List of Fellows of the Royal Society P,Q,R
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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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| Henry Butler Pacey | 4 June 1752 | |
| Giovanni Battista Pacichelli | 16 April 1674 | c 1634–1695 |
| Kenneth John Packer | 14 March 1991 | |
| Philip Packer Philip Packer Philip Packer FRS was a British barrister and architect. He was a courtier to Charles II, and friend to Christopher Wren.He was educated at University College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1635... |
20 May 1663 | ? June 1618 - 24 December 1686 Original |
| Camillo Paderni | 24 April 1755 | fl 1755 |
| Frederick William Page Frederick Page Sir Frederick William Page CBE FRS FREng was an English aircraft designer. He had large involvements with two British aircraft projects - the Lightning and the TSR2.-Life:... |
16 March 1978 | 21 February 1917 – 29 May 2005 |
| Thomas Hyde Page Thomas Hyde Page Sir Thomas Hyde Page, FRS was a decorated British military engineer and cartographer for the English crown.In 1777 he married Susanna, widow of Edmund Bastard of Kitley, Devon, and sister of Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, baronet. In 1783 he married Mary Albinia Sir Thomas Hyde Page, FRS (1746–1821)... |
10 July 1783 | 1746 - 30 June 1821 |
| Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel Bernard Pagel Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel FRS was a British astrophysicist best known for his work on the measurement and interpretation of elemental abundances in stars and galaxies.... |
12 March 1992 | |
| Edward Paget | 8 November 1682 | ? 1652–1703 Maths Master, Christ's Hospital |
| George Edward Paget | 12 June 1873 | 22 December 1809 - 16 January 1892 |
| James Paget James Paget Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours and Lectures on Surgical Pathology... |
5 June 1851 | 11 January 1814 - 30 December 1899 |
| Edward George Sydney Paige | 17 March 1983 | 19 July 1930 – 20 February 2004 |
| Autar Singh Paintal Autar Singh Paintal Autar Singh Paintal M.D., Ph.D. was a medical scientist who has made pioneering discoveries in the area of neurosciences and respiratory sciences.... |
19 March 1981 | 24 September 1925 – 21 December 2004 |
| John Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton | 17 June 1858 | 21 February 1799 - 9 April 1880 |
| Benjamin Peary Pal | 16 March 1972 | 26 May 1906 - 14 September 1989 |
| Francis Palgrave Francis Palgrave Sir Francis Palgrave FRS, born Francis Ephraim Cohen, was an English historian.- Early life :He was born in London, the son of Meyer Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker by his wife Rachel Levien Cohen . He was initially articled as a clerk to a London solicitor's firm, and remained there as chief clerk... |
15 November 1821 | July 1788 - 6 July 1861 |
| Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave | 8 June 1882 | 11 June 1827 - 25 January 1919 |
| Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University... |
7 June 1764 | ? 22 September 1741 - ? 8 September 1811 |
| Andrew Clennel Palmer | 10 March 1994 | |
| Dudley Palmer | 22 April 1663 | c 1617–1666 Original |
| Henry Robinson Palmer Henry Robinson Palmer Henry Robinson Palmer was a British civil engineer who designed the world's first monorail system and the first elevated railsystem... |
8 December 1831 | 1795 - 12 September 1844 |
| Jeffrey Palmer | 25 February 1720 | ? July 1700 - 25 February 1721 |
| John Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne John Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne, GBE, FRS, FIBiol is a British peer and businessman. He is one of the hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.... |
20 June 1991 | Statute |
| Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC , was a British lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:... |
7 June 1860 | 27 November 1812 - 4 May 1895 |
| Samuel Palmer | 5 December 1728 | – 20 April 1738 |
| Thomas Palmer Thomas Palmer (died 1735) Thomas Palmer, MP FRS , was a British politician. He was twice the Member of Parliament for Bridgewater.He was the son of Nathaniel Palmer, MP, of Fairfield and Stogursey, Somerset, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir William Wyndham... |
12 May 1726 | ? 1685 - ? 16 March 1735 |
| Timothy Noel Palmer | 15 May 2003 | |
| William Finch Palmer | 18 May 1786 | fl 1786 |
| Henry Paman Henry Paman -Life:Son of Robert Paman, he was born at his father's estate of Chevington, Suffolk. He entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 22 June 1643, where William Sancroft was his tutor. They became friends for life. He migrated to St. John's College, on 22 July 1646, graduated B.A. the... |
1 December 1679 | ? April 1623 - ? June 1695 |
| Roger Paman | 12 May 1743 | |
| Giuseppe Maria Pancrazi | 15 January 1756 | fl 1756 |
| Friedrich Adolf Paneth | 20 March 1947 | 31 August 1887 - 17 September 1958 |
| Josephus de Panicis | 5 June 1740 | |
| Carl Frederick Abel Pantin | 6 May 1937 | 30 March 1899 - 14 January 1967 |
| Martin Panzano | 11 June 1761 | |
| Pasquale de Paoli | 3 March 1774 | 26 April 1725 - 5 February 1807 |
| John C B Papaloizou John Papaloizou John Christopher Baillie Papaloizou is a British theoretical physicist. Papaloizou is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He works on the theory of accretion disks, with particular application to the formation of planets. He... |
15 May 2003 | |
| David Papillon | 30 June 1720 | 1691 - 26 |
| Denis Papin Denis Papin Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker.-Life in France:... |
31 December 1680 | 22 August 1647 - ? January 1712 |
| John Paradise | 2 May 1771 | April 1743 - 12 December 1795 |
| Peter Robert Parham | 16 May 2008 | |
| John Ayrton Paris John Ayrton Paris John Ayrton Paris, FRS was a British physician. He is most widely remembered as the probable inventor of the thaumatrope, which he used to demonstrate persistence of vision to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1824; at about this time he wrote a book entitled Philosophy in sport made... |
21 June 1821 | 7 August 1785 - 4 December 1856 |
| Woodbine Parish Woodbine Parish Sir Woodbine Parish KCH was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.Educated at Eton College, he took up his first diplomatic post in 1814, and was involved in events immediately following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo... |
4 March 1824 | 14 September 1796 - 16 August 1882 |
| Mary Parke | 16 March 1972 | 23 March 1908 - 17 July 1989 |
| David Parker | 9 May 2002 | Professor of Chemistry, Durham Univ |
| Geoffrey Alan Parker Geoff Parker Professor Geoffrey Alan Parker FRS is a Derby professor of biology at the University of Liverpool.He has a particular interest in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology, and is most noted for introducing the concept of sperm competition in 1970.Much of his work from the 1970s onwards has... |
16 March 1989 | |
| George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, FRS was an English peer and astronomer.Styled Viscount Parker from 1721 to 1732, he was Member of Parliament for Wallingford from 1722 to 1727, but his interests were not in politics... |
25 October 1722 | c 1697- 17 March 1764 |
| George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield PC , styled Viscount Parker between 1764 and 1795, was a British peer and politician.-Background:... |
5 November 1818 | 25 February 1755 - 20 March 1842 |
| Ian Parker Ian Parker Ian Parker is a Scottish keyboard player.He showed a natural ability to play the piano from a very early age. He started piano lessons when he was seven. His early influences were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Stax and Atlantic Soul... |
16 May 2008 | |
| John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon John Parker, 1st Baron Boringdon was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Parker was the son of John Parker and Catherine Poulett, daughter of John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons for Bodmin in 1761, a seat he held... |
9 April 1767 | c 1735 - 27 April 1788 |
| John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley FRS , known as Lord Boringdon from 1788 to 1815, was a British peer and politician.... |
26 February 1795 | 5 May 1772 - 14 March 1840 |
| Peter Joseph Jacques Parker | 18 May 2006 | |
| Robert Ladislav Parker Robert Ladislav Parker Robert L. Parker is an American geophysicist and mathematician currently holding a Professor Emeritus of Geophysics position at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California.... |
16 March 1989 | |
| Samuel Parker | 13 June 1666 | 1640 - 21 March 1688 |
| Thomas Jeffery Parker Thomas Jeffery Parker Thomas Jeffery Parker was a British zoologist, museum curator and member of Royal Society.He married Charlotte Elizabeth Rossell in 1874 in Bramley, Yorkshire.... |
7 June 1888 | 17 October 1850 - 7 November 1897 |
| Thomas Lister Parker Thomas Lister Parker -Life:Born at Browsholme Hall, Yorkshire , England on 27 September 1779, he was the eldest of the eight sons of John Parker of Browsholme, by his wife Beatrix, daughter of Thomas Lister of Gisburne Park, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School under the mastership of the Rev... |
1 June 1815 | ? 27 September 1779 - 2 March 1858 |
| Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield PC, FRS was an English Whig politician.-Youth and early career:He was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge... |
20 March 1712 | 23 July 1666 - 28 April 1732 |
| Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield FRS , styled Viscount Parker between 1732 and 1764, was a British peer and politician.-Background:... |
19 November 1747 | 3 October 1723 - 9 February 1795 |
| William Parker | 19 February 1747 | 1714 - 22 July 1802 Clergyman |
| William Kitchen Parker | 1 June 1865 | 23 June 1823 - 3 July 1890 |
| Edmund Alexander Parkes | 6 June 1861 | 29 March 1819 - 15 March 1876 |
| Alan Sterling Parkes | 11 May 1933 | 10 September 1900 - 17 July 1990 |
| Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin Stuart Parkin Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin, Ph.D. is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is also a consulting professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University and director of the... |
11 May 2000 | |
| John Parkinson | 6 February 1840 | |
| Stephen Parkinson Stephen Parkinson Stephen Parkinson was a British mathematician.Parkinson went up to St John's College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1841 and graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1845, beating William Thomson. He was elected to a Fellowship at St John's in the same year... |
2 June 1870 | 1 August 1823 - 2 January 1889 |
| Thomas Parkinson | 23 February 1786 | 1745 - 13 November 1830 Clergyman |
| William Arthur Parks | 3 May 1934 | 11 December 1868 - 3 October 1936 |
| Thomas Boothby Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe | 6 December 1787 | 1755 - 17 November 1800 |
| Bartholomew Parr | 23 March 1797 | 1750 - 20 November 1810 |
| Francis Rex Parrington | 15 March 1962 | 21 February 1905 - 17 April 1981 |
| Caleb Hillier Parry | 22 May 1800 | 21 October 1755 - 9 March 1822 |
| Charles Henry Parry | 20 February 1812 | 1779 - 21 January 1860 |
| William Edward Parry William Edward Parry Sir William Edward Parry was an English rear-admiral and Arctic explorer, who in 1827 attempted one of the earliest expeditions to the North Pole... |
15 February 1821 | 19 December 1790 - ? 9 July 1855 |
| William Parry Bill Parry (mathematician) Professor William Parry FRS was an English mathematician. During his research career, he was highly active in the study of dynamical systems, and, in particular, ergodic theory, and made significant contributions to these fields. He is considered to have been at the forefront of the introduction... |
15 March 1984 | 3 July 1934 – 20 August 2006 |
| James Parsons | 7 May 1741 | March 1705 - 4 April 1770 |
| Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse KP FRS was the son and successor of the astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse who built the "Leviathan of Parsonstown" telescope, largest of its day, and his wife, the Countess Rosse , an amateur astronomer and pioneering photographer... |
19 December 1867 | 17 November 1840 - 29 August 1908 |
| Robert Mann Parsons | 2 June 1870 | 29 September 1829 - 20 May 1897 |
| Roger Parsons | 20 March 1980 | |
| Charles Algernon Parsons Charles Algernon Parsons Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence on the naval and electrical engineering fields... |
9 June 1898 | 13 June 1854 - 11 February 1931 |
| John Herbert Parsons | 12 May 1921 | 3 September 1868 - 7 October 1957 |
| Leonard Gregory Parsons | 18 March 1948 | 25 November 1879 - 17 December 1950 |
| William Parsons | 22 November 1787 | |
| William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Knight of the Order of St Patrick was an Irish astronomer who had several telescopes built. His 72-inch telescope "Leviathan", built 1845, was the world's largest telescope until the early 20th century.-Life:He was born in Yorkshire, England, in the city of... |
8 December 1831 | 17 June 1800 - 31 October 1867 |
| Henry Partridge | 19 February 1778 | |
| Linda Partridge Linda Partridge Dame Linda Partridge DBE is a British geneticist, who studies the biology and genetics of ageing and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.... |
14 March 1996 | |
| Richard Partridge Richard Partridge Richard Partridge FRS, FRCS was a British surgeon. Although he became President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, he is best known for his part in apprehending the London Burkers gang and for failing to spot a bullet lodged in Giuseppe Garibaldi's... |
23 February 1837 | 19 January 1805 - 25 March 1873 |
| Stanley Miles Partridge | 19 March 1970 | 2 August 1913 - 26 April 1992 |
| Donald William Pashley | 21 March 1968 | |
| Sir Charles William Pasley | 7 March 1816 | 8 September 1780 - 19 April 1861 |
| Frank Pasquill | 17 March 1977 | 8 September 1914 - 15 October 1994 |
| Giovanni Battista Passeri | 12 November 1747 | 10 November 1694 - 04 |
| Richard Edward Passingham | 15 May 2009 | |
| Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, FRS was an English politician, nobleman and scientist. The Paston family had a long history. His father William , was created a baronet in 1642, and on his death was succeeded in the title by Robert. Robert was subsequently created a Viscount and then became an... |
20 May 1663 | 29 May 1631 - 8 March 1683 Original |
| William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth William Paston, 2nd Earl of Yarmouth was a British peer and politician.Born in 1654, he was the son of Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth and his wife, Rebecca, née Clayton. In 1671, he married the widowed Charlotte Howard, née FitzRoy , the illegitimate daughter of Charles II and Elizabeth... |
30 November 1722 | 1652 - 25 December 1732 |
| John Stewart Pate | 21 March 1985 | |
| John Arthur Joseph Pateman | 16 March 1978 | |
| Ian Paterson | 26 May 2005 | |
| Michael Stewart Paterson Mike Paterson Michael Stewart "Mike" Paterson, is the director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and was chair of that department in 2005.... |
10 May 2001 | |
| Sir Clifford Copland Paterson | 19 March 1942 | 17 October 1879 - 26 July 1948 |
| William Paterson William Paterson (explorer) Colonel William Paterson, FRS was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Paterson when citing a botanical name.-Early years:A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was... |
10 May 1798 | 17 August 1755 - 21 June 1810 |
| Diarmid Noel Paton | 7 May 1914 | 19 March 1859 - 30 September 1928 |
| Thomas Angus Lyall Paton Thomas Paton Sir Thomas Angus Lyall Paton CMG, FRS, BSc FASCE FIStructE MICE was a British civil engineer from Jersey. Paton was born into a family which had founded the civil engineering firms of Easton, Gibb & Son and Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and would spend his entire professional career working for... |
20 March 1969 | 10 May 1905 - 7 April 1999 |
| William Drummond MacDonald Paton | 15 March 1956 | 5 May 1917 - 17 October 1993 |
| Archibald Patoun | 30 April 1730 | 1706–1775 |
| Gerald Pattenden | 14 March 1991 | |
| Colin Patterson | 11 March 1993 | 13 October 1933 - 9 March 1998 Palaeozoologist |
| Robert Patterson Robert Patterson (Belfast) Robert Patterson, FRS was an Irish businessman and naturalist born in Belfast, Ireland.-Biography:The eldest son of Robert Patterson , owner of a mill-furnishing business in Belfast established in 1786, Robert Patterson was born into a wealthy family. He was educated first at the Belfast Academy... |
9 June 1859 | 18 April 1802 - 14 February 1872 |
| Hugh Lee Pattinson | 3 June 1852 | 25 December 1796 - 11 November 1858 |
| Robert Paul | 30 November 1716 | c 1697 - 19 June 1762 |
| Louis Paule | 25 November 1691 | fl 1691–1702 |
| Frederick William Pavy Frederick William Pavy William Frederick Pavy was a British physician and physiologist and the discoverer of Pavy's disease, a cyclic or recurrent physiologic albuminuria.... |
4 June 1863 | 29 May 1829 - 19 September 1911 |
| Edward Pawlet | 3 November 1726 | |
| Godfrey Stuart Pawley | 12 March 1992 | |
| Joseph Lade Pawsey Joseph Lade Pawsey Joseph Lade Pawsey was an Australian engineer, radiophysicist, and radio astronomer.He was born in Ararat, Victoria to a family of farmers. At the age of 14 he was awarded a government scholarship to study at Wesley College, Melbourne, followed by a scholarship to study at the University of... |
18 March 1954 | 14 May 1908 - 30 November 1962 |
| Anthony James Pawson Anthony Pawson Anthony 'Tony' James Pawson, OC, OOnt, CH, FRS, FRSC , British-born Canadian scientist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction, the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external cues, and how they communicate with each other... |
10 March 1994 | |
| David Neil Payne | 12 March 1992 | |
| Michael Christopher Payne | 16 May 2008 | Prof of Computational Physics, Cavendish Lab. |
| Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington Ralph Payne, 1st Baron Lavington KB PC was a British politician and Governor of the Leeward Islands.-Early life and education:... |
29 April 1779 | 19 March 1738 - 3 August 1807 |
| William Payne | 9 November 1681 | 1650 - 20 February 1697 Clergyman |
| Benjamin Neeve Peach | 2 June 1892 | 6 September 1842 - 29 January 1926 |
| Henry John Peachy, 3rd Baron Selsey | 27 March 1817 | 4 September 1787 - 10 March 1838 |
| James Peachy, 1st Baron Selsey | 28 February 1782 | 9 March 1723 - 1 February 1808 |
| John Peachy, 2nd Baron Selsey | 29 May 1777 | 16 March 1749 - 27 June 1816 |
