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'''1954''' Suicide of [[Alan Turing]], mathematician and inventor of the science of computing. | '''1954''' Suicide of [[Alan Turing]], mathematician and inventor of the science of computing. | ||
Revision as of 16:13, 4 February 2012
Timeline of UK LGBT Science and Technology
1600
Death of Francis Bacon (philosopher), early proponent of the scientific method.
1700
1727 Death of Sir Isaac Newton, possibly the world's greatest and most influential scientist.
1800
1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake (21 January 1840-7 January 1912) was an English physician, teacher and feminist. She was one of the first female doctors in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a leading campaigner for medical education for women and was involved in founding two medical schools for women, in London and in Edinburgh, where she also started a women's hospital.
1897 First English-language publication of Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds, the first medical textbook about homosexuality.
1900
1930 Peter John Landin (5 June 1930, Sheffield – 3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.
1954 Suicide of Alan Turing, mathematician and inventor of the science of computing.
1972 Tom Coates (Born 19 July 1972) is a technologist and early weblogger based in San Francisco, California who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999.
