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Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
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T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
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Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate (1881–1955)
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Doris Lessing
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
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Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
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J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
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Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist (born 1954)
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William Golding
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1911–1993)
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Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
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Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian-British writer (1932–2018)
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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
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William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
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James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
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Ronald Ross
British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh thumbnail
John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
English physicist (1842–1919)
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William Ramsay
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
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
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Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson thumbnail
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Frederick Sanger thumbnail
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
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Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Mairead Maguire thumbnail
Mairead Maguire
peace activist (born 1944)
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George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
Owen Willans Richardson thumbnail
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
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Brian David Josephson
Welsh physicist
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Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Betty Williams thumbnail
Betty Williams
Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan thumbnail
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
Charles K. Kao thumbnail
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
C. F. Powell thumbnail
C. F. Powell
British physicist
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Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
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Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
Konstantin Novoselov thumbnail
Konstantin Novoselov
Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
Maurice Wilkins thumbnail
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
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David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
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Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
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Anthony James Leggett
British physicist (1938–2026)
Nevill Francis Mott thumbnail
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Arthur Harden thumbnail
Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Archibald Hill thumbnail
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
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Austen Chamberlain
British politician (1863-1937)
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Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
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Michael Kosterlitz
British physicist
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Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
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Ronald Coase
British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)
Aaron Klug thumbnail
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
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David Trimble
First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002
Ernst Chain thumbnail
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
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Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
English physical chemist (1897-1967)
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John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)
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Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
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George Porter
British chemist (1920–2002)
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Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997)
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Norman Angell
British politician (1872-1967)