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Imperial College London
Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine as titled in its Royal Charter) is a British university in London specialising in science, engineering, medicine and business.
Imperial was placed 5th overall in the world in the 2009 Times Higher Education...
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John Ambrose Fleming
Sir John Ambrose Fleming (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904. He also invented the...
Anthony R. Barringer
Anthony R. “Tony” Barringer (October 20, 1925 - August 15, 2009) is a Canadian/American geophysicist. He has made numerous contributions to mineral exploration technology. His most famous work was the development of the INPUT airborne...
William Perkin
Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was an English chemist best known for his discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine.
William Perkin was born in the East End of London, the youngest of seven...
David E. H. Jones
David E. H. Jones is best known as Daedalus, the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published weekly in the New Scientist starting in the mid-sixties. He then moved on to the journal Nature, and continued to publish for...
Michael Neuberger
Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS (b. London, 2 November 1953) is a British biochemist and immunologist.
He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained an MA; he then...
Feza Gürsey
Feza Gürsey (April 7, 1921 - April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. His best known contribution to theoretical physics is his work on the Nonlinear Chiral Lagrangian.
Feza Gürsey was born on April 21, 1921 in Istanbul, to Reşit...
John Scales Avery
John Scales Avery (born in 1933 in Lebanon to American parents) is a theoretical chemist noted for his research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science. Since the early 1990s, Avery has been an active...
Marc Garneau
Captain (N) (ret'd) Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, CC, CD, FCASI, MP (born February 23, 1949) is a Canadian astronaut, engineer and politician.
Garneau was the first Canadian in space, and has taken part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles...
Simon Festing
Simon Festing is the executive director of the Research Defence Society (RDS), a British lobby group funded by the pharamaceutical industry and universities. The main focus of RDS is to defend the use of animal testing in the UK.
Festing graduated...
Winston Wong
Winston Wen-Yang Wang (Chinese: 王文洋; pinyin: Wáng Wényáng; born April 2, 1951 in Taipei County, Taiwan) ("Wang" is spelled with an "a," not an "o" as popular legend alleges) is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group ...
Keith Duckworth
David Keith Duckworth, (August 10, 1933 – December 19, 2005), was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve) engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One.
Duckworth was born...
Sankar K Pal
Sankar Kumar Pal is the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit in 1993, and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in 2004 at the institute. He received a Ph.D. in...
Trevor Phillips
Trevor Phillips OBE (born 31 December 1953, London) is head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and a former television executive and presenter. He became head of Commission for Racial Equality in 2003, and in 2006 was appointed head of its...
Joan Ruddock
Joan Mary Ruddock (née Anthony, born 28 December 1943, Pontypool), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Lewisham Deptford and was first elected in 1987. She is a feminist and is the partner of Frank...
Frederick Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester, Hon FRAeS (October 23, 1868 - March 8, 1946) was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering, aerodynamics and co-invented the field of operations research.
He was also a...
Martin Wood
Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS (born 19 April 1927) was co-founder of Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful.
He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and...
Charlotte Wilson
Charlotte Wilson (4 June 1973 – 28 December 2000) was a British volunteer teacher working with the organisation Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) in Rwanda. She was murdered in Burundi in December 2000 by the Partie Pour La Libération du Peuple Hutu...
Roy Anderson
Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS (born April 12, 1947) is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and AIDS. Anderson is currently Rector of Imperial...
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Gabriel Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.
He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science...
Tom Brake
Thomas Anthony Brake, known as Tom Brake, (born 6 May 1962) British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Carshalton and Wallington.
Tom Brake was born in Melton Mowbray, moving to France when he was eight. He was educated...
William George Penney
William George Penney, Baron Penney OM, KBE (24 June 1909 – 3 March 1991) was a British physicist who was responsible for the development of British nuclear technology following the World War II. A mathematician by training, he became an expert on...
Sam E. Jonah
Sam E Jonah, KBE is the Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital, a private equity fund based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr Jonah was previously President of AngloGold Ashanti and shared the strategic leadership of the company with its CEO, Bobby...
Bill Parry
Professor William (Bill) Parry FRS (3 July 1934–20 August 2006) was an English mathematician. During his research career, he was highly active in the study of dynamical systems, and, in particular, ergodic theory, and made significant contributions...
Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek: Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης) is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books "Code Reading" and "Code Quality".
Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from...
Peter Francis
Peter William Francis (1944–1999) was a British volcanologist specialising in the study of active volcanoes on both the Earth and other planets in our solar system. He was also renowned for his ability as a communicator, reaching the general public...
Ralph Benjamin
Ralph Benjamin, CB (born 17 November 1922) is a British scientist.
Benjamin was born in Darmstadt, Germany. He attended boarding school in Switzerland from 1937, and was sent to England in 1939 as a refugee. He studied at Ellesmere College and at...
Michael Cowpland
Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company.
Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. in...
Stanley Hooker
Sir Stanley George Hooker (30 September 1907 – 24 May 1984) was a jet engine engineer, first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled...
William Eccles
William Henry Eccles (23 August 1875 – 29 April 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England. Following graduation from the Royal College of Science,...
Brian May
Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947 in London, England) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits...
