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

List of Fellows of the Royal Society

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

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Names	Election Date
Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington Conrad Hal Waddington CBE FRS FRSE was a developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology...	20/03/1947	8 November 1905 - 26 September 1975
Kenneth Wade Kenneth Wade Kenneth Wade, FRS is a British chemist, and professor emeritus at Durham University.He graduated from Nottingham University, and Cornell University....	16/03/1989
Walter Wade	14/03/1811	1825
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS was a geologist for the Geological Survey of India. He was born at Surat in Gujarat...	21/03/1957	25 October 1883 - 15 June 1969
Harold William Taylor Wager	05/05/1904	11 March 1862 - 17 November 1929
Lawrence Rickard Wager	21/03/1946	5 February 1904 - 30 November 1965
William Wagstaffe William Wagstaffe William Wagstaffe was a British physician.Wagstaffe was born in Cublington, Buckinghamshire, UK, The only son of the town's rector, and related to the Wagstaffe family of Knightcote, Warwickshire. He was educated at a school in Northampton, entered Lincoln College, Oxford in 1701, graduated B.A. ...	13/03/1718	1685 - 5 May 1725
Ralph Louis Wain Ralph Louis Wain Ralph Louis Wain CBE FRS was a British agricultural chemist.He read Chemistry at the University of Sheffield on scholarship, and with first class honours degree, and a Master of Science and PhD. He was advised by G.M...	24/03/1960	29 May 1911 - 14 December 2000
Richard Irving Walcott	14/03/1991
Nicholas John Wald Nicholas Wald Professor Sir Nicholas John Wald, MB, BS, DSc , FRCP, FFPH, FRCOG, FMedSci, CBiol, FlBiol, FRS is Professor of Environmental and Preventive Medicine at at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, part of Queen Mary, University of London....	27/05/2004
James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave KG PC FRS was a British statesman.The eldest son of the 1st Earl Waldegrave, Waldegrave was educated at Westminster and Eton and he inherited his father's titles in 1741...	14/12/1749	14 March 1715 - 28 April 1763
Herman Waldmann Herman Waldmann Herman Waldmann FRS FMedSci is a British immunologist known for his work on therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. As of 2010, he heads the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford.-Career and research:...	15/03/1990
William Wales William Wales (astronomer) William Wales was a British mathematician and astronomer.-Early life:Wales was born around 1734 to John and Sarah Wales and was baptized in Warmfield that year...	07/11/1776	c 1734 - 29 December 1798
Alan Walker	13/05/1999
Arthur Geoffrey Walker Arthur Geoffrey Walker Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a leading mathematician who made important contributions to physics and physical cosmology. He was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England....	17/03/1955	17 July 1909 - 31 March 2001
Charles Vincent Walker Charles Vincent Walker Charles Vincent Walker FRS was an English electrical engineer and publisher, a major influence on the development of railway telecommunications, he was also the first person to send a submarine telegraph signal.-Life:...	07/06/1855	1812 - 24 December 1882
David Alan Walker David Alan Walker David Alan Walker is a British scientist and academic particularly known for his work on photosynthesis. He has been Emeritus Professor of Photosynthesis at the University of Sheffield since 1993.-Life and career:...	15/03/1979
Donald Walker	21/03/1985	Professor
Edward Walker	03/06/1869	14 September 1820 - 2 March 1893 Schoolmaster
Fowler Walker	31/03/1791	c 1732 - 20 August 1804
George Walker George Walker (Presbyterian) George Walker was a versatile English dissenter, known as a mathematician, theologian, Fellow of the Royal Society, and activist.-Life:...	30/05/1771	c 1734 - 21 April 1807
George Patrick Leonard Walker George Patrick Leonard Walker George Patrick Leonard Walker FRS was a British geologist who specialized in mineralogy and volcanology.- Life :He worked on the volcanic rocks of Iceland, and on Mount Etna.He taught at Imperial College....	20/03/1975	2 March 1926 – 17 January 2005
George Walker Walker	01/05/1913	24 February 1874 - 6 September 1921
Gilbert Thomas Walker Gilbert Walker Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker, CSI, FRS, was a British physicist and statistician of the 20th century. He is best known for his groundbreaking description of the Southern Oscillation, a major phenomenon of global climate, and for greatly advancing the study of climate in general.He was born in...	05/05/1904	14 June 1868 - 4 November 1958
James Walker James Walker (chemist) Sir James Walker FRS was a Scottish chemist.Born in Dundee, he was educated at the High School of Dundee, and though had passed the entrance examination for the University of St Andrews at sixteen, he instead went for three years to the flax industry, entering the University of Edinburgh in 1882,...	14/06/1900	6 April 1863 - 6 May 1935
James Walker James Walker (engineer) James Walker, FRS, was an influential Scottish civil engineer of the first half of the 19th century.Walker was born in Falkirk and was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker in approximately 1800, with whom he gained experience working on the design and construction of the West India and East India...	17/04/1828	14 September 1781 - 8 October 1862
James Walker James Walker (physician) James Walker, FRS was a British physician.He matriculated from Brasenose College, in 1734.He lived in Springhead, near Hull.He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 9 June 1774....	09/06/1774	c 1720 - 22 February 1789
James Thomas Walker	01/06/1865	1 December 1826 - 16 February 1896
John Walker	27/03/1794	d 9 May 1824
John Ernest Walker	09/03/1995
John James Walker	07/06/1883	2 October 1825 - 15 February 1900
Miles Walker Miles Walker Sir Miles Rawstron Walker CBE LLD is a Manx businessman and politician, who was the first ever Chief Minister of the Isle of Man.-Early life and career:...	07/05/1931	13 August 1868 - 22 January 1941
Robert Walker	03/03/1831	c 1801 - 28 September 1865 Wadham College
Thomas Walker	05/05/1791	died c 1800 Accountant General
Thomas Walker	22/01/1730	? September 1702 - 17 September 1764 Barrister
William Walker	09/02/1738
Charles Baring Wall	01/04/1830	c 1795 - 14 October 1853
Charles Terence Clegg Wall C. T. C. Wall Charles Terence Clegg Wall is a leading British mathematician, educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool, where he was first appointed Professor in 1965...	20/03/1969
Martin Wall Martin Wall Martin Wall FRS FRCP , was an English physician and educator.Wall was the son of John Wall and was baptised at Worcester on 24 June 1747. He was educated at Winchester College, and entered at New College, Oxford, on 21 November 1763. He graduated B.A. on 17 June 1770, M.A. on 2 July 1771, M.D. on 9...	08/05/1788	1747 - 21 June 1824
Patrick David Wall Patrick David Wall Patrick David "Pat" Wall was a leading British neuroscientist described as 'the world's leading expert on pain' and best known for the Gate control theory of pain.-Early life and academia:...	16/03/1989	5 April 1925 - 8 August 2001
Richard Wall	31/05/1753	1694 - 1778 Diplomat
Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...	01/06/1893	8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913
David James Wallace David Wallace (physicist) Professor Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, DL is the Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge....	20/03/1986	Physicist
Thomas Wallace	19/03/1953	5 September 1891 - 2 February 1965 Horticulturalist
Augustus Desire Waller Augustus Desiré Waller Augustus Desiré Waller FRS was a British physiologist and the son of Augustus Volney Waller. He was born in Paris, France.He created the first practical ECG machine with surface electrodes.He died in London.-Further reading:...	02/06/1892	12 July 1856 - 11 March 1922
Augustus Volney Waller Augustus Volney Waller Augustus Volney Waller FRS was a British neurophysiologist. He was the first to describe the degeneration of severed nerve fibers, now known as Wallerian degeneration.-Life:...	05/06/1851	21 December 1816 - 18 September 1870
Edmund Waller Edmund Waller Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...	20/05/1663	3 March 1606 - 21 October 1687 Original
Richard Waller	27/04/1681	c 1646 - ? January 1715 Botanist
William Waller	20/02/1679	c 1639 - 18 July 1699 Soldier & MP
Nathaniel Wallich Nathaniel Wallich Nathaniel Wallich was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later joined the East India Company...	12/03/1829	28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854
John Wallis	20/05/1663	23 November 1616 - 28 October 1703 Original
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis	22/03/1945	26 September 1887 - 30 October 1979
Daniel Frank Walls Daniel Frank Walls Daniel Walls was a theoretical physicist specialising in quantum optics.Dan Walls gained a BSc in physics and mathematics and a first class honours MSc in physics at the University of Auckland. He then went to Harvard as a Fulbright Scholar, obtaining his PhD in 1969, under Roy J. Glauber...	12/03/1992	13 September 1942 - 12 May 1999
Charles Walmesley Charles Walmesley Charles Walmesley Pastorino, O.S.B. was the Roman Catholic Titular Bishop of Rama and Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England...	01/11/1750	13 January 1722 - 25 November 1797
Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford , styled Lord Walpole between 1809 and 1822, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...	04/03/1824	14 June 1783 - 29 December 1858
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors,...	19/02/1747	24 September 1717 - 2 March 1797
Spencer Horatio Walpole Spencer Horatio Walpole Spencer Horatio Walpole, QC, LLD was a British Conservative politician who served three times as Home Secretary in the administrations of Lord Derby.-Background and education:...	22/11/1860	11 September 1806 - 22 March 1898
Anthony Edward Walsby A.E. Walsby Anthony Edward Walsby, BSc, PhD, FRS, is the Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol....	11/03/1993	Biologist, Bristol Univ.
Arthur Donald Walsh	19/03/1964	8 August 1916 - 23 April 1977
John Walsh John Walsh (scientist) John Walsh was a British scientist and Secretary to the Governor of Bengal.John was son of Joseph Walsh, Secretary to the Governor of Fort St. George and cousin to Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, and his sister Margaret, the wife of Lord Clive.He entered the English East India Company at a...	08/11/1770	1 July 1726 - 9 March 1795 Scientist
Alan Walsh Alan Walsh (scientist) Alan Walsh FRS was a British and Australian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1976. He was most notable for his work on Atomic absorption spectroscopy. In 1977, he was created a Knight Bachelor for 'his distinguished service to science'...	20/03/1969	19 December 1916 - 3 August 1998
Francis Martin Rouse Walshe	21/03/1946	19 September 1885
Robert Boyle Walsingham	05/03/1778	1736 - October 1779
Henry Walter	11/11/1819	28 January 1785 - 25 January 1859 Clergyman
Johann Gottlieb Walter Johann Gottlieb Walter Johann Gottlieb Walter was a German physician, specialising in human anatomy.Walter was born in Königsberg. He studied in Königsberg and Berlin under Johann Friedrich Meckel von Hemsbach and Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn. He was awarded a medical degree at Frankfurt in 1757...	01/05/1794	1 July 1734 - 4 January 1818 Anatomist, Frankfurt
Kenneth Walters	14/03/1991	Rheology, Univ. of Wales
William Walton	25/05/1837
Humfrey Wanley Humfrey Wanley Humfrey Wanley was a librarian, palaeographer and scholar of Old English, employed by manuscript collectors such as Robert and Edward Harley. He was the first keeper of the Harlein Library, now the Harleian Collection.-Life:...	20/11/1706	21 March 1672 - 6 July 1726
Olaus Warburg	10/01/1805	1805
Henry Warburton Henry Warburton Henry Warburton was an English merchant and politician, and also an enthusiastic amateur scientist....	16/02/1809	? 1784 - 16 September 1858
John Warburton	10/04/1834	c 1793 - 2 June 1845 Physician
John Warburton John Warburton (officer of arms) John Warburton was Somerset Herald of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in the early 18th century. Warburton was a collector of old drama manuscripts, who is perhaps most notable because of his carelessness. On one occasion, he left a pile of manuscripts in the kitchen. When he came looking...	10/03/1720	28 February 1682 - 11 May 1759
Esay Ward	20/02/1668	c 1629 - ? August 1674
Harry Marshall Ward Harry Marshall Ward Harry Marshall Ward was a British botanist, mycologist, and plant pathologist.Born in Hereford, Ward was educated at Lincoln Cathedral school. from c. 1864. He went on to scientific studies at the South Kensington Science and Art Department under Thomas Henry Huxley in 1874...	07/06/1888	1854 - 26 August 1906
Ian Macmillan Ward	17/03/1983	Physicist, Leeds Univ.
