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Thomson's paper was published in the March 1904 edition of the Philosophical Magazine, the leading British science journal of the day.
His interest in computus, the science of calculating the date of Easter, was also useful in the account he gives of the controversy between the British and Anglo-Saxon church over the correct method of obtaining the Easter date.
He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
Colin Kapp ( 1928 3 August 2007 ) was a British science fiction author.
Category: British science fiction writers
* 1931 Nigel Calder, British science writer
Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
British empiricism, though it was not a term used at the time, derives from the 17th century period of early modern philosophy and modern science.
Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the home world of the Doctor and the Time Lords.
Category: British science fiction writers
While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.
The exploitation of human clones for dangerous and undesirable work was examined in the 2009 British science fiction film Moon, where the protagonist discovers that he is simply one clone out of many that maintain a mining camp on the moon during the duration of a three year lifespan.
However, his discoveries were not appreciated by his contemporaries and came into general use only with discoveries of British surgeon Joseph Lister, who in 1865 proved the principles of antisepsis in the treatment of wounds ; However, medical conservatism on new breakthroughs in pre-existing science prevented them from being generally well received during the 19th century.
Brian Aldiss, another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some of them as " cosy catastrophes ", especially his novel The Day of the Triffids.
Category: British science writers
James Patrick Hogan ( 27 June 1941 12 July 2010 ) was a British science fiction author.
* K-9 ( Doctor Who ), the name of several robotic canines in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who
British political philosopher John Gray has characterized Dawkins ' memetic theory of religion as " nonsense " and " not even a theory ... the latest in a succession of ill-judged Darwinian metaphors ", comparable to Intelligent Design in its value as a science.
* The second series of the British radio science fiction program Journey Into Space ( 1954 1955 ) deals with a trip to Mars and what the astronauts find there.
* Placebo Effect ( Doctor Who ), an original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who
An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960, under the title Biography in Time.
British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).
Category: British science fiction writers
( BBC TV series ), a British science series

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Caricature by Leslie Ward | Spy published in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair in 1904.
In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.
Other systems used the Viewdata protocols made popular in the UK by British Telecom's Prestel service, and the on-line magazine Micronet 800 whom were busy giving away modems with their subscriptions.
However, in a 2005 poll by British film magazine Empire, Braveheart was # 1 on their list of " The Top 10 Worst Best Pictures ".
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of " The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010 ".
* Cyclops ( magazine ), a British underground comics magazine of the 1970s
In 2004, the same magazine named it the 34th greatest British film of all time.
The bullpup design, by mounting the magazine behind the trigger, unifies the accuracy and firepower of the traditional assault rifle with the compact size of the submachine gun ( though submachine guns are still used ); examples are the French FAMAS or the British SA80.
In describing the list to readers, Paul MacInnes from British newspaper The Guardian wrote, " Surprisingly enough for an American magazine, the top 10 is fair jam-packed with Yanks ," though he also noted three exceptions in the top 10.
* Gramophone ( magazine ), a British publication devoted to classical music
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Category: British magazine founders
The revelation came after the medianotably, the German newspaper Bild and Australian magazine New Ideabreached the blackout placed over the information by the Canadian and British authorities.
* Janus, British spanking fetish magazine, in print since 1972
* John Brown Group, British magazine publisher with a stable including Viz and Fortean Times
It was shortly after this development began that Konix founder and chairman Wyn Holloway came across a magazine article that described the work of a British group of computer hardware designers whose latest design was looking for a home.
Another notable retrospective praise came in 2003 from the British magazine, NME, which rated Forever Changes No. 6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.
Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.
Before going into film-making, Anderson was a prominent film critic writing for the influential Sequence magazine ( 1947 52 ), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and Karel Reisz ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound and the left-wing political weekly the New Statesman.
In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.
An idealised vision of the new British settlement was given in the novel by Therese Forster, Abentheuer auf einer Reise nach Neu-Holland on a Voyage to New Holland, published in the German women ’ s magazine, Flora for 1793 and 1794:
* Punch, the former British humour magazine, was named after Mr. Punch.
Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
The Private Eye magazine reported that like stories, all baseless, ran in the British press since The Sun first published them in 1986.

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