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. We have already had a great response and have received many articles during January and February. However, we would be delighted to receive more - the list below shows some of the persons we have not yet received articles about. If you would like to contribute an articel fro a person not on the list, please contact Avijit Datta first (editor@yorksphilsoc.org.uk).
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 Avijit Datta by email to: editor@yorksphilsoc.org.uk
List of scientists, innovators and explorers for which no articles have been received to date:
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Goodricke |
astronomer |
| John Harrison |
horologist and mathematician |
| John Smeaton |
civil engineer - design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses |
| Joseph Bramah |
inventor of hydraulic press |
| Nevil Shute |
aircraft engineer and novelist |
| Nicholas Saunderson |
Lucasian professor of mathematics, University of Cambridge |
| Percy Shaw |
inventor of the “cat's eyes” |
| Rick Dickinson |
industrial designer for Sinclair zx80, zx81, zx spectrum |
| Silvanus Thompson |
electrical engineering, radiologist |
| Walter E Collinge |
keeper of Yorkshire museum 1921 to 1941 |
| William Bateson |
geneticist |
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