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ANOTHER of the conspicuous leaders of British science who rendered the latter part of the nineteenth century and the commencement of the twentieth so famous as a time of remarkable progress, and whose name was almost a household word throughout the land, passed away on December 2 in the charming and unique personality of Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney. Sir William Crookes, Sir Norman Lockyer, and now Sir William Abney—the recent months have indeed been heavy with fate for that glorious band of scientific workers, and the only consolation that these severe losses in the front rank leave with us is the knowledge that their great work was done, that their last paper was written with all their full mental powers, and that they passed away, at a ripe age truly, but before any failure of their great master minds became evident to the world at large.
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TUTTON, A. Sir William Abney, K.C.B., F.R.S. Nature 106, 476–477 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106476a0
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