List of Fellows of the Royal Society M,N,O
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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.
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.
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Otto Maass Otto Maass Otto Maass, was a Canadian academic and scientist.Born in New York City, New York, Maass started teaching at McGill University in 1923 retiring in 1955... |
14/03/1940 | 8 July 1890 - 3 July 1961 Prof. of Physical Chemistry, Montreal |
Alexander Macalister Alexander MacAlister Alexander MacAlister was 8th of Loup, Chief of Clan MacAlister from 1647, after his father Godfrey Mac Eachann MacAlasdair, styled 7th of Loup, was hanged for treason with his father Eachann Mac Goraidh MacAlasdair, 6th of Loup, Chief of Clan MacAlister and his uncle Coll Mac Eachann MacAlasdair,... |
02/06/1881 | 9 April 1844 - 2 September 1919 |
Archibald Byron Macallum | 03/05/1906 | 10 April 1858 - 5 April 1934 |
Robert Macandrew | 02/06/1853 | 22 March 1801 - 22 May 1873 |
Justin Macarthy | 05/04/1770 | fl 1770 |
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB was an Irish-born British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled... |
07/06/1792 | 14 May 1737 - 31 March 1806 |
James Macartney | 21/02/1811 | 8 March 1770 - 6 March 1843 |
Francis Sowerby Macaulay Francis Sowerby Macaulay Francis Sowerby Macaulay FRS was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. He is most famous for his 1916 book, The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems, which greatly influenced the later course of algebraic geometry... |
10/05/1928 | 12 February 1862 - 9 February 1937 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay | 22/11/1849 | 25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859 |
Zachary Macaulay Zachary Macaulay Zachary Macaulay was a slavery abolitionist and campaigner.-Early life:Macaulay was born in Inveraray, Scotland, the son of the Rev. John Macaulay Zachary Macaulay (2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a slavery abolitionist and campaigner.-Early life:Macaulay was born in Inveraray, Scotland, the son of... |
08/02/1821 | 2 May 1768 - 13 May 1838 |
Forbes Macbean | 09/11/1786 | 1725 - 11 November 1800 |
Ernest William MacBride | 11/05/1905 | 12 December 1866 - 17 November 1940 |
James MacCullagh James MacCullagh James MacCullagh was an Irish mathematician.Born in Landahaussy, near Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Ireland, but the family moved to Curly Hill, Strabane when James was about 10. He was a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a contemporary there of William Rowan Hamilton... |
02/02/1843 | 1809 - 24 October 1847 |
John MacCulloch John MacCulloch John MacCulloch FRS was a Scottish geologist.-Biography:MacCulloch, descended from the MacCullochs of Nether Ardwell in Galloway, was born in Guernsey, his mother being a native of that island. Having displayed remarkable powers as a boy, he was sent to study medicine in the university of... |
18/05/1820 | 6 October 1773 - 20 August 1835 |
Alan Graham MacDiarmid | 15/05/2003 | 14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007 |
David Keith Chalmers Macdonald | 24/03/1960 | 24 July 1920 - 28 July 1963 Physicist |
Hector Munro Macdonald Hector Munro Macdonald Hector Munro Macdonald FRS was a Scottish mathematician, born in Edinburgh in 1865. He researched pure mathematics at Cambridge University after graduating from Aberdeen University with an honours degree.... |
06/06/1901 | 19 January 1865 - 16 May 1935 |
Ian Grant Macdonald Ian G. Macdonald Ian Grant Macdonald is a British mathematician known for his contributions to symmetric functions, special functions, Lie algebra theory and other aspects of algebraic combinatorics .... |
15/03/1979 | |
James Ramsay MacDonald | 26/06/1930 | 13 October 1866 - 9 November 1937 Statute |
John MacDonald | 15/05/1800 | 30 October 1759 - 16 August 1831 Military Engineer |
John Denis Macdonald John Denis Macdonald Sir John Denis Macdonald was a surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society of London.Born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, Macdonald served as an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy. In later life he researched in the fields of zoology and natural history... |
09/06/1859 | 26 October 1826 - 7 February 1908 Surgeon |
John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald KCB, PC was a Scottish politician and later a judge.He was called to the Scottish bar in 1859. On 30 July 1875 he was appointed by Queen Victoria to be Sheriff of the Shires of Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1876... |
03/05/1888 | 28 December 1836 - 9 May 1919 |
John Smyth Macdonald | 03/05/1917 | 28 April 1867 - 29 March 1941 Physiologist, Sheffield University |
Georgina Mary Mace Georgina Mace Professor Georgina Mace, CBE, FRS is Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.She was the winner of the 2007 International Cosmos Prize... |
13/05/2002 | |
William Mace | 23/05/1745 | |
William Macewen William Macewen Sir William Macewen, CB, FRS, was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy .-Career:Macewen was born near Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland in 1848 and studied... |
13/06/1895 | 22 June 1848 - 22 March 1924 |
Alexander MacFarlane | 19/02/1747 | |
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane Robert Gwyn Macfarlane Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, CBE. FRS. hematologist, .Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gwyn Macfarlane left Cheltenham College in 1924 and a year later entered the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1936 he married Hilary Carson MD and over the next 11 years, 5 children were born... |
15/03/1956 | 26 June 1907 - 26 March 1987 |
Alistair George James MacFarlane | 15/03/1984 | |
James Gordon MacGregor | 14/06/1900 | 31 March 1852 - 21 May 1913 |
John Machin John Machin John Machin, , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.Machin's formula is:... |
30/11/1710 | |
Charles Macintosh | 29/04/1824 | 29 December 1766 - 25 July 1843 |
Frank Campbell MacIntosh | 18/03/1954 | 24 December 1909 - 11 September 1992 |
Angus John Macintyre Angus MacIntyre Angus John Macintyre is a British mathematician known for his contributions to Model theory and logic. He is professor of mathematics at the Queen Mary, University of London.... |
11/03/1993 | |
Iain MacIntyre | 14/03/1996 | |
George Bellamy Mackaness | 18/03/1976 | 20 August 1922 – 4 March 2007 Australian Microbiologist |
Alan Lindsay Mackay | 17/03/1988 | |
David John Cameron MacKay | 15/05/2009 | |
George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay | 09/11/1698 | 1678 - 21 March 1748 |
Robert Sinclair MacKay | 11/05/2000 | |
Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay Trudy Mackay Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay is a distinguished scientist, specializing in quantitative genetics,who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. She is presently at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, North Carolina.... |
18/05/2006 | |
Chalmers Jack Mackenzie | 21/11/1946 | 11 July 1888 - 26 February 1984 |
Charles Mackenzie | 01/06/1815 | fl 1815 |
Colin Mackenzie Colin Mackenzie Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland... |
10/06/1819 | c 1753 - 8 May 1821 |
Francis Humberston Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth | 26/06/1794 | 9 June 1754 - 11 January 1815 |
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie FRS , known as Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet from 1654 to 1685 and as The Viscount of Tarbat from 1685 to 1703, was a Scottish statesman.... |
14/12/1692 | 1630 - 17 August 1714 |
Sir George Steuart Mackenzie | 13/04/1815 | 22 June 1780 - October 1848 |
James Mackenzie Sir James Mackenzie Sir James Mackenzie FRS was a Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias.-Biography:James Mackenzie was born in Scone, where his father was a farmer... |
06/05/1915 | 12 April 1853 - 26 January 1925 |
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth FRS was a British peer and politician and Chief of the Highland Clan Mackenzie.-Origins:... |
12/11/1772 | 1744–1781 |
George Owen Mackie | 14/03/1991 | British biologist, Canada |
John William Mackie | 15/05/1817 | c 1788 - Chaplain to Duke of York |
William Alexander Mackinnon | 14/06/1827 | 2 August 1789 - 30 April 1870 |
Allan Roy Mackintosh Allan Mackintosh Allan Roy Mackintosh, FRS was a prominent English-born Danish physicist and a leading authority on magnetism and neutron scattering, especially in the rare-earth metals.... |
14/03/1991 | 22 January 1936 - 20 December 1995 |
James Mackintosh James Mackintosh Sir James Mackintosh was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.-Early life:Mackintosh was born at... |
11/11/1813 | 24 October 1765 - 30 May 1832 |
Nicholas John Mackintosh Nicholas Mackintosh Nicholas John Mackintosh, FRS is a British experimental psychologist and author, specializing in intelligence, psychometrics and animal learning.-Career:... |
19/03/1987 | |
Gilbert Wakefield Mackmurdo | 30/05/1839 | c 1788 - 26 August 1869 |
Herbert Mackworth | 09/01/1777 | 1 January 1737 - 25 October 1791 |
Colin MacLaurin Colin Maclaurin Colin Maclaurin was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, are named after him.... |
05/11/1719 | |
Thomas Maclear Thomas Maclear Sir Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born South African astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.... |
08/12/1831 | 17 March 1794 - 14 July 1879 |
David Herman MacLennan | 10/03/1994 | Canadian-born biochemist |
John James Rickard Macleod | 03/05/1923 | 6 September 1876 - 16 March 1935 |
Norman Macleod | 24/03/1791 | 4 March 1754 - General in Army |
Percy Alexander MacMahon Percy Alexander MacMahon Percy Alexander MacMahon was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.-Early life:... |
05/06/1890 | 26 September 1854 - 25 December 1929 |
William Macmichael William Macmichael William Macmichael was a physician and medical biographer, remembered as the author of The Gold-Headed Cane .-Life and career:... |
27/03/1817 | 1784 - 10 January 1839 |
John (Jake) MacMillan | 16/03/1978 | |
Maurice Harold Macmillan Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963.... |
31/05/1962 | 10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986 Statute 12 |
John Benjamin Macneill John Benjamin Macneill Sir John Benjamin MacNeill FRS was an eminent Irish civil engineer of the 19th century, closely associated with Thomas Telford. His most notable projects were railway schemes in Ireland... |
05/04/1838 | c 1793 - 2 March 1880 |
Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie Enid MacRobbie Enid MacRobbie, FRS is a British plant scientist, whose specialty is biophysics,with particular interest are ion fluxes and stomata.-External links:*... |
14/03/1991 | |
James Ormiston MacWilliam | 09/06/1848 | 1808 - 4 May 1862 |
John Alexander MacWilliam | 11/05/1916 | 31 July 1857 - 13 January 1937 |
Paul Anthony Madden Paul Madden Paul Anthony Madden is a British chemist and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.From 1984 until 2005 he was Fellow in Chemistry at The Queen's College, Oxford and also Senior Tutor of the college and Chairman of the University Information Technology Committee... |
10/05/2001 | |
Frederick Madden | 02/02/1832 | 16 |
Ieuan Maddock | 16/03/1967 | 29 March 1917 - 29 December 1988 |
John Royden Maddox | 11/05/2000 | Honorary |
Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell | 19/03/1981 | |
John Maddy | 12/06/1817 | c 1765 - 17 June 1853 |
Scipione Maffei | 23/12/1736 | 2 June 1675 - 11 February 1755 |
John Hyacinth de Magalhaens | 21/04/1774 | 5 November 1722 - 7 February 1790 |
Lorenzo Magalotti | 04/05/1709 | ? 23 October 1637 - ? 2 March 1711 |
William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin | 11/11/1813 | 18 March 1766 - 18 August 1831 |
Philip Douglas Magnus | 21/03/1985 | |
George Magrath | 24/06/1819 | 1775 - 12 June 1857 |
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis FRS was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India... |
22/03/1945 | 29 June 1893 - 28 June 1972 |
Panchanan Maheshwari | 18/03/1965 | 9 November 1904 - 18 May 1966 Professor of Botany, Delhi Univ. |
Kurt Mahler Kurt Mahler Kurt Mahler was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen, graduating with a Ph.D... |
18/03/1948 | 27 July 1903 - 25 February 1988, mathematician |
Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS was a British statesman and scientist. He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his,... |
19/11/1772 | 3 August 1753 - 15 December 1816 |
Philip Henry Mahon, 4th Earl Stanhope Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope FRS , was an English aristocrat, chiefly remembered for his role in the Kaspar Hauser case during the 1830s.... |
08/01/1807 | 4 December 1781 - 2 March 1855 |
Philip Henry Mahon, 5th Earl Stanhope | 22/03/1827 | 30 January 1805 - 24 December 1875 |
Yiu-Wing Mai | 16/05/2008 | |
Joseph Henry Maiden | 11/05/1916 | 25 April 1859 - 16 November 1925 |
John Paul Maier | 13/05/1999 | |
Robert Main Robert Main The Reverend Robert Main was an English astronomer.Born in Kent, the eldest son of Thomas Main, Robert Main attended school in Portsea before studying mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1834... |
07/06/1860 | 12 July 1808 - 9 May 1878 |
Henry James Sumner Maine Henry James Sumner Maine Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI , was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional... |
04/06/1874 | 15 August 1822 - 03 |
Ravinder Nath Maini | 17/05/2007 | |
Robert James Mair | 17/05/2007 | |
Ebenezer Fuller Maitland | 28/03/1829 | c 1780 - 1 November 1858 Landowner, MP for Wallingford |
John Gorham Maitland | 15/04/1847 | 1818 - 27 April 1863 Barrister & civil servant |
Samuel Roffey Maitland Samuel Roffey Maitland Samuel Roffey Maitland was an English historian and miscellaneous writer on religious topics. He was in Anglican orders, and worked also as a librarian, barrister and editor.-Early life:... |
18/04/1839 | 7 January 1792 - 19 January 1866 clergyman |
William Maitland | 12/04/1733 | c 1693 - 16 July 1757 Historian, Writer |
Peter Michael Maitlis | 15/03/1984 | |
Montague Maizels | 16/03/1961 | 30 September 1899 - 10 February 1976 |
Ashhurst Majendie | 28/06/1821 | 24 April 1784 - 7 October 1867 |
John James Majendie | 14/04/1768 | 1709 - 7 August 1783 Clergyman |
Lewis Majendie | 03/07/1794 | |
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major was a Swiss zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist.Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany... |
07/05/1908 | 15 August 1843 - 25 March 1923 |
Tak Wah Mak Tak Wah Mak Tak Wah Mak, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancer genetics... |
10/03/1994 | |
Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield | 26/06/1986 | 3 February 1904 - 9 February 1996 |
John Malcolm John Malcolm Major-general Sir John Malcolm was a Scottish soldier, statesman, and historian-Early life:Born at Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, Malcolm was the son of George Malcolm, a gentleman farmer of Eskdale and Burnfoot. Jock, as he was then known, was one of the four Malcolm brothers who attained knighthoods... |
26/02/1824 | 2 May 1769 - 30 April 1833 |
John Grant Malcolmson | 30/04/1840 | 17 November 1802 - 23 March 1844 geologist |
John Christian Malet | 08/06/1882 | 25 December 1847 - 9 April 1901 Prof of Mathematics, Queens College, Cork |
Charles Warre Malet | 23/01/1806 | ? 1753 - 15 December 1815 Diplomat, Governor of Bombay |
Michael Henry Malim | 17/05/2007 | |
John William Mallet John Mallet John William Mallet FRS was an Irish chemist who lived and worked in the United States.-Biography:John William Mallet was born near Dublin to Robert Mallet and Cordelia Mallet . Robert Mallet was a civil engineer and a fellow of the Royal Society and other societies and had an ample scientific... |
07/06/1877 | 10 October 1832 - 7 November 1912 |
Robert Mallet Robert Mallet Robert Mallet FRS , Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology.-Early life:... |
01/06/1854 | 3 June 1810 - 5 November 1881 |
John Malliet | 02/04/1767 | |
