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Wales and the Bomb
The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme – especially the military programme – …
Griffith Evans 1835-1935
In 1880, Griffith Evans, an army veterinary surgeon in India, made the seminal discovery that blood parasites – then universally considered benign – were pathogenic. Spurned by …
Robert Recorde
This enthralling biography tells the complete story of one of Tudor England’s most enigmatic figures. A Welshman born in Tenby, south Wales, c.1512, Robert Recorde was educated at …
William Morgan
To meet William Morgan is to encounter the eighteenth-century world of finance, science and politics. Born in Bridgend in 1750, his heritage was Welsh but his influence extended …
Evan James Williams
Dyma gyfrol sy’n rhoi darlun o fywyd a gwaith y ffisegydd o Gymro, yr Athro Evan James Williams, gwr a gafodd ei ddisgrifio fel un o’r gwyddonwyr mwyaf galluog a welodd Cymru …
William Robert Grove
This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly influential figure in Victorian …
Evan James Williams
This book presents the life and work of Professor Evan James Williams, described as one of Wales's most eminent scientists. Williams played a prominent part in the early …
Edward Lhwyd
Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxford as a student, he spent much …