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George Dollond
British optician
P.W. Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
H.L. Callendar
British scientist
Guillaume Amontons
French physicist

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