List of Fellows of the Royal Society A,B,C
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About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660. Below is an incomplete 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 lists of current Fellows and of past and current Fellows.
List of Fellows of the Royal Society
A,B,C D,E,F G,H,I J,K,L M,N,O P,Q,R S,T,U,V W,X,Y,Z

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Name Election Date
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester PC, FRS was a British barrister and statesman. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1802 and 1817.-Background and education:...

14/02/1793 15 October 1757 – 8 May 1829
John Farr Abbott
John Farr Abbott
John Farr Abbott, sometimes Abbot was a British barrister. He was a member of Lincoln's Inn, and became a Fellow of the Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He also served as Clerk of Rules in the Court of King's Bench.-References:**...

20/06/1793 1757 - 22 September 1794
Louis Paul Abeille
Louis Paul Abeille
Louis Paul Abeille FRS was a French economist.He was Inspector General of Manufactures and Commerce in 1765, and secretary of commerce from 1769 to 1783, when he was replaced by his son, Jean Louis....

22/04/1762 3 June 1719 – 28 July 1807
Clarke Abel
Clarke Abel
Clarke Abel was a British surgeon and naturalist.He accompanied Lord Amherst on his mission to China in 1816-17 as the embassy's chief medical officer and naturalist, on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks...

11/03/1820 c 1780 - 24 November 1826
Frederick Augustus Abel
Frederick Augustus Abel
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07/06/1860 18 July 1827 – 6 September 1902
Michael Abercrombie
Michael Abercrombie
Michael Abercrombie FRS was a British cell biologist and embryologist.He was the son of the poet Lascelles Abercrombie.-External links:* http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/web/paper.php?doi=10761842...

20/03/1958 15 August 1912 – 28 May 1979
John Abernethy
John Abernethy (surgeon)
John Abernethy FRS was an English surgeon, grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy.He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke , a surgeon at St Bartholomew's...

14/04/1796 4 April 1764 – 28 April 1831
Mohammed Ben Ali Abgali
Mohammed Ben Ali Abgali
Mohammed Ben Ali Abgali FRS was a Morrocan Ambassador to Britain, from 14 August 1725 to February 1727.He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1727.He corresponded with Martin Folkes....

24/03/1727 1726–1737
William de Wiveleslie Abney
William de Wiveleslie Abney
William de Wiveleslie Abney FRS was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.-Biography:Abney was born in Derby, England, the son of Edward Abney vicar of St Alkmund's Derby, and owner of the Firs Estate...

01/06/1876 25 July 1843 – 3 December 1920
Edward Penley Abraham 20/03/1958 11 June 1913 – 9 May 1999
Samson Abramsky
Samson Abramsky
Samson D. Abramsky FRS, FRSE is a computer scientist who currently holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He is well known for playing a leading role in the development of game semantics...

27/05/2005
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland 21/01/1847 24 August 1815 – 16 October 1900
Thomas Dyke Acland
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet FRS was a British educational reformer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1837 to 1886 initially as a Tory and later, after an eighteen year gap, as a Liberal....

20/06/1839 26 May 1809 – 29 May 1898
Gilbert Smithson Adair
Gilbert Smithson Adair
Gilbert Smithson Adair FRS was an early protein scientist who used osmotic pressure measurements to establish that hemoglobin was a tetramer under physiological conditions...

16/03/1939 22 September 1896 – 22 June 1979
James Adair
James Adair (serjeant)
James Adair, KS was an Irish serjeant-at-law.He was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge, and took a B.A. in 1764, and M.A. in 1767. He was educated in law and in due course called to the bar by the society of Lincoln's Inn...

10/04/1789 c 1743 - 21 July 1798
John Adair
John Adair (surveyor)
John Adair was a Scottish surveyor and mapmaker, noted for the excellence of his maps.He first came to public notice in 1683, with a prospectus published in Edinburgh for a "Scottish Atlas" stating that the Privy Council of Scotland had engaged Adair, a "mathematician and skilfull mechanic", to...

30/11/1689 ? 1647 - 15 May 1718
Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, 1st Baron Waveney 05/06/1845 26 August 1811 – 15 February 1886
Neil Kensington Adam
Neil Kensington Adam
Neil Kensington Adam FRS was a British chemist.He was the son of a Classics don.He studied chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge.He became a fellow of the college....

16/05/1935 6 November 1891 – 19 July 1973
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was a Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam , Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him...

07/05/1761 1729 - 3 March 1792
John George Adami
John George Adami
John George Adami , M.A., M.D., F.R.S., LL.D. was a British pathologist.He was the son of the late John George Adami...

11/05/1905 13 January 1862 – 29 August 1926
Alfred Rodney Adams 14/03/1997
Andrew Leith Adams
Andrew Leith Adams
Andrew Leith Adams was a Scottish physician, naturalist and geologist. He was the father of the writer Francis Adams.-Life and career:...

06/06/1872 22 March 1827 – 29 July 1882
Frank Dawson Adams
Frank Dawson Adams
Frank Dawson Adams was a Canadian geologist.He was born into a prosperous, middle-class family in Montreal, Quebec. At that time modern Canada did not exist : "Canada" consisted of Canada West and Canada East...

02/05/1907 18 September 1859 – 26 December 1942
Jerry McKee Adams
Jerry Adams
Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS is a molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian...

12/03/1993 17 June 1940-
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch"....

07/06/1849 6 June 1819 – 21 January 1892
John Frank Adams 19/03/1964 6 November 1930 – 7 January 1989
Paul Richard Adams
Paul Adams (scientist)
Paul Richard Adams, FRS is a neurobiologist currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Stony Brook University in New York....

14/03/1992
John Bertram Adams 21/03/1963 25 May 1920 – 4 March 1984
William Grylls Adams
William Grylls Adams
William Grylls Adams FRS was professor of Natural Philosophy at King's College, London.William Grylls Adams was a younger brother of John Couch Adams . He graduated from St...

06/06/1872 18 February 1836 – 10 April 1915
Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson was a French naturalist of Scottish descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of R. A. F. Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes. At the end of...

22/01/1761 8 April 1727 – 3 August 1806
Cyril Clifford Addison
Cyril Clifford Addison
Cyril Clifford Addison, FRS was a British inorganic chemist.He was a member of the Chemical Inspection Department, Ministry of Supply from 1939 to 1945....

19/03/1970 29 November 1913 – 1 April 1994
William Addison
William Addison (physician)
William Addison FRS was a British physician.He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 29 January 1846.He studied hematology....

29/01/1846 1803 - 26 September 1881
Swithin Adee 06/12/1745 c 1704 - 12 August 1786 Physician, Surrey
Saul Adler
Saul Adler
Saul Adler FRS was an Israeli expert on Parasitology.-Early life:Adler was born in 1895 in Kerelits , then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus. In 1900, he and his family moved to England and they settled in Leeds...

21/03/1957 18 May 1895 – 25 January 1966
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons....

03/05/1923 31 November 1889 – 4 August 1977
Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian of Cambridge
Richard Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian
Richard Hume Adrian, 2nd Baron Adrian FRS was a British physiologist.Adrian was born in Cambridge in 1927, the only son of Edgar Adrian and his wife Hester Pinsent, a mental health worker. His father won a Nobel Prize in 1932, was President of the Royal Society 1950–1955 and was created...

17/03/1977 17 October 1927 – 4 April 1995
Adam Afzelius
Adam Afzelius
Adam Afzelius was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany...

19/04/1798 1751–1837
Cassem Algiada Aga 05/12/1729 fl 1728 - 1738 Libyan diplomat
George James Welbore Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover 07/11/1816 15 January 1797 – 10 July 1833
George Charles Agar 09/06/1832 2 August 1780 – 24 June 1856
Welbore Ellis Agar 22/03/1782 c 1736 - 30 October 1805 Commissioner of the Customs
Wilfred Eade Agar
Wilfred Eade Agar
Wilfred Eade Agar was an Anglo-Australian zoologist.Agar was born in Wimbledon, England. He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology...

12/05/1921 28 April 1882 – 14 July 1951
Girish Saran Agarwal
Girish Agarwal
Girish Saran Agarwal, FRS is the physicist specialising in quantum optics. He currently holds the Noble Foundation Chair and serves as Regents Professor in the Department of Physics of Oklahoma State University.-Life:...

16/05/2008 7 July 1946
William Aglionby 07/11/1668 c 1642 - 28 November 1705 Diplomat
George Andre Agricola
Georg Andreas Agricola
Georg Andreas Agricola or Georgio Andrea Agricola or Georg Andreas Bauer or George André Agricola was a German physician and botanist from Regensburg....

11/01/1699 1673–1738
Cyriacus Ahlers 09/03/1728 fl 1727 - 1756 German Physician
Robert Anthony Ainsworth
Robert Anthony Ainsworth
Robert Anthony Ainsworth FRS FREng is a British material scientist, and Assessment Technology Group Head, at British Energy Generation.He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London....

15/05/2009 UK Scientist
George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy
Sir George Biddell Airy PRS KCB was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881...

21/01/1836 28 July 1801 – 2 January 1892
James Edward Tierney Aitchison
James Edward Tierney Aitchison
James Edward Tierney Aitchison was a Scottish surgeon and botanist...

07/06/1883 29 October 1835 - 30 September 1898 Scottish Surgeon & Botanist
Alexander Craig Aitken 07/05/1936 2 April 1895 – 3 November 1967
John Aitken
John Aitken (scientist)
John Aitken FRS FRSE was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope...

06/06/1889 19 September 1839 – 13 November 1919
Martin Jim Aitken 17/03/1984 UK Physicist (archeology)
William Aitken 12/06/1873 24 April 1825 - 25 June 1892 Scottish Surgeon
Michael Edwin Akam 11/05/2001 Zoologist
Mark Akenside
Mark Akenside
Mark Akenside was an English poet and physician.Akenside was born at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the son of a butcher. He was slightly lame all his life from a wound he received as a child from his father's cleaver...

08/02/1753 10 November 1721 – 23 June 1770
Wallace Alan Akers 20/03/1952 10 September 1888 - 1 November 1954 Chemist & Industrialist
Muhammad Akhtar 20/03/1981 Biochemist, Punjab
John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan
John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan
John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan was an English lawyer, politician and judge. He was also a writer on English legal and constitutional history, said to have influenced Thomas Jefferson....

20/03/1712 8 March 1670 – 19 December 1746
George Monck Albemarle, 1st Duke of Albemarle
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II.-Early life and career:...

09/01/1665 6 Dec 1608 – 3 Jan 1670
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria 30/04/1840 27 August 1819 - 14 December 1861 Royal
Giambattista Albertini 11/12/1760 1716 - 12 May 1788 Envoy Extraordinary from the King of the Two Sicilies
Wyndham John Albery
John Albery
Wyndham John Albery FRS is a British chemist and academic.John Albery was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He undertook his D.Phil. with Ronnie Bell, starting in 1960...

21/03/1986
Bernard Siegfried Albinus 23/02/1764 26 February 1697 – 9 September 1770
Alfred William Alcock
Alfred William Alcock
Alfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...

06/06/1901 24 June 1859 – 24 March 1933
Nathan Alcock
Nathan Alcock
-Early life and education:Nathan Alcock was born at Aston, near Runcorn, Cheshire, the second son of David Alcock and his wife Mary née Breck. David Alcock was a descendent of Bishop John Alcock, the founder of Jesus College, Cambridge. He was educated initially by his parents and then at a local...

