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Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge and president of the Royal Society, Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1904) made substantial contributions to the fields of fluid …
John William Strutt, third Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919), was an English physicist best known as the co-discoverer of the element argon, for which he received the Nobel Prize in …
Polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), a self-described 'scientific traveller', was one of the most respected scientists of his time. Humboldt's wanderlust led him across …