List of Fellows of the Royal Society G,H,I
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About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.
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Erwin Gabathuler | 15/03/1990 | Nuclear Physicist |
Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.... |
15/03/1956 | 6 June 1900 - 9 February 1979 physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... (1971) |
Pieter Gabry | 15/03/1753 | |
John Henry Gaddum | 22/03/1945 | 31 March 1900 - 30 June 1965 |
Hans Friedrich Gadow Hans Friedrich Gadow Hans Friedrich Gadow was a German ornithologist.Gadow was born in Pomerania, the son of an inspector of the Prussian royal forests. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. At Jena he studied under Ernst Haeckel and at Heidelberg under the anatomist Karl Gegenbaur... |
02/06/1892 | 8 March 1855 - 16 May 1928 |
David Christopher Gadsby | 26/05/2005 | American Physiologist |
Joseph Gaertner Joseph Gaertner Joseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum .... |
12/11/1761 | 12 March 1732 - ? 14 July 1791 |
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Bt was the son of Joseph Gage of Sherborne Castle and Elizabeth Penruddock.He married Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall in 1717. Gage's first son was born in 1718... |
19/12/1728 | |
William Tennant Gairdner William Tennant Gairdner Sir William Tennant Gairdner was a Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.-Personal life:William Tennant Gardiner was the son of Dr. John Gairdner, a physician in Edinburgh, and was born there on 8 November 1824. He was the elder brother of the historian James Gairdner... |
01/06/1893 | 8 November 1824 - 28 June 1907 |
Ernest Frederick Gale | 19/03/1953 | 15 July 1914 – 7 March 2005 |
Michael Denis Gale Michael Denis Gale Michael Denis Gale FRS was a British plant geneticist.He studied at Birmingham University, and Aberystwyth University with Hubert Rees... |
14/03/1996 | |
Roger Gale Roger Gale (antiquary) Roger Gale was an English scholar and antiquary as well as a Member of Parliament for Northallerton. His father was an ecclesiastic and professor at Cambridge, which the younger Gale also attended. After his graduation, Gale briefly served as a diplomat in France, as well as holding a position as... |
28/03/1717 | 1672 - 25 June 1744 antiquary |
Thomas Gale Thomas Gale Thomas Gale was an English classical scholar, antiquarian and cleric.-Life:He was born at Scruton, Yorkshire... |
06/12/1677 | ? 1636 - ? 8 April 1702 |
Celestino Galiani | 23/01/1735 | 1681–1753 |
Charles Hyacinth Antoine Gallean | 10/11/1763 | 18 September 1737 - supposed sovereign prince |
Prince Demetrius Gallitzin | 19/04/1798 | 21 December 1738 - 21 March 1803 Russian ambassador to France/Netherlands |
Thomas Galloway Thomas Galloway Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician born in Symington, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1812 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself in mathematics... |
18/12/1834 | 27 February 1796 - 1 November 1851 |
Gallucci | 20/11/1706 | fl 1706 aka Gatucci or Gatuzzi |
Douglas Strutt Galton Douglas Strutt Galton Sir Douglas Strutt Galton KCB, GCB, F.R.S., MStJ, Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, DCL, LLD was a British engineer.-Education and early life:... |
09/06/1859 | ? 2 July 1822 - ? 18 March 1899 |
Francis Galton Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician... |
07/06/1860 | 17 February 1822 - 17 January 1911 |
Samuel Galton Samuel Galton, Jr. Samuel "John" Galton Jr. FRS , born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England. Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. He was a member of the Lunar Society and lived at Great Barr Hall.He married Lucy Barclay... |
08/12/1785 | 1753–1832 |
Antonio Galvao | 15/04/1725 | fl 1725 - 1730 Portuguese ambassador |
James Gambier | 23/03/1738 | |
Frederick William Gamble | 02/05/1907 | 13 July 1869 - 14 September 1926 |
James Sykes Gamble James Sykes Gamble James Sykes Gamble FRS was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent.He was born in London, the son of Harpur Gamble, M.D... |
01/06/1899 | 2 July 1847 - 16 October 1925 |
William Alexander Gambling William Alexander Gambling William Alexander Gambling FRS, FREng is a British electrical engineer.-Life:From 1950 to 1955, he was lecturer in electric power engineering at the University of Liverpool.... |
17/03/1983 | |
Arthur Gamgee Arthur Gamgee Arthur Gamgee FRS was a British biochemist.Arthur Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, an Edinburgh veterinarian, and his wife Mary Ann West. He was born in Florence, Italy, where his father had a practice, but his family moved back to England when he was fourteen years old... |
06/06/1872 | 10 October 1841 - 29 March 1909 |
Charon Robin Ganellin | 20/03/1986 | |
Rene Jacques Croissant de Garangeot | 09/01/1729 | 30 June 1688 - 10 December 1759 French surgeon |
Laurent Garcin | 22/10/1730 | 1683 - 1751 French physician & botanist |
Alexander Garden Alexander Garden Alexander Gardens was one of the first urban public parks in Moscow, Russia. The park comprises three separate gardens, which stretch along all the length of the western Kremlin wall for between the building of the Moscow Manege and the Kremlin.-History:... |
10/06/1773 | January 1730 - 15 April 1791 |
John Stanley Gardiner John Stanley Gardiner John Stanley Gardiner FRS was a British zoologist and oceanographer.He was born in Belfast in 1872. His research career began in 1896 when he took part in the Royal Society's expedition to Funafuti atoll in the South Pacific ; from then onwards he was recognized as an authority on the distribution... |
07/05/1908 | 24 January 1872 - 28 February 1946 |
Samuel John Gardiner | 04/04/1816 | ? 1792 - ? 1854 Clergyman |
Walter Gardiner Walter Gardiner Walter Gardiner, FLS, FRS was a British botanist. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow there and Lecturer in Botany at the University. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890... |
05/06/1890 | 1 September 1859 - 31 August 1941 |
Richard Lavenham Gardner | 15/03/1979 | |
Christopher David Garner | 15/05/1997 | |
William Edward Garner | 06/05/1937 | 12 May 1889 - 4 March 1960 chemist, Bristol Universiry |
Percy Cyril Claude Garnham | 19/03/1964 | 15 January 1901 - 25 December 1994 |
Christopher John Raymond Garrett | 11/03/1993 | |
Stephen Denis Garrett | 16/03/1967 | 1 November 1906 - 26 December 1989 |
Alfred Henry Garrod Alfred Henry Garrod Alfred Henry Garrod FRS was an English vertebrate zoologist.Garrod was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod , a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout... |
01/06/1876 | 18 May 1846 - 17 October 1879 |
Alfred Baring Garrod Alfred Baring Garrod Sir Alfred Baring Garrod FRS was an English physician.He was born in Ipswich, the son of Robert and Sarah Garrod.He initially apprenticed at Ipswich Hospital, and later moved to University College Hospital, where he earned his medical doctorate in 1843. Afterwards he was an assistant at West... |
03/06/1858 | 13 May 1819 - 28 December 1907 |
Archibald Edward Garrod | 05/05/1910 | 25 November 1857 - 28 March 1936 |
William Garrow William Garrow Sir William Garrow KC, PC, FRS was a British barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today... |
05/03/1807 | 13 April 1760 - 24 September 1840 |
Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton | 02/04/1767 | 1734 - 10 August 1788 |
Samuel Garth Samuel Garth Sir Samuel Garth FRS was an English physician and poet.Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and... |
05/06/1706 | 1661 - 18 January 1719 |
Maxwell Garthshore Maxwell Garthshore Maxwell Garthshore was a fellow of the Royal Society.He was elected to membership in the society on March 23, 1775.-Further reading:* Dictionary of National Biography... |
23/03/1775 | 28 October 1732 - 1 March 1812 |
George Alan Garton | 16/03/1978 | 4 June 1922 - 13 May 2010 Biochemist, Aberdeen |
William Reginald Stephen Garton | 20/03/1969 | 7 March 1912 – 28 August 2002 |
Edmund Johnston Garwood Edmund Johnston Garwood Edmund Johnston Garwood was a British geologist and President of the Geological Society of London from 1930 to 1932.... |
07/05/1914 | 18 May 1864 - 12 June 1949 |
Bernard Gascoigne | 20/06/1667 | 1614 - 10 January 1687 |
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury | 30/05/1957 | 27 August 1893 - 23 February 1972 |
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | 28/01/1869 | 4 February 1830 - 22 August 1903 |
Walter Holbrook Gaskell | 08/06/1882 | 1 November 1847 - 7 September 1914 |
Thomas Gaskin | 21/03/1839 | 13 May 1809 - 17 February 1887 |
Ian Graham Gass Ian Graham Gass Ian Graham Gass, FRS, geologist, was Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of Discipline at the Open University, Milton Keynes and he was President of the IAVCEI . He was married to Mary Pearce .... |
17/03/1983 | 20 March 1926 - 8 October 1992 |
John Le Gassick | 11/12/1673 | |
John Peter Gassiot John Peter Gassiot John Peter Gassiot FRS was an English businessman and amateur scientist and who was particularly associated with public demonstrations of electrical phenomena and the development of the Royal Society.-Life:... |
09/04/1840 | 2 April 1797 - 15 August 1877 |
Michael Gaster | 21/03/1985 | |
Reginald Ruggles Gates Reginald Ruggles Gates Reginald Ruggles Gates , was a Canadian born anthropologist, botanist, and geneticist. He did most of his work in the United Kingdom and the United States. He received his Bachelor of Science from McGill University with further education in Chicago and London. He did botanical work in Missouri in... |
07/05/1931 | 1 May 1882 - 12 August 1962 |
Sidney Barrington Gates | 16/03/1950 | 3 February 1893 - 12 June 1973 |
Hieronymous David Gaubius | 23/02/1764 | 25 February 1705 - 29 November 1780 |
John Gauden John Gauden John Gauden was an English bishop of Exeter then bishop of Worcester and writer, and the reputed author of the important Royalist work Eikon Basilike.-Life:... |
04/12/1661 | c 1605–1662 Original |
Karl Friedrich Gauss | 12/04/1804 | 31 April 1777 - 23 February 1855 |
Nicholas Gay | 15/11/1798 | |
Robert Gay | 06/11/1718 | |
Alfred Gordon Gaydon Alfred Gordon Gaydon Alfred Gordon Gaydon was a leading spectroscopist and combustion scientist. He was responsible for developing the shock tube as a means to study flames and combustion, and has been awarded the Rumford Medal and was a fellow of the Royal Society of London.He is perhaps best known, however, for his... |
19/03/1953 | 26 September 1911 – 16 April 2004 |
Raymond Michael Gaze | 16/03/1972 | |
Francis Geach | 07/05/1767 | 1724–1798 |
Geoffrey Gee | 15/03/1951 | 6 June 1910 - ? 13 December 1996 |
Orlando Gee | 30/11/1717 | fl 1717 - 1723 |
Alexander Geekie | 30/11/1710 | |
Walter Jakob Gehring Walter Jakob Gehring Walter Jakob Gehring is Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D... |
15/05/1997 | |
James Murdoch Geikie James Geikie James Geikie was a Scottish geologist.He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Stuart Geikie and younger brother of Sir Archibald Geikie... |
03/06/1875 | 23 August 1839 - 1 March 1915 |
Archibald Geikie Archibald Geikie Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE , was a Scottish geologist and writer.-Early life:Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie... |
01/06/1865 | 28 December 1835 - 10 November 1924, PRS 1908-1913 |
Andre Konstantin Geim Andre Geim Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS is a Dutch-Russian-British physicist working at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene... |
17/05/2007 | physicist |
Philip George Houthem Gell Philip George Houthem Gell Philip George Houthem Gell was an immunologist working in postwar Britain.Together with Robin Coombs, he developed the Gell-Coombs classification. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.-References:... |
20/03/1969 | 20 October 1914 - 3 May 2001 |
William Gell William Gell Sir William Gell was an English classical archaeologist and illustrator.-Life:Born at Hopton in Derbyshire, the son of Philip Gell and Dorothy Milnes... |
16/04/1807 | 1778 - 4 February 1836 |
James Fairlie Gemmill | 15/05/1924 | 28 November 1867 - 10 February 1926 |
Adrien Marie Le Gendre | 30/04/1789 | 18 September 1752 - ? 10 January 1833 |
Jean Alexandre Genevois | 19/02/1761 | fl 1761 |
Claude Joseph Geoffroy Claude Joseph Geoffroy Claude Joseph Geoffroy was the brother of Étienne François Geoffroy.Like his brother, he was an apothecary and chemist. Having a considerable knowledge of botany, he devoted himself especially to the study of the essential oils in plants.... |
09/06/1715 | 8 August 1685 - 9 March 1752 |
Etienne Francois Geoffroy Étienne François Geoffroy Étienne François Geoffroy , French physician and chemist, best known for his 1718 affinity tables. He first contemplated a career as an apothecary, but then decided to practice medicine. He is sometimes known as Geoffroy the Elder.-Biography:He was born in Paris... |
06/07/1698 | 14 February 1672 - 6 January 1731 |
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland George II of Great Britain George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain. He was born and brought up in Northern Germany... |
11/07/1727 | 10 November 1683 - 25 October 1760 Royal |
George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland George IV of the United Kingdom George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... |
18/05/1820 | 12 August 1762 - 25 June 1830 Royal |
George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland George V of the United Kingdom George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936.... |
08/06/1893 | 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936 Royal |
George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland George VI of the United Kingdom George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death... |
16/06/1932 | 15 December 1895 - 6 February 1952 Royal Fellow; Patron 1936 |
George, Prince of Denmark | 30/11/1704 | 23 April 1653 - 28 October 1708 Royal |
Thomas Neville George Thomas Neville George Thomas Neville George FRS was a British geologist.-References:... |
21/03/1963 | 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980 |
John Georges John Georges John Georges is a New Orleans, Louisiana, businessman who formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body which supervises higher education in his native state.... |
30/11/1719 | fl 1719 - 1738 |
Henry Walther Gerdes | 12/05/1726 | 24 August 1690 - January 1742 |
Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten was a German scientist.He was born in Gießen, a town in the German federal state of Hessen. He studied law and mathematics at the University of Gießen and in the beginning of 1730s he travelled to London, England, to improve his mathematical knowledge. In London in 1733 he... |
25/10/1733 | 7 February 1701 - 13 August 1762 |
Michel Agnola Giacomelli | 06/11/1740 | 11 September 1695 - 17 April 1774 |
Alexander Gibb Alexander Gibb Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS was a Scottish civil engineer.Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the grandson of John Gibb, a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers... |
07/05/1936 | 12 |
Claude Dixon Gibb | 21/03/1946 | 29 June 1898 - 15 January 1959 |
George Smith Gibbes | 18/02/1796 | 1771 - 23 June 1851 |
Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament... |
27/11/1788 | 27 April 1737 - 16 January 1794 |
Gary William Gibbons Gary Gibbons Gary William Gibbons , FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons studied in Cambridge,where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to Oxford, he became a student of Stephen Hawking, obtaining his PhD from Cambridge in 1973... |
13/05/1999 | |
Ian Read Gibbons | 17/03/1983 | |
James Gibbs James Gibbs James Gibbs was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born in Scotland, he trained as an architect in Rome, and practised mainly in England... |
16/10/1729 | 23 December 1682 - 5 August 1754 |
Alan Frank Gibson | 16/03/1978 | 30 May 1923 - 27 March 1988 |
Charles Stanley Gibson | 07/05/1931 | 9 February 1884 - 24 March 1950 |
Frank William Ernest Gibson | 18/03/1976 | |
Quentin Howieson Gibson | 20/03/1969 | 9 December 1918 - 16 March 2011 |
Vernon Charles Gibson | 27/05/2004 | |
Walcot Gibson Walcot Gibson Walcot Gibson was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1925 and won the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1924.-References:... |
07/05/1925 | 24 August 1864 - 28 November 1941 |
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury | 13/01/1887 | 3 September 1823 - 11 December 1921 |
John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury | 20/03/1969 | 4 June 1908 - 4 January 2000 |
Sir Robert Giffen | 02/06/1892 | 22 July 1837 - ? 10 April 1910 |
James William Gilbart James William Gilbart James William Gilbart banker and author.He was the General Manager of the London and Westminster Bank 1833–1859, one of the first joint-stock banks in England.... |
18/06/1846 | 21 March 1794 - 8 August 1863 |
Davies Gilbert Davies Gilbert Davies Gilbert FRS was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830.... |
17/11/1791 | 6 March 1767 - 24 December 1839, PRS 1827-1830 |
Geoffrey Alan Gilbert | 15/03/1973 | 3 December 1917 – 1 March 2005 |
John Davies Gilbert John Davies Gilbert John Davies Gilbert was a land owner, born in Eastbourne the son of Davies Gilbert and Mary Ann Gilbert.John Davies Gilbert and his son, Carew Davies Gilbert played a major role, as landowners, in the development of the town of Eastbourne and also developed Trelissick Garden in Feock, Cornwall.In... |
10/04/1834 | 5 December 1811 - 16 April 1854 |
Jeffrey Gilbert Jeffrey Gilbert (judge) Jeffrey Gilbert was an English judge and author who was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in both Ireland and England and later became renowned for his legal treatises, none of which were published in his lifetime.-Family and early career:... |
12/05/1726 | 1674 - 14 October 1726 Chief Baron of Exchequer |
Joseph Henry Gilbert Joseph Henry Gilbert Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:... |
07/06/1860 | 1 August 1817 - 23 December 1901 |
Percy Carlyle Gilchrist | 04/06/1891 | 27 December 1851 - ? 16 December 1935 |
Moreton Gilkes | 24/04/1735 | |
Adrian Edward Gill Adrian Gill Adrian Edmund Gill FRS was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics . Gill was born in Melbourne Australia and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984 .He was chair of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere... |
20/03/1986 | 23 February 1937 - 19 April 1986 |
David Gill David Gill (astronomer) Sir David Gill FRS was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy. He spent much of his career in South Africa.- Life and work :... |
07/06/1883 | 12 June 1843 - 24 January 1914 |
Westby Gill | 07/02/1740 | 1679 - October 1746 |
Hugh Gillan | 12/02/1795 | |
Ronald James Gillespie | 17/03/1977 | |
John Gillies John Gillies John Gillies was a Scottish historian and classical scholar.-Life:He was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire and was educated at the University of Glasgow, where, at the age of twenty, he acted for a short time as substitute for the professor of Greek. He lived for a while in Germany and returned in... |
29/01/1789 | 18 January 1747 - 15 February 1836 |
John Gillon | 23/03/1809 | c 1748 - 14 December 1809 |
James Gimzewski James Gimzewski James Kazimierz Gimzewski is a Scottish physicist of Polish descent who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy.-Background:... |
15/05/2009 | |
Jean Patrice Piers de Girardin | 27/04/1732 | fl 1732 |
John Girle | 07/02/1754 | |
Thomas Gisborne | 16/11/1758 | |
Hieronymus Giuntini | 27/05/1731 | |
Lynn Faith Gladden | 27/05/2004 | |
John Hall Gladstone John Hall Gladstone John Hall Gladstone FRS was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society... |
02/06/1853 | 7 March 1827 - 6 October 1902 |
William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time... |
13/01/1881 | 29 December 1809 - 19 May 1898 |
James Glaisher James Glaisher James Glaisher FRS , was an English meteorologist and aeronaut.Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker, Glaisher was a Junior assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1833 to 1835 before moving to the Royal Greenwich Observatories, where he served as Superintendent of the Department... |
07/06/1849 | 8 April 1809 - 7 February 1903 |
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher James Whitbread Lee Glaisher James Whitbread Lee Glaisher son of James Glaisher, the meteorologist, was a prolific English mathematician.He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second wrangler in 1871... |
03/06/1875 | 5 November 1848 - 7 December 1928 |
Joseph Glanvill Joseph Glanvill Joseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.-Life:He was... |
14/12/1664 | 1636 - 4 November 1680 |
William Henry Glanville William Glanville Sir William Henry Glanville CB CBE was a British civil engineer. During WWII he and the Road Research Laboratory were involved in important war work, developing temporary runways, beach analysis, and tank and aircraft design... |
20/03/1958 | 2 February 1900 - 30 June 1976 |
David Victor Glass | 18/03/1971 | 2 January 1911 - 23 September 1978, demographer |
Samuel Glasse | 05/07/1764 | 1735 - 27 April 1812 |
Hermann Glauert Hermann Glauert Hermann Glauert, FRS was a British aerodynamicist and Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until December 1934.... |
07/05/1931 | 4 October 1892 - 4 August 1934 |
Richard Tetley Glazebrook | 08/06/1882 | 18 September 1854 - 15 December 1935 |
James Glenie James Glenie James Glenie was a Scottish-born businessman and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Sunbury County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1789 to 1809.... |
18/03/1779 | 1750 - 23 November 1817 |
Alexander Thomas Glenny | 16/03/1944 | 18 September 1882 - 5 October 1965 |
Francis Glisson Francis Glisson Francis Glisson was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets... |
06/03/1661 | 1597 - ? 14 October 1677 Original |
David Moore Glover | 15/05/2009 | |
George Glover | 09/06/1832 | 1778 - 4 May 1862 Clergyman |
Keith Glover | 11/03/1993 | |
Philips Glover | 02/05/1723 | 1697 - ? 18 June 1745 |
Peter David Gluckman Peter Gluckman Sir Peter David Gluckman, KNZM, FRS, FMedSc, FRSNZ is a New Zealand scientist who is the first Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. -Life:... |
10/05/2001 | |
Eugen Glueckauf Eugen Glueckauf Eugen Glueckauf was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.After an education at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, he escaped from the Nazis to London... |
20/03/1969 | 9 April 1906 - 12 September 1981 |
Ian Michael Glynn Ian Glynn Ian Michael Glynn FRS FRCP is a British biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1986–95, now Professor Emeritus... |
