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James Dewar was born on 20 September, 1842

Scottish chemist and physicist famous for inventing the vacuum flask (Dewar Flask). Unfortunately, he didn’t profit from his invention and, in fact, lost a court battle with Thermos, who went on to commercialised the product under their brand name.