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock Arnulph Mallock Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallock, FRS was a British scientific instrument designer and experimentalist.He was born in Cheriton Bishop, Devon the son of the Revd. William and Margaret Mallock. His father was Rector of Cheriton Bishop. He was educated at home and then from the age of 11 to 16 at a... |
11/06/1903 | 12 March 1851 - 26 June 1933 Mechanic |
Paul Jacques Malouin Paul Jacques Malouin Paul Jacques Malouin was a French chemist and physicist.-Career:Malouin graduated in medicine in 1730 against the wishes of his father who had sent him to Paris to study law... |
01/03/1753 | 29 June 1701 - ? 31 December 1777 |
Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features, like the Malpighian tubule system.-Early years:... |
04/03/1669 | 10 March 1628 - ? 30 November 1694 |
Edward Maltby Edward Maltby Edward Maltby was an English clergyman of the Church of England. He became Bishop of Durham, controversial for his liberal politics, for his slightly naive ecumenism, and for the great personal wealth that he amassed.... |
19/02/1824 | 6 April 1770 - 3 July 1859 |
Thomas Robert Malthus | 05/03/1818 | ? 17 February 1766 - 23 December 1834 |
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves Jean Paul de Gua de Malves Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.He further showed how singular points and... |
10/03/1743 | c 1714 - 2 June 1785 |
Charles Manby | 02/06/1853 | 5 February 1804 - 31 July 1884 |
George William Manby George William Manby Captain George William Manby FRS , was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks and also the first modern form of fire extinguisher.-Life:Manby went to school at Downham Market... |
12/05/1831 | 28 November 1765 - 18 November 1854 |
Joel Mandelstam Joel Mandelstam Joel Mandelstam FRS was a British microbiologist. He was a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.-Career:* Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947-51... |
18/03/1971 | |
Stanley Mandelstam Stanley Mandelstam Stanley Mandelstam is a South African-born theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations... |
15/03/1962 | theoretical physicist |
Lewis Norman Mander | 15/03/1990 | |
Xaverius Manetti | 11/11/1756 | 1723 - 19 November 1785 |
Eustachio Manfredi | 24/10/1728 | 20 September 1674 - 15 |
James Mangles | 20/01/1825 | 1786 - 18 November 1867 Royal Navy |
Frederick George Mann | 20/03/1947 | 29 June 1897 - 29 March 1982 |
Nicholas Mann | 26/01/1738 | |
Stephen Mann | 15/05/2003 | |
Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann Thaddeus Mann Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University... |
15/03/1951 | 4 December 1908 - 27 November 1993 |
Theodore Augustin Mann | 03/04/1788 | 22 June 1735 - 23 |
Owen Manning Owen Manning Owen Manning was an English clergyman and antiquarian, known as a historian of Surrey.-Life:Son of Owen Manning of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire, he was born there on 11 August 1721, and received his education at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1740, M.A. in 1744, and B.D. in... |
10/12/1767 | 11 August 1721 - 9 September 1801 Vicar of Godalming |
Richard Manningham | 10/03/1720 | 1690 - 11 May 1759 |
Anton Adam Mansberg | 09/03/1727 | fl 1727 |
James Mansergh | 06/06/1901 | 29 April 1834 - 15 June 1905 |
Eric Harold Mansfield | 18/03/1971 | |
Peter Mansfield Peter Mansfield Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI... |
19/03/1987 | |
Terence Arthur Mansfield | 19/03/1987 | |
Patrick Manson Patrick Manson Sir Patrick Manson was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology and was the founder of the tropical medicine field.... |
14/06/1900 | 3 October 1844 - 9 April 1922 |
Gideon Algernon Mantell | 24/11/1825 | 4 February 1790 - 10 November 1852 |
Ernst Christoph Manteuffel | 24/03/1748 | 1676 - 30 January 1749 |
Irene Manton Irene Manton Irene Manton, FRS was a British botanist. She was noted for study of ferns, algae and bums.-Biography:... |
16/03/1961 | 17 April 1904 - 31 May 1988 |
Nicholas Stephen Manton | 14/03/1996 | |
Sidnie Milana Manton Sidnie Manton Sidnie Milana Manton, FRS was a British entomologist.-Early life:Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a dentist. Her sister was Irene Manton , a botanist, She was educated in Kensington and at St... |
18/03/1948 | 4 May 1902 - 2 January 1979 |
John Mapletoft John Mapletoft -Life:His father was Joshua Mapletoft, vicar of Margaretting and rector of Wickford, Essex, and his mother Susanna, daughter of John Collet by Susanna, sister of Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. She afterwards married James Chedley, and, dying on 31 October 1657, was buried at Little Gidding.... |
10/02/1676 | 15 June 1631 - 10 November 1721 |
Leslie William Mapson | 20/03/1969 | 17 November 1907 - 3 December 1970 |
Alexander John Gaspard Marcet | 02/06/1808 | 1770 - 19 October 1822 |
Francis Marcet | 28/01/1836 | 25 May 1803 - 12 April 1883 |
William Marcet William Marcet William Marcet FRS FRCP was President of the Royal Meteorological Society- References :*http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2505774/* http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v61/n1586/abs/061497a0.html... |
11/06/1857 | 13 May 1828 - 4 March 1900 |
Alfred Le Marchant | 25/11/1819 | fl 1819 |
Giovanni Giacomo Marinoni | 20/03/1746 | 1676 - 10 January 1755 |
Leo Edmond Marion Léo Marion Léo Edmond Marion, CC, MBE, FRSC, FRS was a Canadian scientist.He was Vice-President of the National Research Council of Canada. From 1964 until 1965 he was President of the Royal Society of Canada... |
16/03/1961 | 22 March 1899 - 16 July 1979 |
Roy Markham | 15/03/1956 | 29 January 1916 - 16 November 1979 |
Clements Robert Markham | 12/06/1873 | 20 July 1830 - 30 January 1916 |
George Markham | 07/04/1708 | 1666 - 16 June 1736 |
James Heywood Markland | 28/03/1816 | 7 December 1788 - 28 December 1864 |
Paul Jacob Marperger | 09/06/1715 | 3 October 1683 - 20 November 1767 |
John Edward Marr John Edward Marr John Edward Marr FGS FRS was a British geologist. After studying at Lancaster Royal Grammar School he matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in 1878... |
04/06/1891 | 14 June 1857 - 1 October 1933 |
Philippa Charlotte Marrack Philippa Marrack Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with... |
15/05/1997 | |
Guy Frederic Marrian | 16/03/1944 | 3 March 1904 - 24 July 1981 |
Frederick Marryat Frederick Marryat Captain Frederick Marryat was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story... |
13/05/1819 | 10 July 1792 - 9 August 1848 |
Charles David Marsden | 17/03/1983 | 15 April 1938 - 29 September 1998 |
Jerrold Eldon Marsden | 18/05/2006 | 17 August 1942 - 21 September 2010 Prof of Engineering, Caltech |
Ernest Marsden Ernest Marsden Sir Ernest Marsden was an English-New Zealand physicist. He was born in East Lancashire, living in Rishton and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence bears his name.He met Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester... |
21/03/1946 | 20 February 1889 - ? 14 December 1970 Fellow 21/03/1946 |
William Marsden | 23/01/1783 | 16 November 1754 - 6 October 1836 |
Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough Herbert Marsh Herbert Marsh was a bishop in the Church of England.-Life:He was educated at Faversham Grammar School, The King's School, Canterbury and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA as second wrangler and was elected a fellow of St John's in 1779. He studied with J. D... |
08/01/1801 | 10 December 1757 - 1 May 1839 |
James Ernest Marsh | 03/05/1906 | 5 July 1860 - 13 April 1938 Chemist |
Arthur Milnes Marshall | 04/06/1885 | 8 June 1852 - 31 December 1893 |
Barry James Marshall | 13/05/1999 | |
Christopher John Marshall Christopher Marshall (doctor) Christopher Marshall FRS is a British scientist who works as director of the Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology run by Cancer Research UK. He was awarded the Royal Society's Buchanan Medal in 2008 for 'his outstanding contribution to understanding how cancers develop and identifying major... |
09/03/1995 | |
Francis Hugh Adam Marshall | 13/05/1920 | 11 July 1878 - 5 February 1949 |
Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall , was an Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae.... |
03/05/1923 | 20 December 1871 - 8 April 1959 |
Hugh Marshall | 05/05/1904 | 7 January 1868 - 6 September 1913 |
John Marshall John Marshall (surgeon) John Marshall FRS FRCS was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy.-Early life and education:John Marshall was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire... |
11/06/1857 | 11 September 1818 - 1 January 1891 Surgeon |
John Charles Marshall | 16/05/2008 | |
Norman Bertram Marshall | 19/03/1970 | 6 February 1915 - 13 February 1996 Zoologist |
Robin Marshall | 09/03/1995 | |
Sheina Macalister Marshall | 21/03/1963 | 20 April 1896 - 7 April 1977 |
Walter Charles Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring | 18/03/1971 | 6 March 1932 - 20 February 1996 |
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney , known as The Lord Romney between 1793 and 1801, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1790, inherited his peerage in 1793 and was created Earl of Romney in 1801.-Background:Romney was the son of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney,... |
14/03/1776 | 28 September 1744 - 1 March 1811 |
Robert Marsham Robert Marsham Robert Marsham was an English naturalist considered to be the founding father of phenology, the study of the effects of the seasons on plants and animals.... |
09/03/1780 | c 1707 - 4 September 1797 |
Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney , known as Sir Robert Marsham, Bt, between 1703 and 1716, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Romney.-Background:Marsham was the son of Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet of Bushey Hall,... |
21/11/1723 | 17 September 1685 - 28 November 1724 |
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney | 19/05/1757 | 22 August 1717 - 16 November 1793 |
Thomas Nelson Marsham | 20/03/1986 | 10 November 1923 - 12 October 1989 |
Luigi Ferdinand, Count Marsigli Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli , was an Italian soldier and naturalist.He was born in Bologna. He was a member of an old patrician family and was educated in accordance with his rank... |
25/11/1691 | ? 10 July 1658 - 1 November 1730 |
Giovanni Marsili | 06/04/1758 | |
Hedley Ralph Marston | 17/03/1949 | 26 August 1900 - 25 August 1965 |
Robert Anthony Martienssen | 18/05/2006 | |
Alan Douglas Martin | 27/05/2004 | |
Archer John Porter Martin Archer John Porter Martin Archer John Porter Martin, FRS was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.... |
16/03/1950 | 1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002 |
Charles James Martin Charles James Martin Charles James Martin, FRS, FRCS was a British scientist who did seminal work on protein denaturation, nutrition, snake toxins and other medical topics... |
06/06/1901 | 10 January 1866 - 15 February 1955 |
George Steven Martin | 14/05/1998 | |
Henry Newell Martin Henry Newell Martin Henry Newell Martin, FRS was a British physiologist.He was born in Newry, County Down, the son of Henry Martin, a Congregational minister, and educated at the University of London and Christ's College, Cambridge... |
04/06/1885 | 1 July 1848 - 27 October 1896 |
James Ranald Martin James Ranald Martin Sir James Ranald Martin was a surgeon in India who worked in the service of the Honourable East India Company and was instrumental in publicising the effects of deforestation, and finding links between human and environmental health.-Early life:Born in the Isle of Skye in one of the oldest... |
13/02/1845 | 1793 - 27 November 1874 |
Leslie Harold Martin | 21/03/1957 | 22 December 1900 - 1 February 1983 |
Matthew Martin | 10/07/1794 | 1748 - 20 November 1838 Merchant of Exeter |
Sidney Harris Cox Martin | 13/06/1895 | 8 April 1860 - 22 September 1924 |
Thomas John Martin | 11/05/2000 | |
George Martine | 11/12/1740 | 1700 - ? April 1741 |
David Forbes Martyn David Forbes Martyn David Forbes Martyn was a Scottish-born Australian physicist and radiographer.Martyn was born in Cambuslang, Scotland , the son of a local doctor. He was educated at Alan Glen's School then the Royal College of Science at Imperial College London.... |
16/03/1950 | 27 June 1906 - 5 March 1970 |
John Martyn John Martyn (botanist) John Martyn or Joannis Martyn was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum , and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil... |
30/03/1727 | 12 September 1699 - 29 January 1768 |
Thomas Martyn Thomas Martyn Thomas Martyn was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. He is sometimes confused with the conchologist and entomologist of the same name.... |
18/05/1786 | 23 September 1735 - 3 June 1825 |
Martin van Marum Martin van Marum Martin van Marum was a Dutch scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen... |
19/04/1798 | 20 March 1750 - 26 December 1837 |
Francis Maseres Francis Maseres Francis Maseres was an English lawyer. He is known as attorney general of the Province of Quebec, judge, mathematician, historian, member of the Royal Society, and cursitor baron of the exchequer.- Biography :... |
02/05/1771 | 15 December 1731 - 19 May 1824 |
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research , a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India.... |
14/05/1998 | |
Ernest John Maskell | 16/03/1939 | 2 February 1895 - 20 December 1958 |
Nevil Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811.-Biography:... |
27/04/1758 | 6 October 1732 - 9 February 1811 |
Basil John Mason Basil John Mason Sir John Mason, CB, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRFPS, FRS is an expert on cloud physics and former Director of the UK Meteorological Office.His work includes the Mason Equation, giving the growth or evaporation of small water droplets... |
18/03/1965 | |
Charles Mason | 24/06/1742 | c 1699 - 18 December 1771 Clergyman, Geologist |
Paul James Mason | 09/03/1995 | |
Ronald Mason | 20/03/1975 | Prof of Chemistry, Sussex University |
Stephen Finney Mason | 18/03/1982 | Physical Chemist |
Thomas Godfrey Mason | 06/05/1937 | 24 July 1890 - 22 October 1959 Plant physiologist, Trinidad |
David William Masser David Masser David William Masser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974 on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence.... |
26/05/2005 | |
Victor Ame Philippe Ferrero de Fiesque Masseran | 11/01/1770 | |
Richard Myddleton Massey | 23/10/1712 | c 1678 - 27 March 1743 |
Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey | 14/03/1940 | 16 May 1908 - 27 November 1983 |
Vincent Massey | 17/03/1977 | 28 November 1926 – 26 August 2002 |
Jean Masson | 08/12/1743 | fl 1743 Chevalier de Besse |
David Orme Masson David Orme Masson Sir David Orme Masson KBE FRS was a scientist born in England who emigrated to Australia to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:... |
11/06/1903 | 13 January 1858 - 10 August 1937 |
James Irvine Orme Masson Irvine Masson Sir James Irvine Orme Masson was an Australian chemist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1938 to 1953.... |
16/03/1939 | 3 September 1887 - 22 October 1962 |
Arthur Thomas Masterman | 06/05/1915 | 10 April 1869 - 10 February 1941 Fellow 06/05/1915 |
Maxwell Tylden Masters | 02/06/1870 | 15 April 1833 - 30 May 1907 |
Thomas Guy Masters | 26/05/2005 | |
Yoshio Masui Yoshio Masui is a Japanese cell biologist.Masui studied biology at Kyoto University, graduating with his B.Sc. in zoology in 1953, his M.Sc. in 1955 and his Ph.D. in 1961. While still studying at Kyoto University, he taught biology, first as a teacher's assistant and then as a teacher, at Konan University,... |
14/05/1998 | |
Antonio Matani | 10/03/1763 | 27 July 1730 - 21 June 1779 |
Cotton Mather Cotton Mather Cotton Mather, FRS was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials... |
27/07/1713 | 13 February 1663 - 13 February 1728 |
Robert Mather | 08/05/1729 | c 1700 - 6 January 1730 |
Kenneth Mather Kenneth Mather Sir Kenneth Mather FRS was a British geneticist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964.... |
17/03/1949 | 22 June 1911 - 21 March 1990 |
Thomas Mather | 05/06/1902 | 15 December 1856 - 23 June 1937 |
Nicholas James Sutherland Matheson | 19/02/1846 | 1796 - 31 December 1878 |
William Mathew | 10/03/1720 | |
George Ballard Mathews George Ballard Mathews George Ballard Mathews, FRS was an English mathematician who specialized in number theory.He was born in London.... |
