List of Fellows of the Royal Society S,T,U,V
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About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society
Royal Society
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...

 since its inception in 1660.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.
List of Fellows of the Royal Society
A,B,C D,E,F G,H,I J,K,L M,N,O P,Q,R S,T,U,V W,X,Y,Z

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Name Election Date
Joseph Sabine
Joseph Sabine
Joseph Sabine was an English lawyer, naturalist and writer on horticulture.He was born into a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Tewin, Hertfordshire, the eldest son of Joseph Sabine. His younger brother was Sir Edward Sabine....

07/11/1799 1770 – 24 January 1837
Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...

16/04/1818 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883
Giulio Sacchetti 06/11/1740 fl 1740–1757
Christopher Tadeusz Czeslaw Sachrajda
Chris Sachrajda
Christopher Tadeusz Czeslaw Sachrajda FRS is a British physicist and colleague of Douglas Ross. He is currently professor of physics and deputy head of school at the University of Southampton....

14/03/1996
Leo Sachs
Leo Sachs
Leo Sachs is a German-born Israeli molecular biologist and cancer researcher. Born in Leipzig, he Emigrated to England in 1933, and to Israel in 1952...

15/05/1997
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset
Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex was an English poet and courtier.-Early Life:He was son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset...

11/01/1699 24 January 1638 – 29 January 1706
Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset
Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset was an English peer and politician.He was born at Dorset House, the second of three children of Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset...

03/05/1665 16 September 1622 – 27 August 1677
Michael Thomas Sadler
Michael Thomas Sadler
Michael Thomas Sadler was a radical British Tory Member of Parliament , opponent of Catholic emancipation and leader of the factory reform movement...

09/06/1832 3 January 1780 – 29 July 1835
Peter John Sadler 26/05/2005
Philip Geoffrey Saffman 17/03/1988
Georges-Louis Le Sage
Georges-Louis Le Sage
Georges-Louis Le Sage was a physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases....

01/06/1775 13 June 1724 – 9 November 1803
Meghnad N Saha
Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha FRS was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.-Early life:...

12/05/1927 ? 6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956
Birbal Sahni
Birbal Sahni
Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology...

07/05/1936 14 November 1891 – 10 April 1949
Helen Ruth Saibil
Helen Saibil
Professor Helen Ruth Saibil FRS is a Canadian-British molecular biologist and Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Crystallography of Birkbeck, University of London...

18/05/2006
Paul de Saint Hyacinthe 24/10/1728 24 September 1684 – 1746
Peter Sainthill
Peter Sainthill
Peter Sainthill was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He was a strong supporter of the Royalist side in the English Civil War....

06/02/1735
Muhammad Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...

19/03/1959 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996
Redcliffe Nathan Salaman 16/05/1935 12 September 1874 – 12 June 1955
Albert Henri de Salengre 05/11/1719 ? 1694 – 27 July 1723
Henry Jerome de Salis
Henry Jerome de Salis
Henry Jerome de Salis, MA, DD, FRS, FSA, was an English churchman. He was Rector of St. Antholin, and Vicar of Wing. He was also known as: Revd Henry Jerome de Salis, MA; Dr. de Salis; Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, and, from 1809, Rev...

03/05/1770 1740 – 2 May 1810
Jerome de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis
Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis
Jérôme de Salis, 2nd Count de Salis-Soglio was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and sometime British Resident in the Grisons...

19/03/1741 1709–1794
Jerome de Salis, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio
Jerome de Salis, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio DL, JP, FRS , Illustris et Magnificus was an Anglo-Grison-Irish noble, visionary, vegetarian and landowner....

15/12/1808 1771 – 2 October 1836
Richard Anthony Salisbury
Richard Anthony Salisbury
Richard Anthony Salisbury FRS was a British botanist. While he is remembered as a valuable worker in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by his contemporaries.-Life:...

15/03/1787 1761–1829
Edward James Salisbury
Edward James Salisbury
Sir Edward James Salisbury FRS was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College...

11/05/1933 16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978
Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje
Ekhard Salje
Professor Ekhard Karl Hermann Salje, FRS, , is Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology and former Head of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.-Education and career:...

14/03/1996
Claude Sallier
Claude Sallier
Claude Sallier was a French ecclesiastic and philologist, as well as professor of Hebrew at the Collège royal and garde des manuscrits of the Bibliothèque du Roi.- France's first public library :...

10/05/1744 4 April 1685 – 9 January 1761
George Salmon
George Salmon
The Reverend George Salmon was an Irish mathematician and theologian. His publications in algebraic geometry were widely read in the second half of the 19th century, but he devoted himself mostly to theology for the last forty years of his life...

04/06/1863 25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904
George Salt 15/03/1956 12 December 1903 – 17 February 2003 Entomologist, Cambridge
Henry Salt
Henry Salt (Egyptologist)
Henry Salt was an English artist, traveller, diplomat, and Egyptologist.-Biography:Salt, the son of a physician, was born in Lichfield. He trained as a portrait painter, first in Lichfield and then in London under Joseph Farington and John Hoppner. In 1802 he was appointed secretary and...

26/11/1812 14 June 1780 – ? 30 October 1827
Henry Hyde Salter 05/06/1856 1823 – 31 August 1871
Samuel James Augustus Salter 04/06/1863 1825–28 February 1897
Milton Robert James Salton 15/03/1979
Oliver Salusbury 06/04/1681 fl 1673–1687
Guiseppe Angelo Saluzzo, Conte di Menusiglio 21/02/1760 2 October 1734 – 16 June 1810
Joseph Salvador
Joseph Salvador
Joseph Salvador was a British-Jewish businessman, perhaps most notable for being the first and only Jew to have become a director of the British East India Company. He was descended from Portuguese Jews who had escaped persecution at home during the Portuguese Inquisition and had left for the...

15/03/1759 fl 1759
Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiorre Salvemini di Castiglione
Giovanni Salvemini
Giovanni Francesco Mauro Melchiorre Salvemini di Castiglione FRS was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.-Life:...

30/05/1745 1708–1791
Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin FRS was an English naturalist, best known for co-authoring Biologia Centrali-Americana with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyclopedia on the natural history of Central America....

12/06/1873 25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898
Antonio Maria Salvini 05/04/1716 1653 – ? 17 May 1729
John Roy Sambles
Roy Sambles
John Roy Sambles, FRS is an English experimental physicist.Sambles, originally from Callington in Cornwall, studied physics at Imperial College, London, gaining his BSc and PhD degrees there, and has since published over 400 papers in international journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal...

09/05/2002 Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Exeter
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....

Joseph Frank Sambrook 21/03/1985
Jeremy Sambrooke 27/04/1681
Ralph Allen Sampson
Ralph Allen Sampson
Ralph Allen Sampson FRS was a British astronomer.He was born in Skull, Co Cork to James Sampson, a Cornish-born metallurgical chemist. The family moved to Liverpool and Sampson attended the Liverpool Institute and then graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1888...

11/06/1903 25 June 1866 – 7 November 1939
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was an English Puritan theologian. A Marian exile, he was one of the Geneva Bible translators. On his return to England, he had trouble with conformity to the Anglican practices...

04/07/1811 ? 1767 – 31 March 1839
Bernhard Samuelson
Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 1st Baronet
Sir Bernhard Samuelson, 1st Baronet FRS was an industrialist, educationalist and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1859 and from 1865 to 1895....

02/06/1881 22 November 1820 – 10 May 1905
Alec Sand 16/03/1944 28 December 1901 – 11 July 1945
Dale Sanders
Dale Sanders
Professor Dale Sanders, FRS is a director of the John Innes Centre, an internationally leading institute for research in plant sciences and microbiology in Norwich, England. His specialist area is membrane transport and signal transduction in plants as well as the mechanisms of heavy metal and...

10/05/2001
Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders
Jeremy Sanders
Jeremy Keith Morris Sanders, is a British chemist who is known for his contributions to many fields including NMR spectroscopy and supramolecular chemistry. He has been Head of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Cambridge since 2009; he was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor 2006–2010,...

09/03/1995
Samuel Sanders 03/11/1720
William Sanders 02/06/1864 12 January 1799 – 12 November 1875 Geologist, Bristol
Alexander Sandilands 30/11/1711
Edward Ayshford Sanford 06/12/1832 23 May 1794 – 1 December 1871
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger, OM, CH, CBE, FRS is an English biochemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, the only person to have been so. In 1958 he was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"...

18/03/1954
Ruth Ann Sanger 16/03/1972 6 June 1918 – 4 June 2001
Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro, Marquis Sannazzaro 24/06/1784 1754–1835
Matthew Sarayva 21/04/1743 fl 1743
Wallace Leslie William Sargent 19/03/1981
Alan McLeod Sargeson 17/03/1983 30 October 1930 – 29 December 2008
Peter Sarnak
Peter Sarnak
Peter Clive Sarnak is a South African-born mathematician. He has been Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2002, succeeding Andrew Wiles, and is an editor of the Annals of Mathematics...

09/05/2002
Giovanni Ambrosio Sarotti 01/12/1679 fl 1679–1714
Richard Saumarez 18/12/1834 13 November 1764 – 28 January 1835
Augustus Page Saunders 18/04/1833 1801 – 21 July 1878
Edward Saunders
Edward Saunders (entomologist)
Edward Saunders was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has...

05/06/1902 22 March 1848 – 6 1910
Erasmus Saunders 22/03/1759
George Saunders 07/05/1812 1762 – July 1839
Owen Alfred Saunders 20/03/1958 24 September 1904 – 10 October 1993
William Saunders 02/05/1745
William Saunders 09/05/1793 1743 – 29 May 1817 Physician
William Wilson Saunders
William Wilson Saunders
William Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...

02/06/1853 4 June 1809 – 13 September 1879
Nicholas Saunderson
Nicholas Saunderson
Nicholas Saunderson was an English scientist and mathematician. According to one leading historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem.-Biography:...

06/11/1718 January 1682 – 19 April 1739
Horace Benedict de Saussure 03/04/1788 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix
François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Montpellier, and received his doctorate in 1726. After spending a few years in Paris, he returned to Montpellier in 1734, where became...

25/05/1749 12 May 1706 – ? 19 February 1767
Thomas Savery
Thomas Savery
Thomas Savery was an English inventor, born at Shilstone, a manor house near Modbury, Devon, England.-Career:Savery became a military engineer, rising to the rank of Captain by 1702, and spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics...

13/02/1706 c 1650 – May 1715
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax PC was an English statesman, writer, and politician.-Family and early life, 1633–1667:...

30/11/1675 11 November 1633 – 5 April 1695
George Savile 02/11/1721 1678 – 16 September 1743
George Savile 10/12/1747 18 July 1726 – 10 January 1784
William Scovell Savory
William Scovell Savory
Sir William Scovell Savory, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon.He was born in London, the son of William Henry Savory, and his second wife, Mary Webb. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a student in 1844, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1847, and F.R.C.S. in 1852...

03/06/1858 30 November 1826 – 4 March 1895
George Albert Sawatzky  16/05/2008
Henry Barne Sawbridge 27/06/1822 6 September 1778 – 28 April 1851
John Sawbridge
John Sawbridge
John Sawbridge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1780.Sawbridge was the eldest son of John Sawbridge of Olantigh and his wife Elizabeth Wanley, daughter of George Wanley....

28/06/1739 1699 – 20 April 1762
Roman Mieczyslaw Sawicki 19/03/1987 20 April 1930 – 22 July 1990
John Stanley Sawyer 15/03/1962 19 June 1916 – 19 September 2000
Charles Scarburgh
Charles Scarborough
Sir Charles Scarborough MP FRS FRCP was an English physician and mathematician.Scarborough was born in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London in 1615, the son of Edmund Scarburgh, and was sent to St...

20/05/1663 ? December 1615 – 26 February 1694 Original Fellow
Pomponio, Baron of Scarlotti 29/04/1696 1696
Antonio Scarpa
Antonio Scarpa
Antonio Scarpa was an Italian anatomist and professor.-Biography:Antonio was born to an impoverished family in the frazione of Lorenzaga, Motta di Livenza, Veneto. An uncle, who was a member of the priesthood, gave him instruction until the age of 15, when he passed the entrance exam for the...

05/05/1791 ? 13 June 1747 – 31 October 1832
Jacob Christian Schaffer
Jacob Christian Schäffer
Jakob or Jacob Christian Gottlieb Schäffer or Schäffern was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.-Biography:...

23/02/1764 30 May 1718 – 5 January 1790
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich.thumb|Herbarium deluvianumthumb|Zürich, Zwingli-Platz : Former home of Konrad von Mure and the house, where Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was bornthumb|Memorial plate-Career:The son of the senior town physician of Zürich, he received his...

30/11/1703 2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733
John Gaspar Scheuchzer 07/05/1724 1702 – 10 April 1729
Samuel Scheurer 28/03/1717 1685 – 18 September 1749
Heinz Otto Schild 17/03/1966 18 May 1906 – 15 June 1984
David William Schindler
David Schindler
David William Schindler OC, D.Phil., FRSC, FRS is an American/Canadian limnologist. He holds the Killam Memorial Chair and is Professor of Ecology in the at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada...

10/05/2001
William Schlich 06/06/1901 28 February 1840 – 28 September 1925
Jan Albert Schlosser 22/01/1756 1733–1769
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter
Dolph Schluter is a professor of Evolutionary Biology and a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia...

13/05/1999
Johann Gottfried Schmeisser 20/03/1794 25 June 1767 – 5 February 1837
William George Schneider 15/03/1962
Johann Daniel Schoepflin 27/06/1728 6 September 1694 – 7 August 1771
Andrew Noel Schofield 12/03/1992
Meyer Low Schomberg
Meyer Löw Schomberg
Meyer Löw Schomberg was a German-Jewish physician who moved to London and had a successful business there.-Life:...

30/11/1726 1690 – 4 March 1761
Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk , was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.-Biography:Schomburgk...

09/06/1859 5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865 German explorer
Exploration
Exploration is the act of searching or traveling around a terrain for the purpose of discovery of resources or information. Exploration occurs in all non-sessile animal species, including humans...

Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland 17/03/1938 5 February 1896 – 24 November 1972
Carl Schorlemmer
Carl Schorlemmer
Carl Schorlemmer FRS was a German chemist who did research on hydrocarbons and contributed to the study of the history of chemistry.- Life and work :...

08/06/1871 30 September 1834 – 27 June 1892
George Adolphus Schott
George Adolphus Schott
George Adolphus Schott FRS was a British mathematician. He is best known for developing the full theory of radiation from electrons travelling at close to the speed of light....

11/05/1922 25 January 1868 – 15 July 1937
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber , often styled I.C.D. von Schreber, was a German naturalist.-Career:He was elected Professor of Materia medica at the University of Erlangen in 1769....

16/04/1795 17 January 1739 – 10 December 1810
Johann Hieronymus Schroter 19/04/1798 30 August 1745 – 29 August 1816
William Schroter 17/09/1662 15 November 1640 – October 1699 Original
Samuel Barnett Schryver 10/05/1928 15 March 1869 – 21 August 1929
Wolfram Schultz  15/05/2009
Henry Edward Schunck
Edward Schunck
Henry Edward Schunck was a British chemist who did much work with dyes.-Early life and education:Henry Edward Schunck was born in Manchester, the son of Martin Schunck, a German merchant. He started studying chemistry in Manchester with William Henry...

06/06/1850 16 August 1820 – 13 January 1903
Arthur Schuster
Arthur Schuster
Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...

12/06/1879 12 September 1851 – 14 October 1934
Dennis William Sciama
Dennis William Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama FRS was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.-Life:Sciama was born in Manchester, England...

17/03/1983 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999 cosmologist
George, Baron Basing Sclater-Booth 20/01/1876 19 May 1826 – 22 October 1894
John George Sclater 18/03/1982
Philip Lutley Sclater 06/06/1861 4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913
Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles
Giacinto Scoles is a European and North American chemist and physicist who is best-known for his pioneering development of molecular beam methods for the study of weak van der Waals forces between atoms, molecules, and surfaces...

15/05/1997
William Scoresby
William Scoresby
William Scoresby , was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.-Early years:Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering 26 miles south of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William Scoresby , made a fortune in the Arctic whale fishery...

17/06/1824 5 October 1789 – 21 March 1857
Alastair Ian Scott 16/03/1978 10 April 1928 – 18 April 2007
Alexander Scott 09/06/1898 28 December 1853 – 10 March 1947 Chemist, Cambridge Univ
David Alymer Scott 17/03/1949 2 October 1892 – 18 November 1971
Dukinfield Henry Scott
Dukinfield Henry Scott
Dukinfield Henry Scott FRS was a British botanist.The architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was his father...

07/06/1894 28 November 1854 – 29 January 1934
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch KT FRS was a Scottish nobleman.-Biography:He was the son of Sir James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and Lady Henrietta Hyde, daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester. He was baptised on 20 January 1694/95 in St...

12/03/1724 11 January 1695 – 22 April 1751
George Scott 10/03/1748 c 1721 – 2 September 1780 Woolston Hall, Chigwell, Essex
George Lewis Scott
George Lewis Scott
-Life:Born at Hanover in May 1708, he was the eldest son of George Scott of Bristo in Scotland, and Marion Stewart, daughter of Sir James Stewart of Coltness, Lord Advocate of Scotland. George Scott held diplomatic posts at various German courts, and was envoy-extraordinary to Augustus II the...

05/05/1737 May 1708 – 7 December 1780
Henry Young Darracott Scott
Henry Young Darracott Scott
Henry Young Darracott Scott RE was an English Major-General in the Corps of Royal Engineers, best known for the construction of London's Royal Albert Hall.-Life:...

03/06/1875 2 January 1822 – 16 April 1883
Hugh Scott 20/03/1941 16 September 1885 – 1 November 1960 Keeper of Entomology, British Museum
James Scott 15/05/1997
James Floyd Scott  16/05/2008
John Corse Scott 16/01/1800 1779–1800
John Donald Scott 15/05/2003
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon
John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon PC KC FRS FSA was a British barrister and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1801 and 1806 and again between 1807 and 1827.- Background and education :...

14/02/1793 4 June 1751 – 13 January 1838
Peter Markham Scott 25/06/1987 14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989 Statute
Robert Henry Scott 02/06/1870 28 January 1833 – 18 June 1916
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch 20/06/1833 25 November 1806 – 16 April 1884
William, Baron Stowell Scott 14/02/1793 17 October 1745 – 28 January 1836
Charles Robert Scriver
Charles Scriver
Charles Robert Scriver, is an eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism...

14/03/1991
George Julius Poulett Scrope
George Julius Poulett Scrope
George Julius Poulett Scrope FRS was an English geologist and political economist as well as a magistrate for Stroud in Gloucestershire.He was the second son of J. Poulett Thompson of Waverley Abbey, Surrey...

07/12/1826 10 March 1797 – 19 January 1876
Charles Scudamore 15/01/1824 1779 – 4 August 1849
John Barlow Seale 09/03/1786 23 February 1753 – 11 August 1838
John Seally 30/06/1791 c 1747 – March 1795
George Frederick Charles Searle
George Frederick Charles Searle
George Frederick Charles Searle was a British physicist and teacher, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.-Biography:Searle was born in Oakington, Cambridgeshire, England....

11/05/1905 3 December 1864 – 16 December 1954
Michael John Seaton 16/03/1967 16 January 1923 – 29 May 2007
Samuel Seaward 10/06/1841 1800 – 11 May 1842
Albertus Seba
Albertus Seba
Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.-Career:Born in East-Frisia, Seba moved to Amsterdam as an apprentice and opened around 1700 a pharmacy near the harbour. Seba asked sailors and ship surgeons to bring exotic plants and animal products he could use for preparing drugs...

24/10/1728 1665 – 1 May 1736
Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale...

01/02/1821 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873
Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick (zoologist)
Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. was a British zoologist and Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Imperial College, London, and a great nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick....

04/06/1886 28 September 1854 – 27 February 1913 Zoologist, Cambridge & London Univ
Harry Govier Seeley 12/06/1879 18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909
Anthony Walter Segal
Anthony Segal
Anthony Walter Segal is a British biochemist.He has been Charles Dent Professor of Medicine, University College London, since 1986. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and University of London . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1998...

14/05/1998
Graeme Bryce Segal
Graeme Segal
Graeme Bryce Segal is a British mathematician, and professor at the University of Oxford.Segal was educated at the University of Sydney, where he received his BSc degree in 1961. He went on to receive his D.Phil...

18/03/1982
Johann Andreas von Segner 26/01/1738 9 October 1704 – 5 October 1777
Johann Philip Seip 01/07/1736 28 October 1686 – 31 May 1757
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Charles Gabriel Seligman FRS was a British ethnologist. Born in London, Seligman studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital....

