Silvanus P. Thompson
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as
Photograph from Thompson's obituary in the Proceedings of the Royal Society
Silvanus Thompson, at about the age of 25.
Silvanus Thompson presenting the 1910 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
Plaque for Thompson, sponsored by the Institute of Physics, on the front of the main building at Bootham School, York.
William Gilbert (physicist)
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William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of u
William Gilbert
Tymperleys, the 15th-century home of the Gilbert family in Colchester.
William Gilbert M.D. demonstrating his experiments before Queen Elizabeth I (painting by A. Auckland Hunt).
1893 copy of On the loadstone and magnetic bodies