Science and Engineering
- Richard Bentall, clinical psychologist
- Henry Bessemer, engineer
- Thomas Boulsover, inventor of Sheffield Plate
- Harry Brearley, inventor of Stainless steel
- John Curr, coal mine and railway engineer
- Leonard Cockayne, botanist
- Samuel Earnshaw, mathematician
- Mark Firth, steel manufacturer
- Sir John Fowler, railway engineer and co-designer of the Forth Railway Bridge
- Robert Hadfield, innovator of steel alloys
- Professor David Hughes, astronomer
- Benjamin Huntsman, inventor and steel manufacturer
- Amy Johnson, pioneering female aviator
- Pieter Kok, co-developer of quantum interferometric optical lithography
- Hans Adolf Krebs, biochemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Sir Harry Kroto, chemist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Joseph Locke, railway engineer
- Peter Maitlis, organometallic chemist
- David Mellor, cutler
- Juda Hirsch Quastel, biochemist
- Frederick Brian Pickering, metallurgist
- Helen Sharman, astronaut (first Briton in space)
- Henry Clifton Sorby, microscopist and geologist
- Richard J. Roberts, biochemist
- John Roebuck, inventor
- Ian G Walker, electrical engineer
- John Paul Wild, astronomer
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, to-day in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be regarded as a bête noire the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!”
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