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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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  • 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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    continued to meet there for the next fifty years. The Royal Institution of Great Britain has a long history of public lectures and demonstrations given by prominent...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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