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Businesses (1)
Organisations (18)
- Architectural Association London
- Biology War Committee
- Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, Frimley Frimley, Surrey
- Charing Cross Hospital London
- Charing Cross Medical School, London London
- City and Guilds College, London London
- City and Guilds of London Institute London
- Finsbury Technical College Finsbury, Middlesex
- Imperial College Choir London
- London University: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine London
- National Heart and Lung Institute London
- Royal Brompton Hospital Kensington, Middlesex
- Royal College of Chemistry, Westminster Westminster, Middlesex
- Royal College of Science London
- Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hammersmith, Middlesex
- Royal School of Mines and Royal College of Science, Kensington Kensington, Middlesex
- St Mary's Hospital Medical School London
- Westminster Hospital Medical School Westminster, Middlesex
Persons (265)
- Abel, Sir Frederick Augustus, (1827-1902), 1st Baronet, chemist
- Acland, Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke, (1847-1926), 13th Baronet of Columb John, 13th Baronet, MP
- Addison, Mark, (fl 1975-1979), Industrial Sociology Unit Postgraduate Student, Imperial College London
- Agassiz, Alexander, (1835-1910), zoologist
- Albert, (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria
- Allman, George James, (1812-1898), botanist and zoologist
- Angus, Selby, (fl 1988), chemical engineer
- Armstrong, Edward Frankland, (1878-1945), Chemist
- Armstrong, Henry Edward, (1848-1937), Chemist and Educationist
- Armstrong, William George, (1810-1900), Baron Armstrong of Cragside, industrialist
- Arnold, Matthew, (1822-1888), poet and critic
- Ash, Sir Eric Albert, (b 1928), Knight, electrical engineer
- Ashby, Eric, (1904-1992), Baron Ashby, botanist
- Aveline, William Talbot, (1822-1903), geologist
- Ayrton, William Edward, (1847-1908), Electrical Engineer and Physicist
- Baker, Sir Benjamin, (1840-1907), Knight, civil engineer
- Baker, John Fleetwood, (1901-1985), Baron Baker of Windrush, scientist, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Balfour, Gerald William, (1853-1945), 2nd Earl of Balfour
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Barker, Sir Ernest, (1874-1960), Knight, historian and political thinker
- Bayard, Thomas Francis, (1828-1898), Us Ambassador to Great Britain
- Beche, Sir Henry Thomas de la, (1796-1855), Knight, geologist
- Beit, Sir Otto John, (1865-1930), 1st Baronet Financier and Philanthropist
- Benn, Anthony Neil Wedgwood, (1925-2014), Labour politician
- Bessemer, Sir Henry, (1813-1898), Knight engineer and inventor
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart, (1897-1974), Baron Blackett, physicist
- Bone, William Arthur, (1871-1938), Chemist
- Booth, Lionel Geoffrey, (1929-2009), lecturer, civil and structural engineer
- Born, Max, (1882-1970), German-British physicist
- Boswell, Percy George Hamnall, (1886-1960), Geologist
- Bovey, Henry Taylor, (1850-1912), Civil Engineer
- Bowden, Bertram Vivian, (1910-1989), Baron Bowden, technologist
- Bradley, Daniel Joseph, (b 1928), Physicist
- Brand, Henry Bouverie William, (1814-1892), 1st Viscount Hampden of Glynde
- Bray, Jeremy William, (1930-2002), MP
- Brewster, Sir David, (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher
- Bristow, Henry William, (1817-1889), geologist
- Brown, John, (b 1923), electrical engineer
- Browne, William Alexander Francis Balfour-, (1874-1967), naturalist
- Buckland, William, (1784-1856), Dean of Westminster, geologist
- Buckmaster, Stanley Owen, (1861-1934), 1st Viscount Buckmaster, Lord Chancellor
- Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, (1811-1899), German Chemist
- Burt, Cyril Lodowic, (1883-1971), Knight psychologist
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, (1813-1885), naturalist
- Carr, Francis Howard, (1874-1969), Chemist
- Cavendish, Spencer Compton, (1833-1908), 8th Duke of Devonshire, statesman
- Chamberlain, Joseph, (1836-1914), statesman
- Cherry, Edward Colin, (1914-1979), Professor of Telecommunication
- Christian, (d 1917), Prince of Schleswig Holstein