25/01/1751 September 1707 - 8 December 1779
Roger William Alder
Roger Alder
Roger William Alder, FRS is an Emeritus Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol.His research involves the study of novel compounds with unusual properties, such as proton sponges and stable carbenes.-External links:*...

18/05/2007
Robert Aldersey 03/07/1795
James Alderson
James Alderson
Sir James Alderson MD, FRS was an English physician born and based in Kingston upon Hull. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians‎.-Biography:...

17/06/1841 31 December 1794 - 13 September 1882 English Surgeon (PRCS)
David John Aldous
David Aldous
David John Aldous, FRS is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence. He entered St. John's...

10/03/1995
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...

22/12/1748 17 November 1717 – 29 October 1783
16/5/2008 23 December 1967
Henry Alexander 22/04/1848 c 1782 - January 1859 Oculist to Queen Victoria
Robert Alexander
Robert Alexander (Halifax)
Robert Alexander was a British philanthropist, born 1795, from Halifax, West Yorkshire. He was a founding member of the Halifax Literary & Philosophical Society, and was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1835. He died in 1843.- References :...

26/11/1835 19 January 1795 - 21
Robert McNeill Alexander
Robert McNeill Alexander
Robert McNeill Alexander, CBE, FRS is a British zoologist, and professor at University of Leeds.He was a graduate of the University of Cambridge with a MA, PhD, and from the University of Wales with a DSc....

19/03/1988 1934- UK Zoologist
Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and reigned from 1893 to 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...

16/03/1882 7 August 1844 - 30 July 1900 Royal
Francesco Algarotti
Francesco Algarotti
Count Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...

08/07/1736 12 December 1712 – 24 May 1764
Archibald Alison 15/11/1792 1758 - 17 May 1839
Johann Nicholaus Sebastian Allamand 22/01/1747 19 September 1713 – 2 March 1787
Thomas Allan
Thomas Allan
The mineralogist Thomas Allan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 17 July 1777 to a family of Scottish merchants and bankers. He took up banking for his profession, but he is remembered today for his contributions to mineral science...

06/04/1815 18 July 1777 – 12 September 1833
Thomas Clifford Allbutt 03/06/1880 21 July 1836 – 22 February 1925
Edgar Johnson Allen
Edgar Johnson Allen
Edgar Johnson Allen FRS was a British marine biologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1936....

07/05/1914 7 April 1866 – 7 December 1942
Edmond Allen 12/05/1727 ? - 1763
Geoffrey Allen
Geoffrey Allen
Sir Geoffrey Allen, FRS is a British chemist who has also served as a Vice-President of the Royal Society. He is primarily known for his work on the physics and chemistry of polymers. He is especially well known for his work on the thermodynamics of rubber elasticity...

18/03/1977
Herbert Stanley Allen 15/05/1930 30 December 1873 – 27 April 1954
John Allen
John Allen (physician)
John Allen, or John Alleyn , was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.-Biography:Allen, the date of whose birth is not positively known, was an M.D., but of what university does not appear...

22/10/1731 c 1660 - 16 September 1741
John Frank Allen 17/03/1949 7 May 1908 – 22 April 2001
John Robert Laurence Allen 15/03/1979 UK Geologist
Norman Percy Allen 15/03/1956 5 June 1903 – 23 February 1972
Percival Allen
Percival Allen
Percival Allen FRS was a British geologist.In Mar, 1973 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His applicaton citation read: "Distinguished for his investigations of Lower Cretaceous sedimentation in north-western Europe...

15/03/1973
Thomas Allen 06/02/1668
William Allen
William Allen (Quaker)
William Allen FRS, FLS was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England.-Early life:...

19/11/1807 29 August 1770 - 30 December 1843 Quaker scientist
William Allen
William Allen (Quaker)
William Allen FRS, FLS was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England.-Early life:...

18/11/1841 1793 - 23 January 1864
John Alleyn
John Alleyn (MP)
John Alleyn or Allen was a Cornish politician.John Alleyn was the son of Giles Allen, Rector of Little Waltham and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Massam. John was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1629, before being admitted to Gray's Inn in 1642.He was...

20/05/1663 1 March 1621 – 26 June 1663 (Original) Barrister & MP
John Alleyne 16/05/1776
Thomas Edward Allibone
Thomas Allibone
Thomas Edward Allibone, CBE, FRS was an English physicist, his work included important research into particle physics, X-rays, high voltage equipment, and electron microscopes.-Early life:...

18/03/1948 11 November 1903 – 9 September 2003
Carlo Allioni
Carlo Allioni
Carlo Allioni was an Italian physician and professor of botany at the University of Turin. His most important work was Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii 1755, a study of the plant world in Piedmont, in which he listed 2813 species of plants, of which 237...

06/04/1758 1725–1804
William Allix 25/01/1753 c 1689 - 1769
George James Allman
George James Allman
George James Allman FRS , M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, was an eminent Irish naturalist.-Life:...

01/06/1854 1812 - 24 November 1898
George Johnston Allman
George Johnston Allman
George Johnston Allman was an Irish professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.He was born in Dublin the son of William Allman MD, also a botanist....

12/06/1884 28 September 1824 - 9 May 1904 Prof of Maths, Queens Coll, Galway
Arthur John Allmand 02/05/1929 7 January 1885 - 4 August 1951 Prof of Chemistry, Kings College
Jacques Eugene d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville 09/06/1715 14 July 1671 – 10 September 1732
Theodore de Almeyda 09/03/1758 1722–1803
Michael Philip Alpers 16/05/2008 Australian scientist (kuru research)
Johann Wilhelm Alruz 06/11/1729
John Alstroemer 24/12/1778 1742–1786
George John Althorp, 2nd Earl Spencer
George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer KG PC FRS FSA , styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician...

06/04/1780 1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834
John Charles Althorp, 3rd Earl Spencer
John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer
John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer PC, FRS , styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834, was a British statesman...

16/11/1820 30 May 1782 – 1 October 1845
Joseph Ames
Joseph Ames (author)
Joseph Ames was an English bibliographer and antiquary. He wrote an account of printing in England from 1471 to 1600, entitled Typographical Antiquities...

15/12/1743 23 January 1689 – 7 October 1759
Johann Amman
Johann Amman
Johann Amman, Johannes Amman or Иоганн Амман , was a Swiss-Russian botanist, a member of the Royal Society and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg...

18/03/1731 1707–1741
Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso 21/03/1957 16 September 1901 - 30 October 1982 Trinidad Physiologist
William Bradshaw Amos 17/05/2007 Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Andre-Marie Ampere
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him....

08/03/1827 22 January 1775 – 10 June 1836
Claude Amyand 05/04/1716
Thomas Amyot
Thomas Amyot
-Early life:Amyot was born at Norwich on 7 January 1775, and was descended from one of the Huguenot families settled in that city. Intended for the profession of a country attorney, he was articled to a Norwich firm, and eventually spent a year in London before entering into the full practice of...

22/01/1824 7 January 1775 - 28 September 1850 Lawyer & Antiquary
John Proctor Anderdon 23/05/1811 c 1761 - 30 November 1846 British Merchant
Brian David Outram Anderson 16/03/1989
Donald Thomas Anderson
Donald Thomas Anderson
Donald Thomas Anderson FRS is an Australian zoologist, and lecturer at King's College, London, and Challis Professor of Biology at University of Sydney.He married Joanne Claridge in 1960.-Works:...

17/03/1977 Australian Zoologist
Ephraim Saul Anderson
Ephraim Anderson
Ephraim Saul "Andy" Anderson FRS CBE was a British bacteriologist, best known for his work highlighting the human health dangers of drug-resistant bacteria created by antibiotics, in particular by low-dose antibiotic use in animal feeding. Anderson was educated at Rutherford College before winning...

21/03/1968 28 October 1911 – 14 March 2006
Jan Mary Anderson
Jan Anderson (scientist)
Jan Mary Anderson FRS is a scientist from New Zealand, distinguished by her investigation of photosynthesis. She was the first to show that the photosynthetic mechanism comprises two fundamental components: photosystem I and photosytem II....

14/03/1996
John Anderson
John Anderson (zoologist)
John Anderson was a Scottish anatomist and zoologist who worked in India.He was born in Edinburgh and graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1861. His thesis however was in zoology...

12/06/1879 4 October 1833 – 15 August 1900
John Anderson
John H. D. Anderson
John Anderson was a Scottish natural philosopherand liberal educator at the forefront of the application of science to technology in the industrial revolution, and of the education and advancement of working men and women....

01/02/1759 1726 - 13 January 1796
Hugh Kerr Anderson
Hugh Kerr Anderson
Hugh Kerr Anderson FRS was a British physiologist, and educator.He served as Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1912 to 1928. He was the Chairman of the Cambridge University Press in 1918. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1907...

02/05/1907 6 July 1865 - 2 November 1928 Master, Caius College
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson FRS, FAA, was a British and Australian scientist who was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford....

19/03/1953 9 January 1908 – 25 December 1990
Roy Malcolm Anderson 20/03/1986
Ross J. Anderson 15/05/2009
William Anderson
William Anderson (engineer)
Sir William Anderson was director-general of the Royal Ordnance factories.-Life:...

04/06/1891 5 January 1835 - 11 December 1898 Dir. of Ordnance
Antonio Freyre de Andrade 04/05/1749
Edward Neville da Costa Andrade 16/05/1935 27 December 1887 – 6 June 1971
Edward Raymond Andrew 15/03/1984 27 June 1921 - 27 May 2001 UK Physicist (NMR)
James Andrew
James Andrew (East India Company)
James Andrew, LL.D. , was the principal of the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey.Andrew was from Scotland, and received his education at Aberdeen...

29/03/1821 1774 - 13 June 1833 East India Company
Sydney Percy Smith Andrew 18/03/1976 16 May 1926 - 2 November 2011 UK Engineer
Christopher Howard Andrewes 16/03/1939 7 June 1896 – 31 December 1988
Frederick William Andrewes 06/05/1915 31 March 1859 - 24 English Pathologist
Charles William Andrews
Charles William Andrews
Charles William Andrews F.R.S., was a British palaeontologist whose career as a vertebrate paleontologist, both as a curator and in the field, was spent in the services of the British Museum, Department of Geology.-Biography:...

03/05/1906 30 October 1866 – 25 May 1924
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews, or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language...

09/03/1727 c 1691 - ? 22 April 1753
Thomas Andrews 07/06/1888 17 February 1847 – 19 June 1907
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews (scientist)
Thomas Andrews FRS was an Irish chemist and physicist who did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids.-Life:Andrews was born in Belfast, Ireland where his father was a linen merchant...

07/06/1849 19 December 1813 – 26 November 1885
James Roger Prior Angel
James Angel
James Roger Prior Angel is an American astronomer, and is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona....

15/03/1990
Thomas Anguish 24/04/1776
Bernt Anker 07/11/1782
Garsten Anker 01/03/1804
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, Princess Royal
Anne, Princess Royal
Princess Anne, Princess Royal , is the only daughter of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

12/02/1987 Royal Member
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey PC was an Anglo-Irish royalist statesman. After short periods as President of the Council of State and Treasurer of the Navy, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1673 and 1682 for Charles II...

