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51Schrödinger's cat — Celebrated animal introduced by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) in 1935, in a thought experiment showing the strange nature of the world of quantum mechanics . The cat is thought of as locked in a box with a capsule of… …
52BRIDGEWATER, FRANCIS EGERTON, 3RD DUKE OF — celebrated for his self sacrificing devotion to the improvement and extension of canal navigation in England, embarking in it all his wealth, in which he was aided by the skill of Brindley; he did not take part in politics, though he was a… …
53BURNS, ROBERT — celebrated Scottish poet, born at Alloway, near Ayr, in 1759, son of an honest, intelligent peasant, who tried farming in a small way, but did not prosper; tried farming himself on his father s decease in 1784, but took to rhyming by… …
54CAREY, WILLIAM — celebrated Baptist missionary, born in Northamptonshire; founder of the Baptist Missionary Society, and its first missionary; founded the mission at Serampore and directed its operations, distributing Bibles and tracts by thousands in native… …
55DALAYRAC — celebrated French composer; author of a number of comic operas (1753 1809) …
56DICKENS, CHARLES — celebrated English novelist, born at Landport, Portsmouth; son of a navy clerk, latterly in great straits; was brought up amid hardships; was sent to a solicitor s office as a clerk, learned shorthand, and became a reporter, a post in which he …
57FOULIS, ROBERT and ANDREW — celebrated printers; were brought up in Glasgow, where Robert, the elder, after practising as a barber, took to printing, and in 1743 became printer to the university; his press was far famed for the beauty and accuracy of editions of the… …
58GRAHAM, THOMAS — celebrated Scottish chemist, born in Glasgow, where in 1830 he became professor of Chemistry in the Andersonian University; seven years later he was appointed to a similar chair in University College, London; in 1855 he resigned his… …
59GREVILLE, CHARLES CAVENDISH FULKE — celebrated for his Memoirs ; after quitting Oxford he acted as private secretary to Earl Bathurst, and from 1821 to 1860 was Clerk of the Council in Ordinary; it was during his tenure of this office that he enjoyed exceptional opportunities of …
60HUTTON, JAMES — celebrated geologist, born in Edinburgh; bred to medicine, but devoted himself to agriculture and chemistry, which led on to geology; was the author of the Plutonic theory of the earth, which ascribes the inequalities and other phenomena in… …
