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Fredrick Guthrie
- Frederick Guthrie
- Born: 15 October 1833 London
- Died: 21 October 1886 London
- Founder and First President of the Physical Society of London 1884 - 1886
- Professor of Physics at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington
He was interested in improving the education of school teachers of physics. He believed sciece should be based on experiment rather than theory and wrote several text books.
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