Scientists in Manchester

The atlas holds 7 people and 12 moments here, from 1771 to 1921. The most recorded lives are Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens and Ernest Rutherford.

Friedrich Engels
from 1842 to 1864
4 moments here
German philosopher, political theorist, revolutionary socialist, businessman, and Karl Marx’s lifelong collaborator.…
Charles Dickens
from 1843 to 1847
2 moments here
English novelist, journalist, editor, social reformer, actor and celebrated public reader. This chronology traces documented residences, workplaces,…
Ernest Rutherford
in 1907
2 moments here
New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…
Albert Einstein
in 1921
1 moment here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Karl Marx
in 1845
1 moment here
German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Trier, Marx studied in Bonn and Berlin, worked in Cologne, and…
Benjamin Franklin
in 1771
1 moment here
American printer, scientist, civic leader, colonial agent, revolutionary statesman, and diplomat.…
Dmitri Mendeleev
in 1887
1 moment here
Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev formulated the periodic law and produced a foundational periodic table.…