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Baptized September 10, 1713 • England
Died June 8, 1772 • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1747)
Subjects Of Study magnet • compass
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
John Canton
British physicist
Charles Chubb
British inventor
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
John Hadley
British mathematician
Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
John Dollond
British optician
James Watt
James Watt
Scottish inventor
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
British scientist
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Thomas Godfrey
North American inventor
Richard Roberts
British inventor

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