Chemist. Born Penzance. Wrote "Researches, Chemical and Philosophical". Discovered potassium, sodium, barium, strontium, etc. Invented the safety lamp for coal miners.
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Sir Humphry Davy
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Edward Troughton
Instrument maker notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments. Source: Wikipedia.
1 memorial
Festival of Britain
'A tonic for the Nation', The Festival was intended to cheer us all up after WW2, and incidentally to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition. The symbol for the Festival was designed ...
20 memorials
William Hyde Wollaston
Chemist and physicist. Born Norfolk. Trained and worked as a doctor. 1797 moved to London and in 1801 stopped working and concentrated on his interests, setting up a private laboratory at 14 Buckin...
1 memorial
Alexander R. Stokes
Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Wilkins and Wilson. Born Macclesfield.
2 memorials
Sir Julian Huxley
Zoologist and philosopher. Born 61 Russell Square. Son of Leonard Huxley and grandson of zoologist Thomas Huxley. Brother of novelist Aldous Huxley. Researched in support of Darwin's theory of e...
2 memorials
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Walklings Bakery bomb
SE1, The Cut, The Young Vic Theatre
The plaque was first erected in 1997 on the previous Young Vic building. London SE1 carries a good report of the second unveiling and rep...
4 subjects commemorated
Doctor Stephen Charles Gold, MD, FRCP
Dermatologist and author. He wrote 'A Biographical History of British Dermatology'. Our Picture Source and his obituary confirm he served during WW2 in the Royal Army Medical Corps for four years ...
1 memorial
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