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Updated: Summer 2007
| Topic (short write-ups listed first, followed by full-length) | Researcher (date) |
| /Appleton Lawyer | |
| /Basketball (Naismith (YMCA)) | |
| /Benzene ring (Kekule) | |
| /Bicycle (Mahaux (Napoleon III)) | . |
| /Big Ben | . |
| /Bottle cap | |
| /Celluloid | . |
| /Cerium | . |
| /Chemical symbology | . |
| /Cybernetics | |
| /DNA Fingerprinting (Jeffreys) | |
| /Dollars and cents | |
| /Doorbell (Henry J) | . |
| /Electric motor | |
| /Electromagnet | |
| /Electromagnetic radiation | . |
| /Encyclopedia Britannica | |
| /Eugenics | |
| /Fertilizer | |
| /Fungicide | . |
| /Geneva Convention | |
| /Golgi cells | |
| /Gravity | . |
| /Hot chocolate | *%*b (07) |
| /Houses of Parliament | |
| /Hydrogen (Cavendish) | |
| /Hydrogen bomb | |
| /Ionosphere | |
| /Israel | |
| /Kelvin | |
| /Laissez faire | |
| /Latent heat (Black J) | . |
| /Liquid oxygen | |
| /Marxism | |
| /Mormons | |
| /Motorcycle (Daimler, Maybach) | . |
| /Napalm | |
| /Nazism | |
| /Nitroglycerine | |
| /Nuclear reactor (Fermi) | |
| /Oil well (Drake E) | |
| /Organ transplants | |
| /Oxygen | |
| /Pathological anatomy | |
| /Petroleum | |
| /Photocopier (Carlson (Perkin)) | |
| /Photography | |
| /Photovoltaic cell | |
| /Plastic | |
| /Polaroid sunglasses | |
| /Postage stamp | |
| /Puss-in-Boots (Perrault C) | |
| /Quantum physics | |
| /Radio | |
| /Radiometer | |
| /Raincoat | |
| /Razor blade | |
| /Reynolds number | |
| /Saccharimeter | |
| /Salvation Army | |
| /Sewage disposal | |
| /Shorthand | |
| /Sneakers (Plimsoll S, Goodyear (Disraeli)) | |
| /solar system | |
| /Star Spangled Banner | |
| /Submarine (Drebbel) | |
| /Superconductivity | |
| /Time-and-motion study (Gilbreth F) | |
| /Vacuum | |
| /Volt | |
| /Wallpaper (Robert NL) | |
| /Webster's dictionary | |
| Full write-ups (people, organizations and things) | |
| Adams, William (Lister, Little WJ, Remak, Schwann T, Henle, Shonlein) | . |
| Agoult, Marie-Catherine-Sophie de Flavigny, comtesse d' (Liszt, Chopin, Bulow, Cosima von, Bulow, Hans von, Wagner R, Ingres, Meyerbeer) | . |
| Alcubierre, Joaquin de | . |
| Arnim, Achim von | . |
| Arp, Jean | . |
| Baden-Powell, Sir George Smyth (Powell, Baden, Baden-Powell, Sir Robert SS, Nansen, Bowen, Sir GF) | . |
| Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, Baron (Stephenson, Robert, Baden-Powell, Sir GS, Powell, Baden) | . |
| Balanchine, George | |
| Bancroft, George, Lafayette, Goethe, Humboldt A von, Irving W, Hegel, Polk, Bismarck, Grant Ulysses S, Burdett-Coutts) | . |
| Bantock, Sir Granville | . |
| Barclay, Robert (Quaker theologian - Fox G, Prince Rupert) | . |
| Bassi, Agostino Maria | |
| Beardsley, Aubrey | |
| Beebe, William (Osborn HF, Carson R, Roosevelt T) | . |
| Beerbohm, Sir Max | |
| Bell, Charles (Hunter J, Hunter W, Banks, Fuseli, West, Cooper Sir AP, Paley, Magendie, Muller) | . |
| Bergson, Henri | . |
| Bernstein, Leonard | |
| Besant, Sir Walter | . |
| Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht von, | |
| Bogart, Humphrey | . |
| Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe | . |
| Bottger, Johann Friederich | . |
| Botticelli, Sandro (artist) | . |
| Boussingault, Jean-Baptiste | . |
| Bell, Charles, Hunter J, Hunter W, Banks, Fuseli, West, Cooper Sir AP, Paley, Magendie, Muller) | . |
| Brandes, Georg | |
| Bridge, Frank (English muscian - Holst, Britten, Dolmetsch, Hopkins) | . |
| Broussais, Francoise-Joseph-Victor | . |
| Brugnatelli, Luigi Valentino (Italian, electroplating - Volta, Faraday) | . |
