List of British scientists

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This is a list of British scientists.

A[]

  • Frederick Abel (1827–1902) explosives specialist
  • Arthur Adams (1820–1878), physician and naturalist
  • William Grylls Adams (1836-1915), physicist and astronomer
  • Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), electrophysiologist
  • Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), chemist and mineralogist
  • William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist
  • John Albery (1936–2013), physical chemist
  • Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933), biological systematist
  • Nora Lilian Alcock (1874–1972), plant pathologist
  • Boyd Alexander (1873–1910), ornithologist
  • June Dalziel Almeida (1930–2007), virologist
  • Agnes Robertson Arber (1879–1960), plant morphologist
  • Francis William Aston (1877–1945), physicist
  • David Attenborough (born 1926), naturalist
  • Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), geneticist
  • David Axon (1951–2012), astrophysicist

B[]

Ba–Bi[]

  • Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher, "father of the scientific method"
  • Roger Bacon (1219–1292 approximately), philosopher, advocate of the scientific method
  • John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), botanist
  • Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), chemist
  • Derek Barton (1918–1998), chemist
  • Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist
  • Patrick Bateson (1938–2017), zoologist
  • Michael Bearpark (born 20th century), computational chemist
  • John Beddington (born 1945), population biologist
  • Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist
  • David Bellamy (1933–2019), ecologist
  • Ralph Benjamin (1922–2019), electrical engineer
  • Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), zoologist
  • George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
  • Robert Bentley (1821–1893), botanist
  • Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist
  • Kevin Beurle (1956–2009), space scientist
  • Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), ornithologist
  • Sheila Bingham (1947–2009), nutritional epidemiologist
  • Ann Bishop (1899–1990), protozoologist and parasitologist

Bl–Bu[]

  • Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist
  • John Blackwall (1790–1881), entomologist
  • Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), naturalist
  • William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), geologist and naturalist
  • David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004), X-ray crystallographer
  • Edward Blyth (1810–1873), ornithologist
  • Edward August Bond (1815–1898), palaeographer
  • Edmund John Bowen (1898–1980), physical chemist
  • Humphry John Moule Bowen (1929–2001) botanist and chemist
  • Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), botanist
  • Robert Boyle (1627–1691), "father of chemistry"
  • Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist
  • Dennis Bray (born 20th century), computational biologist
  • Malcolm Brenner (born 1951), active in gene therapy and immunotherapy
  • Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), molecular biologist
  • Alan Brisdon (born 20th century), fluorine chemist
  • Donald Broadbent (1926–1993), experimental psychologist
  • Robert Brown (1773–1858), botanist
  • David Bruce (1855–1931), pathologist and microbiologist
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), zoologist and botanist
  • John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist
  • Alan Butement (1904–1990), physicist

C[]

Ca–Ch[]

Cl–Cu[]

  • G. Marius Clore FRS (born 1955), molecular biophysicist
  • Marcela Contreras (born 1942), blood expert and immunologist
  • Verona Conway (1910–1986), plant zecologist
  • Charles Coulson (1910–1974), theoretical chemist
  • Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), chemist
  • Brian Cox (born 1968), physicist
  • Eva Crane (1912–2007), entomologist
  • Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist
  • Andrew Crosse (1784–1855), pioneer in the study of electricity
  • Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922), organic chemist
  • Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), botanist
  • Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), botanist
  • William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist

D[]

  • John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist: "father of modern atomic theory"
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), originator of the theory of natural selection
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), naturalist
  • Donald Davies (1924–2000), computer scientist
  • Humphry Davy (1778–1829), chemist and inventor
  • Richard Dawkins (born 1941), ethologist and evolutionary biologist
  • James Dewar (1842–1923), chemist and physicist
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), botanist and conchologist
  • Paul Dirac (1902–1984), theoretical physicist
  • Deborah Doniach (1912–2004), clinical immunologist
  • James Donn (1758–1813), botanist
  • Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), entomologist
  • David Douglas (1799–1834), botanist

