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Joseph Jackson Lister
1786Jan, 11

Joseph Jackson Lister

Joseph Jackson Lister, English physicist (d. 1869)
Joseph Jackson Lister FRS FRMS (11 January 1786 – 24 October 1869) was an amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of The 1st Baron Lister.

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