03/06/1897 | 24 February 1861 - 19 March 1922 |
Thomas James Mathias Thomas James Mathias Thomas James Mathias, FRS was a British satirist and scholar.Mathias was educated in Kingston upon Thames and Trinity College, Cambridge... |
19/03/1795 | ? 1754 - August 1835 |
William George Maton | 26/06/1800 | 31 January 1774 - 30 March 1835 |
Iain William Mattaj | 13/05/1999 | |
William Diller Matthew William Diller Matthew William Diller Matthew FRS was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils.... |
15/05/1919 | 20 February 1871 - 24 September 1930 |
Drummond Hoyle Matthews | 21/03/1974 | 6 February 1931 - 20 July 1997 |
Leonard Harrison Matthews | 18/03/1954 | 12 June 1901 - 27 November 1986 |
Paul Taunton Matthews Paul Taunton Matthews Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS was a British theoretical physicist.He was born in Erode in India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London... |
21/03/1963 | 20 November 1919 - 26 February 1987 |
Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews | 15/03/1973 | |
Richard Ellis Ford Matthews | 21/03/1974 | |
Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews | 14/03/1940 | 14 June 1906 - 22 July 1986 |
Philip Matthews | 23/03/1671 | c 1642 - ? December 1685 |
George Matthey | 12/06/1879 | 9 May 1825 - 14 February 1913 Refiner, Johnson & Matthey |
Augustus Matthiessen Augustus Matthiessen Augustus Matthiessen, FRS , the son of a merchant, was a British chemist and physicist who obtained his PhD in Germany at the University of Gießen in 1852 with Johann Heinrich Buff. He then worked with Robert Bunsen at the University of Heidelberg from 1853 to 1856... |
06/06/1861 | 2 January 1831 - 6 October 1870 |
Matthew Maty Matthew Maty Matthew Maty , originally Matthieu Maty, was a Dutch physician and writer of Huguenot background, and after migration to England secretary of the Royal Society and the second principal librarian of the British Museum.-Early life:... |
19/12/1751 | 17 May 1718 - 2 July 1776 |
Paul Henry Maty Paul Henry Maty Paul Henry Maty was an English librarian.He was born in London, the son of the librarian Matthew Maty and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He vacated a Trinity fellowship to marry in 1775. In 1777 he published his religious doubts about the 39 articles in the Gentleman's Magazine... |
16/05/1771 | 1745 - 16 January 1787 |
John Maud | 20/04/1738 | |
Israel Mauduit Israel Mauduit Israel Mauduit was a British merchant, writer and colonial agent. His surname is sometimes spelled as Maudit.Mauduit was born in 1708, the son of a dissenting religious minister Isaac Mauduit. His brother was Jasper Mauduit who was also a colonial agent.Mauduit is best remembered for his popular... |
13/06/1751 | 1708 - 14 June 1787 |
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis | 27/06/1728 | ? 17 July 1698 - 27 July 1759 |
Douglas Mawson Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an... |
03/05/1923 | 5 May 1882 - ? 15 October 1958 |
King of Bavaria Maximilian I | 04/03/1802 | 27 May 1756 - 13 October 1825 Royal |
Joseph Maximilian, Archduke of Austria | 21/01/1819 | 1782 - 1863 Royal |
James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory... |
06/06/1861 | 13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879, physicist |
James Rankin Maxwell | 15/05/1997 | |
Herbert Eustace Maxwell | 27/01/1898 | 8 January 1845 - 30 October 1937 |
John Maxwell | 26/02/1829 | 12 May 1791 - 6 June 1865 Traveller, Cape of Good Hope |
Murray Maxwell Murray Maxwell Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, CB, FRS was a British Royal Navy officer who served with distinction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars... |
18/02/1819 | 10 September 1775 - 26 June 1831 |
Charles May | 01/06/1854 | 1800 - 10 August 1860 Civil engineer |
Michael David May David May (computer scientist) Michael David May, born February 24, 1951, is a British computer scientist. He is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder and Chief Technology Officer of XMOS Semiconductor.May was lead architect for the transputer... |
14/03/1991 | |
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford | 15/03/1979 | |
Christian Mayer | 19/12/1765 | 20 August 1719 - ? 16 April 1783 |
David Quinn Mayne David Mayne Professor David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.-Career:Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand .... |
21/03/1985 | |
John Thomas Mayne | 29/01/1818 | fl 1818 |
William Valentine Mayneord William Valentine Mayneord William Valentine Mayneord, CBE FRS was a British radiologist and pioneer in the field of medical physics.He was born in Redditch, Worcestershire to Walter and Elizabeth Mayneord but after the early death of his mother was adopted by an aunt in Evesham... |
18/03/1965 | 15 February 1902 - 10 August 1988 |
Charles Mayo | 01/03/1827 | 24 March 1767 - 10 December 1858 Prof. of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford |
Herbert Mayo | 17/04/1828 | ? 3 April 1796 - 15 May 1852 |
Paul Jose de Mayo | 20/03/1975 | 8 August 1924 - 26 July 1994 |
Thomas Mayo Thomas Mayo Thomas Mayo was a British physician.He was born in London, the son of John Mayo, MD. After three years of private tuition and eighteen months at Westminster School, he was again privately tutored for Oriel College, Oxford, where he qualified MB in 1815 and MD in 1818... |
04/06/1835 | 24 January 1790 - 13 January 1871 |
John Mayow John Mayow John Mayow FRS was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air... |
30/11/1678 | 24 May 1640 - October 1679 |
Guillaume Mazeas | 28/05/1752 | 2 August 1720 - 13 September 1775 |
James William McBain James William McBain James William McBain was a Canadian chemist.He gained an MA at Toronto University and a DSC at Heidelberg University.He carried out pioneering work in the area of micelles at the University of Bristol... |
03/05/1923 | 22 March 1882 - 12 March 1953 |
Robert Alexander McCance | 18/03/1948 | 9 December 1898 - 5 March 1993 |
Andrew McCance | 18/03/1943 | 30 March 1889 - 11 June 1983 |
John Vincent McCanny | 09/05/2002 | |
Frank McClean Frank McClean Frank McClean, FRS was a British astronomer and pioneer of objective prism spectrography.His father was the engineer J. R. McClean, FRS. Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1859, Frank McClean was a Bachelor Scholar at Trinity for the next three years... |
13/06/1895 | 13 November 1837 - 8 November 1904 |
John Robinson McClean John Robinson McClean John Robinson McClean CB FRS , was a British civil engineer and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:He was born in Belfast. Educated at Belfast Academical Institution and University of Glasgow.-Engineering career:... |
03/06/1869 | 1813 - 13 July 1873 |
John Alexander McClelland | 06/05/1909 | 1 December 1870 - 13 April 1920 |
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock | 01/06/1865 | 8 July 1819 - 17 November 1907 |
James Desmond Caldwell McConnell | 19/03/1987 | |
Francis Patrick McCormick | 14/03/1996 | |
William Symington McCormick | 21/06/1928 | 30 April 1859 - 23 March 1930 Statute |
Frederick McCoy Frederick McCoy Sir Frederick McCoy, KCMG, FRS was an Irish palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia.-Early life:McCoy was the son of Dr Simon McCoy, M.D. and was born in Dublin; some sources have his year of birth as 1823, but 1817 is the most likely... |
03/06/1880 | 1823 - ? 13 May 1899 |
William Hunter McCrea | 20/03/1952 | 13 December 1904 - 25 April 1999 |
Peter McCullagh Peter McCullagh Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D... |
10/03/1994 | |
Ernest A McCulloch Ernest McCulloch Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.-Biography:... |
13/05/1999 | |
Arthur Bruce McDonald | 15/05/2009 | |
Robert McDonnell | 01/06/1865 | 15 March 1828 - 6 May 1889 Surgeon |
William McDougall William McDougall (psychologist) William McDougall FRS was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States... |
02/05/1912 | 22 June 1871 - 28 November 1938 |
Dusa McDuff Dusa McDuff Dusa McDuff is an English mathematician. She was born in London, England as the daughter of the noted biologist Conrad Hal Waddington. Her mother, Justin, born Justin Blanco White, was an architect, while her maternal grandmother was the feminist Amber Reeves, a lover of H.G. Wells and an author... |
10/03/1994 | |
James Dwyer McGee | 17/03/1966 | 17 December 1903 - 28 |
Simon McGillivray Simon McGillivray Simon McGillivray was the younger brother of William McGillivray and Duncan McGillivray. Born in Scotland, he was lame and slightly blind.... |
29/03/1838 | |
Ian Alexander McGregor | 19/03/1981 | 26 August 1922 – 01 |
James McGrigor | 14/03/1816 | 9 April 1771 - 2 April 1858 |
William Carmichael McIntosh William Carmichael McIntosh William Carmichael McIntosh, FRS was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist. His medical qualification was granted in 1860 by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, following study at Edinburgh University... |
07/06/1877 | 10 October 1838 - 1 April 1931 |
Michael Edgeworth McIntyre | 15/03/1990 | |
John Gray McKendrick | 12/06/1884 | 12 August 1841 - 2 January 1926 |
Aleander McKenzie | 11/05/1916 | 6 December 1869 - 11 June 1951 Prof of Chemistry, Univ College, Dundee |
Dan Peter McKenzie | 18/03/1976 | |
Murdoch McKenzie Murdoch McKenzie Murdoch Mackenzie, FRS was a hydrographer and cartographer.Born in Orkney and employed by the Royal Navy, he became the first person to accurately chart the coastline around North Ronaldsay where many vessels had come to grief. His work led to the construction of a lighthouse at Dennis Head... |
19/05/1774 | |
Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop Tom McKillop Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, born 19 March 1943, is a chemist, pharmaceutical company CEO and former chairman of RBS Group.McKillop was born in Dreghorn, a small village near the town of Irvine in Ayrshire, Scotland and educated at Irvine Royal Academy and then Glasgow University, where he... |
26/05/2005 | CEO, AstroZeneca |
Andrew David McLachlan | 16/03/1989 | |
Robert McLachlan | 07/06/1877 | 10 April 1837 - 23 May 1904 Botanist & Entomologist |
Anne Laura McLaren Anne McLaren The Hon. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten. She became a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation... |
20/03/1975 | biologist, Foreign Secretary for the Royal Society (1991-6) |
Digby Johns McLaren Digby McLaren Digby Johns McLaren, OC, FRSC was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.Born in Carrickfergus, Ireland and educated at Sedbergh School, he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge. During World War II, he fought in the Middle East and Europe with the Royal... |
15/03/1979 | 11 December 1919 – 8 December 2004 |
Keith Alan McLauchlan | 12/03/1992 | |
Angela McLean Angela McLean Angela McLean, FRS is Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.She studied Mathematics at Oxford and earned a PhD in Biomathematics from Imperial College, London... |
15/05/2009 | |
Alexander McLeay | 19/01/1809 | 24 June 1767 - 18 July 1848 |
John Cunningham McLennan John Cunningham McLennan Sir John Cunningham McLennan, KBE, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian physicist.Born in Ingersoll, Ontario, the son of David McLennan and Barbara Cunningham, he was the director of the physics laboratory at the University of Toronto from 1906 until 1932.In 1926, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's... |
06/05/1915 | 14 April 1867 - 9 October 1935 |
Herbert McLeod Herbert McLeod Herbert McLeod was a British chemist, noted for the invention of the McLeod gauge and for the invention of a sunshine recorder.-Biography:McLeod was born in Stoke Newington on 9 Feb 1841 and died 3 October 1923,... |
02/06/1881 | 20 February 1841 - 1 October 1923 Chemist, Royal Indian Eng.Coll. |
James Walter McLeod | 11/05/1933 | 2 January 1887 - 11 March 1978 Prof. of Bacteriology |
John Bryce McLeod | 12/03/1992 | |
Andrew Paul McMahon | 17/05/2007 | |
Charles Alexander McMahon | 09/06/1898 | 24 March 1830 - 21 February 1904 Geologist |
Harvey Thomas McMahon | 16/05/2008 | Molecular Biologist, Cambridge |
Andrew James McMichael | 12/03/1992 | Molecular Biologist, MRC |
John McMichael John McMichael John "Big John" McMichael was a leading Northern Irish loyalist who rose to become the most prominent figure within the Ulster Defence Association as the Deputy Commander and leader of its South Belfast Brigade. He was also commander of the organisation's cover name, the "Ulster Freedom Fighters"... |
21/03/1957 | 25 July 1904 - 3 March 1993 |
James McFadyen McNeill | 17/03/1949 | 19 August 1892 - 24 July 1964 |
Bryan Austin McSwiney | 16/03/1944 | 20 May 1894 - 8 March 1947 |
John Graham McWhirter John McWhirter (mathematician) John G. McWhirter FRS FREng FIMA FInstP FIEE FLSW is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing.John McWhirter graduated in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1970, gaining a PhD there in 1973... |
13/05/1999 | |
Richard Mead Richard Mead Richard Mead was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it , was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.-Life:The eleventh child of Matthew Mead , Independent divine, Richard was born... |
30/11/1703 | 11 August 1673 - 16 |
Samuel Mead | 08/03/1739 | |
Thomas Wilson Meade | 14/03/1996 | |
Pierre Francois Andre Mechain | 30/04/1789 | ? 16 April 1744 - ? 20 September 1805 |
Peter Brian Medawar | 17/03/1949 | 28 |
Henry Benedict Medlicott Henry Benedict Medlicott Henry Benedict Medlicott was an Irish geologist who worked in India.-Early life:He was born in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, the son of the Church of Ireland Rector of Loughrea, Samuel Medlicott and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Henry Benedict Dolphin, C. B... |
07/06/1877 | 3 August 1829 - 6 April 1905 |
Gerard Meerman | 24/04/1760 | 6 December 1722 - 15 December 1771 |
Charles Edward Kenneth Mees | 16/03/1939 | 26 May 1882 - 15 August 1960 |
Goverdhan Mehta | 26/05/2005 | |
Raphael Meldola Raphael Meldola Raphael Meldola FRS was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.- Life :... |
04/06/1886 | 19 July 1849 - 16 November 1915, chemist |
Charles Meldrum | 01/06/1876 | 19 October 1821 - 28 August 1901 |
John Mellanby | 02/05/1929 | 12 June 1878 - 15 July 1939 |
Edward Mellanby | 07/05/1925 | 8 April 1884 - 30 January 1955 |
Pierre de Mellarede | 11/06/1713 | c 1659 - 19 March 1730 |
Martinho de Mello e Castro | 21/04/1757 | fl 1757 |
Sebastian Joseph de Carvalho e Marquis of Pombal Mello | 15/05/1740 | 13 May 1699 - 8 May 1782 |
Joseph William Mellor Joseph William Mellor -Early life:Joseph William Mellor was born in Lindley, Huddersfield, England, in 1869. He grew up on New Zealand's South Island where his father found employment in the textile industry. The family was too poor to send Joseph to secondary school, but he continued to study in his spare time.Mellor... |
12/05/1927 | 9 July 1869 - 24 May 1938 |
James Cosmo Melvill | 14/01/1841 | 1792 - 23 July 1861 Secretary to East India Co |
Robert Melvill Robert Melville Robert Melvill was a Scottish soldier, botanist and inventor. He served as a general in the British Army and was a prominent antiquary.... |
16/02/1775 | 12 October 1723 - 29 August 1809 General in British Army |
Alexander Melville | 01/02/1827 | 14 October 1790 - 16 September 1840 Supt East India Co Mint |
Harry Work Melville | 20/03/1941 | 27 April 1908 - 15 June 2000 Professor of Chemistry |
Bruno Mendel | 21/03/1957 | 3 November 1897 - 23 August 1959 |
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn Kurt Mendelssohn Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn... |
15/03/1951 | 7 January 1906 - 18 September 1980, German-born British medical physicist cryogenic engineering |
Diego de Mendoca | 05/02/1736 | fl 1736 |
Joseph Mendoza y Rios | 11/04/1793 | ? 15 September 1762 - ? 3 March 1815 |
Francisco Xavier de Menezes | 02/11/1738 | fl 1738 |
Johann Burchard Menkenius | 30/11/1699 | 27 March 1675 - 1 April 1732 |
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon | 19/03/1970 | |
James Woodham Menter | 17/03/1966 | 22 August 1921 – 18 July 2006 |
Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff | 29/07/1714 | ? 1673 - ? 12 November 1729 |
Robert Gordon Menzies Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia.... |
