List of British scientists
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- Haroon AhmedHaroon AhmedDr. Prof. Haroon Ahmed is a prominent British Pakistani scientist in the fields of Microelectronics and electrical engineering. He is an Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge....
- David AxonDavid AxonDavid John Axon is a British astrophysicist, professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, and is currently Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. He received his BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Durham...
- Francis BaconFrancis BaconFrancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
(philosopher, "father of the scientific methodScientific methodScientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of...
") - Roger BaconRoger BaconRoger Bacon, O.F.M. , also known as Doctor Mirabilis , was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods...
(philosopher, polymathPolymathA polymath is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas. In less formal terms, a polymath may simply be someone who is very knowledgeable...
, early advocate of the scientific methodScientific methodScientific method refers to a body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of...
) - Michael BearparkMichael BearparkMichael Bearpark is an English scientist and musician.-Work as scientist:Bearpark is a Principal Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at Imperial College, London...
- John BeddingtonJohn BeddingtonSir John Rex Beddington, CMG, FRS is the Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Professor of Applied Population Biology at Imperial College London.-Early life:...
- Ralph BenjaminRalph BenjaminRalph Benjamin, CB, PhD, DSc, DEng, FIET, FCGI, FREng, FRSA is a British scientist.Dr Benjamin was born in Darmstadt, Germany. He attended boarding school in Switzerland from 1937, and was sent to England in 1939 as a refugee...
- Kevin BeurleKevin BeurleDr Kevin Beurle was a British space scientist and programmer at Queen Mary, University of London, who played a key role in the Cassini–Huygens mission to study Saturn and its moons. He was a specialist in space imaging systems...
- David Mervyn Blow
- Edward August BondEdward August BondEdward August Bond was an English scientist. He was born on December 31, 1813 in Hanwell, near London. Since 1838 Bond worked in British Museum and in 1878 he became a chief librarian. The museum is indebted to him for its perfect structure, especially in the Manuscripts Department...
- C. V. Boys
- Dennis BrayDennis BrayDennis Bray is an active emeritus professor at University of Cambridge. His group is also part of the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology...
- Malcolm BrennerMalcolm BrennerMalcolm K. Brenner is a British clinical scientist working mostly in the field of gene therapy and immunotherapy applied to malignancy....
- W. A. S. ButementW. A. S. ButementWilliam Alan Stewart Butement , was a defence scientist and public servant. A native of New Zealand, he made extensive contributions to radar development in Great Britain during World War II, served as the first chief scientist for the Australian Defence Scientific Service, then ended his...
- Robert W. CahnRobert W. CahnRobert Wolfgang Cahn FRS was a British metallurgist whose contributions to physical metallurgy centred on the properties of dislocations. Cahn developed a successful model for the nucleation of recrystallization, which underpinned research into industrial processes involving high-temperature...
- Sandy CairncrossSandy CairncrossAlexander Messent Cairncross OBE is an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . He has an interest in environmental interventions for disease control, including both technical issues and policy....
- James Cameron (scientist)James Cameron (scientist)James Malcolm Cameron was a British forensic scientist. He was born in Swansea and attended Glasgow High School. After graduating from Glasgow University, he held appointments in general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery and paediatric orthopaedics, before specialising in pathology,...
- Richard CatonRichard CatonRichard Caton , of Liverpool, England, was a scientist who was crucial in discovering the electrical nature of the brain and laid the groundwork for Hans Berger to discover Alpha wave activity in the human brain....
- Colin CherryColin CherryEdward Colin Cherry was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically regarding the cocktail party problem. This concerns the problem of following only one conversation while many other conversations are going on around us...
- Harriette ChickHarriette ChickDame Harriette Chick, DBE was a notable British protein scientist and nutritionist. Educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, She served as secretary of the League of Nations health section committee on the physiological bases of nutrition from 1934 to 1937...
- Samuel Hunter ChristieSamuel Hunter ChristieSamuel Hunter Christie was a British scientist and mathematician.He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was second wrangler. He was particularly interested in magnetism, studying the earth's magnetic field and designing improvements to the magnetic compass...
- Marcela ContrerasMarcela ContrerasDame Marcela Contreras Arriagada, DBE is a Chilean-born British leading blood expert, immunologist and university educator....
- Eva CraneEva CraneEva Crane was a researcher and author on the subjects of bees and beekeeping. Trained as a quantum mathematician, she changed her field of interest to bees, and spent decades researching bees, traveling to more than 60 countries, often under primitive conditions. The New York Times reported that...
- Henry Holmes CroftHenry Holmes CroftHenry Holmes Croft was a British scientist and educator.He contributed to the foundation of the Entomological Society of Canada.-References:* *...
- Andrew CrosseAndrew CrosseAndrew Crosse was a British amateur scientist who was born and died at Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset. Crosse was an early pioneer and experimenter in the use of electricity and one of the last of the 'gentlemen scientists'...
- Humphry DavyHumphry DavySir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine...
- Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
(naturalistNaturalistNaturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
- Theory of EvolutionEvolutionEvolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth...
) - Paul DiracPaul DiracPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics...
- Deborah DoniachDeborah DoniachProfessor Deborah Doniach, MD, FRCP was a distinguished clinical immunologist and pioneer in the field of autoimmune diseases. -Selected Published Works:...
- Michael FaradayMichael FaradayMichael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
- Adrian FarrelAdrian FarrelAdrian Farrel is one of two Routing Area Directors in the IETF. He is sponsored for this activity by Juniper Networks.Formerly he was co-chair of three IETF working groups, namely CCAMP, PCE and L1VPN, which are responsible for developing GMPLS and MPLS related standards.He has also co-edited a...
- Axel FirsoffAxel FirsoffValdemar Axel Firsoff was known principally as an amateur astronomer. He was born in ca. 1910 of Swedish descent, and died on 19 November 1981. He lived in Lochearnhead, Scotland, before moving to Somerset, England, where he settled in Glastonbury....
- Carey FosterCarey FosterGeorge Carey Foster was a chemist and physicist, born at Sabden in Lancashire,He was Professor of Physics at University College London.-Early life:...
- Henry Foster (scientist)Henry Foster (scientist)Henry Foster was a British naval officer who took part in expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic and made various notable scientific observations....
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind FranklinRosalind Elsie Franklin was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal and graphite...
- Fullerian Professor of ChemistryFullerian Professor of ChemistryThe Fullerian Chairs at the Royal Institution were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller.-Fullerian Professors of Chemistry:*1833 Michael Faraday* 1868 William Odling* 1874 John Hall Gladstone* 1877 James Dewar* 1923 William Henry Bragg* 1942 Henry H...
- Ed Gallagher (scientist)Ed Gallagher (scientist)Professor Ed Gallagher is a British scientist. He is a council member of English Nature and chair of the Pesticides Forum which is part of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ....
- Michael Gerzon
- June GoodfieldJune GoodfieldJune Goodfield is a British scientist and writer of fiction and non-fiction.She was born at Stratford on Avon in 1927. She read zoology at Nottingham and undertook research at Oxford. She married Stephen Toulmin and collaborated with him on a series of books on the history of science...
- Dougal GoodmanDougal GoodmanDougal Goodman is a British scientist, chief executive of the Foundation for Science and Technology.Dr Goodman studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and researched the mechanical properties of ice at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge under Professor David Tabor...
- Guy GoodwinGuy GoodwinGuy Manning Goodwin is head of the Department of Psychiatry and W A Handley professor of psychiatry and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford at Oxford University....
- Raymond GoslingRaymond GoslingRaymond Gosling is a distinguished scientist who worked with both Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin at King's College London in deducing the structure of DNA, under the direction of Sir John Randall. His other KCL colleagues included Alex Stokes and Herbert Wilson.-Early years:He was born in...
- Monica GradyMonica GradyMonica Mary Grady is a leading British space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites. She is currently Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University....
- Malcolm Green (chemist)Malcolm Green (chemist)Malcolm Green also known as M. L. H. Green is a British Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.Born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, he received his BSc degree from Acton Technical College in 1956 and his PhD from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1959 under the supervision of Professor...
- Malcolm Green (physician)
- Robert GrossetesteRobert GrossetesteRobert Grosseteste or Grossetete was an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lincoln. He was born of humble parents at Stradbroke in Suffolk. A.C...
- Frederick GuthrieFrederick GuthrieFrederick Guthrie was a British scientific writer and professor. He helped found the Physical Society of London in 1874 and was president of the society from 1884-1886. He believed that science should be based on experimentation rather than discussion...
- Helen Gwynne-VaughanHelen Gwynne-VaughanDame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE , née Fraser, was a prominent British botanist and mycologist....
- William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)William Vernon Harcourt was founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.-Family:He was born at Sudbury, Derbyshire, a younger son of Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York and his wife Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, who was a daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of...
- Anita HardingAnita HardingAnita Harding was a British neurologist. She was born in Birmingham and educated at the King Edward VI High School for Girls and the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, where she qualified in 1975. She married neurology professor P.K...
- Richard Harrison (scientist)Richard Harrison (Scientist)Richard Harrison is a professor at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his magnetic twisting theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun's atmosphere.-External links:*...
- Thomas Hayes (scientist)Thomas Hayes (scientist)Thomas Hayes is a former forensic scientist at the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment , which was subsumed into the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in 1995...
- Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
(theoretical physicist and cosmologist) - Vernon HeywoodVernon HeywoodVernon Hilton Heywood is a British biologist. His specializations are medicinal and aromatic plants, and the conservation of wild relatives of plants....
- Julia HigginsJulia HigginsDame Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, FRS, FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London...
- Harold HillmanHarold HillmanHarold Hillman is a British scientist and an expert in the neurobiology of execution methods.Hillman caused controversy in biological fields with his insistence that structures seen in cells under the electron microscope were little more than artefacts...
- Peter HirschPeter HirschSir Peter Bernhard Hirsch FRS is a leading figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals....
- George HockhamGeorge HockhamGeorge Alfred Hockham is an engineer who has worked for over 40 years in theoretical analysis and design techniques applied to the solution of electromagnetic problems covering many different antenna types for radar, electronic warfare and communication systems...
- Anthony HollanderAnthony HollanderAnthony Hollander is Professor of Rheumatology and Tissue Engineering at the University of Bristol. On 19 November 2008 it was reported that an artificially-grown organ had been successfully transplanted into a woman, Claudia Castillo, a breakthrough in which Hollander played a key role.In 2009,...
- Victor HorsleyVictor HorsleySir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was an accomplished scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent and studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany , and in the same year started his career as a house surgeon and...
- Rosalinde Hurley
- Harold Edwin HurstHarold Edwin HurstHarold Edwin Hurst was a British hydrologist. Hurst's study on measuring the long-term storage capacity of reservoirs documented the presence of long-range dependence in hydrology. Much of Hurst's research was motivated by his empirical observations of the Nile. The Hurst exponent, which has been...
- Janet HusbandJanet HusbandDame Janet Elizabeth Siarey Husband, DBE, FRCR, is Emeritus Professor of Radiology at the Institute of Cancer Research. She retired from full-time clinical practice as a consultant radiologist at the NHS Foundation Trust in September 2007.-Personal life:...
- Ray K IlesRay K IlesProfessor Ray K Iles is the Associate Dean for Research in the School of Health & Social Sciences at Middlesex University, and also the Professor of Biomedical Science. He was headhunted to lead the new Biomedical Research group at Middlesex University in 2004, and was formerly head of the...
- Alec JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
- Edward JennerEdward JennerEdward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire...
(pioneer immunologist) - Harren Jhoti
- Mark H. Johnson (professor)Mark H. Johnson (professor)Mark Johnson is a British cognitive neuroscientist who since 1997 is head of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck, University of London....
- Daniel JubbDaniel JubbDaniel Jubb is a British rocket scientist. In a November 17, 2008 article from the British newspaper The Times, he was named "one of the world's leading rocket scientists", by the Royal Air Force Wing Commander Andy Green...