| Bryan, William Jennings (Darwin, Darrow, Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt T, Osborn HF) | . |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle, Baron (Lamb, Lady C, Dickens, Disraeli, Mill JS, Godwin, Gladstone, Thackeray, Brewster, Sir David, Bowen Sir GF) | . |
| Bunuel, Luis | . |
| Burbank, Luther | . |
| Burdett-Coutts, Angela Georgina, Baroness (Bancroft G, Stanley, Livingstone D, Queen Victoria, Dickens, Disraeli, Napoleon III, Eugenie, Peel, Wilberforce S, Gladstone, Hooker Sir J, Hooker Sir W, Irving H, Wellington Duke of, Faraday, Wheatstone, Paoli) | . |
| Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto | |
| Bute, John Stuart, Earl of | |
| Byron, Vice-Admiral John (Byron, Choiseul, Reynolds Sir J, Anson, Clive) | . |
| Carroll, Lewis (Author - Crookes, Wallace, Lodge, Doyle, Thomson, Terry, Tennyson, Ruskin, Rossetti, Millais) | . |
| Carson, Edward Henry | |
| Carson, Rachel (Muller PH, Kennedy JF, Beebe W) | . |
| Carter, Elizabeth (Montagu, Mrs E, Montagu E, Reynolds Sir J, Johnson Dr, Walpole H, Burke, More H, Lawrence Sir T, Algarotti, Richardson S) | . |
| Castries, Charles Eugene Gabriel de la Croix de Castries, Marquis de (Brunel M, Necker J, Louis XVI) | . |
| Challis, James | . |
| Cherubini, Luigi | . |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith | |
| Choiseul, Etienne-Francois de Choiseul, duc de (Deffand (via wife?), Gribeauval, Pompadour, Louis XV, Byron Adm. J (in Falklands)) | . |
| Clark, Edwin & Clark, Latimer | . |
| Clay, Henry | |
| Collins, Michael | |
| Cooper, Sir Ashley Paston, Baronet (Bright R, Lawrence Sir T, Baily EH, Hunter J, Cullen, Black, Keats J, Dupuytren, Bell, Charles) | . |
| Conrad, Joseph (Author - Ford, Morse, Cooper JF, Leavis, Valery, Casement, Doubleday, Galsworthy) | |
| Correns, Carl Franz Joseph-Erich | . |
| Cort, Henry (versed in the metalurgical arts - Bessemer) | . |
| Cowper, William (poet) | |
| Crosby, Bing | |
| Dali, Salvador (Artist - Auden, Moore, Tzara, Breton, Magritte, Lorca) | . |
| Dalkin, Cyrus P. | . |
| Dana, James Dwight (Silliman B Snr, Silliman B Jnr, Lyell, Scrope, Agassiz, Darwin, Gray, Asa, Royal Society, Marsh OC) | . |
| Deane, Silas (American Revolutionary - Paine, Lafayette, Jay, Beaumarchais, Franklin) | . |
| Deffand, Marie de Vichy-Champrond, Marquise du (Lespinasse, Walpole H, Choseuil (via C's wife?), Voltaire, Turgot, Maupertuis, Alembert, Fontenelle, Montesquieu) | . |
| Delius, Frederick | |
| Desaguliers, John Theophilus | . |
| Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of (Walpole H, Burney F, Sheridan, Johnson Dr, Reynolds Sir J, Gainsborough, Kauffmann, Lamb, Lady C, Fox CJ) | . |
| Dixon, Jeremiah | |
| Dolmetsch, Arnold | . |
| Doubleday, Frank Nelson | |
| Durie, Dora | |
| Durkheim, Emile | . |
| Ekman,Vagn Walfrid | . |
| Esmarch, Johann Friedrich August von (Lister, Langenback, Stromeyer) | . |
| Farnsworth, Philo | . |
| Fillmore, Pres. Millard (Young B, Pierce, Clay, Perry, Missouri Compromise) | . |
| Fischer Von Erlach, Johann Bernhard | . |
| Fleming, Sir John Ambrose (engineering & electronics) | . |
| Fokine, Michel | |
| Foscolo, Ugo (Lamb, Lady C, (need more!)) | . |
| Fox, Charles James (Voltaire, Burke, Clive, Necker, Mme, Deffand, Hastings, Pitt, Sheridan, Talleyrand, Catherine II, Devonshire, Duchess of, Lamb, Lady C, Reynolds Sir J) | . |
| Fox, George | . |
| France, Anatole | . |
| Frazer Sir James George (Golden Bough) | |
| Frege, Gottlob | |
| Gable, Clark (American Actor - Leigh, Goering, Harlow, Tracy) | . |
