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John Scott Russell FRSE FRS (9 May 1808 Parkhead Glasgow – 8 June 1882 Ventnor Isle of Wight) was a Scottish civil engineer naval architect and shipbuilder who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons and developed the wave-line system of ship construction.Russell was a promoter of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

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birth date
1808-05-09
birth place
Glasgow, Parkhead
death date
1882-06-08
death place
Isle of Wight, Ventnor
depiction description (caption)
John Scott Russell
education
University of Glasgow, University of St Andrews, University of Edinburgh
institution
Royal Society, Royal Society of Arts, Institution of Civil Engineers, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Institution of Naval Architects

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