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
Frederick Sanger13 August 1918
Biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910
Biochemist
Peter Medawar28 February 1915
Biologist
Robert Winston15 July 1940
Surgeon, Scientist, TV Presenter
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929
Mathematician
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952 AD
Structural biologist
Maurice Wilkins15 December 1916
Biophysicist
Andrew Huxley22 November 1917
Physiologist & Biophysicist
Aaron Klug11 August 1926
Chemist & Biophysicist
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824
Mathematician, Physicist
Brian Josephson04 January 1940
Physicist
Max Perutz19 May 1914
Molecular Biologist
Salvador Moncada03 December 1944
Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor
Richard J. Roberts06 September 1943
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
Antony Hewish11 May 1924
Radio Astronomer
Nevill Francis Mott30 September 1905
Physicist
Martin Ryle27 September 1918
Astronomer
Allan McLeod Cormack23 February 1924
Physicist
John Kendrew24 March 1917
Biochemist and Crystallographer
John Cornforth07 September 1917
Nobel Prize Winner Chemist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin05 February 1914
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Derek Barton08 September 1918
Chemist
Geoffrey Wilkinson14 July 1921
Chemist
C. F. Powell05 December 1903
Physicist
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John E. Walker07 January 1941
Chemist
Archer Martin01 March 1910
Chemist
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28 October 1914
Biochemist
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877
Physician
Cyril Clarke22 September 1907
Pioneering work on prevention of Rh disease, and
Peter Mitchell22 September 1920
Biochemist
Sir James W. Black14 June 1924
Pharmacologist
Cyril Domb09 December 1920
Theoretical Physicist
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
John Horton Conway26 December 1937
Mathematician
Freeman Dyson15 December 1923
Mathematician, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear
Bill Oddie07 July 1941
Writer
Wade Barrett10 August 1980
Professional wrestler, Marine biologist
Roger Penrose08 August 1931
Mathematician, Physicist, Writer, Philosopher,
Jeremy Wade23 March 1956
Biologist, Television presenter, Writer
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Piers Corbyn10 March 1947
Meteorologist
Andrew Wiles11 April 1953
Mathematician, University teacher
Frank P. Ramsey22 February 1903
Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist
Aubrey de Grey20 April 1963
Biologist
Mark Shuttleworth18 September 1973
Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Engineer, Inventor,
Geoffrey Hinton06 December 1947
Computer scientist
Rupert Sheldrake28 June 1942
Author
Margaret Burbidge12 August 1919
Astrophysicist
Peter Higgs29 May 1929
Physicist
Tony Hoare11 January 1934
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
John Lennox07 November 1943
mathematician, philosopher of science, university
James Lovelock26 July 1919
Biologist, Chemist, University teacher,
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
Michael Moritz12 September 1954
Computer scientist
Martin Rees23 June 1942
Cosmologist
David Deutsch18 May 1953
Physicist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Charles K. Kao04 November 1933
Physicist, Engineer, Scientist, Inventor,
J. B. S. Haldane05 November 1892
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
David Bellamy18 January 1933
Botanist
James Dewar20 September 1842
Chemist
Edgar F. Codd19 August 1923
Computer scientist, Mathematician, University
Steve Shirley16 September 1933
Computer scientist, Feminist
Kevin Warwick09 February 1954
Engineer, Writer, University teacher, Computer
Martyn Poliakoff16 December 1947
Chemist, University teacher
Clive Sinclair30 July 1940
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, Computer
Charles Stross18 October 1964
Writer
Donald Davies07 June 1924
Computer Scientist
Peter Scott14 September 1909
Ornithologist
Desmond Morris24 January 1928
Zoologist
Elias Canetti25 July 1905
Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900
Astronomer, University teacher
Andre Geim21 October 1958
Physicist, Inventor, Professor, Scientist
Marcus du Sautoy26 August 1965
Mathematician, Academic, University teacher,
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Timothy Gowers20 November 1963
Mathematician, University teacher
Mary Leakey06 February 1913
Paleoanthropologist
John Polkinghorne16 October 1930
Physicist, Theoretical physicist
Tommy Flowers22 December 1905
Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist
Stuart J. Russell1962 AD
scientist, computer scientist, engineer,
W. T. Tutte14 May 1917
Mathematician
Sophie Wilson1957 AD
computer scientist
John Maynard Smith06 February 1920
Mathematician