15/05/1919 24 December 1873 – 19 September 1940
William James Sell 14/06/1900 1847 – 7 March 1915
Godfrey Sellius 03/05/1733 c 1704–1767
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS was a British geologist, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852–1869, director of Geological Survey of Canada 1869–1894 and President of the Royal Society of Canada 1895-1896.-Early life:Selwyn was born in Kilmington, Somerset,...

04/06/1874 28 July 1824 – 19 October 1902
William Selwyn 07/06/1866 19 February 1806 – 24 April 1875
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen , FRS, is an Indian theoretical physicist. He has made a number of major original contributions to the subject of string theory, including his landmark paper on strong-weak coupling duality or S-duality, which was influential in changing the course of research in the field...

14/05/1998
John Senex
John Senex
John Senex was an English cartographer, engraver and explorer.He was also an astrologer, geologist to Queen Anne of Great Britain, editor and seller of antique maps and most importantly creator of the pocket-size map of the world.He was in particular, one of the principal cartographers of the 18th...

27/06/1728
Robert Seppings
Robert Seppings
Sir Robert Seppings FRS was an English naval architect.Seppings was born at Fakenham, Norfolk, and in 1782 was apprenticed in Plymouth dockyard...

10/11/1814 1767 – 25 September 1840
Isaac de Sequeira Samuda
Isaac de Sequeira Samuda
Isaac de Sequeira Samuda or Isaac de Sequeyra Samuda was a British physician. He was the first member of the Samuda family to settle in Britain.He was the first Jew to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...

27/06/1723
Jacob Serenius 03/02/1732 1700–1776
George William Series 18/03/1971 22 February 1920 – 2 January 1995
Joseph Correa de Serra 03/03/1796 1750 – 5 June 1823
Conjeeveram Srirangachari Seshadri 17/03/1988
Thiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri 24/03/1960 3 February 1900 – 27 September 1975
Albert Charles Seward
Albert Charles Seward
Albert Charles Seward FRS was a British botanist and geologist.-Life:His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and then on to St. John's College at Cambridge following his parents' wish to dedicate his life to the Church...

09/06/1898 9 October 1863 – 11 April 1941
William Seward
William Seward (anecdotist)
William Seward was an English man of letters, known for his collections of anecdotes.-Life:Seward was the only son of William Seward, a partner in the major London brewery Calvert & Seward. He was born in London in January 1747...

11/02/1779 January 1747 – 24 April 1799
Robert Beresford Seymour Sewell 03/05/1934 6 March 1880 – 11 February 1964
John Sewell
John Sewell
John Sewell, CM is a Canadian political activist and writer on municipal affairs; he was the mayor of Toronto, Ontario from 1978 to 1980.-Background:...

02/03/1820 c 1766 – 15 January 1833
Edward Adolphus Seymour, 11th Duke of Somerset 09/03/1797 24 February 1775 – 15 August 1855
Edward James Seymour 17/06/1841 30 March 1796 – 16 April 1866 Naval Physician
Lord Webb John Seymour 11/11/1802 7 February 1777 – 15 April 1819
Joseph de Seytres, Marquis de Caumont 13/11/1740 29 June 1688 – 29 September 1745
Willem Jakob s Gravesande
Willem 's Gravesande
Willem Jacob 's Gravesande was a Dutch philosopher and mathematician.-Life:Born in 's-Hertogenbosch, he studied law in Leiden and wrote a thesis on suicide. He was praised by John Bernoulli when he published his book Essai de perspective. In 1715, he visited London and King George I. He became a...

09/06/1715 27 September 1688 – 28 February 1742
Richard Dickson Shackleford 28/06/1792 ? 6 November 1743 – 26 November 1829
Lord Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton 29/06/1989 15 July 1911 – 22 September 1994 Statute
Robert Millner Shackleton
Robert Millner Shackleton
Robert Millner Shackleton FRS was a British field geologist who developed an interest in the geology of East Africa...

18/03/1971 30 December 1909 – 3 May 2001
Nicholas John Shackleton 21/03/1985 23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006
Lancelot Shadwell
Lancelot Shadwell
Sir Lancelot Shadwell was a barrister at Lincoln's Inn and was Member of Parliament for Ripon from 1826 to 1827 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of England in 1827.He supported Jewish emancipation....

04/06/1778
Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell
Charles Shadwell (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, KCB, FRS was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.-Naval career:...

06/06/1861 31 January 1814 – 1 March 1886
John Shadwell 03/12/1701 1671 – 4 January 1747
James Shaen 20/05/1663
Timothy Shallice
Tim Shallice
Timothy Shallice is a professor of neuropsychology and past director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, part of University College London...

14/03/1996
Ian Alexander Shanks 15/03/1984
Isaac Pacatus Shard 24/01/1751
Man Mohan Sharma
Man Mohan Sharma
Man Mohan Sharma is an eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist. He was educated at Jodhpur, Mumbai and Cambridge. At the age of 27 years, he was appointed Professor of Chemical Engineering in the University of Mumbai, Department of Chemical Technology...

15/03/1990 Chemical Engineer
David Sharp
David Sharp (entomologist)
David Sharp FRS was an English physician and entomologist who worked mainly on Coleoptera.David Sharp was born at Towcester on 18 October, 1840. Some twelve years later his parents removed to London, where therefore, as a boy he received his education. After attending one or two preparatory...

05/06/1890 15 August 1840 – 27 August 1922
Richard Sharp
Richard Sharp (politician)
Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA , also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was a hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, British politician, but above all - doyen of the conversationalists.-Family background:...

12/06/1806 1759 – 30 March 1835
Samuel Sharp
Samuel Sharp (surgeon)
Samuel Sharp FRS was an English surgeon and author, son of Henry Sharp of Jamaica.-Development:He was born about 1700. He was bound apprentice for seven years to William Cheselden, surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, on 2 March 1724. He paid £300. when his indentures were signed, the money being...

13/04/1749 c 1700 – 24 March 1778
William Sharp
William Sharp (surgeon)
William Sharp was an English physician reported to have acted as surgeon to King George III. With his brother Granville Sharp, he was an active supporter of the early campaign against slavery in Britain....

20/04/1769 1728–1810
William Sharp
William Sharp (homeopath)
William Sharp was an English surgeon and physician. Sharp is credited with first advocating the establishment of local museums in Britain and for putting science on the curriculums of British public schools...

07/05/1840 21 January 1805 – 10 April 1896
Daniel Sharpe
Daniel Sharpe
Daniel Sharpe FRS was an English geologist. He was born at Nottingham Place, Marylebone, Middlesex. He studied a number of mountainous formations in Great Britain and Continental Europe and arrived at important conclusions about cleavage in rocks.-Life:Orphaned before his first birthday, he was...

06/06/1850 6 April 1806 – 31 May 1856
Fane William Sharpe 05/07/1764 c 1727 – 21 October 1771
Gregory Sharpe 09/05/1754 1713 – 8 January 1771
John Sharpe
John Sharpe
John Sharpe may refer to:*John Sharpe , English test cricketer*John Sharpe , Australian tennis tour player from the 1960s*John Sharpe , Canadian Davis Cup player from the early 1970s...

13/04/1826 c 1769 – July 1834
Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer 06/06/1878 2 June 1850 – 29 March 1935
William Sharpey
William Sharpey
William Sharpey was a Scottish anatomist and physiologist.-Life and career:Dr. William Sharpey was a correspondent with and friend of Charles Darwin. He contributed to the many editions of ‘Quain’s Anatomy’ and was one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society...

09/05/1839 1 April 1802 – 11 April 1880
Samuel George Shattock 03/05/1917 3 November 1852 – 11 May 1924
George John Shaw-Lefebre, Baron Eversley 26/01/1899 12 June 1831 – ? 19 April 1928
John George Shaw-Lefevre 16/11/1820 24 January 1797 – 20 August 1879
Bernard Leslie Shaw 16/03/1978
George Shaw
George Shaw
George Shaw was an English botanist and zoologist.Shaw was born at Bierton, Buckinghamshire and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, receiving his M.A. in 1772. He took up the profession of medical practitioner. In 1786 he became the assistant lecturer in botany at Oxford University...

26/02/1789 10 December 1751 – 22 July 1813
John Shaw
John Shaw Sr.
John Shaw, Senior, was an architect related to the Shaw and Hardwick family and one of the first architects to draw up plans for semi-detached housing in London....

11/02/1830 10 March 1776 – 30 July 1832
Joseph Shaw
Joseph Shaw
Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw was the editor of Black Mask magazine from 1926 to 1936.Prior to becoming Black Mask editor, Shaw had worked as a newspaper reporter and as a soldier in World War I, attaining the...

30/11/1703 1671 – 24 October 1733
Peter Shaw 16/04/1752 1694 – 15 March 1763 Chemist
William Napier Shaw 04/06/1891 4 March 1854 – 23 March 1945
Thomas Shaw 13/06/1734 4 June 1694 – 15 August 1751
Trevor Ian Shaw 18/03/1971 18 March 1928 – 26 September 1972
Cresswell Shearer
Cresswell Shearer
Cresswell Shearer FRS was a british zoologist who worked on echinoids...

11/05/1916 25 May 1874 – 6 February 1941
George Shee 10/05/1810 1754 – 3 February 1825
Martin Archer Shee
Martin Archer Shee
Sir Martin Archer Shee RA was a British portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy.-Biography:...

21/04/1831 20 December 1769 – 19 August 1850
Richard Sheepshanks
Richard Sheepshanks
Richard Sheepshanks was an English astronomer.He graduated from Trinity College of Cambridge University in 1816...

01/04/1830 30 July 1794 – ? 7 August 1855
Henry Sheers 10/02/1676
Gilbert Sheldon
Gilbert Sheldon
Gilbert Sheldon was an English Archbishop of Canterbury.-Early life:He was born in Stanton, Staffordshire in the parish of Ellastone, on 19 July 1598, the youngest son of Roger Sheldon; his father worked for Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford; he...

22/03/1665 19 July 1598 – 9 November 1677
John Sheldon
John Sheldon
John Sheldon was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He was born in Clay Cross near Chesterfield in Derbyshire and began his playing career at Nuneaton Town. In 1909 he joined Manchester United and made his debut against Bradford City on the 27 December 1910...

29/04/1784 6 July 1752 – 8 October 1808
George Michael Sheldrick 10/05/2001
George Shelvocke
George Shelvocke
Captain George Shelvocke was an English privateer who wrote a famous 1723 book based on his exploits, A Voyage Round the World By Way of The Great South Sea....

10/03/1743
Morgan Hwa-Tze Sheng 17/05/2007
Allen Goodrich Shenstone 16/03/1950 27 July 1893 – 16
William Ashwell Shenstone
William Ashwell Shenstone
William Ashwell Shenstone FIC FRS was a chemist, schoolmaster and published author....

09/06/1898 2 December 1850 – 3 February 1908
Nicholas Ian Shepherd-Barron 18/05/2006
Anthony Shepherd
Anthony Shepherd
Anthony Shepherd was a British astronomer. He was the Plumian Professor at the University of Cambridge between 1760 and 1796. He published astronomical tables, and was a friend of Captain Cook, who named the Shepherd Islands after him....

21/04/1763 1721 – 15 June 1796
John Graham Shepherd 13/05/1999
Richard Shepherd
Richard Shepherd (theologian)
Richard Shepherd was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Bedford in 1783, known also for his verse.-Life:He was son of Henry Shepherd , vicar of Mareham-le-Fen, Lincolnshire, and matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 1 December 1749, at the age of seventeen. He graduated B.A. 1753,...

10/05/1781 c 1732 – 3 January 1809
Norman Sheppard 16/03/1967
Percival Albert Sheppard 19/03/1964 12 May 1907 – 22 December 1977
Philip MacDonald Sheppard 18/03/1965 27 July 1921 – 17 October 1976
James Sherard
James Sherard
James Sherard was an English apothecary, botanist, and amateur musician. He was born in Bushby, Leicestershire to George and Mary Sherwood; it is unknown why his surname was changed. His older brother, William, also became a noted botanist...

04/12/1706 1 November 1666 – 12 February 1738
William Sherard
William Sherard
William Sherard was an English botanist. Next to John Ray, he was considered to be one of the outstanding English botanists of his day.-Life:...

25/02/1720 27 February 1659 – 11 August 1728
John Arthur Shercliff 20/03/1980 10 September 1927 – 6 December 1983
Thomas Sheridan 06/02/1679 1646 – c 1688 James II Secretary
Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock
Sheila Sherlock
Professor Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock, Mrs. James, DBE, MD, FRCP, FRCP Ed, FRS was a British physician, hepatologist and teacher.-Early life:...

10/05/2001 31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001
John Sherlock 09/06/1715
David John Sherratt 12/03/1992
David Sherrington
David Sherrington
David Sherrington is a former English cricketer. Sherrington was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. He was born in Easington, County Durham....

10/03/1994
David Colin Sherrington 17/05/2007
Charles Scott Sherrington
Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s...

01/06/1893 27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952
Noah Sherwood 20/06/1745
Keith P. Shine
Keith Shine
Keith P. Shine FRS is the head of the Atmospheric Radiation and Climate group and previous head of department at the University of Reading's meteorology department. He was a lead author of Climate Change 1995, the 1995 IPCC report on global warming. He held the University's annual Children's...

 
15/05/2009 atmospheric physicist
Arthur Everett Shipley 05/05/1904 10 March 1861 – 22 September 1927
Robert Shippen
Robert Shippen
Robert Shippen D.D. FRS was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Shippen was the brother of the Tory politician WIlliam Shippen.He was educated at Stockport Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford...

20/11/1706 1675–1745
Robert Shirley
Robert Shirley
Sir Robert Shirley was an English traveler and adventurer, younger brother of Sir Anthony Shirley and of the adventurer Sir Thomas.-Diplomatic Activities:Robert went with his brother Anthony to Persia in 1598...

11/01/1699 4 September 1673 – 25 February 1699
Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers
Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers
Vice Admiral Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, FRS was a British Royal Navy officer, peer, freemason and amateur astronomer.-Biography:...

10/12/1761 26 May 1722 – 2 October 1778
David Shoenberg
David Shoenberg
David Shoenberg, MBE FRS, was a British physicist.David Shoenberg was born in 1911, the son of Isaac Shoenberg. Isaac, born in Pinsk in Russia was the principal inventor of the high-definition television system used by the BBC for the world’s first high-definition television broadcast from...

19/03/1953 4 January 1911 – 10 March 2004 physics of low temperatures
Eric Manvers Shooter 17/03/1988
Charles William Shoppee 15/03/1956 24 February 1904 – 20 October 1994
Charles John Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth
Charles John Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth
Charles John Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:Charles John Shore was born in Calcutta, the son of John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth and Charlotte, only daughter of James Cornish, a medical practitioner at Teignmouth...

05/06/1834 13 January 1796 – 18 September 1885
Charles Short 17/05/1804 c 1762 – 4 September 1838 Barrister
James Short 24/03/1737 10 June 1710 – 14 June 1768
Roger Valentine Short 21/03/1974
Henry Edward Shortt 16/03/1950 15 April 1887 – 9 November 1987
Frederick William Shotton
Frederick William Shotton
Professor Frederick William Shotton FRS was a British geologist....

15/03/1956 8 October 1906 – 21 July 1990
George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn
Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet
Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet was an English politician, mathematician and astronomer....

22/12/1774 23 August 1751 – 11 August 1804
Francis Shuckburgh 11/03/1824 12 March 1789 – 29 October 1876
Molyneux Shuldham, Baron Shuldham 13/03/1777 c 1717–1798
Robert Shuttleworth 24/04/1777 1744 – 29 January 1816
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov 16/03/1758 1 November 1727 – 14 November 1797
Wilson Sibbett
Wilson Sibbett
Wilson Sibbett FRS CBE is a British physicist noted for his work on ultrashort pulse lasers.He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, and awarded the Rumford Medal in 2000.-References:...

15/05/1997
Francis Sibson
Francis Sibson
Francis Sibson was a British physician and anatomist.-Early life:He was born at Crosscanonby, near Maryport, Cumberland but grew up and was educated in Edinburgh, apprenticed to John Lizars, surgeon and anatomist, receiving his diploma in 1831...

07/06/1849 21 May 1814 – 7 September 1876
Richard Hugh Sibson 15/05/2003
John Sibthorp
John Sibthorp
John Sibthorp was an English botanist.He was born in Oxford, the youngest son of Dr Humphry Sibthorp , who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at the University of Oxford....

06/03/1788 28 October 1758 – 8 February 1796
Obaid Siddiqi 15/03/1984
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui , HI, MBE, SI, D.Phil., FPAS, FRS. was a leading Pakistani scientist in Natural Product Chemistry. He is credited for pioneering the isolation of unique chemical compounds from the Neem , Rauwolfia, and various other flora. As the founder director of H.E.J...

16/03/1961 19 October 1897 – 14 April 1994
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick 11/05/1922 8 May 1873 – 15 March 1952
Charles William Siemens 05/06/1862 4 April 1823 – ? 18 November 1883
Robert William Sievier
Robert William Sievier
Robert William Sievier FRS was a notable English engraver, sculptor and later inventor of the 19th century.-Engraver and sculptor:...

04/03/1841 24 July 1794 – 28 April 1865
Joseph Ivor Silk 13/05/1999
Bernard Walter Silverman
Bernard Silverman
Bernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...

15/05/1997 statistician
John Silvester 02/03/1780 1745 – 30 March 1822 Barrister
John Baptist Silvester 12/11/1747
Pierre Silvestre 30/11/1699 c 1662 – 16 April 1718
Joachim Jose Fidalgo da Silveyra 31/10/1751 fl 1751
Louis Siminovitch
Louis Siminovitch
Louis Siminovitch, CC is a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs exploring genetic roots of cancer.Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents who had emigrated...

20/03/1980
Richard Simmons 11/03/1813 c 1781 – 18 September 1846 Physician
Robert Malcolm Simmons 09/03/1995
Samuel Foart Simmons 04/11/1779 17 March 1750 – 23 April 1813 Physician
William Simms 03/06/1852 7 December 1793 – 21 June 1860
James Simon 17/11/1748
Leon Melvyn Simon
Leon Simon
Leon Melvyn Simon is a Bôcher Prize-winning mathematician. He is currently Professor in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.-Academic career:...

15/05/2003
Franz Eugen Simon 20/03/1941 2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956
John Simon 09/01/1845 10 October 1816 – 23 July 1904 Pathologist
William Simon 30/11/1716 fl 1716 -1722
John Philip Simons 16/03/1989
John Lionel Simonsen 05/05/1932 23 July 1884 – 20 February 1957
John Augustus Francis Simpkinson 22/04/1847 December 1780 – 8 July 1851
Maxwell Simpson
Maxwell Simpson
Maxwell Simpson was an eminent Irish chemist.-Life:He was born in Beach Hill, County Armagh, Ireland, son of Thomas Simpson. He attended Dr. Henderson's school at Newry before continuing to Trinity College, Dublin in 1832. He graduated in 1837 and travelled on the continent...

05/06/1862 15 March 1815 – 26 February 1902
Patricia Ann Simpson
Patricia Simpson
Patricia "Pat" Simpson FRS is a distinguished British developmental biologist. She is Professor of Comparative Embryology in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham College....

11/05/2000
George Clarke Simpson 06/05/1915 2 September 1878 – 1 January 1965
Thomas Simpson
Thomas Simpson
Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician, inventor and eponym of Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals...

05/12/1745 20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761
Thomas James Simpson 10/05/2001
John Sims 10/03/1814 1750 – 26 February 1831
Anthony Ronald Entrican Sinclair 09/05/2002
James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness
James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness
James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness FRS , styled Lord Berriedale from 1823 to 1855, was a Scottish Liberal politician, scientist and inventor....

20/11/1862 ? 16 August 1821 – 28 March 1881
John Sinclair
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.Sinclair was the eldest son of George Sinclair of...

24/06/1784 10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835
Frank Sturdy Sinnatt 17/03/1938 4 May 1880 – 27 January 1943
John Alexander Sinton
John Alexander Sinton
Brigadier John Alexander Sinton, VC, OBE, FRS, DL was a British medical doctor, malariologist and soldier, being a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early...

21/03/1946 2 December 1884 – 25 March 1956
Henning Sirringhaus  15/05/2009
James Six
James Six
James Six was a British scientist born in Canterbury. He is noted for his invention, in 1780, of Six's thermometer, commonly known as the Maximum minimum thermometer...

19/01/1792 30 January 1730 – 25 August 1793
John James Skehel
John Skehel
Sir John James Skehel, FRS is a British virologist. He was born in Blackburn to Joseph and Annie Skehel in 1941, and was educated at St. Mary's College, Blackburn before being accepted to the University of Aberystwyth for a BSc in agricultural biochemistry.Soon after graduating he married Anita...

