- Robert Boyle (1627-1691) One of the founders of modern Chemistry.
- George Boole (1815-1864) Mathematician and logician. Created Boolean algebra. Attempted to describe human thought process.
- Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971) Chemist. Demonstrated benzene ring is flat. Worked in X-ray crystallography. First woman elected to Fellowship of Royal Society, 1945.
- William Thompson, the Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) Physicist, mostly studied thermodynamics. Created Kelvin scale of temperature. Major contributor to development of Second Law of Thermodynamics (conservation of energy). Major influence on James Clerk Maxwell.
- John Tyndall (1820-1893) Naturalist and inventor. Explained why the sky is blue: the “Tyndall Effect”. Studied many aspects of atmospherics.
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