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Updated: Summer 2007

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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) .