biography
| name: |
Watson, Sir William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1715–87)
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| biography:
| Scientist, born in London, UK. He was one of the earliest experimenters on electricity, being the first to investigate the passage of electricity through a rarefied gas, and did much to introduce the Linnaean system of botanical classification to Britain. |
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