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20th-century British physicists

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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
English physicist (1842–1919)
Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
John Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967)
Charles Glover Barkla
English physicist (1877-1944)
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
C. F. Powell
British physicist
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
Godfrey Hounsfield
English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
David Bohm
American theoretical physicist
John Desmond Bernal
Irish scientist (1901-1971)
Margaret Burbidge
British-born American astronomer (1919–2020)
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
Klaus Fuchs
German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy (1911-1988)
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
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
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)