15/03/1984
Alec Westley Skempton
Alec Skempton
Sir Alec Skempton FRS was a leader in and founding father of Soil Mechanics. As a founding member of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Soil Mechanics and Foundations committees he studied at City and Guilds College London and established the Soil Mechanics course at Imperial College London,...

16/03/1961 4 June 1914 – 9 August 2001
Frederic Carpenter Skey 20/04/1837 1 December 1798 – 15 August 1872
Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner
Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner
Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner was a British physicist.He was born in Ealing, London the only son of George Herbert, a director of the shoemaking firm of Lilley and Skinner, and Mabel Elisabeth Skinner. He was educated at Durston House School in Ealing and Rugby School. In 1919 he entered Trinity...

19/03/1942 7 October 1900 – 20 January 1960
Samuel Skinner 19/06/1740
Phillip Skippon 16/05/1667 28 October 1641 – ? August 1691 Naturalist. pupil of John Ray
Evgeny Konstantinovich Sklyanin  16/05/2008
Maurice Skolnick  15/05/2009
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg 27/04/1950 1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963
Charles Roger Slack 16/03/1989
Nicholas Slanning 21/12/1664 June 1643 – ? April 1691 MP & Commissioner
Frederick Slare 16/12/1680 c 1647 – 12 September 1727
Edward Charles Slater 20/03/1975
William Kershaw Slater 30/05/1957 19 October 1893 – 19 April 1970
Ralph Owen Slatyer 20/03/1975
John Sleath 23/03/1820 ? June 1767 – 30 April 1847
Henry Slingsby 22/04/1663 c 1621 – c 1688 Original Master of the Mint
Hans Sloane
Hans Sloane
Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS was an Ulster-Scot physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the British nation which became the foundation of the British Museum...

21/01/1685 16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753
William Sloane 24/05/1722 17 January 1696 – 18 February 1767 Nephew of Hans Sloane
Renatus Franciscus Slusius 16/04/1674 7 July 1622 – 19 March 1685
Raymond Edward Smallman 20/03/1986
John Smeaton
John Smeaton
John Smeaton, FRS, was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist...

15/03/1753 8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792
Alfred Smee 10/06/1841 18 June 1818 – 11 January 1877
Walter Nugent Thomas Smee 10/04/1834 1801 – 7 February 1877
Francis Smethwick 04/04/1667
Samuel Smiles 02/05/1918 17 July 1877 – 6 May 1953 Prof of Chemistry, UCL
John Smirnove 05/05/1825 fl 1825–1844
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...

21/05/1767 5 June 1723 – 17 July 1790
Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith
Adrian Smith (academic)
Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...

10/05/2001
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith (zoologist)
Sir Andrew Smith KCB was a Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist. He is considered the father of Zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa.Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire...

11/06/1857 1797 – 12 August 1872
Andrew Benjamin Smith 09/05/2002
Archibald Smith
Archibald Smith
Archibald Smith FRS FRSE was a Scottish mathematician and lawyer.He was the only son of James Smith FRS , a wealthy merchant and antiquary of Jordanhill, Glasgow, and his wife Mary, daughter of Alexander Wilson, professor of astronomy in Glasgow University...

05/06/1856 10 August 1813 – 26 December 1872
Austin Gerard Smith 18/05/2006
Bernard Smith 11/05/1933 13 February 1881 – 19 August 1936
Charles Hamilton Smith
Charles Hamilton Smith
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier and spy.-Military service:...

13/05/1824 26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859
Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith 15/03/1984
David Smith
David Smith
-In sports:* Dai Smith , rugby league footballer of the 1900s, who played for Salford, and Other Nationalities* David Smith , South African Olympic sport shooter...

17/03/1988
David Cecil Smith
David Smith (botanist)
Professor Sir David Cecil Smith FRS FRSE was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1987 to 1994, and President of Wolfson College, Oxford....

20/03/1975
David Macleish Smith 20/03/1952 9 June 1900 – 3 August 1986
Desmond Stanley Smith 1978
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.-Early life:...

16/06/1904 6 August 1820 – 21 January 1914 Statute
Edward Smith
Edward Smith (MP)
Edward Smith was an English Tory politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1734 to 1762.Smith was the eldest son of Rev. Roger Smith of Bosworth and his wife Judith Tomlinson. He was educated at Melton Mowbray and at Rugby School...

19/01/1738 fl 1738
Edward Smith 27/01/1664 fl 1664–1668
Edward Smith
Edward Smith (physician)
Edward Smith was a British physician and medical writer, born at Heanor, Derbyshire. According to his obituary, he failed to inspire the friendship of his colleagues, but more recent evaluations have noted that he "deserves to be better remembered by nutritionists, both for his contributions to...

07/06/1860 c 1818 – 16 November 1874
Edward Smith 29/04/1696 1665 – 4 November 1720 Bishop of Down & Connor
Edwin Smith 14/03/1996 28 July 1931 – 4 July 2010 Metallurgist, Manchester
Ernest Lister Smith 21/03/1957 7 August 1904 – 6 November 1992
Frank Edward Smith
Frank Edward Smith
Sir Frank Edward Smith, GCB, GBE, FRS was a British physicist.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1918. His candidacy citation read: "Principal Assistant in the National Physical Laboratory . Author of a number of papers dealing with electrical units which have appeared in the...

02/05/1918 14 October 1876 – 1 July 1970
Frank Ewart Smith 21/03/1957 31 May 1897 – 14 June 1995
Frank Thomas Smith 15/03/1984
Frederick John Smith 07/06/1894 2 April 1848 – 23 August 1911
Geoffrey Lilley Smith
Geoffrey L. Smith
Professor Geoffrey Lilley Smith FRS FMedSci FIBiol is a British virologist and medical research authority in the area of Vaccinia virus and the family of Poxviruses...

15/05/2003
George David William Smith 14/03/1996
Grafton Elliot Smith
Grafton Elliot Smith
Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, FRS FRCP was an Australian anatomist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.-Professional career:Smith was born in Grafton, New South Wales...

02/05/1907 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937
Harry Smith 11/05/2000 Prof of Botany, Leicester Univ
Harry Smith 15/03/1979 Prof of Microbiology, Univ of B'ham
Henry John Stephen Smith
Henry John Stephen Smith
Henry John Stephen Smith was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory...

06/06/1861 3 November 1826 – 9 February 1883
Herbert Williams Smith 20/03/1980 3 May 1919 – 16 June 1987
Ian William Murison Smith 09/03/1995
James Smith 23/12/1830 15 August 1782 – 17 January 1867
James Cuthbert Smith 11/03/1993
James Edward Smith
James Edward Smith
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...

26/05/1785 2 December 1759 – 17 March 1828
James Eric Smith 20/03/1958 23 February 1909 – 3 September 1990
James Lorrain Smith 06/05/1909 2 August 1862 – 18 April 1931
John Derek Smith
John Derek Smith
John Derek Smith FRS was a British Molecular Biologist who participated in many of the major discoveries at the LMB* Born Southampton, England 8 December 1924...

18/03/1976 8 December 1924 – 22 November 2003
John Mark Frederick Smith
John Mark Frederick Smith
Sir John Mark Frederick Smith was a British general and colonel-commandant of the Royal Engineers. He was also the Conservative Member of Parliament for Chatham from 1852 to 1853 and 1857 to 1865...

18/11/1841 11 January 1790 – 20 November 1874
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith
John Maynard Smith,His surname was Maynard Smith, not Smith, nor was it hyphenated. F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S....

17/03/1977 6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004
John Smith
John Smith (mathematician)
John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797....

27/05/1773 c 1744 – 13 November 1807
John Smith 11/05/1809
John Pye Smith 23/01/1840 25 May 1774 – 5 February 1851
John Spencer Smith 10/03/1803 c 1770 – 5 June 1845
John Thomas Smith 01/06/1837 16 April 1805 – 14 May 1882 Madras Engineers
Joseph Smith 25/11/1819 1775 – 28 May 1857 Barrister
Joseph Victor Smith 16/03/1978
Kenneth Manley Smith 17/03/1938 13 November 1892 – 11 June 1981
Matthew Smith 26/02/1801 fl 1801 Captain, RN
Matthew Smith 19/11/1795 1739–1812 Captain, Tower of London
Michael Smith
Michael Smith (chemist)
Michael Smith, CC, OBC, FRS was a British-born Canadian biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.-Biography:...

20/03/1986 26 April 1932 – 5 October 2000
Robert Smith
Robert Smith (mathematician)
Robert Smith was an English mathematician and music theorist.-Life:Smith was probably born at Lea near Gainsborough, the son of the rector of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire...

05/02/1719 1689 – 2 February 1768
Robert Smith
Robert Smith
- Music :*Robert Smith , lead singer/guitarist of The Cure*Bob Smith , founder, singer, keyboards and drums for Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys...

24/11/1796 22 November 1747 – 27 September 1832
Robert Allan Smith 15/03/1962 14 May 1909 – 16 May 1980
Robert Angus Smith
Robert Angus Smith
Robert Angus Smith was a Scottish chemist, who investigated numerous environmental issues. He is famous for his research on air pollution in 1852, in the course of which he discovered what came to be known as acid rain...

11/06/1857 15 February 1817 – 12 May 1884
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington FRS was a British Member of Parliament and banker.Smith was the third son of Abel Smith and his wife Mary . His grandfather Abel Smith was the third son of Thomas Smith, the founder of Smith's Bank of Nottingham. Smith was elected to the House of Commons for...

29/05/1800 ? 2 February 1752 – 18 September 1838
Samuel Walter Johnson Smith 07/05/1914 26 January 1871 – 20 August 1948
Stanley Desmond Smith 18/03/1976
Thomas Smith 25/04/1816 21 January 1777 – 15 March 1824 Barrister
Thomas Smith 05/05/1932 6 April 1883 – 28 November 1969 Optics Section, NPL
Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith (scholar)
Thomas Smith was an English scholar, expelled Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and non-juring divine.-Early life and academic career:...

06/12/1677 3 June 1638 – 11 May 1710
William Cusac Smith 25/04/1805 23 January 1766 – 21 August 1836 Bt & MP
William Sidney Smith 13/06/1811 21 June 1764 – 26 May 1840
William Wright Smith
William Wright Smith
Sir William Wright Smith FRS FRSE DèsSc FLS VMH was a Scottish botanist and horticulturalist....

22/03/1945 2 February 1875 – 15 December 1956
William Smith
William Smith (abolitionist)
William Smith was a leading independent British politician, sitting as Member of Parliament for more than one constituency. He was an English Dissenter and was instrumental in bringing political rights to that religious minority...

13/02/1806 22 September 1756 – 31 May 1835
William Henry Smith 14/02/1878 24 June 1825 – 6 October 1891
Wilson Smith 17/03/1949 21 June 1897 – 10 July 1965 Microbiologist
Arthur Smithells 06/06/1901 25 May 1860 – 8 February 1939
James Smithson
James Smithson
James Smithson, FRS, M.A. was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the United States of America, to create "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men" to be called the Smithsonian Institution.-Biography:Not much is known...

19/04/1787 1765 – 27 June 1829 bequest founds the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

Jan Christian Smuts 26/06/1930 24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Charles Piazzi Smyth , was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well-known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza....

11/06/1857 3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900
David Henry Smyth 16/03/1967 9 February 1908 – 10 September 1979
George Smyth 20/05/1663 c 1629 – 15 August 1702 Original
James Carmichael Smyth
James Carmichael Smyth
Sir James Carmichael Smyth, 1st Baronet KCH CB was a British colonial administrator.He was born in London, England, the eldest of five sons of James Carmichael Smyth and Mary Holyland...

06/05/1779 1741 – 18 June 1821
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth was a British geologist.-Biography:Smyth was born at Naples, the son of Admiral W. H. Smyth and his wife Annarella Warington. His father was engaged in the Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean at the time of his birth. Smyth was educated at Westminster and...

03/06/1858 26 August 1817 – 19 June 1890
William Henry Smyth
William Henry Smyth
William Henry Smyth was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.-Private Life:...

15/06/1826 21 January 1788 – 9 September 1865
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford 03/02/1825 31 August 1780 – 29 May 1855
Sidney Stafford Smythe 11/03/1742 1705 – 2 November 1778
William James Smythe 02/06/1864 25 January 1816 – 12 July 1887
Peter Henry Andrews Sneath 09/03/1995 17 November 1923 - 9 September 2011
Ian Naismith Sneddon 17/03/1983 8 December 1919 – 4 November 2000
George James Snelus 09/06/1887 25 June 1837 – 18 June 1906
Thomas Snodgrass 14/11/1822
George Robert Sabine Snow 18/03/1948 19 January 1897 – 1 August 1969
Christopher Maxwell Snowden
Christopher Snowden
Professor Christopher Maxwell Snowden FRS FREng FIET FIEEE FCGI is the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.-Early life:...

26/05/2005
Allan Whitenack Snyder
Allan Snyder
Allan Whitenack Snyder is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind...

15/03/1990
William Soame 21/11/1667 c 1644–1686
John Soane
John Soane
Sir John Soane, RA was an English architect who specialised in the Neo-Classical style. His architectural works are distinguished by their clean lines, massing of simple form, decisive detailing, careful proportions and skilful use of light sources...

15/11/1821 10 September 1753 – 20 January 1837
Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy
Frederick Soddy was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements...

05/05/1910 2 September 1877 – 26 September 1956
Daniel Charles Solander 07/06/1764 ? 19 February 1733 – ? 13 May 1782
Heinrich Friedrich de Solenthal 12/01/1744
William Johnson Sollas
William Johnson Sollas
William Johnson Sollas FRS was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology...

06/06/1889 30 May 1849 – 20 October 1936
Edward Solly 19/01/1843 11 October 1819 – 2 April 1886 Chemist
Richard Horsman Solly 07/05/1807 ? 29 April 1774 – 31 March 1858
Samuel Solly 22/11/1792 c 1724 – 5 January 1807
Samuel Solly 14/05/1812
Samuel Solly 19/01/1837 13 May 1805 – 24 September 1871
Samuel Reynolds Solly 29/05/1823 c 1781–1866
David Henry Soloman 27/05/2004
Laszlo Solymar 09/03/1995
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, PC, FRS was an English Whig jurist and statesman. Somers first came to national attention in the trial of the Seven Bishops where he was on the their defence counsel. He published tracts on political topics such as the succession to the crown, where he elaborated his...

30/11/1698 ? 4 March 1650 – 26 April 1716
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester
Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester was the eldest son of a peer in the peerage of England and an MP.-Private Life:...

04/06/1673 December 1660 – 13 July 1698
Christopher Roland Somerville 14/03/1991
William Somerville 11/12/1817 22 April 1771 – 25 June 1860 Physician
Peter Somogyi 11/05/2000
Franz Sondheimer
Franz Sondheimer
-Early life:Sondheimer was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1926 and, following the rise of the Nazis, fled to the United Kingdom in 1937.-Education:He was a pupil at Highgate School and subsequently studied chemistry, receiving his degree from Imperial College London.-Career:From 1949 to 1952,...

16/05/1967 18 May 1926 – 11 February 1981 organic chemist
Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg
Nahum Sonenberg, is a microbiologist and biochemist, originally from Israel, and currently professor of biochemistry at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada....

18/05/2006
Thomas Sopwith
Thomas Sopwith (geologist)
Thomas Sopwith was an English mining engineer born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Son of a cabinet maker, Sopwith maintained links with the family furniture and joinery business throughout his life. However, he soon became an illustrator of antiquities, then took up land and mineral surveying, and...

05/06/1845 3 January 1803 – 16 January 1879
Samuel Sorbiere 22/06/1663 17 September 1615 – 9 April 1670
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby , was an English microscopist and geologist.-Biography:Sorby was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire and attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in...

11/06/1857 10 May 1826 – 9 March 1908
William Sotheby 08/03/1744
William Sotheby
William Sotheby
William Sotheby FRS was an English poet and translator.He was born into a wealthy London family, the son of William and Elizabeth Sotheby, and was educated at Harrow School and the Military Academy, Angers, France before joining the army at 17...

13/11/1794 9 November 1757 – 30 December 1833
Luis Pinto de Sousa Coutinho 19/04/1787 1735–1804
James South
James South
Sir James South was a British astronomer.He helped found the Astronomical Society of London, and it was under his name as president of the society from 1831 to 1832 that a petition was successfully submitted to obtain a royal charter in 1831, whereupon it became the Royal Astronomical...

15/02/1821 October 1785 – 19 October 1867
Edwin Mellor Southern 17/03/1983
Henry Herbert Southey
Henry Herbert Southey
-Life:The son of Robert Southey by his wife, Margaret Hill, and younger brother of Robert Southey, the poet, he was born at Bristol in 1783. After education at private schools in and near Great Yarmouth, his brother Robert proposed to establish him in his house in London in order that he might...

14/04/1825 ? 1783 – 13 June 1865
Edward Southwell 30/11/1692 4 September 1671 – 4 December 1730
Richard Vynne Southwell 07/05/1925 2 July 1888 – 9 December 1970
Robert Southwell
Robert Southwell (diplomat)
Sir Robert Southwell was an English diplomat. He was Secretary of State for Ireland and President of the Royal Society from 1690.-Background and education:...

20/05/1663 31 December 1635 – 11 September 1702 Original
Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell
Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell
Thomas Southwell, 2nd Baron Southwell PC , FRS , styled The Honourable from 1717 until 1720, was an Irish peer, politician and freemason.-Background:...

13/03/1735 7 January 1698 – ? 20 November 1766
Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood
Richard Southwood
Sir Thomas Richard Edmund Southwood DL, FRS was Professor of zoology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford....

17/03/1977 20 June 1931 – 26 October 2005
Gaspar Merez de Souza 18/11/1669 fl 1669–1684
Andrew Michael Soward 14/03/1991
Dudley Brian Spalding
Brian Spalding
Dudley Brian Spalding, FRS was a Professor of Heat Transfer at Imperial College, London. He is one of the influential persons in the development of computational fluid dynamics . In 1983, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society....

17/03/1983
John Spalding 06/07/1797
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Lazzaro Spallanzani was an Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and essentially discovered echolocation...

02/06/1768 13 January 1729 – 11 February 1799
Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim
Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim
Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim was a Swiss diplomat and scholar.-Life:He was the eldest son of Friedrich Spanheim the Elder, born at Geneva...

03/02/1679 7 December 1629 – 25 October 1710
Bowyer Edward Sparke, Bishop of Ely 15/03/1810 27 April 1759 – 4 April 1836
Robert Stephen John Sparks
Steve Sparks (volcanologist)
Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE , is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is one of the world's leading volcanologists and has been widely recognised for his work in this field.-Career:Steve Sparks is a graduate of Imperial...

17/03/1988 Professor of Earth Sciences
Leonard Frank Spath
Leonard Frank Spath
Leonard Frank Spath was a British paleomalacologist and an ammonitologist, a specialist of ammonites.He gained a B.Sc in geology at Birkbeck College in 1912 and obtained employment at the British Museum as an assistant curator in the geology department...

14/03/1940 20 October 1882 – 2 March 1957
Walter Eric Spear
Walter Eric Spear
Walter Eric Spear FRSE PhD FRS FInstP was a German physicist noted for his pioneering work to help develop large area electronics and thin film displays...

20/03/1980
Charles Edward Spearman 15/05/1924 10 September 1863 – 17 September 1945
William Speer 28/05/1812 c 1764 – 11 April 1844 HM Treasury
Robert Spence 19/03/1959 7 October 1905 – 10 March 1976 Chemist, Canada
William Spence
William Spence
William Guthrie Spence , Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...

10/04/1834 1783 – 6 January 1860
Harold Spencer Jones
Harold Spencer Jones
Sir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS was an English astronomer. Although born "Jones", his surname became "Spencer Jones"....

15/05/1930 29 March 1890 – 3 November 1960
Anthony James Merrill Spencer 19/03/1987
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough KG, PC , known as The Earl of Sunderland between 1729 and 1733, was a British soldier and politician. He briefly served as Lord Privy Seal in 1755...

12/01/1744 22 November 1706 – 20 October 1758
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Sir Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland KG PC , known as Lord Spencer from 1688 to 1702, was an English statesman...

30/11/1698 c 1674 – 19 April 1722
Francis Almeric Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill
Francis Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill
Francis Almeric Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill DCL FRS was a British peer and Whig politician.Born Lord Francis Almeric Spencer, he was the second son of the 4th Duke of Marlborough. On 25 November 1800, he married Lady Frances FitzRoy, a younger daughter of the 3rd Duke of Grafton...