19/03/1970 | |
Joseph Glynn Joseph Glynn (engineer) Joseph Glynn, FRS was a British steam engine designer.He was born the son of James Glynn of the Ouseburn Iron Foundry in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and taught by John Bruce at the Percy Street Academy.... |
08/02/1838 | 7 February 1799 - 6 February 1863 Steam Engineer |
Philip Friedrich Gmelin | 16/02/1758 | 19 August 1721 - 9 May 1768 |
Jonathan Goddard Jonathan Goddard Jonathan Goddard was an English physician, known both as army surgeon to the forces of Oliver Cromwell, and as an active member of the Royal Society.-Life:... |
28/11/1660 | c 1617 - 24 March 1675 |
Peter Goddard | 16/03/1989 | |
Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray | 10/05/2001 | |
Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz | 22/01/1730 | 1660 - 15 January 1741 |
John Godfrey John Godfrey John Ferguson Godfrey, PC is a Canadian educator, journalist and former Member of Parliament.- Education :He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey , was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960... |
10/11/1715 | fl 1715 |
Louis Godin Louis Godin Louis Godin was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He worked in Peru, Spain, Portugal and France.-Biography:... |
27/03/1735 | 29 February 1704 - 11 September 1760 |
Frederick DuCane Godman Frederick DuCane Godman Frederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist.... |
08/06/1882 | 15 January 1834 - 19 |
William Godolphin William Godolphin (diplomat) Sir William Godolphin was an English diplomat and Member of Parliament.Godolphin was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining the degrees of Master of Arts in 1661 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1663... |
02/11/1664 | ? February 1635 - 11 July 1696 |
William Man Godschall | 16/02/1758 | c 1719 - 1 December 1802 |
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU , was an English topographer, geologist and surveyor.The eldest son of Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, Godwin-Austen was born in Teignmouth... |
03/06/1880 | 6 July 1834 - 2 December 1923 |
Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen | 07/06/1849 | 19 March 1808 - 25 November 1884 |
George Godwin George Godwin George Godwin FRS was an influential architect, journalist, and editor of The Builder magazine.He was one of nine children of the architect George Godwin senior and trained at his father's architectural practice in Kensington where he set up in business with his brother Henry Godwin .Encouraged... |
07/03/1839 | 28 January 1815 - 27 January 1888 |
Harry Godwin Harry Godwin Sir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:... |
22/03/1945 | 9 May 1901 - 12 August 1985 |
Michel Goedert | 11/05/2000 | |
Ernest Gold Ernest Gold (meteorologist) Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS was a British meteorologist.- References :* ‘GOLD, Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 * http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976QJRMS.102..945.... |
02/05/1918 | 24 July 1881 - 30 January 1976 meteorologist |
Thomas Gold Thomas Gold Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society . Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady... |
19/03/1964 | 22 May 1920 – 22 June 2004, physicist, astronomer |
Victor Gold Victor Gold (chemist) Victor Gold was a chemist who served on the faculty of King's College, London.Gold was born in Vienna, the son of lawyer Oscar Gold and his first wife, the former Emmy Kopperl. He was raised primarily by his mother... |
16/03/1972 | 29 June 1922 - 29 September 1985 |
George Dashwood Taubman Goldie George Taubman Goldie Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie was a Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria... |
15/05/1902 | 20 May 1846 - 20 August 1925 |
John Goldingham John Goldingham John Goldingham was the first official astronomer of the Madras Observatory, appointed in 1802. Goldingham headed the Madras Survey School later which grew into the Guindy Engineering College and then Anna University... |
26/05/1808 | c 1766 - ? 7 June 1849 |
Peter Martin Goldreich Peter Goldreich Peter Goldreich is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a... |
27/05/2004 | U.S. astrophysicist |
George Ridsdale Goldsbrough | 02/05/1929 | 19 May 1881 - 26 May 1963 |
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid Isaac Lyon Goldsmid Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Baronet was a financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom.... |
13/03/1828 | 13 January 1778 - 27 April 1859 |
Sydney Goldstein Sydney Goldstein Sydney Goldstein FRS was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as:... |
06/05/1937 | 3 December 1903 - 22 January 1989, fluid mechanics |
Jeffrey Goldstone Jeffrey Goldstone Jeffrey Goldstone is a British-born theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977.... |
17/03/1977 | |
William Gomildon | 11/11/1663 | |
Benjamin Gompertz Benjamin Gompertz Benjamin Gompertz was a British self educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society... |
28/01/1819 | 5 March 1779 - 14 July 1865, actuary mathematician |
John Mason Good John Mason Good John Mason Good , English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born at Epping, Essex.John Good's parents were the Nonconformist minister Revd Peter Good and Sarah Good, the daughter of another Nonconformist minister, Revd Henry Peyto of Great Coggeshall... |
31/03/1808 | 25 May 1764 - 2 January 1827 |
Edmund Goodenough Edmund Goodenough -Life:Goodenough was the youngest son of Samuel Goodenough, bishop of Carlisle, by his wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. James Ford, physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, was born at Baling, Middlesex, on 3 April 1785. At an early age he was sent to Westminster School, where in 1797,... |
01/04/1824 | 6 April 1785 - 2 May 1845 |
George Trenchard Goodenough | 06/12/1787 | 1743 - |
Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle Samuel Goodenough Samuel Goodenough was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1808 until his death in 1827, and an amateur botanist and collector. He is honoured in the scientific names of the plant genus Goodenia and the Red-capped Robin .-Life:Born at Kimpton, near Weyhill, Hampshire, on 29 April 1743 , he was the third... |
14/05/1789 | 29 April 1743 - 12 August 1827 |
Charles Frederick Goodeve | 14/03/1940 | 22 February 1904 - 7 April 1980 |
Tom Goodey | 20/03/1947 | 28 July 1885 - 7 July 1953 |
Peter Neville Goodfellow | 12/03/1992 | |
Christopher Carl Goodnow Chris Goodnow Professor Chris Goodnow BVSc, PhD, FAA FRS is a Professor at the Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research , at the ANU's campus in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. He holds dual Australian and US citizenship... |
15/05/2009 | |
Edwin Stephen Goodrich Edwin Stephen Goodrich Edwin Stephen Goodrich , was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946... |
11/05/1905 | 21 June 1868 - 6 January 1946 |
John Goodricke John Goodricke John Goodricke FRS was an eminent and profoundly deaf amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol in 1782.- Life and work :... |
06/04/1786 | 17 September 1764 - 20 April 1786 |
John Goodsir John Goodsir John Goodsir was a Scottish anatomist, born at Anstruther, Fife. He was a pioneer in the study of the cell.- Life :Goodsir was trained in St Andrews and Edinburgh... |
11/06/1846 | ? 20 March 1814 - 6 March 1867 |
Graham Clifford Goodwin Graham Clifford Goodwin Graham Clifford Goodwin is an Australian electrical engineer.He is ARC Federation Fellow and Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia.-Life:... |
09/05/2002 | |
Leonard George Goodwin Leonard Goodwin Leonard George Goodwin CMG FRS was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was born in London to a shoe shop manager, and became interested in nature thanks to holidays spent with his grandfather, a... |
18/03/1976 | |
Trevor Walworth Goodwin | 21/03/1968 | |
Goodwyn | 27/04/1681 | fl 1681 Merchant |
Coluthur Gopalan | 19/03/1987 | |
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and 5th Duke of Lennox KG, PC , styled Earl of March until in 1819, was a British soldier, politician and a prominent Conservative.-Background and education:... |
02/04/1840 | 3 August 1791 - 21 October 1860 |
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT , styled Marquess of Huntly until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, described by Kaimes as the "greatest subject in Britain", and was also known as the Cock o' the North, the traditional epithet attached to the chief of the Gordon clan.-Early life:Alexander... |
24/06/1784 | June 1743 - 17 June 1827 |
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | 28/04/1808 | 28 January 1784 - 14 December 1860 |
Henry Percy Gordon Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet FRS .He was the only son of Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet, succeeding to his father's title in 1851.... |
09/12/1830 | 21 October 1806 - 29 July 1876 |
James Alexander Gordon | 02/04/1835 | 1793 - 18 April 1872 Physician |
James Willoughby Gordon | 11/06/1801 | 1773 - ? 4 January 1851 |
Mervyn Henry Gordon | 15/05/1924 | 22 June 1872 - 26 July 1953 |
Michael John Caldwell Gordon | 10/03/1994 | |
Patrick Gordon | 30/11/1694 | |
Robert Gordon | 03/02/1686 | 7 March 1647 - ? 5 October 1704 Scottish MP and courtier |
Siamon Gordon | 17/05/2007 | |
Thomas Gordon Thomas Gordon (British Army officer) Major-General Thomas Gordon was a British army officer and historian. He is remembered for his role in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s and 1830s and his History of the war published in 1833.- Early career :... |
08/02/1821 | 8 December 1788 - 20 April 1841 |
George Gore | 01/06/1865 | 22 January 1826 - ? 23 December 1908 Electrochemist, Birmingham |
Peter Alfred Gorer Peter Alfred Gorer Peter Alfred Gorer FRS was a British immunologist, pathologist and geneticist who pioneered the field of transplant immunology.... |
24/03/1960 | 14 April 1907 - 11 May 1961 |
Antonio Francesco Gori Antonio Francesco Gori Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius was a Florentine antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746, and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory... |
04/05/1738 | 9 December 1691 - 21 January 1757 |
John Eldon Gorst John Eldon Gorst Sir John Eldon Gorst PC, QC, FRS was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1885 to 1886 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education between 1895 and 1902.... |
17/12/1896 | 24 May 1835 - 4 April 1916 |
David de Gorter David de Gorter David de Gorter was a Dutch physician and botanist.He was professor at the then University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia... |
21/02/1760 | 30 April 1717 - 1783 |
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen | 18/01/1872 | 10 August 1831 - 7 February 1907 |
Philip Henry Gosse Philip Henry Gosse Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology... |
05/06/1856 | 6 April 1810 - 23 August 1888 |
Isaac Gosset | 18/06/1772 | ? 1735 - 12 December 1812 |
George Gostling | 12/12/1793 | c 1745 - 27 May 1821 |
Francis Gotch Francis Gotch Francis Gotch was a British neurophysiologist who was professor of physiology at University College Liverpool and Oxford University.He was educated at London University.... |
02/06/1892 | 13 July 1853 - 15 July 1913 |
Georg Gottlob Georg Gottlob Georg Gottlob FRS is an Oxford-based Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.Gottlob obtained his PhD in computer science at Vienna University of Technology in 1981... |
20/05/2010 | |
Douglas Owen Gough | 15/05/1997 | |
Herbert John Gough H.J. Gough Herbert John Gough, CB, MBE, FRS was a British engineer, and research director.-Life:Born Bermondsey, London, he attended the Regent Street Polytechnic, and won a scholarship to University College London. In 1909, he became an apprentice at Vickers, Sons in 1913. He graduated from the University... |
11/05/1933 | 26 April 1890 - 1 June 1965, engineer at NPL and pioneer in metal fatigue Metal Fatigue Metal Fatigue , is a futuristic science fiction, real-time strategy computer game developed by Zono Incorporated and published by Psygnosis and TalonSoft .-Plot:... |
Richard Gough Richard Gough Charles Richard Gough is a former Scottish football central defender who enjoyed great success as captain of Rangers. He also played for Scotland 61 times and had a brief spell as manager of Livingston... |
09/03/1775 | 21 October 1735 - 20 |
Henry Goulburn Henry Goulburn Henry Goulburn PC FRS was an English Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.-Background and education:... |
27/04/1820 | 19 March 1784 - 12 January 1856 |
John Gould John Gould John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection... |
19/01/1843 | 14 September 1804 - 03 |
William Gould | 12/05/1774 | c 1719 - 16 March 1799 |
William Gould | 02/05/1683 | c 1652 - ? October 1686 Physician |
Jonathan Gouldsmyth | 15/01/1730 | ? May 1694 - ? 17 April 1732 |
James Learmonth Gowans James Learmonth Gowans -References:... |
21/03/1963 | |
William Richard Gowers William Richard Gowers Sir William Richard Gowers was a British neurologist.The Gowers' tract is named after him.... |
09/06/1887 | 20 March 1845 - 4 May 1915 |
William Timothy Gowers William Timothy Gowers William Timothy Gowers FRS is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College... |
13/05/1999 | |
William Gowland William Gowland William Gowland was an English mining engineer most famous for his archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He is known in Japan as the "Father of Japanese Archaeology", which is an exaggeration. He was a major founding figure.... |
07/05/1908 | 16 December 1842 - 10 June 1922 |
James de Graaff-Hunter | 16/05/1935 | 11 September 1881 - 3 February 1967 Geodesist, Survey of India |
John Hilton Grace John Hilton Grace John Hilton Grace was a British mathematician.-Early life:He was born in Halewood, near Liverpool, the eldest of the six children of a farmer. He was educated at the village school and the Liverpool Institute... |
07/05/1908 | 21 May 1873 - 4 March 1958 |
Michael Anthony Grace | 16/03/1967 | 13 May 1920 - 17 May 1988 |
William Graeme | 30/04/1730 | c 1700 - 19 February 1745 Fellow 30/04/1731 |
William Graeme | 13/03/1766 | fl 1766 |
George Stuart Graham-Smith | 15/05/1919 | 25 September 1875 - 30 August 1950 |
Francis Graham-Smith Francis Graham-Smith Sir Francis Graham-Smith is a British astronomer. He was the thirteenth Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.He was educated at Rossall School, Lancashire, England... |
19/03/1970 | |
Aaron Graham | 17/03/1785 | fl 1785 Astronomer |
Alastair Graham | 15/03/1979 | 6 November 1906 - 12 December 2000 zoologist |
Christopher Forbes Graham | 19/03/1981 | |
George Graham George Graham (clockmaker) George Graham was an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was born to George Graham in Kirklinton, Cumberland. A Friend like his mentor Thomas Tompion, Graham left Cumberland in 1688 for London to work with Tompion... |
09/03/1721 | 7 July 1673 - ? 20 November 1751 |
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose James Graham, 1st Duke and 4th Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish aristocratic statesman in the early eighteenth century.... |
28/05/1707 | c 1680 - 7 January 1742 |
Richard Graham | 17/11/1726 | 8 March 1693 - 8 May 1749 Comptroller of Westminster Bridge |
James Robert George Graham | 22/12/1831 | 1 June 1792 - 25 October 1861 |
Thomas Graham Thomas Graham (chemist) Thomas Graham FRS was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.- Life and work :... |
15/12/1836 | ? 20 December 1805 - ? 11 September 1869 |
Richard Dugard Grainger Richard Dugard Grainger Richard Dugard Grainger FRCS FRS was an English surgeon, anatomist and physiologist.Grainger was born in Birmingham, the son of a surgeon, and educated at a grammar school. He was the brother of Edward Grainger, whose anatomical school he carried forward... |
22/01/1846 | 1801 - 1 February 1865 |
Guido Grandi Guido Grandi thumb|Guido GrandiDom Guido Grandi, O.S.B. Cam., was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, mathematician, and engineer.-Life:... |
04/05/1709 | 1 October 1671 - 4 July 1742 |
Jacobus Grandi | 01/12/1690 | 1646 - 11 |
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI, CIE, PC FRS , known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author... |
03/02/1881 | 22 February 1829 - ? 12 January 1906 |
Barbara Rosemary Grant Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter Raymond Grant and Barbara Rosemary Grant, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major... |
17/05/2007 | |
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator.-Background and education:... |
27/03/1828 | 26 October 1778 - 23 April 1866 |
Ian Philip Grant Ian Grant Ian Grant is a British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a founding member of University of Oxford's Department of Theoretical Chemistry in 1972.... |
12/03/1992 | |
James Augustus Grant James Augustus Grant James Augustus Grant, CB, CSI, FRS, FRGS was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa.Grant was born at Nairn in the Scottish Highlands, where his father was the parish minister, and educated at the grammar school and Marischal College, Aberdeen. In 1846 he joined the Indian army... |
12/06/1873 | 12 April 1827 - 11 February 1892 |
John Grant | 11/11/1779 | fl 1779 President of Royal Institution |
Lewis Alexander Grant | 10/03/1791 | fl 1791 |
Peter Raymond Grant Peter and Rosemary Grant Peter Raymond Grant and Barbara Rosemary Grant, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major... |
19/03/1987 | |
Robert Grant Robert Grant (astronomer) Robert Grant was a Scottish astronomer.Overcoming health problems and financial difficulties, he published in 1852 the complete text of his book The History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century... |
01/06/1865 | 17 June 1814 - 24 October 1892 astronomer |
Robert Edmond Grant Robert Edmond Grant Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University as a physician. He became one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently the first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London... |
04/02/1836 | 11 November 1793 - 23 August 1874 |
Ronald Thomson Grant | 03/05/1934 | 5 November 1892 - 7 November 1989 |
Sir Thomas Tassell Grant Sir Thomas Tassell Grant Sir Thomas Tassell Grant KCB FRS was a notable inventor in the 19th century.He was born in Portsea, Hampshire, the son of Thomas and Ann Grant of Soberton, Hampshire.... |
21/05/1840 | 1795 - 15 October 1859 |
Augustus Bozzi Granville Augustus Granville Augustus Bozzi Granville MD, FRS was a physician, writer, and Italian patriot.Born in Milan, he studied medicine before leaving to avoid being enlisted in Napoleon's army. After practicing medicine in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal, he joined the British Navy and sailed to the West Indies... |
20/11/1817 | 7 October 1783 - 3 March 1872, 1817, physician and writer |
John Graunt John Graunt John Graunt was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Born in London, the eldest of seven or eight children of Henry and Mary Graunt. His father was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire... |
26/02/1662 | 24 April 1620 - 18 April 1674 |
William Gravatt | 02/02/1832 | 14 July 1806 - 30 May 1866 civil engineer |
Charles Graves Charles Graves (bishop) The Rt. Rev. Charles Graves, F.R.S., D.D., LL.D. was a 19th Century Anglican Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. He was also a mathematician.-Early life:... |
03/06/1880 | 6 November 1812 - 17 July 1899 |
John Thomas Graves | 18/04/1839 | 4 December 1806 - 29 March 1870 Barrister |
Robert James Graves Robert James Graves Robert James Graves, M.D., F.R.C.S. was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science... |
06/06/1850 | ? 27 March 1797 - 20 March 1853 |
Andrew Gray Andrew Gray (physicist) Andrew Gray was a Scottish physicist and mathematician.Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and studied at the University of Glasgow , where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876... |
04/06/1896 | 2 July 1847 - 10 October 1925 |
Charles Gray Charles Gray (MP) Charles Gray FRS was a lawyer, antiquary and Tory Member of Parliament for Colchester.... |
13/06/1754 | 1696–1782 |
Edward George Gray | 18/03/1976 | 11 January 1924 - 14 August 1999 |
Edward Whitaker Gray Edward Whitaker Gray Edward Whitaker Gray , English botanist and secretary to the Royal Society, was uncle of Samuel Frederick Gray, author of The Practical Chemist.-Educational and professional roles:... |
11/02/1779 | 1748 - 27 December 1806 Librarian, RCP |
Francis Gray, 14th Baron Gray | 15/02/1816 | 1 September 1765 - 20 August 1842 |
George Robert Gray George Robert Gray George Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years... |
01/06/1865 | ? July 1808 - 5 May 1872 |
George William Gray George William Gray George William Gray CBE, FRS is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible... |
17/03/1983 | |
Henry Gray Henry Gray Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 25.-Biography:... |
03/06/1852 | c 1827 - ? 8 June 1861 |
James Gray James Gray (zoologist) - External links :*... |
02/05/1929 | 14 October 1891 - 14 December 1975 |
John Gray | 16/03/1732 | |
John Archibald Browne Gray | 16/03/1972 | 30 March 1918 - 4 January 2011 |
John Edward Gray John Edward Gray John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray .... |
02/02/1832 | 13 February 1800 - 7 March 1875 |
Joseph Alexander Gray | 05/05/1932 | 8 February 1884 - 5 March 1966 Physicist |
Louis Harold Gray Louis Harold Gray Louis Harold Gray was a British physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems, inventing the field of radiobiology as he went. A summary of his work is given below... |
16/03/1961 | 10 November 1905 - 8 July 1965 |
Peter Gray | 17/03/1977 | |
Robert Gray | 02/05/1728 | fl 1728 - 1731 East India Coy Factor |
Stephen Gray Stephen Gray (scientist) Stephen Gray was an English dyer and amateur astronomer, who was the first to systematically experiment with electrical conduction, rather than simple generation of static charges and investigations of the static phenomena.... |
25/01/1733 | ? 1666 - ? 25 February 1736 |
Richard Wilson Greatheed | 21/11/1793 | fl 1793 |
Thomas Greatorex Thomas Greatorex Thomas Greatorex was an English composer, astronomer and mathematician. As well as being organist of Westminster Abbey, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society.-Career:... |
11/03/1819 | 5 October 1758 - 18 July 1831 |
Melvyn Francis Greaves | 15/05/2003 | |
William Michael Herbert Greaves William Michael Herbert Greaves William Michael Herbert Greaves FRS was a British astronomer.He was born in Barbados, West Indies to Dr. E. C. Greaves, a medical doctor trained at Edinburgh University. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School and Codrington College in Barbados then travelled to England to study at St... |
