Natural and Applied Sciences
- William Boyd Dawkins, geologist
- Patricia Lewis, nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
- James Lovelock, independent scientist and prominent environmentalist. Proposed the Gaia hypothesis. Graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1941.
- Sir John Maddox, Editor of Nature for 22 years
- Gordon Manley, climatologist
- Michael Polanyi, chemist, influential philosopher and noted polymath (father of Nobel laureate John Charles Polanyi). Chair of Physical Chemistry (1933–1948) and Chair of Social Studies (1948–1959).
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