10/12/1818 26 December 1779 – 10 March 1845
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough
George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough KG, PC, FRS , styled Marquess of Blandford until 1758, was a British courtier and politician...

25/05/1786 26 January 1739 – 29 January 1817
Leonard James Spencer
Leonard James Spencer
Leonard James Spencer CBE FRS was a British geologist. He was an Honorary member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and also a recipient of its Bolitho Medal. He was president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1936 to 1939...

07/05/1925 7 July 1870 – 14 April 1959
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland KG, PC was an English statesman and nobleman.-Life:Born in Paris, son of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, Spencer inherited his father's peerage dignities at the age of three, becoming Baron Spencer of Wormleighton and Earl of Sunderland...

15/05/1662 4 August 1640 – 1702
Walter Baldwin Spencer
Walter Baldwin Spencer
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.Baldwin was born in Stretford, Lancashire. His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its...

14/06/1900 23 June 1860 – 14 July 1929
William Kingdon Spencer 07/05/1931 10 December 1878 – 1 October 1955
Otto Sperling 30/11/1700 3 January 1634 – 18 March 1715
David John Spiegelhalter
David Spiegelhalter
David John Spiegelhalter OBE, FRS, is a distinguished British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge...

26/05/2005 statistician
James Spilman 31/10/1734 c 1680 – 21 November 1763
Alfred Spinks 17/03/1977 25 February 1917 – 11 February 1982
Francesco Spoleti 15/07/1696
William Spottiswoode
William Spottiswoode
William Spottiswoode FRS was an English mathematician and physicist. He was President of the Royal Society from 1878 to 1883.-Early life:...

02/06/1853 11 January 1825 – 27 June 1883
John Spranger 24/03/1791 1744–1804
Thomas Sprat 20/03/1712 5 April 1679 – 10 May 1720 Clergyman, Archdeacon of Rochester
Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat , English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he held a fellowship from 1657 to 1670.Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral in 1660...

20/05/1663 1635 – 20 May 1713 Original
Brian Geoffrey Spratt 11/03/1993
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt was an English vice-admiral, hydrographer and geologist.He was born at Woodway House, East Teignmouth, the eldest surviving son of Commander James Spratt, RN, a hero of Trafalgar. He entered the navy in 1827 and was attached to the surveying branch on "HMS Victory"...

05/06/1856 11 May 1811 – 10 March 1888
Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel
Hermann Sprengel
Hermann Sprengel FRS was a German chemist who discovered the explosive nature of picric acid in 1873. He also invented a generic class of materials called Sprengel explosives...

06/06/1878 29 August 1834 – 14 January 1906
Conrad Joachim Sprengwell 09/03/1721
Jonathan Sprent 14/05/1998
Frank Stuart Spring 20/03/1952 5 September 1907 – 1 March 1997
Henry Harpur Spry 13/05/1841 6 January 1804 – 4 September 1842
Herbert Brian Squire 21/03/1957 13 July 1909 – 22 November 1961
Samuel Squire
Samuel Squire
Samuel Squire was a Bishop of the Church of England and a historian.-Early life:Squire was born the son of a druggist in Warminster, Wiltshire, and was first educated at Lord Weymouth's School. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1730 and graduated BA in 1734, winning the Craven...

15/05/1746 1713 – 7 May 1766
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan
Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan FRS is an Indian-born Australian biologist who studies bees.A faculty member at the University of Queensland, he is a recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society .-Education:* 1968 -...

10/05/2001
John St Aubin 18/05/1797 17 May 1758 – 10 August 1839
Peter Henry St George Hyslop
Peter St George-Hyslop
Peter Henry St George-Hyslop, MD, FRS, FRSC, FRCPC, is a British and Canadian medical scientist, neurologist and molecular geneticist who is known for his research into neurodegenerative diseases...

27/05/2004
Chevalier de St George 11/01/1750
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke 29/01/1713 October 1678 – 12 December 1751
Oliver St John 25/02/1720 c 1691 – 26 November 1743 Barrister
St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso
St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso
St Andrew St John, 14th Baron St John of Bletso PC FRS was an English politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1780 until 1806 when he inherited a peerage....

18/02/1808 22 August 1759 – 15 October 1817
Robert Daniel St Johnston 26/05/2005
Anthony John Stace 09/05/2002
Maurice Stacey 16/03/1950 8 April 1907 – 9 October 1994
Thomas Stack 26/01/1738
William Matthias Stafford-Howard, 3rd Earl of Stafford 16/06/1743 ? 24
Godfrey Harry Stafford
Godfrey Stafford
Dr Godfrey Harry Stafford CBE, MA FInstP, FRS is a British physicist and directed the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories from 1969 to 1981. He went on to be a master at St Cross College, in Oxford and president of the Institute of Physics. In 1950 Dr. Stafford married Helen Goldthorp Clark, an...

15/03/1979 Director of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories 1969–1981
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Henry Tibbats Stainton was an English entomologist.He was educated at King's College London.He was the author of Manual of British Butterflies and Moths and with the German entomologist Philipp Christoph Zeller, a Swiss, Heinrich Frey and another Englishman, John William Douglas of The Natural...

06/06/1867 13 August 1822 – 2 December 1892
Joannes Adamus Stampfer 30/11/1688
John Frederick Stanford 01/02/1844 January 1815 – 2 December 1880
Alexander Stanhope
Alexander Stanhope
Alexander Stanhope was an English envoy in Madrid between 1690 and 1699.-Early Life:He was the youngest son of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield and Anne Pakington. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1654.He married Catherine Burghill, daughter of Arnold Burghill of...

20/05/1663 1638 – 20 September 1707 Original
Charles Stanhope 07/07/1726 1673 – 16 March 1760
John Spencer Stanhope 27/06/1816 27 May 1787 – 7 November 1873
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield PC was a peer in the peerage of England.-Personal life:He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656...

30/11/1708 1633 – 28 January 1713
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope
Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl Stanhope FRS was a British peer.The son of the 1st Earl Stanhope and Lucy Pitt, he succeeded to his father's titles in 1721. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society....

06/11/1735 15 August 1714 – 7 March 1786
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield KG, PC, FRS, FSA , known as Philip Stanhope until 1773, was a British politician and diplomat...

19/12/1776 10 November 1755 – 29 August 1815
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, PC was a British statesman and diplomat.He was a younger son of John Stanhope of Elvaston, Derbyshire, and a brother of Charles Stanhope , an active politician during the reign of George I. His ancestor, Sir John Stanhope , was a half-brother of Philip...

17/12/1741 c 1690 – 8 December 1756
Roger Yate Stanier 16/03/1978 22 October 1916 – 29 January 1982
William Arthur Stanier 16/03/1944 27 May 1876 – 27 September 1965
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was an English churchman, Dean of Westminster, known as Dean Stanley. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of works on Church History.-Life and times:...

04/06/1863 13 December 1815 – 18 July 1881
Edward Stanley 11/03/1830 3 July 1793 – 24 May 1862 Surgeon, St Barts
Edward Stanley 07/03/1765 fl 1765–1789
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby 15/12/1859 21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893
Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich 04/06/1840 1 January 1779 – 6 September 1849
George Stanley 25/02/1719
Herbert Muggleton Stanley 17/03/1966 20 July 1903 – 4 July 1987
John Thomas Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley 29/04/1790 26 November 1766 – ? 23 October 1850
Owen Stanley
Owen Stanley
Captain Owen Stanley FRS RN was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor.-Life:Stanley was born in Alderley, Cheshire the son of Edward Stanley, rector of Alderley and later Bishop of Norwich...

03/03/1842 13 June 1811 – 13 March 1850
Richard Stanley 26/05/1791 April 1738 – 5 July 1810 Barrister
John Stanley
Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet
Sir John Stanley, 1st Baronet of Grange Gorman, Co. Dublin was an Irish politician.He was born in Tickencor, Co Waterford, the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Dublin, and his wife, Jane Borrowes and educated at Trnity College, Dublin....

09/11/1698 1663 – 30 November 1744 Baronet, Commissioner and MP
Thomas Stanley
Thomas Stanley (author)
Sir Thomas Stanley was an English author and translator.-Life:He was born in Cumberlow, Hertfordshire, the son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire and his wife, Mary Hammond. Mary was the cousin of Richard Lovelace, and Stanley was educated in company with the son of Edward Fairfax,...

20/05/1663 1625 – 12 April 1678 Original
William Stanley
William Stanley (dean)
William Stanley was an English churchman and college head, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Archdeacon of London and Dean of St Asaph.-Life:...

30/11/1689 ? August 1647 – 9 October 1731
Thomas Edward Stanton 07/05/1914 23 December 1865 – 30 August 1931
Temple Stanyan 12/05/1726 c 1677 – 25 March 1752
Otto Stapf
Otto Stapf
Otto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...

07/05/1908 23 March 1857 – 3 August 1933
Reginald George Stapledon
George Stapledon
Sir Reginald George Stapledon FRS was an English grassland scientist and pioneer environmentalist.-Early life:...

16/03/1939 22 September 1882 – 6 September 1960
George Robert Stark 15/03/1990
Ernest Henry Starling 01/06/1899 17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927
James Staunton 14/05/1998
George Leonard Staunton
George Leonard Staunton
Sir George Leonard Staunton, 1st Baronet was an employee of the East India Company and a botanist.He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, Ireland and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, France and the School of Medicine in Montpelier, France...

15/02/1787 ? 10 April 1737 – 14 January 1801
George Thomas Staunton
George Thomas Staunton
Sir George Thomas Staunton, 2nd Baronet was an English traveller and Orientalist.-Early life:Born at Milford House near Salisbury, he was the son of Sir George Leonard Staunton , first baronet, diplomatist and Orientalist...

28/04/1803 26 May 1781 – 10 August 1859
Edgar William Richard Steacie
Edgar William Richard Steacie
Edgar William Richard Steacie, O.B.E. was a Canadian physical chemist and president of the National Research Council of Canada from 1952 to 1962....

18/03/1948 25 December 1900 – 28 August 1962
John Edward Stead 11/06/1903 11 October 1851 – 31 October 1923
Richard Stearne 29/03/1665 c 1596 – 18 June 1683
Thomas Steavens 05/03/1752
Henry Stebbing 03/04/1845 26 August 1799 – 22 September 1883
Henry Stebbing 24/01/1765 1716 – 13 November 1787
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing F.R.S., F.L.S. was a British zoologist, who described himself as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea". Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then...

04/06/1896 6 February 1835 – 9 July 1926
Edgar Stedman 17/03/1938 12 July 1890 – 8 May 1975
John Wickham Steeds 17/03/1988
Karen Penelope Steel  15/05/2009
Bertram Dillon Steele 15/05/1919 30 May 1870 – 12 April 1934
John Hyslop Steele 16/03/1978
George Steevens
George Steevens
George Steevens was an English Shakespearean commentator.He was born at Poplar, the son of a captain and later director of the East India Company. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge, where he remained from 1753 to 1756...

28/05/1767 10 May 1736 – 22 January 1800
Jacob de Stehelin 10/06/1773 1710 – 6 July 1785
John Peter Stehelin 08/11/1739
Johann Georg Steigertahl 11/11/1714 c 1667 – c 1740
John Stenhouse
John Stenhouse
John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS was a Scottish chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators.He was a co-founder of the Chemical Society in 1841.-Life:...

09/06/1848 21 October 1809 – 31 December 1880
Archibald John Stephens 05/04/1832 1808 – 30 January 1880
Francis Stephens 07/03/1793 c 1739 – 20 December 1807
John William Watson Stephens 13/05/1920 2 March 1865 – 17 May 1946
Philip Stephens 06/06/1771 11 October 1725 – 20 November 1809
Philip John Stephens  16/05/2008
Tyringham Stephens 13/03/1766
William Stephens 01/12/1718 c 1693 – 10 February 1760 Physician
John Stephenson 15/05/1930 6 February 1871 – 2 February 1933 Prof of Zoology, Edinburgh Univ.
Marjory Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson
Marjory Stephenson, MBE, FRS was a British biochemist. She was one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945....

22/03/1945 24 January 1885 – 12 December 1948
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...

07/06/1849 16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859
Thomas Alan Stephenson
Thomas Alan Stephenson
Thomas Alan Stephenson was a British marine biologist, specialising in sea anemones.He was born at Burnham-on-Sea, the son of a minister and amateur botanist. He soon developed an interest in natural history and went to study at University College, Aberystwyth...

15/03/1951 19 January 1898 – 3 April 1961
George Stepney
George Stepney
George Stepney was an English poet and diplomat.Stepney was the son of George Stepney, groom of the chamber to Charles II, and was born at Westminster...

30/11/1697 1663 – 15 September 1707
Patrick Christopher Steptoe 19/03/1987 9 June 1913 – 22 March 1988
Claudio Daniel Stern  16/05/2008
John Robert Steuart 15/01/1829
Henry Stewart Stevens 23/10/1740
John Stevens 31/10/1734
Malcolm Francis Graham Stevens  15/05/2009
Thomas Stevens Stevens 21/03/1963 8 October 1900 – 12 November 2000
David John Stevenson
David J. Stevenson
David John Stevenson is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well-known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand...

11/03/1993
William Ford Stevenson 21/11/1811 – 3 February 1852
Frederick Campion Steward
Frederick Campion Steward
Frederick "Camp" Campion Steward was a British botanist and plant physiologist.- Early Life and Education :He was born in Pimlico, London but brought up in Yorkshire...

21/03/1957 16 June 1904 – 13 September 1993
Balfour Stewart
Balfour Stewart
Balfour Stewart was a Scottish physicist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. In 1859 he was appointed director of Kew Observatory...

05/06/1862 1 November 1828 – 19 December 1887
Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart (zoologist)
Charles Stewart was an English zoologist and comparative anatomist.Stewart was born in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his MRCS in 1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession to William...

04/06/1896 18 May 1840 – 27 September 1907
Dugald Stewart
Dugald Stewart
Dugald Stewart was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician. His father, Matthew Stewart , was professor of mathematics in the University of Edinburgh .-Life and works:...

23/06/1814 22 November 1753 – 11 June 1828
Henry Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry 11/11/1802 18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822
Ian Nicholas Stewart
Ian Stewart (mathematician)
Ian Nicholas Stewart FRS is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, England, and a widely known popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is the first recipient of the , awarded jointly by the LMS and the IMA for his work on promoting mathematics.-Biography:Stewart was born...

10/05/2001
John Stewart
John Stewart
- Academia and literature :*John Stewart of Baldynneis , Scottish courtier and writer*John "Walking" Stewart , English traveller and philosopher*John Alexander Stewart , Scottish scholar of Burmese...

23/05/1776
Matthew Stewart 21/06/1764 January 1717 – 23 January 1785
Robert William Stewart 19/03/1970 21 August 1923 – 19 January 2005
Frederick Henry Stewart 19/03/1964 16 January 1916 – 9 December 2001
William Duncan Paterson Stewart
William Stewart (scientist)
Sir William Duncan Paterson Stewart, FRS, FRSE was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999–2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority...

17/03/1977
Keith Stewartson 18/03/1965 20 September 1925 – 7 May 1983
Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm was a Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet. Stiernhielm was born in a middle-class family in the village Svartskär in Vika parish in Dalarna...

09/12/1669 7 August 1598 – 22 April 1672
Walter Stiles 10/05/1928 23 August 1886 – 19 April 1966
Walter Stanley Stiles 21/03/1957 15 June 1901 – 15 December 1985
Edward Stillingfleet
Edward Stillingfleet (physician)
-Life:He was the eldest son of Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, educated at St Paul's School. He was a Lady Margaret scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, matriculating 1678, graduating B.A. in 1682, M.A. in 1685, and M.D. in 1692....

30/11/1688 c 1660 – June 1708
Bruce William Stillman
Bruce William Stillman
Bruce William Stillman, AO, FRS is a biochemist and cancer researcher who has served as the Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1994 and President since 2003. He has simultaneously served as the Director of its since 1992...

11/03/1993
George Stinton 23/05/1776 c 1730 – 30 April 1783
Charles Stirling
Charles Stirling
Sir Charles Stirling was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy.-Early life and career:Charles Stirling was born in London on 28 April 1760 and baptised at St. Albans on 15 May. The son of Admiral Sir Walter Stirling, he was born into a family with a long and proud naval tradition. Stirling joined the...

19/06/1806 28 April 1760 – 7 November 1833
Charles James Matthew Stirling 20/03/1986
Edward Hamilton Stirling 03/05/1838
James Stirling
James Stirling (mathematician)
James Stirling was a Scottish mathematician. The Stirling numbers and Stirling's approximation are named after him.-Biography:...

03/11/1726 1692 – 5 December 1770
Edward Charles Stirling
Edward Charles Stirling
Sir Edward Charles Stirling was an Australian anthropologist and the first professor of physiology at the University of Adelaide.-Early life:...

01/06/1893 8 September 1848 – 20 March 1919
James Stirling
James Stirling (judge)
Sir James Stirling FRS was a British barrister, judge, and amateur scientist. In his youth he demonstrated exceptional ability in mathematics, becoming Senior Wrangler at Cambridge in 1860, regarded at the time as "the highest intellectual achievement attainable in Britain"...

24/04/1902 3 May 1836 – 27 June 1916
Walter Stirling
Walter Stirling
Admiral Sir Walter Stirling was an admiral in the Royal Navy.Born in 1718, Walter Stirling entered the Royal Navy. He was made "The Regulating Captain of the Impress at the Tower". On 30 October 1753 he married Dorothy Willing, the daughter of Charles Willing, a Philadelphia merchant...

05/03/1801 24 June 1758 – ? 26 August 1832
William James Stirling 13/05/1999
Bruce Arnold Dunbar Stocker 17/03/1966 26 May 1917 – 30 August 2004
James Stodart 07/06/1821 c 1760 – 11 September 1823
James Fraser Stoddart
James Fraser Stoddart
Sir James Fraser Stoddart is a Scottish chemist currently at the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He works in the area of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology...

10/03/1994
Boris Peter Stoicheff 20/03/1975
Michael George Parke Stoker
Michael Stoker
Sir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS MD FRCP is a British physician.He studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWII...

21/03/1968
Charles Stokes 18/01/1821 1784 – 28 December 1853
George Gabriel Stokes
George Gabriel Stokes
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS , was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important contributions to fluid dynamics , optics, and mathematical physics...

05/06/1851 14 August 1819 – 1 February 1903
William Stokes 06/06/1861 1804 – ? 10 January 1878
Edmund Stone
Edmund Stone
Reverend Edward Stone was a Church of England Rector who discovered the active ingredient of Aspirin.- Biography :Edward Stone was born in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England in 1702 into a family that had been farming in Princes Risborough since 1580...

15/04/1725
Edward James Stone
Edward James Stone
Edward James Stone was an English astronomer.He was born in Notting Hill, London to Roger and Elizabeth Stone...

04/06/1868 28 February 1831 – 9 May 1897
Francis Gordon Albert Stone
F. Gordon A. Stone
Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE, FRS, FRSC was an English chemist who was a prolific and decorated scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main group and transition metal organometallic compounds. He received his B.A. in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1951, both from Cambridge University, England, where...

18/03/1976
Arthur Marshall Stoneham 16/03/1989 18 May 1940 –18 February 2011
Robert Stoneley 16/05/1935 14 May 1894 – 02
Edmund Clifton Stoner
Edmund Clifton Stoner
Edmund Clifton Stoner was a British theoretical physicist. He is principally known for his work on the origin and nature of itinerant ferromagnetism , including the collective electron theory of ferromagnetism...

06/05/1937 2 October 1899 – 27 December 1968
Bindon Blood Stoney
Bindon Blood Stoney
Bindon Blood Stoney FRS was an Irish architect, and engineer.-Life:In 1853, he was Resident Engineer on the Boyne Viaduct under James Barton....

02/06/1881 13 June 1828 – 5 May 1909
George Gerald Stoney 04/05/1911 28 November 1863 – 15 May 1942
George Johnstone Stoney
George Johnstone Stoney
George Johnstone Stoney was an Irish physicist most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity"....

06/06/1861 15 February 1826 – 5 July 1911
John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield
John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield
John Sebastian Bach Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield KBE FRCS FRCP FRS was a British peer, a physician and anatomist, and a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. Lord Stopford was described as "one of the greatest anatomists of this century".-Early life and education:Stopford was...