| George Peacock George Peacock George Peacock was an English mathematician.-Life:Peacock was born on 9 April 1791 at Thornton Hall, Denton, near Darlington, County Durham. His father, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, was a clergyman of the Church of England, incumbent and for 50 years curate of the parish of Denton, where he also kept... |
29 January 1818 | 9 April 1791 - 8 November 1858 |
| John Andrew Peacock | 17 May 2007 | |
| William James Peacock | 18 March 1982 | |
| Malcolm Peaker | 14 March 1996 | |
| John Martindale Pearce | 18 May 2006 | |
| William Pearce | 1 May 1788 | 3 December 1744 - 14 November 1820 University Administrator |
| Zachary Pearce Zachary Pearce Zachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah , was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton, attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of Paradise Lost the following year.-Life:Pearce was born the son of... |
30 June 1720 | 8 September 1690 - 29 June 1774 |
| Laurence Pearl Laurence Pearl Laurence Harris Pearl, FRS, FMedSci is a British biochemist and structural biologist who is currently Professor of Structural Biology in the Genome Damage and Stability Centre and Head of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex.-Education and career:Born in Manchester in 1956 to a... |
16 May 2008 | structural biologist |
| William Harold Pearsall | 14 March 1940 | 23 July 1891 - 14 October 1964 |
| Barbara Mary Frances Pearse Barbara Pearse Barbara Pearse is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. She works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom.... |
17 March 1988 | |
| Egon Sharpe Pearson | 17 March 1966 | 11 August 1895 - 12 June 1980 |
| George Pearson George Pearson (doctor) George Pearson, MD, FRS , physician, chemist and early advocate of Jenner's cowpox vaccination.Davies Gilbert, who was then President of the Royal Society, began his 1829 memoir of Dr. Pearson thus:He continued:... |
23 June 1791 | ? September 1751 - 9 November 1828 |
| Henry Harold Welch Pearson Henry Harold Welch Pearson Henry Harold Welch Pearson , was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in 1913.... |
11 May 1916 | 28 January 1870 - 3 November 1916 |
| John Pearson | 14 March 1667 | 29 February 1613 - 16 July 1686 |
| John Pearson | 24 March 1803 | 3 January 1758 - 12 May 1826 |
| John Richard Anthony Pearson | 26 May 2005 | |
| Karl Pearson Karl Pearson Karl Pearson FRS was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the disciplineof mathematical statistics.... |
4 June 1896 | 27 March 1857 - 27 April 1936 |
| Edwin Pearson | 5 December 1833 | 1802 - 18 April 1883 |
| William Hyde Pearson | 9 March 1826 | |
| William Pearson | 1 July 1819 | 23 April 1767 - 6 September 1847 |
| William Stanley Peart William Stanley Peart Sir William Stanley Peart FRS is a British doctor. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and St Mary's Hospital Medical School... |
20 March 1969 | |
| Rendel Sebastian Pease | 17 March 1977 | 2 November 1922 – 17 October 2004 |
| Stanley Peat | 18 March 1948 | 23 August 1902 - 22 |
| Samuel John Brooke Pechell | 2 February 1832 | 1 September 1785 - 3 November 1849 |
| Joannes Nicolaus Pechlin | 30 November 1688 | c 1646 - |
| Alexander Pedler | 2 June 1892 | 21 May 1849 - 13 May 1918 |
| Timothy John Pedley | 9 March 1995 | |
| Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil Pedro II of Brazil Dom Pedro II , nicknamed "the Magnanimous", was the second and last ruler of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was the seventh child of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil and Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina and thus a member of the Brazilian branch of... |
23 November 1871 | 2 December 1825 - 5 December 1891 Royal |
| Phillip James Edwin Peebles | 18 March 1982 | |
| Robert Peel Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 December 1834 to 8 April 1835, and again from 30 August 1841 to 29 June 1846... |
5 December 1822 | 6 February 1788 - 2 July 1850 |
| Christopher Pegge | 19 March 1795 | 1765 - 3 August 1822 |
| Rudolf Ernst Peierls Rudolf Peierls Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences... |
22 March 1945 | 5 June 1907 - 19 September 1995 physicist |
| Jeremiah Peirce | 25 March 1742 | fl 1742–1767 |
| Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris Malik Peiris Joseph Malik Sriyal Peiris , FRS, Légion d'Honneur was born in Sri Lanka , a distinguished old boy of St. Anthony's College, Kandy and later studied medicine at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka... |
18 May 2006 | |
| Peter Peirson | 3 July 1794 | 1739 - 27 December 1808 |
| Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme | 26 October 1749 | 23 July 1693 - 17 November 1768 |
| Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Baron Yarborough , was a British politician.Anderson-Pelham was the son of Francis Anderson and his wife Eleanor . Born Charles Anderson he assumed the additional surname of Pelham, which was the maiden name of his paternal grandmother... |
8 May 1777 | 4 February 1749 - 22 September 1823 |
| Henry Pelham Henry Pelham Henry Pelham was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754... |
17 April 1746 | 1696 - 6 March 1754 |
| Hugh Reginald Brentnall Pelham | 17 March 1988 | |
| Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC , FRS , styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician... |
24 April 1800 | 28 April 1756 - 4 July 1826 |
| John Pell John Pell -Early life:He was born at Southwick in Sussex. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of thirteen. During his university career he became an accomplished linguist, and even before he took his B.A. degree corresponded with Henry Briggs and... |
20 May 1663 | 1 March 1611 - 12 December 1685 Original |
| Thomas Pellet | 20 March 1712 | ? 1671 - 4 July 1744 |
| John Henry Pelly | 2 April 1835 | 31 March 1777 - 13 August 1852 |
| Christopher Robert Pemberton | 22 December 1796 | 1765 - 31 July 1822 |
| Francis Pemberton Francis Pemberton Sir Francis Pemberton was an English judge and briefly Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the course of a turbulent career.-Early life:... |
9 June 1715 | ? 1679 - 19 May 1762 |
| George Pemberton | 11 February 1813 | 15 May 1784 - 6 April 1851 |
| Henry Pemberton Henry Pemberton Henry Pemberton was an English physician and man of letters. He became Gresham Professor of Physic, and edited the third edition of Principia Mathematica.-Life:... |
30 November 1720 | 1694 - 9 March 1771 |
| Marcus Seymour Pembrey Marcus Seymour Pembrey This article is about the 19th century physiologist, not Marcus Pembrey, Geneticist.Marcus Seymour Pembrey FRS, was a British physiologist who held important posts in several British hospitals and other organisations. He was also the author of several well known medical books... |
11 May 1922 | 28 May 1868 - 23 July 1934 |
| Edward William Wynne Pendarves Edward William Wynne Pendarves Edward William Wynne Pendarves was Member of Parliament for West Cornwall from the creation of the Constituency on 19 December 1832 until the year of his death.... |
24 May 1827 | 6 April 1775 - 26 June 1853 |
| John Brian Pendry John Pendry Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS FInstP is an English theoretical physicist known for his research into refractive indexes and creation of the first practical "Invisibility Cloak"... |
15 March 1984 | |
| Wilder Graves Penfield | 18 March 1943 | 26 January 1891 - 5 April 1976 |
| William Pengelly William Pengelly William Pengelly, FRS FGS was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect.... |
4 June 1863 | 12 January 1812 - 16 March 1894 |
| Howard Latimer Penman | 15 March 1962 | 10 April 1909 - 15 October 1984 |
| John Penn John Penn (engineer) John Penn FRS, was a marine engineer, whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the nineteenth century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power... |
9 June 1859 | 1805 - 23 September 1878 |
| Richard Penn | 18 November 1824 | 1784 - 21 April 1863 |
| William Penn | 13 November 1806 | fl 1806 |
| William Penn William Penn William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful... |
9 November 1681 | 14 October 1644 - 30 July 1718 |
| David Pennant | 15 November 1792 | |
| Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century... |
26 February 1767 | 14 June 1726 - 16 December 1798 |
| Richard Penneck | 14 April 1768 | 1728 - 29 January 1803 |
| Montague Mattinson Pennell | 20 March 1980 | 20 March 1916 - 30 December 1981 |
| William George Penney, Baron Penney of East Hendred William Penney, Baron Penney William George Penney, Baron Penney OM, KBE PhD, DSc, , FRS, FRSE, FIC, Hon FCGI was a British mathematician who was responsible for the development of British nuclear technology, following World War II... |
21 March 1946 | 24 June 1909 - 3 March 1991 |
| Colin James Pennycuick | 15 March 1990 | |
| Francis Cranmer Penrose | 7 June 1894 | 29 October 1817 - 15 |
| Lionel Sharples Penrose | 19 March 1953 | 11 June 1898 - 12 May 1972 |
| Oliver Penrose Oliver Penrose Oliver Penrose FRS, FRSE is a British theoretical physicist.He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose, brother of the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, and brother of chess master Jonathan Penrose... |
19 March 1987 | |
| Roger Penrose Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College... |
16 March 1972 | |
| Henry Penton | 16 November 1780 | c 1737 - 15 January 1812 |
| Michael Pepper Michael Pepper Sir Michael Pepper FRS FInstP is a British physicist notable for his work in semiconductor nanostructures.-Education:Sir Michael went to school at St Marylebone Grammar, then gained a BSc and PhD from the University of Reading and an MA and ScD from Cambridge University.-Career:Sir Michael was a... |
17 March 1983 | |
| John Christopher Pepusch | 13 June 1745 | 1667 - 20 July 1752 |
| Mark Brian Pepys Mark Pepys Mark Brian Pepys FRS is Professor of Medicine at University College London and English Head of Medicine at the Hampstead Campus and the Royal Free Hospital... |
14 May 1998 | |
| Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man... |
15 February 1665 | 24 February 1633 - 26 May 1703, President of the Royal Society (1684–1686) |
| Lucas Pepys | 9 November 1780 | 26 May 1742 - 17 June 1830 |
| William Haseldine Pepys William Haseldine Pepys William Haseldine Pepys FRS was an English scientist and founder of learned institutions who contributed significantly to the advancement of the chemical and physical sciences during the first half of the nineteenth century.... |
28 January 1808 | 23 March 1775 - 17 August 1856 |
| John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont PC, FRS was a British politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist... |
21 June 1764 | 25 February 1711 - ? 20 December 1770 |
| Ian Colin Percival | 21 March 1985 | Physicist, London Univ. |
| John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont PC, FRS , known as Sir John Perceval, 5t, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo-Irish politician.... |
3 December 1701 | 12 July 1683 - 1 May 1748 |
| Thomas Percival Thomas Percival Thomas Percival FRS FRSE FSA was an English physician and author, best known for crafting perhaps the first modern code of medical ethics... |
7 March 1765 | 29 September 1740 - 30 August 1804 |
| Thomas Percival | 25 November 1756 | 1 September 1719 - December 1762 Antiquarian |
| John Percivale | 6 April 1681 | 22 August 1660 - 29 April 1686 |
| Philip Percivale | 18 February 1675 | 12 January 1656 - 11 September 1680 |
| Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland Admiral Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland KG, PC, FRS , styled Lord Algernon Percy until 1816 and known as The Lord Prudhoe between 1816 and 1847, was a British naval commander, explorer and Conservative politician.-Background:Northumberland was the younger son of General Hugh Percy, 2nd... |
9 April 1818 | 16 December 1792 - ? 15 February 1865 |
| Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland | 22 November 1900 | 29 May 1846 - 14 May 1918 |
| Hugh Algernon Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland | 28 May 1970 | 7 April 1914 - 11 October 1988 Statute |
| Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC was an Engish peer, landowner and art patron.He was born Hugh Smithson, the son of Langdale Smithson and grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd Baronet from whom he inherited the baronetcy in 1733... |
10 June 1736 | 1715 - 6 June 1786 |
| Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland Lieutenant-General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, FRS was an officer in the British army and later a British peer... |
6 March 1788 | 28 August 1742 - 10 July 1817 |
| Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland KG, PC , styled Earl Percy until 1817, was a British aristocrat and Tory politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under the Duke of Wellington from 1829 to 1830.... |
1 May 1823 | ? 20 April 1785 - ? 12 February 1847 |
| John Percy John Percy John Percy was an English Jesuit priest and controversialist.-Life:... |
22 April 1847 | 23 March 1817 - 19 June 1889 |
| Helio Gelli Pereira | 15 March 1973 | 23 September 1918 - 16 August 1994 |
| Jacob Rodrigue Pereira | 24 January 1760 | 11 April 1715 - 15 September 1780 |
| Jonathan Pereira Jonathan Pereira Jonathan Pereira was a pharmacologist, author of the Elements of Materia Medica, a standard work. He was examiner on the subject in the University of London.... |
3 May 1838 | 22 May 1804 - 20 January 1853 |
| Herbert Charles Pereira | 20 March 1969 | 12 May 1913 – 19 December 2004 |
| Pedro Alonzo Perez de Guzman, Duke of Medina-Sidonia Pedro de Alcántara Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 14th Duke of Medina Sidonia Pedro de Alcántara Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Lopez-Pacheco, 14th Duke of Medina Sidonia became Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1739.... |
9 November 1749 | 1724–1779 |
| Richard Nelson Perham | 15 March 1984 | |
| Arthur George Perkin Arthur George Perkin Arthur George Perkin FRS was an English chemist.He was the son of Sir William Henry Perkin who had founded the aniline dye industry, and was born at Sudbury, England, close to his father's dyeworks at Greenford. His brother was William Henry Perkin, Jr.... |
11 June 1903 | 13 December 1861 - 30 May 1937 |
| William Henry Perkin | 7 June 1866 | 12 March 1838 - 14 July 1907 |
| William Henry Perkin, Jr. William Henry Perkin, Jr. William Henry Perkin, Jr. was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic compounds.-Early life:... |
5 June 1890 | 17 June 1860 - 17 September 1929 |
| Donald Hill Perkins Donald Hill Perkins Donald Hill Perkins is a British physicist and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. He achieved great success in the field of particle physics and is also known for his books.... |
17 March 1966 | |
| Edward Arend Perkins | 17 May 2007 | |
| Peter Perkins | 5 February 1680 | |
| Robert Cyril Layton Perkins Robert Cyril Layton Perkins Robert Cyril Layton Perkins FRS was a distinguished British entomologist, ornithologist, and naturalist noted for his work on the fauna of the islands of Hawaii and on Hymenoptera... |
13 May 1920 | 15 November 1866 - 29 September 1955 |
| William Philp Perrin | 28 May 1772 | c 1742 - 29 April 1820 |
| Christopher Miles Perrins Chris Perrins Christopher Miles "Chris" Perrins, LVO, FRS is a British biologist. He is Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at Oxford University, and an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.... |
15 May 1997 | |
| Jean Rodolphe Perronet | 3 April 1788 | 9 October 1708 - 27 February 1794 |
| John Perry John Perry (engineer) John Perry was a pioneering engineer and mathematician from Ireland. He was born on February 14, 1850 at Garvagh, County Londonderry, the second son of Samuel Perry and a Scottish-born wife.... |
4 June 1885 | 15 February 1850 - 4 August 1920 |
| Samuel Victor Perry Samuel Victor Perry Samuel Victor Perry FRS was an English biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of muscle biochemistry. In his earlier years he was a rugby union lock who played club rugby for Cambridge University R.U.F.C. and international rugby for England.After schooling in Southport Perry took a biochemistry... |
21 March 1974 | |
| Stephen Joseph Perry Stephen Joseph Perry Stephen Joseph Perry was an English Jesuit, known as a participant in scientific expeditions.-Life:... |
4 June 1874 | 26 August 1833 - 27 December 1889 |
| Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton Walter Perry Walter Laing MacDonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton FRS FRCP FRSE was a distinguished academic. He was the first Vice Chancellor of the Open University.... |
21 March 1985 | 16 January 1921 – 16 July 2003 |
| William Perry William Perry William James Perry is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton... |
30 November 1678 | c 1650 - September 1696 |
| William Persall | 20 May 1663 | 7 October 1601 - Original |
| Geoffrey James Pert | 9 March 1995 | |
| Max Ferdinand Perutz Max Perutz Max Ferdinand Perutz, OM, CH, CBE, FRS was an Austrian-born British molecular biologist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew, for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins... |
18 March 1954 | 19 May 1914 – 6 February 2002, 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... (1962) |
| Joseph Ernest Petavel | 2 May 1907 | 14 August 1873 - 31 March 1936 |
| Norman James Petch | 21 March 1974 | 14 February 1917 - 9 December 1992 |
| David Keith Peters Keith Peters (medicine) Sir David Keith Peters FRS FMedSci FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FLSW was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005, where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.- Career :... |
9 March 1995 | |
| Rudolph Albert Peters | 16 May 1935 | 13 April 1889 - 29 January 1982 |
| Ole Holger Petersen | 11 May 2000 | |
| John Bernard Pethica John Pethica John Pethica FRS is Science Foundation Ireland professor of material science at Trinity College, Dublin, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. In 2001, Pethica was one of the first ten people awarded an S.F.I. principal investigator award... |
13 May 1999 | |
| Jean Louis Petit Jean Louis Petit Jean-Louis Petit was a French surgeon, and the inventor of the tourniquet. He was first enthusiastic about anatomy, received a master's certificate in surgery in Paris in 1700. He became a member of the French Royal Academy of Sciences in 1715, and was named director of the French Royal Academy of... |
6 November 1729 | 13 March 1674 - 20 April 1750 |
| John Lewis Petit | 22 November 1759 | 1736 - 27 May 1780 |
| Louis Hayes Petit | 10 December 1807 | ? 1774 - 13 November 1849 |