- Maged N. Kamel BoulosMaged N. Kamel BoulosMaged N. Kamel Boulos is a British health informatician and scientist currently based at the University of Plymouth, having worked before that at the University of Bath and at City University London. He is particularly known for his research into Geographic Information Systems applications in...
- Charles K. KaoCharles K. KaoThe Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...
- Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton
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- Alexander King (scientist)Alexander King (scientist)Alexander King CMG, CBE was a scientist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei....
- Rudolf KompfnerRudolf KompfnerRudolf Kompfner was an Austrian-born engineer and physicist, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube .Kompfner was born in Vienna to Jewish parents...
- John Howard KyanJohn Howard KyanJohn Howard Kyan was the inventor of the 'kyanising' process for preserving wood. He was the son of John Howard Kyan of Mount Howard and Ballymurtagh, County Wicklow, and was born in Dublin on November 27, 1774...
- Patrick LaidlawPatrick LaidlawPatrick Playfair Laidlaw was a British virologist.He was one of the scientists working at the Medical Research Council at Mill Hill who first isolated influenza virus from humans. This happened when ferrets they were working on to develop a distemper vaccine caught influenza from one of the...
- John Henry LefroyJohn Henry LefroySir John Henry Lefroy, KCMG, CB, FRS, was a British military man and later colonial administrator who also distinguished himself with his scientific studies of the Earth's magnetism.- Biography :...
- John Lennard-JonesJohn Lennard-JonesSir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS was a mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then of theoretical science at Cambridge University...
- Chris LightfootChris LightfootChris Lightfoot was a leading and prolific online civic campaigner, a polymath and a scientist, and the first developer with Tom Steinberg at e-democracy charity mySociety.-Family and early life:...
- John McCaffertyJohn McCaffertyJohn McCafferty is a British scientist, one of the founders of Cambridge Antibody Technology, well known as one of the inventors of scFv antibody fragment phage display, a technology that revolutionised the monoclonal antibody drug discovery...
- George Macfarlane
- Harry MarshHarry MarshHarry Marsh is a leading figure in the world of carbon science. Born on 17 April 1926 in the north east of England, Marsh spent much of his career at the Northern Carbon Research Laboratories of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is known for his work on the structure and adsorptive...
- Charles James MartinCharles James MartinCharles James Martin, FRS, FRCS was a British scientist who did seminal work on protein denaturation, nutrition, snake toxins and other medical topics...
- Neil D. MathurNeil D. MathurNeil D. Mathur, PhD, is a Reader in Materials Physics in the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge University.Mathur received his PhD. from Cambridge in 1996....
- James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...
(physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
, mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
- formulated electromagnetic theory) - Peter H MillardPeter H MillardPeter Millard FRCP is Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, St George's, University of London and President of the UK Nosokinetics Group.Visiting Professor, University of Westminster. Editor of Nosokinetics News. President of the UK Nosokinetics Group...
- John F. B. MitchellJohn F. B. MitchellProfessor John F B Mitchell OBE FRS is a British climatologist and climate modeller.He was a convening lead author for the first and third IPCC Working Group I reports and lead author for the second...
- Kieran MoriartyKieran MoriartyDr Kieran John Moriarty, CBE, MA , FRCP, FRCPI is a British physician. He attended St. Ambrose College, Altrincham and studied medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge and the London Hospital....
- William MusgraveWilliam MusgraveWilliam Musgrave , physician and antiquary. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was a fellow from 1677 to 1692. In 1680 he spent a brief period at the University of Leiden....
- Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
- Bridget OgilvieBridget OgilvieDame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, AC, DBE, FRS is an Australian and British scientist.Ogilvie was born in 1938 at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, to John Ogilvie and Margaret Beryl McRae...
- Ian OsterlohIan OsterlohIan Osterloh is a clinical researcher for Pfizer, Inc. who led the development of sildenafil citrate , as well as a number of Pfizer medications for cardiovascular disease.-References:...
- Woodbine ParishWoodbine ParishSir Woodbine Parish KCH was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.Educated at Eton College, he took up his first diplomatic post in 1814, and was involved in events immediately following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo...