E[]

F[]

  • Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), palaeontologist
  • Michael Faraday (1791–1867), pioneer of electricity
  • John Farrah (1849–1907), English botanist and meteorologist
  • Barry Fell (1917–1994), zoologist
  • James Fisher (1922–1970), ornithologist
  • Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician
  • Jim Flegg (born 20th century), ornithologist
  • Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), physician and microbiologist
  • Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (1878–1950), entomologist
  • E. B. Ford (1901–1988), ecological geneticist
  • Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), particle physicist
  • Robert Fortune (1813–1880), botanist
  • Carey Foster (1835–1919), chemist and physicist
  • Henry Foster (1797–1831), naval surveyor
  • Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), geneticist
  • Edward Frankland (1825–1899), chemist
  • Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), X-ray crystallographer
  • Elizabeth Fulhame (18th–19th centuries), chemist, pioneer in study of catalysis
  • Vera Furness (1921–2002) industrial chemist

G[]

Ge–Go[]

  • Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist and geographer
  • John Gerard (1545–1611/12), botanist
  • Michael Gerzon (1945–1996), acoustic physicist
  • Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018), botanist
  • Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), naturalist and ornithologist
  • Jane Goodall (born 1934), primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
  • June Goodfield (born 1927), historian of science
  • Dougal Goodman (born 20th century), low-temperature physicist
  • Guy Goodwin (born 1947), neuroscientist
  • George Gordon (1806–1879), botanist
  • Raymond Gosling (1926–2015), physicist
  • Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), naturalist
  • John Gould (1804–1881), ornithologist

Gr–Gw[]

  • Monica Grady (born 1958), space scientist
  • Thomas Graham (1805–1869) chemist
  • George Robert Gray (1808–1872), zoologist
  • John Edward Gray (1800–1875), zoologist
  • Malcolm Green (1936–2020), inorganic chemist
  • Edward Grey (1862–1933), ornithologist
  • Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), bacteriologist
  • Robert Grosseteste (1168 – ca. 1253), philosopher and theologian
  • Albert Günther (1830–1914), zoologist
  • Frederick Guthrie (1833–1886), physicist and chemist
  • Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967), botanist and mycologist

H[]

Ha–He[]

  • J. B. S. Haldane (John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892–1964), evolutionary biologist
  • John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), physiologist
  • Wendy Hall (born 1952), computer scientist
  • Edmond Halley (1656–1742), astronomer
  • Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980), chemist
  • William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000), evolutionary biologist
  • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899), conchologist and malacologist
  • William Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), clergyman and student of glass
  • Arthur Harden (1865–1940), biochemist
  • Anita Harding (1952–1995), neurologist
  • Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), naturalist
  • Alister Clavering Hardy (1896–1985), marine biologist
  • Richard Harrison (born 20th century), physicist
  • William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), phycologist
  • Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), mineralogist and analytical chemist
  • Walter Norman Haworth (1883–1950), chemist
  • Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), cosmologist
  • Arthur Hay (1824–1878), ornithologist
  • Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), mathematician and physicist
  • James Hector (1834–1907), geologist and naturalist
  • John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), mineralogist and botanist
  • Vernon Heywood (born 1927), botanist

Hi–Hu[]

  • Julia Higgins (born 1942), polymer scientist
  • Peter Higgs (born 1929), particle physicist
  • Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977), physiologist,
  • Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), physical chemist
  • Peter Hirsch (born 1925), minerals scientist
  • George Hockham (1938–2013), electromagnetic engineer
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), chemist
  • Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), naturalist
  • Anthony Hollander (born 1964), integrative biologist
  • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), natural philosopher
  • Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist
  • William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
  • Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist
  • Victor Horsley (1857–1916), medical scientist
  • Albert Howard (1873–1947), botanist
  • Henry Eliot Howard (1873–1940), ornithologist
  • Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), ornithologist
  • Rob Hume (born 20th century), ornithologist
  • Rosalinde Hurley (1929–2004), microbiologist
  • Harold Edwin Hurst (1880–1978), hydrologist
  • Janet Husband (born 20th century), radiologist
  • Frederick Hutton (1835–1905), biologist and geologist
  • Hugh Huxley (1924–2013), muscle biochemist
  • Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist and evolutionary theorist
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), zoologist

