Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was born on a farm in Lincolnshire but he was never suited to taking on the family business. […]
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was born on a farm in Lincolnshire but he was never suited to taking on the family business. […]
Two British astronomers discovered the existence of pulsars with a radio telescope at Cambridge University in 1967. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born […]
Ada Lovelace (1815-52) was the daughter of Romantic poet, Lord Byron, who left their home when she was five weeks old and […]
It is said that the Welsh Prince Madoc went on a voyage of discovery and found North America, either in 1170 or […]
The British Isles are strewn with hundreds of ancient standing-stones ~ huge stones that appear to have been deliberately placed upright in […]
The main achievement of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was to sail around the world in 1577-80, but there is also a suggestion […]
Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, FRS (1915-2001) was born in Yorkshire and became a mathematician, astronomer and cosmologist. He frequently broke ranks with […]
A genius of his time, Robert Hooke is known today for Hooke’s Law, as explained in this video by ‘GCSE and A […]
In 1938-9 Basil Brown carried out a series of archaeological digs in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, on a group of Saxon-style (or arguably […]
As a young child, Dame Dr Jane Goodall was fascinated by the natural behaviour of animals and at age five hid in […]
Professor Sir John Vane, FRS, was born in Worcestershire in 1927 and from a young age showed a great interest in carrying […]
The first Briton in space was Yorkshire-born Dr. Helen Sharman (1963-) in 1991, who spent eight days in the Russian space station, […]
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