16/04/1668 10 July 1614 – 10 April 1686
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris
Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris FRS was an Irish peer.He was the son of Richard Annesley, 6th Earl of Anglesey, and the Countess Juliana Donovan, who belonged to the junior sept of the O'Donovans of Clan Loughlin, the Donovans of Ballymore in County Wexford...

18/12/1800 7 August 1744 – 4 July 1816
Francis Annesley 30/11/1704 24 October 1663 - 7 April 1750 MP Preston & Westbury
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris
George Annesley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris FRS , styled Viscount Valentia between 1793 and 1816, was a British peer and politician.-Background:Mountnorris was the son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris, and the Hon...

24/11/1796 January 1771 - 23 July 1844
James Annesley 30/01/1840 c.1780 - 15 December 1847 Surgeon
James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey
James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey
James Annesley, 2nd Earl of Anglesey FRS was a British peer.He was the son of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and Elizabeth Altham.He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford University, on 4 December 1661....

07/01/1663 1645 - 1 April 1690
Gleb Anrep 10/05/1928
Charles Ansell
Charles Ansell
Charles James Ansell was a British actuary....

10/04/1834 8 December 1794 - 14 December 1861 Actuary
George Anson, Baron Anson of Soberton 05/12/1745 23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762
Thomas Anson
Thomas Anson (MP)
Thomas Anson , FRS was a British Member of Parliament, traveller and amateur architect.Anson was the son of William Anson and Isabella Carrier, sister-in-law to the Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. The family estate was Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire...

14/05/1730 c.1695 - 30 March 1773
David Thomas Ansted 11/01/1844
Janice Antinovice 17/03/1988
Edmund Antrobus 26/03/1801
James Apjohn
James Apjohn
James Apjohn was the Irish chemist known for the discovery of new minerals.-Life:Apjohn studied at Trinity College, Dublin medicine and finished with his M.B. in 1822...

02/06/1853
Edward Victor Appleton
Edward Victor Appleton
Sir Edward Victor Appleton, GBE, KCB, FRS was an English physicist.-Biography:Appleton was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and educated at Hanson Grammar School. At the age of 18 he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge...

12/05/1927
John George Appold
John Appold
John George Appold, FRS was a British fur dyer and engineer. Appold was the son of a fur-skin dyer, established in Finsbury...

02/06/1853
Francesco d'Aquino 05/06/1783
Nicolo Alerbo d'Aragona 21/03/1723
Agnes Arber
Agnes Arber
Agnes Robertson Arber was a renowned British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life...

21/03/1946 23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, , was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...

30/11/1704 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735
John Arbuthnot 22/11/1770 c.1732 - c.1799
William Archer
William Archer (naturalist)
William Archer was an Irish naturalist and microscopist especially interested in Protozoa and Desmids.Archer was one of the twelve founder members of the Dublin Microscopical Club. Between 1858 and 1885 he wrote over 230 scientific papers in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ,...

03/06/1875
Charles Dickson Archibald
Charles Dickson Archibald
Charles Dickson Archibald was a lawyer, businessman and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Truro Township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1826 to 1830....

26/11/1840 c 1802 - 12 September 1868
Charles George Arden, Baron Arden 19/01/1786 1 October 1756 – 5 July 1840
Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley
Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley PC, KC was a British barrister and politician.He was born on 20 May 1744 in Bredbury, the son of John Arden , and Mary Pepper, and baptised on 20 June 1744 in Stockport. Educated at The Manchester Grammar School, he matriculated at Trinity College,...

13/11/1788 20 May 1744 – 19 March 1804
Charles Frederick Arden-Close 15/05/1919} 10 August 1865 – 19 December 1952
James Arderne
James Arderne
James Arderne, D.D. , was the dean of Chester.Arderne belonged to the family of Arderne, which is one of great antiquity in Cheshire, and whose forty-five quarterings are sufficiently indicative of estate and consideration...

11/06/1668 c 1636 - c September 1691
William Arderon 12/12/1745 1703 - 25 November 1767
Robert Areskin 30/11/1703 c 1674 - 15 January 1719
Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville 22/03/1750 4 July 1680 – 29 November 1765
John Argyris
John Argyris
John Hadji Argyris was among the creators of the Finite Element Method and lately Professor at the University of Stuttgart and Director of the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Aerospace Structures. His uncle, Constantin Carathéodory, was a Greek mathematician of the Modern Era...

20/03/1986 19 August 1916 – 2 April 2004
William Joscelyn Arkell
William Joscelyn Arkell
William Joscelyn Arkell M.A.; D.Phil.; D.Sc.; FGS.; FRS. was a British geologist and paleontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century.-Childhood:...

20/03/1947 9 June 1904 – 18 April 1958
Joseph Arthur Arkwright 06/05/1926 22 March 1864 – 22 November 1944
Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Armstrong (explorer)
Sir Alexander Armstrong KCB , born Donegal, Ireland, was a naval surgeon, explorer, and author who from 1850 to 1854 sailed the Arctic on under the command of Robert McClure in search of the lost expedition of explorer Sir John Franklin...

12/06/1873 1818 - 4 July 1899
Edward Frankland Armstrong 13/05/1920 5 September 1878 - 14 December 1945 UK Industral chemist
Fraser Andrew Armstrong 16/05/2008 UK Chemist
Henry Edward Armstrong
Henry Edward Armstrong
Henry Edward Armstrong FRS was an English chemist. Although Armstrong was active in many areas of scientific research, such as the chemistry of naphthalene derivatives, he is remembered today largely for his ideas and work on the teaching of science...

01/06/1876 6 May 1848 – 13 July 1937
John Armstrong
John Armstrong (surveyor)
Major-General John Armstrong was a British Engineer and Soldier.-Military career:Armstrong joined the Williamite Army of Ireland in 1691...

02/05/1723 31 March 1674 – 25 April 1742
Robert Young Armstrong 02/06/1892 19 September 1839 – 1 November 1894
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside 07/05/1846 26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900
Ulrich Wolfgang Arndt 18/03/1982 German scientific instrument maker
James Henry Arnold 20/03/1806 c 1759 - 15 January 1836
John Oliver Arnold 02/05/1912 29 December 1858 – 27 March 1930
James Moncrieff Arnott 25/05/1843 15 March 1794 - 27 May 1885 Englist Surgeon
Neil Arnott
Neil Arnott
Neil Arnott was a Scottish physician.Neil Arnott FRS was a distinguished graduate of Marischal College, University of Aberdeen and subsequently learned in London under Sir Everard Home , through whom he obtained, while yet in his nineteenth year, the appointment of full surgeon to an East Indiaman...

25/01/1838 15 May 1788 – 2 March 1874
Struther Arnott
Struther Arnott
Struther Arnott CBE FRS FRSE FIBiol FRSC is a Scottish molecular biologist and chemist who specialises in cancer research...

21/03/1985
Cyril Arthington 31/12/1701 c 1666 - 1720 Yorkshire Gentleman
Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland
Prince Arthur of Connaught
Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Prince Arthur held the title of a British prince with the style His Royal Highness...

26/03/1914 13 January 1883 - 12 September 1938 Royal
Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 08/11/1906 1 May 1850 - 16 January 1942 Royal
James Greig Arthur
James Arthur (mathematician)
James Greig Arthur , is a Canadian mathematician and former President of the American Mathematical Society. He is currently in the Mathematics Departmentof the University of Toronto....

12/03/1992
Richard Arundel 20/11/1740
Peter Ascanius
Peter Ascanius
Peter Ascanius was a Norwegian biologist and a student of Linnaeus. He taught zoology and mineralogy in Copenhagen from 1759 to 1771, and later worked as a supervisor at the mines in Kongsberg and elsewhere in Norway. Among his published works was the five-volume illustrated Icones rerum naturalium...

11/12/1755 fl 1755
Edward Ash 18/06/1801 c 1764 - 29 March 1829
John Ash
John Ash (physician)
-Life:Ash was born in Warwickshire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford; was B.A. in 1743, M. A. in 1746, M.B. in 1750, and M.D. in 1754. He settled at Birmingham, and soon acquired a large practice. The general hospital at Birmingham was founded chiefly through his influence, and he was its...

08/11/1787 c 1723 - 18 June 1798
Eric Albert Ash
Eric Ash
Sir Eric Albert Ash, CBE is a distinguished German-born British electrical engineer and past Rector of Imperial College.Born in Berlin, Ash emigrated with his family to Britain in 1938 to escape Nazism...

17/03/1977 UK Physicist, London
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner FRS is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head of the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory .Born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe...

15/03/1990
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby of Brandon, Suffolk
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS was a British botanist and educator.Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929...

21/03/1963 24 August 1904 – 22 October 1992
Michael Farries Ashby
Michael F. Ashby
Michael Farries Ashby is a British materials engineer. He is a Royal Society Research Professor, and a Principal Investigator at the Engineering Design Centre at Cambridge University...

15/03/1979
Shukbrugh Ashby 18/03/1756 6 October 1724 - 28 January 1792 MP for Leicester
Frances Mary Ashcroft
Frances Ashcroft
Frances Ashcroft, FRS, MA , PhD, ScD is a British physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor in the University of Oxford...

13/05/1999
St. George Ashe 03/02/1686 ? 1658 - 27
William Windham Ashe 19/01/1749 1749
Michael Norman Royston Ashfold 15/05/2009 Physical Chemist, Bristol
Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole was a celebrated English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy. Ashmole supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices.Ashmole was an antiquary with a...

02/01/1661 23 May 1617 - 18 May 1692 Original
Jonathan Felix Ashmore 14/03/1996
Norman Henry Ashton 18/03/1971 11 September 1913 – 4 January 2000
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth, FRS is a British molecular biologist/ Professor of Molecular Biology, noted for his work on genes involved in cancer susceptibility...

16/05/2008
James Hartley Ashworth 03/05/1917 2 May 1874 - 04
Anthony Askew
Anthony Askew
Anthony Askew was an English physician and book collector.-Life and work:Askew was born in Kendal, Westmorland, the son of Dr. Adam Askew, a well-known physician of Newcastle. His early education was at Sedbergh School and The Royal Free Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne, where by all accounts...

01/02/1750 1722 - 27
Brigitte Alice Askonas
Brigitte Askonas
Brigitte A. Askonas, FRS, is a British immunologist. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and as of 2008 a visiting professor at Imperial College London since 1995....

15/03/1973
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 05/11/1908 12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928
Stephanus Evodius Assemanni 19/01/1738 1707–1782
Richard Assheton 07/05/1914 23 December 1863 – 24 October 1915
Alan Astbury
Alan Astbury
Alan Astbury FRS is a Canadian physicist, professor emeritus at University of Victoria, and was director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility laboratory....

11/03/1993
William Thomas Astbury 14/03/1940 26 February 1898 – 4 June 1961
Edward Astle 02/06/1808
Thomas Astle
Thomas Astle
Thomas Astle was an English antiquary and palaeographer.-Life:Astle was born on 22 December 1735 at Yoxall on the borders of Needwood Forest in Staffordshire, the son of Daniel Astle, keeper of the forest...

20/03/1766 22 December 1735 – 1 December 1803
Francis Aston 30/11/1678 1644 - July 1715
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule...