03/06/1965 | 20 December 1894 - 15 May 1978, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia Prime Minister of Australia The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful... |
Nicolas Mercator | 14/11/1666 | c 1620 - ? February 1687 |
Frank Brian Mercer Frank Brian Mercer Frank Brian Mercer OBE FRS was an English chemist and businessman.He was born into a Blackburn family, which for generations had been involved in the textile industry and which owned and controlled companies engaged in spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing and educated at the Queen Elizabeth's... |
15/03/1984 | 22 December 1927 - 22 November 1998 |
James Mercer James Mercer (mathematician) James Mercer FRS was a mathematician, born in Bootle, close to Liverpool, England. He was educated at University of Manchester, and then University of Cambridge... |
11/05/1922 | 15 January 1883 - 21 February 1932 |
John Mercer John Mercer (scientist) John Mercer was an English dye and fabric chemist and fabric printer born in Great Harwood, Lancashire. In 1844 he developed a process for treating cotton, mercerisation, that improves many of its qualities for use in fabrics.John Mercer never went to school, he learned basic reading and writing... |
03/06/1852 | 22 February 1791 - 30 November 1866 |
Roger Meredith | 06/04/1681 | 1637 - 17 |
William George Meredith | 18/03/1830 | c 1804 - August 1831 |
John Meres | 12/03/1724 | |
John Meres John Meres Sir John Meres knight, FRS of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire was the director of a number of companies in the early 18th century, including the Charitable Corporation, the York Buildings Company, and Company of Mineral and Battery Works... |
12/03/1719 | |
Thomas Meres Thomas Meres Thomas Meres was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1710.Meres was the eldest son of Robert Meres, DD, of Kirton, Lincolnshire, chancellor of Lincoln cathedral, and his first wife Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Hugh Williams of Wegg. Caernarvonshire. He was... |
08/12/1686 | c 1662 - |
John Merewether | 03/05/1838 | 1797 - 4 April 1850 |
Christopher Merrett Christopher Merrett Christopher Merret FRS was an English physician and scientist. He was the first to document the deliberate addition of sugar for the production of sparkling wine, and produced the first list of British birds.-Life:Merret was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire on 16 February; Hunter gives the... |
20/05/1663 | ? 16 February 1614 - 19 August 1695 Original Fellow 20/05/1664 |
Charles Watkins Merrifield | 04/06/1863 | 20 October 1827 - 1 January 1884 |
John Merrill | 21/03/1745 | fl 1745 Mathematician |
Alexander Walter Merrison | 20/03/1969 | 21 March 1924 - 19 February 1989 |
Patrick Anthony Merton | 15/03/1979 | 8 October 1920 - 13 June 2000 |
Thomas Ralph Merton Thomas Ralph Merton Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE, DSc, FRS was an English physicist, inventor and art collector. He is particularly noted for his work on spectroscopy and diffraction gratings.-Early life and education:... |
13/05/1920 | 12 January 1888 - 10 October 1969 |
Rudolf Messel | 02/05/1912 | 14 January 1848 - 18 April 1920 |
Charles Messier Charles Messier Charles Messier was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects"... |
06/12/1764 | 26 June 1730 - ? 12 April 1817 |
Leon Mestel Leon Mestel Leon Mestel is a British astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He has won both the Eddington Medal and the Gold... |
17/03/1977 | astronomer |
Donald Metcalf Donald Metcalf Emeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne... |
17/03/1983 | |
Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe Philip Metcalfe was a distiller in London, UK and member of Parliament from Horsham from 1784. He representedPlympton Erle, Devon from 1790 to 1796 and Malmesbury Wiltshire from 1796.... |
04/11/1790 | c 1733 - 26 August 1818 |
Friedrich Christian Meuschen Friedrich Christian Meuschen Friedrich Christian Meuschen was a German diplomat and conchologist born in Hanau. He was the son of theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen .... |
05/04/1764 | 1719 - |
Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick FRS was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics.... |
05/05/1904 | 24 November 1854 - 31 March 1938 |
James Meyrick | 19/06/1800 | ? 1748 - 27 November 1818 |
Owen Putland Meyrick | 09/05/1776 | c 1752 - 24 March 1825 |
Louis Compton Miall | 02/06/1892 | 13 September 1842 - 21 February 1921 |
John David Michaelis | 30/04/1789 | 1717 - 22 August 1791 |
Anthony George Maldon Michell Anthony Michell Anthony George Maldon Michell FRS was an Australian mechanical engineer of the early 20th century.-Early life:... |
03/05/1934 | 21 June 1870 - 17 February 1959 |
John Michell John Michell John Michell was an English natural philosopher and geologist whose work spanned a wide range of subjects from astronomy to geology, optics, and gravitation. He was both a theorist and an experimenter.... |
12/06/1760 | 1724 - 21 April 1793 |
John Henry Michell John Henry Michell John Henry Michell FRS was an Australian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:... |
05/06/1902 | 26 October 1863 - 3 February 1940 |
Richard Michell | 12/05/1774 | 1728–1789 |
Robert Hall Michell | 20/03/1986 | |
Pietro Antonio Michelotti | 11/12/1718 | 1680 - 1 January 1740 |
James Mickleton | 03/07/1718 | fl 1718 |
Charles Stewart Middlemiss | 12/05/1921 | 22 November 1859 - 11 June 1945 |
Benjamin Middleton | 14/12/1687 | fl 1668 - 1712 |
Christopher Middleton Christopher Middleton (navigator) Christopher Middleton was an English naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 April 1737.... |
07/04/1737 | |
Thomas Hudson Middleton | 25/06/1936 | 32 August 1863 - 14 May 1943 Statute Bishop of Calcutta |
Thomas Fanshawe Middleton | 19/05/1814 | 26 January 1769 - 8 July 1822 |
John Edwin Midwinter | 21/03/1985 | Prof of Electronic Eng, University College, London |
John Miers John Miers (botanist) John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina.... |
09/03/1843 | 25 August 1789 - 17 October 1879 |
Henry Alexander Miers | 04/06/1896 | 25 May 1858 - 10 December 1942 |
Ricardo Miledi Ricardo Miledi Ricardo Miledi is a Mexican neuroscientist who won the Royal Medal in 1998.In 1999 was awarded with the . In 2010 won the outstanding contributions to the field.He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine.... |
19/03/1970 | |
Henry Miles Henry Miles Henry Miles, FRS was an English Dissenting minister and scientific writer, a Fellow of the Royal Society known for experiments on electricity.-Life:... |
09/06/1743 | 3 June 1698 - 10 February 1763 |
Arnold Ashley Miles | 16/03/1961 | 21 March 1904 - 11 February 1988 Fellow 16/03/1961 |
Thomas Miles | 15/03/1722 | |
David Andrew Barclay Miller | 09/03/1995 | |
Frederick Robert Miller | 05/05/1932 | 2 May 1881 - 11 November 1967 Prof of Physiology, Univ of W.Ontario |
George Miller | 24/05/1827 | |
Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller | 19/03/1970 | |
John Fletcher Miller | 06/06/1850 | 20 June 1816 - 14 July 1856 |
Joseph Miller | 30/03/1843 | ? 1798 - 23 February 1860 Marine Engineer |
Philip Miller Philip Miller Philip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death... |
22/01/1730 | 1691 - 18 December 1771 |
Roger Ervin Miller | 26/05/2005 | |
Stewart Crichton Miller | 14/03/1996 | 2 July 1934 - 7 August 1999 |
William Allen Miller William Allen Miller William Allen Miller FRS was a British scientist.He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Ackworth School and King's College London.... |
06/02/1845 | 17 December 1817 - 30 September 1870 |
William Hallowes Miller William Hallowes Miller William Hallowes Miller FRS , British mineralogist and crystallographer.- Life and work :Miller was born in 1801 at Velindre near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826 as fifth wrangler. He became a Fellow there in 1829... |
08/02/1838 | 6 April 1801 - 20 May 1880 |
Daniel Milles | 14/01/1675 | 1626–1689 |
Edward Milles | 19/06/1746 | |
Jeremiah Milles | 23/02/1775 | c 1751 - ? November 1796 |
Jeremiah Milles | 01/04/1742 | c 1714 - 13 |
Thomas Milles | 07/04/1708 | 19 June 1671 - 13 May 1740 |
Langford Millington | 06/05/1802 | |
Abraham Mills | 30/05/1799 | c 1750 - 2 March 1828 Mineralogist |
Bernard Yarnton Mills | 21/03/1963 | |
Edmund James Mills | 04/06/1874 | 8 December 1840 - 21 April 1921 |
Ian Mark Mills | 14/03/1996 | |
John Mills | 13/02/1766 | c 1717 - ? 1796 |
Walter Mills | 12/07/1682 | 1654 - 7 January 1726 Physician |
William Hobson Mills William Hobson Mills William Hobson Mills FRS was a British organic chemist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923 and won its Davy Medal in 1933.... |
03/05/1923 | 6 July 1873 - 22 |
Francis Milman | 07/05/1772 | 31 August 1746 - 24 June 1821 |
Edward Arthur Milne | 06/05/1926 | 15 February 1896 - 21 September 1950 |
John Milne John Milne For other uses, see John Milne .John Milne was the British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.-Biography:... |
09/06/1887 | 30 December 1850 - ? 30 July 1913 |
Malcolm Davenport Milne | 16/03/1978 | 22 May 1915 - 3 April 1991 |
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner Robin Milner Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE was a prominent British computer scientist.-Life, education and career:... |
17/03/1988 | 13 January 1934 - 20 March 2010 Computer Scientist, Cambridge |
Brenda Atkinson Milner Brenda Milner Brenda Milner, is a Canadian neuroscientist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. -Biography:... |
15/03/1979 | |
Isaac Milner Isaac Milner Isaac Milner FRS was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.... |
15/06/1780 | 11 January 1750 - 1 April 1820 |
Samuel Roslington Milner Samuel Milner Samuel Roslington Milner was a British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.Education: King Edward VI School, Retford; University College, Bristol; University of Göttingen.-Career:* 1851 Exhibition Scholar, 1895-1898... |
11/05/1922 | 22 August 1875 - 12 August 1958 |
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.-Background and education:... |
10/12/1868 | 19 June 1809 - 11 August 1885 |
César Milstein César Milstein César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:... |
20/03/1975 | 8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002, medicine, 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... (1984) |
Edward Milward | 14/01/1742 | c 1712 - 26 August 1757 |
Edward Alfred Minchin | 04/05/1911 | 22 February 1866 - 30 September 1915 |
George Minchin Minchin | 13/06/1895 | 25 May 1845 - 23 March 1914 |
Daniel Minet | 18/06/1767 | |
David Michael Patrick Mingos Michael Mingos David Michael Patrick Mingos FRS was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Oxford... |
12/03/1992 | |
Andrew Mitchell Andrew Mitchell (diplomat) Sir Andrew Mitchell was a British diplomat noted for his service as envoy to the court of Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War.-Early Career and Interests:... |
26/02/1736 | 15 April 1708 - 28 January 1771 Diplomat |
Edgar William John Mitchell William Mitchell (physicist) Sir Edgar William John Mitchell, CBE, FRS was a professor of physics at Oxford, and helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering.... |
20/03/1986 | 25 September 1925 – 30 October 2002 |
George Francis Mitchell | 15/03/1973 | 15 October 1912 - 25 November 1997 |
George Hoole Mitchell | 19/03/1953 | 31 December 1902 - 11 March 1976 |
John Mitchell John Mitchell (geographer) John Mitchell was a colonial American doctor and botanist. He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map... |
15/12/1748 | 14 April 1711 - 29 February 1768 |
John Francis Brake Mitchell John F. B. Mitchell Professor John F B Mitchell OBE FRS is a British climatologist and climate modeller.He was a convening lead author for the first and third IPCC Working Group I reports and lead author for the second... |
27/05/2004 | |
John Wesley Mitchell | 15/03/1956 | |
Joseph Stanley Mitchell | 20/03/1952 | 22 July 1909 - 22 |
Peter Chalmers Mitchell Peter Chalmers Mitchell Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD , zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.- Early life :Peter... |
03/05/1906 | 23 November 1864 - 2 July 1945 |
Peter Dennis Mitchell | 21/03/1974 | 29 September 1920 - 10 April 1992 |
John Murdoch Mitchison | 16/03/1978 | 15 June 1922 – 17 March 2011 |
Nicholas Avrion Mitchison Avrion Mitchison The Honourable Avrion "Av" Mitchison FRS is a British zoologist and immunologist.- Biography :Mitchison was born in 1928, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi . His uncle was the biologist J.B.S... |
16/03/1967 | |
Timothy John Mitchison | 15/05/1997 | |
William Mitford | 13/04/1749 | |
Ashesh Prosad Mitra | 17/03/1988 | |
Sisir Kumar Mitra Sisir Kumar Mitra Sisir Kumar Mitra [or Shishirkumar Mitra] was an Indian physicist.He was born and raised in Calcutta. His parents were the doctor Saratkumari and the school teacher Jaykrishna. At the age of nine he witnessed a hot air balloon and became intrigued in the phenomenon, so he began studying science... |
20/03/1958 | 24 October 1890 - 13 August 1963 |
St. George Jackson Mivart | 03/06/1869 | 30 November 1827 - 1 April 1900 |
Henry Keith Moffatt | 20/03/1986 | |
James Reid Moir | 06/05/1937 | 13 June 1879 - 24 February 1944 Archaeologist |
Abraham de Moivre Abraham de Moivre Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling... |
30/11/1697 | 26 May 1667 - 27 November 1754 |
Coote Molesworth | 18/03/1731 | ? 1695 - 29 November 1782 |
Richard Molesworth | 04/05/1786 | 1737 - 29 September 1799 |
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, PC , styled The Honourable Richard Molesworth from 1716 to 1726, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman.-Military career:... |
15/03/1722 | 1680 - 12 October 1758 |
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth PC came of an old Northamptonshire family. He married Letitia Coote, daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Lord Coote of Coloony and Mary St. George.His father Robert Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth PC (7 September 1656 – 22 May 1725) came of an old... |
23/03/1698 | 7 September 1656 - 22 May 1725 |
William Molesworth | 26/11/1835 | 23 May 1810 - 22 October 1855 |
Pietro Paolo Molinelli | 20/04/1749 | 2 March 1702 - 11 October 1764 |
Patrick Loudon Mollison | 21/03/1968 | 17 March 1914 - 26 November 2011 Haematologist |
John Dixon Mollon | 13/05/1999 | |
Adam Gottlob Moltke Adam Gottlob Moltke Count Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.-Early life:... |
05/04/1764 | 10 November 1710 - 25 September 1792 |
Daniel Molyneux | 19/02/1736 | 1708–1738 |
Samuel Molyneux Samuel Molyneux Samuel Molyneux FRS , son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light... |
01/12/1712 | ? 16 July 1689 - 13 April 1728 |
Thomas Molyneux Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet FRS was an Irish physician.Molyneux was the youngest son of Samuel Molyneux, Master Gunner of Ireland, and grandson of Daniel Molyneux , Ulster King of Arms. Educated Trinity College, Dublin, he became a doctor with an MA and MB in 1683, aged 22... |
03/11/1686 | 14 April 1661 - 19 October 1733 |
William Molyneux William Molyneux William Molyneux FRS was an Irish natural philosopher and writer on politics.He was born in Dublin to Samuel Molyneux , lawyer and landowner , and his wife, Anne, née Dowdall. The second of five children, William Molyneux came from a relatively prosperous Anglican background... |
03/02/1686 | 17 April 1656 - 11 October 1698 |
Salvador Moncada Salvador Moncada Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FRCS is a Honduran-British physician and pharmacologist. He is the husband of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, who is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.-Background:... |
17/03/1988 | |
Andre Monceaux | 15/12/1670 | fl 1670 |
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | 09/01/1665 | 6 December 1608 - 3 January 1670 |
Alexander Moncrieff | 08/06/1871 | 17 April 1829 - 3 August 1906 Military Engineer |
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett | 21/06/1928 | 24 October 1868 - 27 December 1930 Statute, chemist |
Ludwig Mond Ludwig Mond Dr Ludwig Mond , was a German-born chemist and industrialist who took British nationality.-Education and career:... |
04/06/1891 | 7 March 1839 - 11 December 1909, 1928, chemist |
