List of University of Cambridge Members - Scientists, Technologists and Mathematicians

Scientists, Technologists and Mathematicians

  • John Couch Adams (St John's) Mathematician and astronomer
  • Lord Adrian (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physiologist
  • Sir George Airy (Trinity)
  • Ross J. Anderson (Trinity) Computer scientist
  • Sir Edward Appleton (St John's) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Philip Warren Anderson (Churchill/Jesus) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Francis Aston (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Sir Michael Atiyah (Trinity) Fields Medal & Abel Prize winner.
  • Charles Babbage (Peterhouse) Mathematician
  • Alan Baker (Trinity) Fields Medal winner. Mathematician.
  • H. F. Baker (St. John's)
  • Charles Barkla (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Horace Barlow (Trinity)
  • Simon Baron-Cohen (Trinity) Psychologist
  • Isaac Barrow (Trinity)
  • John Barrow (Clare) Templeton Prize winner. Mathematician
  • William Noel Benson (Unknown) Geologist
  • John Desmond Bernal (Emmanuel)
  • Elizabeth Blackburn (Darwin) Nobel Prize winner
  • Béla Bollobás (Trinity)
  • Patrick Blackett (Magdalene/King's) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Niels Bohr (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner. Physicist
  • Enrico Bombieri (Trinity) Fields Medal winner. Mathematician
  • Sir Hermann Bondi (Trinity) Mathematician and cosmologist
  • Richard Borcherds (Trinity) Fields Medal winner. Mathematician
  • Max Born (Caius) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose (Christ's)
  • Sir Lawrence Bragg (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir William Henry Bragg (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sydney Brenner (King's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Jacob Bronowski (Jesus)
  • Alec Broers (Caius)
  • Sir Roy Yorke Calne (Unknown)
  • Roger Carpenter (Caius)
  • Henry Cavendish (Peterhouse)
  • Arthur Cayley (Trinity)
  • Sir James Chadwick (Caius) Nobel Prize winner
  • Ernst Chain (Fitzwilliam) Nobel Prize winner
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Coates (Emmanuel)
  • Sir John Cockcroft (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Alan Cottrell (Christ's/Jesus) Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Sir Christopher Cockerell (Peterhouse)
  • Arthur Holly Compton (Unknown) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Horton Conway (Caius)
  • Allan Cormack (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Francis Crick (Caius/Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
  • David Crighton (St. John's)
  • Henry Dale (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Charles Darwin (Christ's)
  • Sir Charles Galton Darwin (Trinity/Christ's)
  • Erasmus Darwin (St John's)
  • Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (Emmanuel)
  • Sir George Darwin (Trinity)
  • Harold Davenport (Trinity)
  • Ashika David (Trinity)
  • John Dee (St John's/Trinity)
  • Duncan R. Derry (Unknown) Logan Medal winner. Economic geologist
  • Sir James Dewar (Peterhouse)
  • Jared Diamond (Trinity) Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Paul Dirac (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Simon Donaldson (Pembroke) Fields Medal winner
  • Sir Arthur Eddington (Trinity)
  • Sam Edwards (Caius)
  • Freeman Dyson (Trinity) Templeton Prize winner
  • Robert Edwards (Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Martin Evans (Christ's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Thomas Campbell Eyton (St John's) Naturalist
  • Ronald Fisher (Caius)
  • John Flamsteed (Jesus)
  • Howard Florey (Caius) Nobel Prize winner
  • Dian Fossey (Darwin)
  • Sir Michael Foster (Trinity)
  • Sir Ralph Fowler (Trinity)
  • William Fowler (Pembroke) Nobel Prize winner
  • Rosalind Franklin (Newnham)
  • Sir Richard Friend (Trinity/St John's)
  • Sir Francis Galton (Trinity)
  • Gary Gibbons (Trinity)
  • William Gilbert (St John's)
  • Walter Gilbert (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Harold Gillies (Caius)
  • Peter Goddard (St. John's)
  • Thomas Gold (Trinity)
  • Jane Goodall (Newnham/Darwin)
  • Timothy Gowers (Trinity) Fields Medal winner
  • Aubrey de Grey (Trinity Hall)
  • George Green (Caius)
  • Michael Green (Churchill/Clare Hall)
  • Paul Greengard (Unknown) Nobel Prize winner
  • J. B. S. Haldane (Trinity)
  • Gaylord Harnwell (Unknown)
  • G. H. Hardy (Trinity) Discovered Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • Douglas Hartree (St. John's)
  • H. W. Harvey (Downing) Marine biologist
  • William Harvey (Caius)
  • Stephen Hawking (Trinity Hall/Caius)
  • Roger Heath-Brown (Trinity)
  • William Heberden (St John's)
  • Sir John Herschel (St John's)
  • Antony Hewish (Caius/Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
  • Christopher Hinton (Trinity)
  • A. V. Hill (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • WVD Hodge (Pembroke)
  • Alan Hodgkin (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (Newnham/Girton) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Frederick Hopkins (Trinity/Emmanuel) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Fred Hoyle (Emmanuel)
  • Sir Tim Hunt (Clare) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Andrew Huxley (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Edward A. Irving (Unknown) Logan Medal winner
  • James Jeans (Trinity)
  • Karen Spärck Jones (Girton)
  • Brian Josephson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Pyotr Kapitsa (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Stan Kelly-Bootle (Downing)
