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2 unusual facts about Robert Chambers


Robert Chambers

Robert G. Chambers, British physicist known for the first observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Robert W. Chambers (1865–1933), American artist and writer, author of The King in Yellow


History of invertebrate paleozoology

The provocative Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844 to 1853) by then-anonymous Robert Chambers, Alfred Russel Wallace's joint essay (1858) with Charles Darwin, and Darwin's Origin of Species (1859 to 1872) popularized the evolutionary theories of natural selection.

Joseph Child Priestley

Priestley was born at No. 31, Somerset Street, Portman Square, Marylebone on 11 January 1862, the son of William Overend Priestley and his wife, Eliza Chambers (the daughter of Robert Chambers, the well known publisher, of Edinburgh).

Linda Wolfe

She is best known for her award-winning work, Wasted: The Preppie Murder, an investigation of the so-called "rough sex" killer, Robert Chambers.

Thomas Archer Hirst

We know, for example, what the effect was of his reading the Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, that epoch-making book authored anonymously by Robert Chambers which promoted the idea of evolution in 1844.


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Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council

This view, represented by Peter Birks and Robert Chambers, suggests that Lord-Browne Wilkinson was wrong to regard resulting trusts as responding to conscience, rather than the absence of any intention to benefit another person.