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Joseph Hubert Priestley. Joseph Hubert Priestley DSO FLS ( né Priestlay; 5 October 1883 – 31 October 1944) was a British lecturer in botany at University College, Bristol, and professor of botany and pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Leeds. He has been described as a gifted teacher who attracted many graduate research students to Leeds.
Leeds power station, also known as Whitehall Road power station, supplied electricity to the city of Leeds and the surrounding area from 1893 to 1965. It was initially built, owned and operated by the Yorkshire House-to-House Electricity Company Limited. Leeds Corporation took over the electricity undertaking in 1898 and generated and ...
Dani Rabaiotti is an English environmental scientist and popular science writer based at the Institute of Zoology at the Zoological Society of London. She is the author (with Nick Caruso) of the New York Times bestseller, Does It Fart, [1] as well as two other books. Her fields of research include global change biology, science policy and ...
Leeds Conservatoire (formerly known as The Leeds Music Centre, the City of Leeds College of Music, and Leeds College of Music) is a higher education music conservatoire based in the Quarry Hill district of Leeds, England.
Leeds County. Coordinates: 44°35′N 76°00′W. Leeds County is a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario. The county was first surveyed in 1792 as one of the nineteen counties created by Sir John Graves Simcoe in preparation for the United Empire Loyalists to settle here. [1] The county took its name from Francis Osborne, 5th ...
Leslie was born to Frederick Leslie, a coal miner and bookseller, and Elizabeth Dickinson. She was educated in Leeds, graduating from a high school in 1905. [3] She received her BSc in chemistry with first-class honors from the University of Leeds in 1908. The following year, she was awarded an M.Sc. for research with H.M.Dawson on the kinetics of the iodination of acetone. This research was ...
Institutions. Durham University. Gordon D Love (born 1967) is a British physicist. Love is a Professor of Computer Science and Physics at the University of Leeds and is the Head of the University of Leeds School of Computing [1]. Love is a former Professor at the Durham University Department of Physics and a specialist in Optics research.
Leeds is the second largest metropolitan borough council in the UK with a population of 800,000. While continuing to serve members from 2006 to 2008, Leeds City Credit Union experienced a number of management and governance challenges.