- Cohen, Sir Andrew Benjamin, (1909-1968), Knight, colonial administrator
- Collenette, Cyril Leslie, (1888-1959), Entomologist
- Conrady, Alexander Eugen, (1866-1944), Professor of Optical Design
- Crewe-Milnes, Robert Offley Ashburton, (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe, statesman
- Crookes, Sir William, (1832-1919), Knight Chemist
- Cullwick, Ernest Geoffrey, (b 1903), Electrical Engineer
- Dannatt, Cecil William, (1892-1961), Metallurgist
- Darwin, Sir Charles Galton, (1887-1962), Knight, physicist
- Darwin, Charles Robert, (1809-1882), naturalist
- Darwin, Sir Francis, (1848-1925) knight, botanist
- Davies, Donald Watts, (1924-2000), computer scientist Treorchy, Glamorgan
- Dewar, Sir James, (1842-1923), Knight, chemist
- Dingle, Herbert, (1890-1978), Professor of Natural Philosophy
- Donnelly, Sir John Fretcheville Dykes, (1834-1902), Knight Major General
- Dudley, Hugh Arnold Freeman, (b 1925), surgeon
- Eastham, Leonard Ernest Sidney, (1893-1977), Zoologist
- Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley, (1882-1944), Knight, theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- Edward VII, (1841-1910), King of Great Britain and Ireland
- Egerton, Sir Alfred Charles Glyn, (1886-1959), Knight, Knight, chemist
- Eisenklam, Paul, (fl 1988), Chemical Engineer
- Ellingham, Harold Johann Thomas, (1897-1975), Secretary of the Royal Institute of Chemistry
- Elliot, William Sydney, (1917-2000), computer engineer
- Elliott, William Sydney, (1917-2000), computer engineer
- Elton, Charles Sutherland, (1900-1991), animal ecologist
- Engledow, Sir Frank Leonard, (1890-1985), Knight Agriculturalist Local Historian
- Fairbairn, Sir William, (1789-1874), 1st Baronet, engineer
- Falconer, Randle Wilbraham, (1816-1881), Medical Writer
- Faraday, Michael, (1791-1867), natural philosopher
- Farmer, Sir John Bretland, (1865-1944), Knight Botanist
- Fleming, Marston Grieg, (1913-1982), Professor of Mineral Technology
- Flower, Sir William Henry, (1831-1899), Knight Zoologist
- Flowers, Brian Hilton, (1924-2010), Baron Flowers of Queen's Gate, physicist
- Forbes, Edward, (1815-1854), naturalist
- Forsyth, Andrew Russell, (1858-1942), Mathematician
- Fort, Richard, (1907-1959), MP
- Foster, Sir Michael, (1836-1907), Knight, physiologist and politician
- Fowler, Alfred, (1868-1940), astrophysicist
- Fox, Harold Munro, (1889-1967), zoologist
- Frankland, Sir Edward, (1825-1899), Knight Chemist
- Frayling, Bryan Edwin, (1893-1968), mining engineer
- Gabor, Dennis, (1900-1979), Physicist
- Geikie, James, (1839-1915), geologist
- Giffard, John Anthony Hardinge, (1908-2000), 3rd Earl of Halsbury
- Gill, Stanley, (1926-1975), computer scientist
- Gladstone, William Ewart, (1809-1898), statesman
- Glazebrook, Sir Richard Tetley, (1854-1935), Knight, physicist
- Graham, Thomas, (1805-1869), chemist
- Gray, Sir James, (1891-1975), Knight Zoologist
- Gregory, Frederick Gugenheim, (1893-1961), Botanist
- Gregory, Sir Richard Arman, (1864-1952), Knight Scientist
- Grey, Charles, (1804-1870), General, Private Secretary to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria
- Groom, Percy, (1865-1931), Botanist
- Gulland, John Alan, (1926-1990), Fisheries Ecologist
- Hall, Alfred Rupert, (1920-2009), professor of the history of science and technology
- Hancock, Albany, (1806-1873), Zoologist
- Harcourt, Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon, (1827-1904), Knight, statesman
- Hardy, Sir Alister Clavering, (1896-1985), Knight, zoologist
- Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer, (1878-1972), Knight, engineer, physical chemist
- Hatton, Joseph, (1841-1907), Novelist and Journalist
- Heilbron, Sir Ian, (1886-1959), Knight Organic Chemist
- Helena Augusta Victoria, (1846-1923), Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein, daughter of Queen Victoria
- Hetherington, Hector James Wright, (1888-1965), Knight, university administrator
- Hewer, Humphrey Robert, (1903-1974), Zoologist
- Heywood, Harold, (1905-1971), mechanical engineer
- Hill, Archibald Vivian, (1886-1977), MP, physiologist
- Hindle, Edward, (1886-1973), biologist and zoologist
- Hobhouse, Arthur, (1819-1904), Baron Hobhouse, judge
- Holland, Sir Thomas Henry, (1868-1947), Knight Geologist and Educational Administrator
