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Born February 8, 1727 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 7, 1817 (aged 90) • Windsor • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1791)
Subjects Of Study density • water • mercury barometer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Guyot, Arnold Henry
Arnold Henry Guyot
American geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Murchison
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison
British geologist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Suess, Eduard
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist
Sedgwick, Adam
Adam Sedgwick
British geologist
Charles-François Sturm, pencil sketch by Daniel Colladon, 1822; in the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
Charles-François Sturm
French-Swiss mathematician
Buckland, William
William Buckland
British geologist
Richard Kirwan
Irish chemist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist
Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist

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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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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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