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Sir George Thomas Beilby
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Born November 17, 1850 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died August 1, 1924 (aged 73) • Hampstead • England
Subjects Of Study potassium cyanide • production process
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Richard Henderson
British biologist
Gregory P. Winter
British biochemst
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
Frederick Augustus Abel, engraving.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel
British chemist
Abney
Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
British chemist and photographer
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer
Lindahl, Tomas
Tomas Lindahl
Swedish biochemist
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
American chemist
Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
Joseph Black
British scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay
British chemist

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