- Hook, Oliver, (fl 1954-1972), Zoologist
- Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, (1817-1911), Knight, botanist, explorer, Director of Kew Gardens
- Howes, Thomas George Bond, (1853-1905), zoologist
- Huggins, Sir William, (1824-1910), Knight, astronomer
- Humphrey, Herbert Alfred, (1868-1951), engineer
- Hunt, Bernard, (fl 1885-1903), mining engineer
- Hunt, James, (1833-1869), Ethnologist
- Hunt, Robert, (1807-1887), Scientific Writer
- Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell, (1887-1975), Knight, zoologist and philosopher
- Huxley, Leonard, (1860-1933), Biographer and Editor
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, (1825-1895), Scientist
- Imms, Augustus Daniel, (1880-1949), Entomologist
- Jackson, Gordon, (fl 1969-2012), chemical engineering undergraduate, Imperial College London
- Jackson, Willis, (1904-1970), Baron Jackson of Burnley, electrical engineer
- James, Henry, (1843-1916), novelist
- Joinville, Francois Ferdinand D'Orleans, (1818-1900), Prince De Joinville
- Jones, Henry Chapman, (1854-1932), chemist
- Jowett, Benjamin, (1817-1893), biblical and classical scholar Master of Balliol College Camberwell, Surrey;Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Judd, John Wesley, (1840-1916), geologist
- Jukes, Joseph Beete, (1811-1869), geologist
- Kalisch, Marcus, (1825-1885), Biblical Commentator
- Kennedy, John Stodart, (1912-1993), Zoologist
- King-Hele, Desmond George, (b 1927), physicist and author
- Kingsley, Charles, (1819-1875), Canon of Westminster author
- Knollys, Francis, (1837-1924), 1st Viscount Knollys
- Knowles, Sir James Thomas, (1831-1908), Knight, founder and editor of the Nineteenth Century
- Koestler, Arthur, (1905-1983), author
- Lankester, Sir Edwin Ray, (1847-1929), Knight, zoologist
- Larmor, Sir Joseph, (1857-1942), Knight, physicist
- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, (1838-1903), MP, historian
- Leveson-Gower, Granville George, (1815-1891), 2nd Earl Granville, statesman
- Liebig, Justus von, (1803-1873), Baron von Liebig, German chemist
- Linstead, Sir Reginald Patrick, (1902-1966), Knight Chemist
- Lipson, Henry Solomon, (1910-1991), physicist
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, (1836-1920), Knight Astronomer
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph, (1851-1940), Knight, physicist
- Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen, (1903-1971), Chemist and Crystallographer
- Lubbock, John, (1834-1913), 1st Baron Avebury, politician
- Lyell, Sir Charles, (1797-1875), 1st Baronet, geologist
- Makins, Roger Mellor, (1904-1996), 1st Baron Sherfield, diplomat
- McDermott, Walter, (fl 1885-1928), mining engineer and metallurgist
- McGee, James Dwyer, (1903-1987), Physicist
- Mckinnon, Doris Livingston, (d 1956), Zoologist
- Meldola, Raphael, (1849-1915), Chemist
- Milne, John, (1850-1913), mining engineer and seismologist
- Milner, Samuel Roslington, (1875-1958), physicist
- Minton, Paul, (fl 1949-2001), engineer
- Mivart, St George Jackson, (1827-1900), Biologist
- Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert, (1884-1964), 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, politician
- Morgan, Sir Gilbert Thomas, (1872-1940), chemist
- Morley, Sir John, (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman
- Mott, Sir Basil, (1859-1938), 1st Baronet Consulting Engineer
- Moullin, Eric Balliol, (1893-1963), electrical engineer and university teacher
- Mowatt, Sir Francis, (1837-1919), Knight Civil Servant
- Mundella, Anthony John, (1825-1897), statesman
- Munro, James Watson, (1888-1968), Zoologist
- Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet geologist
- Murray, Sir James Augustus Henry, (1837-1915), Knight, lexicographer
- Nichol, John Pringle, (1804-1859), astronomer
- Northcote, Stafford Henry, (1818-1887), 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, statesman
- Ogilvie, Francis Grant, (1858-1930), Knight civil servant
- Oldham, Thomas, (1816-1878), Geologist
- Ollerenshaw, Dame Kathleen Mary, (1912-2014), educationalist and mathematician
- Oppe, Thomas Ernest, (1925-2007), paediatrician Hampstead, Middlesex;London;Bristol, Gloucestershire
- Paget, Sir James, (1814-1899), 1st Baronet, surgeon
