Find out more about the greatest 20th Century British Scientists, including Stephen Hawking, Alan Turing, Richard Dawkins, Tim Berners-Lee and Rosalind Franklin.
Stephen Hawking08 January 1942
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist
Alan Turing23 June 1912
Mathematician
Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Richard Dawkins26 March 1941
Evolutionary Biologist
Rosalind Franklin25 July 1920
Chemist
Paul Dirac08 August 1902
Physicist
Francis Crick08 June 1916
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952 AD
Structural biologist
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910
Biochemist
Frederick Sanger13 August 1918
Biochemist
Maurice Wilkins15 December 1916
Biophysicist
Robert Winston15 July 1940
Surgeon, Scientist, TV Presenter
Peter Medawar28 February 1915
Biologist
Aaron Klug11 August 1926
Chemist & Biophysicist
Andrew Huxley22 November 1917
Physiologist & Biophysicist
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824
Mathematician, Physicist
Max Perutz19 May 1914
Molecular Biologist
Brian Josephson04 January 1940
Physicist
Richard J. Roberts06 September 1943
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
John Cornforth07 September 1917
Nobel Prize Winner Chemist
Salvador Moncada03 December 1944
Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin05 February 1914
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Martin Ryle27 September 1918
Astronomer
John Kendrew24 March 1917
Biochemist and Crystallographer
Antony Hewish11 May 1924
Radio Astronomer
Allan McLeod Cormack23 February 1924
Physicist
Derek Barton08 September 1918
Chemist
C. F. Powell05 December 1903
Physicist
Nevill Francis Mott30 September 1905
Physicist
John E. Walker07 January 1941
Chemist
Geoffrey Wilkinson14 July 1921
Chemist
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28 October 1914
Biochemist
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Archer Martin01 March 1910
Chemist
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877
Physician
Cyril Clarke22 September 1907
Pioneering work on prevention of Rh disease, and
Cyril Domb09 December 1920
Theoretical Physicist
Peter Mitchell22 September 1920
Biochemist
Sir James W. Black14 June 1924
Pharmacologist
John R. Vane29 March 1927
Pharmacologist
Sir Bernard Katz26 March 1911
Biophysicist
Rodney R. Porter08 October 1917
Biochemist
Sir Harold W. Kroto07 October 1939
Chemist
John A Pople31 October 1925
Chemist
Freeman Dyson15 December 1923
Mathematician, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear
Wade Barrett10 August 1980
Professional wrestler, Marine biologist
Roger Penrose08 August 1931
Mathematician, Physicist, Writer, Philosopher,
Piers Corbyn10 March 1947
Meteorologist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900
Astronomer, University teacher
Jeremy Wade23 March 1956
Biologist, Television presenter, Writer
Geoffrey Hinton06 December 1947
Computer scientist
Andrew Wiles11 April 1953
Mathematician, University teacher
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Peter Higgs29 May 1929
Theoretical physicist, Physicist
Mark Shuttleworth18 September 1973
Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Engineer, Inventor,
Tony Hoare11 January 1934
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Patrick Moore1947 AD
lobbyist
Bill Oddie07 July 1941
Writer
Rupert Sheldrake28 June 1942
Author
Charles K. Kao04 November 1933
Physicist, Engineer, Scientist, Inventor,
James Lovelock26 July 1919
Biologist, Chemist, University teacher,
David Bellamy18 January 1933
Botanist
David Deutsch1953 AD
physicist, computer scientist, university teacher,
Charles Stross18 October 1964
Writer
J. B. S. Haldane05 November 1892
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
John Lennox07 November 1943
mathematician, philosopher of science, university
John Horton Conway26 December 1937
Mathematician, University teacher, Computer
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Aubrey de Grey20 April 1963
Biologist
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
Kevin Warwick09 February 1954
Engineer, Writer, University teacher, Computer
Andre Geim21 October 1958
Physicist, Inventor, Professor, Scientist
Edgar F. Codd19 August 1923
Computer scientist, Mathematician, University
Michael Moritz12 September 1954
Computer scientist
Clive Sinclair30 July 1940
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, Computer
Donald Davies07 June 1924
Computer scientist
Martin Rees23 June 1942
Cosmologist
Elias Canetti25 July 1905
Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist
Martyn Poliakoff16 December 1947
Chemist, University teacher
Timothy Gowers20 November 1963
Mathematician, University teacher
John Polkinghorne16 October 1930
Physicist, Theoretical physicist
Ruth Lawrence02 August 1971
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Tim Hunt19 February 1943
Biochemist, Chemist
Frank P. Ramsey22 February 1903
Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist
Sophie Wilson1957 AD
computer scientist
Peter Scott14 September 1909
Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp
Steve Shirley16 September 1933
Computer scientist, Feminist
Marcus du Sautoy26 August 1965
Mathematician, Academic, University teacher,
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Harry Kroto07 October 1939
Chemist, University teacher
Tommy Flowers22 December 1905
Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist
John Maynard Smith06 February 1920
Mathematician
Mary Leakey06 February 1913
Academic, Anthropologist
Jack W. Szostak09 November 1952
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Stuart J. Russell1962 AD
scientist, computer scientist, engineer,
Fraser Stoddart24 May 1942
Chemist