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Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
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The list Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) includes
Robert Watson-Watt, Gordon Sutherland, Harry Huskey, James Lighthill and Charles Galton Darwin.
The list consists of 85 members
and 1 sublist.
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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Overview: Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential ...Date of birth: 23 June 1912Date of death: 7 June 1954Age: 41 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: MathematicianGender: Male
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Arthur Schuster
Anglo-German physicist (1851–1934)
Overview: Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS FRSE (12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the ...Date of birth: 12 September 1851Date of death: 17 October 1934Age: 83 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Robert Watson-Watt
20th-century British physicist and pioneer of direction-finding and radar technology
Overview: Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt, KCB, FRS, FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a Scottish pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.Date of birth: 13 April 1892Date of death: 5 December 1973Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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John Pople
ChemistOverview: Sir John Anthony Pople KBE FRS (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004) was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational ...Date of birth: 31 October 1925Date of death: 15 March 2004Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Robert Elliott-Cooper
British civil engineer
Overview: Sir Robert Elliott-Cooper KCB VD (29 January 1845 – 16 February 1942) was a British civil engineer. He spent much of his career as a railway engineer with projects in his native Yorkshire, India and West ...Date of birth: 29 January 1845Date of death: 1942Age: 96 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Engineer 0
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Stephen Butterworth
Early 20th-century British physicist and engineerOverview: Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958) was a British physicist who invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different frequencies.Date of birth: 1885Date of death: 1958Age: 72 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Physicist 0
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William Maw
British civil engineer and astronomer
Overview: William Henry Maw (6 December 1838 – 19 March 1924) was a British civil engineer and astronomer. Born into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, Maw was taken into the workshops of the Eastern Counties ...Date of birth: 6 December 1838Date of death: 19 March 1924Age: 85 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Journalist 0
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Alexander Siemens
German electrical engineer
Overview: Alexander Siemens (22 January 1847 – 16 February 1928) was a German electrical engineer.Date of birth: 22 January 1847Date of death: 16 February 1928Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: EngineerGender: Male 0
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Edward Lee (scientist)
British physicistOverview: Edward Lee (2 March 1914 – 31 December 2001) was a British scientist, inventor, and civil servant. He was the builder of Britain's first infrared spectrometer, and later served as Director of the ...Date of birth: 2 March 1914Date of death: 31 December 2001Age: 87 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Inventor 0
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Gordon Sutherland
British physicistOverview: Sir Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland FRS (8 April 1907 – 27 June 1980) was a Scottish physicist.Date of birth: 1907Date of death: 1980Age: 72 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Olga Taussky-Todd
Mathematician
Overview: Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, Austria-Hungary (present-day Olomouc, Czech Republic) – October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She is ...Date of birth: 30 August 1906Date of death: 7 October 1995Age: 89 (age at death)Nationality: AustrianOccupation: MathematicianGender: Female 0
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James Lighthill
English Mathematician
Overview: Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS FRAeS (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics.Date of birth: 23 January 1924Date of death: 17 July 1998Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Charles Galton Darwin
British physicist
Overview: Sir Charles Galton Darwin KBE MC FRS (18 December 1887 – 31 December 1962) was an English physicist who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. He was ...Date of birth: 18 December 1887Date of death: 31 December 1962Age: 75 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Louis Essen
British physicist
Overview: Louis Essen FRS O.B.E. (6 September 1908 – 24 August 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light ...Date of birth: 6 September 1908Date of death: 24 August 1997Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Lewis Fry Richardson
English meteorologist and mathematician (1881–1953)
Overview: Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS (11 October 1881 – 30 September 1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather ...Date of birth: 11 October 1881Date of death: 30 September 1953Age: 71 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: ScientistGender: Male 0
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Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist
Overview: Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab t ...Date of birth: 6 September 1892Date of death: 21 April 1965Age: 72 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
Overview: Sir William Lawrence Bragg, CH, OBE, MC, FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray di ...Date of birth: 31 March 1890Date of death: 1 July 1971Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Overview: James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly ...Date of birth: 27 September 1919Date of death: 5 October 1986Age: 67 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Barnes Wallis
English engineer and inventor (1887–1979)
Overview: Sir Barnes Neville Wallis CBE FRS RDI FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the Royal Air ...Date of birth: 26 September 1887Date of death: 30 October 1979Age: 92 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Christopher Evans (computer scientist)
British, PsychologistOverview: Christopher Riche Evans (29 May 1931 – 10 October 1979) was a British psychologist, computer scientist, and author.Date of birth: 29 May 1931Date of death: 10 October 1979Age: 48 (age at death)Nationality: BritishOccupation: Psychologist 0
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