About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.

List of Fellows of the Royal Society

A,B,C	D,E,F	G,H,I	J,K,L	M,N,O	P,Q,R	S,T,U,V	W,X,Y,Z

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Name	Election Date
Daniel Ernest Jablonski Daniel Ernst Jablonski Daniel Ernst Jablonski , German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.-Life:...	11 June 1713	20 November 1660 - 25 May 1741, German theologian, and reformer
James Julian Bennett Jack James Julian Bennett Jack James Julian Bennett Jack FRS is a New Zealand physiologist.He graduated from Otago University.He was a Rhodes Scholar in 1960 to Magdalen College, Oxford....	15 May 1997
Kenneth Henderson Jack	20 March 1980
Sir David Jack	12 March 1992	22 February 1924 - 8 November 2011 Pharmacologist, Glaxo
Cyril Jackson Cyril Jackson Cyril Jackson was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1783–1809.Jackson was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Manchester Grammar School, Westminster School and the University of Oxford. In 1771 he was chosen to be sub-preceptor to the two eldest sons of King George III, but in 1776 he was dismissed,...	16 January 1772	1746 - 31 August 1819
Derek Ainslie Jackson Derek Jackson (physicist) Professor Derek Ainslie Jackson, FRS, DFC, AFC, OBE was a spectroscopist.Derek Jackson was one of the outstanding atomic physicists of his generation, but there was very little in his life that could be called conventional....	20 March 1947	23 June 1906 - 20 February 1982
Henry Bradwardine Jackson Henry Bradwardine Jackson Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson GCB, KCVO, FRS was British First Sea Lord during much of the First World War...	6 June 1901	21 January 1855 - 14 December 1929
Herbert Jackson	3 May 1917	17 March 1863 - 10 December 1936 Chemist
Humphry Jackson	19 November 1772	1717 - ? 29 June 1801 Chemist
James Anthony Jackson	9 May 2002
John Jackson John Jackson (astronomer) John Jackson was a Scottish astronomer.Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he was educated at Paisley Grammar School, studying a range of subjects including the sciences and French and German, but not Latin or Greek, which were compulsory if he intended to sit the entrance examinations for...	17 March 1938	12 February 1887 - 9 December 1958
John Jackson	30 November 1694	c 1672–1724
John Hughlings Jackson John Hughlings Jackson John Hughlings Jackson, FRS , was an English neurologist.- Biography :He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest son of Samuel Jackson, a yeoman who owned and farmed his land, and the former Sarah Hughlings, the daughter of a Welsh revenue collector...	6 June 1878	4 April 1835 - 7 October 1911
Julian Jackson	3 April 1845	30 March 1790 - 16 March 1853 Colonel (Russian Army) and geographer
Richard James Jackson	18 May 2006
Roy Jackson	11 May 2000	Prof. of Chem. Eng., Princeton.
Samuel Jackson	8 November 1798	fl 1798 surgeon
Stephen Philip Jackson	16 May 2008	Professor of Biology, Cambridge
William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton	5 February 1891	17 February 1840 - 4 April 1917
Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley FRS was a British technologist and electrical engineer.-Background and education:Born in Burnley, he was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie Hiley...	19 March 1953	30 October 1904 - 17 February 1970 Fellow 19 March 1953
William Jacob William Jacob William Jacob was an English merchant, scientist, parliamentarian, public official and advocate for expanded British trade...	23 April 1807	c 1762 - ? 17 December 1851
Joannes Adolphus Jacobaeus	25 June 1724	21 May 1698 - 3 August 1772
Patricia Ann Jacobs Patricia Jacobs Patricia Ann Jacobs FRS FMedSci is a British geneticist, fellow of the Royal society. She is Professor of Human Genetics in University of Southampton at Salisbury District Hospital...	11 March 1993	geneticist.
Theodore Jacobsen	22 June 1727
Francis Jacquier	10 December 1741	7 June 1711 - 3 July 1788
Nicolas Joseph Jacquin	3 April 1788	17 February 1727 - ? 24 October 1817
John Conrad Jaeger	19 March 1970	30 July 1907 - 15 May 1979
James Jago James Jago James Jago FRS, , physician, second son of John Jago, was born on 18 Dec. 1815 at the barton of Kigilliack, Budock, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, once a seat of the bishops of Exeter. Dr...	2 June 1870	18 December 1815 - 18 January 1893
Eric Jakeman	15 March 1990
Jean Jallabert	13 November 1740	26 July 1712 - 11 March 1768
James II, King of Great Britain and Ireland James II of England James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...	9 January 1665	14 October 1633 - 6 September 1701
Anthony Trafford James	17 March 1983	6 March 1922 – 7 December 2006
Henry James Henry James (Ordnance Survey) Major General Sir Henry James FRS MRIA RE was the director-general of the Ordnance Survey, the British Government mapping agency, from 1854 to 1875. Sir Henry was described by the agency itself as "perhaps Ordnance Survey's most eccentric and egotistical Director General"...	9 June 1848	8 June 1803 - 14 June 1877
Ioan Mackenzie James	21 March 1968
Michael Norman George James	16 March 1989
Reginald William James	17 March 1955	9 January 1891 - 7 July 1964
Sydney Price James	7 May 1931	17 September 1870 - 17 April 1946 Army physician
William James	30 March 1775	c 1721 - 16 December 1783
William James	9 April 1767
William Owen James	20 March 1952	21 May 1900 - 15 September 1978 Botanist, Oxford University
Guy Antony Jameson Antony Jameson Antony Jameson is the Thomas V. Jones Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University. Jameson is known for his pioneering work in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics...	9 March 1995
Robert Jameson Robert Jameson thumb|Robert JamesonProfessor Robert Jameson, FRS FRSE was a Scottish naturalist and mineralogist.As Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, Jameson is notable for his advanced scholarship in natural history, his superb museum collection, and for his tuition of Charles...	25 May 1826	11 July 1774 - 19 April 1854
Robin Ralph Jamison	20 March 1969	12 July 1912 - 18 March 1991
Francis Robert Japp Francis Robert Japp Francis Robert Japp was a British chemist who discovered the Japp-Klingemann reaction in 1887.He was born in Dundee, Scotland, the son of James Japp, a minister of the Catholic Apostolic Church. He graduated from St Andrews with an M.A. in 1868 and entered the University of Edinburgh as a student...	4 June 1885	9 February 1848 - 1 August 1925
William Jardine	7 June 1860	24 February 1800 - 21 November 1874
William Fleming Hoggan Jarrett	20 March 1980	2 January 1927 - 27 August 2011
Paul Gordon Jarvis	15 May 1997
Jacobus Jattica	12 February 1736	fl 1736
Louis de Jaucourt Louis de Jaucourt Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopedia, all done voluntarily...	8 January 1756	27 September 1704 - 3 February 1780
James Hopwood Jeans James Hopwood Jeans Sir James Hopwood Jeans OM FRS MA DSc ScD LLD was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.-Background:...	3 May 1906	11 September 1877 - 16 September 1946
John Jebb	18 February 1779	17 February 1736 - 2 March 1786
John Jebb	26 February 1824	27 September 1775 - 9 December 1833
Richard Jebb	28 March 1765	? October 1729 - 4 July 1787 physician
Geoffrey Jefferson Geoffrey Jefferson Sir Geoffrey Jefferson FRS was a British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon. He was educated in Manchester, England, obtaining his medical degree in 1909. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons two years later. He married in 1914, and moved to Canada...	20 March 1947	10 April 1886 - 29 January 1961
George Barker Jeffery George Barker Jeffery George Barker Jeffery was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory .-Career:Jeffery was born in 1891 and educated at...	6 May 1926	9 May 1891 - 27 April 1956
Henry Martyn Jeffery	3 June 1880	5 January 1826 - 3 November 1891
Edward Jeffreys Edward Jeffreys Edward Winnington or Jeffreys was a son of Sir Francis Winnington and a younger brother of Salwey Winnington.Winnington was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 18 May 1694...	28 October 1669	fl 1655–1702 Born Edward Winnington
Alec John Jeffreys	20 March 1986
Harold Jeffreys Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...	7 May 1925	22 April 1891 - 18 March 1989
John Jeffreys	12 May 1726
John Gwyn Jeffreys John Gwyn Jeffreys John Gwyn Jeffreys was a British conchologist and malacologist.He was born in Swansea into a propertied Welsh family and educated at Swansea Grammar School. He went to London to qualify as a barrister, which he did. His greater passion however was for conchology...	2 April 1840	18 January 1809 - 24 January 1885
Julius Jeffreys Julius Jeffreys Julius Jeffreys was a British surgeon, writer, was the inventor of the respirator, and was a pioneer in the development of early air conditioning systems.-Early life:...	7 January 1841	? 1801 - 13 May 1877
Walter Jeffreys	14 November 1717	fl 1717–1753
Joseph Jekyll	3 June 1790	1 January 1754 - 8 March 1837 Barrister & MP
Joseph Jekyll	5 June 1834	23 September 1802 - 23 November 1841
George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe	28 June 1990	5 April 1918 – 22 February 2007
Henry Jenkes Henry Jenkes Henry Jenkes , was a Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.Jenkes was descended from a Prussian family, was a native of England, and received his early education at King's College, Aberdeen, where he was admitted in 1642, and graduated M.A. in 1646. On 21 March 1646 he was admitted a member of Emmanuel...	30 November 1674
Charles Frewen Jenkin	7 May 1931	24 September 1865 - 23 August 1940
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin	1 June 1865	25 March 1833 - 12 June 1885
Richard Jenkins	18 February 1841	19 February 1785 - 30 December 1853 Civil Servant & MP of Shrewsbury
David Stewart Jenkinson	14 March 1991	25 February 1928 - 16 February 2011 Soil Scientist Rothamsted
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool	22 May 1794	7 June 1770 - 4 December 1828
Edward Jenner Edward Jenner Edward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire...	26 February 1789	17 May 1749 - 26 January 1823
William Jenner	2 June 1864	30 January 1815 - 11 December 1898
John Jennings	18 November 1779	fl 1779
Philip Jennings	1 March 1821	c 1783 - 20 December 1849
Niels Kaj Jerne Niels Kaj Jerne Niels Kaj Jerne, FRS was a Danish immunologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984. The citation read "For theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies"....	20 March 1980	23 December 1911 - 7 October 1994
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom...	21 December 1809	9 January 1735 - 14 March 1823
Thomas Best Jervis	15 March 1838	2 August 1794 - 3 April 1857
William Francis Drummond Jervois	7 June 1888	10 September 1821 - 16 August 1897
John Jesse	5 May 1842	6 January 1801 - 26 September 1863
George Jessel George Jessel (jurist) Sir George Jessel , a British judge, was born in London. He was one of the most influential commercial law and equity judges of his time, and served as the Master of the Rolls.-Early life and education:...	25 November 1880	14 February 1824 - 21 March 1883, Solicitor General (1871–1873)
Thomas Michael Jessell	14 March 1996
Thomas Jett	30 November 1714
William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...	6 June 1872	1 September 1835 - 13 August 1882
John Leonard Jinks John Leonard Jinks John Leonard Jinks was a British geneticist. His untimely death at 57 cut short a distinguished career with many contributions in the fields of microbial genetics, cytoplasmic inheritance, and biometrical genetics.-Career:He was educated at Birmingham University and remained there for the majority...	19 March 1970	21 October 1929 - 6 June 1987
Joao, Duke of Braganza	17 November 1757	1719–1806
Richard Paul Jodrell Richard Paul Jodrell Richard Paul Jodrell was a classical scholar and playwright.Jodrell was descended from an ancient family, originally of Derbyshire, and afterwards of Staffordshire. His great-grandfather, Paul Jodrell, who died in 1728, was for 43 years; Clerk of the House of Commons of Great Britain...	9 January 1772	13 November 1745 - 26 January 1831
Paul Jodrell	15 November 1781	12 November 1746 - 6 August 1803
Archduke John of Austria	8 February 1816	1782–1859 Royal
Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird	14 March 1991
Alan Woodworth Johnson	18 March 1965	29 September 1917 - 5 December 1982 Chemist
Barry Edward Johnson	16 March 1978	1 August 1937 – 5 May 2002 Mathematician
Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson	14 March 1991
Cuthbert William Johnson	10 March 1842	21 September 1799 - 8 March 1878 Barrister
Edward John Johnson	10 March 1836	? 1795 - 7 February 1853
George Johnson	6 June 1872	29 November 1818 - 3 June 1896 Physician
George Henry Sacheverell Johnson	18 January 1838	1808 - 4 November 1881 Mathematician
James Rawlins Johnson	26 June 1817
Kenneth Langstreth Johnson	18 March 1982
Louise Napier Johnson	15 March 1990
Manuel John Johnson Manuel John Johnson Manuel John Johnson, FRS was a British astronomer.He was born in Macao, China, the son of John William Roberts of the East India Company and was educated at Mr Styles' Classical Academy in Thames Ditton and at the Addiscombe Military Academy for service in the East India Company .In 1823 he was...	5 June 1856	23 May 1805 - 28 February 1859
Percival Norton Johnson Percival Norton Johnson Percival Norton Johnson was the founder of Johnson Matthey, the United Kingdom's largest precious metals business.-Career:Having trained in his father's business as an assayer, Percival Johnson established his own firm in 1817...	30 April 1846	1793 - 1 June 1866
Robert Augustus Johnson	17 April 1788	1745 - 9 January 1799
William Johnson	18 March 1982	20 April 1922 - 13 June 2010 Prof. of Mech Eng, Cambridge Univ.