| Pierre Petit | 4 April 1667 | ? 8 December 1594 - 20 August 1677 Physicist, Astronomer |
| James Petiver James Petiver James Petiver was a London apothecary, a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as London's informal Temple Coffee House Botany Club, famous for his study of botany and entomology.-Life:... |
27 November 1695 | 1663 - 2 April 1718 |
| Charles Petley | 22 February 1753 | c 1715 - July 1765 |
| Richard Peto Richard Peto Sir Richard Peto FRS is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford.He attended Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University.... |
16 March 1989 | epidemiologist |
| Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre was a British peer.Lord Petre was the son of Robert Petre, 8th Baron Petre , a renowned horticulturist, and Lady Henrietta Anna Mary Barbara Radclyffe , daughter of the 3rd Earl of Derwentwater who was the grandson of Charles II by his mistress Moll Davis.Lord... |
6 April 1780 | c February 1742 - 2 July 1801 |
| Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre was a renowned horticulturist and a British peer.Lord Petre was the son of Robert Petre, 7th Baron Petre and his wife Catherine Walmesley , heiress of the Walmesley family of Lancashire... |
28 October 1731 | 3 June 1713 - 2 July 1742 |
| William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre William Henry Francis Petre, 11th Baron Petre William Henry Francis, 11th Baron Petre was the first Baron Petre to take his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829.-Family :... |
6 March 1817 | 22 January 1793 - 3 July 1850 |
| William Matthew Flinders Petrie William Matthew Flinders Petrie William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS , commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts... |
5 June 1902 | 3 June 1853 - 28 July 1942 |
| William Petrie William Petrie William Petrie was an Officer of the East India Company in Chennai during the 1780s. He set up a private observatory in his residence located in Egmore, Chennai, India. The main aim of the observatory was "to provide navigational assistance to the company ships and help determine the longitudes... |
19 November 1795 | fl 1795–1820 |
| Peter Pett Peter Pett Peter Pett, was an English Master Shipwright, and Second Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. He is noted for the incident concerning the protection of his scale models and drawings of the King's Fleet during the Dutch Raid on the Medway, in Kent in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch... |
20 May 1663 | 6 August 1610 - ? 1672 Original |
| Peter Pett | 20 May 1663 | ? October 1630 - 1 April 1699 Original Lawyer |
| David Godfrey Pettifor David Pettifor Professor David Pettifor CBE FRS is the Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.... |
10 March 1994 | |
| James Bell Pettigrew James Bell Pettigrew James Bell Pettigrew, FRS FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish naturalist and museum curator. He was a distinguished naturalist in Edinburgh and London, and at St Andrews University from 1875 until his death... |
4 June 1868 | 26 May 1834 - 30 January 1908 |
| John Douglas Pettigrew | 19 March 1987 | |
| Thomas Joseph Pettigrew | 1 February 1827 | 28 October 1791 - 23 November 1865 |
| Roger Pettiward | 23 November 1815 | fl 1815–1832 |
| Roger Pettiward | 20 March 1755 | |
| John Pettus | 19 August 1663 | c 1613 - ? July 1685 |
| Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809 and then as The Earl of Kerry to 1818, was a British statesman... |
4 April 1811 | 2 July 1780 - 31 January 1863 |
| Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne Henry Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne PC was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.-Background:Petty was a younger son of Sir William Petty and Elizabeth, Baroness Shelburne, daughter of Sir Hardress Waller... |
30 November 1696 | 22 October 1675 - 17 April 1751 |
| James Petty | 6 June 1771 | |
| William Petty William Petty Sir William Petty FRS was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. He first became prominent serving Oliver Cromwell and Commonwealth in Ireland. He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers... |
28 November 1660 | 26 May 1623 - 16 December 1687 |
| Jean Andre Peyssonel | 5 February 1756 | 19 June 1694 - ? 23 December 1758 |
| Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer | 25 November 1897 | 9 March 1845 - 31 January 1920 |
| Leonard Bessemer Pfeil | 15 March 1951 | 14 March 1898 - 16 February 1969 |
| Baron Pfutschner | 23 March 1732 | fl 1732–1752 |
| John Delafield Phelps | 15 June 1815 | c 1765 - 19 December 1843 |
| Alexander Philip Wilson Philip | 11 May 1826 | 15 October 1770 - ? 1851 |
| Philip Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch.... |
3 May 1951 | Statute |
| James Charles Philip | 12 May 1921 | 13 February 1873 - 6 August 1941 |
| John Robert Philip | 21 March 1974 | 18 January 1927 - 26 June 1999 |
| Erasmus Philipps | 15 February 1727 | 8 November 1699 - 15 October 1743 |
| John Philipps | 23 December 1742 | 1701 - 23 June 1764 |
| Joseph Phillimore Joseph Phillimore Joseph Phillimore was an English civil lawyer and politician, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford from 1809.-Life:The eldest son of Joseph Phillimore, vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, by Mary, daughter of John Machin of Kensington, was born on 14 September 1775... |
13 February 1840 | 14 September 1775 - 24 January 1855 |
| Thomas Phillipps Thomas Phillipps Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet was an English antiquary and book collector who amassed the largest collection of manuscript material in the 19th century, due to his severe condition of bibliomania... |
20 April 1820 | 2 July 1792 - 6 February 1872 |
| Benjamin Phillips | 18 December 1834 | 1805 - 11 June 1861 |
| Charles Phillips | 5 March 1829 | |
| Charles Garrett Phillips | 21 March 1963 | 13 October 1916 - 9 September 1994 |
| David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere David Chilton Phillips David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS is considered to be a founding father of the now expanding field of structural biology and was an influential figure in science and government... |
16 March 1967 | 8 March 1924 - 23 February 1999 |
| John Phillips John Phillips (geologist) John Phillips FRS was an English geologist.- Life and work :Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire... |
10 April 1834 | 25 December 1800 - 24 April 1874 |
| John Arthur Phillips John Arthur Phillips John Arthur Phillips was a British geologist. He was born at Polgooth, near St Austell in Cornwall the son of John Phillips, who at one time was occupied as a mineral agent, and of Prudence Gaved of Tregian, St Ewe.... |
2 June 1881 | 19 February 1822 - 4 January 1887 |
| John Guest Phillips | 19 March 1981 | 13 June 1933 - 14 March 1987 |
| Owen Martin Phillips | 21 March 1968 | 30 December 1930 - 13 October 2010 Earth Scientist, John Hopkins |
| Richard Phillips Richard Phillips (chemist) Richard Phillips , was distinguished as a British chemist, and became fellow of the Royal Society in 1822. He was born in Lombard Street, London on 21 November 1778, married Ann Rickman on 14 April 1807 and died 11 May 1851 in Camberwell, being buried in Norwood Cemetery... |
14 March 1822 | 1778 - 11 May 1851 |
| Thomas Phillips Thomas Phillips Thomas Phillips was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the great men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers.-Life and work:... |
28 January 1819 | 18 October 1770 - 20 April 1845 |
| William Phillips William Phillips (geologist) William Phillips FRS was an English mineralogist and geologist.Phillips was the son of James Phillips, printer and bookseller in London. He became interested in mineralogy and geology, and was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London... |
15 November 1827 | 10 May 1775 - 2 April 1828 |
| Augustus Phipps | 5 March 1812 | 1762–1826 |
| Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave, PC was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years War and the American War of Independence, seeing action in a number of battles and engagements... |
12 December 1771 | May 1744 - 10 October 1792 |
| Giuseppe Piazzi Giuseppe Piazzi Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S... |
12 April 1804 | 16 July 1746 - 22 July 1826 |
| Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Octavius Pickard-Cambridge The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848... |
9 June 1887 | 3 November 1828 - 9 March 1917 |
| Robert Howson Pickard | 3 May 1917 | 27 September 1874 - 18 October 1949 |
| Thomas Gerald Pickavance | 18 March 1976 | 19 October 1915 - 12 November 1991 |
| Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering Percival Spencer Umfreville Pickering was a British chemist and horticulturist.Pickering grew up in a wealthy family, and was able to start a career in science by building his own laboratory in his private house. In 1881, he took up a position as lecturer at Bedford College, where he stayed until... |
5 June 1890 | 6 March 1858 - 5 December 1920 |
| Roger Pickering | 10 May 1744 | c 1720 - 18 May 1755 |
| George White Pickering | 24 March 1960 | 26 June 1904 - 3 September 1980 |
| Jeremy David Pickett-Heaps | 9 March 1995 | |
| George Richard Pickett | 15 May 1997 | |
| John Anthony Pickett | 14 March 1996 | |
| Lillian Mary Pickford | 17 March 1966 | 14 August 1902 – 14 August 2002 |
| Marie Joseph Louis d'Albert d'Ailly Picquigny Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly , seventh Duke of Chaulnes and son of Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, was a chemist and French aristocrat.-Biography:At the death of his father in 1769, Louis Joseph inherited the title of Duke of Picquigny... |
15 March 1764 | 1741–1793 |
| Marc-Auguste Pictet Marc-Auguste Pictet Marc-Auguste Pictet was a physicist, chemist, meteorologist and astronomer from Geneva, Switzerland.Pictet's scientific research was far ranging, but leaning towards natural sciences, such as astronomy [In honour to his researches, a crater of the Moon has been called by his name. ], chronometry,... |
5 May 1791 | 23 July 1752 - 19 April 1825 |
| Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, PC, FRS was an English peer, the son of the Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull.-Career:... |
20 May 1663 | March 1607 - December 1680 Original |
| Arthur Leary Piggott | 18 January 1787 | 19 October 1749 - 6 September 1819 |
| Jacobus Pighius | 29 April 1680 | 1647 - ? December 1682 |
| Thomas Pigot | 18 December 1679 | 1657 - 14 August 1686 |
| Granado Pigott | 2 June 1774 | |
| Nathaniel Pigott Nathaniel Pigott Nathaniel Pigott was an English astronomer, noted for his observations of eclipses, a transit of Venus and a transit of Mercury, and comets... |
16 January 1772 | 1725 - 30 May 1804 |
| Edward Roy Pike | 19 March 1981 | |
| Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim | 18 March 1943 | 24 December 1875 - 15 September 1943 |
| Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington | 20 March 1969 | 7 January 1920 - 5 May 1995 |
| Colin Trevor Pillinger Colin Pillinger Colin Trevor Pillinger, CBE, is a planetary scientist at the Open University in the UK. He was the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and has done much work studying a group of Martian meteorites.In May 2005 Pillinger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.-Early... |
11 March 1993 | |
| Alfred John Sutton Pippard Alfred Pippard Alfred John Sutton Pippard MBE FRS was a British civil engineer and academic. Pippard was the son of a carpenter and joiner and spent much of his early life helping his father on construction sites... |
18 March 1954 | 6 April 1891 - 2 November 1969 |
| Alfred Brian Pippard | 15 March 1956 | |
| Norman Wingate Pirie | 17 March 1949 | 1 July 1907 - 29 March 1997 |
| David Pitcairn | 11 April 1782 | 1 May 1749 - 17 April 1809 |
| William Pitcairn William Pitcairn William Pitcairn was a British physician.He was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1775 to 1784.-References:... |
10 May 1770 | 1711 - 25 November 1791 |
| Alexander Pitfeild | 19 November 1684 | ? 5 May 1658 - 19 October 1728 |
| Henri Pitot Henri Pitot Henri Pitot was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the Pitot tube.He became interested in studying the flow of water at various depths and was responsible for disproving the prevailing belief that speed of water increases with depth.In a Pitot tube the height of the fluid column is... |
13 November 1740 | 31 May 1695 - 27 December 1771 |
| Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers Augustus Pitt Rivers Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at... |
1 June 1876 | 14 April 1827 - 4 May 1900 |
| Rosalind Venetia Pitt-Rivers | 18 March 1954 | 4 March 1907 - 14 January 1990 |
| John Pitt | 9 November 1775 | ? 1706–1787 |
| Robert Pitt | 20 December 1682 | 1653 - ? 13 January 1713 |
| Harry Raymond Pitt | 21 March 1957 | 3 June 1914 - 8 October 2005 |
| William Morton Pitt | 25 January 1787 | 17 May 1754 - 28 February 1836 |
| William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC was a British Whig statesman who led Britain during the Seven Years' War... |
26 January 1744 | 15 November 1708 - 11 May 1778 |
| Andrew Joseph Planta | 15 March 1770 | |
| Joseph Planta Joseph Planta (librarian) Joseph Planta FRS , aka Joseph von Planta, was a librarian of Swiss origin who moved to London and became the Principal Librarian of the British Museum.... |
17 February 1774 | 22 February 1744 - 3 December 1827 (Librarian) |
| Harry Hemley Plaskett Harry Hemley Plaskett Harry Hemley Plaskett was a Canadian astronomer who made significant contributions to the fields of solar physics, astronomical spectroscopy and spectrophotometry... |
7 May 1936 | 5 July 1893 - 26 January 1980 |
| John Stanley Plaskett John Stanley Plaskett John Stanley Plaskett FRS was a Canadian astronomer.He worked as a machinist, and was offered a job as a mechanician at the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, constructing apparatuses and assisting with demonstrations during lectures... |
3 May 1923 | 17 November 1865 - 17 October 1941 |
| Joshua Platt | 23 December 1762 | c 1696 - 26 December 1776 |
| Trevor Charles Platt | 14 May 1998 | |
| Thomas Platts-Mills Thomas Platts-Mills Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, FRS served as President of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology from March 2006 to March 2007. He is Professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Virginia and has been head of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology since... |
14 July 2010 | |
| Thomas Player | 27 November 1673 | |
| John Playfair John Playfair John Playfair FRSE, FRS was a Scottish scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is perhaps best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth , which summarized the work of James Hutton... |
5 February 1807 | 10 March 1748 - 20 July 1819 |
| Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair GCB, PC, FRS was a Scottish scientist and Liberal politician.-Background and education:... |
9 June 1848 | 21 May 1818 - 29 May 1898 |
| Edward Pleydell-Bouverie Edward Pleydell-Bouverie Edward Pleydell-Bouverie PC, FRS , styled The Honourable from 1828, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of Lord Palmerston's first administration as Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1855 and as President of the Poor Law Board between 1855 and... |
19 February 1863 | 26 April 1818 - 16 December 1889 |
| Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor FRS FSA was a British nobleman, styled Hon. Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie from 1761 to 1765 and Viscount Folkestone from 1765 to 1776.-Life:... |
12 February 1795 | 4 March 1750 - 27 January 1828 |
| Henry George Plimmer | 5 May 1910 | 29 January 1856 - 22 June 1918 |
| Robert Plot Robert Plot Robert Plot was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.... |
6 December 1677 | ? December 1640 - 30 April 1696 |
| Gordon David Plotkin Gordon Plotkin Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS, FRSE is a Scottish computer scientist.Gordon Plotkin is best-known for his introduction of structural operational semantics and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics of 1981 were very influential... |
12 March 1992 | |
| William Henry Chicheley Plowden | 15 April 1847 | ? 21 April 1787 - 29 March 1880 |
| Walter Plowright Walter Plowright Walter Plowright, CMG, FRS, FRCVS was an English veterinary scientist who devoted his career to the eradication of the cattle plague rinderpest.... |
19 March 1981 | 23 July 1923 - 19 February 2010 Microbiologist |
| Raymond Alan Plumb | 14 May 1998 | |
| Thomas Plumer Thomas Plumer Sir Thomas Plumer MR was a British judge and politician , the first Vice Chancellor of England and later Master of the Rolls.... |
6 March 1794 | 10 October 1753 - 24 March 1824 |
| Henry Crozier Keating Plummer Henry Crozier Keating Plummer Henry Crozier Keating Plummer FRS was an English astronomer.-Early years and education:Born in Oxford, Plummer was the son of William Edward Plummer and nephew of the distinguished astronomer John Isaac Plummer. He gained his education at St. Edward's School and then Hertford College... |
13 May 1920 | 24 October 1875 - 30 September 1946 |
| Henry Plumptre | 1 December 1707 | |
| Horace Curzon Plunkett Horace Curzon Plunkett Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett PC, KCVO, FRS, DL, JP , was an Anglo-Irish unionist, an agricultural reformer, dedicated idealist and pioneer of agricultural co-operation, politician, Member of Parliament and author.... |
19 June 1902 | 24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932 |
| Thomas Pockley | 11 September 1661 | |
| Henry Cabourn Pocklington Henry Cabourn Pocklington Henry Cabourn Pocklington was an English physicist and mathematician. His primary profession was as a schoolmaster, but he has made important contributions to number theory with the discovery of Pocklington's primality test in 1914.-References:... |
2 May 1907 | 28 January 1870 - 15 May 1952 |
| Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed... |
4 May 1911 | 4 March 1863 - 9 August 1947 |
| George Pocock | 10 March 1791 | 15 October 1765 - 14 July 1840 MP Bridgwater |
| Thomas Pocock | 22 February 1727 | 15 June 1672–1745 Clergyman |
| Richard Pococke Richard Pococke Richard Pococke was an English prelate and anthropologist. He was Protestant Bishop of Ossory and Meath , both dioceses of the Church of Ireland... |
11 February 1742 | 1704 - September 1765 |
| Martin Odlanicky Poczobut | 30 May 1771 | 31 October 1728 - 8 February 1810 |
| Joseph Louis de Podmanctzky | 8 June 1780 | fl 1780–1826 |