18/03/1943 | 10 September 1897 - 24 December 1955 |
Albert Edward Green | 20/03/1958 | 11 November 1912 - 12 August 1999 |
Alexander Henry Green Alexander Henry Green Alexander Henry Green FRS was an English geologist.Born at Maidstone, he was the son of the Rev. Thomas Sheldon Green, master of the Ashby Grammar School... |
04/06/1886 | 10 October 1832 - 19 August 1896 |
Arthur George Green | 06/05/1915 | 28 February 1865 - 12 September 1941 |
David Headley Green | 14/03/1991 | Geologist, Tasmanis |
James Alexander Green James Alexander Green James Alexander "Sandy" Green FRS is a mathematician and retired Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who is still active in the field of representation theory.-Early life:... |
19/03/1987 | |
Joseph Henry Green Joseph Henry Green Joseph Henry Green was an English surgeon who became the literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-Life:Green was the only son of Joseph Green, a prosperous merchant, and was born on 1 November 1791, at the house over his father's office in London Wall. His mother was Frances Cline, sister of... |
24/02/1825 | 1 November 1791 - 13 December 1863 Surgeon |
Joseph Reynolds Green | 13/06/1895 | 3 December 1848 - 3 June 1914 |
Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green 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... |
21/03/1985 | |
Michael Boris Green Michael Green (physicist) Michael Boris Green FRS is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. Currently a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow in Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in England, he succeeded Stephen Hawking on 1 November 2009... |
16/03/1989 | string theorist |
Norman Michael Green | 19/03/1981 | |
Peter James Green Peter Green (statistician) Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of... |
15/05/2003 | |
Richard Green | 31/05/1753 | 28 June 1708 - June 1786 Clergyman |
William Green | 29/04/1790 | 4 April 1725 - 10 January 1811 Soldier |
Thomas Greene | 22/03/1798 | 10 December 1737 - 1810 Antiquarian |
Thomas Greene | 30/11/1711 | |
William Greene | 06/11/1729 | |
Alfred George Greenhill Alfred George Greenhill Sir George Greenhill, F.R.S. , was a British mathematician.George Greenhill was educated at Christ's Hospital School and from there he went up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1866. In 1876, Greenhill was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, London, UK... |
07/06/1888 | 29 November 1847 - 10 February 1859 |
Edward Headlam Greenhow Edward Headlam Greenhow Edward Headlam Greenhow was an English physician.Physician, epidemiologist, sanitarian, statistician, clinician and lecturer. He was arguably the first "Green", a century before the term was invented.... |
02/06/1870 | 10 December 1814 - 22 November 1888 |
Dennis James Greenland | 10/03/1994 | |
George Bellas Greenough George Bellas Greenough George Bellas Greenough FRS , an English geologist, was born in London.-Biography:Greenough was born George Bellas, named after his father, George Bellas, who had a profitable business in the legal profession as a proctor in Doctor's Commons, St Paul's Churchyard Doctors' Commons and some real... |
05/03/1807 | 18 January 1778 - 2 April 1855 |
William Greenwell William Greenwell Canon William Greenwell FRS FSA FSA.Scot was an English archaeologist.-Life:William Greenwell was born 23 March 1820 in the estate known as Greenwell Ford near Lanchester, County Durham, England... |
06/06/1878 | 23 March 1820 - 27 January 1918 |
Brian Mellor Greenwood Brian Greenwood Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, FRCP, FRS is a British physician, biomedical research scientist, academic, and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize.... |
14/05/1998 | tropical diseases |
Duncan Joseph Greenwood | 21/03/1985 | 16 October 1932- 13 February 2010 soil scientist, Wellesbourne |
Geoffrey Wilson Greenwood | 12/03/1992 | Materials Scientist, Sheffield Univ |
Major Greenwood Major Greenwood Major Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there... |
10/05/1928 | 9 August 1880 - 5 October 1949 epidemiologist, London Univ. |
Norman Neill Greenwood | 19/03/1987 | Univ of Leeds |
Peter Humphry Greenwood | 21/03/1985 | 21 April 1927 - 3 March 1995 ichthyologist, Uganda |
John Greg | 09/07/1772 | |
Henry Gregg | 06/12/1798 | fl 1798 |
James Gregorie | 11/06/1668 | November 1638 - October 1675 mathematician |
David Gregory | 30/11/1692 | ? 24 June 1661 - 10 October 1708 |
Frederick Gugenheim Gregory Frederick Gugenheim Gregory Frederick Gugenheim Gregory was a British botanist, plant physiologist and winner of the Royal Medal.... |
14/03/1940 | 22 December 1893 - 27 November 1961 |
John Gregory John Gregory (moralist) John Gregory , a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist.... |
04/11/1756 | 3 June 1724 - 9 February 1773 |
John Walter Gregory John Walter Gregory John Walter Gregory, FRS, was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa.-Early life:... |
06/06/1901 | 27 January 1864 - 2 June 1932 |
Philip Herries Gregory | 15/03/1962 | 24 July 1907 - 9 February 1956 biologist |
Richard Gregory Richard Gregory Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.-Life and career:... |
24/11/1803 | |
Richard Arman Gregory | 22/06/1933 | 29 January 1864 - 15 September 1952 Statute astronomer |
Richard Langton Gregory | 12/03/1992 | 24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010 Neuropsychologist, Bristol |
Roderic Alfred Gregory Roderic Alfred Gregory Roderic Alfred Gregory CBE FRS was a British biologist.He was born in 1913 in Plaistow, London, the only child of Alfred Gregory and Alice Jane Gregory. His father was a fitter and turner who, in 1913, was employed by Brunner and Monde... |
18/03/1965 | 29 December 1913 - 5 September 1990 |
William Henry Gregory William Henry Gregory Sir William Henry Gregory PC was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician.The only child of Robert Gregory and Elizabeth O'Hara Gregory, he was born at the Castle, in Dublin's Phoenix Park. From 1830 to 1835 he attended Harrow, where he was an award-winning student... |
14/02/1878 | ? 12 July 1817 - 6 March 1892 |
Samuel Greig Samuel Greig Samuel Greig, or Samuil Karlovich Greig , as he was known in Russia - Scottish-born Russian admiral who distinguished himself in the Battle of Chesma and the Battle of Hogland... |
14/03/1782 | 30 November 1735 - October 1788 |
Woronzow Greig | 07/02/1833 | c 1805 - 20 October 1865 |
James Greive | 23/02/1769 | |
Bryan Thomas Grenfell | 27/05/2004 | |
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville | 23/04/1818 | 25 October 1759 - 12 January 1834 |
Charles Gresham | 30/11/1688 | ? 31 May 1660 - 28 March 1718 |
Thomas Gresley | 22/04/1784 | |
Richard Greswell Richard Greswell Richard Greswell , was the re-founder of the National Society.Greswell was born at Denton, Lancashire, on 22 July 1800, the fourth son of the Rev. William Parr Greswell, was educated first by his father, and afterwards at Worcester College, Oxford, on the foundation of which college he was placed... |
10/06/1830 | 22 July 1800 - 22 July 1881 |
Charles Francis Greville Charles Francis Greville Charles Francis Greville PC, FRS , was a British antiquarian, collector and politician.-Background:Greville was the second son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick, by Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton... |
13/02/1772 | 12 May 1749 - 23 April 1809 |
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, FRS, FSA , styled Lord Greville until 1773, was a British nobleman and politician.... |
17/12/1767 | 16 September 1746 - 2 May 1816 |
Robert Fulke Greville Robert Fulke Greville Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Fulke Greville FRS MP was a British Member of Parliament and courtier.The son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth Hamilton, and brother to Charles Francis Greville, he was educated at Edinburgh University... |
03/04/1794 | 4 February 1751 - 27 April 1824 |
Nehemiah Grew Nehemiah Grew Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, very famously known as the "Father of Plant Physiology"... |
02/11/1671 | ? September 1641 - 25 March 1712 |
Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton | 10/02/1831 | 13 November 1806 - 5 April 1881 |
Thomas Grey | 16/02/1815 | |
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC , was a British peer and politician. He served as Joint Postmaster General between 1787 and 1794 and was for many years Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.-Background:... |
05/03/1778 | 14 July 1748 - 16 January 1818 |
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham was an English politician and amateur entomologist.-Biography:... |
09/06/1887 | 29 July 1843 - 3 December 1919 |
Thomas Philip De Grey, 2nd Earl De Grey | 29/04/1841 | 8 December 1781 - 14 November 1859 |
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford PC was a British peer and politician.He was the only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, and inherited his title from his grandfather.... |
12/05/1708 | 1654 - 31 January 1720 |
Donald Grierson | 11/05/2000 | |
John Peter Griess | 04/06/1868 | 6 September 1829 - 30 August 1888 |
John Grieve John Grieve John Grieve may refer to:* John Grieve , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross award for gallantry* John Grieve , Scottish actor*John Grieve , friend of Alexander Bald... |
22/05/1794 | fl 1794 |
Alan Arnold Griffith Alan Arnold Griffith Alan Arnold Griffith was an English engineer, who, among many other contributions, is best known for his work on stress and fracture in metals that is now known as metal fatigue, as well as being one of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine.-Early work:A. A... |
20/03/1941 | 13 June 1893 - 11 October 1963 |
Edward Griffith | 10/04/1834 | 1790 - 8 January 1858 |
Ernest Howard Griffiths Ernest Howard Griffiths Ernest Howard Griffiths was a British physicist born in Brecon, Wales. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and won its Hughes Medal in 1907... |
13/06/1895 | 15 June 1851 - 3 March 1932 |
Ezer Griffiths Ezer Griffiths Ezer Griffiths OBE, FRS was a Welsh physicist most noted for his work on the insulation properties of metals, heat transference, evaporation and refrigiration.... |
06/05/1926 | 27 November 1888 - 14 |
John Griffiths John Griffiths John Griffiths AM is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician and the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development... |
01/05/1806 | fl 1806 |
Robert Charles Griffiths Robert Griffiths (mathematician) Robert Charles Griffiths, FRS is an Australian mathematician and statistician known for his work in mathematical population genetics. He is Professor of Mathematical Genetics in the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall.... |
20/05/2010 | |
Ronald Ernest Grigg Ron Grigg Ron Grigg , FRS, is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leeds, and from 1974 to 1989 held the same chair at Queen's University, Belfast. He had earlier worked at the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge. Likes the colour blue.-External Links:... |
13/05/1999 | |
Pietro Grimani Pietro Grimani Pietro Grimani was a Venetian statesman who served as the 115th Doge of Venice from June 30, 1741 until his death. Grimani was a cultured and learned man, who wrote poetry and counted among his acquaintances Isaac Newton, who he had met while serving as a diplomat in England... |
23/10/1712 | 5 October 1677 - 7 March 1752 |
John Philip Grime | 14/05/1998 | |
James Bucknall Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston and Baron Dunboyne James Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston James Bucknall Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Grimston was the son of James Grimston, 2nd Viscount Grimston, and Mary Bucknall. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge... |
02/02/1786 | 9 May 1747 - 30 December 1808 |
Richard Grindall | 06/04/1758 | ? August 1716 - 30 April 1797 Surgeon |
Nigel David Forster Grindley | 18/05/2006 | |
Steddy Grinfield | 02/04/1767 | |
Jean de la Grive | 24/01/1734 | 1689–1757 |
Laurence Theodore Gronovius | 10/03/1763 | 1730 - ? 1778 |
Percy Groom | 15/05/1924 | 12 September 1865 - 16 September 1931 |
Stephen Groombridge Stephen Groombridge Stephen Groombridge FRS was a British astronomer.In 1806, using a then new transit circle built by Edward Troughton, he began compiling a star catalogue of stars down to about eighth or ninth magnitude... |
27/02/1812 | 7 January 1755 - 30 March 1832 |
Frederick le Gros Clark | 06/06/1872 | 8 February 1811 - 19 July 1892 |
Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark | 16/05/1935 | 5 June 1895 - 28 June 1971 |
Pierre Jean Grosley | 20/02/1766 | 18 November 1718 - 1785 |
Franklin Gerardus Grosveld Frank Grosveld Professor Frank Grosveld FRS is a distinguished molecular biologist whose research interests are in the regulation of transcription during development with a particular emphasis on mammalian erythroid differentiation... |
14/03/1991 | Cell Biologist |
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor , known as Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet between 1755 and 1761 and as The Lord Grosvenor between 1761 and 1784, was a British peer, racehorse owner and art collector... |
13/02/1777 | 18 June 1731 - 5 August 1802 |
George Grote George Grote George Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent... |
11/06/1857 | 17 November 1794 - 18 June 1871 |
Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills was a British soldier and astronomer.He was born the son of Herbert Augustus and Anna Hills in High Head Castle, Cumberland and educated at Winchester College until 1882, after which he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich... |
04/05/1911 | 1 August 1864 - 2 October 1922 |
William Robert Grove William Robert Grove Sir William Robert Grove PC QC FRS was a judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology.-Early life:... |
26/11/1840 | 11 July 1811 - ? 2 August 1896 |
Johm Grover | 22/04/1830 | c 1796 - 6 November 1847 |
Howard Grubb Howard Grubb Sir Howard Grubb FRS was an optical designer from Dublin, Ireland. He was head of a family firm that made large optical telescopes, telescope drive controls, and other optical instruments... |
07/06/1883 | 1844–1931 |
Thomas Grubb Thomas Grubb Thomas Grubb was an Irish optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company.He was born probably near Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland, the son of William and Eleanor Grubb.... |
02/06/1864 | 4 August 1800 - 19 September 1878 |
Hans Grüneberg Hans Gruneberg Hans Grüneberg, also written as Hans Grueneberg and Hans Gruneberg, was a British geneticist. Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany. He obtained an MD from the University of Bonn, a PhD in biology from the University of Berlin and a DSc from the University of London. He arrived in... |
15/03/1956 | 26 May 1907 - 23 Oct 1982 |
Edwin Guest Edwin Guest Edwin Guest, FRS was an English antiquary.He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as eleventh wrangler, subsequently becoming a fellow of his college... |
20/06/1839 | 1800-23 November 1880 |
Edward Armand Guggenheim | 21/03/1946 | 11 August 1901 - 9 August 1970 |
Josiah John Guest John Josiah Guest Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company... |
10/06/1830 | 2 February 1785 - 29 November 1862 |
Joseph de Guignes Joseph de Guignes Joseph de Guignes , French orientalist and sinologist, was born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in Paris.... |
20/202/1752 | 19 October 1721 - 19 March 1800 |
Keith Gull Keith Gull Keith Gull CBE, FRS is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford... |
15/05/2003 | microbiologist |
Ronald Campbell Gunn Ronald Campbell Gunn Ronald Campbell Gunn, FRS, was a South African-born Australian botanist and politician.-Early life:Gunn was born at Cape Town, Cape Colony, , the son of William Gunn, lieutenant in the 72nd Regiment, and his wife Margaret, née Wilson. Gunn accompanied his father to Mauritius, the West Indies, and... |
01/06/1854 | 4 April 1808 - 14 March 1881 |
Albert Charles Lewis Gottgilf Günther | 06/06/1867 | 3 October 1830 - 1 February 1914 |
Henry Brougham Guppy | 02/05/1918 | 23 December 1854 - 23 April 1926 |
John Bertrand Gurdon John Gurdon Sir John Bertrand Gurdon , FRS is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was recently awarded the Lasker Award.-Career:... |
18/3/1971 | |
Ludwig Guttmann Ludwig Guttmann Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE, FRS was a German neurologist who founded the Paralympic Games while living in England, and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability.... |
18/03/1976 | 3 July 1899 - 18 Mar 1980 neurologist |
Henry Lewis Guy Henry Lewis Guy Sir Henry Lewis Guy CBE, FRS, was a leading British mechanical engineer, notable in particular for his work on steam turbine design.-Early life:Guy was born at Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1887... |
07/05/1936 | 15 June 1887 - 20 July 1956 |
William Augustus Guy William Guy William Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University... |
07/06/1866 | 13 June 1810 - 10 September 1885 |
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Theodore Haak Theodore Haak Theodore Haak was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. Haak’s communications abilities and interests in the new science provided the backdrop for convening the “1645 Group,” a precursor of the Royal Society.Although not himself known as a natural philosopher, Haak's... |
20/05/1663 | 25 July 1605 - ? May 1690 Original |
Julius von Haast Julius von Haast Sir Johann Franz "Julius" von Haast was a German geologist. He founded Canterbury Museum at Christchurch.-Biography:... |
06/06/1867 | ? 1 May 1824 - ? 15 August 1887 |
Albert George Hadcock | 02/05/1918 | 22 March 1861 - 4 June 1936 |
Alfred Cort Haddon Alfred Cort Haddon Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands... |
01/06/1899 | 24 May 1855 - 20 April 1940 |
Alexander John Haddow | 16/03/1972 | 27 December 1912 - 26 December 1978 |
Alexander Haddow | 20/03/1958 | 18 January 1907 - 21 January 1976 |
Muhammad ibn Haddu | 26/04/1682 | fl 1682 |
Robert Abbott Hadfield | 06/05/1909 | 28 November 1858 - 30 September 1940 |
George Hadley George Hadley George Hadley was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was becoming a matter of great... |
20/02/1735 | 13 February 1685 - 28 June 1768 |
John Hadley John Hadley John Hadley was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730.He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley.... |
21/03/1717 | 16 April 1682 - 14 February 1744 mathematician |
John Hadley John Hadley (chemist) John Hadley was a British chemist and physician.John Hadley was appointed in 1756 as the fourth Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, the oldest continuously occupied chair of Chemistry in the UK. During his time there he co-operated in 1758 with Benjamin Franklin on a series of... |
25/05/1758 | 1731 - 5 November 1764 chemist |
Hendrik van Haemstede | 12/03/1761 | 8 September 1690 - 31 May 1765 |
Francis Haggitt | 20/04/1820 | |
Robert Wolseley Haig | 06/06/1867 | 21 December 1830 - 6 June 1872 |
John Haighton John Haighton John Highton , was an English physician and physiologist.Highton was born in Lancashire about 1755, and, after being a pupil of Else at St. Thomas's Hospital, became a surgeon to the guards, but resigned on being appointed demonstrator of anatomy at St. Thomas's, under Henry Cline [q. v.] He had... |
06/04/1815 | c 1755 - 23 March 1823 |
John Hailstone John Hailstone John Hailstone , geologist, born near London on 13 Dec. 1759, was placed at an early age under the care of a maternal uncle at York, and was sent to Beverley school in the East Riding. Samuel Hailstone was a younger brother. John went to Cambridge, entering first at Catharine Hall, and afterwards... |
07/05/1801 | 13 December 1759 - 9 June 1847 |
Edward Haistwell | 09/11/1698 | 1658 - 4 January 1709 |
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane | 14/03/1996 | physicist, Princeton |
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane | 05/05/1932 | 5 November 1892 - 1 December 1964 |
John Scott Haldane | 03/06/1897 | 3 May 1860 - 15 March 1936 |
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA , was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented... |
01/11/1906 | 31 July 1856 - 19 August 1928 |
Richard Hale Richard Hale Richard Hale was an American character actor of film, stage and television. Hale was known for his unusual appearance which usually landed him in the roles of either Middle Eastern or Native American characters.... |
09/03/1721 | 1670 - 26 September 1728 physician, London |
Charles Nicholas Hales | 12/03/1992 | 25 April 1935 - 15 September 2005 medical biochemist |
Stephen Hales Stephen Hales Stephen Hales, FRS was an English physiologist, chemist and inventor.Hales studied the role of air and water in the maintenance of both plant and animal life. He gave accurate accounts of the movements of water in plants, and demonstrated that plants absorb air... |
13/03/1718 | ? 17 September 1677 - 4 January 1761 physiologist and inventor |
Henry Halford Henry Halford Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, GCH , born Henry Vaughan, royal and society physician, was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820, then as physician in ordinary to his three successors - George IV, William IV and the young Victoria... |
08/03/1810 | 2 October 1766 - 9 March 1844 |
Stephen Edgar Halford | 27/05/2004 | biochemist, Bristol University |
Alan Hall | 13/05/1999 | microbiologist, New York |
Alfred Daniel Hall Alfred Daniel Hall Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, FRS, sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall was a British agricultural educationist and researcher.He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire.... |
06/05/1909 | 22 June 1864 - 5 July 1942 |
Arnold Alexander Hall Arnold Alexander Hall Sir Arnold Alexander Hall FRS was a British aeronautical engineer, scientist, and industrialist.-Life:Hall was born in Liverpool, and attended Alsop High School in Walton, before going to Clare College, Cambridge, where he won several prizes As a postgraduate he worked with Frank Whittle, then... |
19/03/1953 | 23 April 1915 - 9 January 2000 |
Arthur Lewis Hall | 16/05/1935 | 10 January 1872 - 13 August 1955 geologist, South Africa |
Basil Hall Basil Hall Basil Hall, FRS was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. He was the second son of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, an eminent man of science.-Biography:... |
28/03/1816 | 31 December 1788 - 11 September 1844 |
Benjamin Hall Benjamin Hall (ironmaster) Benjamin Hall, FRS was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.- Background, Education & Connections :... |