John Ward John Ward (academic) John Ward was an English teacher, supporter of learned societies, and biographer, remembered for his work on the Gresham College professors, of which he was one.-Life:...	30/11/1723	c 1679 - 17 October 1758 Gresham Prof of Rhetoric
John Clive Ward John Clive Ward John Clive Ward , was a British-Australian physicist. His most famous creation was the Ward-Takahashi identity, originally known as "Ward Identity" . This celebrated result, in quantum electrodynamics, was inspired by a conjecture of Dyson and was disclosed in a one-half page letter typical of...	18/03/1965	1 August 1924 - 6 May 2000
John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley John William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, PC, FRS , known as the Honourable John Ward from 1788 to 1823 and as the 4th Viscount Dudley and Ward from 1823 to 1827, was a British politician...	16/11/1815	9 August 1781 - 6 March 1833
Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward was an English doctor who popularized a case for growing and transporting plants which was called the Wardian case....	03/06/1852	1791 - 4 June 1868
Richard Samuel Ward Richard S. Ward Richard Samuel Ward FRS is a professor of mathematics at Durham University. He is most famous for his extension of Roger Penrose's twistor theory to nonlinear cases...	26/05/2005	Mathematician, Durham Univ.
Seth Ward Seth Ward (bishop) Seth Ward was an English mathematician, astronomer, and bishop.-Early life:He was born in Hertfordshire, and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1636 and M.A. in 1640, becoming a Fellow in that year...	20/05/1663	? April 1617 - 6 January 1689 Bishop Original
Patience Ward	06/04/1681	7 December 1629 - 10 July 1696
James Ware	11/03/1802	11 February 1756 - 13 April 1815 Ophthalmic Surgeon
Philip Frank Wareing	20/03/1969	27 April 1914 - ? 29 March 1996
Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin , Swedish astronomer and demographer....	12/07/1764	11 September 1717 - 13 December 1783
Edward Waring Edward Waring Edward Waring was an English mathematician who was born in Old Heath , Shropshire, England and died in Pontesbury, Shropshire, England. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of...	02/06/1763	1734 - 15 August 1798
Richard Hill Waring	16/02/1769	c 1721 - 11 October 1794 High Sheriff, Flintshire
Robert Warington	02/06/1864	7 September 1807 - ? 17 November 1867 Chemist, Soc. of Apothecaries
Robert Warington	04/06/1886	22 August 1838 - 20 March 1907 Agricultural Chemist, Rothamsted
David Lee Wark	17/05/2007
Anne Elizabeth Warner Anne Warner (scientist) Anne Warner FRS, is a British biologist and a professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London. Her major field of research is morphogenesis.-External links:*...	21/03/1985
Joseph Warner	06/12/1750	1717 - 24 July 1801
Frederick Edward Warner	18/03/1976	31 March 1910 - 3 July 2010
John Ashley Warre	01/05/1817	5 October 1787 - 18 November 1860
Chsrles Warren	29/04/1790	19 March 1764 - 12 August 1829 Barrister
Charles Warren Charles Warren General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount...	12/06/1884	7 February 1840 - 21 January 1927
Graham Barry Warren	13/05/1999
John Warren	09/12/1830	4 October 1796 - 16 August 1852 Clergyman
Pelham Warren	08/04/1813	7 October 1778 - 2 December 1835
Richard Warren	08/03/1764	? 4 December 1731 - 22 June 1797 Physician
Samuel Warren Samuel Warren (English lawyer) Samuel Warren , was a British lawyer, novelist and MP.He was born near Wrexham, Denbighshire, the son of a Nonconformist minister...	02/04/1835	23 May 1807 - 29 July 1877
George Warrender Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet Sir George Warrender of Lochend, 4th Baronet PC, FRS was a Scottish politician. In 1799, he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. Due to his lifestyle, he was nicknamed Sir Gorge Provender....	08/06/1815	5 December 1782 - 21 February 1849
Elizabeth Kerr Warrington Elizabeth Warrington Elizabeth Warrington FRS, is a British neuropsychologist specialized in the study of dementia. She holds a PhD in visual processing and is now an emeritus professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University College London...	20/03/1986
John Washington	13/02/1845	? 1800 - 16 September 1863
Michael Derek Waterfield	14/03/1991	Biochemist, UCL
Douglas Frew Waterhouse	16/03/1967	3 June 1916 - ? December 2000
Edward Waterhouse	29/07/1663	1619 - 30 May 1670 Clergyman
John Waterhouse	06/02/1834	3 August 1806 - 13 February 1879
John Conrad Waterlow	18/03/1982	13 June 1916 - 19 October 2010 Nutrition scientist, London Univ.
William Alexander Waters	18/03/1954	8 May 1903 - 28 January 1985 Chemist
Jeffrey Clifton Watkins	17/03/1988	Biochemist, Oxford Univ.
Thomas Watkins	23/01/1794	c 1761 - 15 October 1829 Clergyman
Thomas Watkins	30/11/1714	fl 1714 - 1729 Mathematician
Winifred May Watkins Winifred Watkins Winifred Watkins, FRS was a British biochemist at the Imperial College School of Medicine.She won the Royal Medal in 1988, and was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences:"In recognition of her fundamental contributions towards an understanding of the biochemical genetics of carbohydrate...	20/03/1969	6 August 1924 – 3 October 2003
Alan Andrew Watson Alan Andrew Watson Alan Andrew Watson is Emeritus Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Leeds University, UKHe was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was awarded a PhD in 1964 for his thesis on the Physics of Condensation of Water Vapour.His main areas of interest were high-energy cosmic rays,...	11/05/2000	Astrophysicist, Leeds
Andrew James Watson Andrew Watson (scientist) Andrew James Watson FRS is a British marine and atmospheric scientist and an expert in processes affecting atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations...	15/05/2003
David Meredith Seares Watson	11/05/1922	18 June 1886 - 23 July 1973
Frederick Beilby Watson	12/11/1818	1773 - 11 July 1852
James Watson	12/03/1778	c 1748 - 2 May 1796
George Neville Watson	15/05/1919	31 January 1886 - 2 February 1965
Henry Watson	02/04/1767
Henry William Watson Henry William Watson Rev. Henry William Watson was a noted mathematician and author of a number of mathematics books....	02/06/1881	25 February 1827 - 11 January 1903
James Kay Graham Watson	19/03/1987
Janet Vida Watson Janet Vida Watson Professor Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS was a British geologist. She was the first woman to become president of the Geological Society of London.-Early life:...	15/03/1979	1 September 1923 - 29 March 1985
Jonathan Watson	09/06/1763	c 1718 - November 1803
Morrison Watson	12/06/1884	? 1846 - 25 March 1885 Physician
Ralph Watson	27/05/1830	fl 1830 - 1835
Richard Watson Richard Watson (bishop) Rt Rev Richard Watson was an Anglican clergyman and academic, who served as the Bishop of Llandaff from 1782 to 1816. He wrote some notable political pamphlets....	02/02/1769	August 1737 - 4 July 1816
Robert Watson	07/02/1751	c 1720 - 2 March 1756
Thomas Watson Thomas Watson (physician) Sir Thomas Watson, 1st Baronet, was a British physician who is primarily known for describing the water hammer pulse found in aortic regurgitation in 1844...	09/06/1859	7 March 1792 - 11 December 1882 Physician
William Watson	09/04/1741	3 April 1715 - 10 May 1787
William Watson	10/12/1767	? 28 August 1744 - c 1825 Physician & Astronomer
William Watson	07/04/1808	c 1759 - 1 June 1818 Sergeant-at-arms
William Watson	06/06/1901	4 August 1868 - 3 March 1919 Asst Prof of Physics, RCS, London
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt	20/03/1941	13 April 1892 - 5 December 1973
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, KG, PC , styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Earl Malton in 1750, was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Prime...	07/11/1751	13 May 1730 - 1 July 1782
Alexander Stuart Watt	21/03/1957	21 June 1892 - 2 March 1985
Fiona Mary Watt Fiona Watt Fiona Watt, FRS is a British scientist. She studies epidermal stem cells at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, at both of which she holds the position of Deputy Director. She received a DPhil degree in 1979 from the University...	15/05/2003
James Watt James Watt James Watt, FRS, FRSE was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.While working as an instrument maker at the...	24/11/1785	19 January 1736 - 25 August 1819
James Watt	07/12/1820	5 February 1769 - 2 June 1848 Son of James Watt the engineer
William Watt	18/03/1976	14 April 1912 - 11 August 1985 Physical Chemist
Colin Watts	26/05/2005
Henry Watts	07/06/1866	20 January 1815 - 30 June 1884 Chemistry journalist
Philip Watts Philip Watts (naval architect) Sir Philip Watts, KCB FRS was a British naval architect, famous for his design of the revolutionary Elswick cruiser and the HMS Dreadnought.-Early life:...	14/06/1900	30 May 1846 - 15 March 1926
William Whitehead Watts William Whitehead Watts William Whitehead Watts was a British geologist. He was born at Broseley and educated at Denstone College, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, of which he was a fellow in 1888–94, and he was also an extension lecturer of the university in 1882–91...	05/05/1904	7 June 1860 - 30 July 1947
Andrew Scott Waugh Andrew Scott Waugh Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British army officer and surveyor now remembered as the man who named the highest mountain in the world after Sir George Everest, his predecessor in the post of Surveyor-General of India.-Career:Waugh began work on the Great Trigonometric Survey of India...	03/06/1858	3 February 1810 - 21 February 1878
Arthur Goodall Wavell	24/05/1827	29 March 1785 - 10 July 1860
William Wavell	05/02/1824
Benjamin Way	05/12/1771	September 1740 - 22 August 1808
Lewis Way	23/02/1738	1698–1771
Dennis Lawrence Weaire	13/05/1999
David John Weatherall	17/03/1977
Paul Egerton Weatherley	15/03/1973	6 May 1917 - 8 August 2001 Botanist, Aberdeen Univ.
