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Prof. Jean
de
Siebenthal (1917-2006)
Swiss mathematician (Lausanne University) Per fess: [1] Per pale Gules and Argent, a fess counterchanged. [2] Argent, a dragon Sable langued Gules [& armed Argent]. Ph.D., 1951, President Swiss Mathematical Society, 1964-65. |
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Prof.
Bill Irvine
(193?-) FRAS. Radio-astronomer (UMass, Amherst
& FCRAO) Argent, 3 holly branches each consisting of as many leaves Vert banded Gules. On a chief Azure 3 seagulls volant Argent. A bordure counter-compony Azure and Argent. |
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Prof. Klaus-Olaf
von Klitzing
(b. 1943; Nobel
1985) German physicist Or, three Hungarian bonnets Gules lined Argent. |
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Dr.
John C.
Brown (1947-) 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland (since 1995) Bleu celeste, on a pale Or voided Sable, between two James Short telescopes on tripods Or combattant, 8 mullets Argent in the shape of the constellation Orion. On a chief Azure with a fillet in base Or, a saltire Argent and (in the center point) an open crown Or. |
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Dr. Myron Wyn
Evans
(1950-) Welsh chemist
[Civil List
pensioner, running AIAS] Per fess dancetty Gules and Sable, a Lion Or holding a garb Argent banded Vert within a bordure engrailed Or. Motto: Poer y Llwch o'r Pair Llachar. [His controversial work is self-promoted] |
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Prof.
Michael R. Taaffe (195?-)
Virginia Tech. Gules, a cross Argent fretty Azure. |
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Dr. Clemens
Jochen Wilke (1960-)
German chemist & European patent attorney Per pale Azure and Argent, on a roundel nebuly of ten undulations counterchanged a dianthus blossom (wild carnation) per pale Gules and Argent seeded Or. [ HGW ] |
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Dr. Bernardo Jose
Perez-Ramirez
(1960-) Chilean-born US biochemist Per pale Azure and Gules, overall above a castle with two towers an owl guardant displayed Or, charged on the breast with a pear Azure, all within a bordure compony of 22 pieces Or and Gules, each Gules section charged with a copihue flower Or. [ USHR ] |
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Dr. Stephen G. Clackson (1961-)
Scottish crystallographer.Gyronny of sixteen Or and Argent, a lozenge Azure. [ HSS | read more ] |
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Dr. David A. Spencer
(1963-) British/Italian geologist (London). Gules, a chevron Or between 3 ice-axes and hammers in saltire Argent and conjoined to a bordure Or. Mantling: Gules lined Or. [Granted in 2000.] |
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Dr. Bernhard Peter
(1966-) German chemist and pharmacist (Koblenz). Argent, a cross mascly within a bordure Azure. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Crest: On a wreath of the colors, 2 keys in saltire Argent (teeth outwards in chief). |
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Dr. Frank J. Reuther
(1971-). Forensic medicine. Quarterly; [1] Gules, a staff of Aesculapius and a balance conjoined Or. [2 & 3] Barry of 10 Sable and Or. [4] Gules, a sapphire on a ring Or. Crest: A falcon. |
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Dr.
Kirill
Shtengel (197?-) Russian-born physicist
(Ph.D. UCLA, 2000). Per fess; [1] Azure, a cock Or beneath an estoile and between two escallops, all Argent. [2] Gules, an anchor and a sword in saltire Argent. |
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Dr.
Klaas Wiersema (1977-)
Dutch astronomer (University of Amsterdam). Sable, a pelican in her piety Argent. [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ] |
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Olivier de Serres
(1539-1619) French agronomist. D'argent, à trois serres d'aigle de gueules, posées en fasce. [Canting arms] |
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Jan Marek Markù, Johannes Marcus Marci of Kronland
(1595-1667) Czech. Per pale: Argent a crown Or. Azure, an eagle Argent langued Gules, his breast charged with a sun in his splendor. All surmounted by a rainbow of 5 arches, Vert, Gules, Or, Gules and Vert. |
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Claude Perrault
(1613-1688) Architect (Colonnade du Louvre) and naturalist D'or, à l'écusson d'azur, chargé d'un écusson d'argent. Claude Perrault is a brother of the famous reteller Charles Perrault (1628-1703). |
 | William
Petty
(1623-1687) British economist & statistician
[knighted in 1661] Ermine, on a bend azure, a [magnetic] needle pointing to the Polar Star, Or (for Petty). Impaling: Sable, 3 walnut leaves between 2 bendlets Or (for his wife, Elizabeth Waller). Crest: A beehive Or, with bees about it. Motto: Ut Apes Geometria. |
 | Jean-Baptiste de
La Quintinie
(1624-1688) Agronomist
[knighted in 1687] D'argent, au chevron d'azur accompagné en chef de deux étoiles de même, et en pointe d'un arbre de sinople. |
 | Richard
Towneley
(1629-1707) English mathematician and astronomer