23/04/1812 | |
Fayrer Hall | 30/03/1732 | |
Henry Hall | 10/02/1676 | fl 1670 - 1692 lawyer, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (1688) |
Henry Edgar Hall | 18/03/1982 | |
James Hall | 22/05/1806 | 17 January 1761 - 23 June 1832 Geology, Chemistry |
John Hall | 27/04/1820 | 16 September 1787 - 2 April 1860 Geology, Chemistry |
Marshall Hall Marshall Hall (physiologist) Marshall Hall FRS was an English physician and physiologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels.... |
05/04/1832 | 19 February 1790 - ? 11 May 1857 |
Michael George Hall | 11/03/1993 | |
Peter Gavin Hall | 11/05/2000 | |
Philip Hall Philip Hall Philip Hall FRS , was an English mathematician.His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.-Biography:... |
19/03/1942 | 11 April 1904 - 30 December 1982 |
Thomas Henry Hall | 22/11/1827 | 1796 - 24 December 1870 |
Wendy Hall Wendy Hall Dame Wendy Hall DBE, FREng, FBCS, FIET, FCGI, FRS is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.- Background :... |
15/05/2009 | |
William Hutcheon Hall William Hutcheon Hall Admiral Sir William Hutcheon Hall, KCB, FRS , was a British officer in the Royal Navy. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War and Crimean War. In China, he commanded the iron steamship Nemesis of the East India Company.... |
22/04/1847 | c 1797 - 25 June 1878 |
Henry Hallam Henry Hallam Henry Hallam was an English historian.-Life:The only son of John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, Henry Hallam was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799... |
08/03/1821 | 9 July 1777 - 21 January 1859 |
Albrecht von Haller Albrecht von Haller Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet.-Early life:He was born of an old Swiss family at Bern. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had the more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind... |
01/11/1739 | 16 October 1708 - 12 December 1777 |
Edmond Halley Edmond Halley Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley... |
30/11/1678 | ? 8 November 1656 - ? 14 January 1742 |
William Dobinson Halliburton William Dobinson Halliburton William Dobinson Halliburton FRS was a British physiologist, noted for being one of the founders of the science of biochemistry.... |
04/06/1891 | 21 June 1860 - 21 May 1931 |
Alexander Norman Halliday | 11/05/2000 | |
Robert Hallifax | 21/04/1785 | c 1735 - 17 September 1810 |
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was an English Shakespearean scholar, and a collector of English Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales.... |
30/05/1839 | 21 June 1820 - 3 January 1889 |
Charles Skinner Hallpike Charles Skinner Hallpike Charles Skinner Hallpike, CBE, FRS was an English otologist.He was born in Murree, India, a hill station now in Pakistan, the son of Frank Hallpike. The family returned to the UK when he was 3 years old. He attended St Paul's School as a classical scholar and then Guy's Hospital in 1919 on an... |
15/03/1956 | 19 July 1900 - 26 September 1979 |
Jack Halpern | 21/03/1974 | |
Edmund Halswell | 10/04/1834 | fl 1834 |
Hugh Hamersley | 16/12/1779 | |
John Hamett | 05/02/1835 | |
Alexander Hamilton | 14/01/1808 | 1762 - 30 December 1824 Sanskrit scholar |
Andrew David Hamilton | 27/05/2004 | |
Anthony Hamilton | 01/05/1777 | 5 May 1739 - 4 October 1812 Clergyman |
Archibald Hamilton | 23/04/1795 | fl 1795 |
Charles Hamilton Charles Hamilton (MP) Charles Hamilton , styled The Honourable from birth, was a British politician.He was a younger son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn.... |
26/03/1747 | ? November 1704 - 11 September 1786 |
David Hamilton | 07/04/1708 | 1663 - 28 August 1721 Physician |
David James Hamilton | 07/05/1908 | 6 March 1849 - 19 February 1909 Prof of Pathology, Aberdeen |
Henry Parr Hamilton | 17/01/1828 | 3 April 1794 - 7 February 1880 Clergyman |
Hugh Hamilton Hugh Hamilton (bishop) Hugh Hamilton FRS was a Irish clergyman.He was dean of Armagh, from 1768 to 1796, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, from 1796 to 1799, and Bishop of Ossory, from 1799 to 1805.His portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart.... |
19/02/1761 | 26 March 1729 - 1 December 1805 |
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon KT FRS was a Scottish peer, the son of the 4th Duke of Hamilton.... |
08/04/1736 | 5 January 1703 - 2 March 1743 |
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn FRS PC was a Scottish and Irish nobleman, the son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Elizabeth Reading. He was styled Lord Paisley from 1701 until his accession in 1734... |
10/11/1715 | 22 March 1686 - 11 January 1744 |
John Hamilton | 21/11/1734 | fl 1734 Clerk, Court of Chancery |
John Hamilton | 13/03/1746 | |
Robert Hamilton | 11/02/1819 | |
William Hamilton William Hamilton (diplomat) Sir William Hamilton KB, PC, FRS was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist. After a short period as a Member of Parliament, he served as British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800... |
06/11/1766 | 13 December 1730 - 6 April 1803 |
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington KT PC FRS , known as Lord Binning from 1794 to 1828, was a British Conservative politician and statesman.-Background and education:... |
18/04/1844 | 21 June 1780 - 1 December 1858 |
William Donald Hamilton | 20/03/1980 | 1 August 1936 - 7 March 2000 |
William John Hamilton William John Hamilton William John Hamilton, FRS was an English geologist.He was the son of William Richard Hamilton , and was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Göttingen. He became a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1831... |
07/06/1855 | 5 July 1805 - 27 June 1867 |
William Richard Hamilton William Richard Hamilton William Richard Hamilton, FRS, was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. He was son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of Colchester and Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London.... |
08/04/1813 | 9 January 1777 - 11 July 1859 |
John Michael Hammersley John Hammersley John Michael Hammersley was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. He was born in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire, and educated at Sedbergh School. He started reading mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge but was... |
18/03/1976 | 21 March 1920 – 2 May 2004 |
Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick Dalziel Hammick Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick FRS , was an English research chemist. His major work was in synthetic organic chemistry. He promulgated Hammick's rule, which predicts the order of substitution in benzene derivatives, while the Hammick reaction is used in the synthesis of larger molecules.-Early life:The... |
20/03/1952 | 8 March 1887 - 17 October 1966 |
Anthony Hammond Anthony Hammond -Life:Born 1 September 1668, he was the son and heir of Anthony Hammond of Somersham Place, Huntingdonshire, who was the third son of Anthony Hammond of St. Alban's Court, Kent, elder brother of William Hammond. His mother was a Miss Amy Browne of Gloucestershire. He was educated at St Paul's... |
30/11/1698 | 1 September 1668 - 30 March 1739 |
Bartholomew Hammond | 14/03/1754 | |
John Hammond | 11/05/1933 | 24 February 1889 - 25 August 1964 |
William Hammond William Hammond The William Hammond was a barque used to transport convicts to Western Australia.Built in Sunderland in 1853 for Thomas and Co, the William Hammond was long, wide and deep, and weighed 683 tons. In 30 September 1854, it sailed from Plymouth to Hobart with 261 emigrating passengers on board... |
20/05/1663 | ? 1614 - ? 1685 Original |
Andrew Snape Hamond Andrew Snape Hamond Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st Baronet was a British naval officer and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1781 to 1782.-Career:... |
02/03/1797 | 17 December 1738 - 12 October 1828 |
Joannes Henricus Hampe | 05/02/1730 | 1697 - 1777 German Physician & Metallurgist |
Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley | 22/03/1888 | 3 July 1840 - 9 December 1922 |
Daniel Hanbury Daniel Hanbury Daniel Hanbury , a British botanist and pharmacologist, was one of the leading 19th century experts on pharmacognosy, the study of the medicinal applications of nature, principally of plants.-Life:... |
06/06/1867 | 11 September 1825 - 24 March 1875 Pharmaceutical Chemist |
William Hanbury | 02/05/1728 | |
John Handfield | 07/03/1816 | Soldier, Royal Engineers |
Nicholas Charles Handy | 15/03/1990 | |
Charles Samuel Hanes | 19/03/1942 | 21 May 1903 - 6 July 1990 |
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A... |
18/06/1942 | 2 April 1877 - 26 January 1963 Statute |
Edward Hanmer | 23/01/1817 | 16 July 1758 - 24 July 1821 |
Thomas Hanmer | 21/06/1804 | 5 April 1747 - 4 October 1828 |
David Colin Hanna | 14/05/1998 | |
James Hannen, Baron Hannen James Hannen, Baron Hannen James Hannen, Baron Hannen, , English judge, son of a London merchant, was born at Peckham.He was educated at St Paul's School and at Heidelberg University, which was famous as a school of law. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1848, he joined the home circuit... |
12/03/1891 | 19 March 1821 - 29 March 1894 |
David Hannisius | 30/11/1678 | |
Jean-Pierre Hansen Jean-Pierre Hansen Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS is a Luxembourgian chemist.He gained a PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for the French National Centre for Scientific Research... |
09/05/2002 | |
John Jacob Hansler | 18/01/1838 | 1788 - 28 April 1867 |
Emmeline Jean Hanson | 16/03/1967 | 14 November 1919 - 10 August 1973 Biophysicist |
Nicholas Paul Harberd | 15/05/2009 | |
Jeffrey Barry Harborne | 09/03/1995 | 1 September 1928 - 21 July 2002 |
Erasmus Harby | 16/04/1668 | ? February 1628 - ? July 1674 |
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt Augustus George Vernon Harcourt Augustus George Vernon Harcourt FRS was an English chemist who spent his career at Oxford University. He was one of the first scientists to do quantitative work in the field of chemical kinetics... |
04/06/1868 | 24 December 1834 - 23 August 1919 |
Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, PC, FRS, Viceroy of Ireland , known as 2nd Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, between 1727 and 1749, was a British diplomat and general.... |
15/03/1753 | 1714 - 16 September 1777 |
William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt | 15/12/1881 | 14 October 1827 - 30 September 1904 |
William Venables Vernon Harcourt 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... |
29/04/1824 | June 1789 - 1 April 1871 |
Arthur Harden Arthur Harden Sir Arthur Harden FRS was an English biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.... |
06/05/1909 | 12 October 1865 - 17 June 1940 |
Friedrich August von Hardenberg | 13/06/1745 | 1700–1768 |
David Grahame Hardie | 17/05/2007 | |
Karl Ludwig Harding Karl Ludwig Harding Karl Ludwig Harding was a German astronomer notable for having discovered the asteroid 3 Juno.-Biography:... |
17/04/1806 | ? 29 September 1765 - 31 August 1834 |
Wyndham Harding Wyndham Harding Wyndham Harding was a notable English Civil Engineer and Philanthropist. He was awarded the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1847, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1852... |
03/06/1852 | 9 August 1818 - ? 2 April 1855 |
Caleb Hardinge | 15/03/1753 | |
George Hardinge George Hardinge -Life:He was born on 22 June 1743 at Canbury, a manorhouse in Kingston upon Thames. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Hardinge, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Pratt. He was educated by Woodeson, a Kingston schoolmaster, and at Eton College under Edward Barnard.Hardinge... |
03/04/1788 | 22 June 1743 - 26 April 1816 |
John Hardwick | 05/04/1838 | 3 December 1791 - 31 May 1875 Barrister |
Philip Hardwick Philip Hardwick Philip Hardwick was an eminent English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere... |
08/12/1831 | 15 June 1792 - 28 December 1870 |
Thomas Hardwicke Thomas Hardwicke Major-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology .At the age of 22, he joined the East India Company... |
08/04/1813 | ? 1755 - ? 3 May 1835 |
Alister Clavering Hardy | 14/03/1940 | 11 February 1896 - 22 May 1985 |
Godfrey Harold Hardy | 05/05/1910 | 8 February 1877 - 1 December 1947 |
John Hardy John Hardy (geneticist) John Anthony Hardy is a human geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease.-Career:... |
15/05/2009 | Geneticist |
Peter Hardy | 17/01/1839 | 17 December 1813 - 23 April 1863 Actuary |
William Bate Hardy William Bate Hardy Sir William Bate Hardy FRS was a British biologist and food scientist.He was born in Erdington, Birmingham and graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, where he carried out biochemical research. He first suggested the word hormone to E.H... |
05/06/1902 | 6 April 1864 - 23 January 1934 |
Francis George Hare | 10/12/1812 | |
Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine | 08/01/1730 | 10 May 1693 - 10 August 1749 |
John Scandrett Harford John Scandrett Harford John Scandrett Harford, FRS was a British banker, benefactor and abolitionist.He was born the son of John Scandrett Harford, a prominent banker in the English city of Bristol and educated at Christ College, Cambridge... |
29/05/1823 | 8 October 1785 - 16 April 1866 |
James Hargraves | 07/07/1726 | |
Charles James Hargreave Charles James Hargreave Charles James Hargreave was an English judge and mathematician.-Life:The eldest son of James Hargreave, woollen manufacturer, he was born at Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire, in December 1820. He was educated at Bramham, near Leeds, and at University College, London, and took the degree of LL.B. with... |
18/04/1844 | December 1820 - 23 April 1866 |
Charles Robert Harington | 07/05/1931 | 1 August 1897 - 04 |
Harish-Chandra Harish-Chandra Harish-Chandra was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. -Life:... |
15/03/1973 | 11 October 1923 - 16 October 1983 |
Alfred Harker Alfred Harker (petrologist) Alfred Harker FRS was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye... |
05/06/1902 | 20 February 1859 - 28 July 1939 |
John Allen Harker | 05/05/1910 | 23 January 1870 - 10 October 1923 Chemist & Physicist |
Robert Harkness Robert Harkness Robert Harkness , was an English geologist.He was educated at the high school, Dumfries, and afterwards at the university of Edinburgh where he acquired an interest in geology from the teachings of Robert Jameson and JD Forbes... |
05/06/1856 | 28 July 1816 - ? 5 October 1878 |
Sydney Cross Harland | 18/03/1943 | 19 June 1891 - 8 November 1982 |
Edward Harley Edward Harley (Parliamentarian) Sir Edward Harley KB was an English Parliamentarian.He was born in Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, the son of Sir Robert Harley, KB and his third wife Brilliana, the daughter of Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway... |
22/07/1663 | 21 October 1624 - 8 December 1700 |
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer | 23/11/1727 | 2 June 1689 - 16 June 1741 |
George Harley | 01/06/1865 | 13 February 1829 - 27 October 1896 Scottish Physician |
John Laker Harley | 19/03/1964 | 17 November 1911 - 13 December 1990 Prof. of Botany, Sheffield Inivesity |
Robert Harley | 04/06/1863 | 23 January 1828 - 26 July 1910 Clergyman & mathematician |
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer KG was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as First Lord of the Treasury, effectively Queen... |
20/03/1712 | 5 December 1661 - 21 May 1724 |
Robert Harley | 14/08/1661 | 6 April 1626 - 6 November 1673 Original |
Thomas Harley | 30/05/1667 | |
Sidney Frederic Harmer Sidney Frederic Harmer Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer was a British zoologist. He was President of the Linnean Society 1927-1931 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1934.... |
09/06/1898 | 9 March 1862 - 22 October 1950 |
John Harper | 09/03/1727 | |
John Lander Harper John L. Harper John Lander Harper CBE FRS was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in and his MA and MPhil from Oxford... |
16/03/1978 | |
Samuel Harper | 24/04/1766 | fl 1766 Librarian, British Museum |
Edward Harrington Edward Harrington Edward Phillip Harrington was an Australian poet and short story writer, the last of the bush balladists.-Biography:... |
04/04/1734 | |
William Harrington | 21/03/1666 | |
Daniel Harris | 24/03/1768 | |
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris | 19/03/1953 | 4 June 1913 - 29 November 1971 Dept.of Neuroendocrinology, Inst.of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London |
Harry Harris | 17/03/1966 | 30 September 1919 - 17 July 1994 Geneticist |
Henry Harris | 21/03/1968 | |
James Harris James Harris (grammarian) James Harris, FRS was an English politician and grammarian.-Life and works:He was born at Salisbury and educated at the grammar school in the Close at Salisbury, and at Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving the university he was entered at Lincoln's Inn as a student of law, though not intended for... |
23/06/1763 | 20 July 1709 - 22 December 1780 |
John Harris John Harris (writer) John Harris was an English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest. He is best known as the editor of the Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , the earliest of English encyclopaedias, and as the compiler of the Collection of Voyages and Travels which was... |
29/04/1696 | c 1666 - 7 September 1719 |
John Edward Harris | 15/03/1956 | 15 September 1910 - 24 June 1968 |
John Edwin (Jack) Harris | 17/03/1988 | Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Review |
John Greathed Harris | 05/02/1835 | c 1774 - 25 October 1850 |
Samuel Harris | 01/11/1722 | 9 December 1682 - 21 December 1733 Clergyman & Prof of History, Cambridge |
Thomas Maxwell Harris Thomas Maxwell Harris Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS was a British botanist. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of the Royal Society... |
18/03/1948 | 8 January 1903 - 1 May 1983 |
William Anthony Harris | 17/05/2007 | |
William Snow Harris William Snow Harris Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships... |
02/06/1831 | 1 April 1791 - 22 January 1867 |
Bryan Desmond Harrison | 19/03/1987 | |
George Harrison George Harrison (civil servant) Sir George Harrison, FRS, GCH was an English barrister and civil servant. During a tenure of twenty-one years at the Treasury, he presided over the growth of a professional civil service and an increasing transfer of power from political appointees to administrators.-Biography:An able young... |
05/02/1807 | |
Richard John Harrison Richard John Harrison Sir Richard John Harrison FRS was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.-References:... |
15/03/1973 | 8 October 1920 - 17 October 1999 Professor of Anatomy, University of Cambridge |
Thomas Harrison | 07/06/1804 | August 1771 - 21 March 1824 Barrister & mathematician |
Thomas Charles Harrison | 08/05/1845 | c 1793 - 2 May 1858 Head of a Treasury Department |
William Harrison | 09/05/1765 | 20 May 1728 - 24 April 1815 Scientific instrument maker |
William Harrison | 11/05/1815 | fl 1815 |
Michael Hart | 18/03/1982 | Physicist, Brookhaven, NY |
Brian Selby Hartley | 18/03/1971 | |
David Hartley David Hartley (philosopher) David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. -Early life and education:... |
25/03/1736 | ? 1705 - 28 August 1757 |
Percival Hartley | 06/05/1937 | 29 May 1881 - 16 February 1957 |
Harold Brewer Hartley | 06/05/1926 | 3 September 1878 - 9 September 1972 |
Walter Noel Hartley | 12/06/1884 | 4 February 1847 - 11 September 1913 |
George Harry Fleetwood Hartopp | 02/03/1815 | 20 August 1785 - 31 March 1824 |
Douglas Rayner Hartree | 05/05/1932 | 28 March 1897 - 12 February 1958 |
Hamilton Hartridge Hamilton Hartridge Hamilton Hartridge was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.Hamilton Hartridge was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow from 1912 to 1926. He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at... |
06/05/1926 | 7 May 1886 - 13 January 1976 |
Eliab Harvey | 29/03/1764 | 23 May 1716 - 23 October 1769 Barrister |
George Harvey | 05/05/1825 | |
Henry Harvey | 17/02/1825 | fl 1825 - 1837 Astronomer |
Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey H. W. Harvey Dr Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey CBE FRS was an English marine biologist.-Background:... |
22/03/1945 | 31 December 1887 - 26 November 1970 |
Paul H. Harvey Paul H. Harvey Paul H. Harvey CBE FRS is a British evolutionary biologist. He is Professor of Zoology and was head of the zoology department at Oxford University from 1998 - 2011, holding these posts in conjunction with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford. He was elected to the Fellowship of the... |
12/03/1992 | |
Robert John Harvey | 02/04/1835 | 22 February 1785 - 18 June 1860 Fellow 02/04/1835 |
William Henry Harvey William Henry Harvey William Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant... |
03/06/1858 | 6 February 1811 - 15 May 1866 Fellow 03/06/1858 |
John Harwood | 03/11/1686 | 1661 - 1 January 1731 Advocate |
John Harwood | 24/05/1827 | c. 1794 - 1854 Prof of Natural History, London (poss. used name "Ian" as initial, given in 1827 paper, was "I") |
Busick Harwood | 27/05/1784 | c 1745 - 10 November 1814 |
Thomas Haselden | 17/01/1740 | |
Cedric Herbert Hassall | 21/03/1985 | |
Michael Patrick Hassell Michael Hassell Michael Patrick Hassell CBE, FRS is a British biologist, noted for his work in population ecology, especially in insects. He is a professor at Imperial College London.... |
19/03/1987 | |
Richard Hassell | 12/05/1726 | |
Edward Hasted Edward Hasted Edward Hasted was the author of a major county history, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent .-Life:... |
08/05/1766 | 20 December 1732 - 14 January 1812 |
Henry Hasted | 09/01/1812 | 17 September 1771 - 26 November 1852 |
Nicholas Dixon Hastie | 09/05/2002 | |
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon PC was a British peer and politician.He was the son of the 9th Earl of Huntingdon and his wife, Selina. Hastings succeeded as Earl of Huntingdon and Baron Botreaux on his father's demise in 1746... |
02/03/1758 | 13 March 1729 - 2 October 1789 |
Warren Hastings Warren Hastings Warren Hastings PC was the first Governor-General of India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.-Early life:... |
25/06/1801 | 6 December 1732 - 22 August 1818 |
William Aitcheson Haswell William Aitcheson Haswell William Aitcheson Haswell was a Scottish-born Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.-Early life:... |
03/06/1897 | 5 August 1854 - 24 January 1925 |
Robert Neville Haszeldine | 21/03/1968 | |
Marshall Davidson Hatch | 20/03/1980 | |
