| Presidents of the Royal Society: Isaac Newton, William Crookes, Humphry Davy, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Ernest Rutherford, J. J. Thomson Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Group, Books (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1155257340 ISBN-13: 9781155257341 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $21.33 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Isaac Newton, William Crookes, Humphry Davy, Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, Ernest Rutherford, J. J. Thomson, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Pepys, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Christopher Wren, Joseph Banks, Michael Atiyah, Howard Florey, Andrew Huxley, Edward Sabine, Hans Sloane, Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, Joseph Dalton Hooker, George Biddell Airy, John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Charles Scott Sherrington, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, William Henry Bragg, Davies Gilbert, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Archibald Geikie, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, George Porter, Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, John Pringle, Joseph Williamson, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, Aaron Klug, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Robert Robinson, List of Presidents of the Royal Society, William Huggins, Henry Hallett Dale, William Spottiswoode, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Robert Southwell, Spencer Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Cyril Wyche, James Burrow, George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton, Martin Folkes, James West, Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet. Excerpt: Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider acceptance of evolution, and in his own career. Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, a... |