[ Hall ] Argent, a fess Sable, three mullets in chief of the second. Crest : On a perch Or, a [sparrow] hawk close Proper, beaked and belled Or. Motto : Tenez le vraye. |
 | Pierre Daniel
Huet
(1630-1721) Scholar and
Bishop of Avranches,
born in Caen D'azur, à trois grelots d'or, contre-posés, surmontés de deux mouchetures d'hermine d'argent. Cimier : Chape d'évêque surmontant une couronne avec mitre dextre et crosse sénestre. |
 | Joseph Pitton de
Tournefort
(1656-1708) French botanist D'azur, à la tour d'or entre deux lions combattants du même. |
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Erasmus
Darwin (1731-1802) English scientist;
grandfather of Charles Darwin. Motto: E Conchis Omnia (everything from shells). |
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Friedrich II, Graf
von Hahn (1742-1805)
German astronomer Argent, a cock Gules armed Sable, dexter leg raised, two tail feathers of the Last. Motto: Primus sum, qui deum laudat. |
 | Déodat Guy Sylvain Tancrède
Gratet de
Dolomieu
(1750-1801) French geologist D'azur, au griffon d'or. Motto: Tout à tout [ Gratet-Dolomieu, Dauphiné ] |
 | Jean-Nicolas
Corvisart
(1755-1821) Physician
[Motto: Franc et droit ] Écartelé: au 1, d'or au coeur de gueules; au 2, de gueules à la palme d'argent; au 3, de gueules au lion d'argent; au 4, d'or au bâton d'Esculape (verge de sable et serpent de sinople). |
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Antoine François
Fourcroy
(1755-1809) French chemist [Comte in 1808] D'azur, chargé d'un écu d'or surchargé d'un écu de sable, à la lampe d'or allumée de gueules et accompagnée en chef à sénestre d'une étoile d'or. |
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Pierre Jean Georges
Cabanis
(1757-1844) French physiologist D'argent, à la balance soutenue par une verge embrassée d'un serpent, le tout de sable. [ Franc-quartier de comte sénateur brochant au quart de l'écu. ] |
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Vicomte Charles Gilbert
Morel de Vindé
(1759-1842) French agronomist D'azur, à la fleur de lys d'or, accompagnée de trois glands du même, au chef d'argent, chargé d'une aigle au vol abaissé de sable. [Nescit Labi Virtus] |
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d'Auxon, Dauxon, d'Auxonne, Dauxonne.
French mathematician. [?] D'argent, à trois épis d'or, sur une terrasse de sinople; au chef d'or chargé d'un vol de sable, surmonté d'une étoile de gueules. |
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André Jean François Marie Brochant
de Villiers (1772-1840) French mineralogist D'or à l'olivier arraché de sinople, accosté aux pointes de 2 croissants de gueule, soutenu d'une rivière d'azur chargée d'un brochet contourné [?] d'argent. |
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Christophe Joseph Alexandre
Mathieu de Dombasle
(1777-1843) Agronomist De gueules, à la fasce d'argent, chargée d'un lion léopardé et couronné de gueules, accompagnée de trois têtes de léopards d'or. [Roville-devant-Bayon] |
 | Augustin Pyrame
de Candolle
(1778-1841) Swiss botanist. Quarterly; Or and Azure. [Motto: Aide Dieu au bon chevalier. ] (Rietstap) |
 | Sir Benjamin Collins
Brodie,
Sr. (1783-1862) 1st Baronet (1834), FRS (1820)
Azure, on a chevron between three mullets Argent, 3 civic wreaths Vert. (Debrett) [Physiologist (bone & joint). Sergeant-surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria.] |
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Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Purkyne
(1789-1869) Czech physiologist. [Knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1869] Per bend Gules and Argent, a bend Azure between two stars of six points counterchanged. [Thanks to François Velde.] |
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Roderick Impey
Murchison
(1792-1871) Scottish geologist
[Baronet in 1866] Or, a lion rampant Sable between two pine apples in chief Vert and an escallop in base Azure. (Murchison of Tarradale, 1788) [ Blazon courtesy of Stephen J F Plowman ] Formal portrait. |
 | Eugène
Dumortier
(1801-1876) French paleontologist.
Azure, a bend undy Argent. [Dumortierite was described in 1881 by M.F. Gonnard and named after the late Dumortier. It's an aluminum borosilicate Al7(BO)3(SiO4)3O3 found in Gneiss and used for spark-plug porcelain.] |
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Count Guglielmo
Libri
Carucci dalla Sommaja (1803-1869) Italian mathematician |
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Benoît Hippolyte, [comte]
de
Villeneuve-Flayosc (1803-1874) X1822 De gueules, fretté de six lances d'or entre-semées de douze écussons du même. |
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Jean-Louis Armand
de Quatrefages
de Bréau (1810-1892) French naturalist D'or, à quatre hêtres arrachés de sinople. [Canting arms (Latin): quatro fagi ] |
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August Emanuel [Ritter von]
Reuss
(1811-1873) Czech paleontologist [Suggested by Jiri Jaroslav on 2004-07-29, click shield for Czech page with arms] |
 | Leopold Ritter
von Dittel
(1815-1898) Founder of urology.