Charles Hatchett Charles Hatchett Charles Hatchett FRS was an English chemist who discovered the element niobium.- Biography:Hatchett was born, raised, and lived in London... |
09/03/1797 | 2 January 1765 - ? 10 March 1847 |
William Herbert Hatfield William Herbert Hatfield Dr William Herbert Hatfield FRS was a metallurgist who contributed to the development of stainless steel.- Early life :... |
16/05/1935 | 10 April 1882 - 16 October 1943 |
Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton | 20/05/1663 | ? July 1605 - 4 July 1670 Original |
George Finch-Hatton George Finch-Hatton (MP for Rochester) George Finch-Hatton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1772 to 1784.Finch-Hatton was born George Finch, the son of the Honourable Edward Finch-Hatton, fifth son of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea. He was educated at Westminster School and at Christ's College,... |
07/12/1775 | 30 June 1747 - 17 February 1823 |
Ronald George Hatton | 16/03/1944 | 6 July 1886 - 11 November 1965 |
Samuel Haughton Samuel Haughton Samuel Haughton was an Irish scientific writer.-Biography:He was born in Carlow, the son of James Haughton .... |
03/06/1858 | 21 December 1821 - 31 October 1897 |
Sidney Henry Haughton | 16/03/1961 | 7 May 1888 - 24 May 1982 |
Graves Champney Haughton | 15/11/1821 | 1788 - 28 August 1849 |
Francis Hauksbee Francis Hauksbee Francis Hauksbee the elder , also known as Francis Hawksbee, was an 18th-century English scientist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society... |
30/11/1705 | c 1666 - April 1713 |
Jean de Hautefeuille Jean de Hautefeuille Jean de Hautefeuille was a French abbé, physicist and inventor.-Biography:One of de Hautefeuille's most important achievements was his proposal to use a spiral spring with a balance wheel in place of a pendulum to control a clock. In the 1670s, he was involved in a dispute with Christian Huygens,... |
14/12/1687 | 20 March 1647 - 18 October 1724 |
Thomas Henry Havelock | 07/05/1914 | 24 June 1877 - 1 August 1968 |
Clopton Havers Clopton Havers Clopton Havers was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres.-Biography:He was born Stambourne, Essex,... |
17/11/1686 | 25 February 1657 - April 1702 |
Leonard Hawkes Leonard Hawkes Leonard Hawkes FRS was a British geologist.-External links:* http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=910&inst_id=11... |
20/03/1952 | 6 August 1891 - 29 October 1981 |
Christopher John Hawkesworth | 09/05/2002 | |
Stephen William Hawking | 21/03/1974 | |
Caesar Henry Hawkins Caesar Henry Hawkins Caesar Henry Hawkins FRS was a British surgeon.-Life:He was the son of the Rev. E. Hawkins and grandson of Sir Cæsar Hawkins, 1st Baronet , Serjeant-Surgeon to George II and George III ; and was brother to Edward Hawkins , Provost of Oriel, Oxford... |
05/06/1856 | 19 September 1798 - 20 July 1884 |
Edward Hawkins Edward Hawkins (numismatist) Edward Hawkins was an English numismatist and antiquary. He is known as a keeper at the British Museum.-Life:Born at Macclesfield on 5 May 1780, he was the eldest son of Edward Hawkins of Macclesfield, banker, by his wife Ellen, daughter of Brian Hodgson of Ashbourne, Derbyshire... |
24/05/1821 | 5 May 1780 - 22 May 1867 |
Francis Bisset Hawkins | 18/12/1834 | 18 October 1796 - 7 December 1894 |
Herbert Leader Hawkins Herbert Leader Hawkins Herbert Leader Hawkins FRS was a British geologist.-References:... |
06/05/1937 | 1 June 1887 - 29 December 1968 |
John Hawkins | 12/01/1826 | fl 1826 East India Co engineer |
John Hawkins John Hawkins (geologist) John Hawkins was a geologist, traveller and writer,He was the youngest son of Thomas Hawkins of Trewinnard, St Erth, Cornwall, M.P. for Grampound, by Anne, daughter of James Heywood of London... |
05/05/1791 | 6 May 1761 - 4 July 1841 |
John Heywood Hawkins | 10/06/1830 | 21 May 1802 - 27 June 1877 |
Christopher Hawkins Christopher Hawkins Christopher James Hawkins was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for High Peak constituency in Derbyshire from 1983 until he stood down in 1992. Born in Saffron Walden, his successor was Charles Hendry.- External links:... |
21/12/1815 | 1758–1829 |
William Bentinck Letham Hawkins | 19/11/1835 | 1802 - 31 August 1894 |
John Hawkshaw John Hawkshaw Sir John Hawkshaw , was an English civil engineer.-Early life:He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and was educated at Leeds Grammar School... |
07/06/1855 | 1811 - 2 June 1891 |
Thomas Hawksley Thomas Hawksley Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water and gas engineering projects.The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham on , Hawksley was largely self-taught from the age of 15 onwards, having at that point... |
06/06/1878 | 12 July 1807 - 23 September 1893 |
James Hawley | 01/05/1740 | 2 March 1706 - 22 December 1777 Physician |
Lionel Haworth | 18/03/1971 | 4 August 1912 - 12 April 2000 |
Robert Downs Haworth | 16/03/1944 | 15 March 1898 - 21 May 1990 |
Walter Norman Haworth | 10/05/1928 | 19 March 1883 - 19 March 1950 |
William Rede Hawthorne | 17/03/1955 | |
Alexander Hay | 18/06/1778 | fl 1778 Physician |
Allan Stuart Hay | 19/03/1981 | |
Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale , known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. He was born at Yester, Gifford, East Lothian. He served as a soldier in India and the Crimea. He succeeded his father to the... |
08/06/1871 | 9 November 1824 - 29 December 1878 |
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull was a British peer and diplomat.He was the son of Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull.... |
20/03/1712 | |
John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweedale | 03/02/1664 | c 13 August 1626 - 11 August 1697 |
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale was a Scottish nobleman.Hay was the eldest son of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his wife, Jean, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch. In 1666, at Highgate in London, he married Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of John Maitland, 1st Duke of... |
23/05/1666 | 1645 - 20 April 1713 |
Robert William Hay | 03/03/1814 | c 1787 - 9 May 1861 |
Andrew Leith Hay Andrew Leith Hay Sir Andrew Leith Hay, KH was a Scottish soldier, politician and writer on architecture.-Biography:Andrew Leith Hay was the eldest son of General Alexander Leith Hay, and was born at Aberdeen on 17 February 1785... |
18/12/1834 | 18 February 1785 - 13 October 1862 |
Henry Hubert Hayden | 06/05/1915 | 25 July 1869 - 13 August 1923 |
Denis Arthur Haydon | 20/03/1975 | 22 February 1930 - 29 November 1988 |
James Hayes James Hayes (Prince Rupert's secretary) Sir James Hayes was secretary to Prince Rupert and first Deputy-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.He was born the son of James Hayes in Beckington, Somerset. He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1649... |
20/05/1663 | |
William Hayes William Hayes (geneticist) William Hayes FRS was an Irish geneticist.-Early life:He was born in Rathfarnham, Co Dublin, the only son of William Hayes, a successful Dublin pharmacist, and his second wife, Miriam, née Harris... |
19/03/1964 | 18 January 1913 - 7 January 1994 geneticist, Australia |
John Haygarth John Haygarth John Haygarth was an important 18th-century British physician who discovered new ways to prevent the spread of fever among patients and reduce the mortality rate of smallpox.... |
08/02/1781 | 1740 - 10 June 1827 |
Walter Kurt Hayman | 15/03/1956 | |
Edward Haynes | 02/05/1683 | fl 1683 - 1708 |
Thomas Hayter Thomas Hayter Thomas Hayter was an English divine, who served as a Church of England bishop for 13 years.He was born in Chagdord, Devon , officially the son of George Hayter. It has often been claimed that Lancelot Blackburne was his father, but there is no conclusive evidence either way... |
22/03/1750 | ? November 1702 - 9 January 1762 |
Robert Baldwin Hayward | 01/06/1876 | 7 March 1829 - 2 February 1903 |
William Hayward | 17/05/1665 | c 1617 - 1704 Commissioner |
Richard Hazard | 04/06/1752 | |
Alan Kenneth Head | 17/03/1988 | 10 August 1925 - 9 January 2010 Australia |
Edmund Walker Head Edmund Walker Head Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB was British colonial administrator.He was born at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, the son of Reverend Sir John Head, 7th Bt. and Jane Head. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's title in 1838... |
16/04/1863 | 17 February 1805 - 28 January 1868 |
Henry Head Henry Head Sir Henry Head, FRS was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation... |
01/06/1899 | 4 August 1861 - 8 October 1940 |
Thomas Healde | 21/06/1770 | c 1724 - 26 March 1789 |
Robert Brian Heap Brian Heap Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS is a biologist.He was born on 27 Feb. 1935 and educated at New Mills Grammar School and the University of Nottingham . He also has an MA and a DSc from Cambridge and Honorary DScs from Nottingham , York and St Andrews .-Career:* 1960 University Demonstrator,... |
16/03/1989 | |
Walter Heape | 03/05/1906 | 25 April 1855 - 10 September 1929 |
David Rodney Roger Heath-Brown Roger Heath-Brown David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown F.R.S. , is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory. He was an undergraduate and graduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge; his research supervisor was Alan Baker... |
11/03/1993 | |
Benjamin Heath | 30/04/1778 | |
George Heath | 26/03/1795 | fl 1795 Headmaster of Eton |
George Crawford Heath | 28/05/1818 | c 1794 - 18 July 1860 Barrister |
John Benjamin Heath | 02/02/1843 | 6 June 1790 - 16 January 1879 Merchant |
Oscar Victor Sayer Heath | 24/03/1960 | 26 July 1903 - 16 June 1997 Botanist |
Thomas Little Heath | 02/05/1912 | 5 October 1861 - 16 March 1940 |
George Heathcote George Heathcote George Heathcote was an eighteenth century English politician and philanthropist who was a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.He was a nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England... |
16/01/1729 | 7 December 1700 - 7 June 1768 |
Henry Heathcote | 30/06/1720 | |
John Heathcote | 12/05/1768 | |
Gilbert Heathcote | 30/11/1705 | 2 January 1652 - 25 January 1733 |
Thomas Heathcote | 16/05/1751 | 23 July 1721 - 27 June 1787 |
John Heaviside | 14/12/1797 | 1748 - 19 September 1828 Surgeon |
Oliver Heaviside Oliver Heaviside Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations , reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and... |
04/06/1891 | 18 May 1850 - 03 |
Donald Olding Hebb Donald Olding Hebb Donald Olding Hebb FRS was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning... |
17/03/1966 | 22 July 1904 - 20 August 1985 |
Thomas Heberden | 10/12/1761 | 1703–1769 |
William Heberden William Heberden William Heberden , English physician, was born in London, where he received the early part of his education.At the end of 1724 he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, around 1730, became master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of MD in 1739... |
25/01/1750 | August 1710 - 17 May 1801 |
William Heberden William Heberden William Heberden , English physician, was born in London, where he received the early part of his education.At the end of 1724 he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, around 1730, became master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of MD in 1739... |
24/02/1791 | 23 March 1767 - 19 February 1845 |
James Hector James Hector Sir James Hector was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist... |
07/06/1866 | 16 March 1834 - 5 November 1907 |
Johann Hedwig Johann Hedwig Johann Hedwig , also seen as Johannes Hedwig or Latinised as Joannis Hedwig, was a German botanist notable for his studies of mosses , in particular the observation of sexual reproduction in the cryptogams.He was born in Romania, and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig,... |
03/04/1788 | 8 December 1730 - 7 February 1799 |
Ian Morris Heilbron | 07/05/1931 | 6 November 1886 - 14 September 1959 |
Hans Arnold Heilbronn | 15/03/1951 | 8 October 1908 - 28 April 1975 |
Volker Heine Volker Heine Volker Heine FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist.He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He obtained his PhD in physics in Cambridge as student of Sir Nevill Mott.He was elected Fellow of... |
21/03/1974 | |
Johann Theodor Heinson | 30/11/1692 | 5 July 1666 - 22 September 1726 |
Lawrence Heister | 17/12/1730 | 19 September 1683 - 18 April 1758 |
Walter Heinrich Heitler Walter Heitler Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory... |
18/03/1948 | 2 January 1904 - 15 November 1981 |
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940, and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in... |
01/06/1899 | 29 July 1854 - 30 January 1941 |
John Hellins John Hellins John Hellins FRS was an autodidact, schoolteacher, mathematician, astronomer and country parson.-Early years:He was born in Devon ca... |
22/12/1796 | ? 1749 - 5 April 1827 |
Jean Hellot | 23/10/1740 | 20 November 1685 - 15 |
Gustavus Helmfeld | 21/04/1670 | 10 November 1651 - 27 March 1674 |
Jean Claude Adrian Helvetius | 24/04/1755 | 18 July 1685 - 17 July 1755 |
Johan Anton Helvetius | 10/02/1763 | fl 1763 |
John Hely-Hutchinson | 06/03/1794 | 1724 - 4 September 1794 |
Samuel Hemming | 20/06/1776 | |
Brian Arthur Hemmings | 15/05/2009 | |
Benjamin Arthur Hems | 20/03/1969 | 29 June 1912 - 2 July 1995 |
William Botting Hemsley | 06/06/1889 | 29 December 1843 - 7 October 1924 |
Humphrey Henchman Humphrey Henchman Humphrey Henchman was a Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1663 to 1675.-Early life:He was born in Burton Latimer , Northamptonshire, the son of Thomas Henchman, a skinner, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge where he achieved BA in 1613 and MA in 1616... |
29/03/1665 | ? December 1592 - 7 October 1675 |
David Willis Wilson Henderson David Willis Wilson Henderson David Willis Wilson Henderson CB FRS was a Scottish-born microbiologist; a former President of the Society for General Microbiology and recipient of the U.S... |
19/03/1959 | 23 July 1903 - 16 August 1968 |
George Gerald Henderson | 11/05/1916 | 30 January 1862 - 28 September 1942 |
George Hugh Henderson | 19/03/1942 | 8 December 1892 - 19 June 1949 |
James Henderson | 28/04/1831 | c 1783 - 18 September 1848 |
Richard Henderson Richard Henderson (molecular biologist) Richard Henderson FRS is a Scottish molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.-Career:... |
17/03/1983 | |
William MacGregor Henderson William MacGregor Henderson Sir William MacGregor Henderson FRS FRSE PZS was a Scottish veterinary expert on foot and mouth disease. He was also President of the Zoological Society of London, 1984–1989.... |
18/03/1976 | 17 July 1913 - 29 November 2000 |
Thomas Henderson Thomas James Henderson Thomas James Alan Henderson was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.-Early life:Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was educated... |
09/04/1840 | 28 December 1798 - 23 November 1844 |
Arthur Henfrey | 3/06/1852 | 1 November 1819 - 7 September 1859 Botanist |
John Henley | 30/11/1693 | fl 1693 - 1706 Customer, Bristol |
William Henly | 20/05/1773 | fl 1773 |
Henry Hennell | 12/03/1829 | |
John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey | 03/06/1875 | 1 August 1829 - ? 23 March 1910 |
Henry Hennessy | 03/06/1858 | 19 March 1826 - 8 March 1901 |
John Henniker, Baron Henniker | 11/11/1779 | 15 June 1724 - 18 April 1803 |
John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Henniker was the son of John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker, and Anne Major. He was elected to the House of Commons for New Romney in 1785, a seat he held until 1790, and then represented Steyning from 1794 to 1802... |
15/12/1785 | 19 April 1752 - 4 December 1821 |
Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici | 04/06/1874 | 9 March 1840 - 10 August 1918 |
Henry Henricksen | 10/02/1743 | 1715–1780 |
Henry Frederick William, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn | 26/01/1789 | 27 October 1745 - 18 September 1790 Royal |
Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary.... |
08/12/1938 | 31 March 1900 - 10 June 1974 Royal |
Thomas Henry Thomas Henry (apothecary) Thomas Henry was a surgeon and apothecary. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of England. He was also the father of William Henry, the chemist that formulated Henry's Law.... |
18/05/1775 | ? 26 October 1734 - 18 June 1816 Manchester Apothecary |
Thomas Hetherington Henry | 23/04/1846 | c 1816 - 9 October 1859 |
William Henry | 20/02/1755 | |
William Henry William Henry (chemist) William Henry was an English chemist.He was the son of Thomas Henry and was born in Manchester England. He developed what is known today as Henry's Law.-Life:... |
23/02/1809 | 12 December 1774 - 2 September 1836 |
William Charles Henry | 10/04/1834 | 31 March 1804 - 7 January 1892 |
Nathaniel Henshaw | 20/05/1663 | 1628 - c September 1673 Original |
Thomas Henshaw | 22/04/1663 | 15 June 1618 - 2 January 1700 Original, soldier |
John Henslow | 20/03/1794 | fl 1794 |
William Jory Henwood William Jory Henwood William Jory Henwood FRS , Cornish mining geologist, was born at Perran Wharf, Cornwall.In 1822 he commenced work as a clerk in an office of the Perran Foundry, owned by the Fox family of Falmouth, a post previously held by his father, John Henwood.... |
27/02/1840 | 16 January 1805 - 5 August 1875 |
William Bird Herapath | 09/06/1859 | 29 February 1820 - 12 October 1868 |
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon | 08/04/1875 | 24 June 1831 - 28 June 1890 |
Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon | 27/05/1841 | 8 June 1800 - 9 December 1849 |
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke and 6th Earl of Montgomery | 15/12/1743 | 29 January 1693 - 9 January 1750 |
John Herbert | 13/12/1677 | c 1647 - Virtuoso |
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery | 13/05/1685 | 1656 - 22 January 1733, PRS 1689-1690 |
William Abbott Herdman William Abbott Herdman Sir William Abbott Herdman was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer.Archibald Geikie taught him geology during his time at the University of Edinburgh. Herdman graduated at Edinburgh in 1879 and became the assistant of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson... |
02/06/1892 | 8 September 1858 - 21 July 1924 |
Francois David Herissant | 01/11/1750 | 29 September 1714 - 21 August 1771 |
Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen was an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam.-Life:... |
15/05/1919 | 17 December 1861 - 28 March 1943 |
Alexander Stewart Herschel Alexander Stewart Herschel Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel was a British astronomer, born in Feldhausen, South Africa.He was the son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel. Although much less well known than either of them, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. He also worked on identifying... |
12/06/1884 | 6 February 1836 - 18 June 1907 |
John Herschel | 08/06/1871 | 29 October 1837 - 31 May 1921 Surveyor |
John Frederick William Herschel | 27/05/1813 | 7 March 1792 - 11 May 1871 |
William Herschel William Herschel Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19... |
06/12/1781 | 15 November 1738 - 25 August 1822 |
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell GCB, PC, QC was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895.-Early career:... |
21/01/1892 | 2 November 1837 - 1 March 1899 |
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol | 28/02/1782 | 1 August 1730 - 8 July 1803 |
Frederick William Hervey, 5th Earl of Bristol | 23/05/1805 | 3 June 1769 - 15 February 1859 |
John Hervey | 07/12/1664 | 18 August 1616 - 18 January 1680 |
Ewald Friedrich Herzberg | 30/04/1789 | 1725–1795 |
Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned... |
15/03/1951 | 25 December 1904 - 3 March 1999 |
John Heslop-Harrison Jack Heslop-Harrison John "Jack" Heslop-Harrison FRS FAAAS was a British soldier and botanist.-Early life and education:He was born in Middlesbrough to John William Heslop-Harrison and his wife Christian Henderson, the last of three children... |
19/03/1970 | 11 February 1920 - 7 May 1998 |
John William Heslop-Harrison John William Heslop-Harrison John William Heslop Harrison, FRS, , was Professor of Botany at King's College, Durham , now perhaps best remembered for an alleged academic fraud.... |
10/05/1928 | 22 January 1881 - 23 January 1967 |
Johann Heinrich Heucher | 06/11/1729 | 1677 - 23 |
Johann Christian Heusch | 29/01/1680 | fl 1680 - 1684 |
Johannes Hevelius Johannes Hevelius Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish:Some sources refer to Hevelius as German:*Encyplopedia Britannica * of the Royal Society was a councilor and mayor of Danzig , Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth... |
30/03/1664 | 28 January 1611 - 28 January 1687 |
Hewer Edgley Hewer | 27/06/1723 | c 1692 - 6 November 1728 |
John Hewitt | 25/05/1786 | fl 1786 Clergyman |
Prescott Gardner Hewett Prescott Gardner Hewett Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett, 1st Baronet, FRCS was a British surgeon, and the son of a Yorkshire country gentleman.... |
04/06/1874 | 3 July 1812 - 19 June 1891 |
Thomas Hewett | 02/11/1721 | 9 September 1656 - 9 April 1726 |
Antony Hewish Antony Hewish Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars... |
21/03/1968 | |
Eric John Hewitt | 18/03/1982 | 28 February 1919 - 1 January 2002 |
Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt | 16/03/1989 | |
John Theodore Hewitt | 05/05/1910 | 12 October 1868 - 9 July 1954 |
William Hewson | 08/03/1770 | 14 November 1739 - 1 May 1774 |
Donald Holroyde Hey | 17/03/1955 | 12 September 1904 - 21 January 1987 |
James Stanley Hey James Stanley Hey James Stanley Hey FRS was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he lay the basis for the development of radio astronomy... |
16/03/1978 | 4 May 1909 - 27 February 2000 |
William Hey William Hey (surgeon) William Hey was an English surgeon, born in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. He was a surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from its opening in a temporary building in 1776, and senior surgeon from 1773 to 1812.... |
30/03/1775 | 23 August 1736 - 23 March 1819 |
Charles Thomas Heycock | 13/06/1895 | 21 August 1858 - 3 June 1931 |
James Heygate | 06/04/1843 | 1801 - ? 5 August 1872 |
Christian Gottlob Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony... |
30/04/1789 | 25 September 1729 - 14 July 1812 |
James Heywood James Heywood (philanthropist) James Heywood was a British MP, philanthropist and social reformer.He was born in Manchester, the son of banker Nathaniel and Ann Heywood, and was the brother of Benjamin Heywood and Thomas Heywood and grandson of Thomas Percival... |
07/02/1839 | 28 May 1810 - 17 October 1897 barrister and geologist. |
