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nounthe people of Great Britain
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of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture
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- young British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
- black British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- born British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970)
- north British statesman under George III whose policies led to rebellion in the American colonies (1732-1792)
- low British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)
- major British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)
- west British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983)
- hunt British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
- scott British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
- chain British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)