Robert Ludwig Mond Robert Mond Sir Robert Ludwig Mond FRS, FRSE was a British chemist and archaeologist.-Early life and education:Robert Mond was born at Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, the elder son of Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist... |
17/03/1938 | 9 September 1867 - 22 October 1938, chemist and archaeologist |
William Taylor Money | 11/06/1818 | |
Louis Guillaume Le Monnier | 07/02/1745 | 27 June 1717 - 7 September 1799 |
Pierre Charles Le Monnier Pierre Charles Le Monnier Pierre Charles Le Monnier was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier.-Biography:... |
05/04/1739 | 20 November 1715 - ? 31 May 1799 |
Alexander Monro Alexander Monro (primus) Alexander Monro was the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. To distinguish him as the first of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as primus.... |
27/06/1723 | 8 September 1697 - 10 July 1767 |
Charles Monro | 17/05/1821 | c 1757 - 25 September 1821 |
Donald Monro | 24/04/1766 | 15 January 1728 - 9 June 1802 |
James Monson | 12/11/1684 | c 1660 - ? 1688 |
Joseph de Montagny | 07/06/1739 | fl 1739 |
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS was an English poet and statesman.-Early life:Charles Montagu was born in Horton, Northamptonshire, the son of George Montagu, fifth son of 1st Earl of Manchester... |
30/11/1695 | 16 April 1661 - 19 May 1715 |
Edward Montagu | 12/12/1745 | |
Edward Wortley Montagu Edward Wortley Montagu Edward Wortley Montagu was an English author and traveller.He was the son of Edward Wortley Montagu, MP and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems to have inherited.... |
31/05/1750 | 1713 - 29 April 1776 |
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG was an English Infantry officer who later became a naval officer. He was the only surviving son of Sir Sidney Montagu, and was brought up at Hinchingbrooke House.... |
20/05/1663 | 27 July 1625 - 28 May 1672 Original |
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG, KB, FRS was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.-Life:... |
10/05/1665 | 1602 - 5 May 1671 |
Frederick Montagu Frederick Montagu Frederick Montagu PC, FRS was a British Whig MP.Montagu was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was MP for Northampton from 1759 to 1768, and for Higham Ferrers from 1768 to 1790. He was in favour of tolerance for Dissenters and the removal of adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles... |
16/02/1792 | July 1733 - 30 July 1800 |
George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, KG PC, FRS was a British peer.He was born George Brudenell in 1712 at Cardigan House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in London, the son of the 3rd Earl of Cardigan and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Bruce... |
07/12/1749 | 26 July 1712 - 23 May 1790 |
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, KG, KB, PC , styled Viscount Monthermer until 1705 and Marquess of Monthermer between 1705 and 1709, was a British peer... |
13/03/1718 | 29 March 1690 - 6 July 1749 |
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten... |
20/03/1740 | 3 November 1718 - 30 April 1792 |
Matthew Montagu | 05/03/1795 | fl 1795 |
Nicholas de Montaudouin | 16/02/1749 | fl 1749 |
Marques de Monte Leone | 05/04/1716 | fl 1716 - 1718 |
Moses Haim Montefiore Moses Montefiore Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, Kt was one of the most famous British Jews of the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, banker, philanthropist and Sheriff of London... |
16/06/1836 | 24 October 1784 - 28 July 1885 |
John Lennox Monteith John Monteith John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS, born September 3, 1929 in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a leading authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops,... |
18/03/1971 | |
William Monteith | 13/02/1845 | 22 June 1790 - 18 April 1864 |
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu | 26/02/1730 | 18 January 1689 - 10 February 1755 |
Jean Baptiste Montesquieu | 06/12/1744 | 10 December 1716 - 1796 |
Thomas George Montgomerie Thomas George Montgomerie Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie was a British surveyor who participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India as a lieutenant in the 1850's. He was the person to label K2, the second highest mountain in the world, the K standing for Karakoram... |
06/06/1872 | 23 April 1830 - 31 January 1878 |
Charles Daniel Trudaine De Montigny | 23/01/1766 | 3 January 1703 - 19 January 1769 |
Conde de Montijo | 16/11/1732 | fl 1732 |
Pierre Remond de Montmort | 09/06/1715 | 27 October 1678 - 7 October 1719 |
Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auget Montyon, Baron de Montyon | 05/11/1812 | 26 December 1733 - 29 December 1820 |
Philip Burton Moon | 20/03/1947 | 17 May 1907 - 9 October 1994 |
Edward Moor Edward Moor Edward Moor was a British soldier and Indologist, known for his book The Hindu Pantheon, an early treatment in English of Hinduism as a religion.He was a soldier for the East India Company, joining in 1782 as a cadet... |
01/05/1806 | 1771 - 26 February 1848 |
Robert Michael Moor | 10/03/1994 | |
Stephen Erwin Moorbath | 17/03/1977 | |
Benjamin Moore Benjamin Moore (biochemist) Benjamin Moore B.Eng., M.A., D.Sc., FRS was an early British biochemist. He held the first chair of biochemistry in the UK, and founded the Biochemical Journal, one of the earliest academic journals in the subject.... |
02/05/1912 | 14 January 1867 - 3 March 1922 |
Brian Cecil Joseph Moore | 09/05/2002 | Prof of Auditory Perception, Cambridge |
Charles Moore | 25/02/1768 | c 1722 - 18 May 1775 antiquary |
Daniel Moore | 28/06/1810 | c 1760 - 6 January 1828 barrister |
Derek William Moore | 15/03/1990 | Prof of Maths, Imperial College |
George Moore | 02/04/1835 | c 1777 - 8 November 1859 |
John Noore | 10/11/1715 | fl 1715 - 1734 |
John Arthur Moore | 26/02/1846 | 1791 - 7 July 1860 Major, East India Co. |
John Carrick Moore | 05/06/1856 | 14 February 1805 - 12 February 1898 |
Michael Arthur Moore | 16/03/1989 | |
Jonas Moore | 12/03/1680 | |
Jonas Moore Jonas Moore Sir Jonas Moore, FRS was an English mathematician, surveyor, Ordnance Officer and patron of astronomy. He participated in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century: the draining of the Great Level of the Fens and the building of the Mole at Tangier... |
03/12/1674 | 9 February 1617 - 25 August 1679 Surveyor-general of Ordnance (father) |
Patrick Alfred Caldwell Moore Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of... |
10/05/2001 | Honorary |
Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl of Mountcashel | 22/04/1847 | 20 May 1792 - 10 October 1883 |
Thomas Edward Lawes Moore | 01/06/1854 | 1819 - 1 May 1872 Naval (magnetic) surveyor |
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran FRS , commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics.... |
20/03/1975 | 14 July 1917 - 19 September 1988 |
Jean Francois Clement Morand | 01/06/1769 | 28 April 1726 - 13 August 1784 |
Sauveur Francois Morand | 09/01/1729 | 2 April 1697 - 21 July 1773 |
Robert Moray Robert Moray Sir Robert Moray was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, freemason and natural philosopher. He was well known to Charles I and Charles II, and the French cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin... |
28/11/1660 | 1608 - 4 July 1673 |
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, KG, PC, FRS was an English soldier, peer and courtier.-Early life:Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough... |
18/11/1663 | ? October 1624 - 19 June 1697 |
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt Thomas Osbert Mordaunt Thomas Osbert Mordaunt , a British officer and poet, is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call', written during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763:-References:... |
14/04/1796 | c 1729 - 13 February 1809 Lt-General in Army |
Louis Joel Mordell Louis Mordell Louis Joel Mordell was a British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, USA, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction... |
15/05/1924 | 28 January 1888 - 12 March 1972 |
Henry More Henry More Henry More FRS was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.-Biography:Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College... |
25/05/1664 | October 1614 - 1 September 1687 |
Robert More Robert More Sir Robert More was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1601.More was the eldest son of Sir George More of Loseley and his first wife Anne Poynings, daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings. He enterd Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1595 and was awarded BA in 1598. In 1600 he... |
05/02/1730 | 1703 - January 1780 |
Cesar Moreau | 08/02/1827 | 1791 - 28 November 1861 |
Thomas Morell Thomas Morell Thomas Morell was a librettist, classical scholar, and printer.Morell is important for having written the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.-Librettos:... |
16/06/1768 | 18 March 1703 - 19 |
Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie | 22/02/1855 | 25 June 1827 - 28 October 1921 |
Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie | 09/06/1814 | 31 August 1776 - 22 June 1840 |
Giambattista Morgagni | 30/11/1722 | 26 February 1682 - ? 6 December 1771 |
Anthony Morgan Anthony Morgan Anthony Eugene Morgan is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers .... |
20/05/1663 | 1621 - c November 1668 Original Soldier & MP |
Arthur Morgan | 02/04/1835 | 1801 - 10 March 1870 Actuary |
Campbell Greig De Morgan | 06/06/1861 | 22 November 1811 - 12 April 1876 |
Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan DL, JP, FRS, FSA , known as Octavius Morgan, was a British politician, historian and antiquary. He was a significant benefactor to the British Museum.-Background and education:... |
02/02/1832 | 15 September 1803 - 5 August 1888 |
Conwy Lloyd Morgan | 01/06/1899 | 7 February 1852 - 6 March 1936 |
John Morgan John Morgan (physician) John Morgan was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America; and he served as the second "Chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army... |
07/03/1765 | 10 June 1735 - 15 October 1789 |
Michael John Morgan | 26/05/2005 | |
Charles Morgan Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 2nd Baronet , was a Welsh soldier and politician, the MP for Brecon and later the County of Monmouth .... |
30/05/1816 | 5 February 1760 - 5 December 1846 |
Gilbert Thomas Morgan | 06/05/1915 | 22 September 1870 - 01 |
Morien Bedford Morgan | 16/03/1972 | 20 December 1912 - 4 April 1978 |
Walter Thomas James Morgan Walter Thomas James Morgan Walter Thomas James Morgan CBE FRS was a British biochemist noted for his work on the immunochemistry of Antigens and described as 'one of the pioneers of immunochemistry'.-Early life:... |
17/03/1949 | 5 October 1900 – 10 |
William Morgan | 06/05/1790 | June 1750 - 4 May 1833 |
James Justinian Morier James Justinian Morier James Justinian Morier was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about Qajar dynasty Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series.-Early life:... |
04/02/1819 | c 1780 - 19 March 1849 |
William Morison | 03/03/1842 | |
Benjamin Morland | 12/03/1707 | c 1653 - 9 October 1733 Schoolmaster |
Joseph Morland | 30/11/1703 | c 1671 - 1716 Author & Physician |
Samuel Morland | 30/11/1704 | |
Samuel Morlend | 24/05/1722 | |
George Morley George Morley George Morley D.D. was an English bishop.-Life:He was born in London, England, and educated at Westminster school and the University of Oxford. In 1640, he was presented to the sinecure living of Hartfield, Sussex, and in the following year he was made canon of Christ Church, Oxford and exchanged... |
28/11/1666 | 27 Feb 1597 -29 October 1684 |
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883... |
15/12/1892 | 24 December 1838 - 23 September 1923 MP |
Leslie Sydney Dennis Morley | 12/03/1992 | - 16 June 2011 |
Lorenzo Morosini | 10/03/1763 | fl 1763 |
Hervey Redmond Morres, 2nd Viscount Mountmorres | 12/12/1793 | c 1746 - 18 August 1797 |
Corbyn Morris | 19/05/1757 | |
Edward Morris | 18/06/1812 | c 1769 - 13 April 1815 Mp for Newport, Cornwall |
George Paulet Morris | 14/02/1805 | c 1760 - 17 September 1837 Physician |
Howard Redfern Morris | 17/03/1988 | |
John Carnac Morris | 10/03/1831 | 16 October 1798 - 2 August 1858 Civil Servant |
John Gareth Morris | 17/03/1988 | |
Matthew Robinson Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby was an English eccentric nobleman who preferred a watery environment to a dry one.... |
27/11/1746 | ? April 1713 - 30 November 1800 |
Michael Morris | 05/04/1764 | |
Richard Graham Michael Morris | 15/05/1997 | |
Robert Hunter Morris Robert Hunter Morris Robert Hunter Morris, born 1700 in Trenton, New Jersey, died 27 January 1764 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, was a prominent governmental figure in Colonial Pennsylvania, serving as governor of Pennsylvania and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.... |
12/06/1755 | c 1700 - 27 January 1764 Governor of Pennsylvania |
Peter John Morris | 10/03/1994 | |
William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield | 08/06/1939 | 11 October 1877 - 22 August 1963 Statute |
Robert Morrison | 12/05/1825 | 5 January 1782 - 1 August 1834 |
Henton Morrogh | 19/03/1964 | 29 September 1917 – 20 September 2003 |
Leonard Morse | 15/05/1766 | |
Robert Morse | 12/11/1789 | 30 February 1743 - 28 January 1818 Military Engineer |
Clifford Hiley Mortimer | 20/03/1958 | 27 February 1911 - 11 May 2010 Biologist, Wisconsin |
Cromwell Mortimer Cromwell Mortimer Cromwell Mortimer FRS was a British physician, antiquary and second secretary of the Royal Society from 1730-1752.-Early life:... |
27/06/1728 | c 1699 - 7 January 1752 |
John Mortimer | 30/11/1705 | c 1656 - 1736 Author, Merchant, Agricuturalist |
Charles Morton Charles Morton (librarian) Charles Morton MD was an English medical doctor and librarian who became the principal librarian of the British Museum.-Life:Morton first attended Leiden University from September 18, 1736. Some time before 1745, he moved to Kendal, Westmoreland, where he practiced as a physician... |
16/01/1752 | 1716 - 10 February 1799 |
John Morton | 30/11/1703 | c 1670 - 18 July 1726 Naturalist |
Richard Alan Morton | 16/03/1950 | 22 September 1899 - 21 January 1977 Spectroscopist |
Henry Moseley | 07/02/1839 | 9 July 1801 - 20 January 1872 |
Henry Nottidge Moseley Henry Nottidge Moseley Henry Nottidge Moseley, FRS was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876.... |
07/06/1877 | 14 November 1844 - 10 November 1891 |
Charles Moss Charles Moss Charles Moss was an Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop of St David's from 1766 to 1774 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1774 to 1802.-Biography:... |
28/05/1752 | 1711 - 13 April 1802 |
Joseph William Moss | 18/02/1830 | 1803 - 23 May 1862 |
William Branks Motherwell | 27/05/2004 | Professor of Chemistry, University College |
Basil Mott Basil Mott Sir Basil Mott, 1st Baronet FRS was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was responsible for some of the most innovative work on tunnels and bridges in the United Kingdom in the 40-year period centred on World War I.Basil Mott was born in... |
05/05/1932 | 16 September 1859 - 7 September 1938 |
Frederick Walker Mott Frederick Walker Mott Sir Frederick Walker Mott FRS was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Britain. He is noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to mental disorder, and consequently as psychiatrist and sociologist... |
04/06/1896 | 23 October 1853 - 8 June 1926 |
Nevill Francis Mott Nevill Francis Mott Sir Nevill Francis Mott, CH, FRS was an English physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H... |
07/05/1936 | 30 September 1905 - 8 August 1996 |
Allen Moulin | 18/07/1683 | c 1653 - 1690 |
Jacques du Moulin | 05/12/1667 | |
George Moult | 30/11/1689 | |
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton | 03/06/1880 | 18 November 1844 - 9 March 1921 |
Pierre Moultou | 27/04/1780 | |
James Mounsey | 08/03/1750 | 1700 - 02 |
William Mountaine | 14/03/1751 | |
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh... |
19/05/1966 | 26 June 1900 - 27 August 1979 Statute |
Arthur Ernest Mourant | 17/03/1966 | 11 April 1904 - 29 August 1994 |
Edward Richard Moxon | 17/05/2007 | |
