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The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is a learned society
Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies, such as the Poland Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana , the Italian Acc...
 in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, England
England

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Established in 1781, its members have included John Dalton
John Dalton

John Dalton Fellow of the Royal Society was an England chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into Color blindness ....
, James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule Fellow of the Royal Society was an English physicist and brewing , born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work ....
, Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn

Tom Kilburn was an England engineer. With Frederic Calland Williams he worked on the Williams tube and the first stored-program computer in the world, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine , while working at the Victoria University of Manchester....
, Peter Mark Roget, Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, Order of Merit , Royal Society was a New Zealand-born British chemist who became known as the father of nuclear physics....
 and Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington (architect)

Thomas Worthington was an eminent 19th-century England architect, particularly associated with public buildings in his native Salford....
.

Its Memoirs are, after the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific journal
Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research....
 in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
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The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is a learned society
Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline or group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies, such as the Poland Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana , the Italian Acc...
 in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
.

Established in 1781, its members have included John Dalton
John Dalton

John Dalton Fellow of the Royal Society was an England chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into Color blindness ....
, James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule Fellow of the Royal Society was an English physicist and brewing , born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work ....
, Tom Kilburn
Tom Kilburn

Tom Kilburn was an England engineer. With Frederic Calland Williams he worked on the Williams tube and the first stored-program computer in the world, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine , while working at the Victoria University of Manchester....
, Peter Mark Roget, Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, Order of Merit , Royal Society was a New Zealand-born British chemist who became known as the father of nuclear physics....
 and Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington (architect)

Thomas Worthington was an eminent 19th-century England architect, particularly associated with public buildings in his native Salford....
.

Its Memoirs are, after the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific journal
Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research....
 in the UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

See also

  • The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle Upon Tyne


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