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October 20, 2005
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Over the past 300 years, Wales has made a substantial contribution to the development of science. Welsh-born scientists and/or those working in Wales include an impressive number who pioneered entirely new branches of science.

Prominent examples are the mathematician Robert Recorde, the statistician Richard Price, the crystallographer WH Miller, the biologist Alfred Russel Wallace, the astronomer Isaac Roberts, the meteorologist David Brunt, the orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones and the chemist Donald Hey.

It is appropriate that the second of Wales's three ...

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