Joseph Moxon Joseph Moxon Joseph Moxon , hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer of mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English language dictionary devoted to mathematics... |
30/11/1678 | 8 August 1627 - 28 February 1691 |
John Mudge John Mudge John Mudge was an English physician and amateur creator of telescope mirrors. He won the Copley Medal in 1777 for a paper on reflecting telescopes.-Life:... |
29/05/1777 | 1721 - 26 March 1793 |
Richard Zachary Mudge | 05/12/1822 | 6 September 1790 - 24 September 1854 |
William Mudge William Mudge William Mudge was an English artillery officer and surveyor, an important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey.-Life:He was a son of Dr. John Mudge of Plymouth, by his second wife, and grandson of Zachariah Mudge, and was born at Plymouth on 1 December 1762... |
28/06/1798 | 1 December 1762 - 17 April 1820 |
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller | 06/06/1861 | 30 June 1825 - 9 October 1896, botanist |
Isabella Helen Mary Muir | 17/03/1977 | 20 August 1920 - 28 November 2005 |
Robert Muir Robert Muir (pathologist) Sir Robert Muir, FRS, FRSE, FRCP, FRCPE, RFPSG was a Scottish physician and pathologist who carried out pioneering work in immunology, and was one of the leading figures in medical research in Glasgow in the early 20th century.The son of a United Presbyterian minister , he studied at the... |
04/05/1911 | 5 July 1864 - 30 March 1959 |
Thomas Muir Thomas Muir (mathematician) Sir Thomas Muir FRS was a Scottish mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. He was born in Stonebyres in South Lanarkshire, and brought up in the small town of Biggar. At the University of Glasgow he changed his studies from classics to mathematics after advice from the future... |
14/06/1900 | 25 August 1844 - 21 March 1934 |
Alexander Muirhead Alexander Muirhead Alexander Muirhead, FRS, born in East Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland was an electrical engineer specialising in wireless telegraphy.-Biography:... |
05/05/1904 | 26 May 1848 - 13 December 1920 |
Gerhard Friedrich Muller | 10/12/1730 | 1705–1783 |
Hugo Muller | 07/06/1866 | 29 July 1833 - 23 May 1915 |
Benjamin von Munchausen | 30/04/1684 | fl 1684 |
Jan de Munck | 21/01/1748 | fl 1748 |
Nicholas Munckley | 26/01/1749 | c 1721 - 20 February 1770 |
Anthony John Mundella Anthony John Mundella Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897... |
09/03/1882 | 28 March 1825 - 21 July 1897 |
Ludovico Antonio Muratori Ludovico Antonio Muratori Ludovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books.... |
14/11/1717 | 21 October 1673 - 23 January 1750 |
Charles Murchison Charles Murchison (physician) Charles Murchison was a British physician and a noted authority on fevers and diseases of the liver.-Early life:... |
07/06/1866 | 26 July 1830 - 23 April 1879 |
Roderick Impey Murchison | 06/04/1826 | 20 February 1792 - 22 October 1871 |
Patrick Murdoch Patrick Murdoch Patrick Murdoch was an author, publisher and mathematician, who published a biography of poet James Thomson, and also An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries by Colin MacLaurin.... |
20/03/1746 | |
Thomas Murdoch | 04/07/1805 | 1758–1846 |
Robert Murphy | 05/06/1834 | 1806 - 12 March 1843 |
David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield | 20/05/1802 | 8 March 1777 - 18 February 1840 |
David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont | 29/08/1666 | |
George Murray George Murray (Lieutenant-Governor) Sir George Murray, GCB, GCH, FRS was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Background and education:Murray was born in Perth, the second son of Sir William Murray, of Ochtertyre, 5th Baronet , and was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh.-Military career:In... |
19/06/1823 | 7 February 1772 - 28 July 1846 |
George Robert Milne Murray George Robert Milne Murray George Robert Milne Murray FRS was a Scottish botanist.Murray was born and educated in Arbroath. In 1875 he studied cryptogamic botany at the University of Strasbourg under Anton de Bary. He became an assistant in the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum, succeeding William... |
03/06/1897 | 11 November 1858 - 16 December 1911 |
James Murray | 24/06/1779 | c 1722 - 19 April 1794 |
James Alexander Murray | 07/05/1925 | 25 November 1873 - 20 November 1950 Director, Imp. Cancer Relief Fund |
James Dickson Murray | 21/03/1985 | |
James Murray, Baron Glenlyon | 09/04/1818 | 29 May 1782 - 12 October 1837 |
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl KT, PC, FRS , styled Marquess of Tullibardine 1764 and 1774, was a Scottish peer.-Background:... |
09/11/1780 | 30 June 1755 - 29 September 1830 |
John Murray John Murray (oceanographer) Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS was a pioneering Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.-Early life:... |
04/06/1896 | 3 March 1841 - 16 March 1914 |
Kenneth Murray | 15/03/1979 | |
Mungo Murray | 11/09/1661 | 12 October 1599–1670 |
Noreen Elizabeth Murray | 18/03/1982 | |
John Norman Murrell | 14/03/1991 | |
Samuel Musgrave Samuel Musgrave Samuel Musgrave, FRS was an English classical scholar and physician.Musgrave was born at Washfield in Devon, and was educated at the University of Oxford. There he was elected to a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, and he spent several years abroad... |
12/06/1760 | 29 September 1732 - 4 July 1780 |
William Musgrave | 17/03/1774 | 8 October 1735 - 3 January 1800 Barrister |
William Musgrave William Musgrave William Musgrave , physician and antiquary. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was a fellow from 1677 to 1692. In 1680 he spent a brief period at the University of Leiden.... |
19/03/1684 | 4 November 1655 - ? December 1721 |
William Musgrave | 15/03/1722 | c 1696 - November 1724 Physician |
Pieter van Musschenbroek Pieter van Musschenbroek Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astrology. He is credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar. He performed pioneering work on the... |
14/11/1734 | 14 March 1692 - 19 September 1761 |
John Myddleton | 08/03/1739 | |
Charles Samuel Myers Charles Samuel Myers Charles Samuel Myers FRS was a significant English psychologist, who coined the term shell shock. He was co-founder of the British Psychological Society and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.... |
06/05/1915 | 13 March 1873 - 12 October 1946 |
Robert Mylne Robert Mylne Robert Mylne was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London. Born and raised in Edinburgh, he travelled to Europe as a young man, studying architecture in Rome under Piranesi... |
21/05/1767 | 4 January 1734 - 5 May 1811 |
Robert William Mylne Robert William Mylne Robert William Mylne, FRS was a British architect, civil engineer and geologist.He was born in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, the son of William Chadwell Mylne and grandson of Robert Mylne , both of whom were chief engineers of the New River Company.Robert William himself also practiced as an... |
07/06/1860 | 14 June 1817 - 2 July 1890 |
William Chadwell Mylne William Chadwell Mylne William Chadwell Mylne, FRS was a British engineer and architect.He was descended from a Scottish family of masons and architects, and was the second son of Robert Mylne , surveyor to the New River Company, and builder of the first Blackfriars Bridge in London.Initially, William's elder brother... |
16/03/1826 | ? 5 April 1781 - 25 December 1863 |
John Mytton | 26/02/1767 | |
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Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro | 18/03/1971 | 7 March 1916 – 20 July 2006, British-South African physicist |
Kiyoshi Nagai | 11/05/2000 | |
Edward Nairne Edward Nairne Edward Nairne b. Sandwich, England, 1726; d. London, 1 September 1806, was an optician and scientific instrument maker. He was apprenticed to the optician Matthew Loft in 1741 and established his own business at 20 Cornhill in London after Loft's death in 1748... |
20/06/1776 | 1726 - 1 September 1806 |
William Naper | 01/12/1679 | |
Henry Edward Napier Henry Edward Napier -Life:Napier, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier, younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier, conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier, governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, historian and general.... |
18/05/1820 | 5 March 1789 - 13 October 1853 |
James Robert Napier James Robert Napier (engineer) James Robert Napier, FRS , engineer and inventor of Napier's diagram, a tool for nautical navigation.-Early life and education:... |
06/06/1867 | 12 September 1821 - 13 December 1879 |
Macvey Napier Macvey Napier Macvey Napier FRS FRSE was a Scottish lawyer and an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A hard-working scholar in his youth, he was recruited by Archibald Constable... |
12/06/1817 | 12 April 1776 - 11 February 1847 |
Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala | 16/12/1869 | 6 December 1810 - 14 January 1890 |
James Napier | 30/03/1775 | c 1710 - 21 December 1799 Insp-Gen. of N.American hospitals |
Roddam Narasimha Roddam narasimha Roddam Narasimha is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research JNCASR, India... |
12/03/1992 | |
Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan | 14/03/1996 | |
Ramesh Narayan | 18/05/2006 | Prof of Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian |
Robert Nares Robert Nares Robert Nares was an English clergyman, philologist and author.-Life:He was born at York in 1753, the son of James Nares , organist of York Minster and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.From 1779 to 1783 he lived with the family of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet as... |
10/05/1804 | 9 June 1753 - 23 March 1829 |
George Strong Nares | 03/06/1875 | 24 April 1831 - 15 January 1915 |
John Narrien | 18/06/1840 | 1782 - 30 March 1860 |
Joseph Nash | 09/04/1778 | |
Kim Ashley Nasmyth Kim Nasmyth Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry . Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford... |
16/03/1989 | |
James Naesmyth | 12/02/1767 | c 1704 - 4 February 1779 MP Peebles |
Lorenz Natter | 24/11/1757 | 21 March 1705 - ? December 1763 |
Philip Naude | 23/02/1738 | 18 October 1684 - 17 January 1745 |
Louis Jouard de La Nauze | 27/01/1732 | 27 March 1696 - 2 May 1773 |
George Nayler George Nayler Sir George Nayler, KH was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.... |
01/06/1826 | c 1764 - 28 October 1831 |
Thomas Neale Thomas Neale Thomas Neale was a British project-manager and politician who was also well-known in the United States as the first person to hold a position equivalent to postmaster-general of the North American colonies.... |
01/06/1664 | ? October 1641 - December 1699 |
Richard Neave Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and a Governor of the Bank of England.Neave was the son of James Neave and Susanna Trueman... |
16/06/1785 | 22 November 1731 - 28 January 1814 |
Thomas Neave | 05/05/1814 | 11 November 1761 - 11 April 1848 |
Caspar Needham | 20/05/1663 | c 1622 - 31 October 1679 Original |
Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham | 18/03/1948 | 22 September 1896 - 22 December 1987 |
John Turberville Needham | 22/01/1747 | 10 September 1713 - 30 December 1781 |
Joseph Needham Joseph Needham Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, CH, FRS, FBA , also known as Li Yuese , was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as a fellow of the British... |
20/03/1941 | 9 December 1900 - 25 March 1995 |
Roger Michael Needham | 21/03/1985 | 10 February 1935 – 28 February 2003 Fellow 21/03/1985 |
Walter Needham | 20/06/1667 | |
Paul Neile Paul Neile Sir Paul Neile FRS was an English astronomer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1673 to 1677.... |
28/11/1660 | ? May 1613 - ? January 1686 |
William Neile William Neile William Neile was an English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society. His major mathematical work, the rectification of the semicubical parabola, was carried out when he was aged nineteen, and was published by John Wallis... |
20/05/1663 | 7 December 1637 - 24 August 1670 Original |
James Beaumont Neilson | 15/01/1846 | 22 June 1792 - 18 January 1865 |
Arthur Charles Neish | 18/03/1971 | 4 July 1916 - 7 September 1973, Canadian plant biochemist |
John Ashworth Nelder | 19/03/1981 | 8 October 1924 - 7 August 2010 Biomathematician, Rothamsted |
Richard John Nelmes | 15/05/2003 | |
Robert Nelson Robert Nelson (nonjuror) Robert Nelson was an English lay religious writer and nonjuror.-Life:He was born in London on 22 June 1656, the only surviving son of John Nelson, a merchant in the Turkey trade, by Delicia, daughter of Lewis and sister of Sir Gabriel Roberts, who, like John Nelson, was a member of the Levant... |
01/04/1680 | 22 June 1656 - 16 January 1715 |
Edward Nelthorpe | 27/06/1666 | ? 1604 - c 1685 |
Evan Nepean Evan Nepean Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet PC was a British politician and colonial administrator.-Early career:... |
04/05/1820 | 1751 - 2 October 1822 |
Robert Nesbitt | 15/04/1725 | c 1697 - 27 May 1761 |
Edward Nettleship Edward Nettleship Edward Nettleship was an English ophthalmologist.He was a native of Kettering. After finishing his medical studies, Nettleship became an assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson at the London Hospital, and a coworker with Warren Tay at the Moorfields Eye Hospital. Afterwards he spent nearly twenty years... |
02/05/1912 | 3 March 1845 - 30 October 1913 |
Albert Neuberger Albert Neuberger Albert Neuberger CBE FRS FRCP was Professor of Chemical Pathology, St Mary's Hospital, University of London, 1955–1973, and later Emeritus Professor.-Education in Germany:... |
15/03/1951 | 15 April 1908 - 14 August 1996, chemical pathologist |
Michael Samuel Neuberger Michael Neuberger Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS is a British biochemist and immunologist.-Education:He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.-Career:He has... |
11/03/1993 | biochemist |
Bernhard Hermann Neumann Bernhard Neumann Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject.... |
19/03/1959 | 15 October 1909 - 21 October 2002 |
Caspar Neumann Caspar Neumann Caspar Neumann was a German professor and clergyman from Breslau with a special interest in mortality rates.-Biography:... |
09/12/1725 | 11 July 1683 - 20 October 1737 |
Peter Le Neve Peter Le Neve Peter Le Neve was an English herald and antiquary. He was appointed Rouge Dragon Pursuivant 17 January 1690 and created Norroy King at Arms on 25 May 1704. From 1707 to 1721 he was Richmond Herald of Arms in Ordinary, an officer of arms of the College of Arms... |
20/03/1712 | ? January 1662 - 24 September 1729 |
Edmund Neville Nevill Edmund Neville Nevill Edmund Neison FRS , whose real name was Edmund Neville Nevill, wrote a key text in selenography called The Moon and the condition and configuration of its surface and later set up an observatory in Durban, Natal Province... |
07/05/1908 | 27 August 1849 - 14 January 1940 |
Francis Henry Neville | 03/06/1897 | 2 December 1847 - 5 June 1915 |
Hugh Frank Newall | 05/06/1902 | 22 June 1857 - 22 February 1944 |
Robert Stirling Newall Robert Stirling Newall Robert Stirling Newall FRS was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.Born in Dundee, he was befriended by civil engineer L.D.B. Gordon. In 1838, whilst studying at the Freiburg School of Mines, Germany, Gordon visited the mines at Clausthal, and met Wilhelm Albert... |
03/06/1875 | 27 May 1812 - 21 April 1889 |
Thomas John Newbold | 06/01/1842 | 9 February 1807 - 29 May 1850 |
John Newburgh | 02/11/1664 | 1630–1692 |
Peter Newcome | 24/02/1743 | |
John Newey | 30/11/1696 | 4 December 1664 - 13 September 1735 |
Dudley Maurice Newitt Dudley Maurice Newitt Dudley Maurice Newitt was a British chemical engineer who was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1962 'In recognition of his distinguished contributions to chemical engineering'.... |
19/03/1942 | 28 April 1894 - 14 March 1980 |
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman Max Newman Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897... |
16/03/1939 | 8 February 1897 - 22 February 1984 |
Ronald Charles Newman | 14/05/1998 | |
