14 Irene [SEP] discoverer or inventor
14 Irene
Irene (minor planet designation: 14 Irene) is a large main-belt asteroid, discovered by John Russell Hind on May 19, 1851.
14 Irene was named after "Irēnē", a personification of peace in Greek mythology. She was one of the Horae, daughter of Zeus and Themis. The name was suggested by Sir John Herschel. Hind wrote,
The "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" in the Crystal Palace of Hyde Park, London, ran from
Physiologist; discoverer of the Bainbridge reflex
- Sir Henry Dale (School House, 1891–94): Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Donald Woods Winnicott (North 'B' House, 1910–14): Pediatrician and psychoanalyst
- Sir Donald Bailey (North 'B' House, 1916–19): inventor of the Bailey bridge
- Neville Robinson (School House, 1938–43): Physicist who achieved record low temperature
- Sir Andrew Wiles (North 'A' House, 1966–70): Mathematician, proved Fermat's