Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Physicist
1
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
2
Jane Goodall, 90
Zoologist
3
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Biologist
4
Brian Cox, 56
5
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
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6
Francis William Aston (1877-1945)
Chemist
7
James Chadwick (1891-1974)
8
Howard Carter (1874-1939)
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9
Tim Berners Lee, 69
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10
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
11
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
12
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
13
John Dalton (1766-1844)
14
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
15
Peter Wright (1916-1995)
16
Matt Wood, 45
17
William Harvey (1578-1657)
18
Jack Vincent (1904-1999)
19
Paul Hudson, 53
Meteorologist
20
Adam Hart Davis, 81
21
Francis Crick (1916-2004)
22
Audrey Smith (1915-1981)
23
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
24
Born in England
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Alice Roberts, 51
25
Peter Higgs (1929-2024)
26
Lucy Verasamy, 44
27
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
28
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
29
Henry Moseley (1887-1915)
30
Nicholas Hughes (1962-2009)
31
Matt Taylor, 51
Astrophysicist
32
Bertram Windle (1858-1929)
Anatomist
33
Joseph Swan (1828-1914)
34
Luke Howard (1772-1864)
35
James Wong, 43
Botanist
36
Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
37
Harry Collins, 81
Sociologist
38
William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)
39
David Bellamy (1933-2019)
40
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889)
Conservationist
41
Ross J Anderson, 68
42
Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
43
Sophie Wilson, 67
44
Brian Dale, 73
Geneticist
45
David Harvey, 89
Anthropologist
46
Alexander Parkes (1813-1890)
47
George Cayley (1773-1854)
48
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