William Newmarch William Newmarch William Newmarch was a Yorkshireman, English banker, economist and statistician born at Thirsk, Yorkshire.He took his schooling at York, and, as a young man, held some clerkly appointments in that city... |
06/06/1861 | 28 January 1820 - 23 March 1882 |
George Newport George Newport George Newport was a prominent English entomologist .Newport is especially noted for his studies utilizing the microscope and his skills in dissection. He was President of the Entomological Society of London 1843-1844 and also a member of the Ray Society .George Newport wrote several scholarly... |
26/03/1846 | 4 July 1803 - 7 April 1854 |
John Michael Newsom-Davis | 14/03/1991 | |
Robert Newstead | 02/05/1912 | 12 September 1859 - 17 February 1947 |
Alfred Newton Alfred Newton Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907... |
02/06/1870 | 11 June 1829 - 7 June 1907 |
Edwin Tulley Newton Edwin Tulley Newton Edwin Tulley Newton was a British paleontologist. He originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865 was appointed as his assistant. In 1882 he became paleontologist to the "Geologic Survey", a position he retained until 1905... |
01/06/1893 | 4 May 1840 - 28 January 1930 |
Henry Newton | 04/05/1709 | 18 August 1651 - 29 July 1715 Advocate, Diplomat |
Ian Newton Ian Newton Professor Ian Newton FRS, OBE is an English ornithologist.-Career:Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He graduated from Bristol University. He received his D.Phil. and D.Sc. degrees from the University of Oxford and has studied a wide... |
11/03/1993 | |
Isaac Newton Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."... |
11/01/1672 | 25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727, PRS 1703-1727, natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, physicist |
William Nicholas | 01/04/1742 | |
Sir John Nicholl | 20/03/1806 | 16 March 1759 - 26 August 1838 |
Whitlock Nicholl | 18/02/1830 | 1786 - 3 December 1838 |
Frank Nicholls Frank Nicholls Frank Nicholls was a physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was made reader of anatomy at Oxford University when young and moved to London in the 1730s.-Life:... |
02/05/1728 | 1699 - 7 January 1788 |
John Nicholls | 08/03/1744 | ? 1710 - 11 January 1745 Merchant |
John Graham Nicholls | 17/03/1988 | |
Henry Nicholson | 05/04/1716 | |
Henry Alleyne Nicholson Henry Alleyne Nicholson Henry Alleyne Nicholson was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on 11 September 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Göttingen and Edinburgh... |
03/06/1897 | 11 September 1844 - 19 January 1899 |
John William Nicholson John William Nicholson John William Nicholson, FRS was an English mathematician.Based on the results of astronomical spectroscopy of nebula he proposed in 1911 the existence of several yet undiscovered elements. Coronium with an atomic weight of 0.51282, nebulium wit a weight of 1.6281 and protofluorine with a weight of... |
03/05/1917 | 1 November 1881 - ? 3 October 1955 |
Robert Nicholson | 04/06/1807 | fl 1807 |
Francis Nicholson Francis Nicholson Francis Nicholson was a British military officer and colonial administrator. His military service included time in Africa and Europe, after which he was sent as leader of the troops supporting Sir Edmund Andros in the Dominion of New England. There he distinguished himself, and was appointed... |
04/12/1706 | 1660 - 5 March 1728 |
Robin Buchanan Nicholson | 16/03/1978 | |
Joseph Arthur Colin Nicol | 16/03/1967 | 5 December 1915 – 20 December 2004 |
Antonio Nicolini, Marchese di Ponsacco | 26/03/1747 | 1700–1769 |
Alexander Nicoll | 23/02/1826 | 3 April 1793 - 24 September 1828 |
John Nicoll | 28/02/1765 | fl 1765 |
William Nicolson William Nicolson William Nicolson was an English divine and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Plumbland, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Nicolson, Rector of Plumbland and educated at the school in nearby Dovenby... |
30/11/1705 | 3 June 1655 - 14 February 1727 |
James Nihill | 01/04/1742 | 1705 - 1 June 1759 |
Robert Adam Nisbet-Hamilton | 18/04/1833 | |
Charles Niven | 03/06/1880 | 14 September 1845 - 11 May 1923 |
William Davidson Niven | 08/06/1882 | 24 March 1842 - 29 March 1917 |
Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini Nivernois | 10/02/1763 | 16 December 1716 - 25 |
John Nixon | 15/11/1744 | |
John Forster Nixon | 10/03/1994 | |
Robert Nixon | 11/06/1801 | 1759 - 5 November 1837 Clergyman |
Henry Minchin Noad Henry Minchin Noad -Biography:Noad, born at Shawford, near Frome, Somerset, 22 June 1815, was son of Humphrey Noad, by Miss Hunn, a half-sister of the Rt. Hon. George Canning. He was educated at Frome grammar school, and was intended for the civil service in India, but the untimely death of his patron, William... |
05/06/1856 | 22 June 1815 - 23 July 1877 |
Denis Noble Denis Noble Denis Noble CBE FRS FRCP is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford University from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of Systems Biology and developed the... |
15/03/1979 | |
Andrew Noble | 02/06/1870 | 13 September 1831 - 22 October 1915 |
Stephen Robert Nockolds Stephen Robert Nockolds Stephen Robert Nockolds, FRS was a geochemist, petrologist and winner of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.... |
19/03/1959 | 11 May 1909 - 7 February 1990 |
George Henry Noehden | 04/05/1820 | 23 January 1770 - 14 March 1826 |
Henry Noel-Fearn | 14/04/1842 | 1811 - 11 March 1868 |
John Anthony Noguier | 13/04/1809 | fl 1809 |
Frederick Nolan | 07/02/1833 | 9 February 1784 - 16 September 1864 Clergyman, theologian |
Gustavus Adam Nolcken | 08/05/1777 | c 1732 - 16 December 1812 |
Jean Antoine Nollet | 23/01/1735 | 19 November 1700 - 24 April 1770 |
John Mervin Nooth | 03/03/1774 | ? September 1737 - 3 May 1828 |
Frederic Lewis Norden Frederic Louis Norden Frederic Louis Norden was a Danish naval captain and explorer.Also known as Frederick, Frederik, Friderick, Ludwig, Ludvig and Lewis, the name used on the first publication of his famous Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie is Frederic Louis Norden. His name is often shortened F. L... |
08/01/1741 | 22 October 1708 - 22 September 1742, Danish naval captain and explorer |
Alfred Merle Norman Alfred Merle Norman Alfred Merle Norman was an English clergyman and naturalist.-Early life:Norman was born in Exeter, England in 1831. His father was a landowner, surgeon and Deputy-Lieutenant of Somerset. He studied the molluscs and plants of Somerset at young age. He studied at Winchester College from 1844 to 1848... |
05/06/1890 | 29 August 1831 - 26 October 1918 |
Richard Oswald Chandler Norman | 17/03/1977 | 27 April 1932 - 6 June 1993 |
Edward Norris Edward Norris -Selected filmography:-External links:... |
09/11/1698 | 1663 - 22 July 1726 |
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish Ronald George Wreyford Norrish Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School. He was a former student of Eric Rideal... |
07/05/1936 | 9 November 1897 - 7 June 1978 |
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford , known as the Honourable Frederick North until 1817, was a British politician and colonial administrator.... |
06/02/1794 | 7 February 1766 - 14 October 1827 |
George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford | 17/01/1782 | 11 September 1757 - 20 April 1802 |
Richard Alan North | 09/03/1995 | |
Ford North | 21/06/1900 | 10 January 1830 - 12 October 1913 |
William North, 6th Baron North and 2nd Lord Grey | 30/06/1720 | 22 December 1678 - 31 October 1734 |
Donald Henry Northcote | 21/03/1968 | 27 December 1921 – 8 January 2004 |
Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres | 18/02/1875 | 27 October 1818 - 12 January 1887 |
Douglas Geoffrey Northcott Douglas Northcott Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge.He started research under the supervision of G.H... |
16/03/1961 | 31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005 |
William Northey | 21/06/1753 | 1721 - 24 December 1770 Commissioner & MP gor Calne,Maidstone & Bedwin |
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley PC was an English politician.He was the eldest son of Thomas Norton of Grantley, Yorkshire. He became a barrister in 1739, and, after a period of inactivity, built up a profitable practice, becoming a King's Counsel in 1754, and later attorney-general for the... |
18/04/1776 | 23 June 1716 - 1 January 1789 |
Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal Gustav Nossal Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA is an Australian research biologist.-Life and career:Gustav Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday... |
18/03/1982 | biologist |
Thomas Nott Thomas Nott Sir Thomas Nott , eldest son of Roger Nott of London. He was a royalist army officer and an original fellow of the Royal Society. In 1640 he acquired the remainder of the crown lease of Twickenham Park, Middlesex which he sold in 1659.... |
20/05/1663 | ? December 1606 - 18 December 1681 Original |
Edward Nourse | 24/10/1728 | 1701 - 13 May 1761 Surgeon |
Thomas Novell | 06/04/1681 | |
Christopher Nugent Christopher Nugent Sir Christopher Nugent, 6th Baron Delvin was an Irish nobleman and writer. He was arrested on suspicion of treason against Queen Elizabeth I of England, and died while in confinement before his trial had taken place.... |
14/04/1768 | |
Paul Maxime Nurse Paul Nurse Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R... |
16/03/1989 | |
Phillip Sadler Nutman | 21/03/1968 | 10 October 1914 – 5 May 2004 |
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall | 05/05/1904 | 5 July 1862 - 16 December 1937 |
John Frederick Nye | 18/03/1976 | |
Peter Hague Nye | 19/03/1987 | 16 September 1921 - 13 February 2009 Soil Chemist |
Ronald Sydney Nyholm Ronald Sydney Nyholm Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm was an Australian chemist, born on 29 January 1917 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, as the fourth in a family of six children. Broken Hill is a mining town whose streets are named after minerals, a fit place for to sire an inorganic chemist. Beryl-and-Sulphide... |
20/03/1958 | 29 January 1917 - 4 December 1971 |
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Name | Election Date | |
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Lucius Henry O'Brien | 27/05/1773 | 1731 - 15 January 1795 |
Anne O'Garra Anne O'Garra Anne O'Garra, FRS, is a distinguished British immunologist who made important discoveries on the mechanism of action of Interleukin 10. She is a fellow of the Royal Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and the Academy of Medical Sciences.-Biography:Since 2001 O'Garra... |
16/05/2008 | |
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley | 07/01/1748 | 1690 - 14 July 1773 |
Michael John O'Hara | 19/03/1981 | |
John Michael O'Keefe | 12/03/1992 | Cognitive neuroscientist |
Robert Keith O'Nions | 17/03/1983 | |
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy William Brooke O'Shaughnessy William Brooke O'Shaughnessy MD FRS was an Irish physician famous for his work in pharmacology and inventions related to telegraphy... |
16/03/1843 | October 1809 - 10 January 1889 |
Cornelius O'Sullivan | 04/06/1885 | 20 December 1841 - 8 January 1907 |
Sylvia Onora O'Niell, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve | 17/05/2007 | Honorary |
Stephen Patrick O’Rahilly | 15/05/2003 | |
Charles Henry Oakes | 02/04/1835 | 25 November 1810 - 16 May 1864 |
Cyril Leslie Oakley | 21/03/1957 | 20 June 1907 - 27 March 1975 |
Charles William Oatley | 20/03/1969 | 15 February 1904 - 11 March 1996 |
John Richard Ockendon | 13/05/1999 | |
William Odling William Odling William Odling, FRS was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table.... |
09/06/1859 | 5 September 1829 - 17 February 1921 Prof of Chemistry, Guys Hospital |
Albert Cyril Offord | 20/03/1952 | 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000 |
Raymond William Ogden | 18/05/2006 | |
Bridget Margaret Ogilvie Bridget Ogilvie Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, AC, DBE, FRS is an Australian and British scientist.Ogilvie was born in 1938 at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, to John Ogilvie and Margaret Beryl McRae... |
15/05/2003 | |
James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield and 4th Earl of Findlater | 09/11/1698 | 11 July 1663 - 15 August 1730 |
James Adey Ogle | 02/02/1826 | 22 October 1792 - 25 September 1857 |
James Edward Oglethorpe | 09/11/1749 | 22 December 1696 - 1 July 1785 |
Alexander George Ogston Alexander George Ogston Alexander George Ogston FRS was a biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems. He was particularly interested in connective tissue and the use of physico-chemical methods to study the size, weight and structure of molecules... |
17/03/1955 | 30 January 1911 - 29 June 1996 |
Takeshi Oka | 15/03/1984 | |
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers was a German physician and astronomer.-Life and career:Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing medicine in Bremen, Germany... |
12/04/1804 | 11 October 1758 - 2 March 1840 |
Henry Oldenburg Henry Oldenburg Henry Oldenburg was a German theologian known as a diplomat and a natural philosopher. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, with a network of correspondents to rival those of Fabri de Peiresc, Marin Mersenne and Ismaël Boulliau... |
22/04/1663 | c 1617 - ? September 1677 Original |
John Oldershaw John Oldershaw John Oldershaw was a British clergymen.He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge University in 1771 and was senior wrangler and 1st Smith's prizeman in 1776. He received an M.A. in 1779, a B.D. in 1786.... |
16/11/1786 | 27 May 1754 - 31 January 1847 |
Richard Dixon Oldham Richard Dixon Oldham Richard Dixon Oldham FRS was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.-Life:Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal... |
04/05/1911 | 31 July 1858 - 15 July 1936 |
Thomas Oldham Thomas Oldham Thomas Oldham was a Anglo-Irish geologist.He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh as well as geology under Robert Jameson.... |
09/06/1848 | 4 May 1816 - 17 July 1878 |
Charles Oliphant | 11/06/1713 | c 1666 - 1720 |
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant Mark Oliphant Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.During his retirement, Oliphant was appointed as the Governor of... |
06/05/1937 | 8 October 1901 - 14 July 2000 |
David Ian Olive David Olive David Olive CBE FLSW FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to the string theory and duality theory. He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London... |
19/03/1987 | |
Benjamin Oliveira | 04/06/1835 | c 1807 - 28 September 1865 |
Daniel Oliver Daniel Oliver Daniel Oliver, FRS was a British botanist.He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888.... |
04/06/1863 | 7 February 1830 - 21 December 1916 |
Francis Wall Oliver Francis Wall Oliver Francis Wall Oliver FRS was a British botanist. He was Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1890-1925 and then Professor of Botany at the University of Cairo 1929–1935. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1925.- References :... |
11/05/1905 | 10 May 1864 - 14 September 1951 |
William Oliver William Oliver (physician) William Oliver was an English physician and philanthropist, and inventor of the Bath Oliver. He was born at Ludgvan, Cornwall, and baptised on 27 August 1695, described as the son of John Oliver. His family, originally seated at Trevarnoe in Sithney, resided afterwards in Ludgvan, and the estate... |
22/01/1730 | 4 August 1695 - 17 March 1764 |
William Oliver | 30/11/1703 | 1659 - 4 April 1716 Army Physician |
William David Ollis | 16/03/1972 | 22 December 1924 - 13 June 1999 |
Erasmus Ommanney Erasmus Ommanney thumb|right|Sir Erasmus OmmanneyAdmiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney KCB, FRS, FRGS, JP was a Royal Navy officer and an Arctic explorer of the Victorian era.-Early life:... |
04/06/1868 | 22 May 1814 - 21 December 1904 |
Charles Savill Onley | 18/02/1819 | ? 1757 - 31 August 1843 |
Edward Onslow Edward Onslow Edward Onslow was a British nobleman, the younger son of George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow.Onslow was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1774... |
27/01/1780 | 9 April 1758 - 18 October 1829 |
Sir Henry John Oram | 02/05/1912 | 19 June 1858 - 5 May 1939 |
Craven Ord | 03/05/1787 | 1756 - ? January 1832 |
John Ord | 01/06/1780 | c 1729 - 6 June 1814 |