Thomas Weaver	09/03/1826	1772 - 2 July 1855
Colin Edward Webb	14/03/1991
Frederick Webb	21/03/1822	- 1853
Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb was an English botanist.Webb, who was born to a wealthy aristocratic family studied languages, botany, and geology at Harrow and Oxford. He collected plants in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and was the first person to collect in the Tetuan Mountains of Morocco...	25/03/1824	10 July 1793 - 31 August 1854
Philip Carteret Webb Philip Carteret Webb Philip Carteret Webb was an English barrister, involved with the 18th-century antiquarian movement.He became a member of the London Society of Antiquaries in 1747, and as its lawyer, was responsible for securing the incorporation of the Society in 1751...	09/11/1749	1700 - 22 June 1770
Robert Webb	11/11/1762
John Webb	28/06/1764	- April 1797
Bryan Ronald Webber	10/05/2001
William Webber William Webber Louis William "Bridgie" Webber was an underworld figure in New York and a former associate of gang leader Monk Eastman who later testified against police lieutenant Charles Becker during his murder trial in 1912.-Biography:...	05/06/1766
John Webster	07/03/1844	1795 - 21 July 1876 Physician
Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, GCMG, QC was a British barrister, politician and judge who served in many high political and judicial offices.-Background and education:...	19/06/1902	22 December 1842 - 15 December 1915
Robert Gordon Webster	16/03/1989
Godfrey Webster	18/05/1786	c 1719 - 3 June 1800
Thomas Webster	18/03/1847	16 October 1810 - 3 June 1875
Richard Weck	20/03/1975	5 March 1913 - 9 January 1986
Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1793 to 1801.-Life:He was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn , and was born in East Lothian....	06/12/1787	13 February 1733 - 2 January 1805
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn Joseph Wedderburn Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field, and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras...	11/05/1933	26 February 1882 - 9 October 1948
Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. A prominent abolitionist, Wedgwood is remembered for his "Am I Not A Man And A Brother?" anti-slavery medallion. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family...	16/01/1783	? July 1730 - 3 January 1795
Basil Charles Leicester Weedon Basil Weedon Professor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon CBE, FRS was an organic chemist and university administrator. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was the first to map the structures of carotenoid pigments, including astaxanthin, rubixanthin and canthaxanthin.-Personal life:Weedon was born in...	18/03/1971	18 July 1923 – 10 October 2003
George Wegg	09/02/1758
George Samuel Wegg	13/11/1777	c 1750 - 4 January 1817
Samuel Wegg	31/05/1753	17 November 1723 - 19 December 1802
Christian Frederick Weichman	27/06/1728	24 August 1698 - 4 August 1770
Johann Friedrich Weidler	09/11/1732	? 23 April 1691 - 30 November 1755
Felix Jiri Weinberg Felix Weinberg Felix J. Weinberg is a British physicist.Felix J. Weinberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., Hon.D.Sc., F.Inst.P, F.C.G.I., F.R.S.,Emeritus Professor of Combustion Physics in the University of London,Distinguished Research Fellow, Imperial College London....	17/03/1983
Lawrence Weiskrantz Lawrence Weiskrantz Lawrence Weiskrantz is a British psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight, which is the voluntary visually evoked response to a stimulus presented within a scotoma.-Career:* Part-time Lecturer, Tufts University, 1952...	20/03/1980
Frederick Ernest Weiss Frederick Ernest Weiss Frederick Ernest Weiss FRS FLS VMH was an Anglo-German botanist.He was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1947.- References :...	03/05/1917	2 November 1865 - 7 January 1953 Botanist
Nigel Oscar Weiss Nigel Weiss Nigel Oscar Weiss FRS is an astronomer and mathematician, and leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge.-Career:Born in South Africa, Prof...	12/03/1992
Robin Anthony Weiss	15/05/1997	Virologist, UCL
Walter Weldon Walter Weldon Walter Weldon was an English chemist, journalist, and fashion publisher.-Family:He was brother to Ernest J. Weldon, founder of Weldon & Wilkinson Ltd...	08/06/1882	31 October 1832 - 20 September 1885
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon Walter Frank Raphael Weldon Walter Frank Raphael Weldon DSc FRS generally called Raphael Weldon, was an English evolutionary biologist and a founder of biometry...	05/06/1890	15 March 1860 - 13 April 1906
Walter Thompson Welford	20/03/1980	31 August 1916 - 18 September 1990
John Welin	28/05/1741	? 1705 - 31 January 1744
Mark Edward Welland Mark Welland Sir Mark Edward Welland FRS FREng, is a professor and the head of the Cambridge University Nanoscience Centre. He started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, U.S., where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunneling microscopes.Having...	09/05/2002
Henry Solomon Wellcome	26/05/1932	21 August 1853 - 25 July 1936
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS , was an Irish-born British soldier and statesman, and one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century...	25/11/1847	29 April 1769 - 14 September 1852
Alan Arthur Wells Alan Arthur Wells -Early life:He was born in Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire to Arthur John Wells, a British Oxygen Company engineer and educated at the City of London School as a day boy. He left school in 1940 to become an apprentice fitter and studied for a London University external degree via day release and weekend...	17/03/1977	Engineer, Inventor of Wells Turbine
George Philip Wells	17/03/1955	17 July 1901 - 27 September 1985
Peter Neil Temple Wells	15/05/2003
William Charles Wells William Charles Wells William Charles Wells MD FRS FRSEd , was a Scottish-American physician and printer. He lived a life of extraordinary variety, did some notable medical research, and made the first clear statement about natural selection. He applied the idea to the origin of different skin colours in human races,...	07/11/1793	24 May 1757 - 18 September 1817
James Raymond Wellsted James Raymond Wellsted James Raymond Wellsted was a lieutenant in the Indian navy who travelled extensively on the Arabian Peninsula in the 1830s.-Travels:...	06/04/1837	1805 - 25 October 1842
Harry Lambert Welsh	15/03/1962	23 March 1910 - 23 July 1984
James Welsh	15/03/1770	c 1723 - June 1778 Physician
John Welsh	11/06/1857	27 September 1824 - 11 May 1859 Supt. of Kew Observatory
Robert Welsted	13/03/1718	1671 - 1 February 1735
Thomas Francis Wenman	21/01/1779	18 November 1745 - 8 April 1796
Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....	17/01/1811	4 May 1786 - 4 October 1857
William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford was a member of England's House of Lords.He was a son of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford and his second wife Arabella Holles. When his father, Thomas, was executed in 1641, William left the Kingdom of England for several years. In 1652 he was...	06/02/1668	8 June 1626 - 16 October 1695
Charles Morley Wenyon	12/05/1927	24 March 1878 - 24 October 1948
Paul Gottlieb Werlhof Paul Gottlieb Werlhof Paul Gottlieb Werlhof was a German physician and poet who was a native of Helmstedt. He studied medicine at the University of Helmstedt under Lorenz Heister and Brandanus Meibom , who was the son of Heinrich Meibom .  After completing his studies, he practiced medicine in Peine for four...	26/02/1736	24 March 1699 - 26 July 1767
Johann Georg Heinrich Graf von Werthern	14/02/1765	1735–1790
James West James West (antiquary) James West FRS was a British politician and antiquary, who served as President of the Royal Society between 1768 and 1772....	09/03/1727	2 May 1703 - 2 July 1772
John West, 1st Earl De La Warr John West, 1st Earl De La Warr Lieutenant-General John West, 1st Earl De La Warr KB, PC, FRS , styled The Honourable John West until 1723 and known as The Lord De La Warr between 1723 and 1761, was a British soldier, courtier and politician....	19/12/1728	4 April 1693 - 16 March 1766
Peter Christopher West	18/05/2006	Theretical Physics, Kings College, London
Richard Gilbert West Richard Gilbert West Richard Gilbert West FRS is a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist.He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I...	21/03/1968
Stephen Craig West	09/03/1995	Biochemist, Cancer Research
Thomas Summers West Thomas Summers West Thomas Summers West, FRS was a British chemist.He was born in 1927 in Peterhead, Scotland and educated at Old Tarbat Public School in Portmahomack and then Tain Royal Academy...	16/03/1989	18 November 1927 - 9 January 2010 Chemist, Birmingham & Aberdeen Universities
William West	19/02/1846	1793 - 10 September 1851 Chemist
John Hugh Westcott	17/03/1983
William Western	30/11/1721	? 1694 - 22 September 1729
Gerald Westheimer	21/03/1985
Richard Westmacott Richard Westmacott (the younger) Richard Westmacott - also sometimes described as Richard Westmacott III - was a prominent English sculptor of the early- and mid-19th century.Born in London, he was the son of Sir Richard Westmacott , and followed closely in his father's...	25/05/1837	1799 - 19 April 1872
Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster, KG was the son of the 1st Earl Grosvenor, whom he succeeded in 1802 as 2nd Earl Grosvenor. He was created Marquess of Westminster in 1831. He was an English Member of Parliament and an ancestor of the modern day Dukes of Westminster...	10/06/1841	22 March 1767 - 17 February 1845
Thomas Stanley Westoll Thomas Stanley Westoll Thomas Stanley Westoll, FRS FRSE, FGS was the long-time head of the Department of Geology at Newcastle University.-Education and career:He was born in West Hartlepool and educated at the local grammar school...	20/03/1952	3 July 1912 - 19 September 1995
Robert Weston	28/05/1767	1767 - 1797 FSA
Stephen Weston Stephen Weston -Life:He was born at Farnborough. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted in 1683, graduated B.A. in 1687, M.A. in 1690, and became a Fellow. He was an assistant-master at Eton from about 1690, and second master, 1693 to 1707. He was Fellow of Eton in...	01/03/1792	1747 - 8 January 1830
Edward Wetenhall Edward Wetenhall Edward Wetenhall was an English bishop of the Church of Ireland. His name is also spelled Wettenhall, Whetenhall, Whitnall, Withnoll, and Wythnall.-Life:...	04/07/1683	7 October 1636 - 12 November 1713
Alan Marmaduke Wetherell	18/03/1971	31 December 1932 - 13 September 1998
Charles Wetherell Charles Wetherell Sir Charles Wetherell , was an English lawyer, politician and judge.Wetherell was born in Oxford, the third son of Reverend Nathan Wetherell, of Durham, Master of the University College and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford...	16/12/1824	1770 - 17 August 1846
Caspar Wetstein	04/07/1754
Johann Jakob Wetstein	05/04/1753	5 March 1693 - 23 March 1754
Anthony de Wevelinchoven	05/04/1781
John Weyland	09/06/1814	4 December 1774 - 8 May 1854
Thomas Whalley	07/04/1708	fl 1708
Richard Wharton	12/07/1810	c 1765 - 13 October 1828
William James Lloyd Wharton William Wharton (hydrographer) Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton KCB FRS was a British admiral and Hydrographer of the Navy.-Early life:He was born in London, the second son of Robert Wharton, County Court Judge of York. He was educated at Barney's Academy, Gosport and the Royal Naval Academy.-Royal Navy service:He joined...	04/06/1886	2 March 1843 - 29 September 1905
Frederick Robert Whatley	20/03/1975
James Whatman James Whatman (politician) James Whatman was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1874.Whatman was the son of James Whatman of Vinter's, near Maidstone and his wife Eliza Susanna Gaussen, daughter of Samuel Richard Gaussen of Brookman's Park, Hertfordshire...	09/01/1840	3 July 1813 - ? 12 March 1887
William Robert Whatton	05/06/1834	17 February 1790 – 5 December 1835
Charles Wheatstone Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS , was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope , and the Playfair cipher...	21/01/1836	February 1802 - 19 October 1875
David John Wheeler	19/03/1981	9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004
Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler	30/05/1968	10 September 1890 - 22 July 1976
Michael John Whelan Michael John Whelan Michael John Whelan is an Irish photographic, film and video artist.Whelan studied at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and Chelsea College of Art and Design . In 2005 he won the Clifford Chance Sculpture Award.In 2009 Whelan published the book Red Sky Morning, argobooks...	18/03/1976
William Joseph Whelan	12/03/1992	Biochemist, Miami
Granville Wheler Granville Wheler -Life:He was third son of Sir George Wheler, born in August 1701, and was educated in Durham. He was admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1717, graduating B.A. in 1721. He was Fellow of Christ's 1722–4, and graduated M.A. in 1724...	27/06/1728	August 1701 - 12 May 1770 Revd. Proved electric current.