Alexander Johnston Alexander Johnston (1775–1849) Sir Alexander Johnston, PC, FRS , was a British colonial official who served as Chief Justice of Ceylon. He learned the Tamil, Telugu, and Hindustani languages.- References :...	22 November 1810	25 April 1775 - 6 March 1849
James Finlay Weir Johnston James Finlay Weir Johnston James Finlay Weir Johnston, FRS was a Scottish agricultural chemist.Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Johnston was educated at University of Glasgow, acquired a fortune by his marriage in 1830, and devoted himself to studying chemistry. He visited the chemist J. J...	15 June 1837	13 September 1796 - 18 September 1855
John Johnstone	18 March 1813	1768 - 28 December 1836 physician
Charles Jasper Joly Charles Jasper Joly Charles Jasper Joly was an Irish mathematician and astronomer who became Royal Astronomer of Ireland.-Life:...	5 May 1904	27 June 1864 - 4 January 1906
John Joly John Joly John Joly FRS was an Irish physicist, famous for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer...	2 June 1892	1 November 1857 - 8 December 1933
Bennett Melvill Jones	16 March 1939	28 January 1887 - 31 October 1975 Prof of Aeronaautical Eng., Cambridge Univ.
Charles Handfield Jones	6 June 1850	1 October 1819 - 30 September 1890 physician
Douglas Samuel Jones	21 March 1968
Ewart Ray Herbert Jones	16 March 1950	16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002 Professor of Chemistry
Francis Edgar Jones Francis Jones (physicist) Francis "Frank" Edgar Jones, FRS, MBE was a British physicist who co-developed the OBOE blind bombing system.He was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a teacher...	16 March 1967	16 January 1914 - 10 April 1988 electronics, co-developed "Oboe"
Frederic Wood Jones Frederic Wood Jones Frederic Wood Jones , usually referred to as Wood Jones, was a British observational naturalist, embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist, who spent considerable time in Australia....	7 May 1925	23 January 1879 - 29 September 1954
Geoffrey Melvill Jones	15 March 1979
Harry Jones (mathematician)	20 March 1952	12 April 1905 - 15 December 1986 Prof of Mathematics
Henry Jones	27 June 1723
Henry Bence Jones Henry Bence Jones Henry Bence Jones was an English physician and chemist.- Biography :He was born at Thorington Hall, Yoxley, Suffolk, the son of Lieutenant Colonel William Jones, an officer in the 5th Dragoon Guards, and Matilda Bence...	30 April 1846	31 December 1813 - 20 April 1873
Humphrey Owen Jones Humphrey Owen Jones Humphrey Owen Jones was a Welsh chemist and mountaineer.-Life:Jones was born at Goginan, Cardiganshire, and educated at Lewis School, Pengam, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He subsequently studied natural sciences at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1899 and MA in...	2 May 1912	20 February 1878 – 12 August 1912
John Kenyon Netherton Jones	21 March 1957	28 January 1912 - 13 April 1977 chemist, Bristol University
John Viriamu Jones John Viriamu Jones John Viriamu Jones, FRS , was a British scientist, who worked on measuring the ohm, and an educationalist who was instrumental in establishing the University of Sheffield and Cardiff University.-Early life and studies:...	7 June 1894	2 January 1856 - 2 June 1901
Jonathan Dallas George Jones	15 May 2003
Owen Thomas Jones Owen Thomas Jones Owen Thomas Jones, FRS FGS was a Welsh geologist.He was born in Beulah, near Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire, the only son of David Jones and Margaret Thomas. He attended the local village school in Trewen before going to Pencader Grammar School in 1893. In 1896 he went up to University College,...	6 May 1926	16 April 1878 - 5 May 1967
Reginald Victor Jones Reginald Victor Jones Reginald Victor Jones, CH CB CBE FRS, was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in -Education:...	18 March 1965	29 September 1911 - 17 December 1997
Richard Anthony Lewis Jones	18 May 2006
Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh Richard Jones, 1st Earl of Ranelagh PC FRS , known as The Viscount Ranelagh between 1669 and 1677, was an Irish peer, politician both in the Parliaments of England and Ireland.-Background:...	20 May 1663	9 February 1641 - 5 January 1712 Original Fellow
Roger Jones	18 March 1736
Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones	9 January 1800	1765 - 26 November 1811 MP
Thomas Jones	4 June 1835	24 June 1775 - 29 July 1852 Optician
Thomas Alwyn Jones	12 March 1992
Thomas Rupert Jones Thomas Rupert Jones Thomas Rupert Jones was an English geologist and palaeontologist born in London.He was born in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda Jones of Coventry. While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so...	6 June 1872	1 October 1819 - 13 April 1911 Physician & Prof of Geology
Thomas Rymer Jones	21 March 1844	20 March 1810 - 10 December 1880 Prof of Physiology, London
Thomas Wharton Jones	30 April 1840	9 January 1808 - ? 7 November 1891 Surgeon
Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones	15 March 1990
William Jones	30 November 1711	1675 - ? 1 July 1749
William Jones William Jones (philologist) Sir William Jones was an English philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages...	30 April 1772	28 September 1746 - 27 April 1794
William Jones William Jones (ecclesiastic) William Jones , known as William Jones of Nayland, was a British clergyman and author.-Life:He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School...	22 June 1775	30 July 1726 - 6 January 1800
Carole Jordan Carole Jordan Professor Dame Carole Jordan, DBE, FRS, FInstP, was the first ever female president of the Royal Astronomical Society. She was also only the third female recipient of its Gold Medal .-Education:Carole Jordan was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Girls and at University College London...	15 March 1990	astrophysicist
Gibbes Walker Jordan	29 May 1800	c 1757 - 16 February 1823 barrister
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan Karl Jordan Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan was a German entomologist.Jordan was born in Hanover and educated at Göttingen University. In 1893 he began work at the Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring, specialising in Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Siphonaptera...	5 May 1932	7 December 1861 - 12 January 1959
John Philip Jordis	27 April 1681	fl 1681–1715
Brian David Josephson Brian David Josephson Brian David Josephson, FRS is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect....	19 March 1970	physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1973)
James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule FRS was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work . This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The...	6 June 1850	24 December 1818 - 11 October 1889
Bruce Arthur Joyce	11 May 2000
Charles Joye	17 November 1748	? 1719 - ? April 1776
Jorge Juan-y-Santacilia	9 November 1749	? 5 January 1713 - ? 21 June 1773
John Wesley Judd John Wesley Judd John Wesley Judd was a British geologist.He was born in Portsmouth the son of George and Jannette Judd and educated at the Royal School of Mines, where he later became Professor of Geology....	7 June 1877	19 February 1840 - 3 March 1916
Alfred John Jukes-Browne Alfred John Jukes-Browne Alfred John Jukes-Browne, FRS FGS was a British invertebrate palaeontologist and stratigrapher.He was born Alfred John Browne near Wolverhampton in 1851 to Alfred Hall and Caroline Amelia Browne. His uncle was the geologist Joseph Beete Jukes, well known for his work on the English and Irish...	6 May 1909	16 April 1851 - 14 August 1914
Joseph Beete Jukes	2 June 1853	10 October 1811 - 29 July 1869
Calestous Juma Calestous Juma Calestous Juma is an internationally recognized authority in the application of science and technology to sustainable development worldwide. He is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology and Globalization Project at Harvard Kennedy School...	18 May 2006
James Jurin	1 April 1756	c 1731 - 3 July 1762 Commissioner for Peace, Northumberland
James Jurin James Jurin James Jurin FRS MA FRCP MD was an English scientist and physician, particularly remembered for his early work in capillary action and in the epidemiology of smallpox vaccination...	14 November 1717	? December 1684 - 29 March 1750
Antoine de Jussieu Antoine de Jussieu Antoine de Jussieu was a French naturalist.Jussieu was born in Lyon, the son of Christophe de Jussieu , an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque . Antoine studied at the university of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal...	11 December 1718	6 July 1686 - 22 April 1758
Bernard de Jussieu Bernard de Jussieu Bernard de Jussieu was a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon...	22 June 1727	17 August 1699 - 6 November 1777
John Obadiah Justamond	14 December 1775	14 October 1737 - 27 March 1786 Surgeon
Henry Justel	7 December 1681	1620 - ? 24 September 1693
James Justice	22 October 1730	fl 1730–1757 Horticulturalist

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Name	Election Date
Franz Daniel Kahn	11 March 1993	14 May 1926 - ? 8 February 1998
Nicholas Kaiser	16 May 2008
George Ernest Kalmus George Kalmus George Ernest Kalmus, CBE, FRS is a British particle physicist.Kalmus was educated at St Albans County Grammar School and University College, London....	17 March 1988
Yuet Wai Kan Yuet Wai Kan Yuet Wai Kan FRS , is a Canadian and American medical scientist and physician. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and the head of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics at the University of California, San Francisco...	19 March 1981
Robert John Kane	7 June 1849	25 September 1809 - 16 February 1890
Charles Kuen Kao Charles K. Kao The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications...	15 May 1997
Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza	2 May 1929	26 June 1894 - 8 April 1984
Jack Henri Kaplan	9 March 1995
Basil Kassanis	17 March 1966	16 October 1911 - 23 March 1985
Abraham Gotthelf Kastner Abraham Gotthelf Kästner Abraham Gotthelf Kästner was a German mathematician and epigrammatist.He was known in his professional life for writing textbooks and compiling encyclopedias rather than for original research. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was one of his doctoral students, and admired the man greatly. He became...	30 April 1789	27 September 1719 - 20 June 1800
Edward Kater	19 November 1840	1816 - 6 July 1866
Henry Kater Henry Kater Henry Kater was an English physicist of German descent.-Early life:He was born at Bristol. At first he intended to study law; but he gave up the idea on his father's death in 1794. He entered the army, obtaining a commission in the 12th Regiment of Foot, then stationed in India, where he assisted...	15 December 1814	16 April 1777 - 26 April 1835
Alan Roy Katritzky	20 March 1980
Bernard Katz Bernard Katz Sir Bernard Katz, FRS was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler...	20 March 1952	26 March 1911 – 20 April 2003, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  for Medicine (1970)
Herbert Davenport Kay	22 March 1945	9 September 1893 - 24 November 1976
Joseph Henry Kay	26 February 1846	1814 - 17 July 1875
George William Clarkson Kaye	16 March 1939	8 April 1880 - 16 April 1941 physicist,radiologist
John Kaye	7 March 1811	28 December 1783 - 18 February 1853
John William Kaye John William Kaye Sir John William Kaye was a British military historian.The son of Charles Kaye, a solicitor, he was educated at Eton College and at the Royal Military College, Addiscombe. From 1832 to 1841 he was an officer in the Bengal Artillery, afterwards spending some years in literary pursuits both in...	7 June 1866	1814 - 24 July 1876
Richard Kaye Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet , FRS was an English churchman and scientist. He was Dean of Lincoln from 1783, and inherited the baronetcy from his elder brother Sir John Lister Kaye, 5th Baronet in 1789..-Life:...	5 December 1765	1736–1809 Clergyman, York
John Kearney John Kearney (bishop) John Kearney, D.D. was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory from 1806 to 1813.Born circa 1742 in Dublin, the son of a barber-surgeon, Kearney was elected a Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin in 1760 and a Fellow in 1764. He held the Chair of Oratory from 1781 until his appointment as Provost in...	15 May 1806	1741 - 22 May 1813
Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton	16 March 1961	18 February 1911 - 2 July 1992
George Keate George Keate George Keate was an English poet and writer.-Life:He was son of George Keate of Isleworth, Middlesex, who married Rachel Kawolski, daughter of Count Christian Kawolski. He was born at Trowbridge in Wiltshire, where his father had property, on 30 November 1729...	23 January 1766	30 November 1729 - 28 June 1797
Thomas Keate	27 March 1794	1745 - 5 July 1821 Surgeon, Chelsea Hospital
Jonathan Peter Keating	15 May 2009
Robert Keck	11 March 1714	c 1686 - 10 September 1719 Barrister
Frederick William Keeble	1 May 1913	2 March 1870 - 19 October 1952 Prof. of Botany, Univ. Coll., Reading
Bernard Augustus Keen	16 May 1935	5 September 1890 - 5 August 1981 Agricuturalist
Benjamin Keene Benjamin Keene 200-px|thumb|right|Benjamin KeeneSir Benjamin Keene was a British diplomat known for his service as British Ambassador to Spain. He strove to maintain good relations between the two countries, although he was unable to prevent the War of Jenkins' Ear breaking out in 1739 he later successfully kept...	31 January 1745	1697 - 15 December 1757
David Keilin David Keilin David Keilin FRS was an entomologist, among other things.His family returned to Warsaw early in his youth. He did not attend school until age ten due to ill health and asthma. Only seven years later, in 1904, he enrolled in the University of Liège...	10 May 1928	22 March 1887 - 27 February 1963
James Keill James Keill James Keill was a Scottish physician, philosopher, medical writer and translator. He was an early proponent of mathematical methods in physiology.-Life:...	20 March 1712	27 March 1673 - 16 July 1719
John Keill John Keill John Keill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was primarilya mathematician and important disciple of Isaac Newton. He studied at Edinburgh University, under David Gregory, and obtained his bachelors degree in 1692 with a distinction in physics and mathematics...	30 November 1700	1 December 1671 - 31 August 1721
James Keir James Keir James Keir FRS was a Scottish chemist, geologist, industrialist, and inventor, and an important member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.- Life and work :...	8 December 1785	29 September 1735 - 11 October 1820