| Simeon Denis Poisson Siméon Denis Poisson Siméon Denis Poisson , was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. He however, was the final leading opponent of the wave theory of light as a member of the elite l'Académie française, but was proven wrong by Augustin-Jean Fresnel.-Biography:... |
12 March 1818 | 21 June 1781 - 25 April 1840 |
| Pierre Isaac Poissonnier | 2 June 1774 | 5 July 1720 - 15 September 1798 |
| Paul Emanuel Polani | 15 March 1973 | |
| John Charles Polanyi John Charles Polanyi John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at Manchester University, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and... |
18 March 1971 | chemist, Nobel Prize (1986) |
| Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi, FRS was a Hungarian–British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and the theory of knowledge... |
16 March 1944 | 13 March 1891 - 22 February 1976, chemist and philosopher |
| Reginald Pole-Carew Reginald Pole Carew Reginald Pole Carew was a British politician.Rt. Hon. Reginald Pole-Carew was born 28 July 1753, the son of Reginald Pole and Anne Buller. He lived at Antony House, Cornwall.-Career:... |
24 April 1788 | 28 July 1753 - 3 January 1835 |
| Charles Morice Pole Charles Morice Pole Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet naval officer and colonial governor born England and died Denham Abbey, Hertfordshire, England.... |
29 May 1800 | 18 January 1757 - 6 September 1830 |
| William Pole William Pole William Pole was an English engineer.He was a man of many accomplishments. Having spent his earlier years in various engineering occupations in England, he went out to India in 1844 as professor of engineering at Elphinstone College, Bombay, where he had to first organize the course of instruction... |
6 June 1861 | 22 April 1814 - 30 December 1900 |
| William Pole | 9 April 1829 | 6 July 1798 - 29 July 1884 Barrister |
| Giovanni, Marquis Poleni | 30 November 1710 | 23 August 1683 - ? 14 November 1761 |
| Richard Poley | 15 April 1725 | |
| Ernest John Christopher Polge | 17 March 1983 | 16 August 1926 – 17 August 2006 |
| Joseph Poli | 6 May 1779 | ? 24 October 1746 - 7 April 1825 |
| Martyn Poliakoff Martyn Poliakoff Martyn Poliakoff CBE FRS is a British chemist, working on gaining insights into fundamental chemistry and also on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials. The core themes of his work are supercritical fluids , infrared spectroscopy and lasers. He is a Research Professor in... |
9 May 2002 | |
| John Charlton Polkinghorne John Polkinghorne John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS is an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. He was professor of Mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1979, when he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest... |
21 March 1974 | |
| James Arthur Pollock James Arthur Pollock James Arthur Pollock, FRS, was an Irish-born physicist, active in Australia.Born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland and educated in England, in 1885 Pollock moved to Australia followed with by his family... |
11 May 1916 | 17 November 1865 - 24 May 1922 |
| Martin Rivers Pollock | 15 March 1962 | 10 December 1914 - 21 December 1999 |
| David Pollock | 9 April 1829 | 2 September 1780 - 22 May 1847 |
| Jonathan Frederick Pollock Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet PC , was a British lawyer and Tory politician.-Background and education:... |
29 February 1816 | 23 September 1783 - 23 August 1870 |
| Allan Pollok | 22 January 1767 | |
| Arthur Pond Arthur Pond Arthur Pond was an English painter and engraver.-Life:Born about 1705, was educated in London, and stayed for a time in Rome studying art, in company with the sculptor Roubiliac. He became a successful portrait-painter.... |
28 May 1752 | c 1705 - 9 September 1758 Portrait Painter |
| John Pond John Pond John Pond FRS was a renowned English astronomer who became the sixth Astronomer Royal, serving from 1811 to 1835.- Biography :... |
26 February 1807 | 1767 - 7 September 1836 |
| Bruce Anthony John Ponder | 10 May 2001 | |
| Michael Poniatowski | 31 March 1791 | 1736 - 12 August 1794 Royal |
| Stanislaus Augustus Pontiatowsky, King of Poland | 11 December 1766 | 1733 - 12 February 1798 Royal Fellow |
| William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley William Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley William Francis Spencer Ponsonby, 1st Baron de Mauley was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1826 and 1837... |
2 February 1832 | 31 July 1787 - 16 May 1855 |
| Guido Pontecorvo Guido Pontecorvo Guido Pontecorvo ForMemRS was an Italian-born geneticist.-Career:He fled to Britain in 1938.* Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh, 1938-40 and 1944-45... |
17 March 1955 | 29 November 1907 - 25 September 1999 |
| Edward Poore | 9 July 1772 | 1745–1803 |
| William Jackson Pope William Jackson Pope William Jackson Pope FRS was an English chemist. He studied crystallography under H. A. Miers and became deeply interested in it. In all his earlier researches much of his work was devoted to securing crystallographic data, and the hours he spent in the dark room with his goniometer were probably... |
5 June 1902 | ? 31 March 1870 - 17 October 1939 |
| Stephen Bailey Pope | 17 May 2007 | |
| Walter Pope Walter Pope Walter Pope was an English astronomer and poet. He was born in Northamptonshire and was the half brother of John Wilkins, who would become bishop of Chester. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, with a BA in 1649, MA in 1651... |
20 May 1663 | c 1627 - 25 June 1714 Original |
| Home Riggs Popham Home Riggs Popham Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham KCB was a British Royal Naval Commander who saw service during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars... |
18 April 1799 | 12 October 1762 - 10 September 1820 |
| George Joseph Popjak | 16 March 1961 | 5 May 1914 - 30 December 1998 |
| John Anthony Pople | 16 March 1961 | 31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004 |
| Karl Raimund Popper Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS FBA was an Austro-British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics... |
17 June 1976 | 29 July 1902 - 17 September 1994 Statute, philosopher of science |
| Henry Popple | 28 April 1737 | |
| Robert Porrett | 9 June 1848 | 22 September 1783 - 25 November 1868 |
| Alfred William Porter | 4 May 1911 | 12 November 1863 - 11 January 1939 |
| George Richardson Porter | 18 January 1838 | 29 June 1790 - 3 September 1852 |
| George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham George Porter George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry... |
24 March 1960 | 6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002 |
| Helen Kemp Porter | 15 March 1956 | 10 November 1899 - 7 December 1987 |
| James Porter | 11 May 1749 | 1710 - 9 December 1776 Diplomat and mathemaatician |
| Rodney Robert Porter Rodney Robert Porter Rodney Robert Porter, FRS was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate.Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences degree from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry. He moved to the University of Cambridge where... |
19 March 1964 | 8 October 1917 - 6 September 1985 |
| Joseph Ellison Portlock Joseph Ellison Portlock Major-General Joseph Ellison Portlock was born at Gosport and was a British geologist and soldier, the only son of Nathaniel Portlock, and a captain in the Royal Navy.... |
8 June 1837 | 30 September 1794 - 14 February 1864 |
| Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1690.... |
28 December 1664 | 5 September 1643 - 20 March 1690 |
| Benito de Moura Portuga | 5 February 1741 | 1702–1776 |
| Adrian Frank Posnette | 18 March 1971 | 11 January 1914 – 17 July 2004 |
| George Henry Poste | 15 May 1997 | |
| John Raymond Postgate | 17 March 1977 | |
| James Postlethwayt | 7 February 1754 | |
| Percivall Pott Percivall Pott Sir Percivall Pott London, England) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedy, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.-Life:... |
5 April 1764 | 6 January 1714 - 22 December 1788 |
| Edmund Potter Edmund Potter Edmund Potter senior , was a Manchester industrialist and MP and grandfather to Beatrix Potter.He was a unitarian and, from 1861 to 1874, Liberal MP for Carlisle. Potter moved his business to Glossop in 1825, he rebuilt Joseph Lyne's Boggart Mill, and converted it to a printworks. He moved his... |
5 June 1856 | 1802 - 26 October 1883 |
| Francis Potter Francis Potter Francis Potter was an English clergyman, Biblical commentator, and experimenter, an early Fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:He was second son of Richard Potter , prebendary of Worcester, and his wife, who belonged to the Horsey family of Clifton, Dorset. He was born at Mere vicarage on 29 May... |
18 March 1663 | 29 May 1594 - April 1678 |
| Thomas Potter | 16 December 1784 | 1740 - 14 November 1801 |
| John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett KG was the son of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett and his wife Susan Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke.... |
29 January 1713 | ? 1668 - 28 May 1743 |
| Edward Bagnall Poulton Edward Bagnall Poulton Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection... |
6 June 1889 | 27 January 1856 - 20 November 1943 |
| James Pound James Pound -Life:He was the son of John Pound, of Bishop's Canning, Wiltshire, where he was born . He matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on 16 March 1687; graduated B.A. from Hart Hall on 27 February 1694, and M.A... |
20 December 1699 | 1669 - 16 November 1724 |
| Kenneth Alwyne Pounds Ken Pounds Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE, FRS is Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Leicester.He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, then attended University College London where he gained his BSc and PhD. He then moved to Leicester as Assistant Lecturer in 1960... |
19 March 1981 | |
| Thomas Povey Thomas Povey Thomas Povey FRS, was a London merchant-politician who was active in colonial affairs from the 1650s, but neutral enough in his politics to be named a member from 1660 of Charles II's Council for Foreign Plantations, making him a powerful figure in the not-yet professionalized First English... |
20 May 1663 | c 1615 - c 1702 Original |
| Alan Richard Powell | 19 March 1953 | 6 March 1894 - 11 October 1975 |
| Baden Powell Baden Powell (mathematician) Baden Powell, MA, FRS, FRGS was an English mathematician and Church of England priest. He was also prominent as a liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860... |
13 May 1824 | 22 August 1796 - 11 June 1860 |
| Cecil Frank Powell Cecil Frank Powell Cecil Frank Powell, FRS was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion , a heavy subatomic particle.Powell was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England, the son of a local... |
17 March 1949 | 5 December 1903 - 9 August 1969 |
| Herbert Marcus Powell | 19 March 1953 | 7 August 1906 - 10 March 1991 |
| Michael James David Powell | 17 March 1983 | |
| Thomas Philip Stroud Powell | 16 March 1978 | 14 July 1923 - 8 February 1996 |
| William Samuel Powell | 16 February 1764 | 27 September 1717 - 19 January 1775 |
| Henry Power Henry Power Henry Power was an English physician and experimenter, one of the first elected Fellows of the Royal Society.-Life:He matriculated as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1641, and graduated B.A. in 1644. He became a regular correspondent of Sir Thomas Browne on scientific subjects. He... |
1 July 1663 | 1623 - 23 December 1668 |
| Philip Power Philip Power Philip P. Power FRS, is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of California, Davis.-Education:Philip Power obtained a B.A. from University of Dublin in 1974 and a Ph.D. from University of Sussex in 1977 . He gained a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University... |
26 May 2005 | |
| William Henry Power William Henry Power Sir William Henry Power was a British medical doctor. He was Chief Medical Officer of England from 1900 to 1908, and in 1907 he was awarded the Buchanan Medal.... |
13 June 1895 | 15 December 1842 - 28 July 1916 |
| Henry Powle Henry Powle Henry Powle was Speaker of the House of Commons of England from January 1689 to February 1689. He was also Master of the Rolls and represented the constituency of Windsor... |
20 May 1663 | ? October 1630 - 21 November 1692 Original |
| Richard Powle Richard Powle Richard Powle was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1678.Richard was born at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire in 1628, the eldest son of Henry Powle, who was Sheriff for Berkshire in 1633, by his wife Katherine, daughter of Matthew Herbert of Monmouth in Monmouthshire... |
20 May 1663 | ? July 1628 - ? July 1678 Original |
| Thomas Pownall Thomas Pownall Thomas Pownall was a British politician and colonial official. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1758 to 1760, and afterward served in the British Parliament. He traveled widely in the North American colonies prior to the American Revolutionary War, and opposed... |
9 April 1772 | 1723 - 25 February 1805 |
| Littleton Powys | 30 November 1724 | c 1648 - 16 March 1732 |
| John Henry Poynting John Henry Poynting John Henry Poynting was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College from 1880 until his death.... |
7 June 1888 | 9 September 1852 - 30 March 1914 |
| David Prain David Prain Sir David Prain FRS was a Scottish botanist.-Biography:Prain was born to a saddler in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland and studied at the local Parish Schhool and the University of Aberdeen. He taught for two years at Ramsgate College and then returned to Scotland to enter the University of... |
11 May 1905 | 11 July 1857 - 16 March 1944 |
| Ghillean Tolmie Prance | 11 March 1993 | |
| Benjamin Pratt | 7 April 1708 | |
| Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden... |
8 April 1742 | ? March 1714 - 18 April 1794 |
| John Henry Pratt John Henry Pratt John Henry Pratt was a British clergyman and mathematician who devised a theory of crustal balance which would become the basis for the isostasy principle.-Life:... |
7 June 1866 | 4 June 1809 - 28 December 1871 |
| Samuel Peace Pratt | 27 January 1842 | 6 November 1789 - 22 September 1863 |
| William Henry Preece William Henry Preece Sir William Henry Preece was a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor. Preece relied on experiments and physical reasoning in his life's work. Upon his retirement from the Post Office in 1899, Preece was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath .-Biography:Preece was born in Caernarfon ,... |
2 June 1881 | 16 February 1834 - 6 November 1913 |
| David Preiss David Preiss David Preiss is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick and the winner of the 2008 LMS Pólya Prize for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space.David Preiss is... |
27 May 2004 | |
| Vladimir Prelog Vladimir Prelog Vladimir Prelog FRS was a Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Prelog lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich during his lifetime.-Biography:... |
3 May 1962 | 23 July 1906 - 6 January 1998 |
| James Arthur Prescott James Arthur Prescott James Arthur Prescott, CBE, FRS, was an agricultural scientist.Prescott was born in England, educated at the University of Manchester achieving Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in 1911... |
15 March 1951 | 8 October 1890 - 6 February 1987 |
| Jacob Preston | 17 June 1773 | |
| Reginald Dawson Preston | 18 March 1954 | 21 July 1908 - 3 May 2000 |
| Thomas Preston Thomas Preston (scientist) Thomas Preston was an Irish scientist whose research was concerned with heat, magnetism, and spectroscopy. He established empirical rules for the analysis of spectral lines, which remain associated with his name... |
9 June 1898 | 23 May 1860 - 7 March 1900 |
| William Preston | 25 June 1778 | |
| Joseph Prestwich Joseph Prestwich Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.... |
2 June 1853 | 12 March 1812 - 23 June 1896 |
| Bartholomew Price Bartholomew Price Bartholomew Price was an English mathematician and educator.He was born at Coln St Denis, Gloucestershire, in 1818. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845... |
3 June 1852 | 14 May 1818 - 29 December 1898 |
| James Price | 10 May 1781 | 1752 - ? 8 August 1783 |
| Richard Price Richard Price Richard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the... |
5 December 1765 | 24 February 1723 - 19 April 1791 |
| Richard Parry Price | 3 May 1781 | 1738 - 14 May 1782 |
| Thomas Slater Price | 15 May 1924 | 24 August 1875 - 29 October 1949 |
| William Price William Price -In politics:*William Price , Canadian politician*William Price , British Labour MP for Rugby, 1966–1979*William Price , British MP for Merioneth*William C... |
22 March 1753 | fl 1752–1771 |
| William Charles Price | 19 March 1959 | 1 April 1909 - 10 March 1993 |
| William Geraint Price | 17 March 1988 | |
| James Cowles Prichard James Cowles Prichard James Cowles Prichard MD FRS was an English physician and ethnologist. His influential Researches into the physical history of mankind touched upon the subject of evolution... |
8 February 1827 | 12 February 1786 - ? 23 December 1848 |
| Benjamin Prideaux | 11 December 1746 | |
| Eric Ronald Priest Eric Priest Eric Priest, FRSE, FRS, holds the Gregory Chair of Mathematics and is a Bishop Wardlaw Professor at St Andrews University.... |
9 May 2002 | |
| Charles Henry Brian Priestley | 16 March 1967 | 8 July 1915 - 18 May 1998 |
| Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works... |
12 June 1766 | 14 March 1733 - 6 February 1804 |
| Samuel Prime | 21 March 1776 | fl 1776–1788 |
| Archibald John Primose, 4th Earl of Rosebery Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery Sir Archibald John Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery KT, PC, FRS was a British Member of Parliament.Archibald Primrose was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, gaining his MA in 1804... |
1 April 1819 | 14 October 1783 - 4 March 1868 |
| Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | 10 June 1886 | 7 May 1847 - 21 May 1929 |
| John William Sutton Pringle John William Sutton Pringle Sir John William Sutton Pringle FRS was a British zoologist. His research interests were in insect physiology, especially proprioception, flight muscle, and cicada song.... |
18 March 1954 | 22 July 1912 - 2 November 1982 |
| Robert Pringle | 28 April 1785 | |
| John Pringle John Pringle Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, FRS was a Scottish physician who has been called the "father of military medicine" .... |
31 October 1745 | 10 April 1707 - 18 January 1782 |
