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James Dewar co-directed the Davy-Faraday Research Lab. He is best known for inventing the Dewar flask aka Thermos.

Henry Hallett Dale was a physiologist who in 1936 shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the German

William Crookes was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry and worked on spectroscopy.

Henry Bence Jones was a physician and chemist, who served as Secretary of the Royal Institution.

Reverend John Barlow was Secretary of the Royal Institution from 1843 to 1860.

Thomas Webster was an architect and geologist, who gave the CHRISTMAS LECTURES series on Geology in 1830.

John Tyndall was a prominent physicist, who proved the greenhouse effect.

Eric Keightley Rideal was one of the founders of catalysis, famous for his work at the Colloid Science Laboratory, and was

William Hazledine Pepys researched into improving electrical apparatus and invented the mercury gasometer.

William Robert Grove was a Welsh judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy

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