Benjamin Heywood Benjamin Heywood Sir Benjamin Heywood, 1st Baronet FRS was an English banker and philanthropist.Born in St Ann's Square, Manchester, grandson of Thomas Percival, son of Nathaniel Heywood and Ann Percival, and brother to Thomas Heywood and James Heywood... |
19/01/1843 | 12 December 1793 - 11 August 1865 |
Urban Hiarne | 18/11/1669 | 20 December 1641 - 22 March 1724 |
George Hibbert George Hibbert George Hibbert was an eminent English merchant, politician, slave- and ship-owner, amateur botanist and book collector. With Robert Milligan, he was also one of the principals of the West India Dock Company which instigated the construction of the West India Docks on London's Isle of Dogs in 1800... |
30/05/1811 | 1757 - 8 October 1837 |
John Hickes | 30/11/1703 | fl 1703 - 1717 |
Henry George Albert Hickling | 07/05/1936 | 5 April 1883 - 26 July 1954 |
Nathan Hickman | 15/04/1725 | c 1695 - 1746 |
Samuel Hickman | 07/03/1745 | |
Henry Hicks Henry Hicks Henry Davies Hicks was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia.He was born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, the son of Henry Hicks and Annie Kinney. Hicks was educated in Bridgetown and at Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Oxford University. He was admitted to... |
04/06/1885 | 26 May 1837 - 18 November 1899 |
John Braxton Hicks John Braxton Hicks John Braxton Hicks was a 19th century English doctor who specialised in obstetrics.He was born to Edward Hicks in Rye, Sussex. He was educated privately and in 1841 entered Guy's Hospital Medical School. He obtained his MB at the University of London in 1845 and an MD in 1851... |
05/06/1862 | 24 February 1823 - 28 August 1897 |
William Mitchinson Hicks William Mitchinson Hicks William Mitchinson Hicks, FRS was a British mathematician and physicist. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1873, and became a Fellow at the College.... |
04/06/1885 | 23 September 1850 - 17 August 1934 |
Sydney John Hickson | 13/06/1895 | 26 June 1859 - 6 February 1940 |
Raymond Hide Raymond Hide Raymond Hide CBE FRS is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.-Life:... |
18/03/1971 | |
William Philip Hiern William Philip Hiern William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics... |
11/06/1903 | 19 January 1839 - 29 November 1929 |
John Higginbottom | 03/06/1852 | 14 June 1788 - 7 April 1876 |
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins Julia Higgins Dame Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, FRS, FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London... |
09/03/1995 | |
William Higgins William Higgins (chemist) William Higgins , an Irish chemist, was one of the early proponents of atomic theory. Known mainly for his speculative ideas on chemical combination, William Higgins is popular for the insights his life offers into the emergence of chemistry as a career during the British industrial revolution... |
12/06/1806 | ? 1762 - 30 June 1825 |
Douglas Roland Higgs | 26/05/2005 | Haematologist |
Peter Ware Higgs | 17/03/1983 | |
Nicholas Higham Nicholas Higham Nicholas John Higham FRS is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.... |
17/05/2007 | |
Graham Higman Graham Higman Graham Higman FRS was a leading British mathematician. He is known for his contributions to group theory.... |
20/03/1958 | |
John Philips Higman | 23/03/1820 | 1793 - 7 August 1855 |
Thomas Percy Hilditch | 19/03/1942 | 22 April 1886 - 9 August 1965 |
Allen Hugh Oliver Hill | 15/03/1990 | |
Archibald Vivian Hill | 02/05/1918 | 26 September 1886 - 3 June 1977 |
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire PC, FRS , styled Viscount Kilwarlin until 1789 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 to 1793, was a British peer and MP.-Life:... |
21/01/1790 | 1753 - 7 September 1801 |
Arthur William Hill Arthur William Hill Sir Arthur William Hill FLS FRS , was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a noted botanist and taxonomist.... |
13/05/1920 | 11 October 1875 - 3 November 1941 |
Austin Bradford Hill Austin Bradford Hill Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS , English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer... |
18/03/1954 | 8 July 1897 - 18 April 1991 |
David Keynes Hill David Keynes Hill David Keynes Hill FRS was a British biophysicist.Hill was the son of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife Margaret Keynes, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of John Maynard Keynes. His sister was economist Polly Hill and his brother the oceanographer... |
16/03/1972 | 23 July 1915 – 18 August 2002 |
Dorothy Hill Dorothy Hill Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS . She was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.-Education:... |
18/03/1965 | 10 September 1907 - 23 April 1997 |
James Hill | 09/04/1719 | 8 February 1696 - ? January 1728 Barrister, Antiquary |
James Peter Hill James Peter Hill James Peter Hill was a British embryologist.Born in Edinburgh he gained a DSc at Edinburgh University but went to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal.... |
01/05/1913 | 22 February 1873 - 24 May 1954 |
John Hill | 08/12/1748 | |
John McGregor Hill | 19/03/1981 | |
Leonard Erskine Hill Leonard Erskine Hill Sir Leonard Erskine Hill was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and was knighted in 1930. One of his sons was the epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill... |
14/06/1900 | 28 January 1858 - 30 March 1952 |
Maurice Neville Hill | 15/03/1962 | 29 May 1919 - 11 January 1966 |
Micaiah John Muller Hill | 07/06/1894 | 23 February 1856 - 11 January 1929 |
Oliver Hill Oliver Hill Oliver White Hill, Sr. was a civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury... |
08/11/1677 | c 1630 - |
Robert Hill Robin Hill (biochemist) Robert Hill FRS , known as Robin Hill, was a British plant biochemist who, in 1939, demonstrated the 'Hill reaction' of photosynthesis, proving that oxygen is evolved during the light requiring steps of photosynthesis... |
21/03/1946 | 2 April 1899 - 15 March 1991 aka Robin Hill |
Rodney Hill Rodney Hill Rodney Hill FRS was an applied mathematician and a former Professor of Mechanics of Solids at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.... |
16/03/1961 | 11 June 1921 - 2 February 2011 |
Rowland Hill Rowland Hill (postal reformer) Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters... |
11/06/1857 | 3 December 1795 - 27 August 1879 |
Samuel Hill | 30/11/1711 | 1648 - 7 March 1716 Clergyman |
Thomas Hill | 15/04/1725 | c 1683 - 20 September 1758 Poet |
William George Hill | 21/03/1985 | |
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC , known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era... |
08/03/1764 | 30 May 1718 - 7 October 1793 |
Edward Hilliard | 23/12/1802 | |
Edwin Sherbon Hills Edwin Sherbon Hills Edwin Sherbon Hills CBE was an Australian geologist, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and at the time of his death was regarded as one of Australia's "most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists".Hills grew in the Melbourne suburb Carlton... |
18/03/1954 | 31 August 1906 - 1 May 1986 |
Philip Hills | 18/04/1799 | fl 1799 |
Cyril Hilsum Cyril Hilsum Cyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP is a British physicist and academic.-Life:He entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of three brothers, leaving in 1943 after being accepted into University College London, where he did his Bsc. In 1945 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific... |
15/03/1979 | |
John Hilton | 10/01/1839 | 1804 - 14 September 1878 |
Nicolaus de Himsel | 27/11/1760 | October 1729 - 10 December 1764 |
Harold Percival Himsworth Harold Percival Himsworth Sir Harold Percival Himsworth, KCB was a British scientist, best known for his medical research on diabetes mellitus.-Early life:... |
17/03/1955 | 19 May 1905 - 3 November 1993 |
Edward John Hinch John Hinch (mathematician) Edward John Hinch is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.... |
15/05/1997 | |
Thomas Hincks Thomas Hincks Thomas Hincks was a British cleric and a naturalist known for his work on zoophytes and bryozoa.He was born the son of the Rev. W. Hincks in Exeter, Devon, studied at Manchester New College, York, from 1833 to 1839 and the University of London.... |
06/06/1872 | 15 July 1818 - 25 January 1899 |
John Russell Hind John Russell Hind John Russell Hind FRS was an English astronomer.- Life and work :John Russell Hind was born in 1823 in Nottingham, the son of lace manufacturer John Hind, and was educated at Nottingham High School... |
04/06/1863 | 12 May 1823 - 23 December 1895 |
George Jennings Hinde | 04/06/1896 | 24 March 1839 - 18 March 1918 |
Robert Aubrey Hinde | 21/03/1974 | |
Edward Hindle | 19/03/1942 | 21 March 1886 - 22 January 1973 |
Edward Hinds Edward Hinds Edward Hinds FIOP FAPS FRS is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter. He was educated at Dame Allan's Boy's School in Newcastle before being offered a place at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1968. He obtained both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate before... |
27/05/2004 | |
Arthur Robert Hinks Arthur Robert Hinks Arthur Robert Hinks, CBE, FRS was a British astronomer and geographer..As an astronomer, he is best known for his work in determining the distance from the Sun to the Earth from 1900–1909: for this achievement, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and was elected a... |
01/05/1913 | 26 May 1873 - 18 April 1945 |
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS was an English physical chemist.Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethe Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he... |
02/05/1929 | 19 June 1897 - 9 October 1967 |
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside | 18/03/1954 | 12 May 1901 - 22 June 1983 |
Geoffrey Everest Hinton | 14/05/1998 | |
Howard Everest Hinton | 16/03/1961 | 24 August 1912 - 2 August 1977 |
Martin Alister Campbell Hinton | 03/05/1934 | 29 June 1883 - 3 October 1961 |
John Hippisley | 07/06/1855 | 29 October 1804 - 4 April 1898 Astronomer |
John Cox Hippisley | 12/06/1800 | 1748 - 3 May 1825 |
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan Hirohito , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to... |
13/05/1971 | 29 April 1901 - 7 January 1989 Statute |
Peter Bernhard Hirsch | 21/03/1963 | |
John Malcolm Hirst | 19/03/1970 | 20 April 1921 - 30 December 1997 |
Edmund Langley Hirst | 03/05/1934 | 21 July 1898 - 29 October 1975 |
Thomas Archer Hirst Thomas Archer Hirst Thomas Archer Hirst FRS was a 19th century mathematician, specialising in geometry. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1883.-Life:... |
06/06/1861 | 23 April 1830 - 16 February 1892 |
William Hurst | 20/02/1755 | |
Nigel James Hitchin | 14/03/1991 | |
Benjamin Hoadly | 09/03/1727 | 11 February 1706 - 10 August 1757 Physician |
Cecil Arthur Hoare | 16/03/1950 | 6 March 1892 - 23 August 1984 |
Charles Hoare Charles Hoare Charles Hoare may refer to:*C. A. R. Hoare , a British computer scientist*Charles Hoare *Charles Hoare *Charles Hoare of the Hoare Baronets... |
21/12/1809 | 25 August 1767 - 16 November 1851 |
Charles Antony Richard Hoare | 18/03/1982 | |
Henry Hugh Hoare | 17/06/1784 | 28 February 1762 - c 1842 |
James Hoare | 02/11/1664 | c 1620 - 30 November 1696 Goldsmith (the elder) |
James Hoare | 21/01/1669 | 1642 - ? August 1679 Goldsmith (the younger) |
Joseph Hoare Joseph Hoare Joseph Hoare was a Welsh clergyman and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1768 to 1802.The son of Joseph Hoare, from Cardiff, Wales, Hoare studied at Jesus College from 1727 , obtaining his BA in 1730 and his MA in 1733. He was a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. He was appointed Principal in... |
24/05/1753 | |
Richard Hoare | 07/05/1752 | 2 March 1709 - 12 October 1754 Lord Mayor of London |
Richard Colt Hoare Richard Colt Hoare Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county, Wiltshire.-Career:Hoare was descended from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of... |
26/04/1792 | 9 December 1758 - 19 May 1838 |
William Hoare | 20/05/1663 | |
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire was an English nobleman and politician.The son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his first marriage, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Member of Parliament for Norwich from 1747–56, having also been... |
03/02/1785 | 17 August 1723 - 3 September 1793 |
John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton GCB, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and memoirist.-Background and education:... |
19/05/1814 | 27 June 1786 - 3 June 1869 |
Benjamin Hobhouse | 13/12/1798 | 1757 - 14 August 1831 |
Robert Hoblyn Robert Hoblyn -Life:Hoblyn was born at Nanswhyden House, and baptised at St. Columb Major in Cornwall 5 May 1710. His father, Francis Hoblyn, born in 1687, a J.P. for Cornwall and a member of the Stannary parliament, was buried at St. Columb on 9 Nov. 1711. His mother was Penelope, daughter of Colonel Sidney... |
13/06/1745 | ? May 1710 - 17 November 1756 |
Thomas Hoblyn | 27/06/1811 | 1778 - 6 August 1860 |
Ernest William Hobson | 01/06/1893 | 27 October 1856 - ? 18 April 1933 |
William Vallance Douglas Hodge | 17/03/1938 | 17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975 |
Joseph Hodges | 05/04/1716 | c 1704 - 1 April 1722 |
Thomas Hodges | 09/06/1715 | fl 1715 - 1720 Attorney-General |
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin | 20/03/1947 | 12 May 1910 - 29 July 1994 |
Jonathan Alan Hodgkin | 15/03/1990 | |
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Alan Lloyd Hodgkin Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles.... |
18/03/1948 | 6 February 1914 - 20 December 1998 |
Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton Hodgkinson Eaton A. Hodgkinson was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design.-Early life:... |
18/02/1841 | 27 February 1789 - 18 June 1861 |
Robert Banks Hodgkinson | 30/04/1778 | ? 1721 - 11 November 1792 |
Brian Houghton Hodgson Brian Houghton Hodgson Brian Houghton Hodgson was an early naturalist and ethnologist working in British India and Nepal where he was an English civil servant. He described many species, especially birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth... |
07/06/1877 | 2 February 1800 - 23 May 1894 |
James Hodgson | 30/11/1703 | 1672 - 25 June 1755 Schoolmaster, Royal School of Mathematics |
James Hodgson | 14/04/1831 | 1789 - 7 February 1869 |
Robert Hodgson Robert Hodgson Sir Robert Hodgson was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island.... |
05/07/1810 | fl 1810 |
William Hodgson William Hodgson William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.... |
23/04/1807 | |
Edward Hody | 08/03/1733 | 1698 - 1 November 1759 |
Tycho Hoffman | 29/05/1746 | 16 December 1714 - 14 February 1754 |
Friedrich Hoffmann Friedrich Hoffmann Friedrich Hoffmann was a German physician and chemist.-Life and career:His family had been connected with medicine for 200 years before him. Born in Halle , he attended the local gymnasium where he acquired that taste for and skill in mathematics to which he attributed much of his after success... |
30/11/1720 | 20 February 1660 - 12 November 1742 |
August Wilhelm von Hofmann August Wilhelm von Hofmann August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.-Biography:Hofmann was born at Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen. But he then turned to chemistry, and studied under Justus von... |
05/06/1851 | 8 April 1818 - ? 5 May 1892 |
Brigid L. M. Hogan Brigid Hogan Brigid L. M. Hogan, PhD, FRS, is a distinguished British developmental biologist noted for her contributions to stem cell research and transgenic technology and techniques... |
10/05/2001 | |
Lancelot Thomas Hogben | 07/05/1936 | 9 December 1895 - 22 August 1975 |
John Hogg John Hogg John Joseph Hogg is an Australian politician, and has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was elected the 23rd President of the Senate on 26 August 2008.Hogg was born in Brisbane to Francis Patrick and... |
20/06/1839 | 21 March 1800 - 16 September 1869 |
Henry Hoghton | 13/06/1765 | 22 October 1728 - 9 March 1795 |
David William Holden | 27/05/2004 | |
Henry Capel Lofft Holden | 13/06/1895 | 23 January 1856 - 30 March 1937 |
Douglas William Holder | 15/03/1962 | 14 April 1923 - 18 April 1977 |
William Holder William Holder William Holder FRS was an English clergyman and music theorist of the 17th century. His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony.-Life:... |
20/05/1663 | 1616 - 24 January 1698 Original |
Peter Holford | 12/02/1747 | c 1719 - 14 July 1804 |
Robert Holford | 28/03/1805 | c 1758 - 14 August 1838 |
Stayner Holford | 12/05/1785 | |
Charles Holland Charles Holland Charles Holland was an English actor, was born in Chiswick, the son of a baker.He made his first appearance on the stage in the title role of Oroonoko at Drury Lane in 1755, John Palmer, Richard Yates and Susanna Cibber being in the cast... |
19/01/1837 | 1802 - 21 March 1876 |
Peter William Harold Holland | 15/05/2003 | |
Richard Holland Richard Holland Richard Holland or Richard de Holande , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlat, was secretary or chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray and rector of Halkirk, near Thurso.... |
30/11/1726 | 1688 - 29 October 1730 |
Henry Holland Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet FRS, DCL , was a British physician and travel writer.-Private Life:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland and his wife Mary Willets. Peter's sister Elizabeth was the mother of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary was the... |
19/01/1815 | 27 October 1788 - 27 October 1873 |
Thomas Henry Holland Thomas Henry Holland Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS was a British geologist and educational administrator.Thomas Holland was born in Helston, Cornwall. In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology... |
05/05/1904 | 22 November 1868 - 15 May 1947 |
Frescheville Holles Frescheville Holles Sir Frescheville Holles was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1666 to 1672. He was killed in action fighting in the Anglo-Dutch war.... |
18/01/1672 | 8 June 1642 - 28 May 1672 |
John Holliday | 09/03/1786 | c 1730 - 9 March 1801 Barrister |
Robin Holliday Robin Holliday Robin Holliday PhD, FRS, FAA is a British molecular biologist. Heproposed a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.-Education and... |
18/03/1976 | |
John Hollier | 11/12/1718 | c 1687 - c 1722 |
Thomas Hollingbery | 23/01/1783 | |
John Hollings John Hollings John Hollings or Hollins, M.D. was an English physician.Hollings was born about 1683, the son of John Hollings, M.D., of Shrewsbury, and formerly fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. After attending Shrewsbury School, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1700, shortly afterwards migrating... |
09/03/1727 | c 1683 - 10 May 1739 |
Thomas Hollis | 30/06/1757 | 14 April 1720 - 1 January 1774 |
Thomas Brand Hollis Thomas Brand Hollis Thomas Brand Hollis , born Thomas Brand, was a British political radical and dissenter.Thomas Brand was born the only son of Timothy Brand of Ingatestone, Essex and was educated at Felsted School, Trinity College, Cambridge, the Inner Temple and Glasgow University.In 1748-9 he toured Europe with... |
03/06/1756 | |
Samuel Christian Hollman | 21/05/1747 | 3 December 1696 - 4 September 1787 |
Benjamin Holloway | 30/11/1723 | c 1691 - 10 April 1759 |
John Ernest Holloway | 06/05/1937 | 13 February 1881 - 6 September 1945 |
James Holman James Holman James Holman FRS , known as the "Blind Traveler," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels... |
02/02/1826 | 15 October 1786 - ? 29 July 1857 |
George Holme-Sumner | 17/11/1796 | 10 November 1760 - 1831 |
Andrew Bruce Holmes | 11/05/2000 | |
Arthur Holmes Arthur Holmes Arthur Holmes was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead and attended the Gateshead Higher Grade School .-Age of the earth:... |
19/03/1942 | 14 January 1890 - 20 September 1965 |
George Holmes George Holmes George Holmes can refer to:* George Holmes , 3rd Bishop of Athabasca* George Holmes , Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of Oxford* Dr. George Holmes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bolton... |
12/11/1741 | 1663 - 16 February 1749 |
Gordon Morgan Holmes Gordon Morgan Holmes Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes CMG CBE FRS was a British neurologist. He is best known for carrying out pioneering research into the cerebellum and the visual cortex.... |
11/05/1933 | 22 February 1876-29 December 1965 |
Kenneth Charles Holmes Kenneth Holmes Kenneth Charles Holmes FRS is a British scientist.He was born in Hammersmith, London. He was a former colleague of Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College with Aaron Klug, and John Finch and moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge in 1962... |
19/03/1981 | |
Robert Holmes Robert Holmes (dean) Robert Holmes was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Winchester and a biblical scholar known for textual studies of the Septuagint.-Life:... |
14/12/1797 | ? November 1748 - 12 November 1805 |
George Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield | 21/06/1860 | 16 March 1802 - 5 April 1876 |
John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield | 03/04/1783 | 1735 - 30 May 1821 |
Ronald Holroyd | 24/03/1960 | 26 April 1904 - 29 September 1973 |
John Louis Holstein | 01/07/1762 | 1694–1763 |
Christine Elizabeth Holt | 15/05/2009 | |
John Riley Holt John Holt (physicist) John Riley Holt, FRS was an English experimental physicist who played a part in the development of the atom bomb and later became one of the pioneers of elementary particle physics research.... |
19/03/1964 | |
Rowland Holt | 12/03/1707 | c 1652 - 11 |
John Zephaniah Holwell John Zephaniah Holwell John Zephaniah Holwell FRS was a surgeon, an employee of the English East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal... |
29/01/1767 | 17 September 1711 - 5 November 1798 |
Everard Home Everard Home Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS was a British physician.Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School. He gained a schoalrship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but decided instead to become a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter, at St. George's Hospital... |
15/02/1787 | 6 May 1756 - 31 August 1832 |
James Everard Home James Everard Home Sir James Everard Home 2nd Bt CB, FRS was an eminent Nineteenth Century British Naval Officer. -References:... |
21/04/1825 | 25 October 1798 - 2 November 1853 |
Ernest Demetrios Hondros | 15/03/1984 | |
Robert William Kerr Honeycombe Robert Honeycombe Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, FREng, FRS, was a former Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.... |
19/03/1981 | |
Charles Hood | 07/12/1843 | 1805 - 10 December 1889 |