Arthur Keith Arthur Keith Sir Arthur Keith was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London...	1 May 1913	6 February 1866 - 7 January 1955
Ralph Ambrose Kekwick	17 March 1966	11 November 1908 - 17 January 2000
Philip Kelland Philip Kelland Philip Kelland PRSE FRS was an English mathematician. He was known mainly for his great influence on the development of education in Scotland.-Early life:Kelland was born in 1808 in Dunster, Somerset, England...	6 December 1838	17 October 1808 - 7 May 1879
Charles Halliley Kellaway	14 March 1940	16 January 1889 - 13 December 1952
Andrew Keller Andrew Keller Andrew Keller FRS was a British polymer scientist. He was Research Professor in Polymer Science, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, 1969-91, then Professor Emeritus....	16 March 1972	23 August 1925 - 8 February 1999, U.S. mathematician
Anthony Kelly	15 March 1973	Materials scientist
Francis Patrick Kelly	16 March 1989
Michael Joseph Kelly Michael Kelly (physicist) Michael Joseph Kelly FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993 and won its Hughes Medal in 2006....	11 March 1993
Henry Kelsall	27 May 1736	c 1693 - 10 February 1762
Charles Kemball	18 March 1965	27 March 1923 - 4 September 1998
Nicholas Kemmer Nicholas Kemmer Nicholas Kemmer FRS, was a Russian born British nuclear physicist who played an integral and an edge leading role in United Kingdom's nuclear programme, and was known as a mentor of Abdus Salam – a Nobel laureate in Physics....	15 March 1956	7 December 1911 - 21 October 1998
Bruce Ernest Kemp	9 May 2002
David Thomas Kemp	27 May 2004
Stanley Wells Kemp Stanley Wells Kemp Stanley Wells Kemp, FRS was a British marine biologist.He was born in London, the second of three sons of Stephen Kemp, a professor at the Royal Academy and Royal School of Music. As a boy he took an interest in animals, collecting water beetles and maintaining them in aquariums and was a member...	7 May 1931	14 June 1882 - 16 May 1945
John Kempe	20 March 1712	1665 - 19 September 1717 Antiquary
Alfred Bray Kempe	2 June 1881	6 July 1849 - 21 April 1922
David George Kendall David George Kendall David George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...	19 March 1964
James Pickering Kendall James Kendall James Pickering Kendall FRS FRSE was an English chemist.He was born in Chobham, Surrey to soldier William Henry Kendall and his second wife Rebecca. He attended the local village school and then from 1900 Farnham Grammar School...	12 May 1927	30 July 1889 - 14 June 1978
John Kendall	12 March 1724
Kevin Kendall	11 March 1993
Percy Fry Kendall Percy Fry Kendall Percy Fry Kendall FRS , was an English geologist. A student of Thomas Henry Huxley, he was Professor of Geology at the University of Leeds from 1904 to 1922. In 1909 he was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London, mainly for his work on the glacial geology of...	15 May 1924	15 November 1856 - 19 March 1936
John Cowdery Kendrew	24 March 1960	24 March 1917 - 23 August 1997
Olga Kennard Olga Kennard Olga Kennard, née Weisz is a British crystallographer, and was Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre from 1965 to 1997.She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and awarded the OBE in 1988...	19 March 1987	crystallographer
Ernest Laurence Kennaway	3 May 1934	23 May 1881 - 1 January 1958
Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa KT, FRS , styled Lord Kennedy between 1792 and 1794 and known as The Earl of Cassilis between 1794 and 1831, was a Scottish peer.-Background:...	18 February 1819	February 1770 – 8 September 1846
Gilbert Kennedy	23 February 1738	c 1692 - 29 December 1780 Physician of Lisbon
John Stodart Kennedy	18 April 1965	20 May 1912 - 4 February 1993 entomologist
Alexander Blackie William Kennedy	9 June 1887	17 March 1847 - 1 November 1928
William Quarrier Kennedy	17 March 1949	30 November 1903 - 13 March 1979
George Wallace Kenner	19 March 1964	16 November 1922 - 26 June 1978
James Kenner	7 May 1925	13 April 1885 - 30 June 1974
Brian Leslie Norman Kennett	26 May 2005
Benjamin Kennicott Benjamin Kennicott Benjamin Kennicott was an English churchman and Hebrew scholar.He was born at Totnes, Devon. He succeeded his father as master of a charity school, but the generosity of some friends enabled him to go to Wadham College, Oxford, in 1744, and he distinguished himself in Hebrew and divinity...	16 February 1764	4 April 1718 - 18 August 1783
Percy Edward Kent Percy Edward Kent Percy Edward Kent PhD, DSc, LLD, ScD, FGS, FRS was a British geologist who won the Royal Medal in 1971.-Early life:...	17 March 1966	18 March 1913 - 9 July 1986
Joseph Kenyon	7 May 1936	8 April 1885 - 12 November 1961 Chemistry teacher
Charles Henry Bellenden Ker	10 June 1819	c 1785 - 2 November 1871
John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, PC, FRS was the second son of Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe, and Margaret Hay, daughter of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale. He was younger brother to Robert Ker, 4th Earl of Roxburghe....	28 May 1707	c 1680 - 24 February 1741
Robert Ker	25 January 1776	fl 1776 Ship's Captain, East India Coy
Theodor Kerckring Theodor Kerckring Theodor Kerckring or Dirk Kerckring was a Dutch anatomist and chemical physician....	17 January 1678	1640 - 2 November 1693
Oleg Alexander Kerensky Oleg Kerensky Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky CBE FRS , was a Russian civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time....	19 March 1970	16 April 1905 - 25 June 1984
Thomas Kerigan	29 February 1844
William Ogilvy Kermack	16 March 1944	26 April 1898 - 20 July 1970
Allen Kerr Allen Kerr Dr. Allen Kerr AO, FRS, FAA was a Scottish-born Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide. His most significant work was his study of crown gall - a plant cancer induced by Agrobacterium tumerfaciens....	20 March 1986
Ian Macpherson Kerr	21 March 1985
John Kerr John Kerr (physicist) John Kerr FRS was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect.-Life and work:...	5 June 1890	17 December 1824 - 18 August 1907
John Graham Kerr John Graham Kerr Sir John Graham Kerr was a Scottish embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament .  He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes.Born in Hertfordshire to Scottish parents, Kerr was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh, but...	6 May 1909	18 September 1869 - 21 April 1957
Robert Masters Kerrison	4 March 1841	c 1766 - 27 April 1847
Abel Ketelbey	25 February 1720	c 1676 - 5 December 1744
Robert Johnston Ketelbey	12 May 1726
Edgar Hartley Kettle	7 May 1936	20 April 1882 - 1 December 1936
Eric Barrington Keverne	15 May 1997
Astley Cooper Key Astley Cooper Key Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, GCB, ADC, FRS was a Royal Navy officer who became First Naval Lord.-Naval career:Born the son of Charles Aston Key , a well-known surgeon, Key joined the Royal Navy in 1833...	4 June 1868	18 January 1821 - 3 March 1888
Thomas Hewitt Key Thomas Hewitt Key Thomas Hewitt Key was an English classical scholar.He was born in London and educated at St John's and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, and graduated 19th wrangler in 1821...	7 June 1860	20 March 1799 - 29 November 1875
Richard Darwin Keynes	19 March 1959	14 August 1919 - 12 June 2010 Physiologist, Cambridge
Johann Georg Keyssler	5 February 1719	13 April 1693 - 21 June 1743
Gurdev Singh Khush	9 March 1995
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble	20 March 1980
John Kidby	3 June 1756	c 1696 - 2 July 1762
Franklin Kidd	16 March 1944	12 October 1890 - 7 May 1974 Biochemist
John Kidd	28 March 1822	10 September 1775 - 17 September 1851
Robert Kidston Robert Kidston Robert Kidston FRS was a Scottish palaeobotanist. He studied botany at the University of Edinburgh and later studied the Rhynie chert and worked for the British Geological Survey....	5 June 1902	29 June 1852 - 13 July 1924
Francis Kiernan Francis Kiernan Francis Kiernan FRS was an anatomist and physician.He was born in Ireland, the eldest of four children. His father, Francis Kiernan , was also a physician and brought the family to England in the early 19th century...	18 December 1834	2 October 1800 - 31 December 1874
Tom Kilburn Tom Kilburn Tom Kilburn CBE, FRS was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the world's first stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine , while working at the University of Manchester.-Computer engineering:Kilburn was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and...	18 March 1965	11 August 1921 - 17 January 2001
John Vincent Kilmartin	9 May 2002
Dimitris Kioussis	15 May 2009
Peter Kinck	16 October 1729	fl 1729–1754
Andrew King	20 May 1663
David Anthony King David King (scientist) Sir David Anthony King FRS is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, Director of Research in Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a senior...	14 March 1991
Edmond King	18 July 1666	1629 - 30 May 1709 Physician
Edward King	14 May 1767	1735 - 16 April 1807
Frederick Ernest King	18 March 1954	2 May 1905 - 14 August 1999 Professor of Chemistry, Nottingham Univ.
George King George King (botanist) Sir George King , was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901....	9 June 1887	12 April 1840 - 12 February 1909 Fellow
Harold King	11 May 1933	25 February 1887 - 20 February 1956 Chemist, Nat.Inst. for Med.Research, Hampstead
James King	1 March 1781	1750 - October 1784
John King	30 November 1676	? June 1648 - Rhetoric Professor, Gresham College
John Glen King	21 February 1771	1732 - 3 November 1787 Clergyman
John King, 2nd Baron King of Ockham John King, 2nd Baron King John King, 2nd Baron King, FRS was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Launceston from 1727 to 1734 and for Exeter from 1734 until he succeeded to the peerage in 1735....	9 January 1735	? January 1706 - 10 February 1740
Louis Vessot King	15 May 1924	18 April 1886 - 6 June 1956 Professor of Physics, McGill University
Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham	14 November 1728	1669 - 22 July 1734
Phillip Parker King	26 February 1824	13 December 1793 - 26
William King William King (archbishop) William King, D.D. was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1703 to 1729. He was an author and supported the Glorious Revolution.-Early life:...	30 November 1705	1 May 1650 - 8 May 1729
William Bernard Robinson King	17 March 1949	12 November 1889 - 23 January 1963
Desmond George King-Hele	17 March 1966
William King, Earl of Lovelace and Viscount Ockham William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace FRS , known as the Hon. William King until 1833 and as the Lord King from 1833 to 1838, was an English nobleman and scientist....	25 November 1841	21 February 1805 - 29 December 1893
John Frank Charles Kingman	18 March 1971
John Kingston	25 April 1816	fl 1816
Anthony James Kinloch	17 May 2007
George Kinnaird, 7th Lord Kinnaird	19 February 1784	1745 - 11 October 1805
Philip Joseph Kinski	18 November 1731	1700–1749
Frederic Stanley Kipping	3 June 1897	16 August 1863 - 1 May 1949
Andrew Kippis Andrew Kippis Andrew Kippis was an English nonconformist clergyman and biographer.The son of Robert Kippis, a silk-hosier, he was born at Nottingham. Having gone to school at Sleaford in Lincolnshire he passed at the age of sixteen to the Dissenting academy at Northampton, of which Dr Philip Doddridge was then...	17 June 1779	28 March 1726 - 8 October 1795
Anthony John Kirby	19 March 1987
John Joshua Kirby John Joshua Kirby John Joshua Kirby , was an 18th century landscape painter, engraver, and writer from the United Kingdom, famed for his pamphlet on linear perspective based on Brook Taylor's math.-Biography:...	26 March 1767	1716 - 20 June 1774
William Kirby	5 March 1818	19 September 1759 - 4 July 1850
Christfried Kirch	16 December 1742	24 December 1694 - 9 March 1740
John Kirk John Kirk (explorer) Sir John Kirk was a Scottish physician, naturalist, companion to explorer David Livingstone, and British administrator in Zanzibar. He was born in Barry, near Arbroath, Scotland and is buried in St. Nicholas's churchyard in Sevenoaks, Kent, England. He earned his medical degree from the...	9 June 1887	19 December 1832 - 15 January 1922
Thomas Kirke	30 November 1693	22 December 1650 - 24 April 1706
Thomas Penyngton Kirkman	11 June 1857	31 March 1806 - 3 February 1895
Frances Clare Kirwan	10 May 2001
Richard Kirwan Richard Kirwan Richard Kirwan FRS was an Irish scientist. He is remembered today, if at all, for being one of the last supporters of the theory of phlogiston. Kirwan was active in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and geology...	24 February 1780	1733 - 1 June 1812
Mark Kisin Mark Kisin Mark Kisin is a mathematician known for work in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. In particular, he is known for his contributions to the study of p-adic representations and p-adic cohomology....	16 May 2008
Finlay Lorimer Kitchin	10 May 1928	13 December 1870 - 20 January 1934
John Alwyne Kitching	24 March 1960	24 October 1908 - 1 April 1996
Martin Heinrich Klaproth Martin Heinrich Klaproth Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist.Klaproth was born in Wernigerode. During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of an apothecary...	16 April 1795	1 December 1743 - 1 January 1817
Alfred Alexander Peter Kleczkowski	15 March 1962	4 December 1908 - 27 November 1970
Edward Emanuel Klein	3 June 1875	32 October 1844 - 9 February 1925
Jacobus Theodorus Klein Jacob Theodor Klein Jacob Theodor Klein nickname Plinius Gedanensium was a Royal Prussian jurist, historian, botanist, mathematician and diplomat in service of Polish King August II the Strong.-Life:...	6 March 1729	16 August 1685 - 27 February 1759
Michael Lawrence Klein	15 May 2003
Samuel Klingenstierna Samuel Klingenstierna Samuel Klingenstierna was a very renowned Swedish mathematician and scientist. He started his career as a lawyer but soon moved to natural philosophy. He was the first to enunciate errors in Newton's theories of refraction, geometrical notes that were used by John Dollond in his experiments...	23 April 1730	August 1698 - ? November 1765
Aaron Klug Aaron Klug Sir Aaron Klug, OM, PRS is a Lithuanian-born British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.-Biography:Klug was...	20 March 1969	chemist, Nobel Prize (1982), President of Royal Society (1995–2000)
Edward Knatchbull	6 May 1802	20 December 1781 - 24 May 1849
James Lewis Knight-Bruce	18 March 1830	16 February 1791 - 7 November 1866
Gowin Knight Gowin Knight Gowin Knight FRS was an English physicist who, in 1745, discovered a process for creating strongly magnetized steel. He also served as the first principal librarian of the British Museum.-Biography:...	25 April 1745	? September 1713 - 8 June 1772