12/05/1927 25 June 1888 – 6 March 1961
John Storer 27/06/1816
Harold Haydon Storey 21/03/1946 10 June 1894 – 5 April 1969
Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne 02/06/1870 3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911
Anthony Mervin Reeve Story 27/11/1823 8 May 1791 – 15 May 1879
Michael James Stowell 15/03/1984
Edward Hardinge John Stracey 07/06/1810 September 1768 – 14 July 1851
John Strachey
John Strachey (geologist)
John Strachey was a British geologist.He was born in Chew Magna, England, a member of the Strachey Baronets. He inherited estates including Sutton Court from his father at three years of age. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford and was admitted at Middle Temple, London, in 1688...

05/11/1719 10 May 1671 – 11 June 1743
Richard Strachey
Richard Strachey
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey, GCSI, FRS , British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton Court, Stowey, Somerset...

01/06/1854 24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908
Reginald Edward Stradling 18/03/1943 12 May 1891 – 26 January 1952
Aubrey Strahan
Aubrey Strahan
Sir Aubrey Strahan KBE FRS was a British geologist. He won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1919....

11/06/1903 20 April 1852 – 4 March 1928
William John Strang 17/03/1977 29 June 1921 – 14 September 1999
Alexander Strange 02/06/1864 27 April 1818 – 9 March 1876
John Strange
John Strange (diplomat)
-Biography:He was the second and only surviving son of Sir John Strange, by his wife Susan, eldest daughter of Edward Strong of Greenwich, was born at Barnet in 1732, and educated privately and at Clare Hall, Cambridge , whence he graduated B.A. in 1753, and M.A. in 1755...

10/04/1766 1732 – 19 March 1799
Giles Strangeways 11/12/1673 3 June 1615 – 20 July 1675
William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
William Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester
William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, 4th Earl of Ilchester FRS , styled The Honourable William Fox-Strangways until 1858, was a British diplomat and Whig politician...

08/03/1821 7 May 1795 – 10 January 1865
Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough
Edward Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough
Edward Augustus Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough FRS , styled The Honourable from 1763 to 1777 and Viscount Amiens in the latter year, was an Irish peer and Whig politician.-Background:...

29/05/1777
William Samuel Stratford
William Samuel Stratford
William Samuel Stratford was an English astronomer born in Eltham, Surrey.He joined the Royal Navy in 1806 under the command of Sir Sydney Smith...

09/06/1832 22 May 1789 – 29 March 1853
James Lyon Strathmore 11/05/1732 ? December 1702 – 4 January 1735
Simone Stratico 19/01/1764 1733 – 16 July 1824
Joseph Straton 06/05/1830
Michael Rudolf Stratton  16/05/2008
Frederick John Marrian Stratton 20/03/1947 16 October 1881 – 2 September 1960
George Frederick Stratton 05/02/1807 17 October 1779 – ? 1833
Nicholas James Strausfeld
Nicholas Strausfeld
Nicholas James Strausfeld FRS is Regents Professor at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Director, Center for Insect Science, University of Arizona.He received a B.Sc. and Ph.D...

09/05/2002
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland , was an English geologist, ornithologist,naturalist, and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. [q...

03/06/1852 2 March 1811 – ? 13 September 1853
Christopher Brian Stringer
Chris Stringer
Christopher Brian Stringer FRS, better known as Chris Stringer, is a British anthropologist.He is one of the leading proponents of the recent single-origin hypothesis or "Out of Africa" theory, which hypothesizes that modern humans originated in Africa over 100,000 years ago and replaced the...

27/05/2004
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC, FRS , was a British Liberal Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.-Background and education:...

22/03/1860 26 October 1801 – 30 June 1880
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh 12/06/1873 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh
Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh was a British peer and physicist. He discovered "active nitrogen", was the first to distinguish the glow of the night sky....

11/05/1905 28 August 1875 – 13 December 1947
William Strutt
William Strutt (inventor)
William Strutt FRS, was a cotton spinner in Belper, England.-Biography:Strutt was the first son of Jedediah Strutt and, after a good education, joined his father's business at the age of fourteen...

26/06/1817 20 July 1756 – 29 December 1830
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve 15/03/1827 15 April 1793 – 23 November 1864
Otto Struve
Otto Struve
Otto Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve ; however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the United States...

29/04/1954 12 August 1897 – 6 April 1963
Nicholas Struyck 22/02/1750 1686–1769
Paul Edmund de Strzelecki 02/06/1853 20 July 1797 – 6 October 1873, German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 explorer and geologist
John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe 04/06/1829 20 April 1801 – 22 October 1855
Alexander Stuart
Alexander Stuart (scientist)
Alexander Stuart FRS FRCP was a British natural philosopher and physicist.He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland.He graduated from Marischal College in 1691 with an MA and became a ship's surgeon, serving on the London from 1701 to 1704 and on the Europe from 1704 to 1707...

30/11/1714 c 1673 – 15 September 1742
Charles Stuart 25/02/1720 c 1682 – 15 February 1770
David Ian Stuart 14/03/1996
James Stuart
James Stuart (1713-1788)
James "Athenian" Stuart was an English archaeologist, architect and artist best known for his central role in pioneering Neoclassicism.-Early life:...

27/04/1758 1713 – 2 February 1788
John Trevor Stuart
John Trevor Stuart
John Trevor Stuart is a mathematician working in theoretical fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability of fluid flows and nonlinear partial differential equations....

21/03/1974
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, PC, FRS was a British nobleman.He was the son of the 3rd Earl of Bute and the former Mary Wortley Montagu, a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich...

12/12/1799 30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814
Nicholas Stuart 24/10/1667 c 1616 – 15 February 1710 Chamberlain of Exchequer, MP
Cyril James Stubblefield
Cyril James Stubblefield
Sir James Stubblefield FRS was a British geologist. Stubblefield was the President of the Geological Society of London from 1958 to 1960 and was the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1960 until 1966.-Early life:...

16/03/1944 6 September 1901 – 23 October 1999
Philip Stubs 30/11/1703 2 October 1665 – 13 September 1738
William Stukeley
William Stukeley
William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA was an English antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury, work for which he has been remembered as "probably... the most important of the early forerunners of the discipline of archaeology"...

13/03/1718 7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765
William Sturges-Bourne 20/04/1826 8 November 1769 – 1 February 1845
Alvaro Lopez Suasso 24/04/1735
Charles Walter Suckling
Charles Suckling
Charles Walter Suckling, Commander of the Order of the British Empire is a British chemist who first synthesised halothane, a volatile inhalational anaesthetic in 1951, while working at the Imperial Chemical Industries Central Laboratory in Widnes.-Biography:He was born in Teddington, London,...

16/03/1978
Willie Sucksmith 14/03/1940 21 September 1896 – 16 September 1981
Jean Joseph Sue 18/12/1760 20 April 1710 – 15 December 1792
Thomas Le Sueur 10/12/1741
Samuel Sugden
Samuel Sugden
Samuel Sugden, FRS was an eminent chemist in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Leeds on 21 February 1892 and educated at Batley Grammar School and the Royal College of Science. After war time service with the BEF he was a Research Chemist the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich following which...

03/05/1934 21 February 1892 – 20 October 1950
Theodore Morris Sugden 21/03/1963 31 December 1919 – 3 January 1984
Richard Joseph Sullivan
Sir Richard Sullivan, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan, 1st Baronet was a British MP and writer.-Biography:He was born the third son of Benjamin Sullivan of Dromeragh, Co. Cork, by his wife Bridget, daughter of Paul Limrick, D.D....

22/12/1785 10 December 1752 – 17 July 1806 Baronet, MP
John Edward Sulston
John E. Sulston
Sir John Edward Sulston FRS is a British biologist. He is a joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.He is currently Chair of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester....

20/03/1986
Roger Everett Summons  16/05/2008
John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury 14/12/1848 25 February 1780 – 6 September 1862
Daniel de Superville 12/02/1741 1696 – c 1770
Richard Brooke Supple 01/05/1788 6 January 1758 – 27 November 1829
Mriganka Sur
Mriganka Sur
Mriganka Sur is an Indian-born neuroscientist working in the USA.-Biography:Sur did his early schooling in Allahabad, India at the St. Joseph's Collegiate School...

18/05/2006
M Azim Surani 15/03/1990
Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe 21/03/1957 16 November 1904 – 28 May 1991
Alexander John Sutherland 18/06/1846 7 April 1811 – 31 January 1867
Alexander Robert Sutherland 13/03/1828 c 1772 – 24 May 1861
Grant Robert Sutherland 14/03/1996
Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland 17/03/1949 8 April 1907 – 27 June 1980
Adrian Peter Sutton 15/05/2003
John Sutton 17/03/1966 8 July 1919 – 6 September 1992 Geologist
Leslie Ernest Sutton 16/03/1950 22 June 1906 – 30 October 1992
Oliver Graham Sutton
Graham Sutton
Sir Graham Sutton CBE FRS was a British mathematician and meteorologist.He was educated at Pontywaun Grammar School, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Jesus College, Oxford .He was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham,...

17/03/1949 5 February 1903 – 26 May 1977
Jesper Qualmann Svejstrup  15/05/2009
William Swainson 14/12/1820 8 October 1789 – 7 December 1855
John Crossley Swallow 21/03/1968 11 October 1923 – 3 December 1994
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan 15/03/1973
Joseph Wilson Swan 07/06/1894 31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914
Michael Meredith Swann, Baron Swann of Coln St Denys
Michael Swann
Michael Meredith Swann, Baron Swann, FRS was a distinguished molecular and cell biologist working on the mechanisms of cell division and fertilisation. He used cell polarisation methods to understand the changes in molecular organisation of the mitotic spindle...

15/03/1962 1 March 1920 – 22 September 1990
Clement Tudway Swanston 14/03/1839 1783 – 19 April 1863
Govind Swarup
Govind Swarup
Professor Govind Swarup, of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , is an internationally renowned radio astronomer and one of the pioneers of radio astronomy...

14/03/1991
Sir Martin Nicholas Sweeting 11/05/2000
Gerhard van Swieten 04/05/1749 7 May 1700 – 18 June 1772
James Swinburne
James Swinburne
Sir James Swinburne FRS was a British electrical engineer and manufacturer. He was born in Inverness in 1858 into a well-known Northumbrian family. Educated at Clifton College, he went to work at a locomotive works in Manchester and later to a Tyneside firm where he became interested in electrical...

03/05/1906 28
John Edward Swinburne 26/02/1818 6 March 1762 – 26 September 1860
Philip van Swinden 02/04/1772 fl 1772–1787
Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe
Robert Swinhoe FRS , was an English naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He discovered many Southeast Asian birds and several, such as Swinhoe's Pheasant, are named after him.-Biography:...

01/06/1876 1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877
Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer 16/03/1967
Sidney Swinney 16/02/1764
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton 06/05/1915 19 October 1863 – 19 February 1930
John Swinton 16/10/1729 1703 – 4 April 1777
Philip Sydenham 30/11/1700 c 1676 – 10 October 1739
Alfred Geoffrey Sykes 13/05/1999
Brian Douglas Sykes 11/05/2000
Charles Sykes 18/03/1943 27 February 1905 – 29 January 1982 Metallurgist
Richard Brook Sykes 15/05/1997
William Henry Sykes
William Henry Sykes
Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837...

06/02/1834 25 January 1790 – 16 June 1872
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory and combinatorics...

25/04/1839 3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897 mathematician
Jacobus Sylvius 09/03/1687 c 1647–1689
Michael Symes 18/12/1800 c 1753 – 22 January 1809 Diplomat & Soldier
Johnson Symington 11/06/1903 9 September 1851 – 24 February 1924
Robert Symmer 15/11/1753
John Symmons 10/07/1794
William Symonds
William Symonds
Sir William Symonds FRS was "Surveyor of the Navy" in the Royal Navy from 9 June 1832 to October 1847, and took part in the naval reforms instituted by the Whig First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Robert George Graham in 1832.-Early life:He was the second son...

04/06/1835 24 September 1782 – 30 March 1856
George James Symons
George James Symons
George James Symons was a British meteorologist who founded and managed the British Rainfall Organisation, an unusually dense and widely distributed network of rainfall data collection sites throughout the British Isles....

06/06/1878 6 August 1838 – 10 March 1900
Martyn Christian Raymond Symons 21/03/1985 12 November 1925 – 29 January 2002
Robert Henry Symons 17/03/1988 20 March 1934 – 4 October 2006
John Lighton Synge
John Lighton Synge
John Lighton Synge was an Irish mathematician and physicist.-Background:Synge was born 1897 in Dublin, Ireland, in a Protestant family and educated at St. Andrew's College, Dublin. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1915...

18/03/1943 23 March 1897 – 30 March 1995
Richard Laurence Millington Synge 16/03/1950 28 October 1914 – 18 August 1994
Michael Szwarc
Michael Szwarc
Michael Szwarc was a British and American polymer chemist who discovered and studied ionic living polymerization.- Biography :...

17/03/1966 19 June 1909 – 4 August 2000 polymer chemistry

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David Tabor
David Tabor
David Tabor was a British physicist who coined the word tribology for the study of frictional interaction between surfaces.He was Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, then Emeritus professor...

21/03/1963 23 October 1913 – 26 November 2005
Carlo Taglini 01/02/1733 1679 – 18 September 1747
Archibald Campbell Tait
Archibald Campbell Tait
Archibald Campbell Tait was a priest in the Church of England and an Archbishop of Canterbury.-Life:Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tait was educated at the Royal High School and at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was twice elected dux. His parents were Presbyterian but he early turned towards the...

27/01/1859 21 December 1811 – ? 1 December 1882
James Francis Tait 19/03/1959
Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait 19/03/1959 8 January 1917 – 28 February 2003 UK Biochemist
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot
Charles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Ingestre between 1784 and 1793, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 and 1821....

06/05/1813 25 April 1777 – 10 January 1849
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot FRS was a landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician. He developed his estate at Margam near Swansea as an extensive ironworks, served by railways and a port, which was re-named Port Talbot.-Early life:Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot was born at Penrice, Swansea,...

17/03/1831 10 May 1803 – 17 January 1890
James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide
James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide
James Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide FRS , was an Anglo-Irish Liberal politician and amateur archaeologist....

18/02/1858 22 November 1805 – 14 April 1883
Gilbert Talbot 22/04/1663 c 1607 – ? July 1695 Original
John Talbot 29/07/1663 7 June 1630 – 13 March 1714
William Talbot 16/12/1742 c 1719–1768
William Henry Fox Talbot 17/03/1831 11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877
John Francis Talling 16/03/1978 British Limnologist
Henry William Lloyd Tanner
Henry Tanner (mathematician)
Henry William Lloyd Tanner was Professor of Mathematics at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1883 to 1909.-Life:...

01/06/1899 17 February 1851 – 6 March 1915
Joseph Tanner 30/11/1710
Roger Ian Tanner 10/05/2001 rheologist
Arthur George Tansley 06/05/1915 15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955
Terence Chi-Shen Tao
Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

17/05/2007
Jamshed Rustom Tata 15/03/1973 Medical Research, London
Henry Tattam
Henry Tattam
Henry Tattam was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.-Life:Tattam was Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford, 1822-1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of Great Woolstone, Buckinghamshire...

05/02/1835 ? 28 December 1788 – 8 January 1868
Richard Taunton 02/04/1835 c 1774 – 26 March 1838
George Frederic Tavel 29/01/1818 c 1773 – 26 April 1829 English clergyman
Roger John Tayler 09/03/1995 25 October 1929 – 23 January 1997
Alfred Swaine Taylor
Alfred Swaine Taylor
Alfred Swaine Taylor was an English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine"...

20/11/1845 11 December 1806 – 27 May 1880
Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor
Brook Taylor FRS was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.- Life and work :...

20/03/1712 18 August 1685 – 30 November 1731
Charles Taylor 01/11/1722 c 1693 – 6 July 1766 MP for Totnes, Barrister
Edward Wilfred Taylor 20/03/1952 29 April 1891 – 1 November 1980 UK Optics Manufacturer
Edwin William Taylor 16/03/1978
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor, described him as "one of the most notable scientists of this century".-Biography:Taylor was born in St. John's Wood, London...

15/05/1919 7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975
George Taylor
George Taylor (botanist)
Sir George Taylor FRS FRSE FLS was a Scottish botanist.Taylor was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1956–71.- References :...

21/03/1968 15 February 1904 – 13 November 1993
George Watson Taylor 16/02/1826
Henry Martyn Taylor
Henry Martyn Taylor
Henry Martyn Taylor, F.R.S., F.R.A.S. , was an English mathematician and barrister.Henry Martyn Taylor was the second son of the Rev. James Taylor and Eliza Johnson. He was educated in Wakefield and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A...

09/06/1898 6 June 1842 – 16 October 1927
Hugh Stott Taylor
Hugh Stott Taylor
Hugh Stott Taylor was an English chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1928, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalyzed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain ‘active sites’ or centers.He...

05/05/1932 6 February 1890 – 17 April 1971
James Haward Taylor 24/03/1960 24 February 1909 – 25 January 1968 British Geologist
John Taylor
John Taylor (Civil Engineer)
John Taylor was an English land surveyor and civil engineer. He was born in Norwich, England and showed an interest in mining at a young age; in 1796 he improvised a mechanised copper ore crusher at Wheal Friendship, a mine just outside of Tavistock, Devon. This machine was improved over time and...

05/05/1825 22 August 1779 – 5 April 1863
John Bryan Taylor
John Bryan Taylor
John Bryan Taylor is a British physicist known for his important contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity...

19/03/1970
John Clayton Taylor 19/03/1981 Mathematical physicist
John Taylor 09/05/1776 c 1744 – 8 May 1786 Baronet
John Michael Taylor 14/05/1998
Martin John Taylor
Martin J. Taylor
Sir Martin John Taylor FRS was professor of pure mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester and, prior to its formation and merger, UMIST where he was appointed to a chair after moving from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1986...

14/03/1996
Richard Edward Taylor 15/05/1997
Richard Lawrence Taylor
Richard Taylor (mathematician)
-External links:**...

09/03/1995 mathematician
Robert Taylor 23/06/1737 April 1710 – 15 May 1762 physician
Thomas Glanville Taylor 10/02/1842 22 November 1804 – 4 May 1848
William Taylor 03/05/1934 11 June 1865 – 28 February 1937 Mechanical Engineer
William Taylor 21/01/1836
Thomas Pridgin Teale 05/06/1862 1800 – 31 December 1867 English Surgeon
Thomas Pridgin Teale 07/06/1888 28 June 1831 – 13 November 1923 English Surgeon
Jethro Justinian Harris Teall 05/06/1890 5 January 1849 – 2 July 1924
Michael Teighe 10/03/1774
George Lewis Teissier 04/11/1725
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.-Early career:...

31/05/1827 9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834
William Tempest
William Tempest
William Tempest is a British fashion designer from Cheshire, England. He studied a National Diploma in Fashion at Mid Cheshire College...

01/12/1712 16 April 1682 – 15 August 1761
George Frederick James Temple
George Frederick James Temple
Dom George Frederick James Temple FRS OSB was an English mathematician, recipient of the Sylvester Medal in 1969...

18/03/1943 2 September 1901 – 30 January 1992
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston 17/03/1853 20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston FRS was a British politician.-Life:He succeeded to the peerage in 1757, and was educated at Clare College, Cambridge from 1757 to 1759...

07/11/1776 4 December 1739 – 16 April 1802
Richard Temple
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, FRS, GCSI, CIE, PC was an administrator in British India and a British politician.-Career:...

12/03/1896 8 March 1826 – 15 March 1902
James Francis Tennant
James Francis Tennant
Lieutenant-General James Francis Tennant was a noted soldier and astronomer.He was born in Calcutta to Scottish parents...

03/06/1869 10 January 1829 – 6 March 1915
Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant
Smithson Tennant FRS was an English chemist.Tennant is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1803. He also contributed to the proof of the identity of diamond and charcoal. The mineral tennantite is...

13/01/1785 30 November 1761 – 22 February 1815
John Van Brugh Tennent 13/06/1765 1737–1770 Physician, Princeton Univ.
James Emerson Tennent
James Emerson Tennent
Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1st Baronet FRS , born James Emerson, was an Irish politician and traveller. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 June 1862....

05/06/1862 7 April 1804 – 6 March 1869
Eustace Henry William Tennyson D'Eyncourt 12/05/1921 1 April 1868 – 1 February 1951
Charles Tennyson D’Eyncourt
Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt
Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt , born Charles Tennyson, was a British politician, landowner and Member of Parliament for Stamford from 1831 to 1832 and for Lambeth from 1832 to 1852...

19/02/1829 July 1784 – 21 July 1861
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language....

01/06/1865 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892
Jonathan Tennyson  15/05/2009 Physicist UCL
Christopher Terne
Christopher Terne
-Life:He was born in Cambridgeshire, entered the University of Leyden on 22 July 1647, and there graduated M.D. In May 1650 he was incorporated first at Cambridge and then at Oxford. He was examined as a candidate at the College of Physicians on 10 May 1650, and was elected a fellow on 15 November...