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.
Wilkinson was born in the village of Springside, near Todmorden in Yorkshire...
Roger Bannister
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, CBE (born 23 March, 1929) is an English former athlete best known as the first man in history to run the mile in less than 4 minutes. Bannister became a distinguished neurologist and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford,...
Alison Wheeler
Alison Wheeler (born April 13, 1956) is a British political activist.
An organiser of the London Lesbian and Gay Pride march and festival from 1983 to 1991, Wheeler was a founding member of the London chapter of the Lesbian Avengers and of the...
Robert Boyd
Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (19 October 1922 – 5 February 2004) was a pioneer of British space science and founding director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (part of University College London).
Robert Boyd was born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire...
Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 1964) is a British Indian author of Punjabi background, who has specialised in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom...
C. D. Darlington
Cyril Dean Darlington (19 December 1903 - 26 March 1981) was an English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, who discovered the mechanics of chromosomal crossover, its role in inheritance, and therefore its importance to evolution.
Cyril Darlington...
Alan Blumlein
Alan Dower Blumlein (29 June 1903 – 7 June 1942) was an English electronics engineer, notable for his many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar. He received 128 patents and was considered as one of the most...
Claire J. Tomlin
Claire Jennifer Tomlin (b. Southampton, England 1969) is an American researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.
Tomlin received her B.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo in 1992. She then attended...
Louis Attrill
Louis Attrill is a British rower and Olympics gold medallist.
Attrill took up rowing at Shanklin Rowing Club on the Isle of Wight and won novice at Milford regatta. The following year he furthered his interest in the sport at Imperial College Boat...
Mike Southon
Mike Southon is a British entrepreneur and author.
Mike Southon was educated at Papplewick School, Ascot (where he was a contemporary of Richard Curtis) and Wellington College, Crowthorne (where in 1967 he met Chris West, who was to become his co...
George Mercer Dawson
George Mercer Dawson (August 1, 1849 – March 2, 1901) was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Sir John William Dawson. By age 11, he was afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine (Pott's disease) that...
Colin Dyer
Colin Dyer has been a Director of Jones Lang LaSalle since September 2004, when he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Before that, from 2000 to 2004, he was the founding CEO of the WorldWide Retail Exchange, an Internet...
Richard L. Hills
The Rev. Dr Richard Leslie Hills is an English historian who has written extensively on the history of technology, particularly steam power. He founded Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry.
He was born on 1 September 1936 at Lee Green,...
Peter Rice
Peter Rice (1935–1992) was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dundalk in County Louth, he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast where he...
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Huxley's famous 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a key moment in the wider...
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Ratna Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election...
Teo Chee Hean
Teo Chee Hean (simplified Chinese: 张志贤; traditional Chinese: 張志賢; pinyin: Zhāng Zhìxián; born 27 December 1954) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Deputy Prime...
Julius Vogel
Sir Julius Vogel, KCMG (24 February 1835 – 12 March 1899) was the 8th Prime Minister of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works. He remains the only practising...
David Potter
David Edwin Potter, CBE, FREng (born 1943) is the founder and chairman of the microcomputer systems company Psion PLC., and Psion Teklogix after Psion's acquisition of Teklogix in the year 2000.
Potter was born in East London, South Africa in 1943...
John Fox
(Anthony) John Fox (born 25 April 1946) is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia.
He was born on 25 April 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London ...
David Cain
David Cain (born 1941) was a composer and technician for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He was educated at Imperial College London, where he earned a degree in mathematics. In 1963, he joined the BBC as a studio manager, specialising in radio drama....
Simon Dennis
Simon Dennis MBE (born 24 August 1976 in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire) is a British rower and Olympic gold medalist.
He started rowing at St Paul's School, London, coached by Michael Streat and his first international appearance was in 1994 in the...
Jack Baldwin
Sir Jack E. Baldwin, FRS (born London, 1938) is a former Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford (1978–2005) and the former head of the organic chemistry department of that university.
He studied at Imperial College, London, and...
Edward Knobel
Edward Ball Knobel (21 October 1841 – 25 July 1930) was an English businessman and amateur astronomer. He was born in London, England.
He started to study law but his love of geology made him change to the Government School of Mines (now part of...
Dewang Mehta
Dewang Mehta (August 10, 1962-12 April 2001) was the head of NASSCOM from 1991 to 2001. He is credited with a large portion of India's momentous rise as a "software giant".
Dewang Mehta was born on August 10, 1962, in a sleepy hamlet called Umreth,...
Bill Durodié
Dr Bill Durodié is the Senior Fellow co-ordinating the Homeland Defence research programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
He...
Ian Bayley
Ian Bayley is a leading UK quiz player, despite his youth when compared with other leading players (he is in his early thirties). He was British Quiz Champion in 2001. He made an appearance on Who Wants to be a Millionaire as a "phone a friend". In...
David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books on the subject, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Uprising! (1981)...
Rudolf Kingslake
Rudolf Kingslake (1903-2003) was an eminent academician, lens designer, and engineer.
Rudolf Kingslake was born in London, England in 1903. He studied optical design at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under eminent optical designer...