| Galsworthy, John | |
| Garland, Judy (American Actress/Singer - Gershwin I, Kelly G, Arlen H, Rooney) | . |
| Gershwin, Ira | |
| Ghiberti, Lorenzo | . |
| Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Italian painter) | |
| Giacometti, Alberto | . |
| Gilbert, Sir Joseph Henry | . |
| Gniesenau, August, Count von | . |
| Goldman, Emma | |
| Golitsyn, Prince Boris Borisovich (Tsar Peter's chancellor) | |
| Gordon, Cuthbert | . |
| Goya | |
| Graham, Martha (Joan of Arc, Nureyev, Noguchi, Calder, Barber S, Copeland, Hindemith) | |
| Gregory, David | . |
| Grove, Sir George | |
| Hammerstein, Oscar II | |
| Haussmann, Georges-Eugene, Baron | |
| Hawthorn factory experiment | |
| Haywood, Eliza (Swift, Pope, Rich, Fielding, Walpole H, Steele Sir R) | . |
| Hayworth, Rita | |
| Heberden, William, the Elder (Franklin, Hunter J, Johnson Dr) | . |
| Heidegger, Martin | |
| Heifetz, Jasha (musician) | |
| Helmont, Jan Baptista van | . |
| Helvetius, Claude-Adrien | . |
| Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jacob | . |
| Henry, O | |
| Hensen, Victor (Physiologist/Oceanographer - Virchow, plankton, Humboldt, Meges Mouries, Kieselguhr, Haeckel) | . |
| Hepburn, Katherine | |
| Hepworth, Barbara | |
| Hill, John (Kew gardens) | |
| Hindemith, Paul | |
| Hindley, Henry (UK clockmaker - Roebuck) | . |
| Hope, Bob | |
| Housman, Alfred Edward (poet & classical scholar) | |
| Husserl, Edmund (Philosopher - Sartre, Heidegger, Carnap) | . |
| Hutton, Charles | . |
| Huyghens, Constantijn | |
| Jolson, Al | |
| Joule, James Prescott (Sturgeon, Reynolds O, Onnes, Dewar, joule, Playfair, Dalton, Kelvin, Faraday) | |
| Jussieu, Antoine de (French physician & botanist) | . |
| Jussieu, Joseph de (French botanist) | . |
| Kandinsky, Wassily | . |
| Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna | . |
| Kay, John | |
| Kelly, Gene | |
| Kierkegaard, Soren | |
| Larrey, Dominique-Jean, Baron | |
| Lamb, Lady Caroline (Foscolo, Byron, Godwin, Fox CJ, Devonshire, Duchess of, Bulwer-Lytton EGE) | . |
| Lawes, John Bennet | |
| Langenback, Bernhardt Rudolf Konrad von (Billroth, Meissner, Esmarch, Thiersch) | . |
| Le Corbusier | |
| Le Roy, Edouard | |
| Leopold II, King of Belgium | |
| Lespinasse, Julie de (Alembert, Turgot, Hume, Condorcet, Deffand) | . |
| Lever, William Hesketh (Lord Leverhulme) | . |
| Levi-Strauss, Claude | |
| Lind, Dr. James | |
| Linde, Karl von | . |
| Lippi, Fra Lippo | |
| Little, William John (Stromeyer, Muller, Johann (physiol.), Adams, William) | . |
| Lorca, Garcia | |
| Lumiere, Auguste & Lumiere, Louis | |
| Maclure, William | . |
| MacNeice, Louis | |
| Maderno, Carlo | . |
| Magendie, Francois | . |
| Magnol, Pierre (botany) | |
| Mallet, Robert | . |
| Marsh, Othniel Charles (Darwin, Huxley TH, Ehrenberg, Silliman B Jnr, Dana JD) | . |
| Maskelyne, Nevil | . |
| Mason, Charles | . |
| Maurepas, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count de | . |
| Mellon, Andrew William (American financier & industrialist) | |
| Menotti, Gian Carlo | |
| Miller, Philip | |
| Miro, Joan | |
| Mitchell, Silas Weir (Bernard C, Freud, Charcot, Whitman, Howells WD, Meredith G) | . |
| Mondrian, Piet (artist) | |
| Muller, Paul Hermann (DDT) (Zeidler, Othmar (DDT)) | . |
| Murray, Gilbert (classical scholar & writer) | . |
| Musschenbroek, Samuel van | . |
| Naegli, Carl Wilhelm von | . |
| Naturphilosophie | |
| Neef, Caroline | . |
| Nicholson, Ben | . |
| Nickerson, William | . |
| Nicol, William | . |
| Nixon, Francis (chintz-printing) | |