20/05/1663 1620 – 1 December 1673 (Original) Physician, London
Charles Terry 05/12/1833
Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Marc Trevor Tessier-Lavigne is a Canadian-American neuroscientist who is president of The Rockefeller University in New York City. He was formerly executive vice president for research and the chief scientific officer at Genentech. Tessier-Lavigne succeeded Nobel laureate Paul Nurse...

10/05/2001 Medical Scientist
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

30/06/1983 Statute
James Theobald 04/11/1725
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford PC KC FRS was a British jurist and Conservative politician. He was twice Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Early life:...

19/06/1845 15 April 1794 – 5 October 1878
Louis Jean Le Thieuillier 22/02/1750
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer KCMG FRS FLS was a leading British botanist, and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.- Life and career :Thiselton-Dyer was born in Westminster, London...

03/06/1880 28 July 1843 – 23 December 1928
Alexander Thistlethwayte 21/04/1757 c 1718 – 15 October 1771
David Thoday
David Thoday
David Thoday FRS was a botanist. He was Harry Bolus professor of botany, University of Cape Town and later professor at the University College of North Wales 1923-1949. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942. His son was the geneticist John Thoday...

19/03/1942 5 May 1883 – 30 March 1964
John Marion Thoday 18/03/1965 30 August 1916 - 25 August 2008
Henry George Thode 18/03/1954 10 September 1910 – 22 March 1997
Frederic de Thom 06/11/1729 fl 1723–1736
Edward Thomas 08/06/1871 31 December 1813 – 10 February 1886 Antiquarian
Edward Thomas 21/06/1770
Herbert Henry Thomas
Herbert Henry Thomas
Herbert Henry Thomas FRS was a British geologist who linked the bluestones at Stonehenge with rocks in south west Wales. He won the Murchison Medal....

12/05/1927 13 March 1876 – 12 May 1935
Honoratus Leigh Thomas 16/01/1806 26 March 1769 – 26 June 1846 British Physician
Hugh Hamshaw Thomas
Hugh Hamshaw Thomas
Hugh Hamshaw "Ham" Thomas, MBE, FRS, FLS, , was a British paleobotanist.He was born in Wrexham the son of J.T. Thomas and educated at Grove Park School, Wrexham and Downing College, Cambridge .He became a university lecturer in Botany and a Fellow of the college. He was also curator of the museum...

03/05/1934 29 May 1885 – 30 June 1962
Jean Olwen Thomas 20/03/1986
John Meurig Thomas
John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS is a leading British chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science. He has authored over one thousand scientific articles and several books, including Principles and Practice of...

17/03/1977
Meirion Thomas 17/03/1949 28 December 1894 – 5 April 1977 Botanist, Newcastle Univ.
Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas 06/06/1901 21 February 1858 – 16 June 1929
Noah Thomas 25/01/1753 1720 – 17 May 1792 London Physician
Robert Kemeys Thomas
Robert K. Thomas
Robert Kemeys Thomas FRS is a physical chemist working in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford....

14/05/1998 Physical Chemist, Oxford Univ.
Roger Christopher Thomas 16/03/1989
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford 22/04/1779 26 March 1753 – 25 August 1814
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, written largely in Dundee in 1915...

11/05/1916 2 May 1860 – 21 June 1948
Harold Warris Thompson
Harold Warris Thompson
Sir Harold Warris Thompson was an English physical chemist.He was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, the son of William Thompson, a colliery executive, and Charlotte Emily. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Sheffield, then at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was tutored by Cyril Norman...

21/03/1946 15 February 1908 – 31 December 1983
John Griggs Thompson 15/03/1979
John Michael Tutill Thompson 21/03/1985 Mechanical Engineer
Robert Henry Stewart Thompson 21/03/1974 2 February 1912 – 16 January 1998 Biochemist
Peter Thompson 20/11/1746
Silvanus Phillips Thompson 04/06/1891 19 June 1851 – 12 June 1916
Theophilus Thompson
Theophilus Thompson
Theophilus Augustus Thompson is considered the first African-American chess player recognized in the United States. In addition to competing in tournaments, he wrote a book Chess Problems: Either to Play and Mate published in 1873.-Early life and education:Thompson was born into slavery in...

22/01/1846 20 September 1807 – 11 August 1860
Thomas Perronet Thompson
Thomas Perronet Thompson
Thomas Perronet Thompson was a British Parliamentarian, a Governor of Sierra Leone and a radical reformer.Thompson was born in Kingston upon Hull in 1783. He was son of Thomas Thompson, a merchant of Hull and his wife, Philothea Perronet Briggs...

20/11/1828 15 March 1783 – 6 September 1869
William Robin Thompson 11/05/1933 29 June 1887 – 30 January 1972 Canadian biologist
Alexander Thomson 09/02/1786 1744 – 15 April 1817 Lawyer
Allen Thomson 09/06/1848 2 April 1809 – 21 March 1884
Andrew James Thomson 11/03/1993
George Paget Thomson
George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.-Biography:...

15/05/1930 3 May 1892 – 10 September 1975
James Thomson 20/12/1821 6 February 1779 – 17 September 1850
James Thomson
James Thomson (engineer)
right|300px|James Thomson was an engineer and physicist whose reputation is substantial though it is overshadowed by that of his younger brother William Thomson .-Biography:Born in Belfast, he grew up mostly in Glasgow...

07/06/1877 16 February 1822 – 8 May 1892 Engineer
John Thomson 03/06/1824 15 March 1765 – 11 October 1846 Physician
John Deas Thomson 16/11/1820 c 1763 – 21 February 1838
John Millar Thomson 03/06/1897 7 March 1849 – 22 March 1933
Joseph John Thomson 12/06/1884 18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940
Robert Dundas Thomson 01/06/1854 21 September 1810 – 17 August 1864
Samuel Wells Thomson 08/11/1770 c 1740 – ? September 1778
Thomas Thomson 28/03/1811 12 April 1773 – 2 July 1852
Thomas Thomson 07/06/1855 4 December 1817 – 18 April 1878
William Thomson 16/03/1786 1761 – Physician
William Thomson 19/02/1863 11 February 1819 – 25 December 1890
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...

05/06/1851 26 June 1824 – 17 December 1907
Wyville Thomas Charles Thomson 03/06/1869 5 March 1830 – 10 March 1882
Ralph Thoresby
Ralph Thoresby
Ralph Thoresby , born in Leeds and is widely credited with being the first historian of that city. He was besides a merchant, non-conformist, fellow of the Royal Society, diarist, author, common-councilman in the Corporation of Leeds, and museum keeper.-Upbringing:Ralph Thoresby was the son of John...

30/11/1697 16 August 1658 – 16 October 1725
Richard Thorne 05/06/1890 13 October 1841 – 18 December 1899
John Isaac Thornycroft
John Isaac Thornycroft
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was a British shipbuilder, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company and member of the Thornycroft family.-Biography:He was born in 1843 to Mary Francis and Thomas Thornycroft....

01/06/1893 1 February 1843 – 28 June 1928
James Thornhill
James Thornhill
Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects, in the Italian baroque tradition.-Life:...

02/05/1723 1675 – 13 May 1734
Henry Sykes Thornton 10/04/1834 28 May 1800 – 29 November 1881
Janet Maureen Thornton 13/05/1999
Edward Thornton
Edward Thornton (1766–1852)
Sir Edward Thornton was a British diplomat, and father of Sir Edward Thornton .He was born in London, the third son of an innkeeper, but orphaned at an early age. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at Pembroke College, Cambridge...

07/06/1810 22 October 1766 – 3 July 1852
Henry Gerard Thornton 20/03/1941 22 January 1892 – 6 February 1977 UK Microbiologist
Charles Thorp
Charles Thorp
Charles Thorp was an English churchman, rector of the parish of Ryton and, later, Archdeacon of Durham and the first warden of the University of Durham.-Life:...

30/05/1839 13 October 1783 – 10 October 1862
John Thorpe 30/11/1705 12 March 1682 – 30 November 1750 antiquarian
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Jocelyn Field Thorpe
Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe FRS was an English chemist who discovered the Thorpe reaction and the Thorpe-Ingold effect....

07/05/1908 1 December 1872 – 10 June 1940
Thomas Edward Thorpe
Thomas Edward Thorpe
Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, often called Edward Thorpe, was a British chemist.Born in Harpurhey, Manchester, Thorpe originally worked as a clerk, but in 1863 began working as an assistant to Henry Roscoe, a professor of chemistry at Owen's College...

01/06/1876 8 December 1845 – 23 February 1925
Stephen Austen Thorpe 14/03/1991
William Homan Thorpe
William Homan Thorpe
William Homan Thorpe FRS was Professor of Animal Ethology at the University of Cambridge, and a significant British zoologist, ethologist and ornithologist....

15/03/1951 1 April 1902 – 7 April 1986
David James Thouless 15/03/1979
Richard Threlfall
Richard Threlfall
Sir Richard Threlfall FRS was an English chemist and engineer, he established the School of Physics at the University of Sydney and made important contributions to military science during World War I. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1899, and was created K.B.E. in 1917 and G.B.E...

01/06/1899 14 August 1861 – 10 July 1932
Brian Arthur Thrush 18/03/1976
Malachy Thruston 17/05/1665 c 1628 – 3 June 1701 Physician
Henry Edward Landor Thuillier 03/06/1869 10 July 1813 – 6 May 1906 Surveyor-General of India
Carl Peter Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....

03/04/1788 11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828
George Augustus Thursby 04/07/1816 c 1771 – 17 January 1836 Reverend
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites was an English botanist and entomologist.Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly in the lower plants such as the algae and the cryptogams...

01/06/1865 1811 – 11 September 1882 Botanist & Entomologist
Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth 23/11/1664 ? October 1640 – 28 July 1714
John Lewis Tiarks 03/03/1825 10 May 1789 – 1 May 1837 Astronomer
Cheryll Anne Tickle
Cheryll Tickle
Cheryll Tickle CBE FRS FRSE is a distinguished British scientist, known for her work in developmental biology and specifically for her research into the process by which vertebrate limbs develop ab ovo....

14/05/1998
Friedrich Tiedemann
Friedrich Tiedemann
Friedrich Tiedemann was a German anatomist and physiologist.He was born at Cassel, the eldest son of Dietrich Tiedemann , a philosopher and psychologist of considerable repute. He graduated in medicine at Marburg in 1804, but soon abandoned practice...

09/06/1832 23 August 1781 – 22 January 1861
Oscar Werner Tiegs
Oscar Werner Tiegs
Oscar Werner Tiegs was an Australian zoologist whose career spanned the first half of the 20th century.Oscar Tiegs was born on 12 March 1897, and died on 5 November 1956....

16/03/1944 12 March 1897 – 5 November 1956 , Australian zoologist,
David Syme Research Prize
David Syme Research Prize
The David Syme Research Prize is an annual award administered by the University of Melbourne for the best original research work in biology, physics, chemistry or geology, produced in Australia during the preceding two years, particular preference is given to original research to enhance industrial...

 (1928), Clarke Medal
Clarke Medal
The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.Named in honour of the Reverend William Branwhite Clarke, one of the founders of the Society...

 (1956)
Mark Aloysius Tierney
Mark Aloysius Tierney
Mark Aloysius Tierney was an English Catholic historian.-Life:After his early schooling with the Franciscans in Baddesley Green, Warwickshire, he was educated at St. Edmund's College, old Hall, which he entered in 1810 and where he was ordained priest, 19 Sept., 1818...

25/02/1841 September 1795 – 19 February 1862
Richard Tighe 30/11/1708 1678 – 27 July 1736
Robert Stearne Tighe 18/04/1793 3 March 1760 – 28 May 1835 Antiquarian
William Augustus Tilden 03/06/1880 15 August 1842 – 11 December 1926
Shirley Marie Tilghman
Shirley M. Tilghman
Shirley Marie Tilghman, FRS is a scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator, the President of Princeton University. She is the first woman to hold the position and only the second female president in the Ivy League...

09/03/1995
James Edgar Till
James Till
James Edgar Till, OC, O.Ont, FRSC is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells.-Early work:...

11/05/2000
Cecil Edgar Tilley
Cecil Edgar Tilley
Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist.He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane...

17/03/1938 14 May 1894 – 24 January 1973
Michaelangelo Tilli 30/11/1708 1655–1740 Italian Physician & Botanist
Ulrike Louise Tillmann  16/05/2008
John Tillotson
John Tillotson
John Tillotson was an Archbishop of Canterbury .-Curate and rector:Tillotson was the son of a Puritan clothier at Haughend, Sowerby, Yorkshire. He entered as a pensioner of Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1647, graduated in 1650 and was made fellow of his college in 1651...

25/01/1672 ? October 1630 – 22 November 1694
Robin John Tillyard 07/05/1925 31 January 1881 – 13 January 1937
George Tilson
George Tilson
George Tilson was a British civil servant, long-serving Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.George Tilson was the grandson of Henry Tilson, Bishop of Elphin; his brother Christopher was MP for Cricklade. From 1703 to 1706 Tilson was Secretary to the British envoy to Prussia, Baron Raby...

22/05/1735 c 1672 – 17 November 1738
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev
Kliment Timiryazev was a Russian botanist, physiologist. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrov Academy. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Timiryazevskaya station of the Moscow Metro, and a lunar crater are named after him.-External links:*...

09/11/1911 3 June 1843 – 28 April 1920 Botanist, Croonian Lecture 1903
Kenneth Nigel Timmis  16/05/2008 Microbiologist
Emanuele Timone 30/11/1703 1665–1741
Stephen Prokofievitch Timoshenko
Stephen Timoshenko
Stanford University:* Bergman, E. O., * Kurzweil, A. C., * , * Huang, Y. S., * Wang, T. K., * Weber, H. S., * , * , * , -Publications:...

15/06/1944 23 December 1878 – 29 May 1972
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.In the 1960s he...

25/03/1962 15 April 1907 – 21 December 1988
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius 09/05/1957 10 August 1902 – 29 October 1971
Anthony Tissington 29/01/1767 1703 – 21 March 1776
Simon Andre Tissot 20/03/1760 20 March 1728 – 15 June 1797
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Edward Charles "Ted" Titchmarsh was a leading British mathematician.He was educated at King Edward VII School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he began his studies in October 1917....

07/05/1931 1 June 1899 – 18 January 1963
William Tite
William Tite
Sir William Tite, CB was an English architect who served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He was particularly associated with various London buildings, with railway stations and cemetery projects....

02/04/1835 February 1798 – 20 April 1873
Isaac Titsingh
Isaac Titsingh
Isaac Titsingh FRS was a Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador.During a long career in East Asia, Titsingh was a senior official of the Dutch East India Company . He represented the European trading company in exclusive official contact with Tokugawa Japan...

22/06/1797 ? 1740 – 9 February 1812 Dutch physician.
Silas Titus 14/01/1669 c 1623 – December 1704 Politician.
Henry Thomas Tizard 06/05/1926 23 August 1885 – 9 October 1959
Thomas Henry Tizard
Thomas Henry Tizard
Thomas Henry Tizard C.B, F.R.S, R.N , was an English oceanographer, hydrographic surveyor, and navigator.He was born at Weymouth, Dorset and educated at the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich, at that time noted for its advanced mathematical training...

04/06/1891 13 March 1839 – 17 February 1924
Giuseppe Toaldo
Giuseppe Toaldo
Giuseppe Toaldo was an Italian Catholic priest and physicist.In his fourteenth year he entered the seminary of Padua, in which he subsequently taught mathematics and Italian literature...

05/06/1777 11 July 1719 – 11 November 1797
Phillip Vallentine Tobias 14/03/1996
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd of Trumpington
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd, OM, PRS FRSE was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.Todd was born near Glasgow, attended Allan Glen's School and graduated from...

19/03/1942 2 October 1907 – 10 January 1997
Charles Todd
Charles Todd
Sir Charles Todd KCMG worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory 1841-1847 and the Cambridge University observatory from 1847-1854...

15/05/1930 17 September 1869 – ? 23 September 1957
Charles Todd 06/06/1889 7 July 1826 – 29 January 1910
John Arthur Todd 18/03/1948 23 August 1908 – 22 December 1994
John Andrew Todd
John A. Todd (biologist)
John Andrew Todd FMedSci FRS is Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge and director of the JDRF/Wellcome Trust Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory where he works in collaboration with David Clayton and Linda Wicker to examine the molecular basis of type 1 diabetes.He was...

 
15/05/2009 Geneticist, Cambridge Univ.
Robert Bentley Todd
Robert Bentley Todd
Robert Bentley Todd was an Irish-born physician who is best known for describing the condition postictal paralysis in his Lumleian Lectures in 1849 now known as Todd's palsy. He was the younger brother of noted writer and minister James Henthorn Todd.- Early life :He was the son of physician...

08/02/1838 ? 7 April 1809 – 30 January 1860 physician
Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter
Isaac Todhunter FRS , was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.- Life and work :...

05/06/1862 23 November 1820 – 1 March 1884
Alexander Logie du Toit
Alexander Du Toit
Alexander Logie du Toit was a geologist from South Africa, and an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1878, du Toit was educated at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch and the University of the Cape of Good Hope...

18/03/1943 14 March 1878 – 25 February 1948
Petrus Johann du Toit
Petrus Johann du Toit
Petrus Johann du Toit was a noted South African veterinary scientist and the successor of Arnold Theiler as Director of Veterinary Services at Onderstepoort between 1927 and 1948...

15/03/1951 16 March 1888 – 13 November 1967
John Francis Toland 13/05/1999
Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky born Turlausky BSc DThPT PhD PhD DSc FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program.-Personal life:His...

20/03/1952 17 November 1907 – 4 March 1973 spectroscopist
Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart
Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart
Wilbraham Tollemache, 6th Earl of Dysart FRS , known from 1739 to 1799 as Hon. Wilbraham Tollemache, was a British politician, a younger son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart....

07/11/1805 23 October 1739 – 9 March 1821
David Tollervey 27/05/2004
George Tollet
George Tollet
George Tollet was a mathematician and naval administrator.He was born in Dublin, the son of Thomas Tollet of London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge...

11/06/1713 c 1684 – 30 November 1714
Charles Sissmore Tomes 06/06/1878 6 June 1846 – 24 October 1928
John Tomes 06/06/1850 21 March 1815 – 29 July 1895
George Pretyman Tomline
George Pretyman Tomline
Sir George Pretyman Tomline, 5th Baronet FRS was an English clergyman, theologian, Bishop of Lincoln and then Bishop of Winchester, and confidant of William Pitt the Younger...

17/03/1785 9 October 1750 – 14 November 1827
William Edward Tomline
William Edward Tomline
William Edward Pretyman Tomline was an English politician, a Member of Parliament for several constituencies.He was the son of George Pretyman Tomline, bishop...

19/11/1812 c 1786 – 28 May 1836
Charles Tomlinson
Charles Tomlinson
Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE is a British poet and translator, and also an academic and artist. He was born and raised in Penkhull in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.-Life:...

06/06/1867 27 November 1808 – 15 February 1897
Herbert Tomlinson 06/06/1889 18 November 1846 – 12 June 1931
Frederick Clifford Tompkins 17/03/1955 29 August 1910 – 5 November 1995
Robert Tompson 06/05/1702 c 1676 – ? August 1713
Nicholas Kester Tonks
Nicholas Kester Tonks
Nicholas K. Tonks FRS is a professor in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. His research is majorly focused on studying the function and regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatases.He did his undergraduate in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford...

10/05/2001 Microbiologist, Dundee Univ.
Andrew Tooke
Andrew Tooke
Andrew Tooke was an English scholar, headmaster of Charterhouse School, Gresham Professor of Geometry, Fellow of the Royal Society and translator of Tooke's Pantheon, a standard textbook for a century on Greek mythology.-Life:...

30/11/1704 1673 – 20 January 1732
Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke was an English economist known for writing on money and his work on economic statistics. After Tooke's death the Statistical Society endowed the Tooke Chair of economics at King's College London, and a Tooke Prize.In business, he served several terms between 1840 and 1852 as governor...

22/03/1821 29 February 1774 – 26 February 1858
William Tooke
William Tooke
William Tooke was a British clergyman and historian of Russia.-Life:Tooke was the second son of Thomas Tooke of St. John's, Clerkenwell, by his wife Hannah, only daughter of Thomas Mann of St. James's, Clerkenwell, whom he married in 1738...

05/06/1783 ? 29 January 1744 – 17 November 1820
William Tooke 12/03/1818 22 November 1777 – 20 September 1863
John Tooze 10/03/1994 Cancer Research,Imperial Cancer Research Fund
John Topham 15/04/1779 6 January 1746 – 19 August 1803
William Topley
William Topley (geologist)
William Topley FRS was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888....

