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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Frederick Soddy
English radiochemist (1877–1956)
Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
John E. Walker
British biochemist (1941-)
M. Stanley Whittingham
Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist
Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)
James Smithson
British chemist
Neil Bartlett
English-American chemist (1932-2008)
John Mayow
British chemist and doctor
Ida Freund
Austrian-British chemist
Henry Enfield Roscoe
English chemist (1833-1915)
Robert Plot
English scientist
Colin Pillinger
Professor of Planetary science (1943-2014)
William Lewis
English chemist and physician
Nevil Sidgwick
English theoretical chemist (1873–1952)
William Jackson Pope
British chemist (1870-1939)
Edward Weston
United States chemist (1850–1936)
Jack Baldwin
British chemist (1938–2020)
Stewart Adams
British chemist known for inventing ibuprofen
Frederick Kipping
British chemist (1863–1949)
Robert Williams
English chemist (1926–2015)
Thomas Edward Thorpe
British chemist (1845–1925)
J. Norman Collie
British scientist, mountaineer and explorer (1859-1942)
William Farish
British chemist
Rex Richards
British scientist and academic (1922–2019)
Anthony Cheetham
British materials scientist
Robert Mond
British chemist and archaeologist (1867–1938)
Edward Schunck
British chemist
Andrew Bruce Holmes
Australian and British research chemist and professor
George Downing Liveing
English chemist and spectroscopist (1827–1924)
Malcolm Green
British chemist (1936-2020)
Charles Rees
British organic chemist (1927-2006)
Alfred Lucas
British chemist
Peter Day
British chemist (1938–2020)
George M. Sheldrick
British chemist
George Bowdler Buckton
English chemist, physicist and naturalist (1818-1905)
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham
English chemist (1928-2014)
James Thomas Humberstone
English chemical engineer, who invented the Shanks system to make sodium carbonate (1850–1939)
Ambrose Godfrey
German-English chemist, inventor of the fire extinguisher (1660-1741)
Phil Mason
Philip E. Mason is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t (also VoiceOfThunder). He is best known for his critiques of religion, pseudoscience and creationism. He works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Ian Fleming
English organic chemist
Thomas Stevenson
English toxicologist and forensic chemist (1838-1908)
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
English chemist
Edward Frankland Armstrong
British chemist
Graham Richards
English theoretical chemist
James Alfred Wanklyn
British chemist (1834-1906)
John Glasby
British chemist and writer (1928-2011)
Andrew D. Hamilton
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford