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Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen
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Born March 3, 1843 • England
Died November 22, 1902 (aged 59) • London • England
Subjects Of Study metal • alloy
Alexander Parkes
British chemist
Gustav Tammann
Russian chemist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas
British metallurgist
William Hume-Rothery
English metallurgist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Sir Anthony Caro
British sculptor
George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
British inventor and scientist
Thomas Newcomen
British engineer and inventor
Arkwright, detail of an engraving by J. Jenkins after a portrait by Joseph Wright
Sir Richard Arkwright
British industrialist and inventor
Charles Wheatstone.
Sir Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
John Hadley
British mathematician
Sir William Fothergill Cooke
British inventor
Sir Henry Christopher Mance
British scientist
Gowin Knight
English scientist
Albert Sauveur
American metallurgist
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist

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