Named for Carl Linnaeus.
Other Subjects
Imperial Institute
Established in 1887 to promote research that would benefit the British Empire. From 1893 it was housed in a building in Exhibition Road, designed by T. E. Collcutt. This was demolished in the 1950s...
2 memorials
Charles 3rd Earl Stanhope
Politician and scientist. Born in London and educated at Eton and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. A brief browse on the web brought up Stanhope's name in association with inventions in the f...
1 memorial
William Farr
Epidemiologist, a founder of medical statistics. Born Kenley, Shropshire.
1 memorial
Galileo Galilei
Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Born Pisa, Italy. His improvements to the telescope enabled him to make new important astronomical observations which supported Copernicus’s...
2 memorials