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Sir Charles Wheatstone
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Born February 6, 1802 • Gloucester • England
Died October 19, 1875 (aged 73) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1868)
Inventions stereoscope • concertina • Playfair cipher

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Charles Wheatstone.
Wheatstone, detail of a chalk drawing by Samuel Laurence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
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John Frederic Daniell
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British physicist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
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Sir Martin Ryle.
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Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
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George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
British physicist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
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Cecil Frank Powell
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