- Parker, William Kitchen, (1823-1890), anatomist
- Parsons, Richard Clere, (1851-1923), engineer
- Peel, Sir Robert, (1788-1850), Baronet, 2nd Baronet, statesman
- Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst, (1907-1995), Knight, physicist
- Penney, William George, (1909-1991), Baron Penney, nuclear scientist East Hendred, Berkshire
- Percy, John, (1817-1889), Metallurgist
- Philip, James Charles, (1873-1941), chemist
- Phillips, John, (1800-1874), geologist
- Phipps, Sir Charles Beaumont, (1801-1866), Knight, Lieutenant Colonel and official of Royal Household
- Pippard, Alfred John Sutton, (1891-1969), Civil and Aeronautical Engineer
- Playfair, Lyon, (1818-1898), 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews, chemist
- Polanyi, Michael, (1891-1976), Hungarian physical chemist, author
- Popper, Sir Karl Raimund, (1902-1994), Knight, philosopher
- Preece, Sir William Henry, (1834-1913), Knight, Knight Electrical Engineer
- Prideaux, Sir Walter Sherburne, (1846-1928), Knight clerk to the Goldsmith's Company and author
- Primrose, Archibald Philip, (1847-1929), 5th Earl of Rosebery, statesman
- Ramsay, Sir Andrew Crombie, (1814-1891), Knight, geologist
- Rawcliffe, Gordon Hindle, (1910-1979), electrical engineer
- Reeks, Trenham, (1823-1879), Geologist
- Richards, Peter, (b 1936), physician
- Righi, Augusto, (1850-1920), Italian Physicist
- Riviere, Briton, (1840-1920), Painter
- Rolleston, George, (1829-1881), physician, zoologist and archaeologist
- Romanes, George John, (1848-1894), scientist
- Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield, (1833-1915), Knight, chemist
- Rosenhead, Louis, (b 1906), Applied Mathematician
- Rothschild, Nathaniel Meyer Victor, (1910-1990), 3rd Baron Rothschild
- Runcorn, Stanley Keith, (1922-1995), physicist
- Salter, John William, (1820-1869), geologist
- Saxton, John Arthur, (1914-1980), Radiophysicist
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, (1893-1957), playwright, author and humanist Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Sedgwick, Adam, (1854-1913), Zoologist
- Slater, George, (1874-1956), geologist
- Smith, Sir Frank Edward, (1876-1969), Knight, industrial scientist
- Smith, Sir William, (1813-1893), Knight, lexicographer
- Smyth, Sir Warington Wilkinson, (1817-1890), Knight Mineralogist
- Sollas, William Johnson, (1849-1936), geologist
- Spencer, Herbert, (1820-1903), philosopher
- Spencer, John Poyntz, (1835-1910), 5th Earl Spencer, statesman
- Spottiswoode, William, (1825-1883), Mathematician and Physicist
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, (1815-1881), Dean of Westminster Abbey, historian Nether Alderley, Cheshire
- Stead, William Thomas, (1849-1912), journalist and author
- Stephen, Sir Leslie, (1832-1904), Knight, man of letters, philosopher, biographer, mountaineer
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel, (1819-1903), 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist
- Strutt, John William, (1842-1919), 3rd Baron Rayleigh, mathematician and physicist
- Strutt, Robert John, (1875-1947), 4th Baron Rayleigh, physicist
- Sutton, John, (1919-1992), Geologist
- Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson, (1829-1914), Knight Chemist and Electrical Inventor
- Sykes, John Charles Gabriel, (1869-1952), Knight civil servant
- Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William Turner, (1843-1928), Knight, botanist
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, (1851-1916), Physicist
- Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville, (1830-1882), Knight, naturalist
- Thomson, Elihu, (1853-1937), electrical inventor
- Thomson, Sir George Paget, (1892-1975), knight, physicist
- Thomson, William, (1824-1907), Baron Kelvin, physicist
- Thorpe, Sir Jocelyn Field, (1872-1940), Knight Chemist
- Thorpe, Sir Thomas Edward, (1845-1925), Knight Chemist
- Thring, Meredith Wooldridge, (b 1915), Mechanical Engineer
- Tizard, Sir Henry Thomas, (1885-1959), Knight, Knight, physical chemist and science administrator
- Todd, Alexander Robertus, (1907-1997), Baron Todd of Trumpington, chemist
- Tulloch, John, (1823-1886), Principal of St Andrews University
- Tutton, Alfred Edwin Howard, (1864-1938), Crystallographer
