List of Cornish scientists
Introduction 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, FRS, geologist* William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman* John Hawkins, geologist, traveller and FRS*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, FRS, 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, FRS, 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, FRS, 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, FRS, mathematician, curate of Constantine*Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), Australian mathematician
See also *List of Cornish engineers and inventors
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