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Edward Drinker Cope – early paleontologist who took part in the Bone Wars and for whom Cope's Rule is named (Some Quakers in science)
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Rush D. Holt, Jr. – Congressman; former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory; beat Watson; has a patent for a "method for maintaining a correct density gradient in a non-convecting solar pond" (Some Quakers in science)
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John Bartram – described as the "father of American botany"; founded Bartram Botanical Gardens in Kingsessing on the bank of the Schuylkill River (Some Quakers in science)
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Ursula Franklin – metallurgist and physicist (Some Quakers in science)
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Kathleen Lonsdale – prominent crystallographer; discovered the planar hexagonal structure of benzene; became a Quaker in 1935, as such, she was a committed pacifist and served time in Holloway prison during World War II because she refused to register for civil defense duties or to pay the resulting fine; her Swarthmore Lecture was titled "Removing the Causes of War" (Some Quakers in science)
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Arthur Stanley Eddington – astrophysicist known especially for the Eddington experiment and as a populariser of science, active in the Quaker Guild of Teachers, attended meetings regularly; his Swarthmore Lecture was titled "Science and the Unseen World" (Some Quakers in science)
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