Arber [née Robertson], Agnes (1879–1960), botanist, was born at 26 Regent's Park Road, London, on 23 February 1879, the eldest child of Henry Robert Robertson (1839–1921), an artist, and Agnes Lucy Turner, a descendant of Robert Chamberlain (d. 1798), ceramicist, of ...
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Arber [née Robertson], Agnes (1879–1960), botanist
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Maker: Héléna Arsène Darmesteter
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Ayrton [née Marks], (Phoebe) Sarah [Hertha] (1854–1923), electrical engineer and suffragist
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Ayrton [née Marks], (Phoebe) Sarah [Hertha] (1854–1923), electrical engineer and suffragist, was born Phoebe Sarah Marks on 28 April 1854 at 6 Queen Street, Portsea, Portsmouth, third child of Alice Theresa (d. 1898), seamstress, daughter of Joseph Moss, glass merchant of ...
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Ayrton, William Edward (1847–1908), electrical engineer and physicist
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Ayrton, William Edward (1847–1908), electrical engineer and physicist, was born in London on 14 September 1847, the son of the accomplished barrister and linguist Edward Nugent Ayrton (1815–1873), thereby joining a family long connected with law and music, and traditionally supportive of women's rights. ...
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Ayrton, William Edward (1847–1908)
Maker: W. & D. Downey
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Bacon, Francis Thomas [Tom] (1904–1992), engineer and developer of the fuel cell
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Bacon, Francis Thomas [Tom] (1904–1992), engineer and developer of the fuel cell, was born on 21 December 1904 at Ramsden Hall, Ramsden Crays, Billericay, Essex, the second of three sons of Thomas Walter Bacon (1863–1950), electrical engineer, and his wife, Edith Mary, née...
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Maker: Lucinda Douglas-Menzies
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Bateson, William (1861–1926)
Maker: Vernon Henry Mottram
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Bateson, William (1861–1926), biologist
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Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922), teacher of deaf people and inventor of the telephone
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Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922), teacher of deaf people and inventor of the telephone, was born on 3 March 1847 at 16 South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, the second of three sons of Alexander Melville Bell (1819–1905), speech therapist and elocutionist, and his first wife, ...
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Maker: John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
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Bell, Ronald Percy (1907–1996), physical chemist
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Bernal, (John) Desmond (1901–1971), physicist
Robert Olby
Bernal, (John) Desmond (1901–1971), physicist, was born on 10 May 1901 at Brookswatson, Nenagh, co. Tipperary, eldest of the three sons and two daughters of Samuel George Bernal, a farmer of Limerick, and his wife, Elizabeth Miller, elder daughter of the Presbyterian minister in ...
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Maker: Wolfgang Suschitzky
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Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1909–1966), theoretical physicist
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Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett (1897–1974), physicist and government and military adviser
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Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, Baron Blackett (1897–1974), physicist and government and military adviser, was born on 18 November 1897 at Kensington, London, the only son and the second of three children of Arthur Stuart Blackett (1865–1922), stockbroker, and his wife, Caroline Frances (1868–1954)...
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Maker: Lucia Moholy
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Bondi, Sir Hermann (1919–2005), applied mathematician and scientific administrator
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Bondi, Sir Hermann (1919–2005), applied mathematician and scientific administrator, was born on 1 November 1919 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Samuel Bondi (d. 1959), a doctor and heart specialist with a deep interest in science, and his wife, Helene, née Hirsch (...
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Brearley, Harry (1871–1948), metallurgist
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Brearley, Harry (1871–1948), metallurgist, was born on 18 February 1871 at 23 Spital Street, Sheffield, the youngest of five sons and the eighth of nine children of John Brearley, steelworker, and his wife, Jane Senior. Brearley's father was 'an expert steel melter and also an expert ale-supper...
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Brenner, Sydney (1927–2019), molecular biologist
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Brenner, Sydney (1927–2019), molecular biologist, was born on 13 January 1927 in Germiston, a gold-mining town near Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Morris Brenner (d. 1978), who had immigrated from Lithuania in 1910, and his wife, Leah, née Blecher (...
