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Born August 5, 1855 • London • England
Died December 24, 1927 (aged 72) • England
Inventions anemometer • meteorograph
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Frederick Augustus Abel, engraving.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel
British chemist
Sir Napier Shaw
British meteorologist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Henry Augustus Rowland
American physicist
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
English engineer
James Dyson
James Dyson
British inventor and industrial designer
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
British scientist
James Martin Stagg
British meteorologist
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Hugh Robert Mill
British geographer and meteorologist
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
Swan, Joseph
Joseph Swan
English physicist and chemist

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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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