Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
RSC advancing the chemical sciences, national chemical landmark, Sir Geoffrey...
Born Germany. Electrical engineer, inventor and businessman. Came to England in 1843 with an electro-plating invention. Became naturalised British subject in 1859. Also worked with the regenerativ...
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
Person, Politics & Administration, Science, France, Germany, USA
Stephen Eichhorn, born Manchester, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining. A co-opted member of the Windrush Co...
Organic and physical chemist. Born and died in Paris. Very successful and well-known in his lifetime. Achieved high office in the Chemical Society of Paris and in the French Academy of Sciences.
Physiologist. Born Archibald Vivian Hill in Bristol. One of the founders of the disciplines of biophysics and operations research he shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his el...
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.
We decided against transcribing the apostrophe in "tree's" and using the Latin "sic" - that would just make us look nerdy and pedantic.
The two foundation stones can be seen below the more ornate plaque. We do like their plain multi-layered frames. The building was threat...
Born 6 Oval Road, Camden Town. Also did the bronze group with clock at the entrance to Selfridges; Oxford Street (1928); the lovely sculptural work on 1 Wigmore Street (1925) as shown at Ornamental...
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, actor, lived here. Born 1853, died 1937.
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