October 2008

2010 Anniversary Programme Local Heroes awardees

Guernsey heroes of the Royal Society Grosvenor Museum Miscellaneous Fellows Chester Friends of the Priaulx Library Guernsey Eddington. The universe and beyond Arthur Eddington FRS Constructing the Heavens: the Bath astronomers Kendal Museum Caroline Herschel & William Herschel FRS Cumbria Herschel Museum of Astronomy Bath Close encounters with jelly fish, bi-planes and Dartmoor Star gazing: Admiral Smyth's celestial Frederick Stratten Russell FRS observations Marine Biological Association William Henry Smyth FRS Plymouth Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum Bedford Mary Anning - the geological lioness of Lyme Regis Cornelius Vermuyden's fantastic feat and the Mary Anning continuous battle to maintain Fenland drainage Lyme Regis Museum Cornelius Vermuyden FRS Dorset Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum Ely, Cambridgeshire The Bailey bridge- A tribute to Sir Donald Bailey Donald Bailey The science of sound Redhouse Museum & Gardens JW Strutt PRS Christchurch Whipple Museum of the History of Science Dorset Cambridge Barnes Wallis- The Yorkshire connection and Trilobites, toadstone and time beyond John Whitehurst FRS Barnes Wallis FRS Congleton Museum East Riding of Yorkshire Museum Service Cheshire Beverley Museum display and events to celebrate John No flies on him: the multi talented Professor Ray in the 21st Century Newstead John Ray FRS Robert Newstead FRS Braintree District Museum

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Essex Fantastic Mr Ferranti Star gazing Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS James Pound FRS & James Bradley FRS Gallery Oldham Redbridge Museum Service Oldham Ilford Essex John Mercer: Lancashire's curious chemist John Mercer FRS Dr Jenner's garden party Queen Street Mill Textile Museum Edward Jenner FRS Burnley Edward Jenner Museum Lancashire Berkeley Gloucestershire Sir Jonas Moore, Knight of Pendle Forest visits Townley Sir John Laws- a lifetime pioneering science, Sir Jonas Moore FRS agriculture and the local community Towneley Hall and Art Gallery Sir John Laws FRS Burnley Rothamsted Research Lancashire Harpenden Hertfordshire Newton and the Royal Society - Woolsthorpe Manor summer exhibtion 2010 Science in the search for better medicines Isaac Newton FRS William Allen FRS & David Jack FRS Woolsthorpe Manor Ware Museum Grantham Hertfordshire Lincolnshire

Earthquake detective: introducing the life and The man who named the clouds: Luke Howard work of John Milne, pioneer seismologist FRS, a Tottenham hero John Milne FRS Luke Howard FRS Carisbrooke Castle Bruce Castle Museum Isle of Wight Haringay London

Performance engineering and floodlit tube tours How doth the busy banking bee- explore Lord at the Brunel Museum Avebury's insect world Marc Brunel FRS & John Lubbock- 1st Baron Avebury FRS Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS Bromley Museum The Brunel Museum Orpington Rotherhithe Kent London

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Scarborough Celebrating Fellows of the Royal Society buried North Yorkshire at Kensal Green Cemetery, London 130 Fellows buried in the cemetary Celebrating the scientific acheivements of Rev Kensal Green Cemetary William Scoresby FRS (1789-1857) London William Scoresby FRS Whitby Museum Hidden histories: She is an astronomer North Yorkshire Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Caroline Herschel Royal Observatory, Greenwich Stars observed: Goodricke, Piggott and the Greenwich development of Astronomy. An exhibition London John Goodricke FRS & Edward Pigott FRS York City Archives Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate Hans Sloane FRS Discover Ada Lovelace: a poet's daughther and Chelsea Physic Garden enchantress of numbers London Ada Lovelace FRS Newstead Abbey Historic House and Park Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate Nottingham Hans Sloane FRS The Old Operating Theatre Museum Acland's amazing scientific edifice- an illustrated London museum trail in rhyming verse Henry Acland FRS Sir Hans Sloane: discovery, travels and chocolate Oxford University Museum of Natural History Hans Sloane FRS Royal College of Physicians John Wrottesley- South Staffordshire's London astronomer John Wrottesley FRS Perton Library Staffordshire The railroaders- The Nicholas Wood young Sir John Tomes- leading Victorian dentist engineering club John Tomes FRS Nicholas Wood FRS British Dental Association North of England Institute of Mining and Caterham Mechanical Engineers Surrey Newcastle Earth, air and seawater: a celebration of local The son of the first keeper pioneers William Crawford Williamson FRS Gideon Mantell FRS, Richard Russell FRS & Scarborough Museums Trust John Evelyn FRS

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Sussex Archaeological Society Copying James Watt: a master of science and Lewes votary of art Sussex James Watt FRS Inverclyde Libraries and Museum Secret altars: revealing the hidden past Greenock Martin Lister FRS Inverclyde Arbeia Roman Fort South Shields Hugh Falconer, local hero - a celebration of art Tyne and Wear and science Hugh Falconer FRS Mr Boulton entertains: A Lunar Society meeting The Moray Council Museums Service Matthew Boulton FRS Forres Soho House Museum Moray Birmingham West Midlands A celebration of science: Renfrewshire and the Royal Society The unknown hero of Leeds: William Astbury, Miscellaneous Fellows molecular biologist Paisley Museum William Astbury FRS Renfrewshire Thackray Medical Museum Leeds D'Arcy Thompson anniversary celebrations D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson FRS Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The full spectrum Universities of Dundee and St Andrews Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Caroline Herschel Dundee & St Andrews Armagh Planetarium/ University of Ulster Armagh Super science sleuths at Swansea Museum Miscellaneous Fellows Swansea Museum

Mary Somerville- Reach for the stars Mary Somerville Burntisland Heritage Trust Fife

An introduction to the work of Robert Dick Robert Dick Caithness Horizons Thurso Caithness

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