British scientists with disabilities

Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.

British chemist

Australian-British chemist

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.

Dutch astronomer (1764-1786)

English physician and philologist (1779-1869)

English mathematician (1912-2014)

Scottish botanist (1782-1843)

British space scientist

English mathematician (1682–1739)

English aristocrat (1564-1632)

Professor of Planetary science (1943-2014)

Scottish natural historian (1731-1803)

British metallurgist (1899–1968)

British pathologist (1877–1947)

British Royal Navy officer (1787-1857)

British botanist and agricultural scientist (1883–1953)

British biochemist and epidemiologist

British drawer (1888–1945)

English-Australian forester (1885–1970)

British academic and activist

British sociologist (*1966)

Scottish food chemist

British historian and archaeologist of Assyria (1951-2004)

English cricketer (1858–1943)

British computational biologist, writer