07/06/1888 13 March 1841 – 30 September 1894
William Whiteman Carlton Topley
William Whiteman Carlton Topley
William Whiteman Carlton Topley FRS was a British bacteriologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1930.- External links :*http://mansfield.osu.edu/~sabedon/bgnws026.pdf...

15/05/1930 19 January 1886 – 21 January 1944
Justus Johann Torkos 16/01/1752 17 December 1699 – 29 October 1771
Robert Torrens
Robert Torrens (economist)
Colonel Robert Torrens was a Royal Marines officer, political economist, MP, owner of the influential Globe newspaper and prolific writer.Born in Ireland, son of Protestant Robert Torrens of Hervey Hill....

17/12/1818 1780 – 27 May 1864
Joseph Ignacio de Torres 07/12/1758
Alexander Torriano 30/11/1691 2 October 1667 – February 1717
Francesco Torti 14/11/1717 30 November 1658 – 15 February 1741
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano
Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano
Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi was an Italian mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals...

30/11/1723 6 December 1682 – 26 September 1766
Burt James Totaro  15/05/2009
Charles Tough 22/02/1750 c 1692 – 21 June 1754
Christofer Toumazou 16/05/2008
Charles Towneley
Charles Towneley
Charles Townley was an English country gentleman, antiquary and collector of the Townley Marbles ....

17/11/1842 8 January 1803 – 4 November 1876
John Towneley
John Towneley
John Towneley was an English Whig politician.He was elected at the 1841 general election as a Member of Parliament for Beverley, and held the seat until he did not stand at the 1852 general election.- Personal Life :...

04/05/1797 fl 1797–1814
Peregrine Edward Towneley 17/12/1812 c 1763 – 31 December 1847
Charles Townley 10/03/1791 1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805
George Townley 07/11/1822 c 1777 – 3 November 1854
Alain Robert Michael Townsend 12/03/1992
Albert Alan Townsend 24/03/1960
Isaac Townsend
Isaac Townsend
Isaac Townsend was an admiral in the British Royal Navy and a Member of Parliament.A post-Captain from 1720, Townsend commanded various ships. As captain of HMS Shrewsbury he took part in the expedition against Cartagena in 1741. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1744, Vice Admiral in 1746 and...

22/02/1750
John Sealy Edward Townsend 11/06/1903 7 June 1868 – 16 February 1957
Paul Kingsley Townsend
Paul Townsend
Paul Kingsley Townsend FRS is a British physicist, currently a Professor of Theoretical Physics in Cambridge University's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is notable for his work on string theory....

11/05/2000
Richard Townsend 07/06/1866 3 April 1821 – 16 October 1884 Irish mathematician.
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend Bt, KG, PC was a British Whig statesman. He served for a decade as Secretary of State, directing British foreign policy...

03/04/1706 18 April 1675 – 21 June 1738
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend
George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend, PC, FRS , known as The Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1784 and as The Earl of Leicester from 1784 to 1807, was a British peer and politician....

15/02/1781 18 April 1755 – 27 July 1811
Joseph Toynbee
Joseph Toynbee
Joseph Toynbee was an English otologist, whose career was dedicated to pathological and anatomical studies of the ear.He was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire in 1815....

10/03/1842 30 December 1815 – 7 July 1866
Bruno Tozzi 30/11/1715 1656–1743
John Montgomery Traherne 29/05/1823 5 October 1788 – 5 February 1860
James William Helenus Trail 01/06/1893 4 March 1851 – 18 September 1919
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair was a Scottish naturalist who became a leading expert on fossil fish.Born in Rhynd, Perthshire, he trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy...

02/06/1881 30 July 1840 – 24 November 1912
Francesco Travagino 10/02/1676 c 1613 –
Benjamin Travers
Benjamin Travers
Benjamin Travers was a British surgeon.He was born in Cheapside, London, the second of the ten children of Joseph Travers, a London sugar broker. After being educated at Cheshunt Grammar School, he was further educated privately before joining his father's counting house in 1799.In August, 1800 he...

16/11/1815 3 April 1783 – 6 March 1858
Morris William Travers
Morris Travers
Morris William Travers , the founding director of the Indian Institute of Science, was an English chemist who worked along with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton...

05/05/1904 24 January 1872 – 25 August 1961
Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen
Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen
Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen FRS is professor of numerical analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford....

26/05/2005
Anne Marie Treisman
Anne Treisman
Anne Marie Treisman FRS is a psychologist currently at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980...

16/03/1989
Richard Henry Treisman 10/03/1994
Scott Duncan Tremaine
Scott Tremaine
Scott Duncan Tremaine is a Canadian-born astrophysicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences. Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading astrophysicists for his contributions to the theory of solar system...

10/03/1994
Abraham Trembley
Abraham Trembley
Abraham Trembley was a Swiss naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology...

19/05/1743 3 September 1710 – 12 May 1784
David Rostron Trentham 18/03/1982
John William Trevan 21/03/1946 23 July 1887 – 13 October 1956
George Macaulay Trevelyan 18/05/1950 16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962 Statute 12
John Trevor, 3rd Baron Trevor of Bromham 14/11/1728 ? August 1695 – 27 September 1764
Robert Trevor, Viscount Hampden 13/12/1764 17 February 1706 – 22 August 1783
Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham
Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor
Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor PC was knighted in 1692 as Solicitor General and in 1695 became Attorney-General....

01/12/1707 8 March 1658 – 19 June 1730
Thomas Trevor, 2nd Baron Trevor of Bromham 09/03/1727 c 1692 – 22 March 1753
Christopher Jacob Trew 17/04/1746 26 April 1696 – 18 July 1769
Anthony James Trewavas
Anthony Trewavas
Anthony J. Trewavas is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, best known for his research in the fields of plant physiology and molecular biology....

13/05/1999
Mårten Triewald
Mårten Triewald
Mårten Triewald , sometimes referred to as Mårten Triewald the Younger, was a Swedish merchant, engineer and amateur physicist....

01/07/1731 18 November 1691 – 8 August 1747
Henry Trimen
Henry Trimen
Henry Trimen was a British botanist. He named several plants in the Dipterocarpaceae family.He was born in Paddington, London, England, the son of Richard and Marinne Trimen and the younger brother of entomologist Roland Trimen...

07/06/1888 26 October 1843 – 16 October 1896
Roland Trimen
Roland Trimen
Roland Trimen FRS was a British-South African entomologist, best-known for South African Butterflies , a collaborative work with Colonel James Henry Bowker....

07/06/1883 29 October 1840 – 25 July 1916
Henry Baker Tristram
Henry Baker Tristram
The Reverend Henry Baker Tristram FRS was an English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist.Tristram was born at Eglingham vicarage, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1846 he was ordained a priest, but he suffered from...

04/06/1868 11 May 1822 – 8 March 1906
Theodore Tronchin
Théodore Tronchin
Théodore Tronchin was a Swiss physician.-Life:A native of Geneva, he studied initially at the University of Cambridge, then transferred to the University of Leiden, where he was a pupil of Herman Boerhaave . In 1730 he obtained his medical doctorate, and subsequently practiced medicine in Amsterdam...

18/03/1762 1709 – 30 November 1781
Nicolo Troni 10/11/1715 1685–1772
John Trotter 08/07/1802 c 1766 – 6 September 1833
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter
Wilfred Trotter
Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter, FRS was a British surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery. He was also known for his studies on social psychology, most notably for his concept of the herd instinct, which he first outlined in two published papers in 1908, and later in his famous popular work Instincts of...

07/05/1931 3 November 1872 – 25 November 1939
Edward Troughton
Edward Troughton
Edward Troughton FRS was a British instrument maker who was notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments.Troughton was born at Corney, Cumberland...

15/03/1810 October 1753 – 12 June 1835
Robert Scott Troup
Robert Scott Troup
Robert Scott Troup CMG CIE FRS was a British forestry expert who spent much of his career in India.Troup was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Aberdeen and then entered Cooper's Hill College, which trained engineers and forest conservators for Indian service...

06/05/1926 13 December 1874 – 1 October 1939
Frederick Thomas Trouton
Frederick Thomas Trouton
Frederick Thomas Trouton FRS was an Irish physicist known for Trouton's Rule and experiments to detect the Earth's motion through the luminiferous aether.- Life and work :...

03/06/1897 24 November 1863 – 21 September 1922
Neil Sidney Trudinger 15/03/1997
Arthur Elijah Trueman
Arthur Elijah Trueman
Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman, FRS, was a British geologist.-Early life and career:Trueman was born in Nottingham, son of Elijah and Thirza Trueman. He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham, leaving in 1911 to become student teacher at Huntington Street School, Nottingham...

19/03/1942 26 April 1894 – 5 January 1956
William Trumbull
William Trumbull
Sir William Trumbull was an English statesman who held high office as a member of the First Whig Junto.-Biography:...

30/11/1692 6 September 1639 – 14 December 1716
Charles Brandon Trye 17/12/1807 21 August 1757 – 7 October 1811
Lap-Chee Tsui
Lap-Chee Tsui
Professor Lap-chee Tsui, OC, O.Ont is a Chinese-Canadian geneticist and currently the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong.-Personal life:Tsui was born in Shanghai...

14/03/1991
George Foster Tufnell 20/04/1758 1723 – 10 July 1788
Samuel Tufnell 04/05/1709 5 September 1682 – 21 December 1758
Samuel Tuke 20/05/1663
Charles Augustus Tulk 14/11/1822 2 June 1786 – 16 January 1849
James Tulloch 18/05/1843
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving
Endel Tulving is an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist whose research on human memory has influenced generations of psychological scientists, neuroscientists, and clinicians...

12/03/1992
Marmaduke Tunstall
Marmaduke Tunstall
Marmaduke Tunstall was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica , probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature....

11/04/1771 1743 – 11 October 1790
Martin Tupper 05/02/1835 1780 – 8 December 1844
Martin Farquhar Tupper 10/04/1845 17 July 1810 – 29 November 1889
Francois Henri Turbilly 22/04/1762 1712–1776
Alan Mathison Turing 15/03/1951 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954
Herbert Westren Turnbull 05/05/1932 31 August 1885 – 4 May 1961
Hubert Maitland Turnbull 16/03/1939 3 March 1875 – 29 September 1955
John Turnbull 17/11/1791 c 1740 – 8 August 1816
Peter EvanTurnbull 05/06/1817 1786 – ? 7 October 1852
Thomas Smith Turnbull 17/03/1831 c July 1794 – 24 March 1876
Charles Hampden Turner 24/05/1821
David Warren Turner 15/03/1973
Dawson Turner
Dawson Turner
Dawson Turner was an English banker, botanist and antiquary.-Life:Turner was the son of James Turner, head of the Gurney and Turner's Yarmouth Bank and Elizabeth Cotman, the only daughter of the mayor of Yarmouth, John Cotman. He was educated at North Walsham Grammar School, Norfolk and at Barton...

09/12/1802 18 October 1775 – 20 June 1858
Edmond Turner 11/03/1714 fl 1710–1722
Edward Turner 04/03/1830 24 June 1796 – 12 February 1837 Prof of Chemistry Univ of London
Eustace Ebenezer Turner 16/03/1939 22 May 1893 – 8 September 1966
George James Turner 16/03/1865 5 February 1798 – 9 July 1867
Grenville Turner
Grenville Turner
Grenville Turner is a research professor at the University of Manchester. He is one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry.- Education :* Todmorden Grammar School* St...

20/03/1980
Herbert Hall Turner
Herbert Hall Turner
Herbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist.-Biography:Herbert Hall Turner was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge., In 1884 he accepted the post of Chief Assistant at Greenwich Observatory and stayed there for nine years...

03/06/1897 13 August 1861 – 20 August 1930
James Johnson Turner 12/03/1992
John Stewart Turner 18/03/1982
Samuel Turner 15/01/1801 c 1749 – 2 January 1802 Captain, East India Co
Samuel Turner 21/12/1815 fl 1815
Shallet Turner
Shallet Turner
Shallet Turner FRS LL. D. was a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. As a Regius professor of Modern history he was notorious for treating the position as a sinecure.-Life:...

26/03/1741 ? September 1692 – 13 November 1762
Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner
Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner
General Sir Hilgrove Turner GCH is best known as the officer who escorted the Rosetta Stone from Egypt to England.-Military career:...

06/12/1804 12 January 1764 – 7 May 1843
William Turner 07/06/1877 7 January 1832 – 15 February 1916 Prof of Anatomy, Edinburgh
William Ernest Stephen Turner 17/03/1938 22 September 1881 – 27 October 1963
Charles Turnor 09/05/1839 10 August 1768 – 12 January 1853
Edmund Turnor 15/06/1786 1756–1829 MP for Midhurst
John Turnor 08/11/1682 c 1660 – 10 July 1719
William Bertram Turrill
William Bertram Turrill
William Bertram Turrill OBE was an English botanist.He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School...

20/03/1958 14 June 1890 – 15 December 1961
John Turton
John Turton
John Turton was born in Staffordshire and trained as a physician.He became the doctor of King George III of Great Britain and treated that monarch during bouts of his madness. His house, Brasted Place, was designed by architect Robert Adam and is one of the finest country houses in Kent. He was...

17/11/1763 15 November 1735 – 14 April 1806
Edward William Tuson 05/04/1838 25 March 1802 – 10 December 1865
George Leman Tuthill 15/03/1810 16 February 1772 – 7 April 1835
Thomas Gaskell Tutin 18/03/1982 21 April 1908 – 7 October 1987
Winifred Anne Tutin 15/03/1979 8 October 1915 – 1 May 2007
William Thomas Tutte 19/03/1987 14 May 1917 – 2 May 2002
Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton 01/06/1899 22 August 1864 – 14 July 1938
Alexander Tweedie 08/02/1838 29 August 1794 – 30 May 1884
Charles Tweedie 14/01/1819 fl 1799–1821
Peter John Twin 11/03/1993
Richard Twining 05/06/1834 5 May 1772 – 14 October 1857 Tea Merchant
Richard Twiss 09/06/1774 26 April 1747 – 5 March 1821 Traveller and writer
Travers Twiss
Travers Twiss
Sir Travers Twiss QC FRS was an English jurist.Twiss was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert Twiss. At University College, Oxford, he obtained a first-class degree in mathematics and a second in classics in 1830, and was elected a Fellow of his college, of which he was afterwards successively...

15/03/1838 19 March 1809 – 14 January 1897
Frederick William Twort
Frederick Twort
Frederick William Twort was an English bacteriologist and was the original discoverer in 1915 of bacteriophages . He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, London, was superintendent of the Brown Institute for Animals , and he was also professor of bacteriology at the University of London...

02/05/1929 22 October 1877 – 30 March 1950
Frank Twyman 15/05/1924 17 November 1876 – 6 March 1959
John Maxwell Tylden 13/04/1820 25 September 1787 – 18 May 1866
John Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney of Castlemaine
Earl Tylney
Earl Tylney, of Castlemaine in the County of Kerry, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 11 June 1731 for Richard Child, 1st Viscount Castlemaine. The Child family descended from the merchant, economist and colonial administrator Josiah Child, who on 16 July 1678 was created a...

11/12/1746 ? 1712 – 17 September 1784
Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor , was an English anthropologist.Tylor is representative of cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell...

08/06/1871 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917
Arthur Mannering Tyndall 11/05/1933 18 September 1881 – 29 October 1961
John Tyndall
John Tyndall
John Tyndall FRS was a prominent Irish 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere...

03/06/1852 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893
Thomas Tyndall 11/11/1762
Charles John Kemys Tynte
Charles John Kemys Tynte
Charles John Kemeys Tynte or Charles Kemeys-Tynte was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1832 and 1865....

18/12/1834 9 April 1800 – 16 September 1882
David Arthur John Tyrrell 19/03/1970 19 June 1925 – 2 May 2005
Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt
Thomas Tyrwhitt was an English classical scholar and critic.-Life:He was born in London, where he also died. He was educated at Eton and Queen's College, Oxford . In 1756 he was appointed under-secretary at war, in 1762 clerk of the House of Commons...

28/02/1771 27 March 1730 – 15 August 1786
Edward Tyson
Edward Tyson
Edward Tyson was a British scientist and physician, commonly regarded as the founder of modern comparative anatomy, which compares the anatomy between species....

01/12/1679 1650 – 1 August 1708
Michael Tyson 11/02/1779 19 November 1740 – 4 May 1780

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Name Election Date
Carlo Ubaldi, Count of Montefeltri 21/11/1667 1665–1667
Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde 15/03/1951 14 December 1907 – 7 January 1988 Chemist (carbon)
Robert Udny 16/06/1785 c 1725 – 8 January 1802 Collector
Antonio de Ulloa
Antonio de Ulloa
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Girault was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana.Rebellion of 1768]]....

11/12/1746 12 January 1716 – 5 July 1795 Spanish admiral, explorer & astronomer
Eric John Underwood 19/03/1970 7 September 1905 – 19 August 1980
William George Unruh
Bill Unruh
William George Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, who discovered the Unruh effect. Unruh was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in 1967, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D...

10/05/2001
Peter Nigel Tripp Unwin 17/03/1983 Molecular Biology, MRC
William Cawthorne Unwin 04/06/1886 12 December 1838 – 17 March 1933
Fulke Greville Upton 10/02/1803 3 April 1773 – 4 March 1846
John Upton 16/06/1757 27 December 1718 – ? 1784 Barrister
Benjamin D'urban
Benjamin d'Urban
Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin d'Urban, GCB, KCH, KCTS was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony .-Early career:...

10/03/1825 1777 – 25 May 1849
Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure
Andrew Ure was a Scottish doctor, scholar and chemist.-Biography:Andrew Ure was born in Glasgow, the son of Alexander Ure, a cheesemonger and his wife, Anne. He received an M.D. from Glasgow University in 1801, and served briefly as an army surgeon before settling in Glasgow, where he became a...

13/12/1821 18 May 1778 – 2 January 1857
Fritz Joseph Ursell
Fritz Ursell
Fritz Joseph Ursell FRS is a British mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially in the area of wave-structure interactions. He held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester from 1961–1990, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1972...

16/03/1972
Henry Ussher 24/11/1785
Boris Petrovich Uvarov
Boris Uvarov
Sir Boris Petrovitch Uvarov, KCMG was a Russian-British entomologist.-Biography:Boris Petrovitch Uvarov was son of Pyotr P. Uvarov, a state bank employee, and his wife, Aleksandra. He studied biology in the University of St. Petersburg, graduating in 1910. He worked as entomologist in Stavropol...

16/03/1950 5 November 1889 – 18 March 1970

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Name Election Date
Victor Beaufort Vabres de Fresars 15/07/1663 1663–1674
Thomas Vage 25/02/1779 – 1815
Michaele Bernado Valentini 10/11/1715 26 November 1657 – 18 March 1729
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...

30/05/1968 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975 Statute
Leslie Gabriel Valiant
Leslie Valiant
Leslie Gabriel Valiant is a British computer scientist and computational theorist.He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, Imperial College London, and University of Warwick where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1974. He started teaching at Harvard University in 1982 and is...

14/03/1991 computer scientist, parallel computation
Antonio Valisnieri 30/11/1703 3 May 1661 – 18 January 1730
Charles Vallancey
Charles Vallancey
General Charles Vallancey FRS was a British military surveyor sent to Ireland. He remained there and became an authority on Irish antiquities, though his theories were later judged to be fanciful and groundless.-Early life:...

04/05/1786 1721 – 8 August 1812
Rudolph de Valltravers 12/06/1755 April 1723 –
Johann Weikhard, Freiherr von Valvasor
Janez Vajkard Valvasor
Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor or simply Valvasor was a Slovenian nobleman, scientist and polymath, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London.-Biography:...

14/12/1687 20 May 1641 – September 1693, Slovenian polymath
Veronica Van Heyningen
Veronica Van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen CBE FRS is a British geneticist who specialises in the etiology of anophthalmia. She is head of medical genetics at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and the current president of The Genetics Society....

17/05/2007
John Robert Vane 21/03/1974 29 March 1927 – 19 November 2004 medicine, Nobel Prize (1982)
Nicholas, Baron Bexley Vansittart 07/02/1822 29 April 1766 – 8 February 1851
Srinivasa Varadhan
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS is an Indian-American mathematician from Madras , Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography:...

14/05/1998 mathematics, Abel Prize (2007)
Pierre Varignon
Pierre Varignon
Pierre Varignon was a French mathematician. He was educated at the Jesuit College and the University in Caen, where he received his M.A. in 1682. He took Holy Orders the following year....

