Gabor Denes (who later anglicised his name to Dennis Gabor) was born in Budapest in June 1900 and studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Budapest and at the ...
Frank Whittle was born in Earlsdon, Coventry, in 1907. His family moved to Leamington Spa where he attended Milverton School and then Leamington College for Boys. He worked in his ...
Francis Galton was born in Birmingham in 1822, son of Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin, and therefore a cousin of Charles Darwin. The Galton family had made their fortune in ...