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Categories: People associated with electricity, Fellows of the Royal Society, Recipients of the Copley Medal, Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur, English inventors
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Wheatstone  Sir Charles Wheatstone  Charles Wheatstone  polar clock  Sir Wheatstone
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English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) WordNet 3.0
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English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE, was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope, and the Playfair cipher. Wikipedia
A British scientist and inventor, eponymous for Wheatstone bridge Wikipedia Disambiguation
British physicist Wikidata
IS A
inventor
physicist
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
knight bachelor
Royal Medal
Bakerian Lecture
Copley Medal
Albert Medal
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COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EMPLOYER
King's College London
FIELD OF WORK
physics
GIVEN NAME
Charles
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Accademia nazionale delle scienze
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Institution of Civil Engineers
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OCCUPATION
engineer
photographer
mathematician
physicist
musical instrument maker
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PLACE OF BIRTH
Gloucester
PLACE OF DEATH
Paris
RESIDENCE
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
SEX OR GENDER
male
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone
Wikipedia
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Charles Wheatstone
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Charles Wheatstone
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polar clock, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Sir Wheatstone, Wheatstone, Charles
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Sir Charles Wheatstone

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