Born Yorkshire. 1967 Nobel Laureate for his work on photosynthesis relating to the potential use of hydrogen to supply energy.
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George Hornidge Porter, Lord Porter of Luddenham
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Lord Porter
Professor The Lord Porter of Luddenham OM PRS (1920 - 2002). 1985 - 2002 Chai...
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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics, "the father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday". Awarded the Nobel...
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Yefimovich Nemtsov was a Russian physicist, liberal politician, and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Early in his political career, he was involved in the introduction of reforms into the ...
John Hopkinson
Born Manchester. Electrical engineer. Invented and patented the three-wire distribution system (if you've ever wired in a plug you will know what this means). Died, with three of his children, in...
Dmitri Mendeleev
Born Siberia. Earlier versions existed but in 1869 he published the first widely recognized periodic table of elements.
Sir Alexander Fleming
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
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