[ Vienna ] Azure, a fess undy Argent; in chief, a hand proper sleeved Argent holding a scalpel proper shafted Sable; in base, an Arnica Alpina on a terrace proper, with open blossom Or. |
| Sir Benjamin Collins
Brodie,
Jr. (1817-1880) 2nd Baronet. English chemist
Azure, on a chevron between three mullets Argent, 3 civic wreaths Vert. (Collen) [Investigated allotropic forms of carbon. Discovered graphitic acid.] |
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Karel Frantisek Eduard knight
Koristka
(1825-1906)
[Hypsometer,
1846] Czech professor. Former student of Christian Doppler (1803-1853) in Prague. Azure, a surveyor's tower standing on 3 hills, under 5 estoiles Or (3 & 2) in chief. |
 | Sir William Bartlett
Dalby
(1840-1918) British otologist
[Dalby Prize] Barry undy of 6 Sable and Or; on a pale Or between 2 eagles, a rod of Asclepius. Motto : Probitas Verus Honor (Integrity is True Honor). [Vanity Fair, 1888] |
 | Jacques Arsène
d'Arsonval
(1851-1940) French physiologist and physicist Tranché d'or et d'azur, à une étoile à 8 rais de l'un en l'autre chargée d'une croisette de gueules . |
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Jean-Marie Joseph Nicolas Arthur de Plument de Bailhac
(1856-1892) X1876 D'azur à trois aiglettes d'argent. Supports : 2 griffons à la tête contournée. |
 | Philibert
Maurice d'Ocagne
du Plessis (1862-1938) X1880 Mathematician D'argent, au chevron de sable, accompagné de trois étoiles de gueules. As a playwright, he was known as Pierre Delix ("de l'X" = de Polytechnique). |
 | Ernst
Freiherr Stromer
von Reichenbach (1870-1952) German paleontologist Gules, three fleur-de-lis conjoined pallwise Argent. |
 | Prince Henri Bernard
de Diesbach-Torny
(1880-1970)
Professor of chemistry Ecartelé, aux 1 et 4 parti de gueules et d'argent, au croissant de l'un en l'autre; aux 2 et 3, de sable, à la bande vivrée d'or accostée de deux lions du même, lampassés de gueules. [Fribourg] |
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Count Edward Charles Richard
Taaffe
of Dublin (1898-1967) Irish gemologist Gules, a cross Argent fretty Azure. [ Grandfather = Eduard Graf Taaffe. ] (Taaffe discovered taaffeite as a cut stone in 1945, with B.W. Anderson.) |
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Gerbert of Aurillac, Pope (999) Sylvester II (c.940-1003) |
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Michel de Nostredame,
Nostradamus
(1503-1566) French physician and seer Quarterly, [1&4] Gules, a wheel of eight spokes Argent, broken between each spoke [2&3] Or, an eagle's head [erased] Sable. Motto : Soli Deo [Gloria]. |
 | Jean
Taisnier (1508-1562)
Belgian musician and astrologer [tinctures unknown] A l'ours muselé posé sur une terrasse et surmonté d'un chef trilobé. |
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Michael Servetus,
Miguel Servet
(1511-1553) Spanish heretic and martyr. Per pale; [1] Vert, a tree eradicated Or between two crosses Gules. [2] Gules, two bezants in pale. |
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Sir Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) [Mediocria Firma = The solid middle way] Quarterly; [1 & 4] Gules, on a chief Argent two mullets Sable; [2 & 3] Barry of six Or and Azure, a bend Gules. [5] Overall, a small crescent Argent in heart. |
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Théophraste
Renaudot (1586-1653) Physician and pioneer of journalism (1631) D'azur, au lion d'or, au chef cousu de gueules, chargé de trois coqs d'argent. Motto: Superat Vigilentia Robur |
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Jean
Racine (1639-1699) Major French tragedian. D'azur, à un cygne d'argent becqué et membré de sable. |
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Paul d'Albert,
cardinal de Luynes
1703-1788). Archbishop of Sens. Astronomer D'or, au lion de gueules, armé, lampassé et couronné d'azur. (d'Albert) |
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Michel Ferdinand d'Albert
d'Ailly
(1714-1769)
duc de Chaulnes. Physicist D'or, au lion de gueules, armé, lampassé et couronné d'azur. (d'Albert) |
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François XII Alexandre Frédéric
de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) [ENSAM] Quarterly, Gules a bend Argent (Roye) & Or a lion Azure (Roucy). Overall: Barry of 10 Argent and Azure, a chevron écimé and 2 chevrons Gules (La Rochefoucauld). |
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Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe (1749-1832)
Major German writer Azure, an estoile within a bordure Argent. [No known motto.] |
 | Bernard Germain
Étienne de La
Ville-sur-Illon, comte de
Lacépède (1756-1825) [First Grand Chancelier de la Légion d'Honneur ] D'or, à la croix [de Lorraine] de gueules, au chef de sable, à la bande d'argent brochant sur le tout, chargée de trois roses de gueules. |
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John "Mad Jack"
Fuller
(1757-1834) Sponsor and mentor to Michael Faraday Argent, three bars and canton Gules. Motto: Carbone et Forcipibus (1690). |
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James Smithson
(1765-1829)
endower
of the Smithsonian Institution (US). French-born illegimate son of Hugh Percy (born Smithson, c.1714-1786) and Elizabeth Keate-Macie (1728-1800) whose fortune he inherited. Known as James Lewis Macie until 1800. |
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Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Napoléon I
[ Napoléon's
Theorem ]Gules, two bends sinister between two mullets Or. After 1804 : D'azur, à l'aigle d'or, la tête contournée, au vol abaissé, empiétant un foudre du même. |
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David
Ricardo
