James David Forbes

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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Influence

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What Wikipedia says

James David Forbes (1809–1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology.

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