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Born September 18, 1839 • Falkirk • Scotland
Died November 14, 1919 (aged 80) • Falkirk • Scotland
Subjects Of Study Aitken nucleus
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Vilhelm Bjerknes
Norwegian meteorologist
Lewis Fry Richardson
British physicist
Tor Harold Percival Bergeron
Scandinavian meteorologist
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American scientist
George Hadley
British physicist and meteorologist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
British physicist
Peter Guthrie Tait
Scottish mathematician and physicist
C.T.R. Wilson, 1927
C.T.R. Wilson
British physicist
Sir David Brewster
Scottish physicist
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
British physicist
William John Macquorn Rankine
Scottish engineer
Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet
British geologist
James David Forbes
Scottish physicist
Balfour Stewart
British meteorologist and geophysicist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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