12/05/1921 1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945
David Francis Atcherley 04/02/1841 1783–1845
Michael Francis Atiyah 15/03/1962
William Ringrose Gelston Atkins 07/05/1925 4 September 1884 – 4 April 1959
Colin Atkinson 14/05/1998 Prof of Maths, Imperial College
Robert Atkyns
Robert Atkyns (topographer)
Sir Robert Atkyns was a topographer, antiquary, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his county history, the Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire.-Life:...

09/11/1664 1647 - 29 November 1711
David Frederick Attenborough 30/06/1983 Statute
John Attfield 03/06/1880 28 August 1835 – 18 March 1911
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

15/05/1947 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967
David Ian Attwell 10/05/2001
Joseph Atwell 20/03/1729 c 1696 - August 1768
George Atwood
George Atwood
George Atwood was an English mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the effects of Newton's first law of motion...

13/06/1776 1746–1807
Abraham D'Aubant 05/05/1791 fl 1791
Alexander Aubert
Alexander Aubert
Alexander Aubert FRS, , was an eminent English amateur astronomer and businessman.-Life:He was born at Austin Friars, London, 11 May 1730...

09/01/1772 11 May 1730 – 19 October 1805
John Aubrey
John Aubrey
John Aubrey FRS, was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives...

07/01/1663 12 March 1626 - 7 June 1697 Original
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...

18/03/1830 26 April 1785 – 27 January 1851
Charlotte Auerbach
Charlotte Auerbach
Charlotte Auerbach FRSE FRS was a German zoologist and geneticist.Born in Germany, she fled to Scotland because of anti-Semitism. She became well known after 1942 when she, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson, discovered that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies...

21/03/1957 14 May 1899 – 17 March 1994
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex 22/05/1828 27 January 1773 - 21 April 1843 Royal
John Auldjo 07/05/1840 1805 - 6 May 1886
Louis D'Aumont de Rochebaron 21/05/1713 19 July 1667 – 6 April 1723
James Peter Auriol 14/01/1808 fl 1808
George Aust 09/03/1797
John Austen 12/12/1660 1613 - 1669 (Original), Author
Philip D'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon 11/05/1786 November 1754 - 18 September 1816
Adrien Auzout
Adrien Auzout
Adrien Auzout was a French astronomer.He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations of comets, and argued in favor of their following elliptical or parabolic orbits...

23/05/1666 January 1622 - 23 May 1691
Giuseppe Averani
Giuseppe Averani
Giuseppe Averani FRS or Averanus was an Italian jurist and naturalist.The son of a mathematician, he studied arts and law in Pisa. In 1685, he was appointed to a professorship of civil law at Pisa, a post he held until his death...

23/10/1712 20 March 1662 - ? 24 August 1738
William Ian Axford 20/03/1986 2 January 1933 - 13 March 2010 Max-Planck-Institut
Joseph Ayloffe
Joseph Ayloffe
Sir Joseph Ayloffe, 6th Baronet FRS F.S.A. was an English antiquary.-Life:He was the great-grandson of Sir William Ayloffe, 1st Baronet, through his third wife , their first son was Joseph Ayloffe, of Gray's inn...

27/05/1731 1709 - 19 April 1781
Charles Nicholas Ayres 30/11/1708 fl 1708
Thomas Ayres 01/12/1707
William Ayrton
William Ayrton (musical writer)
William Ayrton , was an English impresario and music critic.Ayrton was the younger son of Dr. Edmund Ayrton, and was born in London. On 17 May 1803 he married Marianne, the daughter of the composer Samuel Arnold...

01/06/1837 1777 - 8 March 1858
William Edward Ayrton
William Edward Ayrton
-See also:*Henry Dyer*John Milne*Anglo-Japanese relations...

02/06/1881 14 September 1847 – 8 November 1908
Marco Antonio de Azevado Coutinho 06/05/1736 1688–1750

B

Name Election Date
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, FRS was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer...

14/03/1816 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871
Henry Hervey Baber
Henry Hervey Baber
Henry Hervey Baber was an English philologist.He was born in Slingsby, Yorkshire the second son of Thomas, a London Attorney of the Inner Temple, and Elizabeth Baber and was educated at St Paul's School, London. He entered All Souls College, Oxford and graduated MA in 1805...

23/05/1816 1 January 1775 – 28 March 1869
Benjamin Guy Babington
Benjamin Guy Babington
Benjamin Guy Babington was an English physician and epidemiologist.He was born on 5 March 1794, the son of the physician and mineralogist William Babington and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Babington....

20/03/1828 1794 - 8 April 1866
Charles Cardale Babington 05/06/1851 23 November 1808 – 22 July 1895
William Babington 30/05/1805 21 May 1756 – 29 April 1833
Boris Petrovitch Babkin 16/03/1950 17 January 1877 – 2 May 1950
George Back
George Back
Admiral Sir George Back FRS was a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic , naturalist and artist.-Career:...

07/01/1847 6 November 1796 – 23 June 1878
Francis Thomas Bacon
Francis Thomas Bacon
Francis Thomas Bacon OBE FREng F.R.S. was an English engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.- Life and works :...

15/03/1973 21 December 1904 – 24 May 1992
John Bacon 24/01/1751 1709 - 30 June 1752
Thomas Bacon
Thomas Sclater
Thomas Sclater FRS was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1713 and 1736....

15/03/1722 ? 1664 - 23 August 1736 MP born Thomas Sclater
Vincent Bacon 09/11/1732
Alan David Baddeley
Alan Baddeley
Alan David Baddeley FRS, CBE is a British psychologist. He is professor of psychology at the University of York. He is known for his work on working memory, in particular for his multiple components model.-Education:...

11/03/1993 Professor of Psychology, York
James Baddiley 16/03/1961
Charles Badham
Charles Badham
Charles Badham was an English university professor, active in Australia.-Early life:Badham was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, the fourth son of Charles Badham senior, a classical scholar and regius professor of physic at Glasgow; and Margaret Campbell, a cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet. His elder...

12/03/1818 17 April 1780 – 10 November 1845
Nicholas Bagenall 23/11/1664 9 August 1629 - 1712
Giorgio Baglivi
Giorgio Baglivi
Gjuro Baglivi, also Giorgio Baglivi, was an Italian physician and scientist, was born in poor circumstances at Ragusa in Dalmatia, his real name being Armeno. His family soon removed to Lecce in Apulia, and Giorgio took the name of his adopted father, a wealthy physician named Pier Angelo Baglivi...

06/07/1698 8 September 1668 – 17 June 1707
John Bagnall 08/12/1774 fl 1774
Ralph Alger Bagnold
Ralph Alger Bagnold
Brigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II. He is also generally considered to have been a pioneer of desert exploration, an acclaim earned for his activities during the 1930s...

16/03/1944 3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990
Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe 16/03/1989
Arthur Bailey 30/11/1683
Kenneth Bailey 19/03/1953 18 August 1909 - 22 May 1963 Biochemist, Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard William Bailey 17/03/1949 6 January 1885 – 4 September 1957
Edward Battersby Bailey
Edward Battersby Bailey
Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS was an English geologist.Bailey was born in Marsden, Kent, and educated at Kendal grammar school and Clare College, Cambridge. He gained first-class honours in both parts one and two of the natural sciences tripos...

15/05/1930 1 July 1881 – 19 March 1965
David Baillie 11/02/1836
John Baillie 05/06/1817 1772 - 20 April 1833
Matthew Baillie
Matthew Baillie
Matthew Baillie was a Scottish physician and pathologist.-Life:...

03/06/1790 27 October 1761 – 23 September 1823
Chevalier de Baillou 02/11/1749 fl 1749
Edward Hodges Baily
Edward Hodges Baily
Edward Hodges Baily RA FRS - was an English sculptor who was born in Downend in Bristol.-Life:...

13/01/1842 1788 - 22 May 1867
Francis Baily
Francis Baily
Francis Baily was an English astronomer, most famous for his observations of 'Baily's beads' during an eclipse of the Sun.-Life:Baily was born at Newbury in Berkshire in 1774...

22/02/1821 28 April 1774 – 30 August 1844
Francis Arthur Bainbridge
Francis Arthur Bainbridge
Francis Arthur Bainbridge FRS FRCP was an English physiologist.Bainbridge was born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1874 and educated at The Leys School. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1893, graduating BA in 1896 and earning a doctorate in 1904. In 1911 he became a professor of physiology at...

15/05/1919 29 July 1874 – 21 October 1921
Thomas Baines
Thomas Baines (physician)
Sir Thomas Baines, M.D. was an English physician, the lifelong companion of the ambassador Sir John Finch, M.D.-Life:Baines was born about 1622. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, under the tuition of Henry More, and took the degree of B.A. in 1642, and M.A. in 1649...

20/05/1663 c 1622 - 5 September 1680 Original, Physician
Andrew Baird 11/12/1828 1757 - 17 July 1843
Andrew Wilson Baird 04/06/1885 26 April 1842 – 2 April 1908
William Baird
William Baird (physician)
William Baird was a Scottish physician and zoologist, best known for his 1850 work, Natural History of British Entomostraca.-Biography:...

 
06/06/1867 1803 - 27 January 1872
Leonard Bairstow
Leonard Bairstow
Sir Leonard Bairstow, CBE, FRS, FRAeS was a son of Uriah Bairstow, a wealthy Halifax, West Yorkshire man and keen mathematician. Born in 1880 in Halifax, Bairstow is best remembered for his work in aviation and for Bairstow's method for arbitrarily finding the roots of polynomials.As a boy,...

03/05/1917 25 June 1880 – 8 September 1963
Alan Baker 15/03/1973
Benjamin Baker 05/06/1890 31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907
Frederick Francis Baker 14/03/1811 13 May 1772 – 1 October 1830
George Baker
George Baker, 1st Baronet
Sir George Baker, Bt, MD, FRS, FSA was an English physician.He was born in Modbury, Devon, the son of George Baker, vicar of Modbury, and his wife Bridget Harris. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1749 he went to Leyden University to study physic, becoming MD in 1756...

04/02/1762 1 January 1722 – 15 June 1809
Henry Baker
Henry Baker (naturalist)
Henry Baker was an English naturalist.-Life:He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery. In his fifteenth year he was apprenticed to John Parker, a bookseller...

12/03/1741 8 May 1698 – 25 November 1774
Henry Frederick Baker 09/06/1898 3 July 1866 – 17 March 1956
Herbert Brereton Baker
Herbert Brereton Baker
Herbert Brereton Baker FRS was a British inorganic chemist.He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the second son of the Reverend John Baker, vicar of St Johns, Livesey, and Caroline Baker and educated locally and at Manchester Grammar School...

05/06/1902 25 June 1862 – 27 April 1935
John Baker 13/12/1810 1 January 1736 – 16 May 1818
John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker of Windrush, Gloucestershire
John Baker, Baron Baker
John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker OBE was a British scientist and structural engineer.-Early life:Baker was born in Liscard, Cheshire, a son of J.W. Baker and Emily Fleetwood...

15/03/1956 19 March 1901 – 9 September 1985
John Gilbert Baker
John Gilbert Baker
John Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....

06/06/1878 13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920
John Randal Baker 20/03/1958 23 October 1900 – 8 June 1984
John Wynn Baker
John Wynn Baker
John Wynn Baker , was an agricultural and rural economist.Baker was from 1764 until the time of his death officially connected with the Dublin Society, of which he had previously been an honorary member. His enlightened schemes for the improvement of agriculture received liberal support from the...

