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    The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, abbreviated Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based...
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    educating the public in the arts and sciences. The Royal Institution of Great Britain has a long history of public lectures and demonstrations given by prominent...
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  • Below are directors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with date of appointment. Director of the Laboratory 1801 Humphry Davy 1825 Michael Faraday...
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    a peculiar Class of Optical Deceptions. Royal Institution of Great Britain (1831). Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. London Natural History...
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  • Best science book ever (category Use British English from April 2013)
    On 19 October 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the 1975 short story collection The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi, the best science book...
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  • The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) existed from its founding as the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in 1841 until 2010....
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    Greenfield was Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1998 to 2010. The South Australian premier Mike Rann was receptive of the idea and secured...
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    named after the periodic table in chemistry. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it the best science book ever. The stories are autobiographical...
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  • Pictet's experiment (category History of science)
    considered as a mode of motion: being a course of twelve lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the season of 1862. New York: D...
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    John Tyndall (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    state-of-the-art 19th century experimental physics to a wide audience. From 1853 to 1887 he was professor of physics at the Royal Institution of Great Britain...
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  • organization of business and professional leaders focused on non-political and non-sectarian humanitarian service Royal Institution of Great Britain, an organisation...
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    association with the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He was appointed Assistant Superintendent of the House of the Royal Institution in 1821. He was elected...
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    Spencer Jones, T. H. Huxley, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Royal Institution of Great Britain, v. 38–39 Earth's Milky Way Neighborhood...
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    Water, Air, and Æther: Being a Course of Christmas Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each...
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    Gas-discharge lamp (category Types of lamp)
    1809, Sir Humphry Davy demonstrated the electric arc at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Since then, discharge light sources have been researched...
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    "The appreciation of lice". Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 55. London: Royal Institution of Great Britain: 1–31. James WD, Berger...
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  • Royal Institute of Oil Painters Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Royal Institute of Philosophy Royal Institution of Great Britain Royal Institution...
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    chancellor of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh between 2005 and 2013. From 1998 to 2010, she was director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In September...
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  • the Influence of Suggestion in Modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition", Royal Institution of Great Britain, (Proceedings)...
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    Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, vol. XV, pp. 467–76. Fleming (1908) p. 429 "Figure 101: Marconi 1896 Receiver" from Elements of Radiotelegraphy...
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    Molecules". Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 45: 1–31. Robert B. Corey and Linus Pauling (1953): Molecular Models of Amino Acids, Peptides...
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    joint president of The Scout Association, and president of the Royal United Services Institute and the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and since 1967...
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    Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the...
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    Saccopharynx ampullaceus (category Fish of the North Atlantic)
    surface, of what was named Ophiognathus ampullaceus by I. Harwood, at the time the professor of natural history at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. It...
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  • education at the Royal Institution in 1854 and appeared before a Public Schools Commission to give his views on education in Great Britain. Between 1827...
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  • Byelaws and Standing Orders". Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 24 June 2019. The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, 2nd edition...
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    ISBN 9780841215726. James, F.A.J.L. (18 July 2013). "The Royal Institution of Great Britain: 200 years of scientific discovery and communication". Interdisciplinary...
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  • Arcadia (play) (category Use British English from September 2013)
    "one of the most significant contemporary playwrights" in the English language. In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it one of the best...
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    1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11...
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