- Tyndall, John, (1820-1893), natural philosopher
- Ubbelohde, Alfred Rene Jean Paul, (1907-1988), Chemical Engineer
- Unwin, William Cawthorne, (1838-1933), Engineer
- Venables, Sir Peter Percy Frederick Ronald, (1904-1979), Knight Technical Educationalist
- Walpole, Sir Spencer, (1839-1907), Knight, historian and civil servant
- Warren, Frank Louis, (fl 1925-1967), chemist
- Warren, Sir Henry William Hugh, (1891-1961), Knight Electrical Engineer
- Watson, David, (fl 1864-1867), mining engineer
- Watts, William Whitehead, (1860-1947), geologist
- Webb, Sir Aston, (1849-1930), Knight, architect
- Wernher, Julius, (1850-1915), 1st Baronet
- White, Sir William, (1845-1913), naval architect
- Whiteley, Martha Annie, (1865-1956), Botanist
- Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor, (1873-1956), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Wigg, Raymond Ernest, (1920-2005), engineer
- Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian, (1899-1994), Knight Entomologist
- Wilkinson, Geoffrey, (1921-1996), Knight, chemist
- Williams, Lady Gertrude, (1897-1983), social economist
- Wilson, John Sigismund, (1875-1955), engineer
- Wolfarth, Erich Peter, (fl 1988), Mathematician
- Wright, Edward Perceval, (1834-1910), Naturalist
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (30)
- NRA 11420 Henry Edward and Edward Frankland Armstrong, chemists: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29641 Colin Edward Cherry, professor of telecommunication: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24527 Herbert Dingle, professor of the history and philosphy of science: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 42125 Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24526 Alfred Fowler, professor of astrophysics: corresp and papers
- NRA 17592 Harold Munro Fox, zoologist: corresp, notebooks and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29644 Dennis Gabor, physicist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 34632 John Alan Gulland, fisheries ecologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 18779 Humphrey Robert Hewer, zoologist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20208 Harold Heywood, professor of mechanical engineering: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 14865 Herbert Alfred Humphrey, engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 8194 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 18379 Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley, electrical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 37604 John Stodart Kennedy, zoologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 19300 Sir Patrick Linstead, chemist: papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 28663 London Natural History Society
- NRA 9526 London University: Imperial College of Science and Technology: scientific MSS
- NRA 29643 James Dwyer McGee, professor of applied physics: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 22853 Raphael Meldola, chemist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29642 James Watson Munro, professor of zoology and applied entomology: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 26452 Alfred John Sutton Pippard, civil engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11556 Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, chemist and politician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 29646 Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, geologist: diaries, notebooks and corresp link to online catalogue
- NRA 43882 Stanley Keith Runcorn, geophysicist: corresp and papers
- NRA 17593 Sir Frank Smith, scientist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 18663 Sunninghill manorial records
- NRA 42124 John Sutton, geologist: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 11421 Silvanus Phillips Thompson, electrical engineer: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 34721 Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde, chemical engineer: collected corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 10964 William Cawthorne Unwin, professor of engineering: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
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