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Born March 12, 1790 • London • England
Died March 13, 1845 (aged 55) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1837)
Inventions Daniell cell • dew-point hygrometer
Notable Works “Meteorological Essays and Observations”

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British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Edward Davy
British inventor
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
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Gowin Knight
English scientist
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian scientist
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
British scientist

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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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