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Edward Routh

Edward John Routh FRS (20 January 1831–7 June 1907), was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the...

John Cranke

John Cranke (1746-1816) is an English scientific thinker and clergyman, particularly notable for starting a scientific genealogy producing some eight Nobel Prize winners in total. Cranke was admitted as a sizar at the age of 21 into Trinity College,...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), English: /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/) (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian American astrophysicist. He was a Nobel laureate in physics along with William Alfred Fowler for their...

George Gabriel Stokes

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (13 August 1819–1 February 1903), was a mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations), optics, and mathematical physics...

Arthur Stanley Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a...

John Newport Langley

John Newport Langley (2 November 1852 - 5 November 1925) was a British physiologist. He spent his entire career at Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883 and later its vice-president. Langley is known as one of...

James Lighthill

Sir Michael James Lighthill, FRS (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics. Lighthill specialised in fluid dynamics, and worked at the National Physical...

William Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg, CH, OBE, MC, FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an English physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. He was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge...

William Hopkins

William Hopkins FRS (2 February 1793 – 13 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the senior-wrangler maker. He also made...

Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla (27 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was an English physicist. Barkla was born in Widnes and studied at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool University. In 1899 he went to Trinity College, Cambridge as an Exhibition Scholar to...

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...

Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley (16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895) was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics. As a child, Cayley enjoyed solving complex math problems for amusement. He entered Trinity College,...

Ronald Fisher

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. He was described by Anders Hald as "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for...

George Paget Thomson

Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Thomson was born...

Michael Foster

Sir Michael Foster (8 March 1836 – 29 January 1907) was an English physiologist. He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London. After graduating in medicine at the University of London in 1859, he began...

John C. Slater

John Clarke Slater (December 22, 1900 - July 25, 1976) was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist. Slater studied at the University of Rochester, earning his B.S. in 1920. He went on to receive his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard...

C. R. Rao

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (Kannada: ಕಲ್ಯಾಂಪುದಿ ರಾಧಾಕೃಷ್ಣ ರಾಯ) FRS (born September 10, 1920) is a world-renowned Indian born statistician, National Medal of Science Awardee, and currently Professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research...

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (Besikovitch) (Абрам Самойлович Безикович) (24 January 1891 – 2 November 1970) was a Russian - Jewish mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov (now in Ukraine) to a...

Douglass North

Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is an American economist known for his work in the history of economic thought. He is the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of...

Ralph H. Fowler

Sir Ralph Howard Fowler OBE FRS (17 January 1889 – 28 July 1944) was a British physicist and astronomer. Fowler was initially educated at home but then attended Evans' preparatory school at Horris Hill and Winchester College. He won a scholarship to...

J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS (5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964), known as Jack (but who used 'J.B.S.' in his printed works), was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and...

Isaac Barrow

Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English scholar and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work...

Michael J. C. Gordon

Michael John Caldwell Gordon, British computer scientist (born February 28, 1948). Mike Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. The HOL system is an environment for interactive theorem proving in a higher-order logic. Its most...

Harrie Massey

Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 - 27 November 1983) was an influential Australian mathematical physicist. He worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Harrie Massey was born in St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia,...

Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones (June 23, 1756 – July 18, 1807) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick. On graduating from Shrewsbury School, Jones was...

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John William Strutt

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh OM (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered...

Peter Robinson

Peter Robinson is Professor of Computer Technology and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he leads the Rainbow Group working on computer graphics and interaction. He is also a Fellow and...

Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM FRS (20 June 1861 Eastbourne, Sussex - 16 May 1947 Cambridge) was an English biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, with Christiaan Eijkman, for the discovery of vitamins. He...

Walter Morley Fletcher

Sir Walter Morley Fletcher, KBE (1873-1933) was a British physiologist and administrator. Fletcher graduated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge and was most significant in his administration of the Medical Research Council (MRC) during...

Harold Davenport

Harold Davenport FRS (30 October 1907 – 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Born in Huncoat, Lancashire, he was educated at Accrington Grammar School, the University of Manchester, where he...

Richard Borcherds

Richard Ewen Borcherds (born 29 November, 1959) is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998. Borcherds was born in Cape Town, but the...

Paul Langevin

Paul Langevin (23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist...

Dennis William Sciama

Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS (18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considerd as one...

Joseph John Thomson

Sir Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate, credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906...

Anthony French

Anthony Philip French (born in 1920 in Brighton, England) is an emeritus professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. French is a graduate of Cambridge University, receiving his B.A. in 1942 and Ph. D. in 1948, both in...

Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir (September 6, 1906 – December 2, 1987) was an Argentine doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the first Spanish-speaking scientist to ever receive the award. Although born in France, Leloir...

Neil Wiseman

Neil Ernest Wiseman (May 19, 1934, – June 13, 1995) was a British computer scientist. Wiseman's pioneering research in computer graphics began in 1965, and resulted in a number of inventions and patents. These included a pen-following screen menu,...

George Ellis

George F. R. Ellis, FRS, (born August 11, 1939) is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale...

Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (pronounced /dɪˈɹæk/; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was a British theoretical physicist. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He...

John Edensor Littlewood

John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician, best known for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. Littlewood was born in Rochester in Kent. He attended St Paul's School in London, where he was taught by F....

Alan Baker

Alan Baker, FRS (born on 19 August 1939) is an English mathematician. He was born in London. He is known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendence theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in...

Neil Dodgson

Neil Dodgson is Reader in Graphics & Imaging at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he is part of the Graphics & Interaction Research Group (Rainbow). He has worked for over a decade on autostereoscopic 3D displays....

Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribution in World War...

Paul Davies

Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held...

Philip Hall

Philip Hall FRS (11 April 1904, Hampstead, London, England – 30 December 1982, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups. He was educated first...

Jayant Narlikar

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19, 1938) (Marathi: जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) is an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is a proponent of the steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle...

Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. The latter proposal was based on work which he did on Welsh rock...

Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an...

John Coates

John Henry Coates, FRS (born 26 January 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Coates was born the son of J. H. Coates and B. L....

Archibald Hill

Archibald Vivian Hill CH CBE FRS (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977) was an English physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his...

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727]) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number...

Napier Shaw

Sir William Napier Shaw FRS, (March 4, 1854 - March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit millibar, as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Shaw was born in Birmingham. He studied at the...

John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch". His most famous achievement was...

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Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as...

Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL (25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He authored the tough Perpetual Crimes Act (1887) (or Coercion Act) aimed at the prevention of boycotting,...