- Arthur Lindo PattersonArthur Lindo PattersonArthur Lindo Patterson was a pioneering British X-ray crystallographer. Patterson was born to British parents in New Zealand in 1902. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Montreal, Canada and later to London, England. In 1920 Patterson moved to Canada for college at McGill University, Montreal...
- David PeakallDavid PeakallDavid Beaumont Peakall was an internationally recognised toxicologist. His research into the effects of DDE and DDT on eggshells contributed to the ban on DDT in the US. He proved that the chemicals caused thinning of eggshells, leading to a reduction in the population of various bird species...
- Joseph Barclay PentlandJoseph Barclay PentlandJoseph Barclay Pentland was an Irish geographer, natural scientist, and traveller. Born in Ireland, Pentland was educated at Armagh. He also studied in Paris, and worked with Georges Cuvier....
- Chris Phillips (professor)Chris Phillips (professor)Professor Chris Phillips is Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and head of the Optoelectronics section.-External links:* http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/chris.phillips...
- Henry PiddingtonHenry PiddingtonHenry Piddington was an English-Indian scientist and merchant captain in East India and China who coined the name cyclone for tropical storms, referring to a storm that blew a freighter in circles in Mauritius in February 1845....
- Andrew PitmanAndrew PitmanAndrew Pitman is an atmospheric scientist who was born in Bristol in 1964 and educated at Liverpool University . He holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Educational Leadership from Macquarie University. In 2002 became a Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, moving to University of...
- Vicky PopeVicky PopeVicky Pope is head of the climate predictions programme at the Hadley Centre. She spent 6 years as manager of atmospheric climate model development and evaluation. Since October 2004 she has been Head of the Climate Prediction Programme which provides independent scientific advice on climate change...
- Matthew RaperMatthew RaperMatthew Raper was a British astronomer, mathematician, and scholar in various fields. He published papers on diverse subjects, including ancient Greek coinage and Roman currency, as well as their measures and their history from Greek and Latin texts....
- Chris RapleyChris RapleyProf. Christopher Graham Rapley CBE is a British scientist. He was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IGBP from 1994 to 1998, and Director of the British Antarctic Survey from 1998 to 2007. He was appointed Director of the Science Museum in 2007...
- Michael ReissMichael ReissMichael Reiss, MA PhD PGCE MBA FIBiol FRSA is a British bioethicist, educator, and journalist. He is also an Anglican priest. Reiss is Professor of Science Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he is Assistant Director, Research and Development.-Career:Reiss's father...
- Gordon RuggGordon RuggGordon Rugg was born in Perth, Scotland in 1955. He has a first degree in French and Linguistics and a PhD in Psychology, both from Reading University, UK. His background includes working as a timberyard worker, a field archaeologist and an English lecturer...
- John Scott Burdon-SandersonJohn Scott Burdon-SandersonSir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Bt., F.R.S. was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne. A member of a well known Northumbrian family, he received his medical education at the University of Edinburgh and at Paris...
- Sydney SelwynSydney SelwynSydney Selwyn was a British physician, medical scientist, and professor.He was a medical microbiologist with an interest in bacteriology, authority on the history of medicine, avid collector, writer, lecturer, world traveller, and occasional radio and TV broadcaster.-Life:Sydney Selwyn was born in...
- Sheila RodwellSheila RodwellSheila Rodwell OBE , known professionally by her first married name Sheila Bingham, was a British nutritional epidemiologist known for conducting detailed studies into clarify the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of different diets on health and disease, especially cancer.Born in St...
- George D. W. SmithGeorge D. W. SmithProfessor George David William Smith FRS is a materials scientist who, with Alfred Cerezo and Terry Godfrey, invented the Atom-Probe Tomograph in 1988. He is currently a Professor and was formerly head of the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Trinity College,...
- Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl StanhopeCharles Stanhope, 3rd Earl StanhopeCharles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS was a British statesman and scientist. He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his,...
- James Stirling (academic)James Stirling (academic)Professor William James Stirling CBE, FRS, CPhys, FInstP is Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, and Fellow of Peterhouse in the University of Cambridge...
