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Joseph Needham
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900–1995)
John William Draper
British-American academic (1811-1882)
Frances Yates
English historian of the Renaissance (1899–1981)
Thomas Little Heath
British civil servant, mathematician and classicist (1861–1940)
Herbert Butterfield
British historian (1900 – 1979)
James Burke
British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer
Ioan James
British mathematician
Simon Schaffer
British historian of science
Charles Singer
British historian of science (1876-1960)
Robert Gunther
British zoologist (1869–1940)
Janet Browne
British historian of science
Robert G. W. Anderson
British chemist and historian of science
Gerald James Whitrow
British mathematician and historian of science (1912-2000)
Gerald J. Toomer
British astronomy and mathematics historian (born 1934)
Roy Porter
British historian of medicine (1946–2002)
Cyril Stanley Smith
British metallurgist (1903–1992)
Donald Hill
British historian and engineer (1922–1994)
John North
British historian of science (1934–2008)
John Herivel
British science historian, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park (1918–2011)
Alfred Rupert Hall
British historian of science (1920–2009)
Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor
English geographer and historian of science (1879–1966)
Martin J. S. Rudwick
British geologist, historian, and academic
Arnold Thackray
British chemist and historian
Andrew Pickering
British academic (born 1948)
Eric John Holmyard
British historian of science (1891–1959)
Patricia Fara
British historian
Charles E. Raven
British theologian
Dorothea Waley Singer
British historian (1882–1964)
John V. Pickstone
British historian
David M. Knight
British historian (1936–2018)
Eila Campbell
University teacher and historian of cartography (1915–1994)
John Knight Fotheringham
British historian and chronologist (1874-1936)
Geoffrey Cantor
British historian
Jim Bennett
British historian of science and museum curator
J. R. Partington
British chemist and historian of science (1886–1965)
John Forrester
British historian
Allan Chapman
historian of science