Gowin Knight
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Gowin Knight is indexed among the 280 entries in Vinony's Copley Medal collection. It also appears in Fellows of the Royal Society.
Vinony's link graph records 46 inbound references to Gowin Knight, and connects out to list of directors of the British Museum, steel and compass.
It sits within the topics 1713 births, 1772 deaths and 18th-century English people.
Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Knight
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Corringham
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Magdalen College
- Employer
- British Museum
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Copley Medal
- Image
- Gowin Knight from Science & Society 10198868.jpg
- Residence
- United Kingdom
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- date of birth
- 1713-09-10
- member of
- Royal Society
- date of death
- 1772-06-08
- Commons category
- Gowin Knight
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list of directors of the British Museum
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steel
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compass
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British Museum
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physicist
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Lincolnshire
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Royal Navy
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Copley Medal
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James Bradley
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John Harrison
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Fellow of the Royal Society
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Stephen Gray
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Stephen Hales
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John Theophilus Desaguliers
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William Watson
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Dictionary of National Biography
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Abraham Trembley
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George Edwards
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Anthony Panizzi
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Frederic G. Kenyon
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Categories
1713 births1772 deaths18th-century English people18th-century librariansAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyDirectors of the British MuseumEmployees of the British MuseumEnglish inventorsEnglish librariansEnglish physicistsPeople from LincolnshireRecipients of the Copley Medal