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William Prout was born in Horton, Gloucestershire on January 15, 1785 and died in London on April 9, 1850.
"Prout contributed to the improvement of the barometer, and the Royal Society of London adopted his design as a national standard.
Prout wrote the eighth Bridgewater Treatise, Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion, considered with reference to Natural Theology.
The unit of nuclear binding energy, Prout, equal to 1/12 binding energy of the deuteron, or 185.5 keV is named after William Prout."
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