Sciences

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

Isaac NEWTON

English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian

1643 - 1727

Charles DARWIN

English naturalist

1809 - 1882

James Smithson

English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name

1765 - 1829

Tim BERNERS-LEE

British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

1955

Ada LOVELACE

English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine

1815 - 1852

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

John GOODRICKE

English amateur astronomer

1764 - 1786

Thomas SYDENHAM

English physician

1624 - 1689

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