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Charles Darwin thumbnail
Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)
Michael Faraday thumbnail
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
Tim Berners-Lee thumbnail
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
James Prescott Joule thumbnail
James Prescott Joule
English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
Paul Dirac thumbnail
Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
J. J. Thomson thumbnail
J. J. Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
John Dalton thumbnail
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
Thomas Henry Huxley thumbnail
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
Alfred Russel Wallace thumbnail
Alfred Russel Wallace
British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823–1913)
Dorothy Hodgkin thumbnail
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Humphry Davy thumbnail
Humphry Davy
British chemist
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin thumbnail
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Francis Crick thumbnail
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
Ronald Ross thumbnail
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)
George Boole thumbnail
George Boole
English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar thumbnail
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Roger Penrose thumbnail
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
William Lawrence Bragg thumbnail
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson thumbnail
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
John Frederick William Herschel thumbnail
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)
Abdus Salam thumbnail
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
Frederick Sanger thumbnail
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
Edward Victor Appleton thumbnail
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
G.H. Hardy thumbnail
G.H. Hardy
British mathematician (1877–1947)
William Rowan Hamilton thumbnail
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
George Paget Thomson thumbnail
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
John Cockcroft thumbnail
John Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967)
Owen Willans Richardson thumbnail
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
Joseph Lister thumbnail
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)
Arthur Eddington thumbnail
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Francis William Aston thumbnail
Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Patrick Blackett thumbnail
Patrick Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Martin Ryle thumbnail
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
Francis Galton thumbnail
Francis Galton
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
C. F. Powell thumbnail
C. F. Powell
British physicist
Sydney Brenner thumbnail
Sydney Brenner
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002
Fred Hoyle thumbnail
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
Charles Scott Sherrington thumbnail
Charles Scott Sherrington
English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)
Andrew Wiles thumbnail
Andrew Wiles
English mathematician (1953–)
William Crookes thumbnail
William Crookes
British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
Nevill Francis Mott thumbnail
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Archibald Hill thumbnail
Archibald Hill
English physiologist and biophysicist (1886-1977)
Frederick Hopkins thumbnail
Frederick Hopkins
English biochemist
Howard Florey thumbnail
Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968)
Richard Owen thumbnail
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
Hans Krebs thumbnail
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Frank Macfarlane Burnet thumbnail
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist (1899-1985)
Ronald Fisher thumbnail
Ronald Fisher
British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)
John Kendrew thumbnail
John Kendrew
English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)
Peter Medawar thumbnail
Peter Medawar
English-brazilian biologist (1915–1987)
Edgar Douglas Adrian thumbnail
Edgar Douglas Adrian
English electrophysiologist (1889-1977)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood thumbnail
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
English physical chemist (1897-1967)
Max Perutz thumbnail
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Tomas Lindahl thumbnail
Tomas Lindahl
Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
Charles Lyell thumbnail
Charles Lyell
British geologist (1797–1875)
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd thumbnail
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist (1907-1997)
Norman Haworth thumbnail
Norman Haworth
British chemist (1883-1950)
David Brewster thumbnail
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Henry Hallett Dale thumbnail
Henry Hallett Dale
English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (1875–1968)