List of Belfast People - Science

Science

  • Thomas Andrews, scientist
  • John Stewart Bell, physicist
  • John Bodkin Adams, doctor and suspected serial killer
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astronomer (discoverer of pulsars)
  • John Boyd Dunlop, inventor and veterinary surgeon
  • George Crawford Hyndman, (1796–1867) biologist
  • Charles Lanyon, architect
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century
  • William Lewis (1885–1956), Professor of Physical Chemistry, Liverpool. Propounded Collision Theory.

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Famous quotes containing the word science:

    Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)