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National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science and Technology
Plaques erected
[edit]- Robert Stawell Ball astronomer.
- George Berkeley (1685-1753) Bishop Berkeley.
- John Desmond Bernal pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.
- John Birmingham (astronomer) (1816-1884) astronomer, amateur geologist, polymath and poet, infobox and inline citations.
- George Boole mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.
- Robert Boyle natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor.
- Edwin John Butler mycologist and plant pathologist.
- Agnes Mary Clerke astronomer and writer.
- Arthur W. Conway mathematician and mathematical physicist.
- E. J. Conway biochemist, short article.
- Aleen Cust the first female veterinary surgeon to be recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
- William Dargan engineer, needs general clean-up and expansion.
- Maude Delap marine biologist.
- Patrick Dowling (engineer) (1904-1999) electrical engineer.
- James Warren Doyle educator.
- George Victor Du Noyer painter, geologist and antiquary.
- John Boyd Dunlop Scottish/Irish inventor of the pneumatic tyre and founder of the Dunlop rubber company.
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth philosopher and political economist.
- Maria Edgeworth writer of adults' and children's literature.
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth politician, writer and inventor.
- George Francis Fitzgerald professor of "natural and experimental philosophy", inline citations.
- William Sealy Gosset statistician, additional citations, sections.
- John Purser Griffith civil engineer and politician, expand, sections.
- Arnold Felix Graves poet, songwriter and novelist, infobox, expand.
- Howard Grubb optical designer.
- Thomas Grubb optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company, infobox, expand, sections.
- William Rowan Hamilton physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, sections require additional references.
- Samuel Haughton scientist, infobox.
- William Hayes (geneticist) infobox, needs additional references.
- George Willoughby Hemans (1814-1885) railway engineer.
- Ellen Hutchins botanist.
- John Ingram (educationalist) (1887–1973), engineer, educationalist, and civil servant.
- Ann Jellicoe (educationalist) educationalist.
- John Joly physicist.
- Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh scientist, infobox.
- John Killaly canal engineer, infobox, sections.
- Matilda Cullen Knowles considered the founder of modern studies of Irish lichens.
- Bartholomew Lloyd mathematician.
- Humphrey Lloyd (physicist)
- Kathleen Lonsdale crystallographer, needs additional references.
- Charles Alexander MacMunn first to describe the respiratory pigment in blood known today as Cytochrome1, expansion, extra sections.
- John Benjamin Macneill eminent Irish civil engineer.
- Guglielmo Marconi Italian inventor and electrical engineer.
- Thomas McLaughlin (engineer) engineer.
- George Francis Mitchell geologist and naturalist, infobox.
- William Molyneux natural philosopher.
- Mary Mulvihill, science journalist and communicator.
- Alexander Nimmo engineer and architect, expansion.
- C. Y. O'Connor engineer.
- John Palliser geographer and explorer, needs sources/references.
- Charles Algernon Parsons engineer, best known for his invention of the compound steam turbine.
- Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse amateur astronomer, infobox.
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse astronomer who had several telescopes built.
- William Petty economist, scientist and philosopher, needs additional citations.
- Thomas Prior author, known as the founder of the Royal Dublin Society, infobox.
- James Emerson Reynolds (1844 - 1920) chemist.
- William F. Roe electrical engineer, no inline citations, infobox, sections.
- Mary Rosse amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer, infobox, additional references, expansion.
- Ernest Shackleton explorer.
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet physicist and mathematician.
- Bindon Blood Stoney engineer.
- George Johnstone Stoney physicist.
- Sheila Tinney mathematical physicist.
- Richard Turner iron-founder.
- John Tyndall physicist.
- Charles Blacker Vignoles railway engineer, needs additional citations.
- Nicholas Aylward Vigors zoologist and politician, infobox.
- Thomas Walsh (agricultural scientist) (1914-1988)
- Ernest Walton physicist and Nobel laureate, needs inline citations.
- Mary Ward (scientist) amateur scientist, infobox, inline citations.
- Sancton Wood architect, stub, infobox.
Figures featured on NCCPST website
[edit]- Robert Adams (physician) surgeon, infobox.
- Thomas Andrews (scientist) chemist and physicist.
- James Apjohn (1796-1886) chemist and mineralogist.
- William Ringrose Gelston Atkins (1884-1959).
- John Ball (naturalist) politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller.
- Vincent Barry scientist and researcher, needs expansion.
- Edward Hallaran Bennett surgeon, infobox, stub.
- Joseph Warwick Bigger politician and academic, needs sections, expansion.
- Lucy Everest Boole chemist and pharmacist.
- Mary Everest Boole mathematician and educator.
- Lucien Bull pioneer in chronophotography, inline citations, infobox.
- John Elliot Cairnes economist, infobox, additional references.