I[]

J[]

  • William Jardine (1800–1874), naturalist
  • Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), geneticist
  • Edward Jenner (1749–1823), pioneer immunologist
  • John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), conchologist and malacologist
  • Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872), zoologist and botanist
  • Harren Jhoti (born 1962), structural biologist
  • Joanne Johnson (born 1977): geologist, Antarctic scientist
  • Mark H. Johnson (born 1960), cognitive neuroscientist
  • Pauline Johnson (born 20th century), immunologist and microbiologist

K[]

  • Charles K. Kao (1933–2018), electrical engineer and physicist
  • Alan R. Katritzky (1928–2014), chemist
  • Janet Kear (1933–2004), ornithologist
  • Frank Kearton (1911–1992), chemist
  • Douglas Kell (born 1953), biochemist
  • David Kelly (1944–2003), weapons expert
  • John Kendrew (1917–1997) biochemist and crystallographer
  • Gerald A. Kerkut (1927–2004), zoologist and physiologist
  • Aaron Klug (1926–2018), biophysicist and chemist
  • Alexander King (1909–2007), chemist
  • Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957), zoologist
  • William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
  • Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), botanist
  • Jeremy Knowles (1935–2008), enzyme chemist
  • Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), engineer and physicist
  • Harry Kroto (1939–2016), chemist.
  • John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), inventor

L[]

  • David Lack (1910–1973), ornithologist
  • Patrick Laidlaw (1881–1940), virologist
  • Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), botanist
  • Hugh Lamprey (1928–1996), ecologist
  • John Latham(1740–1837), ornithologist
  • Colin Leakey (1933–2018), tropical botanist
  • Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and naturalist
  • Louise Leakey (born 1972), paleontologist
  • Mary Leakey (1913–1996), paleoanthropologist
  • Meave Leakey (born 1942), paleontologist
  • Richard Leakey (1944–2022), paleontologist and archaeologist
  • John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), physicist and magnetism surveyor
  • John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954), theoretical physicist
  • John Lightfoot (1735–1788), conchologist and botanist
  • John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist
  • Joseph Lister (1827–1912), pioneer of antiseptic surgery
  • Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
  • John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), botanist
  • Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), mathematician and computing pioneer
  • James Lovelock (born 1919), father of the Gaia hypothesis
  • Percy Lowe (1870–1948), ornithologist
  • Martin Lowry (1874–1936), physical chemist
  • Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), naturalist

M[]

N[]

  • John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  • John Needham (1713–1781), naturalist
  • Joseph Needham (1900–1995), biochemist and historian
  • Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924), botanist
  • John Newlands (1837–1898), chemist who studied the periodicity of elements
  • Alfred Newton (1829–1907), zoologist
  • Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
  • Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899), zoologist
  • William Nicholson (1753–1815), chemist
  • Denis Noble (born 1936), physiologist
  • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), chemist
  • Paul Nurse (born 1949), geneticist

O[]

  • William Ogilby (1808–1873), naturalist
  • Bridget Ogilvie (born 1938), parasitologist
  • William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
  • Tony Orchard (1941–2005) inorganic chemist.
  • Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901), entomologist
  • Edward Latham Ormerod (1819–1873), physician and entomologist
  • William Charles Osman Hill (1901–1975), anatomist and primatologist
  • Ian Osterloh (born 20th century), clinical researcher
  • Richard Owen (1804–1892), biologist, palaeontologist and taxonomist

P[]

R[]

  • Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), statesman and botanist
  • Venki Ramakrishnan (born 1952), structural biologist
  • William Ramsay (1852–1916), chemist who discovered the noble gases
  • Matthew Raper (1705–1778), astronomer and mathematician
  • Chris Rapley (born 1947), climatologist
  • John Ray (also written John Wray, 1627–1705), naturalist
  • Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), conchologist
  • Michael Reiss (born 1960), bioethicist
  • Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), physicist
  • Tracey Reynolds, sociologist
  • John Richardson (1787–1865) naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
  • Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956) botanist, geologist and naturalist
  • Robert Robinson (1886–1975) organic chemist
  • Sheila Rodwell (Sheila Bingham, 1947–2009), nutritional epidemiologist
  • Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), entomologist
  • Walter Rothschild (1868–1937), zoologist
  • William Roxburgh (1759–1815), botanist
  • Gordon Rugg (born 1955), computer scientist
  • Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), physician, chemist and botanist
  • Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), physicist, known as the father of nuclear physics
  • Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher and mathematician

S[]

Sa–Se[]

  • Joseph Sabine (1770–1837), botanist and horticulturist
  • Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978), botanist
  • Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829), botanist
  • Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), biochemist
  • Philip Sclater (1829–1913), zoologist
  • Henry Seebohm (1832–1895), ornithologist
  • Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), botanist and ornithologist
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), zoologist
  • Nigel Shadbolt (born 1956), computer scientist
  • George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
  • George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910), ornithologist
  • John Sherwood (ca. 1933 to 2020), physical organic chemist
  • Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1922), physiologist and neuroscientist
  • Sydney Selwyn (1934–1996), medical microbiologist

Sm–Sy[]

  • Andrew Smith (1797–1872), zoologist
  • Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916), zoologist and conchologist
  • Frederick Smith (1805–1879), entomologist
  • George D. W. Smith (born 1943), materials scientist
  • James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist
  • John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), biologist
  • Douglas Spalding (1841–1877), behaviourist
  • Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), anthropologist
  • Charles Stanhope (1753–1816), mathematician and physicist
  • Edward Stanley (1775–1851), naturalist
  • James Francis Stephens (1792–1853), zoologist
  • Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), botanist
  • James Stirling (1953–2018), physicist
  • Peter A. Stott (born 20th century), climatologist
  • John Struthers (1823–1899), anatomist
  • Samuel Stutchbury (1798–1859), naturalist and geologist
  • William John Swainson (1789–1855), ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist and entomologist
  • Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), naturalist
  • Peter Sykes (1923–2003), chemist
  • William Henry Sykes (1790–1872), ornithologist

T[]

U[]

V[]

  • Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), zoologist

W[]

  • Nicholas Wald (born 20th century), Professor of Preventive Medicine
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
  • Kevin Warwick (born 1954), computer scientist and neurobiologist
  • Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist
  • Andrew Watson (born 1952), marine biologist
  • Alexander Watt (1892–1985), botanist
  • Edwin C. Webb (1921–2006), biochemist
  • Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist
  • Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), botanist
  • Richard Burkewood Welbourn (1919–2005), endocrinologist
  • Michael Wells (born 20th century), pathologist
  • Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), chemist
  • Michael Whelan (born 1931), materials scientist
  • William Joseph Whelan (1924–2021) biochemist
  • Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist
  • John White (c. 1756–1832), botanist
  • Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), nutritionist
  • Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), biophysicist
  • James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), numerical analyst
  • Mark Williamson (born 20th century), biologist
  • Francis Willughby (1635–1672), ornithologist and ichthyologist
  • Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), ornithologist
  • Alan Wilson (born 1939), mathematician
  • E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), naturalist
  • Greg Winter (born 1951), molecular biologist
  • Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), bioengineer
  • John Wray (1627–1705), naturalist

Y[]

  • William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
  • John Zachary Young (1907–1997), neurophysiologist
  • Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
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