- Peter A. StottPeter A. StottPeter A. Stott is a climate scientist and Manager of Understanding and Attributing Climate Change at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, U.K....
- Peter SykesPeter SykesPeter Sykes, FRSC was a British chemist and a former Fellow and Vice-Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. He is the author of highly popular undergraduate-level organic chemistry textbook A Guidebook to Mechanisms in Organic Chemistry, now in its sixth edition.-References:...
- Benjamin ThompsonBenjamin ThompsonSir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford , FRS was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces in America during the American...
- John Sealy TownsendJohn Sealy TownsendJohn Sealy Edward Townsend, FRS was a mathematical physicist who conducted various studies concerning the electrical conduction of gases and directly measured the electrical charge...
- Eric TristEric TristEric Trist was a British scientist and leading figure in the field of Organizational development . He was one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute for Social Research in London.-Biography:...
- Arthur James TurnerArthur James TurnerArthur James Turner, CBE, MA, D.Sc, FTI, was a British scientist who worked in the field of textile technology. He was the first director of the Technological Laboratory created by the Indian Central Cotton Committee in Bombay in 1924...
- James UnderwoodJames UnderwoodProfessor Sir James Underwood is a British pathologist who was awarded a knighthood for services to medicine in the 2005 New Year honours list.-Early life and education:...
- Olga UvarovOlga UvarovDame Olga Nikolaevna Uvarov, DBE, FRCVS was a veterinary surgeon and clinical researcher. She was the first woman president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons...
- Nicholas WaldNicholas WaldProfessor Sir Nicholas John Wald, MB, BS, DSc , FRCP, FFPH, FRCOG, FMedSci, CBiol, FlBiol, FRS is Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine at at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, part of Queen Mary, University of London....
- Kevin WarwickKevin WarwickKevin Warwick is a British scientist and professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom...
- Watson and CrickWatson and CrickJames D. Watson and Francis Crick were the two co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953. They used x-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Franklin and proposed the double helix or spiral staircase structure of the DNA molecule...
- Andrew Watson (scientist)Andrew Watson (scientist)Andrew James Watson FRS is a British marine and atmospheric scientist and an expert in processes affecting atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations...
- Alexander WattAlexander WattAlexander Stuart Watt was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist.-Life:Watt was born on an Aberdeenshire farm and went to school at Turriff Secondary School and Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He graduated as M.A. and B.Sc. from the University of Aberdeen in 1913...
- Richard Burkewood WelbournRichard Burkewood WelbournRichard Burkewood Welbourn, MA, MD, DSc., FRCS was a British scientist and educator, specializing in surgical endocrinology...
- Michael WellsMichael Wells-Early life and education:Michael Wells graduated in 1976 from the University of Manchester with degrees in medicine and surgery.- Career :After graduation, he moved to Bristol and then later to the University of Leeds. In 1997, he was invited to be the chair of gynecologic pathology at the...
- Thomas Summers WestThomas Summers WestThomas Summers West, FRS was a British chemist.He was born in 1927 in Peterhead, Scotland and educated at Old Tarbat Public School in Portmahomack and then Tain Royal Academy...
- Elsie WiddowsonElsie WiddowsonDr Elsie Widdowson FRS , was a British scientist responsible for overseeing the government mandated addition of vitamins to food and war-time rationing in Britain during World War II....
- James H. WilkinsonJames H. WilkinsonJames Hardy Wilkinson was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.-Early life:...
- Alan Wilson
- Tamsin WiltonTamsin WiltonTamsin Elizabeth Wilton was an Cornish academic, a lesbian activist, theorist, social researcher, writer and cartoonist, and professor of Human Sexuality in the School of Social Science at the University of the West of England. Wilton was a member of the editorial board of the journal Sexualities...
- Greg WinterGreg WinterSir Gregory Winter FRS is a British pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise and, later, to fully humanise using phage display, antibodies for therapeutic uses...
- Heinz WolffHeinz WolffProfessor Heinz Wolff BSc. FIEE. FIBES FRCP FRSA is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter who was born in 1928. He is popularly known for his television and radio work, including the TV series The Great Egg Race....