(1772-1823) British economist. De gueules,
à la bande vairée d'argent et de sinople, accompagnée de trois gerbes d'or, 2 et 1; au chef d'hermine, chargé d'un roc d'échiquier de sable, accosté de deux besants d'or. |
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Louis-Etienne
Héricart-Ferrand,
Vicomte de Thury (1776-1854) Geologist Ecartelé : 1 & 4, d'or, au volcan de sinople, mouvant de la pointe, chargé de 6 flammes d'argent (1, 2 et 3) et sommé de 3 masses de fumée d'azur, au chef de gueules, chargé de 3 étoiles d'argent (Héricart); 2 & 3, d'azur, à 3 épées posées en 3 pals d'argent, les 2 extrêmes renversées, à la fasce d'or, brochante sur-le-tout (Ferrand). |
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Alphonse Jules Jean-François
Michon-Dumarais
(1784-1870; X1802) D'azur, à la fasce d'or, accompagnée de trois besants d'argent. [ Elu au Corps législatif contre son cousin, Michon de Vougy, en 1852. Créé baron héréditaire en 1869. ] |
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Sir Edward Ffrench
Bromhead
(1789-1855) 2nd Baronet. FRS (1817). Azure, on a bend Argent, between two leopards' faces Or, a mural crown Gules between two fleur-de-lis Sable. [Patron of George Green, 1793-1841] |
 | Ludwig von Köchel (1800-1877)
Austrian botanist, mineralogist and musicologist. Azure, three squares Argent (1 and 2). [Köchel cataloged Mozart's works in 1862.] |
 | Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (1828-1923;
X1846)
French statesman. D'or, à deux fasces de sable. |
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Prince
Albert I of Monaco
(1848-1922) Oceanographer Fusily Argent and Gules. [House of Grimaldi] |
 | Fridtjof Nansen
(1861-1930; Nobel 1922)
Norwegian zoologist and statesman. Per pale; [1] Azure three roses Or. [2] Or, an eagle [or a griffin] Azure rising, with a stone in a lifted claw. [Cappelen's "Norwegian Family Arms"] |
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Bertrand
Arthur William
Russell,
3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970;
Nobel 1950) [Dukes of Bedford] Argent, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure, on a chief Sable three escallops of the first. [ genealogy | misty roots ] |
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Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
(1881-1955) Geologist, paleontologist, philosopher. D'or, au tilleul arraché de sinople sommé de flammes de gueules et terrassé du même, au chef d'azur chargé de trois étoiles du champ. |
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Ludwig von
Mises
(1881-1973) Austrian economist. Quarterly; [1&4] Argent [2] Azure, a caduceus Argent [3] Azure, the numerals I to X on an open bible Argent. On a bend Gules overall, a rose of Sharon between 2 stars of David Argent. |
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Mgr. Alexandre
Vachon,
Jr.
(1885-1953) Archbishop of
Ottawa.
Chemist. Coupé d'azur et de sinople, à la fasce crénelée d'argent, accompagnée, en chef, d'un chrisme d'or et, en pointe, d'une fleur de lys et d'une rose aussi d'or. Motto: Ad Jesum per Mariam. |
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Showa Tenno (1901-1989)
Emperor Hirohito of Japan (from 1926 to 1989) marine biologist. Kiku-mon = 16-petal imperial chrysanthemum emblem. |
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Bruno Baron von
Freytag-Löringhoff
(1912-1996) German epistemologist Azure, three annulets Argent. |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher
of Kesteven
(1925-) Research chemist. British prime minister (1979-1990); "Maggie" or "The Iron Lady". Per chevron, Azure and Gules... etc. Motto: Cherish Freedom. |
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Valéry
Giscard d'Estaing
(1926-; X1944) French president from 1974 to 1981. 1. De gueules, à une Foi d'argent (Cousin de la Tour-Fondue). 2. D'azur, à trois fleurs-de-lis d'or, au chef du même (d'Estaing). [ VGE Blog ] |
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Poul
Anderson
(1926-2001)
Science-fiction writer, founding member of the
SCA. Azure, a saltire Argent, in chief a sun in glory. [SCA device; Sir Bela of Eastmarch] |
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Emperor Akihito (1933-)
125th emperor of Japan (since 1989) marine biologist. Kiku-mon emblem of the imperial family (since 13th century, by law since 1869). |
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Pr. John Donaldson
(1941-) Mathematician. Father of Kronprinsesse
Mary.Or, a two-headed eagle Gules armed Azure. Overall, a lymphad of 3 oars Sable with furled sail Argent (for McDonald). On a chief Azure, a lemniscus between two (Australian) seven-pointed Federation Stars Or. Motto: Ad Infinitum. |
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Johannes Gensfleisch
Gutenberg
(1400-1468) Gules, a beggar cloaked and hooded, holding a begging bowl dexter and a walking stick sinister, all Proper. |
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Wilhelm Schickard
(1592-1635) German.
[Mechanical calculator, 1623] Gules, a lion Or holding in its forepaws an arrow Argent. |
 | Christopher Polhem (1661-1751) Swedish [né Polhammar, knighted in 1716] |
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Nicolas
Joseph Cugnot
(1725-1804) [first automobile, in 1769] |
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Claude-François (Dorothée) marquis de
Jouffroy d'Abbans
(1751-1832) Fascé de sable et d'or de six pièces, la première fasce chargée de trois croisettes tréflées d'argent. [Origin 1444, marquis 1707. In 1783: "Pyroscaphe" steamboat] |
 | George
Stephenson
(1781-1848) ["Blutcher" steam locomotive, 1814.] |
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Karl
Drais von Sauerbronn (1785-1851).
