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Sir Archibald Geikie
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Born December 28, 1835 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died November 10, 1924 (aged 88) • Haslemere • England
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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
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
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Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Smith, William
William Smith
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Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
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William Donald Hamilton
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John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
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James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
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Hertha Marks Ayrton.
Hertha Marks Ayrton
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Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
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