List of Cornish scientists
Scientists
- John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune[1]
- Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
- Edwin Dunkin, FRS, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall[2]
- Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society[3]
- John Hellins, FRS, mathematician, curate of Constantine.[4]
- Antony Hewish, astronomer[5]
- William Oliver, FRS, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath[6]
- Roy Sambles, physicist[7]
Biologists
- George Carter Bignell, entomologist
- William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
- William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society [8]
- Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician[9]
- Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist[10]
- Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist[11]
- Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist.
- William Lobb, plant collector[12][13]
- Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer[14]
- John Mayow, physiologist[15]
- William Noye of Paul, entomologist[16]
- Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
- John Ralfs, botanist[17]
- Francis Rilstone, botanist
- Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist[18]
- John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
- Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
- William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist[19][20][21]
Earth scientists
- William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
- Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman[22]
- Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist[23]
- Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society[24]
- Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary[25]
- Robert Were Fox, FRS, geologist[26]
- William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman[27]
- John Hawkins, geologist, traveller and FRS[28]
- Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer[29]
- Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer[30]
- William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist[31]
- John Arthur Phillips, FRS, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer[32]
See also
List of Cornish engineers and inventors
References
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- ^ Elston, S. & Sambles, R. (eds.) (1998) The Optics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals. London: Taylor & Francis
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- ^ "Jonathan Couch Papers". American Philosophical Society. http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/c/couch.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-16.
- ^ G. T. Bettany, ‘Couch, Richard Quiller (1816–1863)’, rev. Yolanda Foote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
- ^ Vigurs, C. C. (1922) "F. Hamilton Davey" in: Thurston, E. & Vigurs, C. C. A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's "Flora of Cornwall". Truro: Oscar Blackford
- ^ "William Lobb in Ecuador and the Enigma of Solanum lobbianum". www.devoran.org.uk. http://www.devoran.org.uk/htdocs/PerranArWorthal.htm. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
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- ^ "John Mayow". Rice University. http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/mayow.html. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ F. H. N. Smith (1997). The Moths and Butterflies of Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly. Wallingford: Gem Publishing Company
- ^ James H. Price, ‘Ralfs, John (1807–1890)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
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- ^ Oxford DNB (2004)
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- ^ Michael J. Bishop, ‘Pengelly, William (1812–1894)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
- ^ T. G. Bonney, ‘Phillips, John Arthur (1822–1887)’, rev. Denise Crook, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008