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List of Cornish scientists

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This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.

Contents

Biologists

  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts, Indian Army officer and ornithologist
  • George Carter Bignell, entomologist
  • William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
  • William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician
  • Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist
  • Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist
  • Jean Golding, epidemiologist
  • Charles Alexander Johns, botanist and clergyman
  • Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist
  • William Lobb, plant collector
  • Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer
  • John Mayow, physiologist
  • William Noye of Paul, entomologist
  • Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
  • John Ralfs, botanist
  • Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist
  • John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
  • Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist
  • Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
  • William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist
  • Elizabeth Andrew Warren, botanist

    • Earth scientists

  • William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
  • Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman
  • Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist
  • Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary
  • Robert Were Fox, FRS, geologist
  • William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman
  • John Hawkins, geologist, traveller and FRS
  • Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer
  • Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer
  • William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist
  • John Arthur Phillips, FRS, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer

    • Physical scientists

  • John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune
  • Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
  • Edmund Davy, chemist
  • Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, chemist and inventor
  • Edwin Dunkin, FRS, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall
  • Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society
  • John Hellins, FRS, mathematician, curate of Constantine
  • Antony Hewish, astronomer
  • William Oliver, FRS, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath
  • Roy Sambles, physicist

    • References

    List of Cornish scientists Wikipedia
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