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Reverend John Barlow was Secretary of the Royal Institution from 1843 to 1860.

Thomas Webster was an architect and geologist, who gave the CHRISTMAS LECTURES series on Geology in 1830.

John Tyndall was a prominent physicist, who proved the greenhouse effect.

Eric Keightley Rideal was one of the founders of catalysis, famous for his work at the Colloid Science Laboratory, and was

William Hazledine Pepys researched into improving electrical apparatus and invented the mercury gasometer.

William Robert Grove was a Welsh judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy

Cecil Henry Desch was a Manager and Vice-President of the Ri.

John Davy was a medical doctor and the younger brother of Humphry Davy.

Humphry Davy was a chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He was director of the Ri

William Henry Bragg was a physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence