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Ernest Rutherford thumbnail
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Paul Dirac thumbnail
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Max Born thumbnail
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
J. J. Thomson thumbnail
J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
William Henry Bragg thumbnail
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
James Chadwick thumbnail
James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh thumbnail
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
English physicist (1842–1919)
Peter Higgs thumbnail
Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
William Lawrence Bragg thumbnail
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson thumbnail
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Dennis Gabor thumbnail
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Edward Victor Appleton thumbnail
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
George Paget Thomson thumbnail
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
John Cockcroft thumbnail
John Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967)
Charles Glover Barkla thumbnail
Charles Glover Barkla
English physicist (1877-1944)
Owen Willans Richardson thumbnail
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
John Logie Baird thumbnail
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
Arthur Eddington thumbnail
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Patrick Blackett thumbnail
Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Freeman Dyson thumbnail
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
C. F. Powell thumbnail
C. F. Powell
British physicist
Nevill Francis Mott thumbnail
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Archibald Hill thumbnail
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
Oliver Heaviside thumbnail
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
Max Perutz thumbnail
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin thumbnail
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Joseph Rotblat thumbnail
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin thumbnail
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
Godfrey Hounsfield thumbnail
Godfrey Hounsfield
English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
David Bohm thumbnail
David Bohm
American theoretical physicist
John Desmond Bernal thumbnail
John Desmond Bernal
Irish scientist (1901-1971)
Margaret Burbidge thumbnail
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Otto Robert Frisch thumbnail
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
Klaus Fuchs thumbnail
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
Martin Rees thumbnail
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
Rudolf Peierls thumbnail
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
Kathleen Lonsdale thumbnail
Kathleen Lonsdale
Irish crystallographer (1903-1971)
John Barrow
British physicist and mathematician (1952-2020)
Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)
Douglas Hartree
British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950)
Ernest Marsden
British–New Zealand physicist (1889–1970)
Ralph H. Fowler thumbnail
Ralph H. Fowler
English physicist (1889-1944)
Dennis W. Sciama
British physicist (1926–1999)
William Edward Ayrton
English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)
Charles Galton Darwin
British physicist (1887–1962)
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
British physicist (1886-1957)
John Gribbin
British science writer
G. M. B. Dobson
British physicist (1889–1976)
Alister McGrath
Northern Irish theologian, Anglican priest, and academic (born 1953)
John Pendry
British physicist
John Lennard-Jones
British scientist (1894-1954)
E. T. Whittaker
British mathematician (1873-1956)
Edward Andrade
English physicist (1887-1971)
Egon Orowan
physicist (1902-1989)
Bertha Swirles
British mathematician & academic (1903-1999)
Nicholas Kurti
Hungarian physicist (1908–1998)
John Ellis
British physicist (born 1946)
Francis Simon
German-British chemist
Alan Cottrell
British metallurgist and physicist (1919-2012)