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Phipps, G E
Person · fl 1956

Car Park Attendant at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Phisalix, Marie Felicie
Person · 1861-1946

Marie Phisalix was a French scientist who researched snake venom and antidotes. In 1910 she joined the National Museum of Natural History, where she led the laboratory of ichthyology and herpetology. She studied the comparative anatomy of the organs that create venom as well as the pathology of their delivery

Pickett, Nimrod
Person · 1883-

Sweeper at ZSL London Zoo

Picton, C
Person · fl 1938

Labourer at ZSL London Zoo

Piddington, Henry
Person · 1797-1858

Henry Piddington was an English sea captain who sailed in East India and China and later settled in Bengal where he worked as a curator of a geological museum and worked on scientific problems, and is well known for his pioneering studies in meteorology of tropical storms and hurricanes. He noted the circular winds around a calm centre recorded by ships caught in storms and coined the name cyclone in 1848.