Cornish chemist and inventor, Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), spent two years in Bristol, working at Thomas Beddoes' Pneumatic Institution in Hotwells. Humphry Davy (detail from Some Who Have Made Bristol Famous).

Davy's brief association with the city ended in 1801 when he joined the Royal Institute in London.

Others associated with science and Bristol include:

Thomas Norton (died 1513), controversial alchemist, author of the alchemical manual The Ordinal.

William Champion (1710-1789), inventor of new zinc smelting process.

William Budd (1811-1880), physician and epidemiologist who curbed a cholera outbreak in Bristol in 1860.

Rosa Burden (c 1873-1939), founder of the Burden Neurological Institute.

John Pinkerton (1919-1997), designer of the world's first business computer, the LEO.

Sir Bernard Lovell, astronomer, first director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Sir Bernard Lovell, photograph on the Jodrell Bank Observatory website.

For further information on Bristol scientists, download the Science City Bristol section of the guide here.

Download a list of One Hundred Scientific Facts Linked to the Bristol City Region here.