| James Prinsep James Prinsep James Prinsep was an Anglo-Indian scholar and antiquary. He was the seventh son of John Prinsep, a wealthy East India merchant and Member of Parliament.... |
20 November 1828 | 1799 - 22 April 1840 |
| George Thurland Prior George Thurland Prior George Thurland Prior FRS was a British mineralogist. He made great contribution on mineralogical chemistry and petrology, and on meteorites.... |
2 May 1912 | 16 December 1862 - 8 March 1936 |
| Matthew Prior Matthew Prior Matthew Prior was an English poet and diplomat.Prior was the son of a Nonconformist joiner at Wimborne Minster, East Dorset. His father moved to London, and sent him to Westminster School, under Dr. Busby. On his father's death, he left school, and was cared for by his uncle, a vintner in Channel... |
23 March 1698 | 21 July 1664 - 18 September 1721 |
| Charles Pritchard Charles Pritchard Charles Pritchard was a British astronomer.He was born at Alberbury, Shropshire. At sixteen he was enrolled as a sizar at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1830 as fourth wrangler. In 1832 he was elected a fellow of his college, and in the following year he was ordained, and became head... |
6 February 1840 | 30 February 1808 - 28 May 1893 |
| Joseph Privat de Molières | 16 January 1729 | 1677 - 12 May 1742 |
| Henry Proby | 20 May 1663 | fl 1646–1664 Original |
| John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort | 4 February 1779 | 12 August 1751 - 7 April 1828 |
| Henry Richardson Procter | 3 May 1923 | 6 May 1848 - 17 August 1927 |
| Michael Richard Edward Proctor | 18 May 2006 | |
| Nicholas Jarvis Proudfoot | 26 May 2005 | |
| Joseph Proudman Joseph Proudman Joseph Proudman , CBE, FRS was a distinguished British mathematician and oceanographer of international repute... |
7 May 1925 | 30 December 1888 - 26 June 1975 |
| William Prout William Prout William Prout FRS was an English chemist, physician, and natural theologian. He is remembered today mainly for what is called Prout's hypothesis.-Biography:... |
11 March 1819 | 15 January 1785 - 9 April 1850 |
| Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 15 March 1951 | 24 January 1913 – 24 July 2003 |
| Abraham de la Pryme Abraham de la Pryme Abraham de la Pryme was an English antiquary.Abraham de la Pryme was born to Huguenot parents, Matthias de la Pryme and Sarah Smague at Hatfield in 1671... |
18 March 1702 | 15 January 1672 - 13 June 1704 |
| Richard John Puddephatt | 14 May 1998 | |
| William John Pugh | 15 March 1951 | 28 July 1892 - 18 March 1974 |
| Alfred Grenville Pugsley | 20 March 1952 | 13 May 1903 - 7 March 1998 |
| Moise Pujolas | 18 December 1695 | |
| Richard Pulteney Richard Pulteney Richard Pulteney was an English physician and botanist. He was a promoter of Linnaean taxonomy, and authored the first English language biography of Carl Linnaeus, entitled A General View of the Writings of Linnaeus. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, and a school house was named... |
25 November 1762 | 18 February 1730 - 13 October 1801 |
| William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, PC was an English politician, a Whig, created the first Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II; he is sometimes stated to have been Prime Minister, for the shortest term ever , though most modern sources reckon that he cannot be considered to have held the... |
15 November 1744 | 22 March 1684 - ? 8 July 1764 |
| Richard Julius Pumphrey | 16 March 1950 | 3 September 1906 - 25 August 1967 |
| Reginald Crundall Punnett | 2 May 1912 | 20 June 1875 - 3 January 1967 |
| Thomas Purdie | 13 June 1895 | 27 January 1843 - 14 December 1916 |
| Apollon Moussin Puschkin | 14 November 1799 | |
| Peter Nicholas Pusey | 14 March 1996 | |
| Philip Pusey Philip Pusey Philip Pusey was a reforming agriculturalist, a Tory Member of Parliament and a friend and follower of Sir Robert Peel.... |
27 May 1830 | 25 June 1799 - 9 July 1855 |
| Henry Putman | 8 January 1767 | |
| Philip Henry Pye-Smith Philip Henry Pye-Smith Philip Henry Pye-Smith was a physician, medical scientist and educator. His interest was physiology, specialising in skin diseases.... |
4 June 1886 | 30 August 1839 - 23 May 1914 |
| David Randall Pye David Randall Pye Sir David Randall Pye CB FRS was a British mechanical engineer and academic administrator.Pye was born in Hampstead, London and educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.He was appointed CB in 1937;... |
6 May 1937 | 30 April 1886 - 20 February 1960 |
| Sir Robert Pye | 11 January 1727 | c 1696 - 23 May 1734 |
| John Adrian Pyle | 27 May 2004 | |
| Frank Lee Pyman Frank Lee Pyman Frank Lee Pyman was an English academic and commercial research chemist.Pyman was born in Malvern, the eldest son of Frank Pyman and his wife Florence Lee, daughter of Henry Lee MP for Southampton. Pyman was a grandson of George Pyman. He studied at University of Manchester and graduated with his... |
11 May 1922 | 9 April 1882 - 1 January 1944 |
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| Name | Election Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Quain | 29 February 1844 | July 1800 - 15 September 1887 |
| Sir Richard Quain | 8 June 1871 | 30 October 1816 - 13 March 1898 |
| Juda Hirsch Quastel Juda Hirsch Quastel Juda Hirsch Quastel, CC, FRS, FRSE was a British-Canadian biochemist who pioneered diverse research in neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cellular metabolism, and cancer.... |
14 March 1940 | 2 October 1899 - 16 October 1987, biochemist |
| William Quatremain | 20 May 1663 | c 1618 - ? June 1667 Original |
| John Rodney Quayle | 16 March 1978 | |
| John Thomas Quekett John Thomas Quekett John Thomas Quekett was an English microscopist and histologist.Quekett studied medicine at the London Hospital in 1831. He became a licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.... |
7 June 1860 | 11 August 1815 - 20 August 1861 |
| François Quesnay François Quesnay François Quesnay was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats... |
28 May 1752 | ? 4 June 1694 - ? 16 December 1774 |
| Terence John Quinn | 9 May 2002 |
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| Name | Election Date | |
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| Terence Howard Rabbitts | 19 March 1987 | |
| Benton Seymour Rabinovitch | 19 March 1987 | |
| Robert Russell Race | 20 March 1952 | 28 November 1907 - 15 April 1984 geneticist |
| Thomas Rackett | 17 February 1803 | 1756 - 29 November 1840 |
| George Karoly Radda George Radda Professor Sir George Charles Radda was born in 1936 in Hungary. In 1956, he attended Merton College, Oxford to study chemistry. His early work was concerned with the development and use of fluorescent probes for the study of structure and function of membranes and enzymes... |
20 March 1980 | |
| Richard Rado Richard Rado Richard Rado FRS was a Jewish German mathematician. He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to... |
16 March 1978 | 28 April 1906 - 23 December 1989, combinatorics, graph theory |
| John Rae John Rae (explorer) John Rae was a Scottish doctor who explored Northern Canada, surveyed parts of the Northwest Passage and reported the fate of the Franklin Expedition.... |
3 June 1880 | 30 September 1813 - 22 July 1893 |
| Martin Charles Raff | 21 March 1985 | |
| Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles | 20 March 1817 | ? 5 July 1781 - 5 July 1826 |
| Michael Augustine Raftery | 20 March 1986 | |
| Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan Madabusi Santanam Raghunathan M. S. Raghunathan is a front rank Indian mathematician.He is professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair. Raghunathan received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from , University of Mumbai; his advisor was M. S... |
11 May 2000 | |
| Atta ur Rahman Atta ur Rahman Atta-ur-Rahman, D.Phil., TI, SI HI, NI, is a leading scientist and scholar in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan, especially renowned for his research in the various areas relating to natural product chemistry... |
18 May 2006 | |
| Matthew Raine | 17 February 1803 | 20 May 1760 - 17 September 1811 |
| Reginald Charles Rainey | 20 March 1975 | 18 June 1913 - 18 January 1990 |
| Peter Rainger | 18 March 1982 | |
| John Sprat Rainier | 28 January 1819 | |
| Charles Rainsford Charles Rainsford General Charles Rainsford was a British Army officer.-Career:He was the second son of alderman Francis Rainsford and his wife, Isabella and received his first education from a cleric friend of Francis's at Great Clacton... |
13 May 1779 | 4 February 1728 - 24 May 1809 |
| Geoffrey Raisman | 10 May 2001 | |
| Harold Raistrick | 3 May 1934 | 26 November 1890 - 8 March 1971 |
| Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran | 17 March 1977 | 8 October 1922 - 7 April 2001 |
| Robert Ramage | 12 March 1992 | |
| Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan | 11 May 2000 | |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 15 May 2003 | |
| Vulimiri Ramalingaswami Vulimiri Ramalingaswami Vulimiri Ramalingaswami was an Indian medical scientist.He was born to an orthodox Brahmin family of Southern India. His father was a lowly paid government servant. He received his medical education from Andhra Medical College and then went on a scholarship to Oxford... |
20 March 1986 | 8 August 1921 - 28 May 2001 |
| Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | 15 May 1924 | 7 November 1888 - 21 November 1970, Nobel Laureate in physics (1929) |
| Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan | 2 May 1918 | 22 December 1887 - 26 April 1920 |
| Arthur Alcock Rambaut Arthur Alcock Rambaut Arthur Alcock Rambaut was an Irish astronomer.-Life:Rambaut was born in County Waterford, Ireland, the third son of Rev. Edmund F. Rambaut, vicar of Christ Church, Blackrock, County Dublin. He was educated at Rathmines School, Dublin, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin, where he won a... |
14 June 1900 | 21 September 1859 - 14 October 1923 |
| Andrew Michael Ramsay Andrew Michael Ramsay Andrew Michael Ramsay , commonly called the Chevalier Ramsay, was a Scottish-born writer who lived most of his adult life in France. He was a Baronet in the Jacobite Peerage.... |
11 December 1729 | 9 July 1686 - 6 May 1743 |
| Donald Allan Ramsay | 16 March 1978 | |
| James Arthur Ramsay | 17 March 1955 | 6 September 1909 - 4 February 1988 Zoologist, Cambridge UNiv. |
| John Graham Ramsay John Graham Ramsay John Graham Ramsay is a British structural geologist. He went to Imperial College London and became a full professor in 1966. In the following year he published his first book, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, which garnered him attention in structural geology... |
15 March 1973 | |
| Andrew Crombie Ramsay | 7 June 1849 | 31 January 1814 - 9 December 1891 |
| William Ramsay William Ramsay Sir William Ramsay was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" .-Early years:Ramsay was born in Glasgow on 2... |
7 June 1888 | 2 October 1852 - 23 July 1916 |
| John Ramsbottom | 24 June 1819 | |
| Jesse Ramsden Jesse Ramsden Jesse Ramsden FRSE was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker.Ramsden was born at Salterhebble, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. After serving his apprenticeship with a cloth-worker in Halifax, he went in 1755 to London, where in 1758 he was apprenticed to a... |
12 January 1786 | 6 October 1735 - 5 November 1800 |
| John Ranby John Ranby -Life:The son of Joseph Ranby of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in Middlesex, an innholder, he put himself apprentice to Edward Barnard, foreign brother of the Company of Barber-Surgeons, on 5 April 1715. On 5 October 1722 he was examined on his skill in surgery... |
30 November 1724 | 1703 - 28 August 1773 |
| Isaac Rand Isaac Rand Isaac Rand was an English botanist and apothecary, who was a lecturer and director at the Chelsea Physic Garden.-Life:Isaac was probably son of James Rand, who in 1674 agreed, with thirteen other members of the Society of Apothecaries, to build a wall round the Chelsea Botanical Garden... |
5 November 1719 | 1674–1743 |
| John Turton Randall | 21 March 1946 | 23 March 1905 - 16 June 1984 |
| Philip John Randle | 17 March 1983 | 16 July 1926 – 26 September 2006 |
| John Randolph, Bishop of London | 19 December 1811 | 6 July 1749 - 28 July 1813 |
| Humphrey Peter Rang | 20 March 1980 | |
| Alexander Oliver Rankine | 3 May 1934 | 8 December 1881 - ? 19 January 1956 |
| William John Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson , to the science of thermodynamics.... |
2 June 1853 | 5 July 1820 - 24 December 1872 |
| William Henry Ransom | 2 June 1870 | 19 November 1824 - 16 April 1907 |
| Arthur Ransome Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects... |
12 June 1884 | 12 February 1834 - 25 July 1922 |
| Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao | 16 March 1967 | |
| Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao | 18 March 1982 | |
| Henry Stanley Raper | 2 May 1929 | 5 March 1882 - 12 December 1951 |
| Matthew Raper Matthew Raper Matthew Raper was a British astronomer, mathematician, and scholar in various fields. He published papers on diverse subjects, including ancient Greek coinage and Roman currency, as well as their measures and their history from Greek and Latin texts.... |
30 May 1754 | |
| Matthew Raper | 6 March 1783 | 1742 - 26 November 1826 Antiquarian |
| Ralph Alexander Raphael Ralph Raphael Ralph Alexander Raphael FRS was a British organic chemist.He was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1957-1972, and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Professor of Organic Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Chemistry Ralph Alexander Raphael FRS (1 January 1921... |
15 March 1962 | 1 January 1921 - 27 April 1998 |
| Joseph Raphson Joseph Raphson Joseph Raphson was an English mathematician known best for the Newton–Raphson method. Little is known about his life, and even his exact years of birth and death are unknown, although the mathematical historian Florian Cajori provided the approximate dates 1648–1715. Raphson attended... |
30 November 1689 | |
| Philip Rashleigh Philip Rashleigh Philip Rashleigh FRS , antiquary and Cornish squire, eldest son of Jonathan Rashleigh, M.P. for Fowey in Cornwall , who married, on 11 June 1728, Mary, daughter of Sir William Clayton of Marden in Surrey, was born at Aldermanbury, London, 28 Dec.1729... |
29 May 1788 | 28 December 1729 - 26 June 1811, mineralogist |
| William Rashleigh | 15 December 1814 | 11 January 1777 - 14 May 1855 |
| Rudolf Eric Raspe | 1 June 1769 | 1737–1794 |
| John Urpeth Rastrick John Urpeth Rastrick John Urpeth Rastrick was one of the first English steam locomotive builders. In partnership with James Foster, he formed Foster, Rastrick and Company, the locomotive construction company that built the Stourbridge Lion in 1829 for export to the Delaware and Hudson Railroad in America.-Early... |
19 January 1837 | 26 January 1780 - 1 November 1856 |
| Cyrille Grigoryevitch Rasumousky | 24 April 1755 | 28 March 1726–1803 |
| John Ashworth Ratcliffe | 15 March 1951 | 12 December 1902 - 25 October 1987 |
| Peter John Ratcliffe | 9 May 2002 | |
| Joseph Raulin | 12 May 1763 | 19 March 1708 - 12 April 1784 |
| David Ravaud | 21 May 1747 | 28 September 1718 - 18 November 1776 |
| John Albert Raven | 15 March 1990 | |
| Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe Gordon Rawcliffe Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe FRS was a British electrical engineer and academic.-Life:Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe, whose father was an Anglican clergyman in Sheffield, was born on 2 June 1910, moving from Sheffield to Gloucester when he was two... |
16 March 1972 | 2 June 1910 - 3 September 1979 |
| Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings Francis Edward Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings KG PC , styled The Honourable Francis Rawdon from birth until 1762 and as The Lord Rawdon between 1762 and 1783 and known as The Earl of Moira between 1793 and 1816, was an Irish-British politician and military officer who served as... |
3 May 1787 | 9 December 1754 - 28 November 1826 |
| John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira , known as Sir John Rawdon, Bt, between 1724 and 1750 and as The Lord Rawdon between 1750 and 1762, was an Irish peer.-Background:... |
12 April 1744 | 17 March 1720 - 20 June 1793 |
| Giles Rawlins | 26 December 1660 | |
| Henry Creswicke Rawlinson | 6 June 1850 | 11 April 1810 - 5 March 1895 |
| Richard Rawlinson Richard Rawlinson Richard Rawlinson FRS was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, Oxford.-Life:... |
29 July 1714 | 3 January 1690 - 6 April 1755 |
| Thomas Rawlinson | 23 October 1712 | 25 March 1681 - 6 August 1725 London barrister |
| Walter Rawlinson | 30 March 1775 | |
| John Ray John Ray John Ray was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".He published important works on botany,... |
7 November 1667 | 29 November 1627 - 17 January 1705 |
| Robert Raymond, 2nd Baron Raymond | 7 February 1740 | c 1717 - 19 September 1756 |
| Guillaume Thomas Raynal Guillaume Thomas François Raynal Guillaume Thomas Raynal was a French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.He was born at Lapanouse in Rouergue... |
30 May 1754 | 12 April 1713 - 6 March 1796 |
| Edward Peter Raynes E. Peter Raynes Edward Peter Raynes MA , C. Phys, FInstP, FRS is Professor of Optoelectronic Engineering at the University of Oxford . He was, and continues to be, an early developer and advocate of liquid crystal displays .... |
19 March 1987 | |
| Geoffrey Vincent Raynor Geoffrey Raynor Geoffrey Vincent Raynor FRS was a British metallurgist and university academic.-Life:Raynor was educated at Nottingham High School before studying Chemistry at Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class degree in 1936... |
19 March 1959 | 2 October 1913 - 20 October 1983 |
| David John Read | 15 March 1990 | |
| Frank Henry Read | 15 March 1984 | |
| Herbert Harold Read Herbert Harold Read Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College... |
16 March 1939 | 17 December 1889 - 29 March 1970 |
| John Read | 16 May 1935 | 18 February 1884 - 21 January 1963 |
| Henry Reade | 21 January 1748 | 1716 - 13 December 1762 |
| Joseph Bancroft Reade Joseph Bancroft Reade Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade FRS was an English clergyman, amateur scientist and pioneer of photography.-Early life:... |
8 February 1838 | 5 April 1801 - 12 December 1870 |
| Robert Reading Robert Reading Sir Robert Reading, first and last Baronet Reading, built several privately owned lighthouses in Ireland under letters patent from Charles II of England.He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, receiving a BA in 1658.... |
2 November 1671 | c 1640 - ? March 1689 |
| Richard Edmund Reason | 18 March 1971 | 21 December 1903 - 20 March 1987 |
| Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur | 9 November 1738 | 29 February 1683 - ? 17 October 1757 |
| Giambattista Recanati | 30 June 1720 | 19 September 1687 - 16 or 17 November 1734 |
| Sigismund Ehrenreich Redern | 14 November 1765 | 1720 - 1 July 1789 |
| Roderick Oliver Redman Roderick Oliver Redman Roderick Oliver Redman FRS was Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.Roderick was born at Rodborough near Stroud, Gloucestershire and educated at Marling School and St John's College, Cambridge.... |
21 March 1946 | 17 July 1905 - 6 March 1975 |
| Edward James Reed Edward James Reed Sir Edward James Reed , KCB, FRS, was a British naval architect, author, politician, and railroad magnate. He was the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy from 1863 until 1870... |
1 June 1876 | 20 September 1830 - 30 November 1906 |
| Abraham Rees Abraham Rees Abraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopaedia .- Life :He was the second son of Lewis Rees, by his wife Esther, daughter of Abraham Penry, and was born at born in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire. Lewis Rees Abraham Rees (1743 – 9 June 1825) was a Welsh... |
1 June 1786 | 1743 - 9 June 1825 |
| Charles Wayne Rees | 21 March 1974 | 15 October 1927 – 21 September 2006 |
| David Rees David Rees (mathematician) David Rees ScD Cantab, FIMA, FRS is an emeritus professor of pure mathematics at the University of Exeter, having been head of the Mathematics / Mathematical Sciences Department at Exeter for many years.... |
21 March 1968 | |
| Florence Gwendolen Rees F. Gwendolen Rees Florence Gwendolen Rees, FRS was a British zoologist and parasitologist. Her career was at the Zoology Department of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she held positions of Assistant Lecturer , Lecturer , Senior Lecturer , Reader and Professor , becoming Professor Emeritus in... |
18 March 1971 | 3 July 1906 - 4 October 1994 |
| George Owen Rees | 2 February 1843 | November 1813 - 27 May 1889 |
| Hubert Rees Hubert Rees Hubert Rees was a Welsh character actor who had supporting roles in British television shows throughout the 1970s and 1980s.-Career:... |
18 March 1976 | |
| Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004... |
15 March 1979 | |
| David Allan Rees | 19 March 1981 | |
| Susan Mary Rees Mary Rees Susan Mary Rees, FRS is a British mathematician and a Professor of Mathematics at Liverpool University since 2002, specialising in research in complex dynamical systems.... |
9 May 2002 | |
| Colin Bernard Reese | 19 March 1981 | |
| John Reeves John Reeves (naturalist) John Reeves was an English naturalist. He developed a remarkable collection of Chinese drawings of animals and plants.Reeves was appointed Inspector of Tea for the British East India Company in 1808... |
12 June 1817 | 1 May 1774 - 22 March 1856 naturalist |
| John Reeves John Reeves John Reeves , was a British judge, public official and conservative activist. In 1792 he founded the Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers to campaign against the ideas of the French Revolution and their British supporters... |
18 March 1790 | ? 1752 - 7 August 1829 |
| John Russell Reeves | 6 February 1834 | 10 January 1804 - 1 May 1877 |
| Charles Tate Regan | 3 May 1917 | 2 February 1878 - 12 January 1943 |
| Edward Reich | 19 March 1981 | |
| Clement Reid Clement Reid Clement Reid FRS was a British geologist and palaeobotanist.He was born in London in 1853. His great uncle was Michael Faraday. His family circumstances meant he was largely self-taught but he was nonetheless able to join the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1874 and be employed in drawing up... |
1 June 1899 | 6 January 1853 - 10 December 1916 |
| Edward Waymouth Reid | 9 June 1898 | 11 October 1862 - 10 March 1948 |
| Kenneth Bannerman Milne Reid | 15 May 1997 | |
| Miles Anthony Reid Miles Reid Miles Reid is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.He studied mathematics at Cambridge University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Peter Swinnerton-Dyer and Pierre Deligne. He was a research fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1973 to 1978... |
9 May 2002 | |
| Thomas Reid | 18 December 1806 | |
| William Reid William Reid (British Army officer) Sir William Reid was a British soldier, administrator and meteorologist.He was born at Kinglassie, Fife and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.... |
21 February 1839 | 25 April 1791 - 31 October 1858 |
| Arnold William Reinold | 7 June 1883 | 19 June 1843 - 11 April 1921 |
| Ernest Frederick Relf | 7 May 1936 | 2 October 1888 - 25 |
| Richard Relhan Richard Relhan Richard Relhan was a botanist, a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and author of a renowned book about the plants around Cambridge.... |
6 December 1787 | 1754 - 28 March 1823 |
| James Meadows Rendel | 23 February 1843 | December 1799 - 21 November 1856 |
| Alfred Barton Rendle Alfred Barton Rendle Alfred Barton Rendle FRS was an English botanist.Rendle was born in Lewisham and studied at St John's College, Cambridge... |
6 May 1909 | 19 January 1865 - 11 January 1938 |
| James Rennell James Rennell Major James Rennell, FRS was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.-Early life:Rennell was born near Chudleigh in Devon... |
8 March 1781 | 3 December 1742 - 29 March 1830 |
| Thomas Rennell Thomas Rennell Thomas Kennell FRS was an English churchman, dean of Winchester Cathedral and Master of the Temple.-Life:He was born on 8 February 1754 at Barnack in Northamptonshire, where his father, Thomas Rennell , a prebendary of Winchester, was rector. In 1766 Thomas was sent to Eton, and thence proceeded... |
25 April 1822 | 9 February 1754 - 31 March 1840 |
| George Rennie George Rennie (engineer) George Rennie was an engineer born in London, England. He was the son of the Scottish engineer John Rennie and the brother of Sir John Rennie.-Early life:... |
21 March 1822 | 3 December 1791 - 30 March 1866 |
| James Rennie James Rennie James Rennie FRS was a Scottish naturalist.-Life:In 1815 he graduated M.A. from Glasgow University where he had previously studied natural sciences, and took holy orders. In 1821 he moved to London. From 1830 to 1834 he was professor of natural history and zoology at King's College. From then on... |
22 May 1845 | 27 February 1787 - 25 August 1867 |
| John Rennie the Elder | 29 March 1798 | 7 June 1761 - 4 October 1821 |
| John Rennie the Younger | 12 June 1823 | 30 August 1794 - 3 September 1874 |
| Didacus de Revillas | 13 June 1734 | fl 1734 |
| Bullen Reymes | 17 October 1667 | 28 December 1613 - 18 December 1672 |
| Samuel Reynardson | 11 March 1742 | 1704 - 18 November 1797 |
| Edward Osmund Royle Reynolds | 11 March 1993 | |
| Henry Revell Reynolds | 17 May 1781 | 26 September 1745 - 22 October 1811 |
| James Emerson Reynolds | 3 June 1880 | 9 January 1844 - ? 18 February 1920 |
| Osborne Reynolds Osborne Reynolds Osborne Reynolds FRS was a prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design.-Life:... |
7 June 1877 | 24 August 1842 - 21 February 1912 |
| John Russell Reynolds | 3 June 1869 | 22 May 1828 - 29 May 1896 |
| Joshua Reynolds Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy... |
15 January 1761 | 17 July 1723 - 23 February 1792 |
| Abondio Rezzonico | 6 June 1776 | 1742–1815 |
| David William Rhind David William Rhind Professor David William Rhind CBE FRS FBA is a British geographer and expert on geographic information systems . He was Vice-Chancellor of City University London until July 2007.... |
9 May 2002 | |
| Daniela Rhodes Daniela Rhodes Daniela Rhodes, FRS is a distinguished structural and molecular biologist. She is a senior scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where she read for her Ph.D under the supervision of Aaron Klug.... |
17 May 2007 | |
| John David Rhodes | 11 March 1993 | |
| Harry Ralph Ricardo | 2 May 1929 | 26 January 1885 - 18 May 1974 |
| Thomas Maurice Rice | 9 May 2002 | |
| Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle | 29 April 1841 | 9 February 1790 - 7 February 1866 |
| Daniel Rich Daniel Rich Daniel Rich is a current Australian rules football player for the Brisbane Lions. He was selected with the Brisbane Lions' first selection in the 2008 National Draft.-Pre-AFL career:... |
16 June 1743 | c 1711–1768 |
| Francis John Richards | 18 March 1954 | 1 October 1901 - 2 January 1965 |
| George Henry Richards George Henry Richards Admiral Sir George Henry Richards was Hydrographer to the British Admiralty from 1864 to 1874.-Early life:Richards was born in Anthony, Cornwall, the son of Captain G S Richards, and joined the navy in 1832.... |
7 June 1866 | 13 January 1820 - 14 November 1896 |
| Owain Westmacott Richards | 19 March 1959 | 31 December 1901 - 9 November 1984 |
| Rex Edward Richards | 19 March 1959 | |
| Richard Richards Richard Richards (MP) Sir Richard Richards SL was a Welsh politician and judge. He was Member of Parliament for Helston on two occasions, but only made one speech in Parliament... |
14 February 1793 | 5 November 1752 - 11 November 1823 |
| Archibald Read Richardson Archibald Read Richardson Archibald Read Richardson was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra.He collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory... |
21 March 1946 | 21 August 1881 - 4 November 1954 |
| Benjamin Ward Richardson Benjamin Ward Richardson Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson was an eminent British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history... |
6 June 1867 | 31 October 1828 - 21 November 1896 |
| Frederick Denys Richardson | 21 March 1968 | 17 September 1913 - 8 September 1983 |
| Guy Peel Richardson | 15 May 2009 | |
| John Richardson John Richardson (naturalist) Sir John Richardson was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of... |
24 February 1825 | 5 November 1787 - 5 June 1865 |
| Lewis Fry Richardson Lewis Fry Richardson Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars and how to prevent them... |
6 May 1926 | 11 October 1881 - 30 September 1953 |
| Owen Willans Richardson Owen Willans Richardson Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's Law.-Biography:... |
1 May 1913 | 27 April 1879 - 15 February 1959 |
| Peter Damian Richardson | 20 March 1986 | |
| Richard Richardson | 23 October 1712 | 6 September 1663 - 21 April 1741 Yorkshire Botanist |
| Robert Richardson | 25 February 1779 | 1732 - 27 September 1781 Prebendary Lincoln Cathedral |
| Thomas Richardson | 7 June 1866 | 8 October 1816 - 10 July 1867 Chemist, Durham Univ |
| James Ernest Richey | 17 March 1938 | 24 April 1886 - 19 June 1968 |
| Herbert William Richmond | 4 May 1911 | 17 July 1863 - 22 April 1948 Mathematician, King's College |
| Mark Henry Richmond | 20 March 1980 | |
| Charles Milner Ricketts | 23 March 1820 | 21 April 1776 - 7 September 1867 |
| Alan Bernard Rickinson | 15 May 1997 | |
| John Rickman John Rickman John Rickman was an English government official and statistician of the early nineteenth century.He was born in Newburn, Northumberland, son of the Rev Thomas Rickman and educated at Guildford Grammar School, Magdalen Hall, Oxford and Lincoln College, Oxford... |
27 April 1815 | 22 August 1771 - 11 August 1840 |
| Charles James Buchanan Riddell | 13 January 1842 | 19 November 1817 - 25 January 1903 |
| Eric Keightley Rideal | 15 May 1930 | 11 April 1890 - 25 September 1974 |
| George Ridge | 5 July 1810 | |
| Brian Kidd Ridley | 10 March 1994 | |
| Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England... |
2 May 1907 | 10 December 1855 - 24 October 1956 |
| Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley | 20 March 1986 | 10 July 1906 - 25 May 2001 |
| Stephen Peter Rigaud Stephen Peter Rigaud Stephen Peter Rigaud was an English mathematical historian and astronomer: He was a Fellow of Exeter College from 1794 to 1810, held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1810 to 1827, the Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1827 to 1839.-Published works:* Historical... |
13 June 1805 | 12 August 1774 - 16 March 1839 |
| Robert Rigg | 25 April 1839 | 4 June 1792 - 26 February 1861 |
| Ralph Riley Ralph Riley Sir Ralph Riley FRS was a British geneticist.He was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1924 and served in the army during WWII... |
16 March 1967 | 23 October 1924 - 27 August 1999 |
| Claude Rimington | 18 March 1954 | 17 November 1902 - 8 August 1993 |
| Sydney Ringer Sydney Ringer Sydney Ringer FRS was a British clinician and pharmacologist, best known for inventing Ringer's solution. He was born in March 1836 in Norwich, England and died following a stroke 14 October 1910, in Lastingham, Yorkshire, England... |
4 June 1885 | 1835 - 14 October 1910 |
| John Robert Ringrose | 17 March 1977 | |
| Alfred Edward Ringwood | 16 March 1972 | 19 April 1930 - 12 November 1993 |
| Falco Rinuccini | 26 March 1747 | fl 1747 |
| Edward Riou Edward Riou Edward Riou was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the French Revolutionary Wars under several of the most distinguished naval officers of his age and won fame and honour for two incidents in particular.... |
5 May 1796 | c 1758 - April 1801 |
| Ludovicus a Ripa | 3 July 1718 | |
| John Rishbeth | 21 March 1974 | 10 July 1918 - 1 June 1991 |
| Joseph Murdoch Ritchie | 18 March 1976 | |
| William Ritchie William Ritchie (physicist) William Ritchie was a physicist who was notable for writing the book Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus . He wrote several papers on heat, electricity, and elasticity. He was regarded as a good experimenter. He studied in Paris under Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste... |
8 May 1828 | c 1790 - 15 September 1837 |
| David Rittenhouse David Rittenhouse David Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official... |
16 April 1795 | 8 April 1732 - 26 June 1796 |
| William Halse Rivers Rivers | 7 May 1908 | 12 March 1864 - 4 June 1922 |
| Albert Cherbury David Rivett | 20 March 1941 | 4 December 1885 - 1 April 1961 |
| August Quirinus Rivinus | 30 November 1703 | 9 December 1652 - 30 December 1723 |
| John van Rixtel | 20 December 1739 | |
| David Riz | 5 June 1766 | fl 1766–1783 |
| Charles Bodvile Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor | 30 November 1693 | 26 July 1660 - 3 August 1723 |
| Francis Robartes Francis Robartes Francis Robartes FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1718.... |
11 December 1673 | ? January 1650 - 3 February 1718 |
| John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor and Viscount Bodmin | 14 November 1666 | 1606 - 17 July 1685 |
| John Robartes, 4th Earl of Radnor | 16 March 1732 | c 1686 - 15 July 1757 |
| Russell Robartes | 30 November 1703 | c 1672–1724 |
| Alfred Arthur Robb Alfred Robb Alfred Arthur Robb or Alfred A. Robb FRS was a British physicist.Robb studied at Queen's College in Belfast and at St John’s College in Cambridge. He then proceeded to University of Göttingen, where guided by Woldemar Voigt, he wrote his dissertation on the Zeeman effect. He also worked under J. J... |
12 May 1921 | 18 January 1873 - 13 December 1936 |
| Michael Alfred Robb | 11 May 2000 | |
| Trevor William Robbins | 26 May 2005 | |
| William Chandler Roberts-Austen William Chandler Roberts-Austen Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, , was a metallurgist noted for his research on the physical properties of metals and their alloys. Austenite is named in his honor.... |
3 June 1875 | 3 March 1843 - 22 November 1902 |
| Derek Harry Roberts | 20 March 1980 | |
| Edward Roberts | 12 December 1799 | c 1763 - 21 November 1846 Physician St Barts |
| Gareth Gwyn Roberts | 15 March 1984 | 16 May 1940 – 6 February 2007 |
| Gilbert Roberts Gilbert Roberts Sir Gilbert Roberts was a British civil engineer.He was born in Hampstead, London to Henry William Roberts, a pharmacist and educated at Bromley High School. He then went to Gresham College to study engineering but on the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Flying Corps... |
18 March 1965 | 19 February 1899 - 1 January 1978 |
| Isaac Roberts Isaac Roberts Isaac Roberts was a Welsh engineer and business man best known for his work as an amateur astronomer, pioneering the field of astrophotography of nebulae. He was a member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society in England and was a fellow of the Royal Geological Society... |
5 June 1890 | 27 January 1829 - 17 July 1904 |
| John Alexander Fraser Roberts | 21 March 1963 | 8 September 1899 - 15 January 1987 |
| John Keith Roberts | 19 March 1942 | 16 April 1897 - 26 April 1944 |
| Lewis Edward John Roberts | 18 March 1982 | |
| Paul Harry Roberts | 15 March 1979 | |
| Richard John Roberts | 9 March 1995 | |
| Roger Elliot Roberts | 4 June 1801 | c 1753 - 9 August 1831 |
| Samuel Roberts | 6 June 1878 | 15 December 1827 - 18 September 1913 Solicitor |
| William Roberts William Roberts (physician) Sir William Roberts FRS was a physician in Manchester, England.Roberts was born on 18 March 1830 at Bodedern on the Isle of Anglesey the son David and Sarah Roberts, he was educated at Mill Hill School and at University College London. He graduated with a BA at London University in 1851 and became... |
7 June 1877 | 18 March 1830 - 16 April 1899 |
| Abraham Robertson Abraham Robertson Abraham or Abram Robertson , was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1797 to 1809.... |
21 May 1795 | 4 November 1751 - 4 December 1826 |
| Alan Robertson Alan Robertson Alan Robertson FRS was an English population geneticist. Originally a chemist, he was recruited after the Second World War to work on animal genetics on behalf of the British government, and continued in this sphere until his retirement in 1985... |
19 March 1964 | 22 February 1920 - 25 April 1989 |
| Alexander Robertson Alexander Robertson (chemist) Alexander Robertson FRS was a British chemist. He was awrded the Davy Medal in 1952.- References :... |
20 March 1941 | 13 February 1896 - 9 February 1970 Prof of Chemistry, Liverpool Univ |
| Andrew Robertson Andrew Robertson (engineer) Andrew Robertson FRS was a British mechanical engineer.He was the son of a marine engineer. He is a graduate of Manchester University, with a first-class honours degreeHe was a demonstrator and tutor at the university... |
14 March 1940 | 30 January 1883 - 22 October 1977 Engineer |
| Archibald Robertson Archibald Robertson (physician) Archibald Robertson FRS FRSE was a Scottish physician and medical writer who had a short but notable military career, followed by a long private practice.-Biography:... |
11 February 1836 | 3 December 1789 - 19 October 1864 |
| Elizabeth Jane Robertson | 15 May 2003 | |
| James Robertson | 13 December 1810 | fl 1810–1830 |
| John Robertson | 17 December 1741 | 1712 - 11 December 1776 Royal Soc Librarian |
| John Monteath Robertson | 22 March 1945 | 24 July 1900 - 27 December 1989 |
| Muriel Robertson | 20 March 1947 | 8 April 1883 - 14 June 1973 |
| Robert Robertson | 31 May 1804 | 1742–1829 physician |
| Robert Robertson Robert Robertson (chemist) Sir Robert Robertson KBE FRS was a Scottish chemist who was HM Government's Government Chemist between 1921 and 1936. He was the first person to establish that two types of natural diamond existed.... |
3 May 1917 | 17 April 1869 - 28 April 1949 chemist |
| Rutherford Ness Robertson | 16 March 1961 | 29 September 1913 - 5 March 2001 |
| Benjamin Robins Benjamin Robins Benjamin Robins was a pioneering English scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer.He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early enthusiast for rifled gun barrels, and his work had substantive influence... |
9 November 1727 | 1707 - 29 July 1751 |
| Carol Vivien Robinson Carol V. Robinson Carol Vivien Robinson FRS, is a distinguished British chemist. She is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory in the University of Oxford, as well as the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry-elect. She was previously Professor of Mass Spectrometry at... |
27 May 2004 | |
| Derek Charles Robinson | 10 March 1994 | 27 May 1941 – 2 December 2002 |
| Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon | 17 April 1828 | 30 October 1782 - 28 January 1859 |
| George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon | 24 May 1860 | 24 October 1827 - 9 July 1909 |
| Gilbert Wooding Robinson | 18 March 1948 | 7 November 1888 - 6 May 1950 |
| Harold Roper Robinson Harold Roper Robinson Harold Roper Robinson FRS was a physicist and, in later life, an outstanding figure in university administration.Robinson was born in Ulverston, Lancashire on 26 November 1889, the eldest of four brothers and one sister. In 1908 he went to Manchester University on a scholarship... |
2 May 1929 | 26 November 1889 - 28 November 1955 |
| Isaac Robinson | 26 November 1829 | |
| Richard Robinson | 23 November 1681 | |
| Robert Robinson | 13 May 1920 | 13 September 1886 - 8 February 1975 |
| Robert Spencer Robinson Robert Spencer Robinson Admiral Sir Robert Spencer Robinson KCB was a British naval officer, who served as two five-year terms as Controller of the Navy from February 1861 to February 1871, and was therefore responsible for the procurement of warships at a time when the Royal Navy was changing over from unarmoured wooden... |
3 June 1869 | 6 January 1809 - 27 July 1889 |
| Thomas Robinson Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet was an English architect and collector.Thomas left his brother William his title but not his estates, and his brother Richard his books, including those on architecture and antiquities. On 2 March 1730, he was created a Baronet, of Rokeby, in the County of... |
30 November 1726 | c 1703 - 3 March 1777 |
| Stephen Joseph Robinson | 18 March 1976 | |
| Tancred Robinson | 19 November 1684 | c 1657 - 29 March 1748 |
| Thomas Romney Robinson | 5 June 1856 | 23 April 1792 - 28 |
| Robert Robison | 15 May 1930 | 29 December 1883 - 18 June 1941 |
| John Gair Robson | 15 May 2003 | |
| Peter Neville Robson | 19 March 1987 | 23 November 1930 - 10 January 2010 Prof of Electronic Engineering,Sheffield |
| Thomas Roby | 15 April 1725 | 20 March 1689 - 28 August 1729 |
| George Dixon Rochester George Rochester George Dixon Rochester, FRS was a British physicist known for having co-discovered, with Sir Clifford Charles Butler, a subatomic particle called the kaon.... |
20 March 1958 | 5 February 1908 - 26 December 2001 |
| John Davison Rockefeller | 8 June 1939 | 30 January 1874 - 11 May 1960 Statute |
| Richard Roderick Richard Roderick Richard Roderick was a British editor and poet.A native of Cambridgeshire, was admitted pensioner of Queens' College, Cambridge, on 20 Dec. 1728, and graduated B.A. in 1732. He subsequently became a fellow commoner of the college, and a grace was granted by the president and fellows for him to... |
21 June 1750 | |
| John Roebuck John Roebuck This article is about the English inventor. For the 19th century British politician, see John Arthur Roebuck.John Roebuck FRS was an English inventor who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution and who is known for developing the industrial-scale manufacture of sulfuric acid.-Life... |
12 July 1764 | 1718 - 17 July 1794 |
| Arthur William Rogers | 2 May 1918 | 5 June 1872 - 23 June 1946 |
| Charles Rogers | 17 November 1757 | 2 August 1711 - 2 January 1784 |
| Claude Ambrose Rogers Claude Ambrose Rogers -Career:The big man from Longstone was the captain of the down team in 2010 but got injured in a club game and missed the All Ireland final. Ambrose father Ambrose was part of the Down team that won the all Ireland in 1991.Ambrose captain the down under 21 team to an ulster 21 in 2005.... |
19 March 1959 | 1 November 1920 - 5 December 2005 |
| John Rogers | 19 November 1789 | fl 1789–1816 Royal Navy Commissioner |
| Henry Darwin Rogers Henry Darwin Rogers Henry Darwin Rogers FRS FRSE was an American geologist.-Biography:Rogers was born at Philadelphia. His middle name was given him in honor of Erasmus Darwin, of whose poem “The Botanic Garden” his father was a great admirer... |
3 June 1858 | 1 August 1808 - 29 May 1866 |
| John Rogers | 5 December 1839 | 9 November 1807 - 12 August 1867 Naturalist |
| John Rogers | 13 April 1681 | 18 February 1647 - 9 May 1715 Clergynam |
| Joseph Rogers | 15 June 1738 | c 1676 - ? 1757 Physician |
| Leonard James Rogers Leonard James Rogers Leonard James Rogers FRS was a British mathematician who was the first to discover the Rogers-Ramanujan identity and Hölder's inequality, and who introduced Rogers polynomials... |
15 May 1924 | 30 March 1862 - 12 September 1933 |
| Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron... |
17 November 1796 | 30 July 1763 - 18 December 1855 |
| Leonard Rogers Leonard Rogers Sir Leonard Rogers FRS was a founder member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and its President from 1933 to 1935.... |
11 May 1916 | 18 January 1868 - 16 September 1962 |
| John Rogerson | 6 May 1779 | 1741 - 21 December 1823 Physician to Catherine the Great |
| Peter Mark Roget | 16 March 1815 | 18 January 1779 - 12 September 1869 |
| Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski FRS was a British mathematician.-Life:His father, Hermann Rogosinski was Counsel in Wroclaw... |
18 March 1954 | 24 September 1894 - 23 July 1964 |
| Ivan Maurice Roitt Ivan Roitt Professor Ivan Maurice Roitt was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford University.In 1956, together with Deborah Doniach and Peter Campbell, he made the classic discovery of thyroglobulin autoantibodies in Hashimoto's thyroiditis which helped to open the whole... |
17 March 1983 | immunologist |
| John Gage Rokewode John Gage Rokewode John Gage Rokewode was a historian and antiquarian.-Life:He was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Gage of Hengrave, and took the name Rokewode in 1838 when he succeeded to the Rokewode estates. John was a descendant of a maternal line from Ambrose Rookwood... |
8 April 1824 | 13 September 1786 - 14 October 1842 |
| George Rolleston George Rolleston George Rolleston MA MD FRCP FRS was an English physician and zoologist. He was the first Linacre Professor of Anatomy and Physiology to be appointed at the University of Oxford, a post he held from 1860 until his death in 1881... |
5 June 1862 | 30 July 1829 - 16 June 1881 |
| Paolo Antonio Rolli Paolo Antonio Rolli Paolo Antonio Rolli was an Italian librettist and poet.He was born in Rome, Italy and like Metastasio was trained by Gian Vincenzo Gravina. He worked in London from 1715 to 1744 where he became Italian tutor to the prince of Wales and the Royal Princesses... |
11 December 1729 | 1687 - ? 1767 |
| Thomas Rolt | 14 December 1664 | ? January 1641 - ? October 1672 |
| George John Romanes | 12 June 1879 | ? 20 May 1848 - 23 May 1894 |
| Robert Romer Robert Romer Sir Robert Romer was a British jurist. He became an English High Court judge from 1890 to 1899, and a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1899 to 1906. He became a Privy Councillor in 1899, and a Fellow of the Royal Society in the same year... |
14 December 1899 | 23 December 1840 - 19 March 1918 |
| Isaac Romilly | 12 May 1757 | |
| Francis Ronalds | 1 February 1844 | 22 February 1788 - 8 August 1873 |
| Denis Eric Rooke Denis Rooke Sir Denis Eric Rooke, OM, CBE, FRS, FREng was a British industrialist and engineer.-Personal life:Rooke was born in New Cross, London, the younger son of F. G. Rooke. He studied Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at University College London, then served in REME until 1949, attaining... |
16 March 1978 | |
| Lawrence Rooke Lawrence Rooke Lawrence Rooke was an English astronomer and mathematician. He was also one of the founders of the Royal Society, although he died as it was being formally constituted.-Life:... |
30 November 1660 | 13 March 1622 - 7 July 1662 Founder member |
| Thomas Gerald Room Thomas Gerald Room Thomas Gerald Room was an Australian mathematician who is best known for Room squares.-Biography:Thomas Room was born on 10 November 1902, near London, England. He studied mathematics in St John's College, Cambridge, and was a wrangler in 1923... |
20 March 1941 | 10 November 1902 - 2 April 1986 |
| John Frederick Fitzgerald De Roos | 9 June 1831 | 6 March 1804 - 19 June 1861 |
| Warren Richard Roper | 16 March 1989 | |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe Henry Enfield Roscoe Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, FRS was an English chemist. He is particularly noted for early work on vanadium and for photochemical studies.- Life and work :... |
4 June 1863 | 7 January 1833 - 18 December 1915 |
| Francis Leslie Rose | 21 March 1957 | 27 June 1909 - 2 March 1988 |
| John Donald Rose John Rose (chemist) John Donald Rose FRS was a British industrial chemist, who worked for Imperial Chemical Industries from 1935 to 1972. His posts at ICI included director of research and chairman of the paints division... |
18 March 1971 | 2 January 1911 - 14 October 1976 |
| George Rose | 5 June 1834 | 1 May 1782 - 3 December 1873 |
| William Rose | 23 November 1786 | 1 January 1751 - 2 April 1829 Rector of Beckenham |
| Howard Harry Rosenbrock Howard Harry Rosenbrock Howard Harry Rosenbrock was a leading figure in control theory and control engineering. He was born in Ilford, England in 1920, graduated in 1941 from University College London with a 1st class honors degree in Electrical Engineering. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He... |
18 March 1976 | 16 December 1920 - 21 October 2010 Prof of Control Engineering, Manchester |
| Walter Rosenhain Walter Rosenhain Walter Rosenhain ForMemRS was an Australian metallurgist.-Early life:Rosenhain was born in Berlin, German Empire, the son of Moritz Rosenhain, a merchant, and his wife Friederike, a daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Yosman Fink . The family migrated to Australia when Walter was five years old, to avoid... |
1 May 1913 | 24 August 1875 - 17 March 1934 |
| Louis Rosenhead | 21 March 1946 | 1 January 1906 - 10 November 1984 |
| Max Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim of Camden Max Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim Max Leonard Rosenheim, Baron Rosenheim KBE FRCP FRS was a British physician and academic.He was born in London and educated at Shrewsbury School. He then went up to St John's College, Cambridge and University College Hospital Medical School... |
25 May 1972 | 15 March 1908 - 2 December 1972 |
| Otto Rosenheim | 12 May 1927 | 29 November 1871 - 7 May 1955 |
| Iver Rosenkrantz Iver Rosenkrantz Iver Eriksen Rosenkrantz was a Danish statesman and landowner.-Education and early career:... |
11 June 1713 | 5 December 1674 – 13 November 1745 |
| Daniel Ross | 13 June 1822 | 11 November 1780 - 29 October 1849 |
| Douglas Alan Ross | 26 May 2005 | physicist |
| Graham Garland Ross | 14 March 1991 | |
| James Clark Ross James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross , was a British naval officer and explorer. He explored the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, and later led his own expedition to Antarctica.-Arctic explorer:... |
11 December 1828 | 15 April 1800 - 3 April 1862 |
| John Ross John Ross (bishop of Exeter) -Life:He wss born at Ross in Herefordshire, on 24 or 25 June 1719, the only son of John Rosse, attorney in that town. He was educated at the grammar school in Hereford, was admitted a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge , and on the following 22 June became a Somerset scholar of the third... |
23 February 1758 | ? 24 June 1719 - 14 August 1792 |
| Patrick Ross | 11 December 1794 | c 1740 - 24 August 1804 Military engineer and MP |
| Ronald Ross Ronald Ross Sir Ronald Ross KCB FRS was a British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. He was the first Indian-born person to win a Nobel Prize... |
6 June 1901 | 13 May 1857 - 16 September 1932 |
| Janet Rossant Janet Rossant Janet Rossant FRS is a developmental biologist well known for her contributions to the understanding of the role of genes in embryo development. She is currently the Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute in Toronto, Canada.... |
11 May 2000 | |
| Matthew Jonathan Rosseinsky | 16 May 2008 | |
| Joseph Rotblat Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS , was a Polish-born, British-naturalised physicist.His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty... |
9 March 1995 | 4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005, founder of Pugwash conference, 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... for Peace (1995) |
| Klaus Friedrich Roth Klaus Roth Klaus Friedrich Roth is a British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. He was born in Breslau, Prussia, but raised and educated in the UK. He graduated from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1945... |
24 March 1960 | |
| Martin Roth Martin Roth Professor Sir Martin Roth FRS was a British psychiatrist.He was Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, 1977–85, then Professor Emeritus, and was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1977. He was one of the pioneers in developing Psychogeriatrics as a subspecialty.-References:... |
14 March 1996 | 6 November 1917 – 26 September 2006 |
| Leonard Rotherham Leonard Rotherham Leonard "Larry" Rotherham CBE FRS was a British metallurgist and vice chancellor of the University of Bath. He led the team which investigated the de Havilland Comet airliner crashes caused by metal fatigue around the windows.... |
21 March 1963 | 31 August 1913 - 23 March 2001 |
| Miriam Louisa Rothschild | 21 March 1985 | 5 August 1908 – 20 January 2005 |
| Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild | 23 November 1911 | 9 February 1868 - 27 August 1937 |
| Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, GBE, GM, FRS was a biologist by training, a cricketer and a member of the prominent Rothschild family... |
19 March 1953 | 31 October 1910 - 19 March 1990 |
| Nancy Jane Rothwell Nancy Rothwell Dame Nancy J. Rothwell, DBE, FRS is a British physiologist and academic who became the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester in July 2010, having been Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor since January 2010. Dame Nancy is also a director of pharmaceuticals company... |
27 May 2004 | |
| Francis John Worsley Roughton | 7 May 1936 | 6 June 1899 - 29 April 1972 |
| George Leith Roupell | 12 December 1839 | 18 September 1797 - 29 September 1854 |
| Edward John Routh | 6 June 1872 | 20 January 1831 - 7 June 1907 |
| Frederick Maurice Rowe | 22 March 1945 | 12 February 1891 - 8 December 1946 |
| Henry Rowe | 12 April 1739 | |
| John Martin Rowell | 16 March 1989 | |
| Arthur John Rowledge Arthur Rowledge Arthur John Rowledge MBE, FRS was an English engineer who designed the Napier Lion aero engine and was a key figure in the development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin.-Career:... |
20 March 1941 | 30 July 1876 - 12 December 1957 |
| George Rowley George Rowley George Rowley was Dean and Master of University College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.Rowley was educated at Abingdon School in Abingdon, south of Oxford.... |
14 November 1811 | 4 April 1782 - 5 October 1836 |
| John Rowley John Rowley John Vincent D'Alessio Rowley was a South African born English cricketer and colonial governor. Rowley was a right-handed batsman who fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province.... |
9 February 1809 | c 1768 - 1 December 1824 |
| John Shipley Rowlinson John Shipley Rowlinson John Shipley Rowlinson is a British chemist. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and received a D. Phil from the University of Oxford in chemical kinetics working under J. D. Lambert. In 1961, he was appointed Professor in Chemical Technology at Imperial College London and in 1974 moved to... |
19 March 1970 | chemist |
| Lionel Edward Aston Rowson | 15 March 1973 | 28 May 1914 - 26 July 1989 |
| Charles Le Roy | 31 May 1770 | ? 12 February 1726 - ? 12 December 1779 |
| Charles Smart Roy | 12 June 1884 | 27 January 1854 - 4 October 1897 |
| Jean Baptiste Le Roy | 10 June 1773 | 15 August 1720 - ? 20 January 1800 |
| William Roy William Roy Major-General William Roy FRS was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain.... |
26 March 1767 | 4 May 1726 - 1 July 1790 |
| Adrianus van Royen | 27 June 1728 | 11 November 1704 – 28 |
| David van Royen | 6 December 1759 | ? 1727–1799 |
| John Forbes Royle John Forbes Royle John Forbes Royle , British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur in 1799. Entering the service of the East India Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying botany and geology, and made large collections among the Himalaya Mountains... |
6 April 1837 | ? 1798 - 2 January 1858 |
| George West Royston-Pigott | 12 June 1873 | ? 1 May 1817 - 14 September 1889 |
| Arthur William Rucker Arthur William Rucker Sir Arthur William Rucker , KB, FRS was a British physicist. He gained his BA at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1871, and was a Fellow there from 1871 to 1876... |
12 June 1884 | 23 October 1848 - 1 November 1915 |
| Edward Rudge Edward Rudge -Life:Born on 27 June 1763, he was son of Edward Rudge, a merchant and alderman of Salisbury, who possessed a large portion of the abbey estate at Evesham.... |
31 January 1805 | 27 June 1763 - 3 September 1846 |
| Edward Rudge Edward Rudge -Life:Born on 27 June 1763, he was son of Edward Rudge, a merchant and alderman of Salisbury, who possessed a large portion of the abbey estate at Evesham.... |
3 November 1726 | 22 October 1703 – 6 June 1763 |
| Edward John Rudge Edward John Rudge Edward John Rudge, M.A. was an English barrister and antiquary.The son of Edward Rudge, botanist and antiquary, he attended Caius College, Cambridge, and was barrister-at-law, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and author of Some Account of the History and Antiquities of Evesham,... |