17/02/1771
Peter Frederick Baker 18/03/1976 11 March 1939 – 10 March 1987
Raymond Baker 10/03/1994 Biotechnologist BBSRC
Samuel White Baker 03/06/1869 8 June 1821 – 30 December 1893
Thomas Baker 19/11/1684 1625 - 5 June 1690 Clergyman & Mathematician
Wilson Baker
Wilson Baker
Professor Wilson Baker FRS was a British organic chemist.He was born in Runcorn, the youngest of the four children of Harry and Mary Baker ; his father was himself a chemist, having studied under Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe and Robert Bunsen, amongst others...

21/03/1946 24 January 1900 – 3 June 2002
Giovanni Antonio, Count Baldini 29/01/1713 ? 8 July 1654 - ? 23 January 1725
Christopher Adolphus Baldwin 08/02/1677 1632–1682
John Evan Baldwin 14/03/1991
Roger Baldwin 18/12/1760 c 1717 - 28 August 1801 Clergyman
Jack Edward Baldwin 16/03/1978
Charles Bale 30/11/1719 1 January 1692 – 17 September 1730
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour 12/01/1888 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, was a British biologist. He lost his life while attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc...

06/06/1878 10 November 1851 – 18 July 1882
Henry Balfour
Henry Balfour
Henry Balfour FRS was a British archaeologist, and first curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum.He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Museums Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society. and a Fellow of the Royal Society-Works:*, Rivington, Percival & Co.,...

15/05/1924 11 April 1863 – 9 February 1939
John Hutton Balfour
John Hutton Balfour
John Hutton Balfour was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to Edinburgh University and also becoming Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Her Majesty's Botanist in Scotland in 1845...

05/06/1856 15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884
Isaac Bayley Balfour
Isaac Bayley Balfour
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...

12/06/1884 31 March 1853 – 30 November 1922
Thomas Graham Balfour
Thomas Graham Balfour
Thomas Graham Balfour was a Scottish physician noted for his work with medical statistics.-Biography:Surgeon General Dr Thomas Graham Balfour was a Victorian statistician and member of Florence Nightingale's inner circle....

03/06/1858 18 March 1813 – 17 January 1891
John Ball
John Ball (naturalist)
John Ball was an Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller.-Background and education:Ball was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Nicholas Ball and his wife Jane Sherlock...

04/06/1868 20 August 1818 – 21 October 1889
Peter Ball
Peter Ball (physician)
Peter Ball or Balle, M.D. , was an English physician.Ball was the third son of Sir Peter Ball of Mamhead Devon and his wife Anne Cooke, daughter of William Cooke. In 1652 he was admitted to the Middle Temple, London and called to the bar in 1657...

20/05/1663 c 1638 - July 1675 Original, Physician
John Macleod Ball 16/03/1989
Robert Stawell Ball
Robert Stawell Ball
Sir Robert Stawell Ball was an Irish astronomer. He worked for Lord Rosse from 1865 to 1867. In 1867 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. In 1874 Ball was appointed Royal Astronomer of Ireland and Andrews Professor of Astronomy in the University...

12/06/1873 1 July 1840 – 25 November 1913
Valentine Ball
Valentine Ball
Valentine Ball was an Irish geologist, and a brother of Sir Robert Ball.Ball joined the Geological Survey of India, becoming an authority not only on geology but also on ornithology and anthropology. His best known work is Jungle-Life in India...

08/06/1882 14 July 1843 – 15 June 1895
Edward Ballard
Edward Ballard
Edward Ballard was a 19th century English physician, best known for his reports on the unsanitary conditions in which most of Victorian England lived....

06/06/1889 15 April 1820 – 19 January 1897
Robert Balle 30/11/1708
William Balle
William Ball (astronomer)
William Ball was an English astronomer. He was one of the founding Fellows of the Royal Society. He was appointed the Society's first treasurer on 28 November 1660, and served until 1663....

28/11/1660 c 1627 - October 1690
William Lawrence Balls
William Lawrence Balls
William Lawrence "W.L." Balls, FRS was a British botanist who specialised in cotton technology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923.-Education and early career:...

03/05/1923 3 September 1882 – 18 July 1960
Edward Balme 12/03/1801
Edward Charles Cyril Baly 06/05/1909 10 February 1871 – 3 January 1948
William Baly
William Baly
William Baly was an English physician born in King's Lynn, county of Norfolk. After completing his medical studies at the Royal College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries, he furthered his education in Paris, Heidelberg and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate from the University of...

15/04/1847 1814 - 28 January 1861
John Bamber 11/12/1718 c 1667 - 7 November 1753
Clement Henry Bamford 19/03/1964 10 October 1912 – 7 November 1999
Edward Bancroft
Edward Bancroft
Edward Bancroft was an American physician and double-agent spy during the American Revolution.He worked as a spy for Benjamin Franklin in Britain before the Revolution, and also while serving as secretary to the American Commission in Paris...

20/05/1773 9 January 1744 – 8 September 1821
Alec Douglas Bangham
Alec Douglas Bangham
Alec Douglas Bangham FRS MD was a haematologist and discoverer of liposomes.Alec worked at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge...

17/03/1977 10 November 1921 - 9 March 2010 Biophysicist
Robert Bankes 11/11/1736
William John Bankes
William John Bankes
William John Bankes , the second, but first surviving son of Henry Bankes, was a notable explorer, Egyptologist and adventurer. He was a member of the Bankes family of Dorset and he had Sir Charles Barry recase Kingston Lacy in stone as it is today...

28/03/1822 11 December 1786 – 15 April 1855
John Banks 10/12/1668 August 1627 - 19 October 1699
Joseph Banks 10/12/1730 21 June 1695 - 31 March 1741 MP & High Sheriff
Joseph Banks
Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS was an English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. He took part in Captain James Cook's first great voyage . Banks is credited with the introduction to the Western world of eucalyptus, acacia, mimosa and the genus named after him,...

01/05/1766 14 February 1744 – 19 June 1820
Frederick Grant Banting 16/05/1935 15 November 1891 – 21 February 1941
Horace Newton Barber 21/03/1963 26 May 1914 – 17 April 1971
James Barber 26/05/2005
Michael Barber 21/03/1985 3 November 1934 - 8 May 1991 Chemist
Johannes Mendez Saquet Barboza 10/05/1750
Arthur Kett Barclay 03/06/1852 20 June 1806 – 20 November 1869
James Robertson Barclay 11/11/1790
Henry Barcroft 19/03/1953 18 October 1904 – 10 January 1998
Joseph Barcroft
Joseph Barcroft
Sir Joseph Barcroft CBE, FRS was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood....

05/05/1910 26 July 1872 – 21 March 1947
David Barford
David Barford
David Barford FRS is a British medical researcher, and Professor of Molecular Biology, at the Institute of Cancer Research.-Life:He studied Biochemistry at the University of Bristol....

18/05/2006
George Barger
George Barger
George Barger FRS was a British chemist.He was born to an English mother and Dutch father in Manchester, England. He was educated at The Hague High School and King's College, Cambridge. His main work focused on the study of alkaloids and investigations of simple nitrogenous compounds of biological...

15/05/1919 4 April 1878 – 6 January 1939
Henry Barham
Henry Barham
Henry Barham F.R.S. was an English writer on natural history. -Life:He was born about 1670, and was descended from the Barhams of Barham Court in Kent. He has often been confounded with his son, Henry Barham, M.D....

14/11/1717 c 1670 - May 1726
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS , was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator....

23/11/1911 26 February 1841 – 29 January 1917
Francis Thornhill Baring, Baron Northbrook
Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook
Francis Thornhill Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook PC , known as Sir Francis Baring, Bt, from 1848 to 1866, was a British Whig politician who served in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell....

22/02/1849 20 April 1796 – 6 September 1866
Thomas Baring
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet , was a British banker and MP.He was the eldest son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, founder of Barings Bank. His grandfather John Baring had emigrated from Germany and established the family in England. Thomas became a partner in Baring Brothers & Co. in 1804,...

10/06/1841 12 June 1772 – 3 April 1848
Thomas Baring
Thomas Baring (1799–1873)
Thomas Baring was a British banker and Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:Baring was the second son of Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, and Mary Ursula, daughter of Charles Sealy. Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook, was his elder brother and the Right Reverend Charles Baring...

07/06/1860 7 September 1799 – 18 November 1873
Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook 08/01/1880 22 January 1826 – 15 November 1904
William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton
William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton
Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton PC, FRS, DL was a British businessman and a Whig politician who later became a Tory.-Background and education:...

27/04/1854 June 1799 - 23 March 1864
David James Purslove Barker 14/05/1998 Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Southampton
George Barker 06/06/1839 1776 - 6 December 1845
John Barker 19/03/1953 24 April 1901 - 30 December 1970 Plant physiologist
John Adair Barker 19/03/1981 24 March 1925 – 27 October 1995
Robert Barker 09/03/1732
Robert Barker 16/03/1775 ? 1729 - 14 September 1789 Army officer & MP
Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays .-Biography:...

02/05/1912 7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944
Sir Henry Barkly 02/06/1864 25 February 1815 – 20 October 1898
Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow 16/03/1961 15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989
Horace Basil Barlow 20/03/1969
John Barlow
John Barlow (clergyman)
The Reverend John Barlow FRS was an Anglican clergyman and Secretary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and later Chaplain-in-Ordinary at Kensington Palace.-Life and career:...

18/12/1834 c 1799 - 8 July 1869
Martin Thomas Barlow 26/05/2005
Peter Barlow 29/05/1823 October 1776 - 1 March 1862
Peter William Barlow 20/11/1845 2 February 1809 – 19 May 1885
Robert Barlow
Robert Barlow (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Robert Barlow GCB was a senior and distinguished officer of the British Royal Navy who saw extensive service in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He made his name in small ship actions, especially fighting French frigates, or which...

21/01/1819 25 December 1757 - 11 May 1843 Admiral
Thomas Barlow 06/05/1909 4 September 1845 - 15 January 1945 Physician
William Barlow 07/05/1908 8 August 1845 - 28 February 1934
William Henry Barlow
William Henry Barlow
On 28 December 1879, the central section of the North British Railway's bridge across the River Tay near Dundee collapsed in the Tay Bridge disaster as an express train crossed it in a heavy storm. All 75 passengers and crew on the train were killed...

06/06/1850 10 May 1812 – 12 November 1902
Edward Barnard 05/06/1828 fl 1828 Horticulture Society
Eric Albert Barnard 19/03/1981
Joseph Edwin Barnard 15/05/1924 7 December 1870 – 25 October 1949
Frederick Augusta Barnard
Frederick Augusta Barnard
Sir Frederick Augusta Barnard KCH was principal librarian to George III during much of the English King's reign. Barnard developed the library collection systematically, seeking guidance from noted intellectuals including writer and lexicographer Dr...

13/05/1790 c 1743 - 27 January 1830
Thomas Barnard 29/05/1783 c 1728 - 7 June 1806
Ernest William Barnes
Ernest William Barnes
Ernest William Barnes FRS was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a theologian and bishop....