Henry Gally Knight Henry Gally Knight Henry Gally Knight, FRS was an English M.P., traveller and writer.Henry Gally Knight was a country gentleman of Yorkshire, educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the author of several Oriental tales, Ilderim, a Syrian Tale , Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale, and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale...	20 May 1841	2 December 1786 - 09
John Knight	4 December 1706	c 1687 - 2 October 1733
Ralph Knight Ralph Knight Sir Ralph Knight was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. He served in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War....	28 May 1741	fl 1741
Peter Leonard Knight	13 May 1999
Thomas Andrew Knight Thomas Andrew Knight Thomas Andrew Knight, FRS was a horticulturalist and botanist who lived at Downton Castle, Herefordshire. He was the brother of Richard Payne Knight....	21 March 1805	12 August 1759 - 11 May 1838
Cargill Gilston Knott Cargill Gilston Knott Cargill Gilston Knott was a Scottish physicist and mathematician who was a pioneer in seismological research. He spent his early career in Japan...	13 May 1920	30 June 1856 - 26 October 1922
John Frederick Knott	15 March 1990
Jeremy Randall Knowles	17 March 1977
John Knowles John Knowles John Knowles was an American novelist best known for his novel A Separate Peace. He died in 2001 at the age of seventy-five.-Early life:...	5 July 1821	1781 - 21 July 1841
Francis Charles Knowles	4 March 1830	10 June 1802 - 19 March 1892
Francis Gerald William Knowles	17 March 1966	9 March 1915 - 13 July 1974
George Knox George Knox The Honourable George Knox PC, FRS , was an Irish Tory politician.Knox was the fifth son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland. In 1790, Knox entered the Irish House of Commons for Dungannon. Subsequently he sat Dublin University until the Act of Union in 1801...	25 February 1802	14 January 1765 - 13 June 1827
John Henderson Knox	15 March 1984
Philip Joseph Kocienski	15 May 1997
Egon Hynek Kodicek	15 March 1973	3 August 1908 - 27 July 1982
Ralph Kohn Ralph Kohn Sir Ralph Kohn FRS is a British businessman, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical industry...	18 May 2006	Honorary
Samuel Koleseri	16 October 1729	18 November 1663 - 24 December 1732
John Komarzewski	10 May 1792	c 1744–1810
George Armand Robert Kon	18 March 1943	19 February 1892 - 15 March 1951 Fellow 18 March 1943
Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig Charles Konig Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig or Karl Dietrich Eberhard König was a German naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He came to England at the end of 1800 to organize the collections of Queen Charlotte. On the completion of this work he became assistant to...	18 January 1810	1774 - 6 September 1851
Hans Leo Kornberg Hans Kornberg Professor Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS is a British biochemist.-Early Life, Education and Career:Kornberg was born in 1928 in Germany of Jewish parents. In 1939 he left Nazi Germany , and moved to the care of an uncle in Yorkshire...	18 March 1965
Hans Walter Kosterlitz	16 March 1978	27 April 1903 - 26 October 1996, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1953)
Hans Adolf Krebs Hans Adolf Krebs Sir Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British physician and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle...	20 March 1947	25 August 1900 - 22 November 1981
John Richard Krebs	15 March 1984
Von Kreienberg	11 June 1713
Georg Kreisel Georg Kreisel Georg Kreisel FRS is an Austrian-born mathematical logician who has studied and worked in Great Britain and America. Kreisel came from a Jewish background; his family sent him to England before the Anschluss, where he studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge and then, during World War...	17 March 1966
David Krieg	11 January 1699	1669 - 23 July 1710 Physician
Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan Padma Bhushan Sir Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, FRS, was an Indian physicist. He was a co-discover of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Early life:...	14 March 1940	4 December 1898 - 14 June 1961
Peter Leslie Krohn	21 March 1963
Hans Kronberger Hans Kronberger (physicist) Hans Kronberger CBE, FRS was a British physicist.- Education :* King's College, University of Durham; BSc 1944* University of Birmingham; Ph.D 1948- Career :Escaping from Austria he studied in Durham...	18 March 1965	28 July 1920 - 29 September 1970, nuclear physicist
Peter Benedict Kronheimer Peter B. Kronheimer Peter Benedict Kronheimer is a British mathematician, known for his work on gauge theory and its applications to 3- and 4-dimensional topology. He is presently William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University....	15 May 1997
Harold Walter Kroto Harold Kroto Sir Harold Walter Kroto, FRS , born Harold Walter Krotoschiner, is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley....	15 March 1990	chemist, Nobel Prize (1996)
Dietrich Kuchemann Dietrich Küchemann Dietrich Küchemann CBE FRS FRAeS was a German aerodynamicist who made several important contributions to the advancement of high-speed flight...	21 March 1963	12 September 1911 - 23 February 1976
Tesser Samuel Kuckahn	4 June 1772	fl 1772
Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn	18 March 1954	10 March 1904 - 26 August 1994
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni Shrinivas Kulkarni Shrinivas R. Kulkarni FRS is a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at California Institute of Technology. He is on the Space Interferometry Mission science team and is the director of optical observatories at California Institute of Technology, including Palomar and Keck.Kulkarni is...	10 May 2001	astronomer
Nicholas Kurti Nicholas Kurti Professor Nicholas Kurti FRS was a Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life. In his era, he was one of the leading experimental physicists....	15 March 1956	14 May 1908 - 24 November 1998, physicist, Vice-President of Royal Society (1965–67)
Henricus Gerardus Jacobus Maria Kuypers	17 March 1988	9 September 1925 - 26 September 1989 Neuroscientist, Cambridge University
Alexander Kyd	16 March 1820	c 1754 - 25 November 1826 Lieutenant-General

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Names	Election Date
Thomas Howell Laby	7 May 1931	3 May 1880 - 21 June 1946
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille Nicolas Louis de Lacaille Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer.He is noted for his catalogue of nearly 10,000 southern stars, including 42 nebulous objects. This catalogue, called Coelum Australe Stelliferum, was published posthumously in 1763. It introduced 14 new constellations which have since become...	17 January 1760	? 15 May 1713 - 21 March 1762
Peter Julius Lachmann Peter Lachmann Professor Sir Peter Julius Lachmann, ScD, FRS, FMedSci is a British immunologist, specifically a complementologist. He is emeritus Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology at Cambridge University, a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and of...	18 March 1982
David Lambert Lack	15 March 1951	16 July 1910 - 12 March 1973
Thomas Fantet de Lagny	1 December 1718	7 November 1660 - ? 12 April 1734
Joseph Louis Lagrange Joseph Louis Lagrange Joseph-Louis Lagrange , born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, was a mathematician and astronomer, who was born in Turin, Piedmont, lived part of his life in Prussia and part in France, making significant contributions to all fields of analysis, to number theory, and to classical and celestial mechanics...	5 May 1791	25 January 1736 - 10 April 1813
Patrick Playfair Laidlaw	12 May 1927	26 September 1881 - ? 20 March 1940
David Laing	23 November 1843	1800 - 6 August 1860 Clergyman
Ralph Lainson	18 March 1982
Thomas Lake Thomas Lake Sir Thomas Lake was Secretary of State to James I of England. He was a Member of Parliament in 1604, 1614, 1625 and 1626....	14 February 1667	fl 1657–1711
Devendra Lal	15 March 1979
Joseph Jerome le François de Lalande Jérôme Lalande Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande was a French astronomer and writer.-Biography:Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse...	24 November 1763	11 July 1732 - 4 April 1807
Christopher John Lamb	16 May 2008
Horace Lamb Horace Lamb Sir Horace Lamb FRS was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound...	12 June 1884	? 27 November 1849 - 4 December 1934
Trevor David Lamb	11 March 1993
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, FRS was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary and Prime Minister . He is best known for his intense and successful mentoring of Queen Victoria, at ages 18-21, in the ways of politics...	25 February 1841	15 March 1779 - 24 November 1848
Robert Lambe	6 April 1758
Kurt Lambeck Kurt Lambeck Kurt Lambeck is Professor of Geophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His current research interests include the interactions between ice sheets, oceans and the solid Earth, as well as changes in ocean levels and their impact on human populations.Lambeck is also...	10 March 1994
Aylmer Bourke Lambert Aylmer Bourke Lambert Aylmer Bourke Lambert was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society.He is best known for his work A description of the genus Pinus, issued in several parts 1803-1824, a sumptuously illustrated folio volume detailing all of the conifers then known...	31 March 1791	3 February 1761 - 10 January 1842
William Lambton William Lambton Lieutenant-Colonel William Lambton, FRS was a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer.Lambton was the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, which he began in 1802. He died and is buried at Hinganghat in Wardha district of Maharashtra...	9 January 1817	1756 - 26 January 1823
Charles Lamotte	22 June 1727
George William Lamplugh George William Lamplugh George William Lamplugh was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925.-References:...	11 May 1905	8 April 1859 - 9 October 1926
Frederick William Lanchester	11 May 1922	? 23 October 1868 - 8 March 1946
Giovanni Maria Lancisi Giovanni Maria Lancisi Giovanni Maria Lancisi was an Italian physician, epidemiologist and anatomist who made a correlation between the presence of mosquitoes and the prevalence of malaria...	20 November 1706	26 October 1654 - 20 January 1720
Michael Francis Land Michael F. Land Michael Francis Land FRS is a British neurobiologist. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology in the Sussex Vision laboratory at the Sussex Centre for Neuroscience, University of Sussex, England....	18 March 1982	neurobiologist
John Landen John Landen John Landen was an English mathematician,He was born at Peakirk near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, and died at Milton in the same county...	16 January 1766	23 January 1719 - 15 January 1790
Anthony Milner Lane	20 March 1975	27 July 1928 - 9 February 2011
David Philip Lane	14 March 1996
George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough was an Irish politician.He was the son of Sir Richard Lane, 1st Baronet, of Tulsk, by his wife Mabel Fitzgerald....	19 February 1662	c 1621 - 11 December 1683
Joseph Lane	31 January 1678
Ralph Lane	30 November 1692
Timothy Lane	11 January 1770	June 1734 - 5 July 1807 Apothecary
Benjamin Laney Benjamin Laney (bishop) -Life:Born in Ipswich, Lany was a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1616, and was Master of Pembroke from 1630. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1632...	14 November 1666	1591 - 24 January 1675
Andrew Richard Lang Andrew Lang (physicist) Andrew Richard Lang FRS CBE was a British scientist and crystallographer.He was born in St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire, UK...	20 March 1975	9 February 1924 - 30 June 2008
William Dickson Lang William Dickson Lang William Dickson Lang was Keeper of the Department of Geology at the British Museum from 1928 until 1938.He was born at Kurnal, India the second son of Edward Tickle Lang and Hebe, the daughter of John Venn Prior and moved to England at the age of one when the family returned...	2 May 1929	29 December 1878 - 7 March 1966
William Henry Lang William Henry Lang William Henry Lang FRS was a British botanist. The son of Thomas Lang, a medical practitioner, Lang was educated at Dennistoun public school in Glasgow before being accepted into the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a Bsc in botany and zoology in 1894...	4 May 1911	12 May 1874 - 29 August 1960
John de Lange	11 March 1736
William Langford	17 March 1796	fl 1796 Master, Eton School
James Langham	17 January 1678	c 1620 - 22 August 1699
Robert Phelan Langlands Robert Langlands Robert Phelan Langlands is a mathematician, best known as the founder of the Langlands program. He is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study...	19 March 1981
John Newport Langley John Newport Langley John Newport Langley 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....	7 June 1883	2 November 1852 - 5 November 1925
Browne Langrish	16 May 1734
Edwin Lankester Edwin Lankester Edwin Lankester MRCS, FRS was an English surgeon and naturalist who made a major contribution to the control of cholera in London: he was the first public analyst in England.- Life :...	18 December 1845	23 April 1814 - 30 October 1874
Edwin Ray Lankester	3 June 1875	15 May 1847 - 15 August 1929
Jacob Frederick Lantsheer	13 May 1756	fl 1756
Edward Lany	30 November 1692	c 1667 - 9 August 1728
Pierre Simon Laplace	30 April 1789	28 March 1749 - 5 March 1827
Michael Franz Lappert	15 March 1979
Arthur Lapworth Arthur Lapworth Arthur Lapworth was a Scottish chemist.He was born in Galashiels, Scotland, the son of geologist Charles Lapworth and educated at St Andrew's and King Edward's School, Birmingham. He graduated in Chemistry from Mason College...	5 May 1910	10 October 1872 - 5 April 1941
Charles Lapworth Charles Lapworth Charles Lapworth was an English geologist.-Biography:He was born at Faringdon in Berkshire and educated as a teacher at the Culham Diocesan Training College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He moved to the Scottish border region, where he investigated the previously little-known fossil fauna of the area...	7 June 1888	? 20 September 1842 - 13 March 1920
Thomas Aiskew Larcom Thomas Larcom Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 1st Baronet PC FRS was a leading official in the early Irish Ordnance Survey that started in 1824...	16 May 1844	22 April 1801 - 15 June 1879 Cartographer & civil servant
Dionysius Lardner Dionysius Lardner Dionysius Lardner , was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopedia.-Early life in Dublin:...	28 February 1828	3 April 1793 - 29 April 1859
William Larkins William Larkins William Larkins was a member of the Royal Society elected 14 April 1796He was formerly an accountant in Bengal for the British East India Company.-References:...	14 April 1796
Joseph Larmor Joseph Larmor Sir Joseph Larmor , a physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter...	2 June 1892	11 July 1857 - 19 May 1942
Stephen Richard Larter	15 May 2009
Thomas Lashley	24 November 1768
Ronald Alfred Laskey	15 March 1984
William Lassell William Lassell William Lassell FRS was an English merchant and astronomer.Born in Bolton and educated in Rochdale after the death of his father, he was apprenticed from 1814 to 1821 to a merchant in Liverpool. He then made his fortune as a beer brewer, which enabled him to indulge his interest in astronomy...	7 June 1849	18 June 1799 - 5 October 1880
John Latham John Latham (ornithologist) John Latham was an English physician, naturalist and author. He was born at Eltham in Kent, and was the eldest son of John Latham, a surgeon there, and his mother was a descendant of the Sothebys, in Yorkshire....	25 May 1775	27 June 1740 - 4 February 1837
John Latham	30 April 1801	29 December 1761 - 20 April 1843 physician
Robert Gordon Latham Robert Gordon Latham Robert Gordon Latham FRS was an ethnologist and philologist.Born at Billingborough, Lincolnshire, Latham studied philology in Scandinavia. He graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1833, becoming a Fellow of King's...	9 June 1848	24 March 1812 - 9 March 1888
William Latham	10 November 1796
John Lauder	24 December 1772	fl 1772
Simon Barry Laughlin	11 May 2000
Anthony Seymour Laughton	20 March 1980
Brian Edward Launder	10 March 1994
Jean Rodolphe Lavater	30 November 1708	fl 1704 -1716
William Graeme Laver	19 March 1987
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier	3 April 1788	? August 1743 - 8 May 1794
George Henry Law George Henry Law George Henry Law was the Bishop of Chester and then, from 1824, Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was the son of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle....	24 February 1814	12 September 1761 - 22 September 1845
John Law John Law (bishop) John Law DD was an English mathematician and clergyman who began his career as a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and went on to become chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Church of Ireland bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh , Killala and Achonry , and finally of Elphin .He was a...	20 March 1783	1745 - 18 March 1810
John Bennet Lawes John Bennet Lawes Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet FRS was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at Rothamsted, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry.John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted in...	1 June 1854	28 December 1814 - 31 August 1900
Peter Anthony Lawrence	17 March 1983
Edward Lawrence Edward Lawrence Edward Lawrence was an English writer who emigrated to the United States in 1902. Lawrence was born in Windsor, England and attended Eton from 1890–94 and Oxford University 1895-1899, where he read classics...	30 November 1708
John Lawrence	27 November 1673
Thomas Lawrence Thomas Lawrence Thomas Lawrence may refer to:*Sir Thomas Lawrence, British artist, President of Royal Academy*Thomas Lawrence , mayor of colonial Philadelphia*T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"*Thomas Lawrence , U.S. politician...	28 February 1822	4 May 1769 - 7 January 1830
William Lawrence Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet FRCS FRS was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen....	11 November 1813	16 July 1783 - 5 July 1867
Peter John Lawrenson Peter Lawrenson Peter Lawrenson FRS, FREng is a British electrical engineer who contributed to the development of switched reluctance drive technology. He was president of The Institution of Electrical Engineers from 1992 to 1993.- Biography :...	18 March 1982
John Lawry	17 June 1742	c 1716 - ? 28 August 1773 Clergyman
Richard Maitland Laws	20 March 1980
Henry Lawson	21 May 1840	23 March 1774 - 22 August 1855 Astronomer & Meteorologist
James Lawson	12 March 1812
John David Lawson John D. Lawson John Daniel Lawson was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Montgomery, New York, Lawson attended the public schools.He moved to New York City and was employed as a clerk in a dry-goods store....	17 March 1983
Wilfrid Lawson Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Isell Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet of Isell FRS , was a British politician. He was educated Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1713; and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1715. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to George I from 1720 to 1725; and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1718...	11 December 1718	1697 - 13 July 1737
John Hartley Lawton	16 March 1989
William Lax William Lax William Lax AM FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician.Lax was born in Ravensworth, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of William and Helen Lax. He was educated at the local grammar school at Kirby Hill. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1780 at the age of 19 as...	5 May 1796	1761 - 29 October 1836
Charles Peter Layard	26 March 1778	1749 - 10 April 1803
Daniel Peter Layard	22 January 1747	1721 -
Arthur Sheridan Lea	5 June 1890	1 December 1853 - 23 March 1915
Sydney Leach	11 March 1993
William Elford Leach William Elford Leach William Elford Leach FRS was an English zoologist and marine biologist.Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of a solicitor. At the age of twelve he went to school in Exeter, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine samples from Plymouth Sound and along...	15 February 1816	1790 - 25 August 1836
Peter Francis Leadlay	11 May 2000
William Martin Leake William Martin Leake William Martin Leake, FRS , British antiquarian and topographer, was born in London.After completing his education at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and spending four years in the West Indies as lieutenant of marine artillery, he was sent by the government to Constantinople to instruct the...	13 April 1815	14 January 1777 - 6 January 1860
Richard Leakey Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...	17 May 2007
John Beresford Leathes	4 May 1911	5 November 1864 - 14 September 1956
Christopher John Leaver	20 March 1986
Charles Philippe Leblond	18 March 1965	6 February 1910 – 10 April 2007
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier...	7 February 1740	7 September 1707 - 16 April 1788
Thomas Lediard	9 December 1742	1685 - June 1743
John Charles Grant Ledingham	12 May 1921	19 May 1875 - 4 October 1944
Anthony Ledwith	9 March 1995
Arthur Lee Arthur Lee (diplomat) Dr. Arthur Lee was an American diplomat during the American Revolutionary War. He was the son of Hon. Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell...	29 May 1766	21 December 1740 - 12 December 1792
Charles Dillon Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon of Costello-Gallen Charles Dillon, 12th Viscount Dillon Charles Dillon-Lee, 12th Viscount Dillon, KP, PC was Member of Parliament for the English borough of Westbury ....	28 May 1767	1745 - 9 November 1813
James Prince Lee James Prince Lee James Prince Lee, MA, DD was an English clergyman who became the first Bishop of Manchester.-Early life:...	21 June 1849	28 July 1804 - 24 December 1869
John Lee	15 February 1781
John Lee	24 February 1831	28 April 1783 - 25 February 1866 Antiquary
Robert Lee Robert Lee (midwifery) Robert Lee FRS was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow in 1834. He held the Chair for the shortest period of any holder to date, resigning from his position immediately after giving his opening address....	25 March 1830	1793 - 6 February 1877
Stephen Lee	19 April 1798
William Lee	26 May 1748	fl 1748 Son of Lord Chief Justice William Lee
Anthony David Lees	21 March 1968	27
Charles Herbert Lees	3 May 1906	28 July 1864 - 25 September 1952
George Martin Lees George Martin Lees George Martin Lees Military Cross DFC FRS was a British soldier, geologist and leading authority on the geology of the Middle East.-Early life and military service:...	18 March 1948	16 April 1898 - 25 January 1955
Henry Beaumont Leeson	7 June 1849	1800 - 8 November 1872
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek	29 January 1680	24 October 1632 - 26 August 1723
Charles Shaw Lefevre Charles Shaw-Lefevre (MP) Charles Shaw-Lefevre , born Charles Shaw, was a British Whig politician.Shaw-Lefevre was the son of Reverend George Shaw, Rector of Womersley, Yorkshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edward Green. He was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn...	10 November 1796
John Henry Lefroy John Henry Lefroy Sir John Henry Lefroy, KCMG, CB, FRS, was a British military man and later colonial administrator who also distinguished himself with his scientific studies of the Earth's magnetism.- Biography :...	9 June 1848	28 January 1817 - 11 April 1890
Edward Legge	26 February 1736	1710 - 19 September 1747
George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Lewisham until 1801, was a British politician.-Background:...	3 May 1781	3 October 1755 - 1 November 1810
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth William Legge 2nd Earl of Dartmouth PC, FRS , styled as Viscount Lewisham from 1732 to 1750, was a British statesman who is most remembered for his part in the government before and during the American Revolution....	7 November 1754	20 June 1731 - 15 July 1801
William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth FRS, SA , styled The Honourable William Legge until 1801 and Viscount Lewisham between 1801 and 1810, was a British peer.-Background:...	7 November 1822	29 November 1784 - 22 November 1853
Anthony James Leggett Anthony James Leggett Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS , aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983....	20 March 1980
Thomas Legh Thomas Legh (died 1857) Thomas Legh FRS was a politician in England.He was Member of Parliament for the rotten borough of Newton in Lancashire from 1814 until the borough was disenfrachised at the 1832 general election.- External links :...	12 June 1817	1793 - 8 May 1857
Anthony Charles Legon	11 May 2000
Hermann Lehmann	16 March 1972	8 July 1910 - 13 July 1985
Johann Georg Liebknecht Johann Georg Liebknecht Johann Georg Liebknecht was a German theologian and scientist. He was professor of mathematics and theology at the Ludoviciana and Superintendent in Gießen....	5 December 1728	? 23 April 1679 - 17 September 1749
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz	9 April 1673	? 21 June 1646 - 14 November 1716
Ralph Leicester	7 May 1724	c 1699–1777
Charles Leigh	13 May 1685	1662 - ? 1717 Physician
David Alan Leigh David Leigh (scientist) David Alan Leigh FRS is the Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.He is noted for the development of new methods to construct rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular knots and for the invention of some of the first synthetic molecular motors and functional nanomachines...	15 May 2009
Ellis Leighton	9 December 1663
Robert Thomson Leiper	3 May 1923	17 April 1881 - 21 May 1969 Parasitologist, London
Sir William Boog Leishman	5 May 1910	6 November 1865 - 2 June 1926
Theodore Forbes Leith	20 December 1781	1746 - 6 September 1819
Max Rudolf Lemberg	20 March 1952	19 October 1896 - 10 April 1975
Raymond Urgel Lemieux	16 March 1967	16 June 1920 - 22 July 2000
Charles Lemon Charles Lemon Sir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies and a baronet.-Service in Parliament:...	23 May 1822	30 September 1784 - 13 February 1868
John Edward Lennard-Jones John Lennard-Jones Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS was a mathematician who was a professor of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then of theoretical science at Cambridge University...	11 May 1933	27 October 1894 - 1 November 1954
Dacre Barret Lennard	30 November 1705
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, Lennox and Aubigny	6 February 1724	18 May 1701 - 8 August 1750
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox	11 December 1755	23 February 1735 - 29 December 1806
Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham	2 May 1918	21 August 1866 - 27 October 1956
Leopold I, King of the Belgians	30 November 1816	? 18 December 1790 - 10 December 1865 Royal
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II of Tuscany was the last reigning grand duke of Tuscany ....	24 May 1838	3 October 1797 - 29 January 1870
Johann Friedrich Leopold	4 May 1709	3 February 1676 - 4 May 1711
Antonio Leprotti	16 May 1734	c 1684–1747
Andrew Greig William Leslie	10 May 2001
Frank Matthews Leslie Frank Matthews Leslie Frank Matthews Leslie FRS was a mathematical physicist specializing in continuum mechanics. He is remembered for the Ericksen–Leslie theory he developed with Jerald Ericksen to describe the viscosity of mesophases associated with liquid crystals. The parameters of this theory are viscosities called...	9 March 1995	8 March 1935 - 15 June 2000 Prof. of Mathematics, Strathclyde Univ.
John Leslie	22 January 1807	20 November 1759 - November 1824 Soldier, aka John Curning
Patrick Duguid Leslie	8 November 1781
John Letch	20 March 1766
Smart Lethieullier	12 March 1724	3 November 1701 - 27 August 1760
Gregorio Leti Gregorio Leti Gregorio Leti was an Italian historian and satirist from Milan, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Abbe Gualdi, L'abbé Gualdi, or Gualdus known for his works about the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papacy...	30 November 1681	29 May 1630 - 9 June 1701
John Coakley Lettsom	18 November 1773	22 November 1744 - 1 November 1815
James Lever	10 February 1743
Ashton Lever Ashton Lever Sir Ashton Lever was an English collector of natural objects.-Biography:Ashton Lever was born in 1729 to well off titled parents who lived at Alkrington Hall...	18 February 1773	5 March 1729 - 24 January 1788
John Leveret	11 March 1714	25 August 1662 - 3 May 1724
George Granville William Sutherland Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland	24 November 1870	19 December 1828 - 22 September 1892
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville	13 January 1853	11 May 1815 - 31 March 1891
William Russell Levick	18 March 1982
Malcolm Harris Levitt	17 May 2007
Michael Levitt Michael Levitt Professor Michael Levitt FRS is a British biophysicist. He has been Professor of Structural biology, Stanford University, California, since 1987 working in computational biology and bioinformatics....	10 May 2001	biophysicist, computational biology
John Lewin	20 June 1765
Dan Lewis	17 March 1955	Plant geneticist, John Innes Inst.
