Scientists
- Arthur Aikin (1773–1854), chemist and mineralogist
- Nathan Alcock (1707–1779), doctor
- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), mathematician
- Joseph Banks (1743–1820), naturalist
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), mathematician
- Thomas Bayes (c. 1702 – 1761), mathematician
- Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist – inventor of the WorldWideWeb
- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974), physicist
- George Boole (1815–1864), mathematician
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691), natural philosopher
- Richard Bright (1630–1677), doctor, founder of Bright's Disease (form of kidney disease)
- Henry Brunner (1838–1916), chemist
- Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), scientist
- Sir George Cayley (1773–1857), polymath and aviator
- Frank Close (born 1945), physicist
- Brian Cox (born 1968), physicist
- Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist
- John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist and physicist
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Founder of The Theory of Evolution
- Richard Dawkins (born 1941), evolutionary theorist
- Henry Deacon (1822–76), chemist
- Paul Dirac (1902–1984), physicist
- Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), entomologist, myrmecologist and coleopterist
- Arthur Eddington (1882–1944), physicist
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
- Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), chemist and x-ray crystallographer
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), geneticist
- James Hargreaves (1834–1915), chemist
- Stephen Hawking (born 1942), cosmologist
- Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), physicist
- John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer
- Peter Higgs (born 1929), physicist
- C. A. R. Hoare (born 1934), computer scientist
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist
- Edward Jenner (1749–1823), doctor
- R. V. Jones (1911–1997), physicist
- James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), physicist
- Joseph Lister (1827–1912), surgeon
- Bernard Lovell (1913–2012), astronomer
- James Lovelock (born 1919), scientist
- Martin Lowry (1874–1936), chemist
- John William Lubbock (1803–1865), banker, mathematician and astronomer
- Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), geologist
- John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), geneticist
- John McClellan (1810–81), chemist
- Robert Mond (1867–1938), chemist
- Desmond Morris (born 1928), zoologist
- Roger Needham (1935–2003), computer scientist
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), founder of modern physics, last of the alchemists
- William Penney (1909–1991), mathematician, physicist, Director of British nuclear weapon research
- Roger Penrose (born 1931), cosmologist
- Joseph Prestwich (1812–1896), geologist
- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist
- Martin Rees (born 1942), cosmologist and astrophysicist
- Adam Sedgwick (1785–1873), geologist
- John Snow (1813–1858), epidemiologist
- Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914), physicist and chemist
- George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), physicist
- J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist
- Henry Tizard (1885–1959), chemist and inventor
- Alan Turing (1912–1954), mathematician
- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician
- Maurice Vincent Wilkes (born 1913), computer scientist
- James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), mathematician
- William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), chemist
- Thomas Young (1773–1829), scientist
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Famous quotes containing the word scientists:
“Y’know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar’s eyebrow. But when it comes to really important things we’re as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go ‘round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?”
—Martin Berkeley, and Jack Arnold. Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson)
“Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can’t tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas of correct “feminine” behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)