German inventor [Velocipede, 1817]. D'or, à neuf carreaux de gueules, rangés en sautoir et posés dans la direction d'un sautoir. [Rietstap] |
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Alois
Negrelli von Moldelbe
(1799-1858) Austrian engineer & railroad pioneer. Tierced in fess. [1] Argent, a hand Proper sleeved gules holding a royal crown Or. [2] Azure, two mullets Argent. [3] Or, a bar Gules. |
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Justus von
Liebig (1803-1873)
German chemist & industrialist [Freiherr in 1845] Gules, on a bend Argent an oak branch with 7 leaves and 3 acorns Proper. |
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John Deere (1804-1886)
[1837 steel plow,
US patent #46454] Vert, a stag in full course Or (canting trademark of the John Deere Company). |
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Carl Leverkus (1804-1889)
German pharmacist and industrialist. |
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Henri
Nestlé (1814-1890)
[1867
baby formula] De gueules, à un oiseau d'argent, couché dans son nid au naturel. (Rietstap) |
 | Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892)
& Sir William Siemens (1823-1883) Azure, a carrot Proper leaved Argent, between 2 mullets of 6 points Or. [Arms of Hermann von Siemens (1885-1986) grandson of Werner von Siemens.] |
 | Cyrus
W. Field (1819-1892) Undersea Communications Pioneer. Sable, a chevron Argent between three garbes Or. [ John Field (1525-1587) ] |
 | Friedrich Bayer (1825-1880)
German industrialist. |
 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917)
German industrialist. |
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Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (1845-1913)
[1890: de Laval nozzle] Azure, a fess Gules, between three mullets Or and a fleur-de-lis Argent. |
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André Citroën
(1878-1935) X1898.
French engineer and industrialist. De gueules à deux chevrons effilés d'argent. [ Trademark ] |
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Baltzar von Platen
(1898-1984) [1922: Gas absorption refrigeration] Argent, two guenons' heads combattant, winged palewise, Sable langued Gules. |
 | Marco
Polo (c.1254-1324) [ Marko
Pilich, Croatian,
born in Korcula? ] D'or, à la bande d'azur, côtoyée de quatre coqs de sable, becqués, membrés, crêtés et barbés de gueules. [coq = chicken = pollo, in Italian] |
 | Giovanni Caboto,
Jean /
John Cabot (c.1450-1498)
[Canada, 1497-06-24] D'azur, à trois chabots d'or [ = bullheads (Cottus gobio) ] posés en pals, 2 et 1. |
 | Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomew Diaz
(1450-1500) Cape of Good Hope (1488) Bendy, Or and Azure? |
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Christopher
Columbus (1451-1506)
Spanish letters patent dated May 20, 1493 gave [modified] Castille in 1st quarter and Leon in 2nd. Islands in 3rd. Colombo arms [now in point] in the 4th quarter [not the five anchors of the admiral of Castille]. |
 | Amerigo
Vespucci (1454-1512) Americus Vespucius,
explorer of South America. De gueules, à la bande d'azur, semée de mouches d'or, posées dans le sens de la bande. (Rietstap for "Vespucci") |
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Vasco
da Gama (1460-1524)
1st count da Vidigueira.(1519). Sailed to India. Quarterly of 15; Or plain and Gules two bars Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon of Portugal (Argent, 5 escutcheons in cross Azure each charged with 5 plates in cross). |
 | Juan Sebastiàn del Cano / Elcano
(1476-1526)
Motto: Primus circumdedisti me 1523: Per fess. [1] Gules, a castle Or. [2] Or, 2 cinnamon sticks in saltire between 3 nutmegs within an orle of 12 cloves, all Gules. Crest: The motto over a globe Proper. |
 | Ferdinand Magellan
(1480-1521) Fernando de Magallanes, Spanish after 1517. [né Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese until 1514] Argent, three fess checky Gules and Argent. |
 | Jean de Verrazane
(1481-1528) né Giovanni
da Verrazzano / Verrazano. Parti d'or et d'argent, à une étoile (8) de gueules, brochant sur le parti. |
 | Jacques Cartier (1491-1557)
of Limoëlou manor,
explorer of Canada. D'azur à trois pommes de pin d'or. [ Cartier de Couronneau ] |
| Trapobana, Henry the Black, Enrique of Malacca
(1493-1521)
Panglima Awang Interpreter and servant indentured to Magellan, with whom he completed the first circumnavigation, as both returned from the east to Enrique's native Malay land. |
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Sir Francis
Drake (1540-1596)
Motto: Auxilio Divino / Sic Parvis Magna. Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles irradiated Argent. [ Granted by Elizabeth I.] |
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Samuel
Champlain (1567-1635) Explorer of Canada,