George Wheler	13/12/1677	1650 - 15 January 1723 Clergyman and Scholar
William Whewell William Whewell William Whewell was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.-Life and career:Whewell was born in Lancaster...	13/04/1820	24 May 1794 - 6 March 1866
Paul Whichcote	14/01/1675	5 March 1643 - December 1721
Joseph Whidbey Joseph Whidbey Joseph Whidbey was a member of the Royal Navy who served on the Vancouver Expedition 1791–1795, and later achieved renown as a naval engineer. He is notable for having been the first European to discover and chart Admiralty Island in the Alexander Archipelago in 1794.Little is recorded of...	21/11/1805	1755–1833
Richard Whiddington	07/05/1925	25 November 1885 - 7 June 1970
David Hardy Whiffen David Whiffen David Hardy Whiffen FRS was an English physicist and pioneer of Infra-red and Electron Spin Resonance known for the "Whiffen Effect".-Life:...	17/03/1966	15 January 1922 - 2 December 2002
John Whishaw	23/02/1815	c 1765 - 21 December 1840
Daniel Whistler Daniel Whistler -Life:The son of William Whistler of Elvington, Oxfordshire, he was born at Walthamstow in Essex in 1619. He was educated at the school of Thame, Oxfordshire, and entered Merton College, Oxford, in January 1639. He graduated B.A. in 1642. On 8 August 1642 he began the study of physic at the...	20/05/1663	1619 - 11 May 1684 Original
Thomas Dunham Whitaker Thomas Dunham Whitaker Thomas Dunham Whitaker was an English clergyman and topographer.-Life:Born at Rainham on 8 June 1759, he was son of William Whitaker , curate of Rainham, Norfolk, by his wife Lucy, daughter of Robert Dunham, and widow of Ambrose Allen...	11/06/1818	8 June 1759 - 18 December 1821
William Whitaker	09/06/1887	4 May 1836 - 15 January 1925
Samuel Charles Whitbread Samuel Charles Whitbread Samuel Charles Whitbread was a British Member of Parliament and member of the Whitbread brewing family.He was the son of Samuel Whitbread. He represented the constituency of Middlesex and was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1831.His interests were astronomy and meteorology...	01/06/1854	16 February 1796 - 27 May 1879
Charles White Charles White (physician) Charles White FRS was an English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft...	18/02/1762	4 October 1728 - 20 February 1813
Errol Ivor White	15/03/1956	30 June 1901 - 11 January 1985
Frederick William George White	17/03/1966	26 May 1905 - 17 August 1994
John White	17/01/1723	2 December 1699 - 7 September 1769
John Graham White	26/05/2005	Clinical psychologist, Liverpool
John William White	11/03/1993
Michael James Denham White Michael JD White *White M.J.D. and Webb G.C. Blattodea, Mantodea, Isoptera, Grylloblattodea, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, and Embioptera. Borntraeger. ISBN 3443260055...	16/03/1961	20 August 1910 - 16 December 1983
Nicholas John White	18/05/2006	Prof. of Tropical Medicine, Thailand
Philip Bruce White	20/03/1941	29 December 1891 - 19 March 1949 Microbiologist
Richard White	26/06/1661	1661 Mathematician
Robert Stephen White	10/03/1994
Simon David Manton White Simon White Professor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :...	15/05/1997
Taylor White	29/04/1725
Thomas White	17/11/1726
Thomas White	19/06/1777	15 October 1724 - 28 February 1797 Ironmonger
William Archibald Armstrong White	13/04/1837	26 May 1776 - 7 December 1847 Antiquarian
William Henry White	10/11/1808	fl 1808 - 1827
William Henry White William Henry White Sir William Henry White was a prolific British warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty....	07/06/1888	2 February 1845 - 27 February 1913
Caleb Whitefoord Caleb Whitefoord Caleb Whitefoord was a Scottish merchant, diplomat, and political satirist.Born in Edinburgh in 1734, the illegitimate son of Colonel Charles Whitefoord of the Royal Marines, he was educated at James Mundell's School and Edinburgh University.He moved to London, and in 1756 became a wine...	24/06/1784	1734 - February 1810
Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS was an English mathematician who became a philosopher. He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education...	11/06/1903	15 February 1861 - 30 December 1947
John Henry Constantine Whitehead	16/03/1944	11 November 1904 - 8 May 1960
John Whitehurst John Whitehurst John Whitehurst FRS , of Cheshire, England, was a clockmaker and scientist, and made significant early contributions to geology. He was an influential member of the Lunar Society.- Life and work :...	13/05/1779	10 April 1713 - 18 February 1788
James Hunter Whitelaw	14/03/1996	28 January 1936 – 16 August 2006 Prof of Mechanical Eng., Imperial College
John Whiteside	03/07/1718	? October 1679 - ? 22 October 1729 Clergyman
Henry Whitfeld	09/03/1786	c 1741 - 1813
Gerald Beresford Whitham Gerald B. Whitham Gerald Beresford Whitham is an American applied mathematician and the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied Mathematics of Applied & Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1953 under the direction of Sir...	18/03/1965	Mathematician, CalTech
George Whitmore	23/11/1797
John Macnaghten Whittaker John Macnaghten Whittaker John Macnaghten Whittaker was a British mathematician and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1953 to 1965.-Life:...	17/03/1949	7 March 1905 - 29 January 1984
Edmund Taylor Whittaker	11/05/1905	24 October 1873 - 24 March 1956
Ronald Whittam	15/03/1973
Walter Frederick Whittard Walter Frederick Whittard Walter Frederick Whittard was professor of geology at Bristol. He received the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1965....	21/03/1957	26 October 1902 - 2 March 1966
David Whitteridge	19/03/1953	22 June 1912 - 15 June 1994
Harry Blackmore Whittington	18/03/1971	24 March 1916 - 20 June 2010 Professor of Geology,Cambridge
Peter Whittle Peter Whittle Peter Whittle is a mathematician and statistician, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimization and stochastic dynamics...	16/03/1978
Frank Whittle Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS was a British Royal Air Force engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air...	20/03/1947	1 June 1907 - 9 August 1996
Joseph Whitworth Joseph Whitworth Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads...	11/06/1857	21 December 1803 - 22 January 1887
Robert Whytlaw-Gray Robert Whytlaw-Gray Robert H. Whytlaw-Gray was a chemist, born in London, England. He studied at University of Glasgow and University College London. He and William Ramsay isolated radon and studied its physical properties .-Biography:...	10/05/1928	14 June 1877 - 21 January 1958
Robert Whytt Robert Whytt Robert Whytt was a Scottish physician. His work, on unconscious reflexes, tubercular meningitis, urinary bladder stones, and hysteria, is remembered now most for his book on diseases of the nervous system...	16/04/1752	6 September 1714 - 15 April 1766
Francois Wicardel, Chevalier de Fleury	30/11/1715	1715–1754
John Churchill Wickstead	05/04/1716
Elsie May Widdowson Elsie Widdowson Dr Elsie Widdowson FRS , was a British scientist responsible for overseeing the government mandated addition of vitamins to food and war-time rationing in Britain during World War II....	18/03/1976	21 October 1906 - 14 June 2000
Samuel Edward Widdrington	22/12/1842	1787 - 11 January 1856 (Born Samuel Edward Cook)
Karel Frantisek Wiesner	20/06/1969	25 November 1919 - 28 November 1986
Vincent Brian Wigglesworth	16/03/1939	17 April 1899 - 11 February 1994
Robert Wight Robert Wight Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...	07/06/1855	6 July 1796 - 26 May 1872
Dale Brian Wigley	27/05/2004	Scientist, Cancer Research
James Wigram	02/04/1835	5 November 1793 - 29 July 1866
Robert Wigram Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet Sir Robert Fitzwygram, 2nd Baronet FRS was a Director of the Bank of England and a Tory politician.Fitzwygram, who began life as Robert Wigram, was the eldest son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet, merchant and shipbuilder of Walthamstow. Wigram was interested in the foundation of the London...	27/02/1806	25 September 1773 - 1843
Samuel Wilberforce Samuel Wilberforce Samuel Wilberforce was an English bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his time and place...	18/12/1845	7 September 1805 - 19 July 1873
George Wilbraham	08/03/1821	8 March 1779 - 24 January 1852
Roger Wilbraham	28/02/1782	c 1744 - ? March 1829
Thomas Wilbraham	18/03/1742	c 1702 - 29 March 1782
Johann Karl Wilcke	30/04/1789	6 September 1732 - 18 April 1796
John Paul Wild John Paul Wild Dr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD FRS FTSE FAA was a British-born Australian radio astronomer and national science leader who served as chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1978-1985.Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England in 1923...	19/03/1970
Henry Wilde Henry Wilde (engineer) Henry Wilde was a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, an invention for which Werner von Siemens is more usually credited and, in fact,...	04/06/1886	? February 1833 - 29 March 1919
Andrew John Wiles	16/03/1989
Wilhelmus Wilhelmius Wilhelmus Wilhelmius -Life:He was baptised on 19 March 1720 in Rotterdam, son of Johannes Wilhelmius, a minister, and grandson of the philosopher Wilhelmus Wilhelmius the Elder. He matriculated at the University of Leiden in 1735, and graduated at the University of Utrecht in 1739...	27/01/1743	1720 - 27 December 1771
Israel Wilkes	06/03/1760	c 1722 - 25 November 1805
John Wilkes John Wilkes John Wilkes was an English radical, journalist and politician.He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the Middlesex election dispute, he fought for the right of voters—rather than the House of Commons—to determine their representatives...	13/04/1749	17 October 1727 - 26 December 1797
Maurice Vincent Wilkes	15/03/1956
Alex James Wilkie	10/05/2001
Douglas Robert Wilkie	18/03/1971	2 October 1922 - 21 May 1998 Medical Research, UCL
John Wilkins John Wilkins John Wilkins FRS was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as a founder of the Invisible College and one of the founders of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death....	22/04/1663	1614 - 19 November 1672
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins	19/03/1959	15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004
Charles Wilkins Charles Wilkins Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS , was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator of the first Devanagari typeface....	12/06/1788	1749 - 13 May 1836
William Wilkins William Wilkins (architect) William Wilkins RA was an English architect, classical scholar and archaeologist. He designed the National Gallery and University College in London, and buildings for several Cambridge colleges.-Life:...	02/06/1831	31 August 1778 - 31 August 1839
James Hardy Wilkinson	20/03/1969	27 September 1919 - 5 October 1986
John Wilkinson John Wilkinson John Wilkinson may refer to:* John Wilkinson * John Wilkinson , British industrialist who suggested the use of iron for many roles where other materials had previously been used...	28/06/1764
Denys Haigh Wilkinson	15/03/1956
Geoffrey Wilkinson Geoffrey Wilkinson Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.-Biography:...	18/03/1965	14 July 1921 - 26 September 1996
John Gardner Wilkinson John Gardner Wilkinson Sir John Gardner Wilkinson was an English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British Egyptology".-Childhood and education:...	18/12/1834	5 October 1797 - 29 October 1875
William Lionel Wilkinson	15/03/1990	Chemical Engineer (Nuclear Energy)
Mark Wilks Mark Wilks Colonel Mark Wilks FRS was a Manx soldier and administrator.He was born in the Isle of Man, the son of Rev. James Wilks and Margaret Woods, and came from a long lineage of Manxmen....	23/02/1826	c 1760 - 19 September 1831
Samuel Wilks Samuel Wilks Sir Samuel Wilks, 1st Baronet , was a British physician and biographer.-Early life:Samuel Wilks was born on 2 June 1824 in Camberwell, London, the second son of Joseph Barber Wilks, a cashier at the East India House...	02/06/1870	2 June 1824 - 8 November 1911
Robert Willan Robert Willan Robert Willan was an English physician and the founder of dermatology as a medical specialty. He received his MD at Edinburgh in 1780 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1809...	23/02/1809	12 November 1757 - 12 April 1812
John Willett Willett	08/12/1774
Ralph Willett	21/06/1764	1719 - 13 January 1795
Arthur Willey	05/06/1902	9 October 1867 - 26 December 1942
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland	04/12/1760	15 April 1721 - 31 October 1765 Royal
William Charles Henry Friso, Prince of Orange William IV, Prince of Orange William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau , born Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, was the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands.-Early life:...	07/03/1734	1711 - 22 October 1751 Royal
William Frederick, 2nd Duke of Gloucester Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of George II and nephew of George III.-Early life:...	14/01/1797	15 January 1776 - 30 November 1834
William Henry, 1st Duke of Gloucester Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary....	10/01/1780	14 November 1743 - 25 August 1805 Royal
William IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland William IV of the United Kingdom William IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...	10/03/1831	21 August 1765 - 20 June 1837
Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn	24/05/1827	9 October 1775 - 2 September 1850
Watkin Williams-Wynn Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet was a Welsh politician and patron of the arts.Sir Watkin was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, to Frances Shackerley of Cheshire...	17/06/1773	8 April 1749 - 29 July 1789
Alan Frederick Williams	15/03/1990	25 May 1945 - 9 April 1992
Alwyn Williams Alwyn Williams Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams was Bishop of Durham and then Bishop of Winchester ....	16/03/1967	8 June 1921 – 4 April 2004
Carrington Bonsor Williams Carrington Bonsor Williams Carrington Bonsor Williams F.R.S. better known as C. B. Williams or just "C.B." to friends was an English entomologist and ecologist. His name is particularly associated with insect migration and with statistical ecology and biogeography-Early life:Williams' father was Alfred Williams, a banker...	18/03/1954	7 October 1889 - 12 July 1981
Charles Greville Hanson Williams	05/06/1862	22 September 1829 - 15 June 1910
Charles James Blasius Williams	02/04/1835	3 February 1805 - 24 March 1889
David Williams David Williams (mathematician) David Williams is a Welsh mathematician who works in probability theory.He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, winning a mathematics scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and went on to obtain a DPhil under the supervision of D. G. Kendall and G. E. H...	15/03/1984
Dionysius Williams	08/05/1766	? January 1733 - ? June 1775
Dudley Howard Williams	17/03/1983
Evan James Williams	16/03/1939	8 June 1903 - 29 September 1945 Atomic Physics, Aberystwyth
Frederic Calland Williams Frederic Calland Williams Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS , known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer....	16/03/1950	26 June 1911 - 11 August 1977
James Gordon Williams	10/03/1994
John Williams	06/03/1828	12 April 1778 - 11 August 1849
John Williams	23/03/1671	? September 1642 - ? November 1680 Baronet
John Lloyd Williams	21/05/1801	1801 Physician, Bengal
John Wesley Williams	31/01/1839	1788 - January 1841
Moses Williams Moses Williams Moses Williams was a Welsh antiquarian scholar.He was born the son of Samuel Williams, Vicar of Llan Dyfriog and Rector of Llan Gynllo, Cardiganshire, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Jenkin Powell Prytherch, in Y Glaslyn, near Llandysul, Ceredigion, in south-west Wales.He was ordained a deacon...	05/11/1719	2 March 1686 - 9 April 1742
Peter Michael Williams Peter Williams (physicist) Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FREng, FRS is a British physicist.Williams completed his first degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, and began an academic career at Selwyn College. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments...	13/05/1999
Reeve Williams	11/01/1699	1682–1703
Richard Tecwyn Williams Richard Tecwyn Williams Richard Tecwyn Williams was a Welsh biochemist who founded the systematic study of xenobiotic metabolism with the publication of his book Detoxication mechanisms in 1947...	16/03/1967	20 February 1909 - 29 December 1979
Robert Hughes Williams	15/03/1990
Robert Joseph Paton Williams Robert Joseph Paton Williams Robert Joseph Paton Williams MBE FRS is an English chemist and an Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College as well as an Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford. He was elected Fellow of The Royal Society in 1972 and is a Foreign Member of the Swedish, Portuguese, Czechoslovakian and Belgian...	16/03/1972
Roger Williams	03/02/1664
Stephen Williams	13/06/1734	c 1701 - 1741
Thomas Williams	03/06/1858	4 January 1819 - 23 April 1865 Physician
Alexander William Williamson Alexander William Williamson Alexander William Williamson FRS was an English chemist of Scottish descent. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis.-Biography:...	07/06/1855	1 May 1824 - 6 May 1904
Benjamin Williamson	12/06/1879	9 January 1827 - 3 January 1916
David Theodore Nelson Williamson	21/03/1968	15 February 1923 - 10 May 1992 Electronic Engineer
John Williamson	15/06/1749	1713 - 25 February 1763 Chaplain in Lisbon
Joseph Williamson Joseph Williamson (politician) Sir Joseph Williamson, FRS was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1699....	20/05/1663	25 July 1633 - 3 October 1701 Original
Robert Williamson	13/05/1999	Biochemist, London & Melbourne
William Crawford Williamson William Crawford Williamson William Crawford Williamson was an English naturalist and palaeobotanist.-Life:Williamson was born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His father, John Williamson, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich...	01/06/1854	24 November 1816 - 23 June 1895
Henry Norton Willis	15/12/1791
John Christopher Willis John Christopher Willis John Christopher Willis FRS was an English botanist.Born in Liverpool, he was educated at University College, Liverpool and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1896 he was appointed director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon until 1912 when he was appointed director of the...	15/05/1919	20 February 1868 - 21 March 1958
John Raymond Willis	12/03/1992
Robert Willis Robert Willis (engineer) The Reverend Robert Willis was an English academic. He was the first Cambridge professor to win widespread recognition as a mechanical engineer, and first set the scientific study of vowels on a respectable foundation, but now best remembered for his extensive architectural writings, including a...	22/04/1830	27 February 1800 - 28 February 1875
Thomas Willis Thomas Willis Thomas Willis was an English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry. He was a founding member of the Royal Society.-Life:...	18/11/1663	27 January 1621 - 11 November 1675
Edward Nevill Willmer Nevill Willmer Professor Nevill Willmer, FRS was sometime Professor of Histology at Cambridge University.He was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of a cotton broker, and educated at Birkenhead School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford . He was a demonstrator at Manchester University before being elected a...	24/03/1960	15 August 1902 – 8 April 2001
Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton was an English nobleman, the son of Hon. Thomas Willoughby.He was born at York in 1726 and entered Jesus College, Cambridge in 1745. In 1757, he served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire...	25/01/1787	19 December 1726 - 30 June 1800
Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham Hugh, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham was an English nobleman and hereditary peer of the House of Lords. He was born in 1713, the eldest son of Charles Willoughby, 14th Baron Willoughby of Parham and Hester, daughter of Henry Davenport of Little Lever and Darcy Lever, near Bolton...	14/02/1745
Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton was a Baron in the Peerage of Great Britain.He was born at Middleton Hall, Middleton, Warwickshire, the second son of Francis Willughby, the famed mathematician and naturalist , and was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Jesus...	30/11/1693	c 1670 - 17 April 1729
Charles Willughby	25/07/1683
Francis Willughby Francis Willughby thumbnail|200px|right|A page from the Ornithologia, showing [[Jackdaw]], [[Chough]], [[European Magpie|Magpie]] and [[Eurasian Jay|Jay]], all [[Corvidae|crows]]....	20/05/1663	1635 - 3 July 1672 Original
Edward Wilmot	15/01/1730	29 October 1693 - 21 November 1786
Robert John Wilmot	24/05/1821	21 December 1784 - 31 May 1841
Ian Wilmut Ian Wilmut Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE is an English embryologist and is currently Director of the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic...	09/05/2002
Alan Geoffrey Wilson	18/05/2006
Alan Herries Wilson	19/03/1942	2 July 1906 - 30 September 1995
Alexander Wilson	01/03/1838	c 1781 - 28 November 1863 Civil servant
Allan Charles Wilson	20/03/1986	18 October 1934 - 21 July 1991
Arthur James Cochran Wilson Arthur Wilson (crystallographer) Arthur James Cochran Wilson, FRS was a Canadian crystallographer.He was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He was educated at King's Collegiate School, Windsor, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia where he was awarded a BSc in 1934 and an MSc in 1936...	21/03/1963	28 November 1914 - 1 July 1995
Benjamin Wilson Benjamin Wilson (painter) Benjamin Wilson was an English painter, printmaker and scientist .He was the 14th child of Major Wilson, a wealthy York clothier whose house was decorated by the French history painter, Jacques Parmentier...	05/12/1751	1721 - 6 June 1788
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.- Biography:...	14/06/1900	14 February 1869 - 15 November 1959
Charles William Wilson Charles William Wilson Sir Charles William Wilson K.C.B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., D.C.L., LL.D., M.E. was a British military officer and geographer.-Biography:...	04/06/1874	14 March 1836 - 25 October 1905
George Fergusson Wilson	07/06/1855	25 March 1822 - 28 March 1902 Founder of Wisley Gardens.
Giffin Wilson	16/04/1801
Glocester Wilson	28/04/1796
Graham Selby Wilson	16/03/1978	10 September 1895 - 5 April 1987
Harold Albert Wilson	03/05/1906	1 December 1874 - 13 October 1964
Horace Hayman Wilson Horace Hayman Wilson Horace Hayman Wilson was an English orientalist.He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and went out to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the British East India Company....	10/04/1834	26 September 1786 - 8 May 1860
Ian Andrew Wilson Ian Wilson (biologist) Ian Andrew Wilson is a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, United States.He received his B.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, his PhD degree in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University in 1976 and did postdoctoral research at Harvard...	11/05/2000	Microbiologist, USA
Isaac Wilson	24/02/1831	c 1756 - 2 December 1844 Physician to Navy
James Wilson	19/05/1803	1765 - 17 November 1821 Prof of Anatomy to RCS
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx	12/06/1969	11 March 1916 - 24 May 1995
James Thomas Wilson	06/05/1909	14 April 1861 - 2 September 1945 Prof. of Anatomy, Cambridge
John Wilson	06/02/1845	11 December 1804 - 1 December 1875 Philanthropist & Scholar (Bombay)
John Wilson	19/02/1846	c 1788 - 10 August 1870 Physician
John Wilson John Wilson (mathematician) John Wilson was an English mathematician. The theorem, Wilson's Theorem, named after him for its discovery from Ibn al-Haytham, not its proof....	13/03/1783	6 August 1741 - 18 October 1793
John Tuzo Wilson	21/03/1968	24 October 1908 - 15 April 1993
Robert Wilson Robert Wilson (astronomer) Sir Robert Wilson FRS, CBE, Kt, was the son of a Durham miner. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra...	20/03/1975	16 April 1927 – 2 September 2002
William James Erasmus Wilson William James Erasmus Wilson Sir William James Erasmus 'Orgasmus' Wilson FRCS FRS , generally known as Sir Erasmus Wilson, was an English surgeon and dermatologist.-Biography:...	20/02/1845	25 November 1809 - 7 August 1884
William Wilson	03/05/1923	1 March 1875 - 14 October 1965 Physicist, St Andrews Univ.
William Edward Wilson William Edward Wilson (astronomer) William Edward Wilson was an Irish astronomer.He was born the only son of John and Frances Wilson of Daramona House, Streete, County Westmeath, Ireland and was privately educated....	04/06/1896	19 July 1851 - 6 March 1908 Irish astronomer
James Wimshurst James Wimshurst James Wimshurst was an English inventor, engineer and shipwright. Though Wimshurst did not patent his machines and the various improvements that he made to them, his refinements to the electrostatic generator led to its becoming widely known as the Wimshurst machine.-Biography:Wimshurst was born...	09/06/1898	13 April 1832 - 3 January 1903
Joseph Windham	08/11/1781	21 August 1739 - 21 September 1810
William Windham	26/01/1744	1717 - 30 October 1761
Alan Hardwick Windle	15/05/1997
Bertram Coghill Alan Windle	01/06/1899	8 May 1858 - 14 February 1929
Colin George Windsor	09/06/1995
Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth Other Hickman Windsor, 5th Earl of Plymouth FRS , styled Lord Windsor until 1771, ‎was an English nobleman.Styled Lord Windsor from birth, he was the eldest son of Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer. He was elected a Fellow...	22/04/1773	? 30 May 1751 - 12 June 1799
Johann Heinrich Winkler	08/01/1747	12 March 1703 - 18 May 1770
Rowland Winn	27/11/1673	1609 - 1676 Merchant
Edward Winnington Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Winnington, 2nd Baronet , of Stanford Court, Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, was a British baronet and politician....	10/01/1805	14 November 1749 - 9 January 1805
Gregory Paul Winter	15/03/1990
John Winthrop	04/04/1734	25 August 1681 - 1 August 1747
John Winthrop	20/05/1663	12 February 1606 - 5 April 1676 Original
John Winthrop John Winthrop (1714-1779) John Winthrop was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...	20/02/1766	19 December 1714 - 3 May 1779
Sir Clifton Wintringham	23/12/1742	1710 - 10 January 1794
Frederick Charles William Wirtemberg, Prince of Wirtemberg	11/05/1797	6 November 1754 - 30 October 1816 honorary
Robert Wissett	24/12/1801
George Witchell	09/07/1767
William Withering William Withering William Withering was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.-Introduction:...	24/11/1785	March 1741 - 6 October 1799
Nicolaes Witsen Nicolaes Witsen Nicolaas or Nicolaes Witsen was mayor of Amsterdam thirteen times, between 1682-1706. In 1693 he became administrator of the VOC. In 1689 he was extraordinary-ambassador to the English court, and became Fellow of the Royal Society. In his free time he was cartographer, maritime writer, and an...	30/11/1689	8 May 1641 - 10 August 1717
George Witt	05/06/1834	25 March 1804 - 20 February 1869 Surgeon, Bedford Infirmary
William Henry Wittrick	20/03/1980	29 October 1922 - 2 July 1986
Samuel Wix	25/02/1813	9 February 1771 - 4 September 1861
William Wix	12/07/1810
Charles Godfrey Woide	21/04/1785	4 July 1725 - 9 May 1790
Nathaniel Matthew Wolf	10/04/1777	24 January 1724 - 15 December 1784
John Wolfe Wolfe-Barry	13/06/1895	7 December 1836 - 22 January 1918
Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale Arnold Wolfendale Sir Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale FRS is a British astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995.-Early life:...	17/03/1977
Christian, Freiherr von Wolff	08/11/1710	24 January 1679 - 9 April 1754
Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson Sir Leonard Gordon Wolfson, 1st Baron Wolfson, 2nd Bt FRS was a British businessman, the former Chairman of GUS, and son of GUS magnate Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet. He was Chairman of the Wolfson Foundation...	26/05/2005	11 November 1927 - 20 May 2010 honorary
Isaac Wolfson Isaac Wolfson Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS was a businessman and philanthropist. He was managing director of Great Universal Stores 1932-1947 and chairman 1947-1987. He established the Wolfson Foundation to distribute most of his fortune to good causes. Great Universal Stores was a mail order business...	20/06/1963
Alexander Luard Wollaston	26/02/1829	14 June 1804 - ? 10 June 1874
Charlton Wollaston Charlton Wollaston Charlton Wollaston was an English medical doctor, physician to the Queen's Household.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756. He was a son of Francis Wollaston . He married in 1758 Phillis Byam and their son was Charlton Byam Wollaston , Assistant Judge Advocate. He was Harveian...	25/03/1756	23 May 1733 - 26 July 1764
Francis Wollaston	27/06/1723	6 June 1694 - 27 December 1774
Francis Wollaston	13/04/1769	23 November 1731 - 31 October 1815
Francis John Hyde Wollaston Francis John Hyde Wollaston Francis John Hyde Wollaston was an English natural philosopher and Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge....	23/11/1786	13 April 1762 - 12 October 1823
George Wollaston George Wollaston George Wollaston was English. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763.He was the son of Francis Wollaston . He was educated at Charterhouse School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated second wrangler in 1758...	17/02/1763	26 October 1738 - 14
William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston FRS was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.-Biography:...	09/05/1793	6 August 1766 - 22 December 1828
Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL is a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.-Career:Wolpert was educated at the University of Witwatersrand , at Imperial College London, and at King's College London...	20/03/1980	embryologist
Alan Marshall Muir Wood Alan Muir Wood Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood, MA, LLD, DEng, FRS, FREng, FICE was a British civil engineer.Muir Wood was born on 8 August 1921 at Hampstead in London. Muir Wood was educated at Abbotsholme School and later studied mechanical sciences at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University from 1940 and he...	20/03/1980
Bernard John Wood	14/05/1998	Geologist
Graham Charles Wood	15/05/1997	Prof. of Corrosion Science, UMIST
John Wood	01/04/1680
John Wood	08/06/1871	12 October 1825 - 29 December 1891
John Nicholas Wood John Nicholas Wood John Nicholas Wood FRS is a British neurobiologist, and Head of the Molecular Nociception Group, at University College London.-Life:He earned a Ph.D...	15/05/2009	Biomedicine, UCL
Martin Francis Wood Martin Wood (engineer) Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS was co-founder of Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful....	19/03/1987
Nicholas Wood Nicholas Wood Nicholas Wood was an English colliery and steam locomotive engineer. He helped engineer and design many steps forward in both engineering and mining safety, and helped bring about the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, holding the position of President from its...	02/06/1864	24 April 1795 - 19 December 1865
Richard Dean Wood Richard D. Wood Richard D. Wood is an American molecular biologist specializing in research on DNA repair and mutation. He is known for pioneering studies on nucleotide excision repair , particularly for reconstituting the minimum set of proteins involved in this process, identifying proliferating cell nuclear...	15/05/1997	molecular biologist
Robert Wood	19/11/1789	1789 MP
Robert Wood Robert Wood (mathematician) -Life:Born at Pepperharrow, near Godalming in Surrey, in 1621 or 1622, was the son of Robert Wood , rector of Pepperharrow. He was educated at Eton College, and matriculated from New Inn Hall on 3 July 1640. Obtaining one of the Eton postmasterships at Merton College in 1642, he graduated B. A....	13/04/1681	? 1621 - 9 April 1685
Ronald Karslake Starr Wood Ronald Karslake Starr Wood Ronald Karslake Starr Wood FRS is a British plant pathologist, and Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology in the Imperial College London.-Life:...	18/03/1976	Plant Biologist, Imperial College, London
Thomas Wood Thomas Wood (1708–1799) Thomas Wood , was a British politician. A member of the British Whig Party, he was Member of Parliament for Middlesex from 1779 to 1780...	19/11/1761	c 1708 - 26 June 1799
Thomas Wood	20/05/1841	31 March 1804 - 23 October 1872
Thomas Barlow Wood	15/05/1919	21 January 1869 - 6 November 1929 Prof. of Agriculture, Cambridge Univ.
William Wood William Wood (zoologist) William Wood , was an English zoologist and entomologist. William Wood trained as a surgeon but left the medical profession to become a natural history bookseller, publisher and naturalist....	24/12/1812	1774 - ? 26 May 1857
William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley William Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley PC, QC was a British lawyer and statesman who served as a Liberal Lord Chancellor between 1868 and 1872 in William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry.-Background and education:...	22/12/1836	29 November 1801 - 10 July 1881
Bennet Woodcroft Bennet Woodcroft Bennet Woodcroft FRS was an English textile manufacturer, industrial archaeologist, pioneer of marine propulsion, a leading figure in patent reform and the first clerk to the commissioners of patents.-Career:...	09/06/1859	29 December 1803 - 07
Samuel Woodford	02/11/1664	15 April 1636 - 11 January 1700
Thomas Woodford	07/04/1708
John Henry Woodhouse	11/05/2000	Prof. of Geophysics, Oxford Univ.
Robert Woodhouse Robert Woodhouse Robert Woodhouse was an English mathematician.-Biography:He was born at Norwich, the son of Robert Woodhouse, linen draper, and educated at Caius College, Cambridge, of which society he was subsequently a fellow...	16/12/1802	28 April 1773 - ? 23 December 1827
Benjamin Woodroffe	30/04/1668	April 1638 - 14 August 1711
David Phillip Woodruff	18/05/2006
Michael Francis Addison Woodruff	21/03/1968	3 April 1911 - 10 March 2001
Donald Devereux Woods Donald Devereux Woods Donald Devereux Woods was a British microbiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1952....	20/03/1952	16 February 1912 - 6 November 1964
Henry Woods	11/05/1916	18 December 1868 - 4 April 1952
Stephen Esslemont Woods	21/03/1974	12 January 1912 - 18 June 1994
Arthur Smith Woodward Arthur Smith Woodward Sir Arthur Smith Woodward was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of...	06/06/1901	23 May 1864 - 2 September 1944
Charles Woodward	29/04/1841	? 1789 - 16 April 1877 Agent
Henry Woodward Henry Woodward (geologist) Henry Bolingbroke Woodward was an English geologist.He became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department. He became FRS in 1873, LL.D in 1878, president of the Geological Society of London...	12/06/1873	24 November 1832 - 6 September 1921
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward Horace Bolingbroke Woodward Horace Bolingbroke Woodward was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales. President of the Geological Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896....	04/06/1896	20 August 1848 - 06
John Woodward John Woodward (naturalist) John Woodward was an English naturalist, antiquarian and geologist, and founder by bequest of the Woodwardian Professorship of Geology at Cambridge University...	30/11/1693	1 May 1665 - 25 April 1728
Sidney William Wooldridge Sidney William Wooldridge Professor Sidney William Wooldridge CBE, FRS, FGS , geologist, geomorphologist and geographer, was a pioneer in the study of the geomorphology of south-east England and the first professor of geography at King's College London...	19/03/1959	16 November 1900 - 25 April 1963
Trevor Dion Wooley Trevor Wooley Trevor D. Wooley FRS is a British mathematician and currently Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. His fields of interest include analytic number theory, Diophantine equations and Diophantine problems, harmonic analysis,...	17/05/2007
Michael Mark Woolfson Michael Woolfson Michael Mark Woolfson is a British physicist.Education: Jesus College, Oxford ; UMIST .-Career:* Research Assistant: UMIST, 1950-52; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1952-54...	15/03/1984	crystallographer, computer simulation
John Thomas Woolhouse	02/11/1721	c 1650 - 15 January 1734
Herbert Henry Woollard	17/03/1938	1889 - 18 January 1939
Richard Woolley van der Riet	19/03/1953	24 April 1906 - 24 December 1986
John Woolmore	27/05/1830	c 1756 - 2 December 1838
Arthur Wormall	15/03/1956	17 January 1900 - 9 May 1964
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright PC, DL, JP, FRS , known before his elevation to the peerage in 1895 as Baron Henry de Worms, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...	04/04/1889	20 October 1840 - 9 January 1903
Henry Worsley Henry Worsley Henry Worsley may refer to*Sir Henry Worsley, 2nd Baronet*Sir Henry Worsley-Holmes, 8th Baronet of the Worsley Baronets*Sir Henry Worsley-Taylor, 1st Baronet of the Worsley-Taylor Baronets...	30/11/1705	c 1675 - 15 March 1740
Richard Worsley Richard Worsley General Sir Richard Edward Worsley GCB OBE is a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1980s.-Military career:Educated at Radley College, Worsley was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1942....	18/06/1778	17 March 1751 - 8 August 1805
Edward Worth Edward Worth Edward Worth was an Irish politician, physician and book collector.He was born into a prosperous Church of Ireland family, his father being Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin....	11/01/1699	c 1678 - 1733
Arthur Mason Worthington Arthur Mason Worthington Arthur Mason Worthington CB, FRS was an English physicist and educator. He is best known for his work on fluid mechanics, especially the physics of splashes; for observing those, he pioneered techniques of high speed photography...	01/06/1893	11 June 1852 - 5 December 1916
Brian Stewart Worthington	14/05/1998
William Wotton William Wotton William Wotton was an English scholar, chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In Wales he is remembered as the collector and first translator of the ancient Welsh laws.-Early years:William Wotton...	14/12/1687	13 August 1666 - 13
Peter Woulfe Peter Woulfe Peter Woulfe was an Irish chemist and mineralogist. He first had the idea that wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered element .In 1779, Woulfe reported the formation of a yellow dye when indigo was treated with nitric acid...	05/02/1767	c 1727 - 1803
Francis Wrangham	15/11/1804	11 June 1769 - 27 December 1842
Daniel Wray Daniel Wray -Life:Born on 28 November 1701 in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, he was the youngest child of Sir Daniel Wray , a London citizen and soap-boiler residing in Little Britain, by his second wife. His father was knighted on 24 March 1708, while high sheriff of Essex, where he possessed an...	06/03/1729	28 November 1701 - 29 December 1783
Gordon Richard Wray	20/03/1986	30 January 1928 – 17 August 2005
Christopher Wren	30/11/1693	18 February 1675 - 24 August 1747 Numismatist
Matthew Wren	22/04/1663	20 August 1629 - 14 June 1672 Original
Christopher Wren Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...	20/05/1663	20 October 1632 - 25 Feb 1723
Thomas Wren	20/05/1663	1633 - 1679 Clergyman Original
Charles Romley Alder Wright Charles Romley Alder Wright Charles Romley Alder Wright DSc , BSc , FRS, an English chemistry and physics researcher at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, was the first person to synthesize heroin, in 1874.-Discovering Heroin:...	02/06/1881	1844 - 25 July 1894
Edward Wright	05/04/1759	c 1666 - 20 August 1761 Scottish Physician
Ernest Marshall Wright	26/05/2005
John Wright	01/06/1843	21 March 1793 - 13 February 1893 Clergyman
Richard Wright	19/03/1767	c 1739 - 14 October 1786
Almroth Edward Wright	03/05/1906	10 August 1861 - 30 April 1947
Thomas Wright Thomas Wright (geologist) Thomas Wright was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist.Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds, including Lias Ammonites of the British Isles....	12/06/1879	9 November 1809 - 17 November 1884
William Wright William Wright (botanist) William Wright was a Scottish physician and botanist.Born in March 1735 in Crieff, Perthshire, he studied at Crieff Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh, and obtained a medical degree at St. Andrews . He served as an apprentice with G Dennistoun in Falkirk , and became a navy surgeon in...	12/03/1778	March 1735 - 19 September 1819
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS was an English astronomer.Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lady Caroline Bennet, daughter of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father in the barony on March 16, 1841...	29/04/1841	4 October 1798 - 27 October 1867
Adrian Frederick George Wyatt	11/05/2000	Physicist, Exeter Univ
John Wyatt	12/02/1778
William Wyatt	08/06/1769	c 1742 - 1 February 1813 Physician
Jeffrey Wyatville	27/05/1830	3 August 1766 - 10 February 1840
Peter Wyche	02/05/1745	25 December 1709 - 1 November 1763
Cyril Wyche Cyril Wyche Sir Cyril Wyche FRS was an English lawyer and politician.He was born in Constantinople, Turkey, where his father, Sir Peter Wyche, was the English Ambassador. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford with Bachelor of Arts in 1653. He received his Master of Arts in 1655 and his Doctor of Civil...	20/05/1663	c 1632 - 29 December 1707 Original
Peter Wyche Peter Wyche (diplomat) Sir Peter Wyche was an English diplomat and translator.He was one of the sons of Sir Peter Wyche and brother of Sir Cyril Wyche. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford , Queens College, Cambridge and Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1649. He was knighted in 1660...	20/05/1663	1628 - 1699 Original
Edmund Wylde Edmund Wylde Edmund Wylde or Edmund Wilde was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1646 to 1653.Wylde was the son of Sir Edmund Wylde of Kempsey and his wife Dorothy Clarke daughter of Sir Francis Clarke of Houghton Conquest Bedfordshire. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 29...	20/05/1663	c 1618 - c 1695 Original
Andrew Hamilton Wyllie Andrew Wyllie Andrew H. Wyllie is a Scottish pathologist. In 1972, while working with electron microscopes at the University of Aberdeen he realised the significance of natural cell death. He and his colleagues John Kerr and Alastair Currie called this process apoptosis, from the use of this word in an ancient...	09/03/1995	pathologist
Peter John Wyllie	15/03/1984	geologist
William Wynde	20/05/1663	c 1647 - ? April 1722 Original
Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl KP, FRS was a British Peer. He was styled Viscount Adare from 1824 to 1850....	10/04/1834	19 May 1812 - 6 October 1871
Edmund Wyndham Edmund Wyndham Edmund Wyndham was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1679. He fought for the Royalist army in the English Civil War....	06/12/1677	c 1659 -
George O'Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont	07/12/1797	18 December 1751 - 11 November 1837
Henry Penruddocke Wyndham Henry Penruddocke Wyndham Henry Penruddocke Wyndham MP JP FSA FRS, was a British Whig Member of Parliament, topographer and author.-Background:Wyndham was born on 4 June 1736, the eldest surviving son of Henry Wyndham of St Edmund's College, Salisbury, and his wife Arundel Penruddocke, daughter of Thomas Penruddocke of...	09/01/1783	4 June 1736 - 3 May 1819
Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards	19/03/1970	4 July 1906 - 5 January 1997
Charles Gorrie Wynne Charles Gorrie Wynne Charles Gorrie Wynne FRS was a significant figure in optical lens design.-References:...	19/03/1970	18 May 1911 - 1 October 1999
William Wynne	06/03/1794
William Palmer Wynne	04/06/1896	13 February 1861 - 16 February 1950
Marmaduke Wyvill	06/02/1735	1692 - 27 December 1753
Marmaduke Wyvill	30/11/1711

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Magdi Habib Yacoub Magdi Yacoub Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, FRS , is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College London.Yacoub's major achievements may be summarised:1. Established Heart Transplantation in UK and became leading transplant surgeon in the world....	13/05/1999	heart surgeon
Elihu Yale Elihu Yale Elihu Yale was a Welsh merchant and philanthropist, governor of the East India Company, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School of Connecticut, which in 1718 was named Yale College in his honour.- Life :...	30/11/1717	5 April 1649 - 8 July 1721
Ziheng Yang Ziheng Yang Ziheng Yang FRS is a Chinese biologist, and R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics, at University College London, and Professor since 2001...	18/05/2006
Alfred Fernandez Yarrow Alfred Yarrow Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet, of Homestead was a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty, Yarrow Shipbuilders.-Life and career:...	11/05/1922	13 January 1842 - 24 January 1932
Frank Yates Frank Yates Frank Yates FRS was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics.He was born in Manchester. Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gaining a scholarship to Clifton...	18/03/1948	12 May 1902 - 17 June 1994
James Yates James Yates James A. Yates is an American lawyer and judge from New York. He had been appointed general counsel to the Governor of New York, David Paterson, in 2008, but Yates ultimately decided to remain a judge instead. The appointment had come as a surprise, as the two are not close associates.Yates...	31/01/1839	30 April 1789 - 7 May 1871
Grant David Yeats Grant David Yeats -Life:Born in Florida, he was the son of David Yeats, a physician who was the Secretary of the East Florida Colony in Florida. He matriculated from Hertford College, Oxford, on 21 January 1790, graduating B.A. on 15 October 1793, M.A. on 25 May 1796, M.B. on 4 May 1797. He was incorporated M.B. at...	01/07/1819	1773 - 14 November 1836
Thomas Pattinson Yeats	08/03/1781	c 1782
John Yelloly John Yelloly John Yelloly , was an English physician.Yelloly was born at Alnwick, Northumberland, on 30 April 1774, and was the youngest and sole survivor of seven children. His father died when his youngest child was an infant, and Yelloly owed his home education to his mother, who was of the family of Davison...	05/05/1814	30 April 1774 - 31 January 1842
Talbot Yelverton, Earl of Sussex	01/02/1722	2 May 1690 - 27 October 1731
Gerald Francis Yeo	06/06/1889	19 January 1845 - 1 May 1909
Thomas Yeoman	12/01/1764	1708 - 24 January 1781
William Yolland William Yolland William Yolland CB, FRS was an English military surveyor, astronomer and engineer, and was Britain’s Chief Inspector of Railways from 1877 until his death...	09/06/1859	17 March 1810 - 5 September 1885
Charles Maurice Yonge	21/03/1946	9 December 1899 - 17 March 1986
James Yonge	30/11/1702	27 February 1647 - 25 July 1721
Sir George Yonge	13/05/1784	1731 - 25 September 1812
Sir William Yonge	23/06/1748	10 August 1755
Charles Yorke Charles Yorke Charles Yorke was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Life:The second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His literary abilities were shown at an early age by his collaboration with his brother Philip in the...	13/12/1750	30 December 1722 - 20 January 1770
Charles Philip Yorke Charles Philip Yorke Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA , was a British politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1803 to 1804.-Background:...	12/11/1801	12 March 1764 - 13 March 1834
Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke Admiral Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke PC , was a British naval commander and Conservative politician.-Background:...	25/02/1847	2 April 1799 - 17 September 1873
John Yorke	18/02/1773	27 August 1728 - 3 September 1801
Philip James Yorke	07/06/1849	13 October 1799 - 14 December 1874
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke PC was an English lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor. He was a close confidant of the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister between 1754 and 1756 and 1757 until 1762....	06/12/1753	1 December 1690 - 6 March 1764
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke FRS , and eldest son of the 1st earl, was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.In 1741 he became a fellow of the Royal Society...	29/01/1741	19 March 1720 - 16 May 1790
Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke KG, PC, FRS , known as Philip Yorke until 1790, was a British politician.-Background and education:...	25/11/1790	31 May 1757 - 18 November 1834
Warrington Yorke	05/05/1932	11 April 1883 - 24 April 1943 Prof. of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool
Alec David Young Alec David Young Alec David Young was a British aero-engineer. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London, 1954-78, then Emeritus, and Vice-Principal, Queen Mary College, 1966-78.-Education:He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge .He was...	15/03/1973	15 August 1913 – 27 January 2005 aero-engineer
Alfred Young Alfred Young Alfred Young, FRS was a British mathematician.He was born in Widnes, Lancashire, England and educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and Clare College, Cambridge, graduating BA as 10th Wrangler in 1895. He is known for his work in the area of group theory...	03/05/1934	16 April 1873 - 15 December 1940
Arthur Young	28/04/1774	11 September 1741 - 20 April 1820
Christopher Alwyne Jack Young	16/03/1972	7 March 1912 - 20 January 1978
Ian Robert Young Ian Robert Young Ian Robert Young OBE FRS FREng is a British Medical Imaging researcher, and inventor.- Life :He is senior research fellow at Hirst Research Centre....	16/03/1989
James Young	12/06/1873	13 July 1811 - 13 May 1883
John Zachary Young John Zachary Young John Zachary Young FRS , generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century .....	22/03/1945	18 March 1907 - 4 July 1997
Pierre Henry John Young	21/03/1974	12 June 1926 - 4 August 1985
Frank George Young Frank George Young Sir Frank George Young FRS was a distinguished biochemist, noted for his work on diabetes, and the first Master of Darwin College, Cambridge.-Early life:...	17/03/1949	25 March 1908 - 20 September 1988
George Young	15/02/1781	17 July 1732 - 28 June 1810 Admiral
Samuel Young	26/03/1795	23 February 1766 - 14 December 1826 Civil servant
Sydney Young Sydney Young Sydney "Syd" Young was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League .-Sources:...	01/06/1893	29 December 1857 - 8 April 1937
Thomas Young Thomas Young (scientist) Thomas Young was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work...	19/06/1794	13 June 1773 - 10 May 1829
William Young Sir William Young, 1st Baronet Sir William Young, 1st Baronet was a British politician and sugar plantation owner. He served as President of the Commission for the Sale of Lands in the Ceded Islands, and was appointed the first colonial governor to Dominica in 1770....	10/03/1748	1725 - 8 April 1788
William Young Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet William Young was a British colonial governor, politician and sugar plantation owner. He was the governor of Grenada in 1776 and British Guiana from 8 March 1777–3 April 1777 and Tobago from 1807 – January 1815....	15/06/1786	1 December 1749 - 10 January 1815
William Henry Young William Henry Young William Henry Young was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus amongst other fields, and made brilliant and long-lasting contributions to the study of functions of several...	02/05/1907	20 October 1863 - 7 July 1942
Charles Wright Younghusband	03/06/1852	20 June 1821 - 28 October 1899
George Udny Yule	12/05/1921	18 February 1871 - 26 June 1951

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Name	Date Elected
Franz Xaver Zach	12/04/1804	4 June 1754 - 2 September 1832
Oliver Louis Zangwill Oliver Zangwill Oliver Louis Zangwill FRS was an influential British neuropsychologist. He was Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, 1952-81, then Professor Emeritus. He was the son of Israel Zangwill and the grandson of William Edward Ayrton...	17/03/1977	29 October 1913 - 12 October 1987 psychologist
Francesco Maria Zannotti	26/02/1741	6 January 1692 - 25 December 1777
Eustachio Zanotti	06/11/1740	27 November 1709 - 15 May 1782
Erik Christopher Zeeman Erik Christopher Zeeman Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS , is a Japanese-born British mathematician known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory....	20/03/1975
Semir Zeki Semir Zeki Semir Zeki is a professor of neuroesthetics at University College London. His main interest is the organization of the primate visual brain. He published his first scientific paper in 1967...	15/03/1990
Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz	15/03/1979	18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009
John Michael Ziman John Ziman John Michael Ziman was a physicist and a humanist who worked in the area of condensed matter physics. He was an outstanding spokesman for science, and an accomplished teacher and author....	16/03/1967	16 May 1925 – 2 January 2005
Andrew Peter Zisserman Andrew Zisserman Andrew Zisserman is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a world-renowned researcher in computer vision. He is the only person to have been awarded the Marr Prize three times.- Publications :...	17/05/2007
Philip Henry Zollman	22/06/1727	c 1748
Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman Solly Zuckerman Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, OM, KCB, FRS was a British public servant, zoologist, and scientific advisor who is best remembered as an advisor to the Allies on bombing strategy in World War II, for his work to advance the cause of nuclear non-proliferation, and for his role in bringing...	18/03/1943	30 May 1904 - 31 March 1993 anatomist, evolutionist

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Name	Election Date
Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg Otto Heinrich Warburg , son of physicist Emil Warburg, was a German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate. He served as an officer in the elite Uhlan during the First World War and won the Iron Cross for bravery. Warburg was one of the twentieth century's leading biochemists...	03/05/1934	8 October 1883 - 1 August 1970; German chemist, Nobel Prize Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...  for Medicine (1931)
James Dewey Watson	09/04/1981
Ernst Heinrich Weber Ernst Heinrich Weber Ernst Heinrich Weber was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.Weber studied medicine at Wittenberg University...	19/06/1862	24 June 1795 - 26 January 1878
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber	27/06/1935	6 December 1852 - 07
Wilhelm Eduard Weber Wilhelm Eduard Weber Wilhelm Eduard Weber was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.-Early years:...	21/11/1850	24 October 1804 - ? 23 June 1890
Carl Wilhelm Weierstrass Karl Weierstrass Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis".- Biography :Weierstrass was born in Ostenfelde, part of Ennigerloh, Province of Westphalia....	12/05/1881	31 October 1815 - 19 February 1897
André Weil André Weil André Weil was an influential mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition. He is especially known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry...	21/04/1966	6 May 1906 - 6 August 1998; French U.S. mathematician group theory, algebraic geometry
Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles....	09/04/1981	U.S. physicist, electroweak force, Nobel Prize (1979)
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann	30/06/1910	17 January 1834 - 5 November 1914
Charles Weissmann Charles Weissmann Charles Weissmann is a Hungarian-born Swiss molecular biologist.Weissmann went to Zurich University and obtained his MD in 1956 and Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry in 1961. Weissmann was director of the Institute for Molecular Biology in Zurich, President of the Roche Research Foundation and...	30/06/1983	Hungarian-born Switzerland British molecular biologist
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went	25/05/1933	18 June 1863 - 24 July 1935
Frank Henry Westheimer	30/06/1983	U.S. chemist
Hermann Weyl Hermann Weyl Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, represented by David Hilbert and Hermann Minkowski.His...	25/06/1936	9 November 1885 - 9 December 1955
John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission...	09/03/1995
Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann was a German physicist known mostly for his literary work.-Education:Wiedemann was born at Berlin. After attending the Cologne gymnasium, he entered the university of Berlin in 1844, and took his doctor's degree there three years later...	31/01/1884	2 October 1826 - 23 March 1899
Heinrich Otto Wieland Heinrich Otto Wieland Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German chemist. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the bile acids. In 1901 Wieland received his doctorate at the University of Munich while studying under Johannes Thiele...	25/06/1931	4 June 1877 - 5 August 1957
Torsten Nils Wiesel	24/06/1982
Eugene Paul Wigner	23/04/1970	17 November 1902 - 1 January 1995
Edmund Beecher Wilson Edmund Beecher Wilson Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.- Career :...	05/05/1921	19 October 1856 - 3 March 1939
Edward Osborne Wilson	28/06/1990
Øjvind Winge Øjvind Winge Øjvind Winge was a Danish biologist and a pioneer in yeast genetics.He was born in the city of Aarhus in Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. After completing secondary school he travelled to the University of Copenhagen to study law but found himself more suited to the biological sciences into which...	01/05/1947	19 May 1886 - 5 April 1964 Danish geneticist
Sergius Winogradsky	26/06/1919	14 September 1856 - 24 February 1953
Richard Willstatter Richard Willstätter Richard Martin Willstätter was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Willstätter invented paper chromatography independently of Mikhail Tsvet.-Biography:Willstätter was born in to a Jewish family...	21/06/1928	13 August 1872 - 3 August 1942
Johannes Wislicenus Johannes Wislicenus Johannes Wislicenus was a German chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry.-Biography:...	01/04/1897	24 June 1835 - 5 December 1902
Edward Witten Edward Witten Edward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study....	13/05/1999	U.S. mathematician and physicist, Fields Medal Fields Medal The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...  (1990)
Carl Richard Woese	18/05/2006
Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements.-Biography:He was born in Eschersheim, which belonged to aau...	15/06/1854	31 July 1800 - 23 September 1882
Peter Guy Wolynes Peter Guy Wolynes Peter Guy Wolynes is an American chemist. He was James R. Eiszner Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, later the Francis H.C. Crick Chair of Physical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He is Principal Investigator of the Wolynes Group.-Life:He graduated...	17/05/2007
Robert Williams Wood	26/06/1919	2 May 1868 - 11 August 1955
Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, considered by many to be the preeminent organic chemist of the twentieth century...	26/04/1956	10 April 1917 - 8 July 1979
Sewall Wright Sewall Wright Sewall Green Wright was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. With R. A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane, he was a founder of theoretical population genetics. He is the discoverer of the inbreeding coefficient and of...	25/04/1963	21 December 1889 - 3 March 1988
Carl Isaac Wunsch Carl Wunsch Carl Wunsch is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.- Career :Wunsch received his Ph. D. in...	09/05/2002
Karl Adolph Wurtz	09/06/1864	26 November 1817 - 10 May 1884
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff, Sr. was an American scientist and pioneer of X-ray crystallography. He was elected Foreign member of the Royal Society, on April 19, 1951....	19/04/1951	9 August 1897 - 2 November 1994

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Name	Election Date
Mitsuhiro Yanagida Mitsuhiro Yanagida is a Japanese biologist, professor, and Dean of the Graduate School of Biostudies at Kyoto University.He was elected as a Foreign member of the Royal Society on 11 May 2000.-Life:...	11/05/2000
Chen Ning Yang	18/06/1992
Charles Yanofsky Charles Yanofsky - External links :* *...	27/06/1985	U.S. scientist, medicine
Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa né , was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.-Biography:Yukawa was born in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto Imperial University, he stayed on as a lecturer for four years. After graduation, he was interested in...	25/04/1963	23 January 1907 - 8 September 1981

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Name	Year
Richard Neil Zare Richard Zare Richard Neil Zare is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.-Education:Zare earned his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D...	13/05/1999	U.S. physicist
Pieter Zeeman Pieter Zeeman Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.-Childhood and youth:...	05/05/1921	25 May 1865 - 9 October 1943
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich	26/04/1979	8 March 1914 - 2 December 1987
Frits Zernike Frits Zernike Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells....	26/04/1956	16 July 1888 - 10 March 1966
Ahmed Hassan Zewail Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian-American scientist who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.- Birth and education :Ahmed Zewail was born on...	10/05/2001
Karl Ziegler Karl Ziegler Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers. The Nobel Committee recognized his "excellent work on organometallic compounds [which]...led to new polymerization reactions and ... paved the way for new and highly...	22/04/1971	26 November 1898 - 11 August 1973
Rolf Martin Zinkernagel	14/05/1998
Ferdinand Zirkel Ferdinand Zirkel Ferdinand Zirkel was a German geologist and petrographer.-Biography:He was born in Bonn. He was educated in his native town, and graduated Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1861. His training and initial interest was in mining...	25/11/1897	20 May 1838 - 11 June 1912

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