Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
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Phillipine de Gerin-Ricard
E1, Whitechapel High Street, Aldgate East tube
Our photographs were taken a week after Phillipine’s death as we joined another 1,500 cyclists in a protest ride past the site of the col...
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John Tweed SW10
SW10, Cheyne Walk, 108
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, it was 1869.
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Hopkinson at IC
SW7, Prince Consort Road, Imperial College
This building, the Royal School of Mines, (1906, Aston Webb). has 34 memorials: a foundation stone, 2 busts and 30 scientists' surnames p...
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