06/05/1909 1 April 1874 – 29 November 1953
Howard Turner Barnes 04/05/1911 21 July 1873 – 4 October 1950
Joshua Barnes
Joshua Barnes
Joshua Barnes , was an English scholar.He was born in London, the son of Edward Barnes, a merchant taylor.Educated at Christ's Hospital and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in 1695 chosen Regius Professor of Greek, a language which he wrote and spoke with the utmost facility.One of his first...

08/11/1710 10 January 1654 – 3 August 1712
Peter John Barnes 17/05/2007
Stephen Mark Barnett 18/05/2006
Matthias Barnewall 27/06/1765
Charles Frederick Barnwell 09/03/1809 c 1781 - 22 March 1849
Frederick Henry Turnor Barnwell 12/11/1818 c 1770 - 24 October 1843
John Baron
John Baron (physician)
John Baron, M.D. , was an English physician, the biographer of Edward Jenner.-Life:He was born at St. Andrews, where his father was professor of rhetoric in the university. At the age of fifteen he was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and he graduated M.D. there four years later , at the age of...

13/02/1823 24 May 1786 - 2 October 1851 Physician
Archibald Barr
Archibald Barr
Archilbald Barr FRS FRSE was a Scottish scientific engineer, inventor and businessman...

03/05/1923 18 November 1855 – 5 August 1931
Murray Llewellyn Barr 16/03/1972 20 June 1908 – 4 May 1995
Richard Maling Barrer 15/03/1956 16 June 1910 – 12 September 1996
Anthony Gerard Martin Barrett 13/05/1999
Richard Barrett 11/06/1713 fl 1713
Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett 27/05/2004
William Fletcher Barrett
William Fletcher Barrett
Sir William Fletcher Barrett was an English physicist and psychical researcher.-Life:He was born in Jamaica where his father, William Garland Barrett, who was an amateur naturalist, Congregationalist minister and a member of the London Missionary Society, ran a station for saving the souls of...

01/06/1899 11 February 1844 – 26 May 1925
Joseph Barretto 28/05/1818
Daines Barrington
Daines Barrington
Daines Barrington, FRS was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist.Barrington was the fourth son of the first Viscount Barrington. He was educated for the profession of the law, and after filling various posts, was appointed a Welsh judge in 1757 and afterwards second justice of Chester...

04/06/1767 1727 - 14 March 1800
Ernest James William Barrington 16/03/1967 18 February 1909 – 15 December 1985
Thomas Barrington 18/11/1669 c 1648 -
Laurence David Barron 26/05/2005
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow was an English Christian theologian, and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was...

17/09/1662 October 1630 - 4 May 1677 Original
John Barrow
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS was an English statesman.-Career:He was born the son of Roger Barrow in the village of Dragley Beck, in the parish of Ulverston then in Lancashire, now in Cumbria...

04/07/1805 19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848
John Barrow 12/12/1844 28 June 1808 - 9 December 1898 Archivist
John David Barrow 15/05/2003
William Barrowby
William Barrowby
William Barrowby was an English physician.Barrowby was born in London, the son of Dr. William Barrowby, a physician established first in Oxford and afterwards in London. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. According to the DNB, he then moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where...

02/11/1721 1682 - 30 December 1751
Alexander Barry 02/02/1832
Charles Barry
Charles Barry
Sir Charles Barry FRS was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.- Background and training :Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster...

07/06/1849 23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860
David Barry
David Barry (physician)
Sir David Barry, M.D., F.R.S. , was an Irish physician and physiologist.Barry was born in county Roscommon, Ireland, 12 March 1780; appointed assistant surgeon in the army, 1806; present as surgeon, 58th foot, at the Battle of Salamanca; and afterwards held several Peninsular appointments...

05/04/1832 12 March 1780 - 4 November 1836 Physician
Edward Barry
Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet FRS was an Irish physician and politician.-Background and education:He was the son of Edward Barry and his wife Jane, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1717, Barry graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently he studied at the University of Leyden in...

03/02/1732 1698 - 29 March 1776
Martin Barry
Martin Barry
Martin Barry, MD, FRCPE, FRSE, FRS , was a British physician who studied histology and embryology. He qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1833, and then studied at the University of Heidelberg...

13/02/1840 28 March 1802 – 27 April 1855
Jean Jacques Barthelemy 12/06/1755 20 January 1716 – 30 April 1795
Frederic Charles Bartlett 05/05/1932 20 October 1886 – 30 September 1969
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett 16/03/1961 18 June 1910 – 8 January 2002
Neil Bartlett 15/03/1973
Derek Harold Richard Barton
Derek Harold Richard Barton
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS was a British organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.-Biography:Barton was born to William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton. He attended Tonbridge School and in 1938 he entered Imperial College London, where he graduated in 1940 and obtained his Ph.D. degree...

18/03/1954 8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998
Edwin Henry Barton 11/05/1916 23 October 1858 – 23 September 1925
Nicholas Hamilton Barton 10/03/1994
Philip Barton 24/11/1757 c 1695 - 13 July 1765
Allan Irwin Basbaum 18/05/2006
George Basevi
George Basevi
Elias George Basevi FRS was an English architect. He was the favourite pupil of Sir John Soane.-Life:Basevi was the youngest son of a City of London merchant, also named George Basevi...

11/05/1843 1794 - 16 October 1845
Zbigniew Stanislaw Basinski 20/03/1980 28 April 1928 – 12 August 1999
Jacques Basnage de Beauval 30/11/1697 8 August 1653 - ? 22 December 1722
Jean Baptiste Bassand 23/03/1732 24 November 1680 – 30 November 1742
Alfred Barnard Basset 06/06/1889 25 July 1854 – 5 December 1930
Francis Basset, Baron de Dunstanville of Tehidy and Baron Basset of Stratton
Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset
Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset FRS was an English nobleman and politician. He was the first son of Francis Basset and Margaret St...

09/04/1829 10 August 1757 – 5 February 1835
Job Baster
Job Baster
Job Baster was a Dutch physician and naturalist who devoted himself almost entirely to the study of medicine and natural history.-Biography:...

01/06/1738 2 April 1709 – 6 March 1775
Henry Charlton Bastian
Henry Charlton Bastian
Henry Charlton Bastian was an English physiologist and neurologist. Fellow of Royal Society in 1868.Bastian graduated in 1861 at the University of London....

04/06/1868 26 April 1837 – 17 November 1915
George Keith Batchelor 21/03/1957 8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000
Charles Spence Bate
Charles Spence Bate
Charles Spence Bate, or Spence Bate, FRS was a British zoologist and dentist, who who practiced first at Swansea, and then Plymouth, taking over his father's practice. He was an authority on the Crustacea, and a frequent correspondent of Charles Darwin, mostly concerning their shared interest in...

06/06/1861 16 March 1819 – 29 July 1889
Christopher Michael Bate 15/05/1997
George Bate
George Bate
George Bate was an English court physician.Bate graduated with an M.D. from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1637. Three years late he treated Charles I in Oxford. He was physician to Oliver Cromwell and his family, physician to Charles II, and a Fellow of the Royal Society...

12/12/1660 1608 - 19 April 1669 Original
Harry Bateman
Harry Bateman
Harry Bateman FRS was an English mathematician.-Life and work:Harry Bateman first grew to love mathematics at Manchester Grammar School, and in his final year, won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge. There he distinguished himself in 1903 as Senior Wrangler and by winning the Smith's Prize...

10/05/1928 29 May 1882 – 21 January 1946
James Bateman
James Bateman
James Bateman was a landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He developed Biddulph Grange after moving there around 1840, from nearby Knypersley Hall...

08/02/1838 18 July 1811 – 27 November 1897
John Frederic La Trobe Bateman 07/06/1860 30 May 1810 – 10 June 1889
Leslie Clifford Bateman
Leslie Clifford Bateman
Tan Sri Leslie Clifford Bateman was the last non-citizen of Malaysia to be appointed to any establishment connected to the government of Malaysia, as the Controller of Rubber Research in 1962...

21/03/1968 21 March 1915 – 12 October 2005
William Bateman, Viscount Bateman 22/02/1733 c 1694 - December 1744
Gillian Patricia Bates
Gillian Bates
Gillian Patricia Bates FMedSci FRS is a British biologist. She is distinguished for her research into the molecular basis of Huntington's disease. As of 2009, she is Professor of Neurogenetics in the Medical and Molecular Genetics Department of King's College London.-Research:Bates's research has...

17/05/2007
Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...

02/06/1881 9 February 1825 – 16 February 1892
Leslie Fleetwood Bates 16/03/1950 7 March 1897 – 20 January 1978
David Robert Bates 17/03/1955 18 November 1916 – 5 January 1994
Thomas Bates
Thomas Bates (surgeon)
Thomas Bates , was an English surgeon in the Royal Navy.- Career :Bates is known from his Enchiridion of Fevers common to Seamen in the Mediterranean, published in London in 1709. He served for five years as a naval surgeon in the Mediterranean, and subsequently he practiced in London.He also...

11/12/1718
Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson
Patrick Bateson
Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS is an English biologist and science writer. Bateson is emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London since 2004....

17/03/1983
William Bateson
William Bateson
William Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge...

07/06/1894 8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926
Francis Arthur Bather
Francis Arthur Bather
Francis Arthur Bather FRS was a British palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist.Bather joined the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1887...

06/05/1909 18 February 1863 – 20 March 1934
Benjamin Bathurst 09/12/1731
Ralph Bathurst
Ralph Bathurst
Ralph Bathurst was an English theologian and physician.-Early life:He was born in Hothorpe, Northamptonshire in 1620 and educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry.He graduated with a B.A...

19/08/1663 1620–1704
John Thomas Batt 08/04/1742
Richard William Battarbee 18/05/2006
Joseph Hallett Batten 14/03/1816 25 August 1778 – 11 October 1838
Alan Rushton Battersby 17/03/1966
William Battie
William Battie
William Battie , 1 September 1703–13 June 1776, was an English physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, A Treatise on Madness, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a respectable...

07/01/1742 1704 - 13 June 1776
William Battine
William Battine
William Battine , was the English holder of many legal offices, and poet.-Life:Battine was born at East Morden, Sussex, 25 January 1765. Through his mother's family, he was stated to be one of the coheirs of the long dormant barony of Bray, but he never publicly urged his claim...

01/06/1797 25 January 1765 – 5 September 1836
John Michael Batty 15/05/2009
Robert Batty
Robert Batty
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty was a British soldier and artist.He was born 1789, the son of Dr. Batty of Hastings and started to study medicine at Caius College, Cambridge. He left his studies to join the Grenadier Guards , with whom he served in the campaign of the Western Pyrenees and at...

28/02/1822 1789 - 20 November 1848
Francis Bauer 08/02/1821 4 October 1758 – 11 December 1840
David Charles Baulcombe
David Charles Baulcombe
Sir David Charles Baulcombe, FRS is a British plant scientist and geneticist. He is currently Royal Society Research Professor and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge.- Biography :...

10/05/2001
Frederick Charles Bawden 17/03/1949 18 August 1908 – 8 February 1972
Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn 20/03/1952 6 November 1908 – 19 September 2003
Joseph Baxendell 12/06/1884 19 April 1815 – 7 October 1887
Rodney James Baxter 18/03/1982
Ottavio Antonio Bayardi 24/04/1755 c 1690 - c 1765
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes
Thomas Bayes was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem...

