The Faber Book of Science (69 page)

1. Officer, Charles
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2. Oldenburg, Henry
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3. Olsen (owner of Meilgaard estate)
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4. Olson, Charles
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5. Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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6. Organ, Brian
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7. Ortega y Gasset, José
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8. Orwell, George
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9. Osten, Herr von (owner of Clever Hans)
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1. Page, Jake
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2. Paget, Sir James
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3. Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim)
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4. Park, Mungo
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5. Pasteur, Louis
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6. Paul V, Pope
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7. Pauli, W.
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8. Penaud, Alphonse
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9. Pepys, Samuel
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10. Perkin, William
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11. Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
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12. Pfungst, Professor O.
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13. Pherecydes
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14. Philip II, King of Spain
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15. Phillips, Adam
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16. Phipps, James
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17. Pimentel, Professor David
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18. Planck, Max
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19. Plato
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20. Poe, Edgar Allan
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21. Poincaré, Henri
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22. Pope, Alexander
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23. Priestley, Joseph
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24. Purchon, R.D.
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1. Ragg, Elizabeth Lavinia (later Bird)
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2. Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
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3. Ramsay, Sir William
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4. Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
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5. Rayleigh, John W. Strutt, 3rd Baron
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6. Read, Alexander
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7. Regnault, Henri
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8. Rennell, Major
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9. Richards, Alison
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10. Ricketts, Ed
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11. Riedman, Sarah
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12. Robert, Alphonse
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13. Robinson, Edmund
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14. Roeder, K.D.
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15. Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad
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16. Rogers, Lambert
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17. Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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18. Rosenfeld, A.H.
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19. Ross, Sir Ronald
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20. Roth, Philip
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21. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
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22. Ruderman, M.A.
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23. Ruskin, John
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24. Russell, Bertrand
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25. Rutherford, Ernest
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1. Sachs, Alexander
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2. Sacks, Dr Oliver
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3. Sagan, Carl
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4. St Martin, Alexis
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5. Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
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6. Sanger, Fred
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7. Scaliger, Joseph Justus
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8. Schaller, George
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9. Schrödinger, Edwin
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10. Schültze, Max
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11. Schumann, Robert
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12. Semon, Richard
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13. Series, Caroline
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14. Sforza, Lodovico
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15. Shadwell, Thomas
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16. Shakespeare, William
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17. Sharp, William
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18. Shaw, George Bernard
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19. Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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20. Sherrington, Sir Charles
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21. Smith, Adam
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22. Smith, Anthony
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23. Smith, Dr Lester
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24. Smyth, H.D.
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25. Snow, C.P.
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26. Soddy, Frederick
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27. Sorby, Henry Clifton
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28. South, Richard
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29. Spencer, Joseph W.W.
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30. Spencer, Mary
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31. Stalin, Joseph
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32. Stanford, Sir Charles
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33. Steinbeck, John
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34. Stewart, Ian
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35. Stilling, Benedict
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36. Stopes, Marie
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37. Stoppard, Tom
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38. Strachey, Lytton
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39. Strassman, Fritz
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40. Stukeley, Dr William
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41. Stuttard, S.
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42. Sumner, James
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43. Swan, Sir Joseph
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44. Swift, Jonathan
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45. Sylla
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46. Szilard, Leo
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1. Talbot, William Henry Fox
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2. Tatum, Ed
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3. Teller, Edward
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4. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
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5. Terence
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6. Thomas, Lewis
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7. Thomsen, Christian Jürgensen
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8. Thomson, J.J.
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9. Thoreau, Henry David
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10. Thornton, Ian
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11. Titian
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12. Travers, Morris William
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13. Trilling, Lionel
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14. Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
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1. Ulloa, Don Antonio de
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2. Updike, John
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3. Ussher, Archbishop James
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1. Valentine, Basil
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2. Vermeer, Jan
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3. Vesalius, Andreas
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4. Victoria, Queen of England
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5. Vine, Fred
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1. Wald, George
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2. Wallace, Alfred Russel
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3. Wallich, Dr
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4. Watson, James D.
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5. Watt, James
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6. Webster, David
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7. Wedgwood, Josiah
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8. Wegener, Alfred
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9. Weigert, Carl
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10. Weil, George
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11. Weinberg, W.
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12. Wells, H.G.
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13. Westfall, Richard S.
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14. White, Gilbert
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15. Whitehead, Alfred North
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16. Wigner, Eugene
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17. Wilberforce, Bishop Samuel
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18. Wilbur, Richard
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19. Wilkins, Maurice
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20. Williams, William Carlos
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21. Wilson, C.T.R.
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22. Wilson, Edward O.
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23. Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
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24. Winkler, Clemens
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25. Winnicott, D.W.
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26. Wolpert, Lewis
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27. Woods, Leona
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28. Woolf, Virginia
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29. Wordsworth, William
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30. Worsaae, Jens Jacob
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31. Wotton, Sir Henry
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32. Wright, Ernest
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33. Wright, Orville
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34. Wright, Wilbur
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1. Yorke, James
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2. Yukawa, Hideki
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1. Zinn, Walter H.
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2. Zukofsky, Louis
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3. Zweig, George
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