- Source: List of Cornish scientists
This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.
Biologists
Henry Charlton Bastian, physiologist and neurologist
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts, Indian Army officer and ornithologist
George Carter Bignell, entomologist
William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society
Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician
Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist
Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist
Jean Golding, epidemiologist
Henry Brougham Guppy, naturalist and botanist
Charles Alexander Johns, botanist and clergyman
Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist
William Lobb, plant collector
John Keast Lord, veterinarian and naturalist
Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer
John Mayow, physiologist
William Noye of Paul, entomologist
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
John Ralfs, botanist
Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist
John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist
Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist
Elizabeth Andrew Warren, botanist
Earth scientists
William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman
Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist
Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society
Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary
Robert Were Fox, geologist
William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman
John Hawkins, geologist, traveller
Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer
Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer
Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist
Benjamin Neeve Peach, geologist
William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist
John Arthur Phillips, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer
Physical scientists
John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune
Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
Edmund Davy, chemist
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, chemist and inventor
Edwin Dunkin, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall
Antony Hewish, astronomer
Sir William Lower (1570 – 1615), astronomer and Member of Parliament
William Oliver, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath
Roy Sambles, physicist
Others
Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet, mathematician
Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society
John Hellins, mathematician, curate of Constantine
Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), Australian mathematician
See also
List of Cornish engineers and inventors
References
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- Index of Cornwall-related articles
- List of female scientists before the 20th century
- List of Cornish engineers and inventors
- List of English inventors and designers
- Flora and fauna of Cornwall
- Outline of Cornwall
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