04/11/1742 1701 - 7 April 1761
David Bayford 26/04/1770 c 1739 - 16 April 1790
William Frederick Baylay 21/02/1828
John Bayley
John Bayley (antiquary)
John Whitcomb Bayley , was an English antiquary.Bayley was the second son of John Bayley, a farmer, of Hempsted, Gloucestershire, became at an early age a junior clerk in the Tower Record Office. In or about 1819 he was appointed chief clerk, and afterwards a sub-commissioner on the Public Records...

20/11/1823
Thomas Butterworth Bayley
Thomas Butterworth Bayley
Thomas Butterworth Bayley was an English magistrate, agriculturist and philanthropist.-Life:He was from an old Lancashire family, and his mother was one of the Dukinfields of Dukinfield, Cheshire. Shortly after completing his education at the University of Edinburgh, he was chosen a justice of the...

18/02/1773 20 June 1744 – 24 June 1802
William Maddock Bayliss 11/06/1903 2 May 1860 – 27 August 1924
Denis Baylor 15/05/2003
David Beach 14/03/1996 Microbiologist St Barts
Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale
Martin Beale
Evelyn Martin Lansdowne Beale FRS was an applied mathematician and statistician who was one of the pioneers of mathematical programming.-Career:...

15/03/1979 8 September 1928 – 23 December 1985
Geoffrey Herbert Beale 19/03/1959
John Beale
John Beale (writer)
John Beale was an English clergyman, scientific writer, and early Fellow of the Royal Society. He contributed to John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, and was an influential author on orchards and cider...

21/01/1663 c 1613 - c 1683 Clergyman, Scientific writer
John Beale 02/11/1721
Lionel Smith Beale
Lionel Smith Beale
Lionel Smith Beale FRS was a British physician, microscopist, and professor at King's College London. He graduated in medicine from King's College London in 1851. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857....

11/06/1857 6 February 1828 – 28 March 1906
Carlyle Smith Beals
Carlyle Smith Beals
Carlyle Smith Beals, was a Canadian astronomer.Born in Canso, Nova Scotia, Beals worked at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946. There, he studied emission lines in the spectra of certain hot stars, and studied gas clouds in the interstellar medium...

15/03/1951 29 June 1899 – 2 July 1979
James William Longman Beament 19/03/1964 17 November 1921 – 10 March 2005
North Ludlow Beamish
North Ludlow Beamish
North Ludlow Beamish , was a military writer and antiquary.He was the son of William Beamish, Esq., of Beaumont House, County Cork. In November 1816 he obtained a commission in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, in which corps he purchased a troop in 1823...

15/11/1827 31 December 1797 – 27 April 1872
Richard Beamish 24/03/1836 16 July 1798 - 20 November 1873 Civil Engineer
Richard Beard 26/05/1726 ? 1688 - 8 July 1734 Physician
William Beatty 30/04/1818
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, KG was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwynne.-Life:...

01/11/1722 8 May 1670 – 10 May 1726
Lord Amelius Beauclerk
Lord Amelius Beauclerk
Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, GCB, GCH, FRS was a British Royal Navy officer.-Early life:Beauclerk was born on 23 May 1771, the third son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans and his wife, the former Lady Catherine Ponsonby , daughter of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough...

07/12/1809 1771 - 10 December 1846
Topham Beauclerk
Topham Beauclerk
Topham Beauclerk was a celebrated wit and the only son of Lord Sidney Beauclerk; he was the great-grandson of King Charles II. He was a friend of Dr...

08/03/1770 December 1739 - 11 March 1780
H. Berenger de Beaufain 23/04/1730
Louis de Beaufort
Louis de Beaufort
Louis de Beaufort was a French historian of whose life little is known.In 1738 he published at Utrecht a Dissertation sur l'incertitude des cinq prèmiers siècles de l'histoire romaine, in which he showed what untrustworthy guides even the historians of highest repute, such as Livy and Dionysius of...

23/10/1746 6 October 1703 – 11 August 1795
Francis Beaufort
Francis Beaufort
Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, FRS, FRGS was an Irish hydrographer and officer in Britain's Royal Navy...

30/06/1814 1774 - 17 December 1857
Henry Beaufoy
Henry Beaufoy
Henry Beaufoy was a British MP.He was the son of a Quaker wine merchant and educated at the academies at Hoxton and Warrington before studying at Edinburgh University in the early 1770s...

21/02/1782
Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy 14/12/1815 1786 - 12 July 1851
Mark Beaufoy
Mark Beaufoy
thumb|right|An engraving of Mark Beaufoy, by Valentine GreenColonel Mark Beaufoy FRS was an English astronomer and physicist, mountaineer, explorer and British Army officer...

18/02/1790 1764 - 4 May 1827
Edward Blackett Beaumont 04/06/1835 1802 - 7 June 1878
Jean Baptiste Jacques Elie de Beaumont 25/04/1765 October 1732 - 10 January 1786
John Beaumont
John Beaumont (geologist)
John Beaumont was an English physician and early geologist.-Biography:John Beaumont was a physician who lived in Ston Easton in Somerset....

13/05/1685
Richard Beaumont 19/11/1684 c 1654 - 1 March 1692
Osmond Beauvoir 09/06/1785
Giacomo Bartolommeo Beccari 27/06/1728 25 July 1682 - ? 19 January 1766
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric...

29/05/1755 ? 2 October 1716 – 27 May 1781
Henry Thomas de la Beche 23/12/1819 11 February 1796 – 13 April 1855
Thomas Snow Beck
Thomas Snow Beck
Thomas Snow Beck FRCS FRS was a British doctor and surgeon. He qualified as a doctor in London. In 1845, he was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal for his unpublished paper entitled On the nerves of the uterus...

05/06/1851 1814 - 6 January 1877
Axel Dieter Becke
Axel D. Becke
Axel Dieter Becke is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is a leading researcher in the application of density functional theory to molecules.- Early life :...

18/05/2006 10 June 1953 -
Balthasar Becker
Balthasar Bekker
Balthasar Bekker was a Dutch minister and author of philosophical and theological works. Opposing superstition, he was a key figure in the end of the witchcraft persecutions in early modern Europe.-Life:...

06/07/1698 20 March 1634 – 11 June 1698
John Beckett
Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Beckett, 2nd Baronet, FRS was a British lawyer and Tory politician.Beckett was the son of Sir John Beckett, 1st Baronet , and his wife Mary, daughter of Christopher Wilson...

14/03/1816 17 May 1775 – 31 May 1847
William Beckett 11/12/1718 1684 - 25 November 1738 Surgeon
Samuel Husbands Beckles 09/06/1859 1814 - 4 September 1890
Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith 17/03/1988 20 February 1930 - 15 May 2010 Canberra
Frank Evers Beddard
Frank Evers Beddard
Frank Evers Beddard FRS was a British zoologist. He won the Linnean Medal in 1916 for his book on oligochaetes.Beddard was born in Dudley, educated at Harrow and studied at New College, Oxford. He was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition Commission from 1882 to 1884...

02/06/1892 19 June 1858 – 14 July 1925
John Rex Beddington 10/05/2001
Rosa Susan Penelope Beddington 13/05/1999 23 March 1956 – 18 May 2001
John Beddoe
John Beddoe
John Beddoe was one of the most prominent English ethnologists in Victorian Britain.-Life:Beddoe was born in Bewdley, Worcestershire and educated at University College, London and Edinburgh University . He served in the Crimean War and was Physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1862 to 1873...

12/06/1873 21 September 1826 – 19 July 1911
William Bedford 30/05/1745
Samuel Phillips Bedson 16/05/1935 1 December 1886 – 11 May 1969
Frederick William Beechey
Frederick William Beechey
Frederick William Beechey was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey, RA., and was born in London.-Career:...

23/12/1824 18 February 1796 – 29 November 1856
Gavin Rylands De Beer 14/03/1940 1 November 1899 – 21 June 1972
Albert William Beetham 05/02/1835 20 August 1802 – 11 March 1895
William Beetham 10/01/1828
Jean Duthie Beggs
Jean Beggs
Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS is a distinguished British geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh....

14/05/1998
Henry Beighton
Henry Beighton
Henry Beighton was an English engineer and surveyor.He was born at Chilvers Coton near Nuneaton, Warwickshire and worked in the neighbouring village of Griff. In 1717, he published an engraving of the Newcomen engine erected there in 1714 by Thomas Newcomen. In 1718 he erected one at Oxclose...

03/11/1720
George Thomas Beilby
George Thomas Beilby
Sir George Thomas Beilby was a British chemist.He was born in Edinburgh, the son of a doctor and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University...

03/05/1906 17 November 1850 – 1 August 1924
Otto John Beit 06/11/1924 8 December 1865 - 7 December 1930 Statute
John Belchier
John Belchier
John Belchier was a British surgeon at Guy's Hospital from 1736 to 1768. He discovered at about the time of his Guy's appointment that the vegetable dye madder stained newly forming bone tissue, opening up the study of the growth and development of the skeleton, which was vigorously taken forward...

23/11/1732 1706 - 06
Bernard Forest de Belidor
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
Bernard Forest de Bélidor was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics....

03/11/1726 1693 - 8 September 1761
Matthias Belius 01/06/1738 1684–1749
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell 15/05/2003
Charles Bell
Charles Bell
Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian.His three older brothers included John Bell , also a noted surgeon and writer; and the advocate George Joseph Bell .-Life:...

16/11/1826 November 1774 - 28 April 1842
George Bell 25/01/1750
George Douglas Hutton Bell
George Douglas Hutton Bell
George Douglas Hutton Bell FRS is an English scientist. He was awarded the first Mullard Award in 1967 "for the contribution the Proctor barley bred by him had made to agricultural production in the United Kingdom"....

18/03/1965 18 October 1905 – 27 June 1993
Isaac Lowthian Bell
Isaac Lowthian Bell
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet FRS was a Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician from Washington, County Durham, in the north of England.He was the son of Thomas Bell and his wife Katherine Lowthian....

04/06/1874 16 February 1816 – 20 December 1904
James Bell 12/06/1884 1824 - 31 March 1908 Chemist
John Bell
John Bell (barrister)
John Bell was an English barrister and equity lawyer.Born in Kendal, Westmoreland, Bell was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating senior wrangler in 1786 and becoming a fellow. He entered Gray's Inn in 1789, a pupil of Samuel Romilly, and was called to the bar in 1792...

16/12/1824 23 October 1764 - 06
John Irving Bell
John Irving Bell
Sir John Irving Bell, FRS, PMedSci is a Canadian immunologist and geneticist who resides in the UK. As of 2008, he is President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and holds the Regius Chair of Medicine at Oxford University, UK....

16/05/2008
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell FRS was a British physicist from Northern Ireland , and the originator of Bell's theorem, a significant theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories.- Early life and work :...

16/03/1972 28 July 1928 – 1 October 1990
Ronald Percy Bell 16/03/1944 24 November 1907 – 9 January 1996
Robert Bell
Robert Bell (geologist)
Robert Bell FRSC MD was a Canadian geologist, professor and civil servant. He is considered Canada’s greatest exploring scientist, having named over 3,000 geographical features.-Personal life:...