James Hook | 29/02/1816 | c 1772 - 5 February 1828 Clergyman |
Walter Farquhar Hook Walter Farquhar Hook Walter Farquhar Hook , was an eminent Victorian churchman.-Background:He was the Vicar of Leeds responsible for the construction of the current Leeds Parish Church and for many ecclesiastical and social improvements to the city in the mid-nineteenth century... |
05/06/1862 | 13 March 1798 - 20 October 1875 |
Robert Hooke Robert Hooke Robert Hooke FRS was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but... |
20/05/1663 | 18 July 1635 - 3 March 1703 Original |
Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend... |
22/04/1847 | 30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911 |
Stanley George Hooker | 15/03/1962 | 30 September 1907 - 24 May 1984 |
William Jackson Hooker William Jackson Hooker Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,... |
09/01/1812 | 6 July 1785 - 12 August 1865 |
Christopher Hooley Christopher Hooley Christopher Hooley FLSW FRS is a British mathematician, emeritus professor of mathematics at Cardiff University. He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He won the Adams Prize of Cambridge University in 1973. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983... |
17/03/1983 | |
Edward Hooper | 31/05/1759 | |
Hendrik Hop | 24/10/1734 | 8 December 1686 - 8 December 1761 |
Charles Hope-Weir Charles Hope-Weir The Hon. Charles Hope-Weir was a Scottish politician.Born The Hon. Charles Hope, he was the second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone, daughter of William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale... |
26/04/1744 | 8 May 1710 - 30 December 1791 |
Frederick William Hope Frederick William Hope Frederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford.... |
05/06/1834 | 3 January 1797 - 15 April 1862 |
James Hope | 09/06/1832 | 24 February 1801 - 12 May 1841 Surgeon |
John Hope John Hope (botanist) John Hope was a Scottish physician and botanist. He is best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification, largely because he published very little of the research that might have made him a name in plant physiology.... |
12/02/1767 | 10 May 1725 - 10 November 1786 |
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone.... |
08/02/1728 | 7 September 1704 - 26 February 1781 |
Thomas Hope | 06/12/1804 | 30 August 1769 - 03 |
Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope was a Scottish physician and chemist. He discovered the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4°C.... |
31/05/1810 | 21 July 1766 - 13 June 1844 |
William Johnstone Hope William Johnstone Hope Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet actions, disputes with royalty, party politics and entry to both Russian and British... |
24/03/1808 | 16 August 1766 - 2 May 1831 |
Daniel Hopkins | 27/06/1765 | |
Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 11/05/1905 | 20 June 1861 - 16 May 1947 |
Harold Horace Hopkins | 15/03/1973 | 6 December 1918 - 22 October 1994 |
William Hopkins William Hopkins William Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the senior-wrangler maker.... |
01/06/1837 | 3 February 1793 - 13 October 1866 |
Bertram Hopkinson Bertram Hopkinson Bertram Hopkinson, CMG, FRS, was a patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer designer of the internal combustion engine.Hopkinson was born in Birmingham, in 1874, the... |
05/05/1910 | 11 January 1874 - 26 August 1918 |
John Hopkinson John Hopkinson John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882... |
06/06/1878 | 27 July 1849 - 27 August 1898 |
Andy Hopper Andy Hopper Andrew Hopper CBE FRS FREng FIET is the Professor of Computer Technology and Head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.-Research:... |
18/05/2006 | |
John Hoppus John Hoppus Rev. John Hoppus LL.D., PH.D., F.R.S. , English Congregational minister, author, Fellow of the Royal Society, abolitionist and educational reformer, was appointed the first Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Mind at the newly formed London University , a position he secured and held against his... |
20/05/1841 | 1789 - 29 January 1875 |
Richard Cope Hopton | 12/12/1771 | c 1738 - 13 January 1810 |
David Alan Hopwood David Hopwood Sir David Alan Hopwood FRS is a British geneticist.He gained his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge and served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961... |
15/03/1979 | |
John Harold Horlock | 18/03/1976 | |
Gabriel Horn Gabriel Horn Sir Gabriel Horn, FRS is a British biologist. His research is into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, 1974–77, then Professor of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1978–95 . He was Master of Sidney Sussex... |
20/03/1986 | |
James Horne | 20/05/1742 | fl 1742 |
James Horne | 06/02/1834 | 1790 - 26 October 1856 |
John Horne John Horne John Horne was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. He was a pupil of Ben Peach.... |
14/06/1900 | 1 January 1848 - 30 May 1928 |
Michael Rex Horne | 19/03/1981 | 29 December 1921 - 6 January 2000 |
Anthony Horneck Anthony Horneck Anthony Horneck was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate.... |
28/01/1669 | 1641 - 31 January 1697 |
Leonard Horner Leonard Horner Leonard Horner , Scottish geologist, brother of Francis Horner, was born in Edinburgh.Horner was a 'radical educational reformer' who was involved in the establishment of University College School.... |
11/11/1813 | 17 January 1785 - 5 March 1864 |
Thomas Hornsby Thomas Hornsby Thomas Hornsby FRS was a British astronomer and mathematician.Hornsby became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1760.... |
21/04/1763 | 28 August 1733 - 11 April 1810 |
George Adrian Horridge | 20/03/1969 | |
James Horsburgh James Horsburgh James Horsburgh was a Scottish hydrographer. He worked for East India Company, who mapped many seaways around Singapore in the late 18th century and early 19th century.... |
13/03/1806 | 23 September 1762 - 14 May 1836 |
Stephen Horseman | 15/02/1728 | fl 1702 - 1737 |
James Horsfall | 14/04/1768 | |
Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield M. D. was an American physician and naturalist.Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of Timothy Horsfield, Sr., a colonel and justice of the peace in Bethlehem, and a friend mentioned in Benjamin... |
10/01/1828 | 12 May 1773 - 24 July 1859 |
John Horsley | 08/05/1729 | 1685 - 12 January 1732 |
Samuel Horsley Samuel Horsley Samuel Horsley was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1792.Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts. In the following year he succeeded his father in the living of Newington Butts in Surrey... |
09/04/1767 | 15 September 1733 - 4 October 1806 |
Victor Alexander Haden Horsley | 04/06/1886 | 14 April 1857 - 16 July 1916 |
Frank Horton | 03/05/1923 | 20 August 1878 - 31 August 1957 Physicist, Royal Holloway |
David Hosack David Hosack Dr. David Hosack , a noted physician, botanist, and educator, is perhaps most widely known as the doctor who attended to Alexander Hamilton after Hamilton's deadly duel with Aaron Burr. Born in New York City to parents Alexander and Jane Hosack, David was the first of their seven children... |
23/05/1816 | 31 August 1769 - 22 December 1835 |
Brian John Hoskins | 17/03/1988 | |
Samuel Elliott Hoskins Samuel Elliott Hoskins -Life:Hoskins was born at Guernsey in 1799. His father, Samuel Hoskins, a native of Honiton, Devonshire, was in business at 66 Mark Lane, London, with the firm of Merrick, Hoskins, & Co... |
25/05/1843 | |
John Hoskins Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet was an English baronet.He was one of the founders of the Royal Society and served as its President from 1682 to 1683. Between 1685 and 1687 he also represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons.-References:*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David . Debrett's Peerage and... |
20/05/1663 | 23 July 1634 - 12 September 1705 Original |
Charles Hotham Charles Hotham (rector) Charles Hotham was an English cleric.Charles Hotham was the son of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained his MA in 1639. He became a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1640, but was deprived by parliament of his... |
09/01/1668 | 13 May 1615 - ? February 1674 Rector, Bermuda |
Pieter Hotton | 01/01/1703 | 18 June 1648 - 10 January 1709 |
James Hough | 15/05/2003 | |
Sydney Samuel Hough | 05/06/1902 | 11 June 1870 - 8 July 1923 |
John Houghton | 29/01/1680 | 1645 - 1705 Apothecary |
John Theodore Houghton John T. Houghton As co-chair of the IPCC, he defends the IPCC process, in particular against charges of failure to consider non-CO2 explanations of climate change. In evidence to, the Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2000 he said:... |
16/03/1972 | |
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield | 20/03/1975 | 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004 |
Robert Houston | 09/12/1725 | ? December 1678 - 15 May 1734 Physician |
Alexander Cruikshank Houston | 07/05/1931 | 18 September 1865 - 29 October 1933 |
William Houstoun William Houstoun (botanist) William Houstoun was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who retrieved plants from Mexico and South America.He was born in Houston, Renfrewshire. He began a degree course in medicine at St Andrew's University but completed his medical training at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1729... |
18/01/1733 | c 1695 - 14 August 1733 |
Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk | 15/02/1816 | 21 November 1765 - ? 16 March 1842 |
Charles Howard | 20/05/1663 | 13 September 1630 - 31 March 1713 Original |
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal , the son of Henry Charles Howard and Mary Aylward . He married Catherine Brockholes , daughter of John Brockholes, on 8 November 1739... |
24/03/1768 | 1 December 1720 - 31 August 1786 |
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk , styled Earl of Surrey from 1777 to 1786, was a British peer, the son of Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Brockholes.... |
18/06/1767 | 5 March 1746 - 16 December 1815 |
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle was an English politician and military leader.The first in the Howard line of earls, he was the son and heir of Sir William Howard, of Naworth in Cumberland, by Mary, daughter of William, Lord Eure, and great-grandson of Lord William Howard, "Belted Will" , the... |
14/06/1665 | 5 February 1629 - 24 February 1685 |
Edward Howard | 05/11/1668 | fl 1668-1706 Barrister |
Edward Charles Howard Edward Charles Howard Edward Charles Howard FRS the youngest son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was a British chemist who has been described as the first chemical engineer of any eminence.... |
17/01/1799 | 28 May 1774 - 27 September 1816 |
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle | 03/06/1847 | 18 April 1802 - 5 December 1864 |
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825, was a British statesman... |
26/02/1795 | 17 September 1773 - 7 October 1848 |
Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk | 15/12/1842 | 12 August 1791 - 18 |
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk was the second son of Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. He succeeded his brother Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk after his death in 1677... |
28/11/1666 | 12 July 1628 - 11 January 1684 |
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC, Earl Marshal was a politician and soldier. He was the son of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester and Elizabeth Dormer.He married Mary Mordaunt, the only daughter and heiress of... |
30/10/1672 | 11 January 1655 - 2 April 1701 |
Hugh Howard Hugh Howard Hugh Howard was a portrait-painter and collector of works of art from Dublin.-Biography:Hugh Howard was born in Dublin on the 7 February 1675. He was the eldest son of Dr. Ralph Howard of Shelton, county Wicklow... |
30/11/1696 | 8 February 1675 - 17 March 1737 |
James Griffiths Howard | 15/03/1984 | 25 September 1927 - 6 October 1998 |
John Howard John Howard (prison reformer) John Howard was a philanthropist and the first English prison reformer.-Birth and early life:Howard was born in Lower Clapton, London. His father, also John, was a wealthy upholsterer at Smithfield Market in the city... |
13/05/1756 | 2 September 1726 - 20 January 1790 |
John Eliot Howard John Eliot Howard John Eliot Howard was an English chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine.... |
04/06/1874 | 11 December 1807 - 22 November 1883 |
John Stafford Howard | 06/11/1673 | |
Jonathan Charles Howard | 09/03/1995 | |
Judith Ann Kathleen Howard Judith Howard Judith Ann Kathleen Howard, CBE, FRS, is a distinguished British chemist, crystallographer and Professor at Durham University.... |
09/05/2002 | |
Lord Thomas Howard | 06/11/1672 | c 1655 - 9 November 1689 Courtier, Diplomat |
Luke Howard Luke Howard Luke Howard FRS was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science... |
08/03/1821 | 28 November 1772 - 21 March 1864 |
Samuel Howard | 14/03/1771 | c 1731 - ? 31 December 1811 Surgeon |
William Augustus Howard | 14/05/1778 | |
William Howard, Viscount Stafford | 18/01/1665 | ? 30 November 1612 - 29 December 1680 |
Leslie Howarth | 16/03/1950 | 23 May 1911 - 22 September 2001 |
Thomas Bayly Howell Thomas Bayly Howell Thomas Bayly Howell FRS was an English lawyer and writer who edited and lent his name to Howell's State Trials.-Life:Born, in Jamaica, his family returned to England in 1770 to settle at Prinknash Park near Gloucester... |
08/03/1804 | 1768 - 13 April 1815 |
Thomas George Bond Howes | 03/06/1897 | 7 September 1853 - 04 |
Archibald Howie Archibald Howie Archibald "Archie" Howie FRS is a British physicist, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals. Born in 1934, he attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge,... |
16/03/1978 | |
William Howley William Howley William Howley was a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848.-Early Life, education, and interests:... |
17/11/1796 | 13 February 1766 - 11 February 1848 |
Henry Hoyle Howorth Henry Hoyle Howorth Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth KCIE FRS was a British Conservative politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist.... |
01/06/1893 | 1 July 1842 - 15 July 1923 |
Thomas Hoy | 01/12/1707 | 12 December 1659 - c 1718 |
Fred Hoyle Fred Hoyle Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally... |
21/03/1957 | 24 June 1915 - 20 August 2001 |
Johann Jacob Huber | 07/05/1752 | 11 September 1707 - 6 July 1778 |
Martin Hubner | 20/03/1755 | fl 1755 |
Richard Huck-Saunders | 18/02/1768 | 1720 - 24 July 1785 |
Robert Hucks | 01/11/1722 | |
Joseph Huddart Joseph Huddart Joseph Huddart F.R.S. was a hydrographer. He surveyed harbours and coasts but made a fortune from improving the design and manufacture of rope. He was highly regarded in the nineteenth century. His likeness featured in an engraving of distinguished men of science... |
17/11/1791 | 11 January 1741 - 19 August 1816 |
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston FRS was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884. He was the president of the Geological Society of London from 1892 to 1894... |
12/06/1884 | 2 June 1828 - 29 January 1909 |
Charles Thomas Hudson | 06/06/1889 | 11 March 1828 - 23 October 1903 |
John Hudson John Hudson John Hudson may refer to:* John Hudson , older brother of actor William Hudson* John Hudson , former NFL player* John Hudson , former American basketball player... |
05/12/1754 | |
Peter John Hudson | 16/05/2008 | |
Robert Hudson | 10/04/1834 | 1801 - 9 February 1883 |
Robert Francis Hudson | 18/03/1982 | |
Robert George Spencer Hudson Robert George Spencer Hudson Robert George Spencer Hudson was an English Geologist and Paleontologist. He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the eldest son of Robert Spencer Hudson.... |
16/03/1961 | 17 November 1895 - 29 December 1965 |
Charles Grave Hudson | 19/05/1757 | 3 April 1730 - 24 October 1813 |
William Hudson William Hudson (engineer) Sir William Hudson, KBE , Australian engineer, headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he reluctantly retired at 71... |
19/03/1964 | 27 April 1896 - 12 September 1978 |
William Hudson William Hudson (botanist) William Hudson FRS was a British botanist and apothecary based in London. His main work was Flora Anglica, published in 1762. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1761.- Life and work :... |
05/11/1761 | c 1730 - 23 May 1793 |
Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett | 20/03/1958 | 23 April 1897 - 21 July 1968 |
William Huggins William Huggins Sir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.-Biography:... |
01/06/1865 | 8 February 1824 - 12 May 1910 |
Nevin Campbell Hughes-Jones | 21/03/1985 | |
David Edward Hughes | 03/06/1880 | 16 May 1831 - 22 January 1900 |
Edward Hughes | 09/03/1727 | c 1701 - 13 January 1734 MP for Saltash |
Edward David Hughes | 17/03/1949 | 18 June 1906 - 30 June 1963 |
Griffith Hughes Griffith Hughes The Reverend Griffith Hughes , FRS, was a naturalist and author. Hughes wrote The Natural History of Barbados, which included the first description of the grapefruit... |
09/06/1748 | fl 1748 - 1758 |
John Hughes | 11/03/1993 | Pharmacologist, Cambridge |
Thomas McKenny Hughes Thomas McKenny Hughes Thomas McKenny Hughes was a Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.-Private life:... |
06/06/1889 | 17 December 1832 - 9 June 1917 |
Johann August Hugo | 14/11/1717 | 11 September 1686 - 16 |
Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier was a Swiss mathematician of French Hugenot descent... |
05/05/1791 | 24 April 1750 - 28 March 1840 |
John Whitaker Hulke | 06/06/1867 | 7 November 1830 - 19 February 1895 |
Derek Hull | 16/03/1989 | |
Edward Hull Edward Hull (geologist) Edward Hull , M.A., L.L.D., F.R.S., a geologist and stratigrapher, held the position of Director of theGeological Survey of Ireland. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.He was born in... |
06/06/1867 | 21 May 1829 - 18 October 1917 Geologist |
Nathaniel Hulme | 03/07/1794 | 17 June 1732 - 28 March 1807 |
Alexander, Baron Hume-Campbell | 01/04/1773 | 30 July 1750 - 9 March 1781 |
William Hume-Rothery William Hume-Rothery William Hume-Rothery OBE was a British metallurgist who studied the constitution of alloys.- Career :Hume-Rothery was born the son of lawyer Joseph Hume-Rothery in Worcester Park, Surrey but spent his youth in Cheltenham and was educated at Cheltenham College. In 1917 he was made totally deaf by a... |
06/05/1937 | 15 May 1899 - 27 September 1968 |
Joseph Hume Joseph Hume Joseph Hume FRS was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus.-Medical career:He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and moved to India in 1797... |
08/01/1818 | 23 January 1777 - 20 February 1855 |
Abraham Hume | 14/12/1775 | 21 February 1749 - 24 March 1838 Fellow 14/12/1775 |
John Herbert Humphrey | 21/03/1963 | 16 December 1915 - 25 December 1987 |
David Humphreys David Humphreys (soldier) David Humphreys was a American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature... |
11/06/1807 | 11 July 1752 - 21 February 1818 |
George Murray Humphry George Murray Humphry Sir George Murray Humphry was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, a barrister... |
09/06/1859 | 18 July 1820 - 24 September 1896 Surgeon, Cambridge University |
Francis Joseph Hunauld | 14/02/1734 | 25 February 1701 - 15 December 1742 Anatomist Royal Garden, Paris |
Karl Friedrich Hundertmark | 13/03/1755 | 11 April 1715 - 8 May 1762 |
George Hunt | 11/11/1819 | 1790 - 20 February 1861 Clergyman |
John David Hunt | 10/05/2001 | |
Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton FRS is a leading British authority on turbulence modelling, former Director General and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office.-Life:... |
16/03/1989 | |
Robert Hunt Robert Hunt (scientist) Robert Hunt , a scientist and antiquarian, was born at Devonport, Plymouth, in the United Kingdom. He was involved in statistical, mineralogical and other studies. He died in London on 17 October 1887.-Early life:... |
01/06/1854 | 6 September 1807 - 17 October 1887 |
Richard Timothy Hunt | 14/03/1991 | |
Thomas Hunt Thomas Hunt (professor) Thomas Hunt FRS was an English academic, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1738 until his death.-Life:... |
13/11/1740 | 1696 - 31 October 1774 |
Thomas Hunt | 15/04/1725 | |
Thomas Sterry Hunt Thomas Sterry Hunt Thomas Sterry Hunt , American geologist and chemist, was born at Norwich, Connecticut.He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two years he found employment in a printing office, in an apothecary shop, in a book store and as a clerk... |
09/06/1859 | 6 September 1826 - 12 February 1892 |
William Le Hunt | 13/02/1668 | fl 1668-1682 |
Alexander Hunter Alexander Hunter -Life:Born at Edinburgh in 1729 , he was eldest son of a prosperous druggist. He was sent to the grammar school at ten, and at fifteen to the university, where he remained until he was twenty-one, having devoted the last three years to medicine... |
02/02/1775 | 1729 - 17 May 1809 |
Anthony Rex Hunter | 19/03/1987 | |
Christopher Alexander Hunter | 16/05/2008 | |
Christopher Neil Hunter | 15/05/2009 | |
John Hunter John Hunter (surgeon) John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour... |
05/02/1767 | 14 February 1728 - 16 October 1793 The surgeon |
John Hunter | 12/01/1786 | ? February 1754 - 29 January 1809 A physician |
Peter John Hunter | 18/05/2006 | |
Robert Hunter | 04/05/1709 | |
Robert Hunter | 06/04/1837 | |
William Hunter William Hunter (anatomist) William Hunter FRS was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day... |
30/04/1767 | 23 May 1718 - 30 March 1783 |
George Isaac Huntingford George Isaac Huntingford George Isaac Huntingford was bishop successively of Gloucester and HerefordHe was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1770, graduating M.A., 1776 and D.D. in 1793. He was then curate of Compton, south of Winchester, before becoming a master of his... |
23/02/1804 | 9 September 1748 - 29 April 1832 |
Herbert Eric Huppert Herbert Huppert Herbert Eric Huppert is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.He was born and received... |
19/03/1987 | |
Joseph Hurlock | 14/03/1782 | c 1715 - 15 August 1793 |
Philip Hurlock | 16/11/1780 | c 1713 - 1803 |
Noel Sydney Hush | 17/03/1988 | |
Thomas Hussey Thomas Hussey (bishop) Bishop Thomas Hussey was a diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore from 1797 until his death in 1803... |
08/03/1792 | 1741 - 11 July 1803 |
James Devereux Hustler | 18/11/1819 | |
Archibald Hutcheson Archibald Hutcheson Archibald Hutcheson was a British Member of Parliament .He was the son of Archibald Hutcheson of Stracum or Stranocum, Co. Antrim. He trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1683. He was appointed Attorney-General of the Leeward Islands... |