founder of Québec (1608) D'azur à la fasce de sable chargée d'un léopard d'or et accompagnée de trois fleurs-de-lis de même. |
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Henry
Hudson, III (c.1570-c.1611) Navigator and explorer Argent, semee of fleurs-de-lis Gules, a cross engrailed Sable. |
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René Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle
(1643-1687) French explorer De sable, au lévrier d'argent surmonté d'une estoile d'or de 8 branches. [Former jesuit Robert de La Salle claimed Louisiana for the king of France in 1682.] |
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Captain James Cook,
RN (1728-1779) [Posthumous: George III, Sept. 1785] Azure, a globe Argent centered on the Pacific Ocean, between two polar stars of six points Or, in pale. [See also: JCU | Captain Cook's Museum] |
 | Louis Antoine de Bougainville
(1729-1811) First French circumnavigator (1769). D'azur, à une ancre d'or et deux épées du même passées en sautoir, brochant sur l'ancre, et un globe terrestre d'argent, brochant sur le tout. |
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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de
La Pérouse
(1741-1788) De gueules, à un épervier d'argent, tenant dans ses serres un rameau d'olivier d'or. [Galaup de Lapeyrouse] (Not [?] Galaup de Chasteuil.) |
 | Baron
Alexander
von Humboldt
(1769-1859) Prussian
scientist and explorer. Or upon a base Vert, a tree of the same between 3 mullets (6) Argent, 1 and 2. |
 | Sir John Ross,
RN (1777-1856) Polar explorer,
uncle of James Clark Ross. Gules three estoiles in chevron between as many lions rampant argent [augmented?]. |
| Louis-Claude de Saulces [baron] de Freycinet
(1779-1842) French explorer. D'or, à deux fasces de sable. |
 | Jules Sébastien César
Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842)
French antarctic explorer. Azure, three axes Or. [Supporters: Two penguins.] |
 | Colonel Sir
George Everest (1790-1866)
Surveyor-General of India,1830-1843. Per fess Azure and Sable, on a fess dented Argent between 3 quintefeuilles of the Same, 3 pelican's heads erased Sable. [ Science & Society Picture Library ] |
| Sir James Clark
Ross, RN (1800-1862)>. Gules three estoiles in chevron between as many lions rampant argent [augmented?]. |
 | Adrien Paul Balny d'Avricourt
(1849-1873) Motto: Ex Oriente Lux. D'or, au sautoir d'azur cantonné de quatre merlettes de gueules. |
| Fridtjof Nansen
(1861-1930; Nobel 1922)
Arctic explorer. Norwegian statesman. Per pale; [1] Azure three roses Or. [2] Or, an eagle [or a griffin] Azure rising, with a stone in a lifted claw. [Cappelen's "Norwegian Family Arms"] |
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Sven Hedin
(1865-1952) [Knighted in 1902] Swedish explorer of Asia. Argent, a globe Azure centered on Asia; on a chief Sable, three escallops of the first. |
 | Jean-Baptiste Charcot
(1867-1936) French explorer of Antarctica. D'azur, à une épée d'argent, garnie d'or, posée en pal. [Son of neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), who taught Sigmund Freud.] |
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott,
RN (1868-1912) British explorer of Antarctica.Or, on a bend Azure a mullet between two crescents of the field. |
| Roald
Amundsen
(1872-1928) Norwegian polar explorer (South Pole in 1911). |
| General Umberto
Nobile
(1885-1978) Italian aviator and Arctic explorer. |
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Thor Heyerdahl
(1914-2002) Norwegian explorer of Polynesia (Kon-Tiki). |
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Leonardo Pisano "Bigollo" Fibonacci
(1170-1250) [Bonacci family?] Per pale Gules and Azure, a lion rampant Argent? |
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Roger Bacon
(1214-1294)
[Doctor Mirabilis
| Friar from Somerset] Gules, six roses Argent seeded Or. |
| Johannes Campanus of Novara (1220-1296) |
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Saint Thomas
Aquinas (1225-1274) [youngest (8th) son of Landolfo of Aquino] Sable, a sun Or? [1471 painting by Benozzo Gozzoli, now in the Louvre, Paris] |
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Meister Dietrich von Freiberg, O.P.
(1250-1310) Thierry de Fribourg Theodoricus Teutonicus de Vriberg [ De iride et radialibus impressionibus ] |
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Occam,
William
of Ockham (1288-1348) Guillaume d'Occam [ Dialogus ] |
| Gersonides, Rabbi Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344) [ *law of sines ] |
| Madhava of Sangamagramma (1350-1425) |
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André Wesele (Witing) Crabbe,
Andreas
Vesalius Bruxellensis (1514-1564) Belgian anatomist. |
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Matthias de L'Obel
(1538-1616) Lobelius.
