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Famous Brits Flashcards

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John Logie Baird

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television

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Robert Watson Watt

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radar

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Bernard Lovell

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astronomy

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Alan Turing

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Turing machine

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John Macleod

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insulin

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Francis Crick

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DNA molecular structure

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Frank Whittle

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jet engine

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Christopher Cockerell

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hovercraft

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James Goodfellow

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ATMs

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Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

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IVF

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Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell

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cloning

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Peter Mansfield

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MRI

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Tim Berners-Lee

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WWW

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Mary Peters

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olympian for pentathlon

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Dylan Thomas

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poet and writer. Under Milkwood and Do Not Go Gentle

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Richard Butler

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Education Act. Free secondary school.

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William Beveridge

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economist and social reformer. 1942 Beveridge report.

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Alexander Fleming

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penicillin

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Ernest Rutherford

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first to split the atom

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George and Robert Stephenson

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railway engine

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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engineer

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Richard Ackwright

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carding machine for textiles

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Francis Drake

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admiral in Spanish Armada and Golden Hind

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Henry Purcell

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an organist at Westminster Abbey

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George Frederick Handel

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Composer. Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks

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Gustav Holst

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composer. The Planets

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Edward Elgar

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composer. Pomp and Circumstance.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

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composer. traditional english folk

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William Walton

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composer. film scores to opera. wrote marches for the coronation of King George VI and Elizabeth II. Facade and Belshazzar’s Feast.

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Benjamin Britten

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composer. operas. Peter Grime and Billy Budd. Founded the Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk.

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