Famous Brits Flashcards
John Logie Baird
television
Robert Watson Watt
radar
Bernard Lovell
astronomy
Alan Turing
Turing machine
John Macleod
insulin
Francis Crick
DNA molecular structure
Frank Whittle
jet engine
Christopher Cockerell
hovercraft
James Goodfellow
ATMs
Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe
IVF
Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell
cloning
Peter Mansfield
MRI
Tim Berners-Lee
WWW
Mary Peters
olympian for pentathlon
Dylan Thomas
poet and writer. Under Milkwood and Do Not Go Gentle
Richard Butler
Education Act. Free secondary school.
William Beveridge
economist and social reformer. 1942 Beveridge report.
Alexander Fleming
penicillin
Ernest Rutherford
first to split the atom
George and Robert Stephenson
railway engine
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
engineer
Richard Ackwright
carding machine for textiles
Francis Drake
admiral in Spanish Armada and Golden Hind
Henry Purcell
an organist at Westminster Abbey
George Frederick Handel
Composer. Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Gustav Holst
composer. The Planets
Edward Elgar
composer. Pomp and Circumstance.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
composer. traditional english folk
William Walton
composer. film scores to opera. wrote marches for the coronation of King George VI and Elizabeth II. Facade and Belshazzar’s Feast.
Benjamin Britten
composer. operas. Peter Grime and Billy Budd. Founded the Aldeburgh festival in Suffolk.