29/07/1714 1654 – 22 December 1722
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley
C. F. Varley
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley was an English engineer, particularly associated with the development of the electric telegraph and the transatlantic telegraph cable.-Family:...

08/06/1871 6 April 1828 – 2 September 1883
Michael Le Vassor 14/01/1702 c 1648 – October 1718
Abraham Vater
Abraham Vater
Abraham Vater was a German anatomist from Wittenberg. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wittenberg in 1706, and his medical degree from the University of Leipzig in 1710...

15/03/1722 9 December 1684 – 18 November 1751
Janet Maria Vaughan 15/03/1979 18 October 1899 – 9 January 1993
John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery
John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery
Sir John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery KB, FRS , styled Lord Vaughan from 1643 to 1686, was Governor of Jamaica between 1675–1678....

21/01/1685 ? July 1639 – 12 January 1713
Robert Charles Vaughan
Robert Charles Vaughan
Robert Charles "Bob" Vaughan FRS is a British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory.Since 1999 he has been Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and since 1990 Fellow of the Royal Society. He did his PhD at the University of London under supervision of Theodor Estermann...

15/03/1990
William Vaughan 24/06/1813 22 September 1752 – 5 May 1850 Merchant
Theodore de Vaux 10/05/1665 c 1628 – 26 May 1694
William Sandys Wright Vaux
William Sandys Wright Vaux
William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS , was a celebrated British antiquary of the 19th century.-Biography:Vaux, only son of William Vaux , prebendary of Winchester Cathedral and vicar of Wanborough, Wiltshire, was born on 28 February 1818...

04/06/1868 28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885
Nicolas Vay de Vaja 22/11/1787
John Cristopher Vederas 15/05/2009
Victor Herbert Veley 07/06/1894 10 February 1856 – 20 August 1933
August Ferdinand Veltheim 16/04/1795 18 September 1741 – 2 October 1801
James Venables 01/12/1707
John Venn
John Venn
Donald A. Venn FRS , was a British logician and philosopher. He is famous for introducing the Venn diagram, which is used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science....

07/06/1883 4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923
Marsilio Venturi 06/06/1751
Filippo Venuti 14/06/1759 1709–1769
Ridolfino Venuti 17/03/1757 1705 – 30 March 1763
George Frederic Verdon
George Frederic Verdon
Sir George Frederic Verdon was an English Australian politician and public figure.Verdon was a son of the Rev. Edward Verdon, he was born at Bury, Lancaster, England. He was educated at Rossall School, and when 17 years of age emigrated to Melbourne...

02/06/1870 21 January 1834 – 13 September 1896
Louis Elizabeth de la Vergne, Count of Tressan
Louis-Élisabeth de La Vergne de Tressan
Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan was a French soldier, physician, scientist, medievalist and writer, best known for his adaptations of "romans chevaleresques" of the Middle Ages, which contributed to the rise of the Troubadour style in the French arts.- Biography :Aged...

08/02/1750 4 November 1705 – 31 October 1783
Cornelius Vermuyden
Cornelius Vermuyden
Sir Cornelius Wasterdyk Vermuyden was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch reclamation methods to Britain, and made the first important attempts to drain The Fens of East Anglia.-Life:...

20/05/1663 ? March 1627 – 1693 Original
Ernest Basil Verney
Ernest Basil Verney
Ernest Basil Verney FRS was a British pharmacologist. He attended Tonbridge School. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936.-References:...

07/05/1936 22 August 1894 – 19 August 1967
Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney
Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney
Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney PC, FRS , styled Viscount Fermanagh between 1743 and 1752, was a British politician.-Background:...

20/04/1758 c 1712 – 31 March 1791
Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon
Edward Vernon was an English naval officer. Vernon was born in Westminster, England and went to Westminster School. He joined the Navy in 1700 and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1702 and served on several different ships for the next five years...

12/03/1724 c 1695 – March 1761
Francis Vernon 22/05/1672 c 1637–1677
James Vernon
James Vernon the younger
James Vernon the younger was a British diplomat and civil servant, briefly a Member of ParliamentHe was the son of James Vernon, who was Secretary of State under William III....

06/05/1702 c 1677–1756 Diplomat, MP
Martin Paterson Vessey 14/03/1991
James Vetch 06/05/1830 13 May 1789 – 7 December 1869
Henry de Vic 07/05/1662 c 1599 – 20 November 1671 Ambassador to France
Keith Vickerman 15/03/1984
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Empress of India
Victoria of the United Kingdom
Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

20/06/1838 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 Patron
Raymond Vieussens
Raymond Vieussens
Raymond Vieussens was a French anatomist from Vigan. He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier where he earned his degree in 1670. He later became head physician at Hôtel Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier...

30/11/1688 c 1635 – 16 August 1715
Charles Blacker Vignoles
Charles Blacker Vignoles
Charles Blacker Vignoles was an influential early railway engineer, and eponym of the Vignoles rail.- Early life :...

07/06/1855 31 May 1793 – 17 November 1875
Pierre de Vigny 10/12/1741 1741
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors
Nicholas Aylward Vigors was an Irish zoologist and politician.Vigors was born at Old Leighlin, County Carlow. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford. He served in the army during the Peninsular War from 1809 to 1811. He then returned to Oxford, graduating with a B.A. in 1815 and in 1817 with an...

23/02/1826 1785 – 26 October 1840
Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville-sur-Illon, Count of Lacepede 17/04/1806 26 December 1756 – 6 October 1825
Esprit Cabart de Villermont 13/05/1685 c 1617 – 16 October 1707
Charles Pelham Villiers
Charles Pelham Villiers
Charles Pelham Villiers was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament .-Background and education:...

23/11/1865 3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG, PC, FRS was an English statesman and poet.- Upbringing and education :...

05/06/1661 30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687 Original
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison
Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France....

06/06/1776 ? 5 March 1750 – 25 April 1805
Samuel Vince
Samuel Vince
Samuel Vince was an English clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge.The son of a plasterer, Vince was admitted as a sizar to Caius College, Cambridge in 1771. In 1775 he was Senior Wrangler at Cambridge. Migrating to Sidney Sussex College in 1777, he gained his M.A....

22/06/1786 6 April 1749 – 28 November 1821
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.-Early life:...

01/11/1934 19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941 Statute
Levinus Vincent
Levinus Vincent
Levinus Vincent was a rich Dutch damask merchant of the Anabaptist faith. He collected naturalia and artificialia -...

09/06/1715 1658 – 8 November 1728
Nathaniel Vincent 30/11/1683
Frederick John Vine 21/03/1974
William Frank Vinen 15/03/1973
Sydney Howard Vines
Sydney Howard Vines
Sydney Howard Vines FRS was a British botanist who held the Sherardian Chair of Botany at Oxford University from 1888 to 1919, served as President of the Linnean Society of London from 1900 to 1904, and directed the publication of the Annals of Botany from 1887 to 1899.-Education and career:Vines...

04/06/1885 31 December 1849 – 4 April 1934
John Henry Vivian
John Henry Vivian
John Henry Vivian was a Welsh industrialist and politician of Cornish extraction.Vivian was the son of John Vivian, of Truro, Cornwall, and his wife Betsey, daughter of the Reverend Richard Cranch, and the brother of Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian...

09/01/1823 9 August 1785 – 10 February 1855
Richard Hussey Vivian, Baron Vivian
Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian GCB, GCH, PC , known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornish family.-Early career:Educated at Harrow and Exeter College, Oxford, Vivian entered...

11/02/1841 28 July 1775 – 20 August 1842
Vincenzo Viviani
Vincenzo Viviani
Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and a disciple of Galileo.-Biography:...

29/04/1696 5 April 1622 – 22 September 1703
John Christopher Augustus Voelcker
Augustus Voelcker
Augustus Voelcker F.R.S. , full name John Christopher Augustus Voelcker, was a Royal Agricultural Society of England chemist...

02/06/1870 24 September 1822 – 5 December 1884
Marthe Louise Vogt 20/03/1952 8 September 1903 – 8 September 2003
Otto Christoph Volckra, Count of Heidenreichstein 05/04/1716
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in 1800.-Early life and works:...

05/05/1791 19 February 1745 – 5 March 1827
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire 03/11/1743 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778
Isaacus Vossius 20/04/1664 1618 – 21 February 1689
Karen Heather Vousden
Karen Vousden
Karen Heather Vousden, CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci is a British medical researcher. She is known for her work on the tumour suppressor protein, p53, and in particular her discovery of the important regulatory role of Mdm2, an attractive target for anti-cancer agents...

15/05/2003
Wilhelm Van Vrijberge 05/06/1706 1656 – 3 July 1711
William Vyse 17/05/1781 c 1742 – 20 February 1816
Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan 08/06/1826 6 June 1800 – 15 August 1879

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Name Election Date
Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier , was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the brother of Auguste Sabatier....

28/02/1918 5 November 1859 – 14 August 1941
Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia.At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, becoming acquainted with the Breslau physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně. In 1851 he began studying at Charles University in Prague...

31/05/1888 2 October 1832 – 29 May 1897 German founder of experimental plant physiology
Bert Sakmann
Bert Sakmann
-External links:*...

09/06/1994
Edwin Ernest Salpeter 17/06/1993 Austrian-born Australian U.S. astronomer
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson 28/06/1990
Allan Rex Sandage 10/05/2001
José Sarukhán 15/05/2003
Nicolas Theodore de Saussure 23/03/1820 14 October 1767 – 18 April 1845
Félix Savart
Félix Savart
Félix Savart became a professor at Collège de France in 1836 and was the co-originator of the Biot-Savart Law, along with Jean-Baptiste Biot. Together, they worked on the theory of magnetism and electrical currents. Their law was developed about 1820. The Biot-Savart Law relates magnetic fields to...

30/05/1839 30 June 1791 – 16 March 1841
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli 26/11/1896 14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
Knut Schmidt-Nielsen was a prominent figure in the field of comparative physiology and Professor of Physiology Emeritus at Duke University.-Background:...

27/06/1985 24 September 1915 – 25 January 2007
Richard Royce Schrock
Richard R. Schrock
Richard Royce Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.-Biography:...

16/05/2008
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933...

12/05/1949 12 August 1887 – 4 January 1961
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Schumacher was a German-Danish astronomer.-Biography:He was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, and studied at Kiel, Jena, Copenhagen, and Göttingen. In 1810, he became adjunct professor of astronomy in Copenhagen...

12/04/1821 3 September 1780 – 28 December 1850
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe 26/03/1868 25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875
Theodor Ambrose Hubert Schwann
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann was a German physiologist. His many contributions to biology include the development of cell theory, the discovery of Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system, the discovery and study of pepsin, the discovery of the organic nature of yeast, and the invention of the term...

03/04/1879 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882
Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild
Martin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:...

14/03/1996 31 May 1912 – 10 April 1997 German-born U.S. astronomer
Simon Schwendener
Simon Schwendener
Simon Schwendener was a Swiss botanist who was a native of Buchs in the Canton of St. Gallen.In 1856 he received his doctorate at the University of Zurich, where afterwards he was an assistant to Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli...

26/06/1913 10 February 1829 – 27 May 1919
Glenn Theodore Seaborg 27/06/1985 20 April 1912 – 25 February 1999
Angelo Secchi
Angelo Secchi
-External links:...

20/11/1856 29 June 1818 – 26 February 1878
Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov 24/04/1958 16 April 1896 – 25 September 1986
Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician. He has made contributions in the fields of algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology.-Early years:...

25/04/1974
Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich 09/04/1981
Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory"....

20/06/1991 30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold was a German physiologist and zoologist. He was responsible for the introduction of the taxa Arthropoda and Rhizopoda, and for defining the taxon Protozoa specifically for single-celled organisms.-Biography:He was born at Würzburg, Bavaria, the son of a professor of...

25/11/1858 16 February 1804 – 7 April 1885
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn 29/04/1954 3 December 1886 – 26 September 1978
George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution , The meaning of evolution and The major features of...

24/04/1958 16 June 1902 – 6 October 1984
Yakov Sinai 15/05/2009
Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith ForMemRS was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.- Education :...

02/06/1932 31 July 1859 – 10 December 1934
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies is a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate, credited with the invention of gel electrophoresis in 1955, and the simultaneous discovery, with Mario Capecchi and Martin Evans, of the technique of homologous recombination of transgenic DNA with genomic DNA, a much more...

14/05/1998
Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach 27/11/1902 23 December 1842 – 24 November 1915
Susan Solomon
Susan Solomon
Susan Solomon is an atmospheric chemist working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon was one of the first to propose chlorofluorocarbons as the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.Solomon is a member of the U.S...

16/05/2008
Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld 29/04/1926 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951
Samuel Thomas Sommering 15/03/1827 ? 25 January 1755 – 2 March 1830
Tracy Morton Sonneborn
Tracy Sonneborn
Tracy Morton Sonneborn was an American biologist. His life's study was of the protozoan group Paramecium.-Non-Mendelian Inheritance:...

23/04/1964 19 October 1905 – 26 January 1981
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research....

08/04/1976 20 August 1913 – 17 April 1994
Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceiving the idea of telescopes operating in outer space...

28/06/1990 26 June 1914 – 31 March 1997
Jean-Servais Stas
Jean Stas
Jean Servais Stas was a Belgian analytical chemist.- Life and work :Stas was born in Leuven and trained initially as a physician. He later switched to chemistry and worked at the École Polytechnique in Paris under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Dumas...

03/04/1879 ? 20 September 1813 – 13 December 1891
George Ledyard Stebbins 13/05/1999 6 January 1906 – 19 January 2000
Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup
Japetus Steenstrup
Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor.He was a professor of zoology at the University of Copenhagen...

18/06/1863 8 March 1813 – 20 June 1897
Erik Helge Oswald Stensio
Erik Stensiö
Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö was a Swedish paleozoologist.Erik Andersson, as his original name was, was born in the village of Stensjö in Döderhult parish in Kalmar County; he later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names...

09/05/1946 2 October 1891 – 11 January 1984
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz 15/05/2009
Francisco de Borja Garcao Stockler
Francisco de Borja Garção Stockler
Francisco de Borja Garção Stockler, 1st Baron of Vila da Praia, was a lieutenant general and the eighth Captain General of the Azores, politician, and mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in differential calculus and one of the most notable historians of mathematics in Portugal.-Biography:He...

01/04/1819 1759 – 6 March 1829
Arthur Stoll
Arthur Stoll
Arthur Stoll was a Swiss biochemist.- Life and work:The son of a teacher and school headmaster, he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich, with a PhD in 1911, where he studied with Richard Willstatter...

24/04/1958 8 January 1887 – 13 January 1971
Henry Melson Stommel 30/06/1983 27 September 1920 – 16 January 1992
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork is a U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.-Education:...

13/05/1999 Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist
Frederik Carl Mulertz Stormer
Carl Størmer
Fredrik Carl Mülertz Størmer was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist, known both for his work in number theory and for studying the movement of charged particles in the magnetosphere and the formation of aurorae....

19/04/1951 3 September 1874 – 13 August 1957
Eduard Adolf Strasburger 26/11/1891 1 February 1844 – 19 May 1912, German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 professor
Friedrich Stromeyer 15/03/1827 2 August 1776 – 18 August 1835
Otto Wilhelm Struve 27/11/1873 7 May 1819 – 14 April 1905
Jacob Karl Franz Sturm 04/06/1840 29 September 1803 – 18 December 1855
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess
Eduard Suess was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana and the Tethys Ocean.Born in London to a Jewish Saxon merchant, when he was three his family relocated toPrague,...

26/04/1894 20 August 1831 – 25 April 1914
Rashid Sunyaev
Rashid Sunyaev
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, on March 1, 1943 to a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University . He became a professor at MIPT in 1974...

15/05/2009
Theodor Svedberg
Theodor Svedberg
Theodor H. E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate, active at Uppsala University. His work with colloids supported the theories of Brownian motion put forward by Einstein and the Polish geophysicist Marian Smoluchowski...

15/06/1944 ? 13 August 1884 – ? 26 February 1971
Nils Eberhard Svedelius 15/06/1944 5 August 1873 – 2 August 1960
Janos Szentagothai 20/04/1978 31 October 1912 – 8 September 1994

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Name Election Date
Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini was an Italian astronomer.He was born and raised in Modena, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Padova. At the age of 21, he was appointed the director of a small observatory in Modena. By 1863 he became the Primo Astronomo Aggiunto, or director of the observatory,...

26/11/1891 21 March 1838 – 24 March 1905
Steven Dale Tanksley
Steven D. Tanksley
Steven Dale Tanksley is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant breeding and Biometry and chair of the Genomics Initiative Task Force at Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.-Education and career:...

15/05/2009
Henry Taube
Henry Taube
Henry Taube, Ph.D, M.Sc, B.Sc, FRSC was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the first Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize...

30/06/1988 30 November 1915 – 16 November 2005
Pafnuti Livowitsch Tchebitchef
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev was a Russian mathematician. His name can be alternatively transliterated as Chebychev, Chebysheff, Chebyshov, Tschebyshev, Tchebycheff, or Tschebyscheff .-Early years:One of nine children, Chebyshev was born in the village of Okatovo in the district of Borovsk,...

13/12/1877 14 May 1821 – 26 November 1894
Valentine Louis Telegdi
Valentine Telegdi
Valentine Louis Telegdi FRS was a Hungarian-born U.S. physicist.He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich...

15/05/2003 10 January 1922 – 8 April 2006 Hungarian-born Switzerland U.S. physicist
Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin
Howard Martin Temin was a U.S. geneticist. Along with Renato Dulbecco and David Baltimore he discovered reverse transcriptase in the 1970s at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for which he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.-Scientific career:Temin's description of how tumor...

30/06/1988 12 October 1934 – 9 February 1994 U.S. scientist, retroviruses, 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...

 (1975)
Louis Jacques Thenard
Louis Jacques Thénard
Louis Jacques Thénard , was a French chemist.His father, a poor peasant, managed to have him educated at the academy of Sens, and sent him at the age of sixteen to study pharmacy in Paris. There he attended the lectures of Antoine François Fourcroy and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin...

09/12/1824 4 May 1777 – 20 June 1857
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen 27/11/1902 16 February 1826 – 13 February 1909
Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell 23/04/1959 6 July 1903 – 15 August 1982
Kenneth Vivian Thimann 24/04/1969 5 August 1904 – 15 January 1997
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel...

08/04/1976
Melchior Treub
Melchior Treub
Melchior Treub was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden, and afterwards remained in Leiden as a botanical assistant. From 1880 until 1909 he was a botanist in the Dutch East Indies.Treub is remembered for his botanical work with tropical...

01/06/1899 5 December 1851 – 3 October 1910
Roger Yonchien Tsien 18/05/2006
John Wilder Tukey 20/06/1991 16 June 1915 – 26 July 2000 U.S. statistician

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Name Election Date
Harold Clayton Urey 01/05/1947 29 April 1893 – 5 January 1981
Hans Henriksen Ussing
Hans Ussing
Hans Henrikson Ussing was a Danish scientist, best known for having invented the Ussing chamber. In the early 1950s Ussing was the first to describe the mechanism by which ions are actively transported across frog skin....

28/06/1984 30 December 1911 – 21 December 2000

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Name Election Date
Harold Eliot Varmus
Harold E. Varmus
Harold Elliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute, a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama. He was a co-recipient Harold Elliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning...

26/05/2005 U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 for Medicine (1989)
Louis Nicholas Vauquelin 11/12/1823 16 May 1763 – ? 15 November 1829
Nicholas Ivanovich Vavilov
Nikolai Vavilov
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a prominent Russian and Soviet botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants...

18/06/1942 26 November 1887 – 26 January 1943
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity. Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of gravity anomalies above the ocean floor...

25/06/1936 30 July 1887 – 10 August 1966
Phillippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil 24/05/1860 13 February 1805 – 29 May 1873
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier 04/02/1847 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877
Ivan Matveevich Vinogradov 18/06/1942 14 September 1891 – 24 March 1983
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolph Carl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician, known for his advancement of public health...

31/01/1884 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician, co-awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electrons in magnetic solids....

20/04/1967 13 March 1899 – 27 October 1980
Woldemar Voigt
Woldemar Voigt
Woldemar Voigt was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. Voigt eventually went on to head the Mathematical Physics Department at Göttingen and was succeeded in 1914 by Peter Debye, who took charge of the theoretical department of the Physical Institute...

26/06/1913 2 September 1850 – 13 December 1919
Vito Volterra
Vito Volterra
Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations....

30/06/1910 3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940
Hugo De Vries
Hugo de Vries
Hugo Marie de Vries ForMemRS was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation...

11/05/1905 10 February 1848 – 21 May 1935

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