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Born June 10, 1707 • London • England
Died November 29, 1761 or November 30, 1761 • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1758)
Peter Dollond
British optician
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Chester Moor Hall
British jurist and mathematician
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
George Dollond
British optician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Barlow, Peter
Peter Barlow
English optician and mathematician
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Gowin Knight
English scientist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Silvanus Phillips Thompson
British physicist and historian
Lister, Joseph Jackson
Joseph Jackson Lister
British opticist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
British engineer
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
John Harrison, detail of an oil painting by Thomas King; in the Science Museum, London
John Harrison
British horologist