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
Richard Dawkins26 March 1941
Evolutionary Biologist
Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Rosalind Franklin25 July 1920
Chemist
Paul Dirac08 August 1902
Physicist
Francis Crick08 June 1916
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910
Biochemist
Frederick Sanger13 August 1918
Biochemist
Robert Winston15 July 1940
Surgeon, Scientist, TV Presenter
Maurice Wilkins15 December 1916
Biophysicist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952 AD
Structural biologist
Peter Medawar28 February 1915
Biologist
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824
Mathematician, Physicist
Andrew Huxley22 November 1917
Physiologist & Biophysicist
Aaron Klug11 August 1926
Chemist & Biophysicist
Max Perutz19 May 1914
Molecular Biologist
Brian Josephson04 January 1940
Physicist
John Cornforth07 September 1917
Nobel Prize Winner Chemist
Martin Ryle27 September 1918
Astronomer
John Kendrew24 March 1917
Biochemist and Crystallographer
Richard J. Roberts06 September 1943
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
Antony Hewish11 May 1924
Radio Astronomer
Derek Barton08 September 1918
Chemist
Allan McLeod Cormack23 February 1924
Physicist
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin05 February 1914
Biophysicist & Physiologist
Salvador Moncada03 December 1944
Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor
C. F. Powell05 December 1903
Physicist
Nevill Francis Mott30 September 1905
Physicist
Geoffrey Wilkinson14 July 1921
Chemist
Richard Laurence Millington Synge28 October 1914
Biochemist
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John E. Walker07 January 1941
Chemist
Archer Martin01 March 1910
Chemist
Cyril Clarke22 September 1907
Pioneering work on prevention of Rh disease, and
Janet Lane-Claypon03 February 1877
Physician
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
David Bellamy18 January 1933
Botanist
Freeman Dyson15 December 1923
Mathematician, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear
Wade Barrett10 August 1980
Professional wrestler, Marine biologist
Roger Penrose08 August 1931
Mathematician, Physicist, Writer, Philosopher,
Bill Oddie07 July 1941
Writer
Aubrey de Grey20 April 1963
Biologist
Jeremy Wade23 March 1956
Biologist, Television presenter, Writer
Piers Corbyn10 March 1947
Meteorologist
Geoffrey Hinton06 December 1947
Computer scientist
Andrew Wiles11 April 1953
Mathematician, University teacher
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Rupert Sheldrake28 June 1942
Author
Tony Hoare11 January 1934
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer, Writer,
Peter Higgs29 May 1929
Physicist
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Mark Shuttleworth18 September 1973
Entrepreneur, Astronaut, Engineer, Inventor,
James Lovelock26 July 1919
Biologist, Chemist, University teacher,
Charles K. Kao04 November 1933
Physicist, Engineer, Scientist, Inventor,
J. B. S. Haldane05 November 1892
Biologist, Geneticist, University teacher
Clive Sinclair30 July 1940
Entrepreneur, Engineer, Inventor, Computer
John Horton Conway26 December 1937
Mathematician, University teacher, Computer
David Deutsch18 May 1953
Physicist
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
John Lennox07 November 1943
mathematician, philosopher of science, university
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Edgar F. Codd19 August 1923
Computer scientist, Mathematician, University
Desmond Morris24 January 1928
Zoologist
Michael Moritz12 September 1954
Computer scientist
Charles Stross18 October 1964
Writer
Kevin Warwick09 February 1954
Engineer, Writer, University teacher, Computer
Andre Geim21 October 1958
Physicist, Inventor, Professor, Scientist
Martin Rees23 June 1942
Cosmologist
Donald Davies07 June 1924
Computer scientist
Martyn Poliakoff16 December 1947
Chemist, University teacher
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900
Astronomer, University teacher
Elias Canetti25 July 1905
Writer, Aphorist, Playwright, Chemist, Essayist
Frank P. Ramsey22 February 1903
Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist
John Maynard Smith06 February 1920
Mathematician
Ruth Lawrence02 August 1971
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Marcus du Sautoy26 August 1965
Mathematician, Academic, University teacher,
Tommy Flowers22 December 1905
Technician, Engineer, Computer scientist
Peter Scott14 September 1909
Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
John Polkinghorne16 October 1930
Physicist, Theoretical physicist
Timothy Gowers20 November 1963
Mathematician, University teacher
Sophie Wilson1957 AD
computer scientist
Fraser Stoddart24 May 1942
Chemist
Mary Leakey06 February 1913
Academic, Anthropologist
Steve Shirley16 September 1933
Computer scientist, Feminist
Tim Hunt19 February 1943
Biochemist, Chemist
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857
Astronomer