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Born 1707 • Bath • England
Died July 29, 1751 (aged 44) • Chennai • India
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1746)
Subjects Of Study artillery
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
Sir Barnes Wallis
British military engineer
John Hadley
British mathematician
Sir Samuel Bentham
British engineer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
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James Joseph Sylvester
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
An artist's representation of Penrose tiling
Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist

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