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20 famous people found
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Peter Higgs
British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles
1929 - 2024 -
Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934 -
Howard CARTER
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun
1874 - 1939 -
Alan TURING
English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist
1912 - 1954 -
Nevill MOTT
English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977
1905 - 1996 -
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist and X-ray crystallographer
1920 - 1958 -
Stephen HAWKING
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge
1942 - 2018 -
Dorothy HODGKIN
British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964
1910 - 1994 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
George DARWIN
English astronomer and mathematician
1845 - 1912 -
David ATTENBOROUGH
British broadcaster and naturalist
1926 -
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist
1947 -
Charles Howard Hinton
British mathematician and writer of science fiction works titled Scientific Romances
1853 - 1907 -
Ruth Fowler Edwards
British geneticist
1930 - 2013 -
Raymond HOFFENBERG
British endocrinologist
1923 - 2007 -
Andrew HUXLEY
Nobel Prize-winning English physiologist and biophysicist
1917 - 2012 -
Conway BERNERS-LEE
British mathematician and computer scientist
1921 - 2019 -
T. E. LAWRENCE
British Army officer
1888 - 1935 -
Francis DARWIN
English botanist
1848 - 1925 -
Paul DIRAC
English theoretical physicist
1902 - 1984