30/11/1708 | c 1660 - 12 August 1740 |
Graham John Hutchings | 15/05/2009 | |
Andrew Hutchinson | 26/04/1804 | |
Arthur Hutchinson | 11/05/1922 | 6 July 1866 - 12 December 1937 Mineralogist |
Benjamin Hutchinson | 19/03/1795 | |
George Henry Hutchinson | 19/03/1829 | |
John Hutchinson John Hutchinson (botanist) John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:... |
20/03/1947 | 7 April 1884 - 2 September 1972 Botanist |
Richard John Hely, 4th Earl of Donoughmore Hutchinson | 25/03/1865 | 4 April 1823 - 22 February 1866 |
Jonathan Hutchinson Jonathan Hutchinson Sir Jonathan Hutchinson , was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist.-Life:He was born in Selby, Yorkshire, England of Quaker parents and educated in the local school... |
08/06/1882 | 23 July 1828 - 26 June 1913 |
Joseph Burtt Hutchinson Joseph Hutchinson Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson FRS was a British biologistHe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in Mar 1951 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1967 "In recognition of his distinguished work on the genetics and evolution of crop-plants with particular reference to cotton."His FRS... |
15/03/1951 | 21 March 1902 - 16 January 1988 |
Alexander Copland Hutchison | 13/03/1828 | |
William Kenneth Hutchison | 17/03/1966 | 30 October 1903 - 28 November 1989 |
Addison Hutton | 09/02/1738 | |
Charles Hutton Charles Hutton Charles Hutton was an English mathematician.Hutton was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was educated in a school at Jesmond, kept by Mr Ivison, a clergyman of the Church of England... |
16/06/1774 | 14 August 1737 - 27 January 1823 |
Frederick Wollaston Hutton Frederick Wollaston Hutton Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, was an English scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.- Biography :... |
02/06/1892 | 16 November 1836 - 27 October 1905 |
John Hutton | 30/11/1697 | |
William Hutton | 04/06/1840 | ? 21 March 1797 - ? 21 November 1860 |
John Huxham John Huxham John Huxham was born 1672 close to Totnes, Devon. He was a provincial doctor and surgeon notable for his study of fevers. In 1750 Huxham published his Essay on Fevers and in 1755 received the Copley Medal for his contribution to medicine.-Biography:... |
05/04/1739 | 1692 - 11 August 1768 |
John Corham Huxham | 16/03/1769 | fl 1769 |
Hugh Esmor Huxley | 24/03/1960 | |
Andrew Fielding Huxley | 17/03/1955 | |
Julian Sorell Huxley | 17/03/1938 | 22 June 1887 - 14 |
Thomas Henry Huxley | 05/06/1851 | 4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895 |
Christian Huyghens | 22/06/1663 | 14 April 1629 - ? 8 June 1695 Original |
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:... |
08/02/1665 | 19 February 1609 - 9 December 1674 |
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon Henry Hyde 2nd Earl of Clarendon PC was an English aristocrat and politician. He held high office at the beginning of the reign of James II of England, who had married his sister.-Early life:... |
01/12/1684 | 3 June 1638 - 31 October 1709 |
John Hyde John Hyde John Hyde may refer to:* John Hyde , federal politician from Western Australia for the Division of Moore... |
28/05/1752 | |
Benjamin Hyett | 02/06/1796 | c 1741 - ? 21 June 1810 |
Anthony A. Hyman Anthony A. Hyman Anthony A. Hyman is a noted British scientist and academic figure. Anthony studied zoology at the University College in London, went on to complete his PhD in molecular cell biology at King's College in Cambridge, and then completed his postdoc at the University of California in San Francisco.... |
17/05/2007 | Molecular Cell Biologist |
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Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson Captain Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson was an English 19th century geologist, inventor, organiser and soldier. He is particularly associated with early developments in photography, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society .From his London home , Ibbetson corresponded with William Henry Fox Talbot in... |
06/06/1850 | ? - 8 September 1869 |
Ainsley Iggo | 16/03/1978 | Professor of Veterinary Veterinary medicine Veterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals... Physiology |
Vincent Charles Illing | 22/03/1945 | 24 September 1890 - 16 May 1969 Prof. of Oil Tech., Imperial Coll. |
Augustus Daniel Imms Augustus Daniel Imms Augustus Daniel Imms FRS was an English educator, research institution administrator and entomologist.-Early life:... |
02/05/1929 | 24 August 1880 - 3 April 1949 |
Harry Raymond Ing | 15/03/1951 | 31 July 1899 - 23 September 1974 Pharmacologist |
John Ingenhousz Jan Ingenhousz Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz FRS was a Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for showing that light is essential to photosynthesis and thus having discovered photosynthesis. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration... |
25/05/1769 | 8 December 1730 - 7 September 1799 |
Albert Edward Ingham | 22/03/1945 | 3 April 1900 - 6 September 1967 |
Philip William Ingham | 09/05/2002 | |
John Ingilby | 07/02/1793 | 1758 - 13 May 1815 |
Edward Augustus Inglefield Edward Augustus Inglefield Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield was a Royal Naval officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline, including Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and... |
02/06/1853 | 27 March 1820 - 5 September 1894 |
John Inglis John Inglis John Inglis may refer to:* John Inglis, Lord Glencorse , Scottish former politician and Judge* Sir John Inglis, 2nd Baronet , Postmaster General for Scotland* John Inglis , American college football coach... |
22/01/1713 | |
Charles Edward Inglis | 15/05/1930 | 31 July 1875 - 19 April 1952 Prof. of Engineering, Cambridge University |
Claude Cavendish Inglis | 19/03/1953 | 3 March 1883 - 29 August 1974 Director, Hydraulic Research Station |
Robert Harry Inglis | 04/03/1813 | 12 January 1786 - 5 May 1855 |
Keith Usherwood Ingold Keith Usherwood Ingold Keith Usherwood Ingold OC FRS FRSCan FRSE is a British chemist.He was born in to Sir Christopher Ingold and Dr. Hilda Usherwood, and studied for a BSc in Chemistry at the University of London, completing his degree in 1949. He continued his higher education with a PhD in chemistry at Oxford... |
15/03/1979 | |
Christopher Kelk Ingold Christopher Kelk Ingold Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold FRS was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile,... |
15/05/1924 | 28 October 1893 - 8 December 1970 |
Vernon Martin Ingram Vernon Ingram Vernon M. Ingram, Ph.D., FRS was a German American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Biography:Ingram was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia... |
19/03/1970 | 19 May 1924 – 17 August 2006 |
Joshua Iremonger | 30/04/1747 | c 1716 - 31 December 1804 |
Robin Francis Irvine | 11/03/1993 | |
James Colquhoun Irvine | 02/05/1918 | 9 May 1877 - 12 June 1952 |
Edward A. Irving Edward A. Irving Edward A. "Ted" Irving, CM, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift... |
15/03/1979 | |
Malcolm Irving | 15/05/2003 | |
Alick Isaacs Alick Isaacs Alick Isaacs was a British virologist. He is best remembered for his work on interferon, having been Head of the Laboratory for Research on Interferon, National Institute for Medical Research, 1964–7.... |
17/03/1966 | 17 July 1921 - 26 January 1967, virologist, interferon Interferon Interferons are proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of pathogens—such as viruses, bacteria, or parasites—or tumor cells. They allow communication between cells to trigger the protective defenses of the immune system that eradicate pathogens or tumors.IFNs belong to... |
Peter Gershon Isaacson | 15/05/2009 | |
David Ish-Horowicz David Ish-Horowicz David Ish-Horowicz is a British scientist. He has been Principal Scientist and head of developmental genetics at Cancer Research UK , since 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in... |
09/05/2002 | |
Justinian Isham | 01/07/1663 | 20 January 1611 - 2 March 1675 |
Werner Israel Werner Israel Werner Israel, OC, FRSC, FRS is a Canadian physicist.Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he received his B.Sc. in 1951 and his M.Sc. in 1954 from the University of Cape Town. He received his Ph.D... |
20/03/1986 | German-born Canadian physicist, cosmologist |
Jacob Nissim Israelachvili Jacob Israelachvili Jacob Israelachvili is a professor of chemical engineering and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Israelachvili received his Ph.D. in Physics from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972, and joined UCSB in 1986. His research has involved study of molecular and interfacial forces... |
17/03/1988 | |
Charles Issac | 30/11/1692 | fl 1692 - 1711 |
Alec Arnold Constantine Issigonis | 16/03/1967 | 18 November 1906 - 2 October 1988 |
George Isted | 16/04/1801 | |
Thomas Isted | 09/11/1698 | 9 December 1677 - 9 October 1731 |
Andre Jarowiewitch Italinski | 16/06/1814 | 15 May 1743 - 27 June 1827 |
Leslie Lars Iversen | 20/03/1980 | |
Jeremiah Ives | 16/12/1819 | c 1777 - 14 September 1829 |
John Ives John Ives John Ives FRS was an antiquarian and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was born in Great Yarmouth, the son of another John Ives, a wealthy merchant. He was baptized at a Congregationalist church and it was from a Congregationalist minister that he received his earliest... |
25/03/1773 | 1751 - 9 June 1776 |
James Ivory James Ivory (mathematician) Sir James Ivory was a Scottish mathematician.Ivory was born in Dundee and attended Dundee Grammar School. In 1779 he entered the University of St Andrews, distinguishing himself especially in mathematics... |
06/04/1815 | 17 February 1765 - 21 September 1842 |
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Antonio Garcia-Bellido Antonio Garcia-Bellido Antonio García-Bellido ForMemRS is a Spanish Developmental biologist.-Life:He is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council since 1974.-External links:... |
26/06/1986 | |
Herbert Spencer Gasser | 09/05/1946 | 5 July 1888 - 11 May 1963, medicine, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... (1944) |
Jean Albert Gaudry Jean Albert Gaudry Jean Albert Gaudry , French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas.... |
12/12/1895 | ? 16 September 1827 - 27 November 1908 |
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - External links :* from the American Chemical Society* from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th Edition * , Paris... |
06/04/1815 | 6 December 1778 - 9 May 1850 |
Gerard Jakob De Geer Gerard De Geer Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer was a Swedish geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary geology, particularly geomorphology and geochronology. De Geer is best known for his discovery of varves.- Early life and family :... |
26/06/1930 | 2 October 1858 - ? 23 July 1943 |
Carl Gegenbaur | 31/01/1884 | 21 August 1826 - 14 June 1903 |
Izrael Moiseivich Gelfand | 21/04/1977 | Ukrainian-born Russian-American mathematician |
Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles... |
20/04/1978 | U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1969) |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.-Biography:... |
28/06/1984 | 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007 |
Josiah Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician. He devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry. As a mathematician, he invented vector analysis . Yale University awarded Gibbs the first American Ph.D... |
04/03/1897 | 12 February 1839 - 28 April 1903 |
Grove Karl Gilbert Grove Karl Gilbert Grove Karl Gilbert , known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist.... |
28/02/1918 | 6 May 1843 - 1 May 1918 |
Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert Walter Gilbert is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932... |
25/06/1987 | U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize (1980) |
Henry Gilman Henry Gilman Henry Gilman was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within which his most notable work was done. He discovered the Gilman reagent, which bears his name.... |
24/04/1975 | 9 May 1893 - 7 November 1986, U.S. organometallic chemist |
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb... |
25/06/1987 | Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003) |
Roy J. Glauber | 15/05/1997 | U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005) |
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.- Life and scientific career :... |
09/03/1995 | German-born U.S. geneticist, co-founder of developmental genetics |
Kurt Gödel Kurt Gödel Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher. Later in his life he emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the... |
25/04/1968 | 28 April 1906 - 14 January 1978 |
Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel | 29/04/1926 | 8 March 1855 - ? 9 October 1932 |
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Victor Goldschmidt Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.-Early life & career:Goldschmidt was born in Zürich... |
20/05/1943 | 27 January 1888 - 20 March 1947, Swiss-born U.S. chemist, founder of modern geochemistry |
Joseph L. Goldstein Joseph L. Goldstein Joseph L. Goldstein from Kingstree, South Carolina is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and geneticist, and a pioneer in the study of cholesterol metabolism.-Biography:... |
20/06/1991 | U.S. biologist, Nobel Prize (1985) |
Boris Borisovich Golitsyn | 23/03/1916 | ? 18 February 1862 - ? 17 May 1916 |
Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a pioneering American astronomer. He is notable for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.-Biography:He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of... |
26/11/1891 | 27 September 1824 - 26 November 1896 |
Ragnar Arthur Granit | 28/04/1960 | 30 October 1900 - 12 March 1991 |
Asa Gray Asa Gray -References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001.... |
27/11/1873 | ? 8 November 1810 - 30 January 1888 |
Harry Barkus Gray Harry B. Gray Harry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, Harvey Prize in 2000, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.-Career:Gray received his B.S... |
11/05/2000 | |
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth Paul Heinrich von Groth Paul Heinrich von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures.... |
09/11/1911 | 23 June 1843 - 2 December 1927 |
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Jacques Hadamard Jacques Hadamard Jacques Salomon Hadamard FRS was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.-Biography:... |
02/06/1932 | 8 December 1865 - 17 October 1963 |
Erwin L. Hahn | 11/05/2000 | |
Otto Hahn Otto Hahn Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner... |
09/05/1957 | 8 March 1879 - 28 July 1968 |
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist.... |
20/11/1856 | 5 February 1796 - 19 March 1871 |
George Ellery Hale George Ellery Hale George Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of... |
25/03/1909 | 29 June 1868 - ? 23 February 1938 |
Albin Haller Albin Haller Albin Haller was a French chemist.Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and later won the Davy Medal. Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923.... |
05/05/1921 | 7 March 1849 - 1 May 1925 |
Joachim August Wilhelm Hammerling Joachim Hämmerling Dr. Joachim Hämmerling was a pioneering Danish-German biologist funded by Nazi Germany who determined the nucleus of a cell controls the development of organisms by containing the hereditary information, or DNA... |
23/04/1970 | 9 March 1901 - 5 August 1980 |
Peter Andreas Hansen Peter Andreas Hansen Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.-Biography:The son of a goldsmith, Hansen learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820... |
04/06/1835 | 8 December 1795 - 28 March 1874 |
Ilkka Aulis Hanski Ilkka Hanski Ilkka A. Hanski FRS is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of ecology, at Helsinki University, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Group led by Hanski has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland... |
26/05/2005 | |
Christopher Hansteen Christopher Hansteen Christopher Hansteen was a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, best known for his mapping of Earth's magnetic field.-Early life and career:... |
30/05/1839 | 26 September 1784 - ? 11 April 1873 |
Ross Granville Harrison Ross Granville Harrison Ross Granville Harrison was an American biologist and anatomist credited as the first to work successfully with artificial tissue culture.... |
23/05/1940 | 13 January 1870 - 30 September 1959 |
Haldan Keffer Hartline Haldan Keffer Hartline Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns... |
21/04/1966 | 22 December 1903 - 17 March 1983 |
René Just Haüy René Just Haüy René Just Haüy – 3 June 1822 in Paris) was a French mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography." -Biography:... |
12/03/1818 | 29 February 1743 - ? 3 June 1822 Foreign Member |
Michael Heidelberger Michael Heidelberger Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins... |
24/04/1975 | 29 April 1888 - 15 June 1991 |
Rudolph Peter Heinrich Heidenhain Rudolf Heidenhain Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain was a German physiologist who was born in Marienwerder, East Prussia . He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate, he remained in Berlin as an assistant to Emil du Bois-Reymond... |
04/03/1897 | 29 January 1834 - 13 October 1897 |
Albert Heim Albert Heim Albert Heim was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.Born at Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group... |
26/11/1896 | 12 April 1849 - ? 31 August 1937 |
Werner Karl Heisenberg | 28/04/1955 | 5 December 1901 - 01 |
Friedrich Robert Helmert Friedrich Robert Helmert Friedrich Robert Helmert was a German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors.Helmert was born in Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony. After schooling in Freiberg and Dresden, he entered the Polytechnische Schule, now Technische Universität, in Dresden to study engineering science in 1859... |
04/06/1908 | 31 July 1843 - 15 June 1917 |
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | 24/05/1860 | 31 August 1821 - 8 September 1894 |
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay "On Miasma and Contagia" was an early argument for the germ theory of disease... |
27/11/1873 | 19 July 1809 - 13 May 1885 |
Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering | 27/11/1902 | 5 August 1834 - 26 January 1918 |
Ludimar Hermann Ludimar Hermann Ludimar Hermann was a German physiologist and speech scientist who used the Edison phonograph to test theories of vowel production, particularly those of Robert Willis and Charles Wheatstone. He coined the word formant, a term of importance in modern acoustic phonetics... |
11/03/1905 | 21 October 1838 - 5 June 1914 |
Charles Hermite Charles Hermite Charles Hermite was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.... |
27/11/1873 | 24 December 1822 - 14 January 1901 |
George Charles de Hevesy George de Hevesy George Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,... |
11/05/1939 | 1 August 1885 - 5 July 1966, Hungarian-born Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895... (1943) |
Jaroslav Heyrovsky Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959... |
08/04/1965 | 20 December 1890 - 27 March 1967 |
David Hilbert David Hilbert David Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of... |
21/06/1928 | 24 January 1862 - ? 23 February 1943 Foreign Member |
Abraham Hill Abraham Hill Abraham Hill FRS was a British merchant.His father was a merchant.... |
28/11/1660 | 19 April 1633 - 5 February 1721 Founder Fellow |
George William Hill George William Hill George William Hill , was an American astronomer and mathematician.Hill was born in New York City, New York to painter and engraver John William Hill. and Catherine Smith Hill. He moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from... |
27/11/1902 | 3 March 1838 - 16 April 1914 |
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch | 09/06/1994 | |
George Herbert Hitchings | 25/04/1974 | 18 April 1905 - 27 |
Johan Hjort Johan Hjort Johan Hjort FRS was a Norwegian fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time.- The early years :... |
23/03/1916 | 19 February 1869 - 7 October 1948 Foreign Member |
Jacobus Hendrik Van't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry... |
25/11/1897 | 30 August 1852 - 1 March 1911 |
Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:... |
28/06/1984 | |
Barbara Leonare Hohn Barbara Leonare Hohn Barbara Leonare Hohn ForMemRS is an Austrian molecular biologist, andwas a researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research from 1976 to 2004... |
16/05/2008 | |
John Holdren John Holdren John Paul Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology... |
15/05/2009 | |
Olaf Holtedahl Olaf Holtedahl Olaf Holtedahl, , was a geologist who was a winner of the Wollaston Medal. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1961.- Bibliography :... |
27/04/1961 | 24 June 1885 - 26 August 1975 |
Howard Robert Horvitz | 16/05/2009 | |
Sven Otto Horstadius Sven Hörstadius Sven Hörstadius FRS was a Swedish embryologist known for his work on sea urchin embryos.He was responsible for an increased understanding of the neural crest.... |
01/05/1952 | 18 February 1898 - 16 June 1996 |
Bernardo Alberto Houssay | 20/05/1943 | 10 April 1887 - 21 September 1971 |
David Hunter Hubel | 24/06/1982 | |
Robert Huber Robert Huber Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. He was educated at the Humanistisches Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960... |
13/05/1999 | |
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Huckel Erich Hückel Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:*The Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions... |
21/04/1977 | 10 August 1896 - 16 February 1980 |
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst | 20/06/1991 | 19 November 1918 - 31 July 2000 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt | 06/04/1815 | 14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859 |
George Evelyn Hutchinson | 30/06/1983 | 30 January 1903 - 17 May 1991 |
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George Rankine Irwin George Rankine Irwin Dr. George Rankin Irwin FRS was an American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials. He was internationally known for his study of fracture of materials.-Early life and education:... |
25/06/1987 | 26 February 1907 - 6 October 1998 |
Masao Ito Masao Ito is a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute.He won the 2006 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, and the 1996 Japan Prize.-Life:... |
18/06/1992 |
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