18 February 1847 | 30 May 1792 - 29 January 1861 |
| James Rudge | 17 November 1814 | c 1785–1852 |
| Alan Walter Rudge | 12 March 1992 | |
| Warren de la Rue Warren de la Rue Warren De la Rue was a British astronomer and chemist, most famous for his pioneering work in astronomical photography.-Biography:... |
6 June 1850 | 15 January 1815 - ? 19 April 1889 |
| Philip Charles Ruffles | 14 May 1998 | |
| Siegfried Ruhemann | 7 May 1914 | 4 January 1859–1942 |
| Henry Wyldbore Rumsey | 4 June 1874 | 3 July 1809 - 23 October 1876 |
| Stanley Keith Runcorn | 18 March 1965 | 19 November 1922 - ? 6 December 1995 |
| Prince Rupert | 22 March 1665 | 17 December 1619 - 29 November 1682 Royal |
| George Stanley Rushbrooke | 18 March 1982 | 19 January 1915 - 14 December 1995 |
| William Albert Hugh Rushton W. A. H. Rushton William Albert Hugh Rushton FRS was professor of Physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge. His main interest lay in colour vision and his Principle of Univariance is of seminal importance in the study of perception.... |
18 March 1948 | 8 December 1901 - 21 June 1980 |
| Alexander Russell | 15 May 1924 | 15 July 1861 - 14 January 1943 Elec. engineer, College principal |
| Alexander Russell | 6 May 1756 | 1715 - 28 November 1768 Naturalist |
| Archibald Edward Russell | 19 March 1970 | 30 May 1904 - 29 May 1995 |
| Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell | 7 May 1908 | 19 May 1872 - 2 February 1970 |
| Edward John Russell | 3 May 1917 | 31 October 1872 - 12 July 1965 |
| Frederick Stratten Russell Frederick Stratten Russell Sir Frederick Stratten Russell was an English marine biologist.Russell was born in Bridport, Dorset, and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. From 1924 he worked for the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, becoming its director in 1945.Russell studied the life... |
17 March 1938 | 3 November 1897 - 5 June 1984 |
| Francis Russell | 15 March 1770 | |
| Henry Chamberlaine Russell | 4 June 1886 | 18 March 1836 - 22 February 1907 |
| Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford | 5 November 1908 | 20 February 1858 - 27 August 1940 Statute |
| Ian John Russell | 16 March 1989 | |
| Jesse Watts Russell | 7 June 1821 | 6 May 1786 - 26 March 1875 |
| John Scott Russell John Scott Russell John Scott Russell was a Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.-Personal life:John Scott Russell was born John Russell on 9 May 1808 in Parkhead, Glasgow, the son of... |
7 June 1849 | 8 May 1808 - 8 June 1882 |
| John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.... |
6 May 1847 | 18 August 1792 - 28 May 1878 |
| John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford KG, PC, FRS was an 18th century British statesman. He was the fourth son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey... |
11 March 1742 | 30 September 1710 - 15 January 1771 |
| Michael Russell | 25 March 1742 | fl 1742–1767 |
| Patrick Russell Patrick Russell (herpetologist) Patrick Russell was a Scottish surgeon and naturalist who worked in India. He studied the snakes of India and is considered the 'Father of Indian Ophiology'. The Russell's viper, Daboia russelii, is named after him.He was born in Edinburgh to John Russell as the half-brother of Alexander Russell,... |
27 November 1777 | 7 February 1727 - 2 July 1805 |
| Philip St John Russell Philip Russell Philip St. John Russell, FRS, is the Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His area of research is "photonics and new materials"... |
26 May 2005 | physicist |
| Richard Russell Richard Russell (doctor) Richard Russell was an 18th century British Physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater... |
13 February 1752 | 26 November 1687 - 19 December 1759 |
| Robert Graham Goodwin Russell | 16 May 2008 | |
| William Russell | 5 April 1832 | 29 May 1773 - 26 September 1839 |
| William Russell | 9 January 1777 | |
| William Henry Leighton Russell | 7 June 1866 | 26 August 1823 - 28 December 1891 |
| William James Russell | 6 June 1872 | 20 May 1830 - 12 November 1909 Chemist |
| Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics... |
11 June 1903 | 30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937 |
| Thomas Rutherford | 27 January 1743 | 3 October 1712 - 5 October 1771 |
| William Rutherford | 1 June 1876 | 20 April 1839 - 21 February 1899 |
| Michael Llewellyn Rutter | 19 March 1987 | |
| William Rutty | 30 June 1720 | 1687 - ? 10 June 1730 |
| Melchior De Ruusscher | 26 February 1730 | fl 1730–1753 |
| Friedrich Ruysch | 9 June 1715 | 23 March 1638 - 22 February 1731 |
| Edward Ryan Edward Ryan Sir Edward Ryan PC FRS was an English lawyer, judge, reformer of the British Civil Service and patron of science.-Early life:... |
2 February 1860 | 28 August 1793 - 22 August 1875 |
| John Ryan | 19 April 1798 | |
| Paul Rycaut Paul Rycaut Sir Paul Rycaut FRS was a British diplomat and historian, and authority on the Ottoman Empire.-Life:... |
12 December 1666 | ? 1628 - 16 November 1700 diplomat |
| John Walter Ryde | 18 March 1948 | 15 April 1898 - 15 May 1961 |
| Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician... |
24 November 1853 | ? 19 May 1798 - 19 November 1882 |
| Martin Ryle Martin Ryle Sir Martin Ryle was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources... |
20 March 1952 | 27 September 1918 - 14 October 1984 |
| Philip Ryley | 15 July 1696 | |
| Thomas Ryves Thomas Ryves Sir Thomas Ryves , member of a distinguished Dorsetshire family, became one of the foremost English experts on ecclesiastical and Admiralty law.- Background and early career :... |
20 November 1760 | |
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| George Emil Palade George Emil Palade George Emil Palade was a Romanian cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and... |
28 June 1984 | |
| Michele Parrinello Michele Parrinello Michele Parrinello is an Italian physicist particularly known for his work in molecular dynamics... |
27 May 2004 | |
| Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments... |
29 April 1869 | 27 December 1822 - 28 September 1895 |
| Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or... |
23 April 1953 | 25 April 1900 - ? 15 December 1958, Austrian-born U.S. Swedish 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... (1945) |
| Linus Carl Pauling | 27 May 1948 | 29 February 1901 - 19 August 1994 Foreign Member |
| Ivan Petrovich Pavlov | 6 June 1907 | 28 September 1849 - 27 February 1936 Foreign Member |
| Benjamin Peirce Benjamin Peirce Benjamin Peirce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics.... |
25 November 1852 | 4 April 1809 - 6 October 1880 |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:Born in Lille, France, Perrin attended the École Normale Supérieure, the elite grande école in Paris. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode rays and X-rays... |
28 February 1918 | 30 September 1870 - 17 April 1942 |
| Hans Pettersson | 26 April 1956 | 26 August 1888 - 25 January 1966 |
| Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer was a German physician and bacteriologist.Pfeiffer was born in Zduny, Province of Posen, and died in Bad Landeck.... |
21 June 1928 | 27 March 1858 - 15 September 1947 |
| Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pfluger Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger was a German physiologist born in Hanau.He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1853. While in Berlin he worked as an assistant to Emil du Bois-Reymond... |
31 May 1888 | ? 7 June 1828 - ? 17 March 1910 |
| Charles Émile Picard Charles Émile Picard Charles Émile Picard FRS was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924.- Biography :... |
25 March 1909 | 24 July 1856 - ? 12 December 1941 |
| Edward Charles Pickering Edward Charles Pickering Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations .Pickering attended Boston Latin School, and received his B.S. from... |
6 June 1907 | 20 July 1846 - 3 February 1919 Foreign Member |
| Alexander Pines Alexander Pines Alexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and the Department of... |
9 May 2002 | chemist, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.He was born in Voghera, Italy to Antonio Maria Plana and Giacoboni. At the age of 15 he was sent to live with his uncles in Grenoble to complete his education. In 1800 he entered the École Polytechnique, and was one of the... |
15 March 1827 | ? 8 November 1781 - 20 January 1864 |
| Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | 29 April 1926 | 23 April 1858 - 4 October 1947 |
| Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau | 24 November 1870 | 14 October 1801 - 15 September 1883 |
| Julius Plücker Julius Plücker Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron. He also vastly extended the study of Lamé curves.- Early... |
14 June 1855 | 16 July 1801 - 22 May 1868 |
| Jules Henri Poincaré | 26 April 1894 | 29 April 1854 - 17 July 1912 |
| Louis Poinsot Louis Poinsot Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.-Life:... |
25 November 1858 | 3 January 1777 - 5 December 1859 |
| Jean Victor Poncelet | 5 May 1842 | 1 July 1788 - 22 December 1867 |
| Philippe Gustave Doulcet de Pontecoulant Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant was a French astronomer.He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother of Louis-Adolphe Pontécoulant. After 1811 he served in the army until 1849... |
6 June 1833 | 1795 - 21 July 1874 |
| Albert Marcel Germain René Portevin | 1 May 1952 | 1 November 1880 - 12 April 1962 |
| Ludwig Prandtl | 21 June 1928 | 5 February 1875 - 15 August 1953 Foreign Member |
| Frank Press Frank Press Frank Press is an American geophysicist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press was science advisor to President Jimmy Carter from1976 to 1980,and president of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences from 1981 to 1993... |
27 June 1985 | U.S. geophysicist, President of United States National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993) |
| Pierre Prevost Pierre Prévost Pierre Prévost was a Swiss philosopher and physicist. In he showed that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are.-Life:... |
17 April 1806 | 3 March 1751 - 8 April 1839 |
| Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony | 12 March 1818 | ? 11 July 1755 - 29 July 1839 |
| Stanley Ben Prusiner | 15 May 1997 | U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1997) |
| Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the... |
29 June 1989 | 30 August 1912 - 7 March 1997 |
| Johannes Evangelista Purkyne Jan Evangelista Purkyne Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. His son was the painter Karel Purkyně... |
21 November 1850 | 17 December 1787 - 28 July 1869 |
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| Calvin Forrest Quate Calvin Quate Calvin F. Quate was born on 7 December 1923 in Baker, Nevada. He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.... |
9 March 1995 | |
| Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet | 30 May 1839 | 22 February 1796 - 17 February 1874 |
| Georg Hermann Quincke Georg Hermann Quincke Georg Quincke|thumbGeorg Hermann Quincke was a German physicist.Born at Frankfurt , Quincke was the son of prominent physician Geheimer Medicinal-Rath Hermann Quincke and the older brother of physician Heinrich Quincke.Quincke received his Ph. D. in 1858 at Berlin, having previously studied also... |
3 April 1879 | 19 November 1834 - 13 January 1924 |
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| Michael Oser Rabin Michael O. Rabin Michael Oser Rabin , is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.- Biography :Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany, , the son of a rabbi. In 1935, he emigrated with his family to Mandate Palestine... |
17 May 2007 | |
| Santiago Ramon y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal ForMemRS was a Spanish pathologist, histologist, neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate. His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern neuroscience... |
25 March 1909 | 1 May 1852 - 17 October 1934 |
| Martin Heinrich Rathke | 14 June 1855 | 25 August 1793 - ? 3 September 1860 |
| Peter Raven | 9 May 2002 | |
| Henri Victor Regnault Henri Victor Regnault Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s.... |
25 November 1852 | 21 July 1810 - 19 January 1878 |
| Tadeus Reichstein Tadeus Reichstein Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish-born Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.Reichstein was born into a Jewish family at Włocławek, Congress Poland, and spent his early childhood at Kiev, where his father was an engineer... |
1 May 1952 | 20 July 1897 - 1 August 1996 Polish-born Switzerland 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... for Medicine (1950) |
| Otto Renner Otto Renner Otto Renner FRS was a German plant geneticist. Following the work of Erwin Baur, Renner established the theory of maternal plastid inheritance as a widely accepted genetic theory.Renner worked with plants from the genera Oenothera.... |
28 April 1955 | 25 April 1883 - 8 July 1960 |
| Magnus Gustaf Retzius | 6 June 1907 | 17 October 1842 - 21 July 1919 |
| James Robert Rice James R. Rice James Robert Rice is a mechanician who has made fundamental contributions to various aspects of solid mechanics. Two of his early contributions are the concept of the J-integral and an explanation of how plastic deformations localize in a narrow band. In recent years, Rice has focused on the... |
14 March 1996 | |
| Alfred Newton Richards Alfred Newton Richards Alfred Newton Richards was an American pharmacologist.Richards was born in Stamford, New York. He served as chairman of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology from 1910 to 1946; thereafter he became Professor Emeritus... |
18 June 1942 | 22 March 1876 - 24 March 1966 |
| Theodore William Richards Theodore William Richards Theodore William Richards was the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."- Biography :Theodore Richards was born in Germantown, Philadelphia,... |
26 June 1919 | 31 January 1868 - 2 April 1928 |
| Ferdinand von Richthofen Ferdinand von Richthofen Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.-Biography:He was born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia, and was educated in Breslau and Berlin. He traveled or studied in the Alps of Tyrol and the Carpathians in Transylvania... |
27 November 1902 | 5 May 1833 - 6 October 1905 |
| Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann | 14 June 1866 | 17 September 1826 - 20 July 1866 |
| Augusto Righi Augusto Righi Augusto Righi was an Italian physicist and a pioneer in the study of electromagnetism. He was born and died in Bologna.His early research, conducted in Bologna between 1872 and 1880, was primarily in electrostatics... |
6 June 1907 | 27 August 1850 - 8 June 1920 |
| Karl Ritter Karl Ritter Karl Ritter was a German diplomat, ambassador to Brazil, a member of the Nazi Party, Special Envoy to the Munich Agreement, a senior official in the Foreign Office during World War II, and convicted war criminal in the Ministries Trial.-Life:Karl Ritter was a graduate in law, and was appointed to... |
30 March 1848 | 7 August 1779 - 28 September 1859 |
| Auguste Arthur de la Rive Auguste Arthur de la Rive Auguste Arthur de la Rive was a Swiss physicist.De la Rive was born in Geneva, as son of Charles Gaspard de la Rive . He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and after practising for a few years in London, became professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the academy of Geneva in 1802 and rector in 1823... |
23 April 1846 | 9 October 1801 - 27 November 1873 |
| Alfred Sherwood Romer | 24 April 1969 | 28 December 1894 - 5 November 1973 |
| Gustav Rose Gustav Rose Gustav Rose was a German mineralogist who was a native of Berlin. He was a brother of mineralogist Heinrich Rose , the son of pharmacologist Valentin Rose , and the father of noted surgeon Edmund Rose and the classicist Valentin Rose.He was a graduate of the University of Berlin, where he was a... |
14 June 1866 | 18 March 1798 - 15 July 1873 |
| Heinrich Rose Heinrich Rose Heinrich Rose was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist. He was the brother of the mineralogist Gustav Rose and a son of Valentin Rose.... |
5 May 1842 | 6 August 1795 - 27 January 1864 |
| Otto August Rosenberger Otto August Rosenberger Otto August Rosenberger was a Baltic German astronomer from Tukums in Courland.Rosenberger graduated from the University of Königsberg, and was noted for his study of comets. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1837... |
4 June 1835 | 10 August 1800 - 23 January 1890 |
| Michael G. Rossmann | 14 March 1996 | |
| Francis Peyton Rous Francis Peyton Rous Peyton Rous born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1879 and received his B.A. and M.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in the discovery of the role of viruses in the transmission of certain types of cancer... |
23 May 1940 | 6 October 1879 - 16 February 1970 Foreign Member |
| Pierre Paul Emile Roux Pierre Paul Émile Roux Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist who was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur , a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and discoverer of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease.Roux got his baccalaureate... |
26 June 1913 | 17 December 1853 - 3 November 1933 |
| Frank Sherwood Rowland Frank Sherwood Rowland Frank Sherwood Rowland is an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research is in atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics.... |
27 May 2004 | |
| Henry Augustus Rowland Henry Augustus Rowland Henry Augustus Rowland was a U.S. physicist. Between 1899 and 1901 he served as the first president of the American Physical Society... |
5 December 1889 | 27 November 1848 - 16 April 1901 |
| Carlo Rubbia Carlo Rubbia Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.-Biography:... |
28 June 1984 | |
| Gerald Mayer Rubin | 17 May 2007 | |
| Karl Ludwig Christian Rumker | 14 June 1855 | 28 May 1788 - 21 December 1862 |
| Henry Norris Russell Henry Norris Russell Henry Norris Russell was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram . In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed Russell–Saunders coupling which is also known as LS coupling.-Biography:Russell was born in 1877 in Oyster Bay, New... |
17 June 1937 | 26 October 1877 - 18 February 1957 Foreign Member |
| Leopold Ruzicka | 18 June 1942 | 13 September 1887 - 26 September 1976 |
| Janne Robert Rydberg | 28 June 1919 | 8 November 1854 - 19 December 1919 |
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