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 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole." Became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.
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Astronomical Society
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William Wollaston - lost plaque
We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...
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1 memorial
Thomas Earnshaw
Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business...
1 memorial
Archimedes
Mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC.
2 memorials
Francis Crick
Molecular biologist. Born Francis Harry Compton Crick at Holmgarth, Holmfield Way, Weston Favell, near Northampton. He met James Watson at Cambridge in the early 1950s where they worked on the stru...
1 memorial
John Wesley Judd
Born Portsmouth. Geologist. Educated and taught at the Royal School of Mines. Died at 30 Cumberland Road, Kew.
1 memorial