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Born c.1680 • Kendal • England
Died May 15, 1740 • London • England
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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
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Havelock Ellis
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British essayist and physician
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Franciscan encyclopaedist
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Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Wren
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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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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Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
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Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer