Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Physicist
1
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
2
Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
Zoologist
3
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Biologist
4
Tim Berners Lee, 70
Computer Scientist
5
Brian Cox, 58
6
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Paleontologist
7
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
8
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Archeologist
9
Frederick Soddy (1877-1956)
Chemist
10
Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
11
Peter Wright (1916-1995)
12
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
13
James Chadwick (1891-1974)
14
Sophie Wilson, 68
15
Mithuna Yoganathan
16
Luke Howard (1772-1864)
17
William Harvey (1578-1657)
18
Audrey Smith (1915-1981)
19
Alice Roberts, 52
20
Born in England
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Francis Crick (1916-2004)
21
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
22
Mary Leakey (1913-1996)
23
Humphry Davy (1778-1829)
24
David Bellamy (1933-2019)
Botanist
25
Matt Wood, 46
26
Jack Vincent (1904-1999)
27
John Dalton (1766-1844)
28
Matt Taylor, 52
Astrophysicist
29
Francis William Aston (1877-1945)
30
Ross J Anderson, 69
31
Paul Hudson, 55
Meteorologist
32
Adam Hart Davis, 82
33
David Harvey, 90
Anthropologist
34
Peter Higgs (1929-2024)
35
Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959)
36
William Tyndale
Linguist
37
John Lyons (1932-2020)
38
Harry Collins, 82
Sociologist
39
Lucy Verasamy, 45
40
Tim Hunt, 83
41
Joseph Swan (1828-1914)
42
Bertram Windle (1858-1929)
Anatomist
43
Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
44
Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
45
James Prescott Joule (1818-1889)
Conservationist
46
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)
47
Brian Dale, 74
Geneticist
48
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