George Lewis	13 June 1754	fl 1754
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham	15 March 1973
Thomas Lewis Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) Sir Thomas Lewis, CBE, FRS was a British cardiologist. He qualified as a doctor and worked as a physiologist and clinical scientist, carrying out fundamental research on the heart...	2 May 1918	26 December 1881 - 17 March 1945
Thomas Frankland Lewis	8 June 1820	14 May 1780 - 22 January 1855
Thomas Locke Lewis	5 May 1836
Wilfrid Bennett Lewis	22 March 1945	24 June 1908 - 10 January 1987
William Lewis William Lewis (scientist) William Lewis FRS was an English chemist and physician. He is known for his writings related to pharmacy and medicine, and for his research into metals.-Life and work:...	31 October 1745	? June 1708 - 21 January 1781
William Cudmore McCullagh Lewis	6 May 1926	30 June 1885 - 11 February 1956 Prof Physical Chem, Liverpool Univ
William James Lewis William Lewis (mineralogist) William James Lewis F.R.S. was a Welsh mineralogist.-Biography:Lewis was born in Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire, the second son of clergyman John Lewis, and educated at Llanrwst grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1865. He obtained first-class degrees in mathematics ...	6 May 1909	16 January 1847 - 16 April 1926
Steven Victor Ley	15 March 1990
Thomas Leybourn	2 April 1835	9 April 1770 - 1 March 1840
Johann Borkman Leyonbergh	21 November 1667	? February 1625 - August 1691
Christian Leyoncrona	1 December 1701	c 1662 - 8 April 1710
Ottoline Leyser Ottoline Leyser Henrietta Miriam Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS is a British plant biologist.-Biography:Ottoline received her BA and PhD in Genetics from the University of Cambridge....	17 May 2007
Edward Lhuyd Edward Lhuyd Edward Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also known by the Latinized form of his name, Eduardus Luidius....	30 November 1708	1660 - 30 June 1709
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany...	11 April 1793	? 1 July 1744 - 24
Edward George Tandy Liddell	16 March 1939	25 March 1895 - 17 August 1981
John Liddell	18 June 1846	1794 - 28 May 1868 Royal Navy surgeon
Johann Nathaniel Lieberkuhn	18 December 1740	5 September 1711 - 7 December 1756
Joseph Lieutaud Joseph Lieutaud Joseph Lieutaud , was a French doctor.-Biography:Joseph Lieutaud started studying botany, following in the wake of his uncle, Pierre Joseph Garidel, and went on to be called upon as a doctor in the Hotel-Dieu in Aix-en-Provence...	21 June 1739	21 June 1703 - ? 11 December 1780
Graham Collingwood Liggins	20 March 1980	24 June 1926 - 24 August 2010 Prof of Obstetrics, Auckland
John Lightfoot	8 March 1781	10 December 1735 - 20 February 1788
Michael James Lighthill	19 March 1953	23 January 1924 - 17 July 1998
John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier Field Marshal John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier, KB, PC was a French-born British soldier.He was born to a Huguenot family of Castres in the south of France, and who emigrated to England at the close of the 17th century...	26 October 1749	7 November 1680 - 28 April 1770
John Lihou	6 June 1833	25 May 1792 - 13 July 1840
David Malcolm James Lilley	9 May 2002
Malcolm Douglas Lilly	14 March 1991	9 August 1936 - 18 May 1998
John Philip de Limbourg	30 May 1771	1726 - 01
Johann Heinrich Linck Johann Heinrich Linck Johann Heinrich Linck was a German pharmacist and naturalist. He was born in Leipzig and ran the family pharmacy known as "The Golden Lion". He wrote a treatise on sea stars, De stellis marinis liber singularis...	11 December 1718	17 December 1674 - 29 October 1734
James Lind	18 December 1777	17 May 1736 - 17 October 1812 Physician
John Lind John Lind (barrister) John Lind was an English barrister, political activist, and pamphleteer who opposed the American Revolution.He was educated at Balliol College of Oxford, receiving an MA in 1761. He also began a long association and friendship with Jeremy Bentham there.He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries...	25 November 1773	13 August 1737 - 12 January 1781
Linda Linda Linda may refer to:* Linda , a female given name * Linda , stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer* "Linda" , a popular song written by Jack Lawrence...	30 November 1711	fl 1711
Tomas Robert Lindahl Tomas Lindahl Tomas Robert Lindahl FRS is a Swedish scientist specialising in cancer research.He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters...	17 March 1988
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...	13 May 1920	5 April 1886 - 3 July 1957
Paul Fredrick Linden	17 May 2007
John Lindley John Lindley John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...	5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley SL PC FRS was an English judge.-Biography:He was the second son of the botanist John Lindley, born at Acton Green, London. He was educated at University College School, and studied for a time at University College, London...	20 January 1898	29 November 1828 - 9 December 1921
David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of Balcarres KT, PC, DL, FRS, FSA , styled Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913, was a British Conservative politician and art connoisseur....	6 November 1924	11 October 1871 - 8 March 1940 Statute
James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres was a British astronomer, politician, bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. He was a prominent Freemason.-Family:The Earl was the...	6 June 1878	28 July 1847 - 31 January 1913
John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford Lieutenant-General John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford was a Scottish peer and the first colonel of the Black Watch on its formation in 1739.He was the son of Lt.-Gen...	15 June 1732	4 October 1702 - 20 September 1749
Heinrich Friedrich Link	5 May 1842	3 February 1767 - 1 January 1851
Carl Linnaeus	3 May 1753	? 24 May 1707 - 10 January 1778
Anthony William Linnane	20 March 1980
John Wilfrid Linnett	17 March 1955	3 August 1913 - 7 November 1975
Reginald Patrick Linstead Patrick Linstead Sir Patrick Linstead CBE, DSc, HonDSc, DIC, HonFCGI, HonMIMM, FRS was an English chemist.-Career:...	14 March 1940	28 August 1902 - 22 September 1966
Hugues Louis De Lionne	28 June 1665	fl 1665
Henry Solomon Lipson Henry Lipson Henry Lipson CBE was a British physicist. He was Professor of Physics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1954-77, then Professor Emeritus....	21 March 1957	11 March 1910 - 26 April 1991
John Liptrap	4 March 1802	fl 1802
Joseph Nicholas De Lisle	12 March 1724	4 April 1688 - ? 11 July 1768
Samuel Lisle Samuel Lisle Reverend Samuel Lisle FRS was an English academic and bishop.-Life:he was born in Blandford, Dorset.He graduated M.A. at Wadham College, Oxford in 1706, and was ordained in 1707....	17 June 1742	1683 - 3 October 1749
Thomas Lisle	5 May 1757
Peter Simon Liss	16 May 2008
Hans Werner Lissmann Hans Lissmann Hans Werner Lissmann FRS was a British zoologist, specialising in animal behaviour.He was Reader, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1966–77, then Reader Emeritus, and Director, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, 1969-77. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in...	18 March 1954	30 April 1909 - 21 April 1995
Arthur Lister	9 June 1898	17 April 1830 - 19 July 1908
Joseph Jackson Lister Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist) Joseph Jackson Lister FRS was a British zoologist and plant collector from Leytonstone who collected biological specimens during travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific region....	14 June 1900	3 August 1857 - 5 February 1927 Zoologist
Joseph Jackson Lister Joseph Jackson Lister Joseph Jackson Lister, FRS was an amateur British opticist and physicist and the father of Joseph Lister.-Ancestry:...	2 February 1832	11 January 1786 - 24 October 1869
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis	7 June 1860	6 April 1827 - 10 February 1912
Martin Lister Martin Lister Martin Lister FRS was an English naturalist and physician.-Life:Lister was born at Radcliffe, near Buckingham, the son of Sir Martin Lister MP for Brackley in the Long Parliament and his wife Susan Temple daughter of Sir Alexander Temple. Lister was connected to a number of well known individuals...	2 November 1671	12 April 1639 - 2 February 1712
Robert Liston Robert Liston Robert Liston was a pioneering Scottish surgeon, and the son of the Scottish minister and inventor Henry Liston, whose father was also a Robert Liston, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland....	13 May 1841	28 October 1794 - 7 December 1847
Albert Edward Litherland	21 March 1974
Edmond Littlehales	30 November 1717	c 1690 - 24 September 1724
Edward John Littleton, 1st Baron Hatherton	15 February 1855	18 March 1791 - 4 May 1863
John Edensor Littlewood John Edensor Littlewood John Edensor Littlewood was a British mathematician, best known for the results achieved in collaboration with G. H. Hardy.-Life:...	11 May 1916	9 June 1885 - 6 September 1977
Peter Brent Littlewood Peter Littlewood Peter Littlewood is a British physicist and former head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He previously headed the Theory of Condensed Matter group and the Theoretical Physics Research department at Bell Laboratories....	17 May 2007	Head of Cavendish Laboratory
George Downing Living George Downing Living George Downing Liveing FRS was an English chemist and spectroscopist.He was born in Nayland, Suffolk, the eldest son of Edward Liveing and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, matriculating BA in 1851. He was made a Fellow of the college and then in 1911 President of the college...	12 June 1879	21 December 1827 - 26 December 1924
Archibald Liversidge Archibald Liversidge Archibald Liversidge, FRS, was an English-born Australian chemist and founder of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.-Early life:...	8 June 1882	17 November 1847 - 26 September 1927
David Livingstone David Livingstone David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...	3 June 1858	19 March 1813 - 1 May 1873
Peter Livius	29 April 1773	1727 - 23 July 1795
John Dillwyn Llewelyn John Dillwyn Llewelyn John Dillwyn Llewelyn was a botanist and pioneer photographer.-Early life:He was born in Swansea, Wales, the eldest son of Lewis Weston Dillwyn and Mary Dillwyn, née Adams, the natural daughter of Col. John Llewelyn of Penllergare and Ynysygerwn...	4 February 1836	12 January 1810 - 24 August 1882
Charles Lloyd	8 March 1764	1735 - 22 January 1773 secretary & antiquarian
David Graham Lloyd David Lloyd (botanist) David Lloyd was an evolutionary biologist and the seventh New Zealander to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He did pioneering work in the field of plant reproduction....	12 March 1992	20 June 1937 – 30 May 2006 NZ botanist
Edward Lloyd	12 March 1818
George Lloyd George Lloyd George Lloyd may refer to:*George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd , British politician*George Lloyd , member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly*George Lloyd , Bishop of Sodor and Man and Bishop of Chester, 1605–1614...	10 February 1737	c 1708 - ? 5 December 1783
Humphrey Lloyd	21 January 1836	16 April 1800 - 17 January 1881 Clergyman, optics & magnetism
John Lloyd John Lloyd (scholar) John Lloyd FRS was a British naturalist.-Selected works:* Letter from John Lloyd, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. KB PRS. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 86 , pp. 34–37....	15 December 1774	25 January 1750 - 24 April 1815
John Lloyd	8 November 1759	c 1735 - 8 June 1777
John Augustus Lloyd	11 March 1830	1 May 1800 - 10 October 1854
Owen Lloyd	1 December 1701	c 1674–1738 Clergyman
Philemon Lloyd	9 November 1727	fl 1727–1735
Robert Glanville Lloyd	11 May 2000
William Forster Lloyd William Forster Lloyd William Forster Lloyd FRS was a British writer on economics.He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1815 and MA in 1818....	10 April 1834	1794 - 2 June 1852
Theophilus Lobb	6 March 1729	17 August 1678 - 19 May 1763
Ferdinand Philip Lobkowitz	2 July 1747	1724–1784
John Lock	4 February 1742
William Lock William Lock William Lock was Mayor of Nelson from 1913 to 1915 and again from 1921 to 1927. Lock was an auctioneer, and a grain and produce merchant for 40 years. During his term as Mayor, HMS New Zealand visited Nelson in 1913...	7 February 1754	c 1687 - 21 October 1761
John Locke John Locke John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...	26 November 1668	29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704
Joseph Locke Joseph Locke Joseph Locke was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects...	22 February 1838	9 August 1805 - 18 September 1860
Edward Hawke Locker Edward Hawke Locker Edward Hawke Locker was an English watercolourist and administrator of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich.-Life:...	5 December 1811	9 October 1777 - 16 October 1849
John Lockman	25 June 1778	c 1721 - 27 December 1807
Ben Lockspeiser Ben Lockspeiser Sir Benjamin Lockspeiser KCB, FRS, MIMechE, FRAeS, was a British scientific administrator and the first President of CERN....	17 March 1949	9 March 1891 - 18 October 1990
Michael Lockwood	18 May 2006	Physicist, Reading Univ.
