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Yorkshire Science and Innovation

In the coming months we will be posting new articles on this website about the lives and acheivements of some of the scientists and innovators associated with Yorkshire.

We should be very pleased to receive articles written by YOU about any scientist or inventor that you have an interest in. The articles should preferably consist:

1. circa 800 words
2. Pictures
3. Unusual facts about the scientist and/or his/her discovery i.e "Did you know ... ..."
4. Practical relevance/ applications of the discovery
5. Link with Yorkshire / YPS

Please send you contributions to Avajit Datta by email to: editor@yorksphilsoc.org.uk

To help you decide who/what to research and write about, here is list that we have compiled (if you have an idea for someone not on the list... even better!)

Amy Johnson	aviator
Augustus Pitt Rivers	British army officer, ethnologist, anthropologist and archaeologist
Donald Bailey	inventor of the bailey bridge
Edward Victor Appleton	Nobel prize in physics in 1947
Fred Hoyle	astronomer and physicist
Geoffrey Wilkinson	Nobel prize in chemistry for work on organometallic compounds
George Birkbeck	doctor, philanthropist, founder of Birkbeck college
Harry Brearley	inventor of stainless steel
Helen Sharman	first British astronaut
Henry Baines	author of the 'flora of Yorkshire'
Henry Briggs	developed logarithmic tables
James Cook	oceanic explorer
James Henry Atkinson	inventor of the mousetrap
John Cockcroft	Nobel prize in physics for splitting the atomic nucleus
John Goodricke	astronomer
John Harrison	horologist and mathematician
John Phillips	keeper of Yorkshire museum
John Smeaton	civil engineer - design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses
John Snow	epidemiologist , anaesthesia
John Wycliffe	theologian, reformist, pioneering translator
Jonathan Hutchinson	African explorer and founder of museums
Joseph Bramah	inventor of hydraulic press
Joseph Priestley	discover of oxygen and inventor of carbonate water
Martin Lister	conchologist and geographical topographer
Nicholas Saunderson	Lucasian professor of mathematics, University of Cambridge
Percy Shaw	inventor of the “cat's eyes”
Ralph Burton	British soldier and Canadian settler
Richard Spruce	botanist and plant collector
Rick Dickinson	industrial designer for Sinclair zx80, zx81, zx spectrum
Robert Hadfield	discoverer of various steel alloys
Silvanus Thompson	electrical engineering, radiologist
Smithson Tennant	chemist – discoverer of osmium and iridium elements
Thomas Johnson	explorer and author of the first guide to flora and fauna of Britain
Walter E Collinge	keeper of Yorkshire museum 1921 to 1941
William Bateson	geneticist
William Herbert Hatfield	co-inventor of stainless steel (successor to H. Brearley)