English physicists

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

British scientist (1791–1867)

English philosopher (1588–1679)

English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)

English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)

British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)

English polymath (1773-1829)

English physicist (1892–1965)

English architect (1632–1723)

English physicist (1877-1944)

English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)

New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist

British physicist (1938–2026)

English physicist, Nobel prize winner

electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)

British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)

English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging

English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)

American theoretical physicist

British scientist and inventor (1802–1875)

British physicist (born 1942)

British computer scientist (1913–2010)

English physicist and musician

English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)

British mathematical physicist (*1793 – †1841)

English chemist and physicist

British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)

British physicist (1851-1940)

British physicist (1852-1914)

English physicist and radio astronomer

British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)

British inventor

UK mathematician & polymath (1881–1953)

English cleric, mathematician and courtier (c.1300–1349)

French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman

British mathematician and geophysicist (1888–1970)

British mathematician and physicist (1897-1958)

British astrophysicist and mathematician (1896-1950)

British–New Zealand physicist (1889–1970)

British astronomer (1803-1882)

British physicist

English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)

British physicist (1932–2016)

British physicist (1886-1957)

British physicist (1887–1962)

British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster

English mathematician (*1849 – †1934)

British physicist

British physicist (1889–1976)

English physicist, chemist and mathematician (1931–2021)

British physicist

British physicist and electrical engineer (1849–1898)

British scientist (1894-1954)

English physicist (1887-1971)

British mathematician (1825-1883)

British physicist

American rower (1930-2003)