Presidents of the Royal Society

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.

New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)

British physicist (1856-1940)

British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)

British scientist (1862–1942)

British chemist

British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)

English physicist (1842–1919)

English architect (1632–1723)

British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)

British physicist (1897-1974)

Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

Australian pathologist (1898-1968)

English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)

English biochemist

British chemist and biophysicist

English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)

English physical chemist (1897-1967)

British chemist (1920–2002)

British biochemist (1907-1997)

English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)

physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)

English chemist (1886-1975)

Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)

English diarist and administrator (1633–1703)

Nobel prize winning British biochemist

English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)

British mathematician

English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)

English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)

British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)

British astronomer (1824–1910)

Anglo-Irish astronomer (1800-1867)

Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)

British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)

British prince (1773–1843)

British Army general (1788-1883)

English mathematician

British geologist (1835–1924)

Australian scientist who has been Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1936-2020)

Scottish physician

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British mathematician (1825-1883)

British surgeon

English politician and noble (1661-1715)

British astronomer

scientist and mathematician, President of the Royal Society, M.P.

British Baron

British mathematician and astronomer (1690-1754)

English diplomat and politician (1656–1733)

English astronomer (1697–1764)

British politician (1790-1851)

Scottish peer and astronomer (1702-1768)

politician and antiquary, President of the Royal Society (1703–1772)

English lawyer and politician

English civil servant, diplomat and politician; (1633-1701)

British statistician

British law reporter and scholar; (1701-1782)