Charles Lockyer	15 May 1740
Joseph Norman Lockyer Joseph Norman Lockyer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, FRS , known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium...	3 June 1869	17 May 1836 - 16 August 1920
Jean Marie François du Parc Locmaria	12 January 1744	c 1708 - 2 October 1745
Charles Locock	2 June 1864	21 April 1799 - 23 July 1875
Oliver Joseph Lodge Oliver Joseph Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy...	9 June 1887	12 June 1851 - 22 August 1940
Francis Lodwick Francis Lodwick Francis Lodwick was a pioneer of a priori languages . He was a merchant of Dutch origin who lived in London...	30 November 1681	? August 1619 - 5 January 1694
William Edmond Logan William Edmond Logan Sir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...	5 June 1851	20 April 1798 - ? 22 June 1875
Heinz London Heinz London Heinz London was a German Physicist. He worked with his brother Fritz on superconductivity, discovering the London equations when working in Oxford, at the Clarendon Laboratory; these equations gave a first explanation to the Meissner effect...	16 March 1961	7 November 1907 - 3 August 1970
Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough GCB PC PC FRS FSA was an English politician and connoisseur of the arts.-Early life:...	2 February 1792	1761 - 17 January 1838
Roger Long Roger Long thumb|150px|Roger LongRoger Long was an English astronomer, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1733 and 1770....	8 May 1729	3 February 1680 - 16 December 1770
James Long Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet Sir James Long, 2nd Baronet was an English politician and Royalist soldier.Born at South Wraxall, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, the son of Sir Walter Long and Anne Ley , he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1634...	20 May 1663	? 1617 - 22 January 1692 Original
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall	19 June 1902	13 July 1854 - 26 September 1924
William Long William Long (surgeon) William Long FRS, FSA was an English surgeon.Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, he was the youngest of ten children of Walter Long of Preshaw, Hampshire , and Philippa Blackall...	16 April 1801
Malcolm Sim Longair	27 May 2004
Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS was both a theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist. He was born on April 11, 1923 in Kent, England and died on March 27, 2004....	20 March 1958	11 April 1923 – 27 March 2004
Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins Michael S. Longuet-Higgins Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS is a mathematician and oceanographer at Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego. He is the younger brother of H...	21 March 1963
Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale Kathleen Lonsdale Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE FRS was a crystallographer, who established the structure of benzene by X-ray diffraction methods in 1929, and hexachlorobenzene by Fourier spectral methods in 1931...	22 March 1945	28 January 1903 - 1 April 1971
Gilbert George Lonzarich	16 March 1989
Antonio Mario Lorgna	3 April 1788	1730 - 28 June 1796
George Huntly Lorimer	20 March 1986
Michael Lort Michael Lort -Life:The descendant of a Pembrokeshire family living at Prickeston, he was eldest son of Roger Lort, major of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who married Anne, only child of Edward Jenkins, vicar of Fareham, Hampshire...	15 May 1766	1725 - 5 November 1790
John Gideon Loten	27 November 1760	16 May 1710 - 25
Rodney Loudon	19 March 1987
Archduke Louis of Austria Archduke Louis of Austria right|thumb|Archduke LouisArchduke Louis Joseph Anton Johann, Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia and Prince of Tuscany , was the 14th child of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.Archduke...	8 February 1816	13 December 1784 - 21 December 1864 Royal
John Freeman Loutit John Freeman Loutit John Freeman Loutit CBE FRS FRCP Also known as 'Ian'. was an Australian haematologist and radiobiologist.He was born in Western Australia, the son of a locomotive engineer....	21 March 1963	20 February 1910 - 11 June 1992, medical researcher, radiobiologist
Augustus Edward Hough Love Augustus Edward Hough Love Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS , often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity...	7 June 1894	17 April 1863 - 5 June 1940
Edward Loveden Loveden	14 November 1805	1751 - 4 January 1822
Robin Howard Lovell-Badge	10 May 2001
Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell	17 March 1955
James Ephraim Lovelock	21 March 1974
Martin Geoffrey Low	14 March 1996
Edward Joseph Lowe Edward Joseph Lowe Edward Joseph Lowe FRS FGS FRAS FLS was a renowned English botanist, who published papers on a wide variety of subjects, including meteorology, luminous meteors, sunspots, the zodiacal light, meteorological observations during the eclipse of 1860 at Fuente del Mar, near Santander, conchology,...	6 June 1867	11 November 1825 - 10 March 1900
George Lowe	18 December 1834	1788 - 25 December 1868 Gas Engineer
Gordon Lowe	15 March 1984	31 May 1933 – 6 August 2003 Organic Chemist
Jan Löwe	16 May 2008
Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke	25 May 1871	4 December 1811 - 27 July 1892
Otto Egon Lowenstein	17 March 1955	24 October 1906 - 31 January 1999 zoologist, Birmingham University
Richard Lower	17 October 1667	1631 - 17 January 1691
Ralph Lowndes	15 July 1696	29 October 1662 - 31 August 1727
Thomas Martin Lowry	7 May 1914	26 October 1874 - 2 November 1936
Wilson Lowry Wilson Lowry Wilson Lowry FRS was an English engraver. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, the son of Strickland Lowry, a portrait painter. The family settled in Worcester, and Wilson Lowry, as a boy, left home to work as a house painter in London and Arundel, Sussex...	5 March 1812	24 January 1762 - 23 June 1824
Robert Lowth Robert Lowth Robert Lowth FRS was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.-Life:...	21 November 1765	27 November 1710 - 3 November 1787 Bishop of London
Anthony Lowther Anthony Lowther (d. 1693) Anthony Lowther, FRS was an English landowner, of Marske,Yorkshire and Member of Parliament.He was the eldest son of draper Robert Lowther , an alderman of London and his second wife Elizabeth...	20 May 1663	? May 1641 - 27 January 1693 Original
Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale PC FRS was an English courtier and landowner.He succeeded to the Viscountcy in 1713, upon the death of his elder brother, Richard Lowther, 2nd Viscount Lonsdale...	21 January 1742	1694 - 12 March 1751
John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, from 1675 to 1696, was an English politician....	20 December 1699	25 April 1655 - 10 July 1700
James Lowther Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet Sir James Lowther, 4th Baronet, FRS was an English landowner, politician and industrialist. He obtained immense wealth from coal mines in northern England, which he extensively developed and modernised.-Early life:...	25 November 1736	5 August 1673 - 2 January 1755
Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet, of Whitehaven Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English gentleman and landowner at Whitehaven.He was born at Whitehaven, St Bees, Cumberland, the son of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Christopher Lancaster of Stockbridge, Westmoreland and educated at Ilkley,...	27 January 1664	? November 1642 - ? January 1706
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale PC, FRS , styled Viscount Lowther between 1807 and 1844, was a British Tory politician.-Background:...	5 July 1810	21 July 1787 - 4 March 1872
John Lowthorp	30 November 1702	c 1659 - 2 September 1724
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....	3 June 1858	30 April 1834 - 28 May 1913
Sir John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet Sir John William Lubbock, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English banker.He chaired the family bank Lubbock & Company. He was the nephew of Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet, succeeding him by special remainder, and the grandson of the Reverend William Lubbock...	15 November 1821	26 August 1774 - 22 October 1840
Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Baronet was an English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer.He was born in Westminster, the son of Sir John William Lubbock, of the Lubbock & Co bank. He was educated at Eton and then Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1825...	15 January 1829	26 March 1803 - 20 June 1865
Jean-André Deluc Jean-André Deluc Jean-André Deluc or de Luc was a Swiss geologist and meteorologist.-Life:He was born at Geneva, descended from a family which had emigrated from Lucca and settled at Geneva in the 15th century...	10 June 1773	9 February 1727 - 7 November 1817 Geologist, meteorologist
John Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Shenfield	20 May 1663	? October 1606 - 2 July 1671 Original
Keith Lucas Keith Lucas Keith Lucas FRS was a British scientist who worked at Trinity College, Cambridge doing pioneering work in Neuroscience....	1 May 1913	8 March 1879 - 5 October 1916
Richard Lucas	15 March 1722	c 1693 - ? October 1747 Rector, Foots Cray, Kent
Cyril Edward Lucas	17 March 1966	30 July 1909 – 12 January 2002
Sir Berkeley Lucy, 3rd Baronet	23 March 1698	c 1672 - 19 November 1759
Sir Kingsmill Lucy, 2nd Baronet	26 November 1668	c 1649 - 19 September 1678
Ludlow Ludlow Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire, England close to the Welsh border and in the Welsh Marches. It lies within a bend of the River Teme, on its eastern bank, forming an area of and centred on a small hill. Atop this hill is the site of Ludlow Castle and the market place...	30 November 1702	fl 1702
Carlo Maria Luigi, Count of Barbiano and Belgiojoso	3 May 1781	2 January 1728–1801
James Luke	7 June 1855	? 1798 - 15 August 1881
Johan Luloss	18 March 1762	5 August 1711 - 4 November 1768
Andrew Gino Sita Lumsden	10 March 1994
John Walter Guerrier Lund	21 March 1963
Raymond Douglas Lund	12 March 1992
Francis Lunn	11 February 1819	14 October 1795 - 4 August 1839
Edmund Henry Lushington	18 March 1824	11 July 1776 - 27 March 1839
George Lusztig	17 March 1983
Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:...	7 June 1894	25 July 1849 - 16 April 1915
Charles Lyell Charles Lyell Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...	2 February 1826	14 November 1797 - 22
William Beauchamp Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp	6 December 1810	1782 - 12 May 1823
Thomas Ranken Lyle Thomas Ranken Lyle Sir Thomas Ranken Lyle FRS was an Irish-born and educated mathematical physicist and educator. He emigrated to Australia to take up a professorship at the University of Melbourne, where he was a pioneer in the use of X-rays as a medical tool...	2 May 1912	26 August 1860 - 31 March 1944
Donald Lynden-Bell Donald Lynden-Bell Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS is an English astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. He was a co-recipient, with Maarten Schmidt, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for...	16 March 1978
Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell Ruth Lynden-Bell Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, FRS is a British computational chemist and an emeritus professor of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge....	18 May 2006
Andrew Geoffrey Lyne Andrew Lyne Andrew G. Lyne FRS is a British physicist. Lyne is Langworthy Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, as well as an ex-director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Despite retiring in 2007 he remains an active researcher within the Jodrell Bank Pulsar...	14 March 1996
George Francis Lyon George Francis Lyon George Francis Lyon was a rare combination of Arctic and African explorer. By all accounts a fun loving extrovert, he also managed to be a competent British Naval Officer, Commander, explorer, artist and socialite...	15 November 1827	1795 - 8 October 1832
Mary Frances Lyon	15 March 1973
Pierre Lyonet	14 January 1748	? 21 July 1707 - 10 January 1789
Henry George Lyons Henry George Lyons Colonel Sir Henry George Lyons FRS was a geologist and director of the Science Museum in London.Henry Lyons was born in London, the son of General T.C. Lyons, CB....	3 May 1906	11 October 1864 - 10 August 1944
Terence John Lyons	9 May 2002
Daniel Lysons Daniel Lysons Daniel Lysons was a notable English antiquary and topographer of the late 18th and early 19th century, who published the four-volume The Environs of London ....	25 May 1797	28 April 1762 - 3 January 1834
Samuel Lysons Samuel Lysons Samuel Lysons FRS was a notable English engraver and antiquary of the late 18th and early 19th century, who - with his older brother, Daniel - published the four-volume The Environs of London...	2 February 1797	17 May 1763 - 29 June 1819
Basil Lythgoe	20 March 1958
Charles Lyttelton Charles Lyttelton (bishop) Charles Lyttelton was an English churchman and antiquary, bishop of Carlisle from 1762.-Life:He was third son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, by his wife Christian, daughter of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet of Stowe, Buckinghamshire...	27 January 1743	1714 - 22 December 1768
George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton	30 April 1840	31 March 1817 - 19 April 1876
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton PC , known as Sir George Lyttelton, Bt between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.-Background and education:...	26 January 1744	17 January 1709 - 22 August 1773
Raymond Arthur Lyttleton	17 March 1955	7 May 1911 - 16 May 1995
Richard Warburton Lytton	28 May 1772	1745–1810

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François Jacob François Jacob François Jacob is a French biologist who, together with Jacques Monod, originated the idea that control of enzyme levels in all cells occurs through feedback on transcription. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff.-Childhood and education:François Jacob is...	3 May 1973	French biologist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1965)
Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a German mathematician, widely considered to be the most inspiring teacher of his time and is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his generation.-Biography:...	6 June 1833	11 December 1804 - 18 February 1851 German mathematician
Pierre Jules César Janssen Pierre Jules César Janssen Pierre Jules César Janssen , usually known in French as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with the English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gas helium....	8 April 1875	23 February 1824 - 23 December 1907
William Platt Jencks William Jencks William Platt Jencks was an American biochemist. He was noted particularly for his work on enzymes, using concepts drawn from organic chemistry to understand their mechanisms.-Career:...	18 June 1992	15 August 1927 – 3 January 2007
Jean Frédéric Joliot Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...	9 May 1946	19 March 1900 - 14 August 1958
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan	26 June 1919	5 January 1838 - 20 January 1922
Ludwig Jost Ludwig Jost Ludwig Jost ForMemRS was a German botanist, and university professor.- Life and work :After attending the Gymnasium in Karlsruhe, Jost studied natural sciences in Heidelberg, and in 1885 at the Kaiser Wilhelm University. He obtained his PhD, and worked there until 1918 as a scientist...	25 June 1936	14 November 1865 - 22 February 1947 German botanist
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu was a French botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.-Life:...	29 January 1829	12 April 1748 - 17 September 1836

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Fotis Constantine Kafatos Fotis Kafatos Fotis Constantine Kafatos is a Greek molecular entomologist. Between 2005-2010 he was the founding president of the European Research Council and member of its Scientific Council...	15 May 2003
Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...	15 May 2009
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn	26 June 1919	19 January 1851 - 18 June 1922
Theodore von Kármán Theodore von Karman Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization...	9 May 1946	11 May 1881 - 7 May 1963, Hungarian-born U.S. aeronautical engineer
Martin Karplus Martin Karplus Martin Karplus is an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979...	11 May 2000	Austrian-born U.S. chemist
Paul Karrer Paul Karrer Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins. He and Walter Haworth won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937.-Early years:...	1 May 1947	21 April 1889 - 18 June 1971
Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir Ephraim Katzir Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and former Israeli Labor Party politician. He was the fourth President of Israel from 1973 until 1978.-Biography:...	21 April 1977	Ukrainian-born Israeli chemist, fourth President of Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
Heinrich Johannes Gustav Kayser Heinrich Kayser Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser was a German physicist.He was born at Bingen am Rhein. Kayser's early work was concerned with the characteristics of acoustic waves. He discovered the occurrence of helium in the Earth's atmosphere. Together with Carl Runge, he examined the spectra of chemical...	9 November 1911	16 March 1853 - 14 October 1940
August Kekulé	8 April 1875	7 September 1829 - 13 July 1896
Joseph Bishop Keller	26 June 1986
Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov is a leading Soviet physicist, well known for his role in developing the BKL conjecture in general relativity.Khalatnikov was born in Dnipropetrovsk and graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State University with a degree in Physics in 1941. He has been a member of the...	9 June 1994	Russian physicist
Har Gobind Khorana	20 April 1978
Motoo Kimura Motoo Kimura was a Japanese biologist best known for introducing the neutral theory of molecular evolution in 1968. He became one of the most influential theoretical population geneticists. He is remembered in genetics for his innovative use of diffusion equations to calculate the probability of fixation of...	17 June 1993	13 November 1924 - 13 November 1994
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	8 April 1875	12 March 1824 - 17 October 1887
Marc W. Kirschner Marc Kirschner Professor Marc W. Kirschner is an American cell biologist.- Biography :Kirschner graduated from Northwestern University in 1966 and in 1971 received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. He held post-doc positions at Berkeley and at the University of Oxford in England. He...	13 May 1999	U.S. cell biologist
George Bogdan Kistiakowsky George Kistiakowsky George Bogdan Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian-American chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Eisenhower's Science Advisor...	28 April 1960	18 November 1900 - 7 December 1982
Kitasato Shibasaburō Kitasato Shibasaburō Baron was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.-Biography:...	4 June 1908	20 December 1852 - 13 June 1931
Christian Felix Klein	10 December 1885	25 April 1849 - 22 June 1925
Klaus von Klitzing Klaus von Klitzing Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....	15 May 2003
Albert Jan Kluyver	1 May 1952	3 June 1888 - 14 May 1956
Donald Ervin Knuth	15 May 2003
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch	4 March 1897	11 December 1843 - 27 May 1910
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch	12 December 1895	14 October 1840 - 17 January 1910
Walter Kohn Walter Kohn Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...	14 May 1998	Austrian-born U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1998)
Warner Tjardus Koiter Warner T. Koiter Warner Tjardus Koiter was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.-Life and education:...	24 June 1982	16 June 1914 - 2 September 1997
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist. He never used the first two of his given names, preferring to be known as Hermann Kolbe.-Life:...	13 December 1877	27 September 1818 - 25 November 1884
Albert von Kölliker Albert von Kölliker Albert von Kölliker was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist.-Biography:Albert Kölliker was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His early education was carried on in Zurich, and he entered the university there in 1836...	24 May 1860	6 July 1817 - 2 November 1905
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov	23 April 1964	25 April 1903 - 20 October 1987
Hermann Kopp Hermann Kopp Hermann Kopp is a German composer and musician, presently living in Barcelona, Spain.-Biography:After moving to Karlsruhe in 1979 he became a member of the German electro-industrial band Keine Ahnung. In the eighties he released two vinyl records with a sound that can be vaguely classified as...	31 May 1888	30 October 1817 - 20 February 1892 Foreign Member
Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid " together with Dr. Severo Ochoa of New York University...	23 April 1970	U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1959)
Roger Kornberg	15 May 2009
Alexander Onufrievitch Kowalewski Alexander Kovalevsky Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at St Petersburg. He showed that all animals go through a period of gastrulation.- Bibliography :* Kowalevsky A. . "Les Hedylidés, étude anatomique"...	10 December 1885	? 20 November 1840 - 22 November 1901
Schack August Steenberg Krogh	17 June 1937	15 November 1874 - ? 15 September 1949
Hugo Kronecker Hugo Kronecker Karl Hugo Kronecker was a German physiologist from Liegnitz, Prussian Silesia. He was the brother of Leopold Kronecker....	25 March 1909	27 January 1839 - 6 June 1914, German-born Swiss physiologist
Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra.He criticized Cantor's work on set theory, and was quoted by as having said, "God made integers; all else is the work of man"...	31 January 1884	7 December 1823 - 29 December 1891, German mathematician
Adam Johann von Krusenstern Adam Johann von Krusenstern Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern , was an admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe.- Life :...	27 April 1837	19 November 1770 - 24 August 1846
Martin David Kruskal	15 May 1997	28 September 1925 – 26 December 2006, U.S. physicist
Stephen William Kuffler	22 April 1971	24 August 1913 - 11 October 1980
Willy Kuhne	19 May 1892	28 March 1837 - ? 10 June 1900
Ernst Edward Kummer Ernst Kummer Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school, where he inspired the mathematical career of Leopold Kronecker.-Life:Kummer...	18 June 1863	29 January 1810 - 14 May 1893
Adolph Theodor Kupffer Adolph Theodor Kupffer Adolph Theodor Kupffer ForMemRS was a Russian Latvian chemist, and physicist. He founded the Depot of Standard Weights and Measures, and the main physical Observatory in Russia...	23 April 1846	6 January 1799 - 4 June 1865 German-Latvian physicist

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Félix-Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers was a French biologist, anatomist and zoologist who was born in Montpezat in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He studied medicine in Paris, and worked at Necker Hospital under Armand Trousseau . Later, with Jules Haime , he travelled to the Balearic Islands...	25 November 1897	15 May 1821 - 21 July 1901
François Antoine Alfred Lacroix Antoine Lacroix Antoine François Alfred Lacroix was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born at Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire....	26 June 1919	5 February 1863 - ? 12 March 1948 Foreign Member
Johann Lamont	25 November 1852	13 December 1805 - 6 August 1879
Edwin Herbert Land	26 June 1986	7 May 1909 - 1 March 1991, U.S. inventor
Lev Davydovitch Landau Lev Landau Lev Davidovich Landau was a prominent Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics...	28 April 1960	22 January 1908 - ? 1 April 1968, Azebarjan-born Russian physicist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  (1962)
Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner Karl Landsteiner , was an Austrian-born American biologist and physician of Jewish origin. He is noted for having first distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the...	29 March 1941	14 June 1868 - 26 June 1943Austrian-born U.S. biologist, Nobel Prize (1930)
Paul Langevin Paul Langevin Paul Langevin 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 organization created in the wake of the 6 February 1934 far right riots...	21 June 1928	23 January 1872 - 19 December 1946
Samuel Pierpont Langley Samuel Pierpont Langley Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...	12 December 1895	22 August 1834 - ? 27 February 1906 Foreign Member
Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his...	27 June 1935	31 January 1881 - 16 August 1957
Karl Spencer Lashley	19 April 1951	7 June 1890 - 7 August 1958
Max Theodor Felix von Laue	12 May 1949	9 October 1879 - 24 April 1960
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician.In 1880, while working in the military hospital in Constantine, Algeria, he discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, after observing the parasites in a blood smear taken from a patient who had just died of malaria.He also helped...	23 March 1916	18 June 1845 - 18 May 1922
Henri Léon Lebesgue	3 May 1934	28 June 1875 - 26 July 1941
Joshua Lederberg Joshua Lederberg Joshua Lederberg ForMemRS was an American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the United States space program. He was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that bacteria can mate and...	26 April 1979	U.S. scientist medicine, Nobel Prize (1958)
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang	26 April 1956	29 November 1896 - 25 May 1959
Solomon Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz Solomon Lefschetz was an American mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations.-Life:...	27 April 1961	3 September 1884 - 5 October 1972, Russian-born U.S. mathematician, topology
Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...	24 April 1969	13 May 1888 - 21
Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn Jean-Marie Lehn Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands...	17 June 1993
Luis Federico Leloir Luis Federico Leloir Luis Federico Leloir 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...	27 April 1972	6 September 1906 - 3 December 1987
Jean Leray Jean Leray Jean Leray was a French mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology....	30 June 1983	7 November 1906 - 10 November 1998
Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolph Leuckart Rudolf Leuckart Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart was a German zoologist who was born in Helmstedt. He was a nephew to naturalist Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart ....	13 December 1877	8 October 1822 - 6 February 1898 Foreign Member
Tullio Levi-Civita Tullio Levi-Civita Tullio Levi-Civita, FRS was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made significant contributions in other areas. He was a pupil of Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, the inventor of tensor calculus...	26 June 1930	29 March 1873 - ? 29 December 1941, Italian mathematician
Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini , Knight Grand Cross is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor...	9 March 1995	Italian-born U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1986)
Edward B. Lewis Edward B. Lewis - External links :* *...	29 June 1989	20 May 1918 – 21 July 2004
Gilbert Newton Lewis	23 May 1940	25 October 1875 - 23 March 1946
Franz von Leydig	9 May 1901	21 May 1821 - 13 April 1908
Marius Sophus Lie	12 December 1895	18 December 1842 - 18 February 1899 Foreign Member
Justus Liebig	4 June 1840	12 May 1803 - ? 10 April 1873
Evgenii Mikhailovich Lifshitz Evgeny Lifshitz Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist of Jewish origin and the brother of physicist Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz. Lifshitz is well known in general relativity for coauthoring the BKL conjecture concerning the nature of a generic curvature...	24 June 1982	22 February 1915 - 7 December 1985 Foreign Member, Russian physicist and astronomer
Bernhard August von Lindenau	6 June 1833	? 11 June 1780 - 21 May 1854
Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques-Louis Lions ForMemRS was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Biography:After...	14 March 1996	2 May 1928 - 17 May 2001
Joseph Liouville Joseph Liouville - Life and work :Liouville graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1827. After some years as an assistant at various institutions including the Ecole Centrale Paris, he was appointed as professor at the École Polytechnique in 1838...	21 November 1850	24 March 1809 - 8 September 1882
Fritz Albert Lipmann	3 May 1962	12 June 1899 - 24 July 1986, German-born U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1962)
Gabriel Jonas Lippmann Gabriel Lippmann Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippmann was a Franco-Luxembourgish physicist and inventor, and Nobel laureate in physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference....	26 November 1896	16 August 1845 - ? 13 July 1921, Luxembourg-born French physicist, Nobel Prize (1908)
Otto Loewi Otto Loewi Otto Loewi was a German born pharmacologist whose discovery of acetylcholine helped enhance medical therapy. The discovery earned for him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936 which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, whom he met in 1902 when spending some months in Ernest Starling's...	29 April 1954	3 June 1873 - 25 December 1961, German-born U.S. biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize (1936)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz	11 May 1905	18 July 1853 - 04
Edward Norton Lorenz Edward Norton Lorenz Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist, and a pioneer of chaos theory. He discovered the strange attractor notion and coined the term butterfly effect.-Biography:...	28 June 1990
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz	23 April 1964	7 November 1903 - 27
Sven Ludvig Lovén Sven Ludvig Lovén Sven Ludvig Lovén , was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist.- External links : http://www.nrm.se/forskningochsamlingar/djur/evertebratzoologi/historia/svenloven.4.4e32c8104f585693780005427.html* at Internet Archive...	10 December 1885	6 January 1809 - 3 September 1895
Jane Lubchenco Jane Lubchenco Dr. Jane Lubchenco is a Ukrainian-American environmental scientist and marine ecologist. On March 19, 2009, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first woman to serve as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration .While performing duties as head of NOAA, Dr...	27 May 2004
Luigi Luciani	28 February 1918	23 November 1842 - 23 June 1919
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig	8 April 1875	29 December 1816 - 27 April 1895
Maurice Lugeon Maurice Lugeon Maurice Lugeon was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics. He was a pupil of Eugène Renevier. Named for Maurice Lugeon, the lugeon is a measure of transmissivity in rocks, determined by pressurized injection of water through a bore hole driven through the rock...	15 June 1944	10 July 1870 - 23 October 1953
Graham Lusk Graham Lusk Graham Lusk ForMemRS was an American physiologist, and nutritionist. He graduated from Columbia University, and from University of Munich with a PhD.He taught at Cornell University, and New York University....	2 June 1932	15 February 1866 - 18 July 1932 Foreign Member
André Michel Lwoff André Michel Lwoff André Michel Lwoff was a French microbiologist. He was born in Ainay-le-Château, Allier, in Auvergne, France. He joined the Institute Pasteur in Paris when he was 19 years old...	24 April 1958	8 May 1902 - 30 September 1994, French scientist, Nobel Prize (1965)
Feodor Lynen	24 April 1975	6 April 1911 - 6 August 1979

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