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Born June 13, 1854 • London • England
Died February 11, 1931 (aged 76) • Kingston • Jamaica
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1928)
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
British inventor
Frank Whittle
Sir Frank Whittle
British inventor and aviator
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
British biochemist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
J. Presper Eckert
American engineer
Herbert Thacker Herr
American engineer
Joseph Bramah
British inventor
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval
Swedish scientist and engineer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer