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Index to Institute of Physics Blue Plaques sorted chronologically

Names in birth date order

Notes:
Name birth
date
unveiled
date
Jeremiah Horrocks   1619 Apr 1997
John Canton   1718 May 1997
Joseph Priestley   1733 Apr 1996
Caroline and William Herschel   1738 Mar 2000
John Dalton   1766 Mar 1998
William Sturgeon   1783 Dec 1850
Michael Faraday   1791 Oct 2005
Rev Nicholas Callan   1799 Apr 1998
Sir George Biddell Airy   1801Oct 2003
Sir Charles Wheatstone   1802 May 1999
John Tyndall   1820 Jan 1999
William Thomson   1824 Jan 1999
Lord Kelvin   1824 Jan 1999
Edward Frankland   1825 Apr 2001
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan   1828 Jun 2004
James Clerk Maxwell   1831 Sep 2002
Sir James Dewar   1842 Jun 2004
John Ambrose Fleming   1849 Apr 2001
Jun 2004
Sir Oliver Lodge   1851 Oct 1997
Sylvanus Phillips Thompson   1851 Jun 2002
John Henry Poynting   1852 Mar 2001
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons   1854 Mar 2001
Sir William Henry Bragg   1862Mar 1996
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson   1869 Apr 1996
John Buchan   1875 Jun 1999
Sir Frederick Soddy   1877 Jun 1998
Sir James and Lady Jeans   1877 Sep 2000
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington   1882 Mar 1998
Viscount Cherwell   1886 Sep 2006
Frederick Alexander Lindemann   1886 Sep 2006
John Logie Baird   1888Mar 1997
Sir Ernest Marsden   1889 Sep 2002
Sir Harold Jefferies   1891 Jul 2000
Sir Edward Victor Appleton   1892Dec 1997
Edmund Clifton Stoner   1899 Mar 1996
Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac   1902 Sep 1997
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton   1903 Jun 1997
Evan James Williams   1903 May 1995
Richard Van der Riet Woolley   1906 May 1999
John Stewart Bell   1928May 2002
Daphne Jackson   1936 Apr 1998

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