Hint
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Years of presidency
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Answer
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Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral
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1680-1682
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Christopher Wren
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Politician and administrator of the Royal Navy
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1685-1686
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Samuel Pepys
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Chancellor of the Exchequer and poet
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1695-1698
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Charles Montagu
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Physicist and mathematician, co-invented the calculus
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1703–1727
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Isaac Newton
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Botanist, took part in James Cook's first voyage
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1778-1820
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Joseph Banks
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Chemist, invented electrochemistry
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1820-1827
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Humphry Davy
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Botanist, founded geographical botany
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1873–1878
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Biologist, coined the word "agnostic"
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1883-1885
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Mathematical physicist, formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics
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1890-1895
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Lord Kelvin
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Surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery
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1895-1900
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Joseph Lister
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Physicist, discovered surface waves and argon
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1905-1908
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Lord Rayleigh
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Physicist, discovered electron
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1915-1920
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Joseph John Thomson
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Neurophysiologist, discovered the synaptic communication between neurons
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1920-1925
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Charles Scott Sherrington
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Physicist, discovered radioactive half-life
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1925-1930
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Ernest Rutherford
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Biochemist, co-discovered the vitamins
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1930-1935
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins
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Physicist, introduced analysis of crystal structure by X-rays
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1935-1940
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William Henry Bragg
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Physicist, developed operational research in WW2
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1965-1970
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Patrick Blackett
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Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses
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1970-1975
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Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
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Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses
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1980-1985
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Andrew Huxley
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Mathematician, introduced topological K-theory
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1990-1995
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Michael Atiyah
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