- Nicholas Callan priest and scientist.
- John Casey (mathematician) infobox.
- John Cheyne (physician) physician, surgeon.
- George Cleghorn (Scottish physician) physician and surgeon.
- Samuel Clossy (c.1724-1786) anatomist.
- Abraham Colles professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
- Robert Collins (physician) (1800-1868) physician in 1824, master of the Rotunda hospital.
- Edward Joshua Cooper landowner, politician and astronomer, infobox.
- Dominic Corrigan physician, known for his original observations in heart disease.
- Francis Cruise (1834-1912) physician.
- James Curley (astronomer) infobox, inline citations, sections.
- Edmund Davy professor of chemistry, infobox.
- Henry Horatio Dixon plant biologist and professor, sections.
- Stephen Mitchell Dixon (1866-1940) civil engineer.
- Charles Donovan medical officer in the Indian Medical Service.
- Kenneth Essex Edgeworth astronomer, economist and engineer, infobox, stub.
- Joseph Allen Galbraith (1818-1890) reformers of third-level education.
- Edward Edwin Glanville (1873-1898) physicist, wireless telegraphy pioneer.
- Robert James Graves surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name.
- Richard Helsham physician and natural philosopher, infobox, expansion.
- Henry Hennessy (1826-1901) engineer and physicist.
- Augustine Henry plantsman and sinologist, infobox.
- Bryan Higgins natural philosopher in chemistry, sections, infobox, expansion.
- John Philip Holland engineer who developed the first submarine, infobox, inline citations.
- Gordon Morgan Holmes neurologist.
- John Horn (shipbuilder) (1814-1895).
- Margaret Lindsay Huggins scientific investigator and astronomer, infobox, sections, expansion.
- John Hewitt Jellett Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, needs additional sources, sections, expansion.
- Robert Kane (chemist) chemist and educator.
- Peter Kerley radiologist, infobox, stub.
- Kathleen King botanist and one of Ireland's leading field bryologists.
- Richard Kirwan scientist.
- Humphrey Lloyd (physicist) provost of Trinity College, Dublin, infobox.
- Cynthia Longfield expert on the dragonfly and an explorer, stub, infobox, expansion.
- Robert Mallet geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor.
- Robert Manning (engineer) engineer, infobox, sections.
- Francis Leopold McClintock explorer, additional sections.
- George Minchin (1845-1914) mathematician.
- William Henry Stanley Monck astronomer and philosopher, infobox, expansion, sections.
- Robert Murphy (mathematician) (1806-1843).
- Cornelius O’Sullivan (1841-1907) chemist.
- Robert Perceval (1756 - 1839), chemist.
- Mary, Lady Heath Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans, needs some additional sources.
- Thomas Preston (scientist) scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy, stub.
- Peter Rice structural engineer, additional references.
- Thomas Romney Robinson astronomer and physicist.
- Hugh Ryan, chemist.
- Francis Rynd physician, famous for inventing the hollow needle used in hypodermic syringes, infobox.
- George Salmon mathematician and Anglican theologian.
- Maxwell Simpson chemist, infobox, stub.
- William Stokes (physician) sections, and expansion.
- Alicia Boole Stott mathematician.
- William Kirby Sullivan (1822-1890) chemist.
- John Henry Synge (1788-1845) educator.
- William Thompson (philosopher) political and philosophical writer and social reformer, requires additional inline citations.
- Richard J. Ussher ornithologist, stub, infobox.
- William Edward Wilson (astronomer) astronomer, infobox, additional sections.
Other known figures
[edit]- Margaret Aylward (1810-1889) educator.
- Francis Beaufort hydrographer, infobox.
- James Booth (mathematician), cleric, mathematician and educationist, infobox.
- Louis Brennan mechanical engineer and inventor.
- Denis Parsons Burkitt surgeon.
- James Fitzmaurice aviation pioneer, needs additional reference/sources.
- Roy C. Geary statistician, stub, sections, expansion.
- Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet geologist, mining engineer, additional references/sources, inline citations, sections.
- Arthur Jacob ophthalmologist.
- Dionysius Lardner scientific writer.
- James MacCullagh mathematician, additional sections.
- Robert McClure explorer of the Arctic, infobox, clean up references.
- Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet physician, infobox, additional sections.
- Francis Nevill (c.1648 - 1727) geologist.
- Alice Perry the first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to graduate with a degree in engineering.
- Horace Plunkett agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, needs additional sources/references.
- Edward Sabine astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier.
- Franc Sadleir academic and college head, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, infobox, needs sections, expansion.
- Robert William Smith (surgeon) surgeon and pathologist, infobox, expansion, sections.
- Jeremy Swan cardiologist, stub.
- Richard Turner iron worker and designer, infobox, expansion, more images.