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Sherlock Holmes  1854-?
Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
PBS
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Sherlockian Net
221B Baker St
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861-1947 (Trinity)
President of the Royal Society
Nobel (1929 medicine)
Encyclopedia of Scientists
history of Cambridge Biochemistry
history makers

Sir William Henry Bragg 1862-1942 (Trinity)
President of the Royal Society
Nobel (1915 physics)

History of Research at the RI
RI Biography
Royal Institution Crystallography
Cavendish educational site
pioneers in optics
von Laue 1879-1960 German
Sir William Lawrence Bragg, FRS 1891-1971 (Trinity)
Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics
Nobel (1915 physics)
Manchester Physics

History of Research at the RI
RI Biography
History of The Cavendish Lab
Cavendish biography
Royal Institution Crystallography
Cavendish educational site
x-ray diffraction
Thomson 1892-1975
Davisson 1881-1958
Compton 1892-1962 American

J D Bernal, FRS 1901-1971

Birkbeck College (U of London)
Royal Institution Crystallography

Dame Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, FRS 1903-1971

Periodic Table of the Lecturers (University College London)
Chemical Heritage
Royal Institution Crystallography
RI Biography
Contributions of Women to Physics

Sir John Randall 1905-1984

DNA at King's College (U of London)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, FRS 1910-1994 (Oxford and Cambridge)
Distinguished Women
Nobel (1964 chemistry)
Nobel archive
Papers at Bath
Chemical Heritage
Royal Institution Crystallography
Contributions of Women to Physics

Max Perutz, FRS 1914-2002 (Cambridge)
Nobel (1962 chemistry)
Weisstein
Physics World
LMB Nobel Prizes
Royal Institution Crystallography
RI Biography

Maurice Wilkins, FRS 1916-2004 (Cambridge)
Nobel (1962 medicine)
Weisstein
King's College Physics

Chemical Heritage
DNA at King's College (U London)

Francis Crick, FRS 1916-2004 (Cambridge)
James Watson 1928- (Cambridge) 
Nobel (1962 medicine)
Weisstein FC
Weisstein JW

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Cavendish educational site
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Pauling 1901-1994 American
Chemical Heritage

Sir John Kendrew, FRS 1917-1997 (Trinity)
Nobel (1962 chemistry)
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Frederick Sanger, FRS 1918- (Cambridge)
Nobel (1958 chemistry)
Nobel (1980 chemistry)
Weisstein
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Sanger Institute

Rosalind Franklin 1920-1958 (Cambridge)
Distinguished Women
Weisstein
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BBC
King's College Physics
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Piper biography
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Birkbeck College (U of London)
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Sir Aaron Klug 1926- (Trinity)
President of the Royal Society
Nobel (1982 chemistry)
LMB Nobel Prizes
Royal Institution Crystallography
Paulson American
Sydney Brenner 1927- (Cambridge)
Nobel (2002 medicine)
LMB Nobel Prizes

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