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This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.

Biologists

Henry Charlton Bastian, physiologist and neurologist
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts, Indian Army officer and ornithologist
George Carter Bignell, entomologist
William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society ^[1]
Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician^[2]
Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist^[3]
Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist^[4]
Jean Golding, epidemiologist
Henry Brougham Guppy, naturalist and botanist
Charles Alexander Johns, botanist and clergyman
Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist
William Lobb, plant collector^[5]^[6]
John Keast Lord, veterinarian and naturalist
Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer^[7]
John Mayow, physiologist^[8]
William Noye of Paul, entomologist^[9]
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
John Ralfs, botanist^[10]
Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist^[11]
John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist
Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist^[12]^[13]^[14]
Elizabeth Andrew Warren, botanist

Earth scientists

William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman^[15]
Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist^[16]
Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society^[17]
Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary^[18]
Robert Were Fox, geologist^[19]
William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman^[20]
John Hawkins, geologist, traveller^[21]
Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer^[22]
Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer^[23]
Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist^[24]
Benjamin Neeve Peach, geologist^[25]
William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist^[26]
John Arthur Phillips, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer^[27]

Physical scientists

John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune^[28]
Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
Edmund Davy, chemist^[29]
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, chemist and inventor
Edwin Dunkin, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall^[30]
Antony Hewish, astronomer^[31]
Sir William Lower (1570 – 1615), astronomer and Member of Parliament
William Oliver, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath^[32]
Roy Sambles, physicist^[33]

Others

Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet, mathematician
Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society^[34]
John Hellins, mathematician, curate of Constantine^[35]
Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), Australian mathematician

See also

List of Cornish engineers and inventors

References

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^ "Jonathan Couch Papers". American Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
^ G. T. Bettany, ‘Couch, Richard Quiller (1816–1863)’, rev. Yolanda Foote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Vigurs, C. C. (1922) "F. Hamilton Davey" in: Thurston, E. & Vigurs, C. C. A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's "Flora of Cornwall". Truro: Oscar Blackford
^ "William Lobb in Ecuador and the Enigma of Solanum lobbianum". www.devoran.org.uk. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
^ John G. Hawkes (1992). "William Lobb in Ecuador and the Enigma of Solanum lobbianum". Taxon. 41 (3): 471–475. doi:10.2307/1222817. JSTOR 1222817.
^ Marcus B. Simpson jun., ‘Lower, Richard (1631–1691)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ "John Mayow". Rice University. Retrieved 21 October 2009.
^ F. H. N. Smith (1997). The Moths and Butterflies of Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly. Wallingford: Gem Publishing Company
^ James H. Price, ‘Ralfs, John (1807–1890)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ B. B. Woodward, ‘Rodd, Edward Hearle (1810–1880)’, rev. Yolanda Foote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Radio Scilly Archived 2010-10-31 at the Wayback Machine
^ Sea Salt Cornwall Feature Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ "If it's nature you're after, take a hike". The Guardian. 13 May 2001. Archived from the original on 16 September 2021.
^ DNB
^ Denise Crook, ‘Carne, Elizabeth Catherine Thomas (1817–1873)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Denise Crook, ‘Carne, Joseph (1782–1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Robert Hunt, ‘Edmonds, Richard (1801–1886)’, rev. Denise Crook, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Denise Crook, ‘Fox, Robert Were (1789–1877)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Boase, G. C. (2004), ‘Gregor, William (1761–1817)’, rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ H. S. Torrens, ‘Hawkins, John (1761–1841)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Oxford DNB (2004)
^ Denise Crook, ‘Moyle, Matthew Paul (1788–1880)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ David Oldroyd, ‘Peach, Charles William (1800–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Nov 2007
^ David Oldroyd, ‘Peach, Benjamin Neeve (1842–1926)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2009
^ Michael J. Bishop, ‘Pengelly, William (1812–1894)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ T. G. Bonney, ‘Phillips, John Arthur (1822–1887)’, rev. Denise Crook, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Roger Hutchins, ‘Adams, John Couch (1819–1892)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Christopher F. Lindsey, ‘Davy, Edmund (1785–1857)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 6 April 2008
^ Allan Chapman, ‘Dunkin, Edwin (1821–1898)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Hewish, Antony (1974). "Autobiography". Antony Hewish The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974. Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
^ Anne Borsay, ‘Oliver, William (1695–1764)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ Elston, S. & Sambles, R. (eds.) (1998) The Optics of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals. London: Taylor & Francis
^ Miller, David Philip (2004), ‘Gilbert [Giddy], Davies (1767–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 16 Dec 2008
^ R. E. Anderson, ‘Hellins, John (d. 1827)’, rev. Adrian Rice, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 accessed 16 Dec 2008

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