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Robert Boyle<br />

(1627-1691)<br />

Boyle’s law<br />

Greats of Irish Discovery Research<br />

Francis Beaufort<br />

(1774-1857)<br />

Beaufort wind scale<br />

Nicholas Callan<br />

(1799-1864)<br />

The induction coil<br />

William Rowan Hamilton<br />

(1805-1864)<br />

Hamiltonian mechanics<br />

discovery Ireland 12,13<br />

George Boole<br />

(1815-1864)<br />

Boolean algebra<br />

Sir George Stokes<br />

(1819-1903)<br />

Stokes theorem<br />

John Tyndall<br />

(1820-1893)<br />

The greenhouse effect<br />

William Thomson<br />

(Lord Kelvin)<br />

(1824-1907)<br />

Kelvin scale<br />

Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848-1915) and<br />

William Huggins (1824-1910)<br />

Astronomical spectroscopy<br />

George Francis Fitzgerald<br />

(1851-1901)<br />

Lorentz-Fitzgerald<br />

contraction<br />

Alicia Boole Stott<br />

(1860-1940)<br />

Dimensional mathematics<br />

Matilda Knowles<br />

(1864-1933)<br />

Founder of modern studies<br />

of Irish lichens<br />

Maude Jane Delap<br />

(1866-1953)<br />

Life cycle of jellyfish<br />

Annie Scott Dill Maunder<br />

(1868-1947)<br />

The little ice age<br />

J.D. Bernal<br />

(1901-1971)<br />

X-Ray crystallography<br />

Phyllis Clinch<br />

(1901-1984)<br />

Plant viruses<br />

Kathleen Lonsdale<br />

(1903-1971)<br />

Proved the benzene ring is<br />

flat<br />

John Stewart Bell<br />

(1928-1990)<br />

Bell’s theorem<br />

Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh<br />

(1933-2000)<br />

O’Raifeartaigh’s theorem

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