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Also Known As Sir William Napier Shaw
Born March 4, 1854 • Birmingham • England
Died March 23, 1945 (aged 91) • London • England
Inventions tephigram • millibar
Subjects Of Study millibar
William Henry Dines
British meteorologist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Jean André Deluc
Swiss-British geologist and meteorologist
Alexander Buchan
Alexander Buchan
British meteorologist
George James Symons
British meteorologist
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
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
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
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William Donald Hamilton
British naturalist and population geneticist

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