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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Sir Edward Appleton
Born Bradford. Physicist. Professor at King's College London. Nobel Laureate Ionospheric radio, 1924. Died Edinburgh.
1 memorial
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. A prominent intellectual and cultural figure. Born Pennsylvania.
Person, History, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Science, USA
1 memorial
Admiral Robert Fitzroy
Hydrographer and meteorologist. Born Ampton Hall, Suffolk. He attended the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth and eventually took command of The Beagle, with Charles Darwin as a passenger. In his late...
2 memorials
Agnes Arber
Botanist and biologist - a leading authority in her field, her research spanning the disciplines of science, history and philosophy. She published many books and scientific papers, in particular 'H...
1 memorial
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
Inorganic chemist. Born at 506 Halifax Road, Springside, near Todmorden, Yorkshire. Died at 14 Passmore Street, London.
1 memorial
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Westminster Abbey E - Martin Luther King
SW1, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster Abbey - west porch
Fourteen niches on the West Front remained empty since the Abbey was built until 1998 when they were filled. The lower four are filled wi...
1 subject commemorated,
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Marchioness at National Theatre
SE1, Queen's Walk
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows: Royal Festival HallNational Thea...
1 subject commemorated
Harold Victor Sheehy
Harold Victor Sheehy was born on 16 October 1900, his birth being registered in the 4th quarter of 1900 in the Reading Registration District, Berkshire. On 6 August 1922 he married Ellen Louisa Ad...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
John Birnie Philip
John Birnie Philip was born on 23 November 1824 in London, the third son of the five children of William Philip (1781-1865) and Elizabeth Philip née Rhind (b.1786). His father was a tailor and he ...
61 memorials
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