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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