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
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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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... |
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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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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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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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