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Born October 13, 1776 • Norwich • England
Died March 1, 1862 (aged 85) • Kent • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1825)
Subjects Of Study Barlow lens

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Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
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Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
John Dollond
British optician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
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Isaac Newton
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Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
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Sir James Lighthill
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
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Godfrey Hardy, 1941.
G.H. Hardy
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
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Edward Waring
English mathematician
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Roger Penrose
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
John Couch Adams
British astronomer

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