Belgian botanist
[ Lobelia ] [ Tinctures unknown ] Une jeune femme en tunique longue entre deux obels (populus alba = white poplar) touchant leur troncs; une estoile (6) dans le feuillage. Motto: Candore et Spe |
| Thomas Digges (1546-1595) English astronomer (raised by John Dee after 1559). |
 | Thomas
Harriot
(1560-1621) English scholar, mathematician and astronomer. Stated the law of refraction (July 1601) before Snell (1621) and Descartes (1637). Argent, on a fess Azure three cinquefoils of the First. |
| Santorio Santorio ,
Sanctorius (1561-1636)
[metabolic balance, thermometer] Born March 29, 1561 in Justinopolis (on the Gulf of Trieste, now Koper, Slovenia). |
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Francesco Bonaventura
Cavalieri
(1598-1647) |
|
Gilles Personne de
Roberval
(1602-1675)
French mathematician [Commune de Roberval, Oise 60410] Henri de la Mothe-Houdancourt (1612-1684) lord of Roberval (1641-1684) allowed him to bear the Roberval name. |
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Abbé Edme
Mariotte (1620-1684) Abbot and prior of St. Martin de Beaumont-sur-Vingeanne [30 km NE of Dijon]. |
 | Nicolas Malebranche
(1638-1715) Azure, 3 ouroboros
Argent. [Maternal arms] Youngest [sickly] child of Nicolas Malebranche (secretary to King Louis XIII) and Catherine, sister of Jean de Lauzon (1583-1666) 4th governor of Canada. |
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Denis Papin,
FRS (1647-1714) French inventor; a pauper after 1707. [ Galileo Project ] |
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Abraham de
Moivre (1667-1754) French-born British mathematician. A protestant refugee, born in Vitry-le-François. |
| Marquess Giovanni Poleni (1683-1776) Italian physicist |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) |
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Leonhard Euler
(1707-1783) |
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Jean Philippe Loys
de Chéseaux
(1718-1751) Swiss astronomer and physicist |
 | Maria Gaëtana
Agnesi
(1718-1799) [of Milan] Azure, two swords in saltire Argent, hilts and pomels extending to the chief points Or. |
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Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande
(1732-1807) [Maison du Raffort (01250 Ceyzériat, after 1758)] |
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James Watt (1736-1819)
[Motto: Ingenio et Labore.
Clan:
Insperata floruit.]The arms at left are likely, but still uncertain. See our discussion for details. |
 | Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) D'azur, au chevron d'or, accompagné de trois colombes d'argent. |
|
Pierre
Prévost
(1751-1839) Swiss Scientist (Physicist, Economist, Philosopher). |
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François Isaac
de Rivaz
(1752-1828) Swiss [Internal Combustion Engine, 1807] Coupé: au 1, d'azur, au lion naissant d'or, mouvant du coupé; au 2, de gueules, au chevron d'or, accompagné en pointe d'un croissant d'argent. (Rietstap) |
| John
Dalton (1766-1844) FRS (1822) Azure, semée of cross-crosslets, a lion rampant guardant Argent. [Genealogy] |
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Alexander John Gaspard
Marcet
(1770-1822) Swiss-born clinical chemist. From an old huguenot family, first granted arms by Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). [Modern descendants: Pasteur-Marcet family, of Geneva.] |
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Baron Georg von Langsdorff (1774-1852)
Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff |
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André
Marie Ampère (1775-1836) |
| Marie-Sophie
Germain (1776-1831) French mathematician
[ Monsieur Leblanc ] Parti: au 1, d'azur, à une tour d'or, ajourée de sable; au 2, d'azur, à la barre d'argent, accostée de deux aigles du même. Motto: Justice et liberté |
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Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier
(1777-1861) French mineralogist and botanist |
 | Hans
Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) Danish physicist ["Oersted"] Escutcheon of Oersted at Frederiksborg Castle. |
| Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) X 1797 [French] |
| François Arago (1786-1853) X 1803 [Cerny, Essonne] |
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Sir
William Fairbairn
(1789-1874) FRS (1850) Baronet (1869).
Scottish
engineer Associate of George Stephenson. |
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Michael Faraday
(1791-1867)
Faraday rejected a knighthood and refused to become president of the Royal Society. |
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Carl Gustav
Jacobi
(1804-1851) German mathematician"Argent, a cross moline Gules" OR "Argent, a lion Sable" OR ... Unofficial motto: Invert, always invert. |
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Sir
William
Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) [knighted in 1835]Irish mathematician of Scottish ancestry (clan Hamilton). Motto: "Through". Gules, [a mullet between] three cinquefoils Argent? [ surname | Killyleagh | 1891 ] |
| Julius Robert von
Mayer
(1814-1878) [ennobled 1867-11-05, in Württemberg] |
| Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Russian mathematician. |
| Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902) Prussian biologist. |
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Jean Joseph Etienne
Lenoir
(1822-1900) [2-stroke Engine, 1860] Belgian. |
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Sir Frederick Augustus
Abel
(1827-1902) FRS (1860) Baronet (1893) Invented cordite jointly with Sir James Dewar in 1889. |
| Etienne-Jules
Marey
(1830-1904) French physiologist, physicist and inventor [ Polygraph, 1876. Photographic gun, 1881 ] D'azur, à un mât de vaisseau d'or, avec ses cordages, accosté de deux raies du même. [ Canting arms: mat + raie ] |
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Sir
Andrew
Noble
(1831-1915) 1st Baronet. Scottish physicist, founder of ballistics. Collaborated with the chemist Frederick Abel (of Cordite fame). |
|
Nikolaus August
Otto
(1832-1891) [Gas engine, 1861. 4-stroke engine, 1876] |
| Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf
von Baeyer
(1835-1917;
Nobel
1905) Chemist. |
 | Johannes Diderik
van der Waals
(1837-1923; Nobel 1910)
Dutch physicist. Coupé d'azur et d'argent, à trois merlettes d'or brochant sur le coupé. Crest: A martlet Or. Alternate tinctures: Or and Azure with martlets Sable? [ cf. van der Waals online ] |
| Emile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine (1840-1912) X1860 [ Lemoine point, 1873 ] |
| Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (1842-1934) German engineer [ liquid air, 1895 ] |
 | Jacobus Henricus
van t' Hoff (1852-1911;
Nobel 1901)
Dutch chemist Per fess; [1] per pale, Argent a horse Sable and Gules a bend sinister Argent, [2] Or, a ??? Sable. |
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Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916;
Nobel 1904)
FRS 1888, knighted in 1902.Arms differenced from : Argent, an eagle displayed Sable armed Gules. [Ramsay of Dalhousie] Crest: A unicorn's head couped Argent armed Or. Motto: Ora et Labora. [Clan Ramsay] |
 | Hendrik Antoon
Lorentz
(1853-1928;
Nobel 1902)
Dutch physicist. Per fess; [1] Azure a lamb Or, [2] Argent masoned Sable. |
| Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician and scientist. |
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Joseph John "J.J."
