Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Physicist
1
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
2
Jane Goodall, 91
Zoologist
3
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Biologist
4
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Paleontologist
5
Brian Cox, 57
6
James Chadwick (1891-1974)
7
Tim Berners Lee, 69
Computer Scientist
8
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
9
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
Chemist
10
Howard Carter (1874-1939)
Archeologist
11
William Harvey (1578-1657)
12
John Dalton (1766-1844)
13
Matt Wood, 45
14
Sophie Wilson, 67
15
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
16
Francis William Aston (1877-1945)
17
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
18
Alice Roberts, 51
19
Peter Wright (1916-1995)
20
Paul Hudson, 54
Meteorologist
21
Adam Hart Davis, 81
22
Lucy Verasamy, 44
23
Francis Crick (1916-2004)
24
Born in England
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David Harvey, 89
Anthropologist
25
Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959)
26
Audrey Smith (1915-1981)
27
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
28
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
29
Ross J Anderson, 68
30
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889)
Conservationist
31
William Shockley (1910-1989)
32
John Lyons (1932-2020)
Linguist
33
Henry Moseley (1887-1915)
34
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
35
Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
36
Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
37
Bertram Windle (1858-1929)
Anatomist
38
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
39
Luke Howard (1772-1864)
40
Jack Vincent (1904-1999)
41
Peter Higgs (1929-2024)
42
William Tyndale
43
Brian Dale, 73
Geneticist
44
Joseph Swan (1828-1914)
45
David Bellamy (1933-2019)
Botanist
46
Mithuna Yoganathan
47
Matt Taylor, 51
Astrophysicist
48
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