John Dalton together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists established the Mechanics' Institute in 1824 to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science.
Similarly, John Owens, a Manchester textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1851 for the purpose of founding a college for the education of males on non-sectarian lines.
John Littlewood is famous for his work on the theory of series, the Riemann zeta function, inequalities and the theory of functions.
The Poynting-Robertson effect, also known as Poynting-Robertson drag, named after JohnHenryPoynting and Howard Percy Robertson, is a process by which solar radiation causes dust grains in a solar system to slowly spiral inward.
Probably it is based on the Poynting article cited, which predates relativity theory and is "luminiferous aether"-based.
Poynting, J. "Radiation in the Solar System: its Effect on Temperature and its Pressure on Small Bodies".
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