Ralph Ord | 30/11/1723 | |
Robert Ord Robert Ord Robert Ord was a British politician.He was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth, Northumberland from to .He died aged 77.... |
12/03/1724 | |
Leslie Eleazer Orgel Leslie Orgel Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS was a British chemist.Born in London, England, Orgel received his B.A. in chemistry with first class honours from Oxford University in 1949... |
15/03/62 | |
Barnaba Oriani Barnaba Oriani __FORCETOC__Barnaba Oriani was an Italian priest, geodesist, astronomer and scientist.-Life:Oriani was born in Garegnano , the son of a mason, and died in Milan.... |
16/04/1795 | 17 July 1752 - 12 November 1832 |
Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, Count of Paris | 27/04/1865 | 24 August 1838 - 8 September 1894 |
Edward Latham Ormerod | 06/06/1872 | 27 August 1819 - 18 March 1873 Physician & Entomologist |
George Ormerod George Ormerod George Ormerod was an English antiquary and historian. Amongst his writings was a major account of the history of Cheshire, a county in northwestern England.-Biography:... |
25/02/1819 | 20 October 1785 - 9 October 1873 |
H. Alexander Ormsby | 11/04/1839 | fl 1839 |
Egon Orowan Egon Orowan Egon Orowan was a Hungarian/British/U.S. physicist and metallurgist.-Life:Orowan was born in the Óbuda district of Budapest. His father, Berthold, was a mechanical engineer and factory manager, and his mother, Josze Spitzer Ságvári was the daughter of an impoverished land owner... |
20/03/1947 | 2 August 1902 - 3 August 1989 |
William McFadden Orr William McFadden Orr William McFadden Orr, FRS was a British and Irish mathematician.He was born in Comber, County Down and educated at Methodist College Belfast and Queen's College, Belfast before entering St John's College, Cambridge and graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1888... |
06/05/1909 | 2 May 1866 - 14 August 1934 |
Giovanni Giuseppe, Marquis Orsi | 30/11/1716 | 19 June 1652 - 21 December 1733 |
Casimiro Gómez Ortega Casimiro Gómez Ortega Casimiro Gómez de Ortega was a Spanish physician, and botanist who was the First Professor of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid... |
05/06/1777 | 4 March 1740 - 30 August 1818 |
Jose Arcadio de Ortega | 08/03/1753 | |
James Herbert Orton | 18/03/1948 | 12 March 1884 - 2 February 1953 |
Kennedy Joseph Previte Orton | 12/05/1921 | 21 January 1872 - 16 March 1930 |
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan | 23/01/1735 | 27 November 1678 - 20 February 1771 |
John Osborn | 17/04/1777 | 16 July 1743 - 12 January 1814 Diplomat |
Sherard Osborn Sherard Osborn Sherard Osborn , was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer.-Early life:Born in Madras, he was the son of an Indian army officer... |
02/06/1870 | 25 April 1822 - 6 May 1875 |
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds KG, PC , styled Marquess of Carmarthen until 1789, was a British politician... |
01/04/1773 | 29 January 1751 - 31 January 1799 |
Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds KG, PC, DL, FRS , styled Earl of Danby from birth until 1729 and subsequently Marquess of Carmarthen until 1731, was a British peer, politician and judge.-Background:... |
20/12/1739 | 6 November 1713 - 23 March 1789 |
Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway Oscar I of Sweden Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm . Oscar's father was the first ruler of the current House of Bernadotte... |
21/12/1826 | 4 July 1799 - 8 July 1859 Royal |
Abraham Follett Osler | 07/06/1855 | 22 March 1808 - 26 April 1903 |
William Osler William Osler Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was... |
09/06/1898 | 12 July 1849 - 29 December 1919 |
Charles Barry Osmond | 15/03/1984 | |
Il Cavaliere Osorio | 21/04/1748 | fl 1748 |
Jeremiah Ostriker | 17/05/2007 | |
Ronald Harry Ottewill | 18/03/1982 | |
Alexander Ouchterlony | 07/03/1734 | |
Nicholas Oudart | 21/11/1667 | |
Gore Ouseley Gore Ouseley Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet GCH , was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844... |
18/12/1817 | 24 June 1770 - 18 November 1844 |
Benjamin Fonseca Outram | 03/05/1838 | 1775 - 16 February 1856 |
David Roger Jones Owen | ||
Henry Owen Henry Owen The Reverend Dr. Henry Owen was a Welsh theologian and Biblical scholar. Perhaps his most significant contribution to biblical scholarship is his discussion of the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts... |
12/06/1755 | 1716 - 14 October 1795 |
John Joseph Thomas Owen | 17/03/1988 | |
Paul Robert Owen | 18/03/1971 | 24 January 1920 - 11 November 1990 |
Richard Owen Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection... |
18/12/1834 | 20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892 |
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh of Liverpool in the County of Merseyside Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS is an eminent geologist and geophysicist. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as... |
16/03/1978 | |
George D'Oyly | 16/03/1815 | 31 October 1778 - 8 January 1846 Clergyman |
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Heinrich Gustav Magnus | 30/04/1863 | 2 May 1802 - 4 April 1870 |
Ho-kwang (David) Mao Ho-Kwang Mao Ho-Kwang Mao is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.-Family:... |
16/05/2008 | |
Rudolph Arthur Marcus | 25/06/1987 | Canadian-born U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize (1992) |
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie | 25/06/1931 | 11 November 1862 - ? 20 December 1953 |
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei and whose study of the rare earth elements led to his discovery of ytterbium in 1878 and codiscovery of gadolinium in 1880.- Life and work... |
12/05/1881 | 24 April 1817 - 15 April 1894 |
Hubert Simon Markl | 09/05/2002 | |
Peter Robert Marler Peter Robert Marler Robert Peter Marler ForMemRS is a British - American neurobiologist, and ethologist. He is emeritus professor of neurobiology, physiology and ethology of the University of California, Davis.He was a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow.-Life :... |
16/05/2008 | |
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university... |
20/12/1838 | 17 April 1794 - 13 December 1868 |
Eleuthere Elie Nicolas Mascart Éleuthère Mascart Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics and electricity.Mascart was born in Quarouble, Nord. He attended the École normale supérieure... |
19/05/1892 | 21 February 1837 - ? 24 August 1908 |
Ernst Mayr Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist... |
30/06/1988 | 5 July 1904 – 3 January 2005 |
Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics... |
29/06/1989 | 16 June 1902 - 2 September 1992 |
Elmer Verner McCollum | 27/04/1961 | 3 March 1879 - 15 November 1967 |
Hugh O'Neill McDevitt | 09/06/1994 | |
Johann Friedrich Meckel Johann Friedrich Meckel Johann Friedrich Meckel , often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle... |
06/06/1833 | ? 17 October 1781 - 31 October 1833 |
Lise Meitner Lise Meitner Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize... |
28/04/1955 | 7 November 1878 - 27 October 1968, Austrian-born Swedish physicist nuclear fission |
Macedonio Melloni Macedonio Melloni Macedonio Melloni was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light.-Life:... |
30/05/1839 | 11 April 1798 - 11 August 1854 |
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff | 19/05/1892 | ? 7 February 1834 - 2 February 1907 Foreign Member |
Matthew Stanley Meselson Matthew Meselson Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant... |
28/06/1984 | U.S. molecular biologist |
Elias Metchnikoff Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian biologist, zoologist and protozoologist, best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system. Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908, shared with Paul Ehrlich, for his work on phagocytosis... |
12/12/1895 | ? 15 May 1845 - 15 July 1916, aka Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Ukrainian-born Russian French scientist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1908) |
Otto Fritz Meyerhof | 17/06/1937 | 12 April 1884 - 6 October 1951, German-born U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize (1922) |
Elliot Martin Meyerowitz Elliot Meyerowitz Elliot Meyerowitz is an American biologist.He is George W. Beadle Professor of Biology, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, he served as Chair of the Biology Division from 2000 to 2010.... |
27/05/2004 | U.S. plant biologist |
Hartmut Michel Hartmut Michel Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.He was born 18 July 1948 in Ludwigsburg. After compulsory military service, he studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, working for his final year at Dieter Oesterhelt’s laboratory on ATPase activity of halobacteria.In 1986, he... |
26/05/2005 | |
Albert Abraham Michelson | 27/11/1902 | 19 December 1852 - 9 May 1931, Polish-born U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1907) |
Henri Milne-Edwards Henri Milne-Edwards Henri Milne-Edwards was an eminent French zoologist.Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and militia colonel in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a French. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, where his parents had retired. At that time, Bruges was a part of the... |
30/03/1848 | 23 October 1800 - 29 July 1885 |
Charles Francois Brisseau Mirbel | 27/04/1837 | 27 March 1776 - 12 September 1854 |
Silas Weir Mitchell Silas Weir Mitchell Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer.He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell , and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
04/06/1908 | 16 February 1829 - 4 January 1914 |
Eilhard Mitscherlich Eilhard Mitscherlich Eilhard Mitscherlich was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his law of isomorphism , which states that compounds crystallizing together probably have similar structures and compositions... |
15/05/1828 | 7 January 1794 - ? 28 August 1863 |
Gösta Mittag-Leffler | 26/11/1896 | 16 March 1846 - 7 July 1927 |
Hugo von Mohl Hugo von Mohl Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist from Stuttgart.He was a son of the Württemberg statesman Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl , the family being connected on both sides with the higher class of state officials of Württemberg... |
26/03/1868 | 8 April 1805 - 1 April 1872 |
Henri Moissan Henri Moissan Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.-Biography:... |
11/05/1905 | 28 September 1852 - 20 February 1907, French chemist, artificial diamonds, Nobel Prize (1906) |
Jacques Lucien Monod | 25/04/1968 | 10 February 1910 - 31 May 1976 |
Thomas Hunt Morgan Thomas Hunt Morgan Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in zoology... |
26/06/1919 | 25 September 1866 - 4 December 1945 |
Domenico Pini Morichini | 08/03/1827 | 23 September 1773 - 19 November 1836 |
Kurt Albin Mothes | 22/04/1971 | 3 November 1900 - 12 February 1983 |
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle | 14/03/1996 | |
Hermann Joseph Muller Hermann Joseph Muller Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation as well as his outspoken political beliefs... |
23/04/1953 | 21 December 1890 - 5 April 1967 |
Johannes Muller Johannes Peter Müller Johannes Peter Müller , was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.-Early years and education:... |
04/06/1840 | 14 July 1801 - 28 April 1858 |
Robert Sanderson Mulliken | 20/04/1967 | 7 June 1896 - 31 October 1986 |
David Mumford David Mumford David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science... |
16/05/2008 | |
Walter Heinrich Munk Walter Munk Walter Heinrich Munk is an American physical oceanographer. He is professor of geophysics emeritus and holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.-Early life:Born in 1917 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary,... |
08/04/1976 | Austrian-born U.S. geophysicist |
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Carl Wilhelm von Nageli | 12/05/1881 | 27 March 1817 - ? 11 May 1891 |
Louis Eugene Felix Neel Louis Eugène Félix Néel Louis Eugène Félix Néel ForMemRS was a French physicist born in Lyon. He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He was corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids... |
21/04/1966 | 22 November 1904 - 14 November 2000 |
Erwin Neher Erwin Neher Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist.Erwin Neher studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US... |
09/06/1994 | |
Hermann Walther Nernst | 02/06/1932 | 25 June 1864 - ? 19 November 1941 |
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov | 27/04/1961 | 9 September 1899 - 17 January 1980 |
Franz Ernst Neumann Franz Ernst Neumann Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician.-Biography:Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, located not far from Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the Hundred Days against Napoleon, and was... |
19/06/1862 | 11 September 1798 - 23 May 1895 |
Georg Balthasar von Neumayer | 01/06/1899 | 21 June 1826 - 25 May 1909 |
Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of... |
13/12/1877 | 12 March 1835 - 11 July 1909 |
Hubert Anson Newton Hubert Anson Newton Hubert Anson Newton was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.He was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles. In 1855, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Yale... |
19/05/1892 | 19 March 1830 - 12 August 1896 |
Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:... |
26/04/1979 | 16 April 1894 - 5 August 1981 |
Yasutomi Nishizuka Yasutomi Nishizuka was a Japanese biochemist who discovered protein kinase C and made important contribution to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane.- Birth and education :... |
28/06/1990 | 12 July 1932 – 4 November 2004 |
Niels Erik Norlund Niels Erik Nörlund Niels Erik Nørlund was a Danish mathematician.His book Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung was the first bookon complex function solutions of difference equations.... |
19/05/1938 | 26 October 1885 - 4 July 1981 |
Ryōji Noyori Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions... |
26/05/2005 | |
Shosaku Numa Shosaku Numa Shosaku Numa ForMemRS was a Japanese neurobiologist.He graduated from Kyoto University in 1952. He studied at Harvard Medical School with John Lawrence Oncley. He worked at the Max Planck Society with Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen.... |
26/06/1986 | 8 February 1929 - 15 February 1992 |
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B... |
28/06/1990 |
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Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini | 25/04/1974 | 1907 - 30 December 1993 |
Severo Ochoa Severo Ochoa Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American doctor and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.-Early life:... |
08/04/1965 | 24 September 1905 - 1 November 1993 |
Hans Christian Oersted | 12/04/1821 | 14 August 1777 - 9 March 1851 |
Georg Simon Ohm | 05/05/1842 | ? 16 March 1787 - ? 7 July 1854 |
George Olah | 1997 | Hungarian-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... (1994) |
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy was a Belgian geologist. He also wrote on races.- Early life and education :He was born at Liège, Belgium on February 16, 1783. He was the only son of an ancient and noble family, and his education was carefully directed... |
27/11/1873 | 17 February 1783 - 15 January 1875 Foreign Member |
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques, and he explored how materials behaved when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquify helium... |
23/03/1916 | 22 September 1853 - 21 February 1926 Foreign Member |
Lars Onsager Lars Onsager Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University.... |
24/04/1975 | 27 November 1903 - 5 October 1976 |
Jan Hendrik Oort | 23/04/1959 | 28 April 1900 - 5 November 1992 |
Julius Robert Oppenheimer | 03/05/1962 | 23 April 1904 - 18 February 1967 Foreign Member, U.S. Physicist |
Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. ForMemRS was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.-Early life and career:... |
29/04/1926 | 8 August 1857 - 6 November 1935 |
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