Thomson (1856-1940;
Nobel 1906)
[knighted in 1908] |
 | Léon
Charles
Thévenin
(1857-1926) X1876 French electrical engineer D'or, à trois tourteaux de gueules. [ Navire Câblier Léon Thévenin ?] |
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Rudolf Diesel
(1858-1913) [Pressure-ignited engine, 1893] |
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Sir William Henry
Bragg (1862-1942;
Nobel
1915) British physicist |
|
Willem
de Sitter
(1872-1934) Dutch Astronomer D'azur, à un faucon d'argent, la tête contournée, posé sur un cube de sable, la patte dextre levée. Casque couronné. Cimier: Les meubles de l'écu entre deux proboscides d'azur et d'argent. |
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Théophile
de Donder
(1872-1957) Belgian thermodynamicist [ He attended the famous Solvay conference of 1927.] |
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Sir James Hopwood
Jeans
(1877-1946) British mathematician and physicist |
|
Sir
Owen Willans Richardson
(1879-1959;
Nobel 1928)
British physicist |
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Robert Daniel
Carmichael
(1879-1967) American mathematician Argent, a fess tortilly Azure and Gules. [Carmichael of Carmichael] |
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Max Theodor Felix von
Laue
(1879-1960;
Nobel 1914)
German physicist |
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Arthur Stanley
Eddington
(1882-1944) British astrophysicist [knighted in 1930] |
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George Charles
de Hevesy (1885-1966;
Nobel
1943)
Hungarian chemist Discovered hafnium (72) in 1923 and pionereed radioactive chemical tracers. Buried in Kerepesi Cemetery (Budapest). |
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Frederick A.
Lindemann
(1886-1957) [1st Viscount Cherwell] British physicist He attended the first Solvay conferences and became Churchill's scientific advisor. |
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Sir Ralph H.
Fowler
(1889-1944) FRS 1925, knighted in 1942. Math. physicist Azure, on a chevron Argent, between three lions passant guardant Or, three Maltese crosses Sable. [ Sapiens qui Vigilat ] He was at the 1927 Solvay conference. |
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William Lawrence
Bragg (1890-1971;
Nobel
1915) Son of Sir William Bragg |
 | Sir
James Chadwick (1891-1974;
Nobel 1935)
[knighted in 1945] Gules, an inescutcheon Argent between eight martlets of the same, in orle. |
 | Patrick M. S.
Blackett (1897-1974;
Nobel 1948)
Baron Blackett of Chelsea Argent, on a chevron between three mullets sable, as many escallops of the field. |
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Edward Lawry
Norton
(1898-1983) American electrical engineer Gules a fret Argent, overall a bend vairy Or and Gules. |
| Georg von Békésy (1899-1972; Nobel 1961) Hungarian-born US biophysicist |
| Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) Mathematician, FRS 1947 (DBE 1969) |
| Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901-1967) American physicist |
| Sir Nevill Francis
Mott (1905-1996;
Nobel 1977)
FRS 1936, knighted in 1962. |
 | Gerard Peter
Kuiper (1905-1973)
Dutch-born American astronomer Taillé d'argent, à une étoile de gueules, sur azur à une étoile d'or, à la barre d'or, brochant sur le taillé. [Rietstap for "Kuipers" (Leeuwarden)] |
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William George
Penney
(1909-1991) [Baron Penney of East Hendred, 1967] British physicist Bill/Billy Penney (British A-Bomb). His coat-of-arms was the first to include modern symbols (electrons). [ 1 ] |
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Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English astronomer, FRS 1957, knighted in 1972. Argent, two lions rampant combattant Sable. |
| Viscount Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003; Nobel 1977) Belgian [Russian-born] |
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Viscount Christian René
de Duve (1917-;
Nobel 1974)
Belgian cytologist |
| Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (1929-) Mathematician, FRS 1962, knighted in 1983. |
| Jacques Tits (1930-) Belgian-born French mathematician (Abel prize, 2008). |
| Sir Roger Penrose (1931-) British mathematician, FRS 1972, knighted in 1994. |
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Viscount
Dirk Frimout (1941-)
Belgian physicist and astronaut |
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Sir
Martin Rees (1942-)
Baron Rees of Ludlow (2005). English cosmologist. Astronomer Royal since 1995. President of the Royal Society since 2005. |
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Viscount
Pierre Deligne (1944-)
Belgian mathematician (Fields Medal, 1978) |
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Gerardus
't_Hooft (1946-;
Nobel 1999)
Dutch physicist D'azur, à une tête d'homme de carnation, posée de profil, couronnée de lauriers de sinople. (Rietstap) |
