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    James Nicol FRSE FGS (12 August 1810 – 8 April 1879) was a Scottish geologist. He was born at Traquair, near Innerleithen in Peeblesshire, the son of...
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  • James Nicol, Nichol, Nicholl or Nicoll may refer to: James Nicol (geologist) (1810–1879), Scottish geologist James Nicol (minister) (1769–1819), Scottish...
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  • (geologist), British geologist Jason Nicol, Expert Clio Admitistrator. Jimmie Nicol, British drummer Johnny Nicol, Australian jazz singer Julia Nicol (1956–2019)...
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  • James Nicol (28 September 1769 – 5 November 1819) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, known as a poet and writer. The son of Michael Nicol, he was...
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    minister of Tron Kirk and then St Stephen's Prof James Nicol, geologist Very Rev Prof Thomas Nicol DD, theological author, Moderator of the General Assembly...
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    Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (died 1831) April 18 – William Nicol, Scottish geologist (died 1851) November 5 – Sarah Guppy, English inventor (died 1852)...
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  • Everend Lester Bruce (category Canadian geologists)
    Canadian geologist, known for his research on the economic mineralogy and geology of Precambrian metalliferous deposits in Canada. According to James Edwin...
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    particularly by Roderick Murchison, a geologist known as the "Master of the Silurian", was opposed by James Nicol, who thought that the contact (or "zone...
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  • Robert Burns Young (category Scottish geologists)
    of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Murray, Thomas Nicol Johnston, John Horne and James Geikie. He joined the South African Philosophical Society...
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  • mechanical engineer and technical writer. September 2 – William Nicol (born 1770), geologist. Tobin, William (2003). The Life and Science of Léon Foucault...
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  • Bonnie Hickey, politician William Hogan, politician James Patrick Howley, naturalist and geologist Hugh Hoyles, politician and lawyer Charles H. Hutchings...
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    Roderick Murchison (category 19th-century British geologists)
    Murchison, 1st Baronet (19 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who served as director-general of the British Geological Survey from 1855...
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    stratagraphic levels whereas Nicol claimed there was one layer but vertically displaced along the fault. However both geologists had to gloss over the difficulty...
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  • Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783 James Nicol Grieve (1855–1918), Ontario farmer and political figure Jock Grieve (1887–1955)...
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    geologists grouped in this area, named by the UK-APC in 1971 after William Nicol (c. 1768-1851), Scottish natural philosopher who devised the Nicol prism...
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    architects of Aberdeen James Smith (c. 1645–1731) James Smith of Jordanhill (1782–1867), architect, merchant, antiquarian, geologist, biblical critic and...
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  • Murchison, geologist, known for first describing the Silurian, Devonian and Permian systems, Copley Medalist William Nicol, inventor of Nicol prism Stan...
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    Inspector Morse episode "Masonic Mysteries" Beryl Patmore, played by Lesley Nicol, the cook on the ITV series Downton Abbey Beryl Hayden Peacock (also Elliott)...
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  • teapot. Nicarao, Nahua ruler – Nicaragua. William Nicol, Scottish geologist and physicist - Nicol prism. Jean Nicot, French explorer – nicotine. Arthur...
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    Machine. Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 3, p. 511, Testimony of Joseph D. Nicol . Tippit Murder: Findings and Conclusions Archived July 25, 2018, at the...
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    1943) Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895) Ernest Henry Nickel (1925–2009) James Nicol (1810–1879) Paul Niggli (1888–1953) William Niven (1850–1937) Johann...
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  • (died 2019) 4 February Robert Haslam, industrialist (died 2002) Donald Nicol, Byzantinist (died 2003) 7 February Dora Bryan, actress (died 2014) George...
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    (d. 1846) James Lick, American businessman, piano builder (d. 1876) Friedrich Ludwig Meissner, German obstetrician (d. 1860) August 26 Nicol Hugh Baird...
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    specifically for this sequence was "Torridon Sandstone" introduced in 1866 by James Nicol. By 1892 the term was shortened to "Torridonian" by the Geological Survey...
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  • genre painter (died 1843) 18 April – William Nicol, geologist (died 1851) 9 December (bapt.) – James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", poet and novelist...
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    Caton-Thompson introduced her own illustrator, the twenty-year-old Mary Nicol. Louis convinced Mary to take on the illustration of his book, and a few...
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    Charles Callaway (category 19th-century British geologists)
    generally confirming the work of James Nicol but finding that along a thrust fault from Loch Eriboll to Ullapool Nicol's "igneous rock" was usually Lewisian...
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  • Dalziel Antarctic to 2014. Polar Geologist. Joanne Susan Johnson Antarctic to 2020. Polar Geochemist. Julius James Rix Antarctic to 2018. Polar Drilling...
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  • Committees Lord Oxburgh Crossbench 28 April 2022 Life peer Geophysicist and geologist, former head of the department of earth sciences at the University of...
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  • Eastleigh William Graham Nicholson, politician, was raised in Froxfield Donald Nicol, academic, was born in Portsmouth Florence Nightingale, lived at Embley...
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