  • Sir John Kendrew (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Pembroke)
  • Sir David King (Downing) Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Sir Aaron Klug (Trinity/Peterhouse) Nobel Prize winner
  • Georges J.F. Kohler (Unknown) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Hans Krebs (Girton) Nobel Prize winner
  • Horace Lamb (Trinity)
  • Joseph Larmor (St. John's)
  • David Lary (Churchill)
  • Imre Leader (Trinity)
  • Louis Leakey (St John's)
  • Georges Lemaître (St Edmund's)
  • John Lennard-Jones (Trinity)
  • Geraint F. Lewis (Unknown) Astrophysicist
  • Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (Robinson)
  • James Lighthill (Trinity)
  • John Edensor Littlewood (Trinity)
  • Peter Littlewood (Trinity)
  • Archer Martin (Peterhouse) Nobel Prize winner
  • Alan MacDiarmid (Sidney Sussex) Nobel Prize winner
  • Thomas Henry Manning (Unknown)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (Trinity)
  • Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (Unknown) Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Cesar Milstein (Fitzwilliam/Darwin) Nobel Prize winner
  • Peter Mitchell (Jesus) Nobel Prize winner
  • Augustus de Morgan (Trinity)
  • Samuel Morland (Magdalene)
  • Simon Conway Morris (St John's)
  • Nevill Mott (Caius/St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Roger Needham (Wolfson)
  • Michael Neuberger (Trinity)
  • Sir Isaac Newton (Trinity)
  • Sir Robin Nicholson (St Catharine's/Christ's) Chief Scientific Adviser
  • Ronald Norrish (Emmanuel) Nobel Prize winner
  • Lawrence Ogilvie (Emmanuel) Plant pathologist, entomologist, mycologist
  • William Oughtred (King's) Inventor of the slide rule and the "×" symbol for multiplication
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer (Christ's) Scientific director of the Manhattan Project
  • Jeremiah Ostriker (Unknown)
  • Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (St John's)
  • George Peacock (Trinity)
  • Karl Pearson (King's)
  • Sir Roger Penrose (St John's)
  • Max Perutz (Peterhouse) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Brian Pippard (Clare Hall)
  • John Polkinghorne (Trinity/Queens') Templeton Prize winner
  • Sir John Pople (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • George Porter (Emmanuel) Nobel Prize winner
  • Rodney Porter (Pembroke) Nobel Prize winner
  • Cecil Powell (Sidney Sussex) Nobel Prize winner
  • Reginald Punnett (Caius)
  • Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (Trinity)
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan (Trinity)
  • Frank P. Ramsey (Magdalene/Trinity/King's) Ramsey Theory, Decision Theory
  • Norman F. Ramsey (Clare) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Ray (St Catharine's)
  • Lord Rayleigh (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir John Randall (Unknown)
  • Lord Martin Rees (Trinity) Astronomer Royal
  • Osborne Reynolds (Queens')
  • Owen Richardson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • W. H. R. Rivers (St John's)
  • Steven Rose (King's)
  • Klaus Roth (Peterhouse) Fields Medal winner
  • Edward Routh (Peterhouse)
  • Ernest Rutherford (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Martin Ryle (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Vikram Sarabhai (St John's)
  • Abdus Salam (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Frederick Sanger (St John's) Winner of two Nobel Prizes
  • Nicholas Saunderson (Christ's)
  • Richard R. Schrock (Unknown) Nobel Prize winner
  • Dennis William Sciama (Trinity), Physicist
  • Sir Nicholas Shackleton (Clare)
  • Rupert Sheldrake (Clare)
  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (Fitzwilliam/Caius) Nobel Prize winner
  • Simon Singh (Emmanuel)
  • Herchel Smith (Emmanuel)
  • John Maynard Smith (Trinity)
  • Keith Moffatt (Trinity)
  • C. P. Snow (Christ's)
  • George Gabriel Stokes (Pembroke)
  • John Sulston (Pembroke) Nobel Prize winner
  • M. S. Swaminathan (Unknown) World Food Prize winner
  • James Joseph Sylvester (St John's)
  • Richard Synge (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • Albert Szent-Györgyi (Fitzwilliam) Nobel Prize winner
  • Peter Guthrie Tait (Peterhouse)
  • Brook Taylor (St John's)
  • Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Trinity)
  • Sir George Paget Thomson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • J. J. Thomson (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Griggs Thompson (Churchill) Fields Medal winner
  • Alexander Todd (Christ's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Alan Turing (King's)
  • Neil Turok (Churchill)
  • William Tutte (Trinity)
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Peterhouse)
  • Roger Y. Tsien (Churchill) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Venn (Caius)
  • Sir John E. Walker (Sidney Sussex) Nobel Prize winner
  • John Wallis (Emmanuel)
  • Ernest Walton (Trinity) Nobel Prize winner
  • James D. Watson (Clare) Nobel Prize winner
  • Steven Weinberg (Unknown) Nobel Prize winner
  • David Wheeler (Trinity/Darwin)
  • A.N. Whitehead (Trinity)
  • E.T. Whittaker (Trinity)
  • Sir Frank Whittle (Peterhouse)
  • Sir Andrew Wiles (Clare)
  • Sir Maurice Wilkes (St John's) Turing Award winner
  • Maurice Wilkins (St John's) Nobel Prize winner
  • Sir Ian Wilmut (Darwin)
  • C. T. R. Wilson (Sidney Sussex) Nobel Prize winner
  • Edward Adrian Wilson (Caius)
  • J. Tuzo Wilson (St. John's)
  • Sir Greg Winter (Trinity)
  • William Hyde Wollaston (Caius) Copley Medal winner
  • Thomas Young (Emmanuel)

See also Official list of Nobel Prize winners from Cambridge University

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