| Noguchi, Isamu | |
| Northcliffe, Lord | |
| Nova Scotia loyalist blacks | |
| Oak Park (FL Wright) | |
| Oliver, King | . |
| Onassis, Aristotle Socrates | |
| Orwell, George | |
| Osborn, Henry Fairford (Beebe W, Morgan JP, Bryan, WJ, Huxley TH, Osborn WH) | . |
| Osborn, William Henry (McClellan, Peabody, George) | . |
| Paoli, Pasquale (Boswell, Johnson Dr S, Reynolds Sir J, Burke E, Goldsmith, Napoleon, Burdett-Coutts) | . |
| Paracelsus | |
| Parlin, Charles Coolidge | . |
| Parry, Sir Hubert | . |
| Pater, Walter Horatio (British essayist & critic) | |
| Peabody, George (Morgan JP, Wellington Duke of, Franklin Sir J, Queen Victoria, Marsh OC, Osborn WH) | . |
| Penn, Thomas | . |
| Percival, Thomas (glassmaking) | |
| Perugino | . |
| Pinturicchio | |
| player piano | |
| Poincare, Henri (mathematician, physicist & philosopher) | . |
| Poincare, Raymond (French statesman) | . |
| Potemkin, Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich | . |
| Powell, Baden (Lyell, Whewell, Baden-Powell, Sir Robert SS, Baden-Powell, Sir GS, Smyth, Adm. WH, Nelson) | . |
| Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine-François, Abbé (French novelist & journalist) | |
| Proust, Marcel (writer) | |
| Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. | . |
| Rambert, Marie | |
| Ramon y Cajal, Santiago (Golgi, Erlich) | . |
| Rankine, William John Macquorn (Scottish engineer) | . |
| Rembrandt | |
| Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard | |
| Rodin, Auguste | |
| Rooney, Mickey | |
| Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin Delano | |
| Rothenstein, Sir William | . |
| Rothschild family | . |
| Saint-Saens, Camille | |
| Santorio Santorio (physician & inventor) | |
| Sarpi, Paolo | . |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul (philosopher & writer) | |
| Scharnhorst, Gerhard Johann David von (Prussian General) | . |
| Scheele, Carl Wilhelm | |
| Schonlein, Johann Lukas | . |
| Schwab, Max (goldsmith) | . |
| Scribe, Eugene | |
| Sharp, Cecil | |
| Signac, Paul | |
| Smith, Frederick Edwin (Lord Birkenhead) | . |
| Smyth, Admiral William Henry (Smith, John (S desc. of), Powell, Baden (m. S dtr), Nelson (S dtr was g'niece of)) | . |
| Soddy, Frederick | |
| Spender, Sir Stephen (English poet & critic) | |
| Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeyevich | |
| Stoker, Bram | |
| Strang und Durm | |
| Stromeyer, Georg Friedrich Louis (Little, Esmarch, Thiersch, Langenback) | . |
| Struve, Friederich Georg Wilhelm | . |
| Swedenborg, Emanuel | |
| Swinburne, Algernon (English poet) | |
| Sydenham, Thomas (English physician) | . |
| Teresa of Avila, Saint | |
| Thiersch, Karl (Lister, Stromeyer, Langenback) | . |
| Thomson, George | |
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico | |
| Torrey, John (botanist) | |
| Toynbee, Arnold (English historian) | |
| Tracy, Spencer | . |
| Tree, Sir Beerbohm (English actor & manager) | |
| Trevor-Roper, Hugh | . |
| Verrocchio, Andrea del | |
| Victoria, Tomas Luis de | |
| Walpole, Robert (British politician) | |
| Walton, Sir William (composer) | |
| War of Jenkins' Ear | |
| Watteau, Antoine (French painter) | |
| Wayne, John | |
| Weber, Ernst Heinrich | . |
| Weismuller, Johnny | |
| Whiston, William (mathematician) | . |
| Whiteman, Paul | . |
| Whitworth, Sir Joseph (engineer) | . |
| Wilkes, Charles | |
| Winters, Aaron (borax) | |
| Wundt, Wilhelm (Fechner, Ratzel, Scott WD, Durkheim, Muller, Helmholtz, Herbart) | |
| Zapata, Emiliano | . |
| Zeidler, Othmar (Baeyer, A von) | . |