1703)
( pēps ), 1633–1703, English public official, and celebrated diarist, b. London, grad. Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1653. In 1656 he entered the
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Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942
English physicist. He shared with his son Lawrence Bragg the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915 for their research work on X-rays and crystals.
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Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871
J. F. W. Herschel was born on 7 March 1792 at Observatory House in Slough, the only child of the musician and Royal Astronomer Sir William Herschel
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Pole, Cardinal Reginald (1500 - 1558)
1500–1558, English churchman, archbishop of Canterbury (1556–58), cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was a cousin of the Tudors, being the son
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Adams, John, 1735-1826
1735-1826 Second President of the United States After a distinguished career during the American Revolution, John Adams continued to serve his country
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Cromwell, earl of Essex Thomas (c. 1485 - Jul 28, 1540)
1485?–1540, English statesman. While a young man he lived abroad as a soldier, accountant, and merchant, and on his return (c.1512) to England he
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Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of, 1848-1930
( băl'fʊr ), 1848–1930, British statesman; nephew of the 3d marquess of Salisbury . He entered parliament as a Conservative in 1874 and served as
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Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, physics, maths and statistics English physicist and mathematician who is regarded as one of the
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Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723
Although his 1666 plan for London after the Great Fire is famous, Sir Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) place in history is first as a scientist, and
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Crookes, Sir William (1832 - 1919)
Place : France Subject : biography, physics English physicist and chemist who, in a scientific career lasting more than 50 years, made many
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Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, biology English naturalist who, although making relatively few direct contributions to scientific
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Klug, Aaron (1926 - )
Place : South Africa Subject : biography, biology South African molecular biologist who improved the quality of electron micrographs by using laser
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Wilson, James, 1742-1798
1742–98, American jurist, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. near St. Andrews, Scotland. He studied at the universities of Glasgow and
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Smuts, Jan Christian (1870 - 1950)
( yän krĭs'tyän smŭts ), 1870–1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony. Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he
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Monmouth, Duke of James (1649 - 85)
( mŏn'məth ), 1649–85, pretender to the English throne; illegitimate son of Charles II of England by Lucy Walter . After his mother's death, he was
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Rutherford, Baron Ernest (1871 - 1937)
Place : Sweden Subject : biography, physics New Zealand-born British physicist who first explained that radioactivity is produced by the
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Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, Earl, 1867-1947
1867–1947, British statesman; cousin of Rudyard Kipling . The son of a Worcestershire ironmaster, he was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College,
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Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782
British founder of modern military medicine. In 1742 he became physician to the Earl of Stair, then in command of the British Army in Flanders. In
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Cayley, Arthur (1821 - 1895)
Place: United Kingdom, England Subject : biography, maths and statistics English mathematician who was responsible for the formulation of the theory
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Rosse, William Parsons, Earl of, 1800-1867
Place: Ireland, Republic of Subject : biography, astronomy Irish politician, engineer, and astronomer, whose main interest was in rediscovering the