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Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, Baronet
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Born November 28, 1858 • Sheffield • England
Died September 30, 1940 (aged 81) • London • England
Subjects Of Study alloy steel • manganese steel • process metallurgy

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Daniel Cowan Jackling.
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Frederick Becket
Frederick Mark Becket
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John Chipman
American chemist and metallurgist
Robert Forester Mushet
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William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
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Sir Alan Cottrell
British metallurgist
Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen
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Dud Dudley
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Percy Gilchrist
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Isaac Newton
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Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
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Frederick Sanger
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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
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Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
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Martin Rees
Martin Rees
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Sir Charles Frank
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