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Charles Hatchett
Charles Hatchett FRS (2 January 1765 – 10 March 1847) was an English chemist who discovered the element niobium.
Hatchett was born, raised, and lived in London. On 24 March 1787, he married Elizabeth Collick at St Martin's-in-the-Fields, with issue...
Henry Cary
Henry Francis Cary (December 6, 1772 - August 14, 1844) was a Gibraltarian author and translator.
Henry Francis Cary was born in Gibraltar, on 6 December 1772. He was the eldest son of William Cary, at the time a Captain of the First Regiment of...
Ray Lankester
Sir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist, born in London.
An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director...
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Henry Francis Cary
Henry Francis Cary (December 6, 1772 – August 14, 1844) was a Gibraltarian author and translator, best known for his blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy of Dante.
Henry Francis Cary was born in Gibraltar, on 6 December 1772. He was the...
William Plane Pycraft
William Plane Pycraft (1868 - 1942) was an English osteologist.
Pycraft was born in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. In 1892 he became assistant to Edwin Ray Lankester, and in 1898 moved with Lankester to the staff of the Natural History Museum. In...
