Scientists from London

Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela chimpanzee community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. Beginning in 1960, under the mentorship of the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, Goodall's research demonstrated that chimpanzees share many key traits with humans, such as using tools, having complex emotions, forming lasting social bonds, engaging in organised warfare, and passing on knowledge across generations, which redefined the traditional view that humans are uniquely different from other animals.

British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)

British zoologist (1800–1875)

English physical chemist (1897-1967)

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

British chemist (1910–2002)

Austrian geologist (1831-1914)

British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)

English ornithologist, author and museum curator (1808–1872)

British aristocrat (1866-1923)

English zoologist and pharmacist (1810–1873)

British chemist 1827-1902

British botanist (1879-1960)

British banker and zoologist (1868–1937)

American artificial intelligence researcher

British paleontologist (1839-1909)

English scientist (1810–1888)

British manufacturing chemist (1772-1864)

English astronomer studying sunspots

British chemist

British physiologist (1866–1927)

English scientist (1824-1904)

British developmental biologist (1927–2007)

English physicist and electrical engineer (1847-1908)

British astronomer (1880-1961)

American writer and actress (born 1940)

British physicist

British ornithologist and biologist (1910-1973)

English naturalist (1698–1774)

English astronomer (1837-1888)

British astronomer

British chemist; succeeded Humphry Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, 1813.; (1788-1866)

British soldier, intelligence officer, fraudulent ornithologist (1878-1967)

British botanist (1847-1925)

British pathologist and academic (1921–2024)

British physicist

British chemist

English botanist (1694-1768)

British physicist, mathematician

British astronomer, naturalist, and philosopher (1789-1860)

British chemist (1880-1952)

British science communicator and journalist

English geologist (1778–1855)

British biologist and publisher (1814–1865)

British botanist, mineralogist and illustrator (1787-1871)

English organic chemist (1860-1929)

British-born American entomologist and artist (1843-1895)

British-American astronomer

British athlete (1897-1986)

British chemist (1827-1902)

British botanist (1846–1924)

English botanist (1859-1939)

French anthropologist (1818–1904)

British ornithologist (1875-1922)

British palaeobotanist (1870-1918)

British plant physiologist and scientific illustrator (1757-1823)

British physicist (1938–2021)

English ornithologist (1933-2004)

British meteorologist

English geologist and author (1814–1880)