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John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Konstantin Novoselov
Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
Michael Kosterlitz
British physicist
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
Osborne Reynolds
Anglo-Irish innovator (1842-1912)
Benjamin Thompson
American-born British physicist and inventor (1753–1814)
John Polkinghorne
physicist, theologian and anglican priest (1930–2021)
Michael Victor Berry
British physicist
C. V. Boys
British physicist (1855-1944)
Arthur Schuster
Anglo-German physicist (1851-1934)
John Sealy Townsend
Irish mathematical physicist (1868–1957)
Joanna Haigh
British physicist and academic
Frederick Guthrie
British physicist
Michele Dougherty
Space physicist at Imperial College London
Raymond Gosling
British physicist (1926-2015)
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
British physicist (1863-1930)
Stuart Parkin
British physicist
John Maddox
Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor (1925–2009)
Richard Friend
British physicist
William Morgan
Welsh physician, physicist, statistician and actuary
Brian Pippard
British physicist (1920-2008)
Joseph Jackson Lister
British physicist
David J. C. MacKay
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967-2016)
Samuel Hunter Christie
British mathematician
F. David Peat
British physicist (1938–2017)
Michael Cates
British physicist
Frank Close
Particle physicist
Neil Ashcroft
British physicist (1938–2021)
James Binney
British astronomer
Edward Hinds
British physicist
Christopher M. Bishop
scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
Peter L. Knight
British physicist
Grenville Turner
British geochemist (1936–2024)
Cyril Domb
British physicist (1920-2012)
J. B. Gunn
British physicist, discoverer of the Gunn effect (1928–2008)
Arthur William Rucker
British physicist
Felix Weinberg
British physicist
Andrew Lyne
British astronomer
Tejinder Virdee
British physicist
Alan Andrew Watson
British physicist
Basil J. Hiley
British quantum physicist
Archibald Howie
British physicist
Robin Devenish
British physicist
John Enderby
British physicist
Patrick Gill
British physicist
Sheila Rowan
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and director of its Institute for Gravitational Research since 2009
Alexander Bradshaw
British physicist (1944–2024)
Carey Foster
British physicist
Daniel Joseph Bradley
Irish physicist
John D. Lawson
British engineer and physicist (1923–2008)
Raymond Hide
British physicist (1929–2016)
Herbert Wilson
British physicist (1929-2008)
Alexander Boksenberg
British physicist
Brian Kidd Ridley
British physicist (1931–2024)
Peter Wadhams
British physicist
Steven Cowley
British theoretical physicist