Born Ernst Boris Chain in Germany. Biochemist. Moved to England in 1933. 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for work on penicillin. Founder of Imperial College's Biochemistry Department 1964. Knighted in 1969. Died in hospital in Ireland.
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Prof. Sir Ernst Chain
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Professor Sir Ernst Chain
The plaque was unveiled on or shortly before 10 April 2019. It was not yet on...
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Marquis Pierre Simon de La Place
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, was born on 23 March 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France, the fourth of the five children of Pierre Laplace and Marie-Anne Laplace née Sochon. His father wa...
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Evangelista Torricelli
Physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.
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Dr Simon Paul Wolff
Scientist and transport campaigner, successfully against the Archway Road Widening Scheme. He was a graduate student at Wolfson College, Oxford, 1980 - 1984. Toxicologist at the University of Londo...
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George Bentham
Botanist. Born in Stoke, near Plymouth. His family moved to St Petersburg in 1805, where he becam proficient in several languages. In France he studied at the universities of Tours and Montpelier. ...
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C. S. Scott
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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