03/06/1897 3 June 1841 – 18 June 1917
Robert Edward Bell
Robert Edward Bell
Robert Edward Bell, was a Canadian nuclear physicist and principal of McGill University from 1970 to 1979.-Biography:...

18/03/1965 29 November 1918 – 1 April 1992
Thomas Bell
Thomas Bell (zoologist)
Thomas Bell FRS was an English zoologist, surgeon and writer, born in Poole, Dorset, UK.Bell, like his mother Susan, took a keen interest in natural history which his mother also encouraged in his younger cousin Philip Henry Gosse. Bell left Poole in 1813 for his training as a dental surgeon in...

10/01/1828 11 October 1792 – 13 March 1880
James William Bellamy 18/12/1834 15 November 1788 – 11 March 1874
Fettiplace Bellers
Fettiplace Bellers
Fettiplace Bellers was an English dramatist and philosophical writer. His most notable written work was a philosophical volume called "A Delineation of Universal Law".-Life and work:...

30/11/1711 23 August 1687 - ? 1752
John Bellers
John Bellers
John Bellers was an English educational theorist and Quaker, author of Proposals for Raising a College of Industry of All Useful Trades and Husbandry .-Life:...

05/02/1719 c 1654 - 8 February 1725
Jacques Nicolas Bellin 22/02/1753 1703 - 21 March 1772
Bernardo de Belluga 20/01/1780 fl 1780
Richard Belward 11/02/1790 c 1746 - 16 May 1803
John Van de Bemde 30/11/1678 c 1655 - c 1726
Tommaso Del Bene 30/11/1695 9 November 1652 – 2 December 1739
Guy Dunstan Bengough 17/03/1938 12 February 1876 – 20 January 1945
William Blaxland Benham 02/05/1907 29 March 1860 – 21 August 1950
Thomas Brooke Benjamin 17/03/1966 15 April 1929 – 16 August 1995
Thomas Archibald Bennet-Clark 16/03/1950 13 January 1903 – 24 November 1975
Abraham Bennet
Abraham Bennet
Abraham Bennet FRS was an English clergyman and physicist, the inventor of the gold-leaf electroscope and developer of an improved magnetometer...

19/03/1789 ? December 1749 - May 1799
Henry Grey Bennet
Henry Grey Bennet
The Honourable Henry Grey Bennet , was a British politician.Bennet was the second of three sons and fourth of eight children of Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, and his wife, Emma , daughter of banker Sir James Colebrooke, 1st Baronet.He was educated at Eton College , served in the 1st Foot...

05/03/1812 2 December 1777 – 29 May 1836
Richard Henry Alexander Bennet 10/12/1767 11 May 1743 – 14 March 1814
Geoffrey Thomas Bennett 07/05/1914 30 June 1868 – 11 October 1943
George Macdonald Bennett 20/03/1947 25 October 1892 - 9 February 1959
John Joseph Bennett
John Joseph Bennett
John Joseph Bennett was a British botanist.Bennett was assistant keeper of the Banksian herbarium and library at the British Museum from 1827 to 1858, when he succeeded Robert Brown as Keeper of the Botanical Department. He retired in 1870. He was secretary of the Linnean Society of London from...

16/12/1841 8 January 1801 - 29 February 1876
Martin Arthur Bennett 09/03/1995
James Risdon Bennett 03/06/1875 29 September 1809 - 14 December 1891 Physician
William Noel Benson
William Noel Benson
William Noel Benson FRS FRGS was a research geologist and academic. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporarily at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney as a demonstrator...

20/03/1941 26 December 1885 – 20 August 1957
George Bentham
George Bentham
George Bentham CMG FRS was an English botanist, characterized by Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".- Formative years :...

05/06/1862 22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884
John Albert Bentinck 20/06/1765 29 December 1737 – 23 September 1775
William Bentinck 17/05/1787 18 June 1764 – 21 February 1813
William Bentinck, 1st Count Bentinck 27/05/1731 1704 - 13 October 1774
William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...

05/06/1766 1738 - 30 October 1809
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland
William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland KG , styled Viscount Woodstock from 1709 to 1715 and Marquess of Titchfield from 1715 to 1726, was a British peer....

06/12/1739 1 March 1708 – 1 May 1762
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge....

30/11/1695 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742
Valerie Beral 18/05/2006
Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope 17/06/1880 25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887
Franz Bergel 19/03/1959 14 February 1900 – 1 January 1987
Fraser John Bergersen 19/03/1981 26 May 1929 - 3 October 2011
Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS is a retired Canadian astronomer.Born in the Netherlands, son of businessman and politician Sidney James van den Bergh and grandson of Unilever co-founder Samuel van den Bergh, he showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy...

17/03/1988
Peter Jonas Bergius 31/05/1770 6 July 1730 – 10 July 1790
Torbern Olof Bergman 25/04/1765 9 March 1735 – 8 July 1784
Theodor de Beringhen 24/10/1667 1644 -
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley
Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley PC KB FRS , was a British nobleman and diplomat, known as Sir Charles Berkeley from 1661 to 1679 and styled Viscount Dursley from 1679 to 1698....

21/11/1667 8 April 1649 – 24 September 1710
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley
George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley PC FRS was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 until 1658 when he succeeded to the peerage.-Life:...

20/05/1663 1628 - 1698 Original
Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 17/10/1667 1628 - 13 June 1690
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Miles Joseph Berkeley was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology....

12/06/1879 1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889
Randal Thomas Mowbray Rawdon Berkeley, 8th Earl Berkeley 07/05/1908 31 January 1865 – 15 January 1942
Samuel Frank Berkovic 17/05/2007
John Desmond Bernal 06/05/1937 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971
Charles Bernard 30/11/1696 1650–1711 Royal surgeon
Edward Bernard
Edward Bernard
Edward Bernard was an English scholar and Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, from 1673 to 1691.-Life:He was born at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he was a scholar in 1655; he became a Fellow...

09/04/1673 2 May 1638 – 12 January 1697
Hermann Bernard 02/11/1738
James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon
James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon
James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon was an Irish Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1820 and 1831 when he inherted the peerage and sat in the House of Lords....

05/06/1845 14 June 1785 – 31 October 1856
Jean Baptiste Bernard 27/03/1760 1702–1779
John Peter Bernard 19/01/1738
Timothy John Berners-Lee 10/05/2001
Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli was a Dutch-Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics...

03/05/1750 10 February 1700 – 17 March 1782
Jean Bernoulli 01/12/1712 27 July 1667 – 1 January 1748
Nicholas Bernoulli
Nicolaus I Bernoulli
Nicolaus Bernoulli , was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family....

11/03/1714 10 October 1687 – 29 November 1759
Michael John Berridge 15/03/1984
Norman John Berrill 20/03/1952 28 April 1903 – 15 October 1996
Michael Victor Berry 18/03/1982
Joseph-Etienne Berthier 02/06/1768 31 December 1702 – 15 November 1783
Claude Louis, Count Berthollet
Claude Louis Berthollet
Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.-Biography:...

30/04/1789 9 November 1748 – 6 November 1822
Ferdinand Berthoud
Ferdinand Berthoud
Ferdinand Berthoud was a Swiss chronometer-maker.-Career:He was born at Plancemont, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Having served his apprenticeship with his brother, Jean-Henri, a pendulum maker, he set up a clockmaking business in Paris in 1745 and gained a great reputation for the excellence and...

16/02/1764 1727–1807
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey
Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, 16th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, PC, FRS was a British Hereditary Peer. He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Martha Cokayne. His mother died shortly after his birth about July 1641.From 1661 to 1666 he was Member of Parliament for Boston in...

21/11/1666 8 November 1630 – 8 May 1701
Julian Besag
Julian Besag
Julian Ernst Besag FRS was a British statistician known chiefly for his work in spatial statistics , and Bayesian inference .- Biography:Besag was born in Loughborough and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School...

27/05/2004 26 March 1945 - 6 August 2010 Prof of Statistics
William Henry Besant 08/06/1871 1 November 1828 – 2 June 1917
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov to a Karaite family.-Life and career:...

03/05/1934 24 January 1891 – 2 November 1970
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 09/06/1825 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman. Bessemer's name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel.-Anthony Bessemer:...

12/06/1879 19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898
Charles Herbert Best 17/03/1938 28 February 1899 – 31 March 1978
George Best, Baron Best 17/03/1791 c 1756 - 12 March 1823
John Bethune 18/02/1773 c 1724 - 15 April 1774 Clergyman
Coenraad van Beuningen
Coenraad van Beuningen
Coenraad van Beuningen was the Dutch Republic's most experienced diplomat, burgemeester of Amsterdam in 1669, 1672, 1680, 1681, 1683 and 1684, and from 1681 a VOC director...

13/12/1682 1622 - 20 October 1693
Michael John Bevan 14/03/1991
Silvanus Bevan
Silvanus Bevan
Silvanus Bevan was an apothecary, who founded the successful firm of Allen & Hanburys.He was born into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father was also called Silvanus Bevan...

09/12/1725 28 October 1691 – 5 June 1765
Charles James Beverly 05/05/1831 August 1788 - 16 September 1868
Raymond John Heaphy Beverton 20/03/1975 29 August 1922 – 23 July 1995
John Bevis
John Bevis
John Bevis was an English doctor and astronomer. He is best known for discovering the Crab Nebula in 1731....

21/11/1765 31 October 1693 – 6 November 1771
John Herbert Beynon 18/03/1971
William John Granville Beynon 15/03/1973 24 May 1914 – 11 March 1996
Homi Jehangir Bhabha 20/03/1941 30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966
Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Hansraj Bhadeshia 14/05/1998
Shanti Swarupa Bhatnagar
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Sir Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, OBE, FRS was a well-known Indian scientist.-Early life:Bhatnagar was born in Shahpur, now in Pakistan...

18/03/1943 22 February 1895 – 1 January 1955
Vendramino Bianchi 08/11/1710 26 July 1667 – 12 January 1738
Francesco Bianchini
Francesco Bianchini
Francesco Bianchini was an Italian philosopher and scientist. He worked for the curia of three popes, including being camiere d`honore of Clement XI, and secretary of the commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a...

29/01/1713 13 December 1662 – 2 March 1729
James Ebenezer Bicheno
James Ebenezer Bicheno
James Ebenezer Bicheno was a British author and colonial official.Bicheno was the son of the Rev. James Bicheno, minister of the Baptist Church in Newbury, Berkshire. He was called to the bar in 1822 but seems to have spent most of his time until 1832 in writing and natural history pursuits,...

10/05/1827 26 January 1785 – 25 February 1851
Robert Bickersteth
Robert Bickersteth (bishop)
The Rt Rev Robert Bickersteth was the Anglican Bishop of Ripon in the mid 19th century.Robert Bickersteth was born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1845, his first post was as a Curate to his father...

16/12/1858 24 August 1816 – 15 April 1884
Richard Hussey Bickerton
Richard Hussey Bickerton
Admiral Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, 2nd Baronet was a British admiral.-Early life:He was born the son of Vice Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton whom he succeeded as 2nd Baronet in 1792. He married in 1788 Anne, daughter of Dr James Athill of Antigua:they had no children.-Naval career:Bickerton...

22/02/1810 1760 - 9 February 1832
Michael James Bickle 17/05/2007
John Laurens Bicknell 08/03/1821 c 1786 - 3 August 1845
Govard Bidloo 29/04/1696 12 March 1649 – 31 December 1713
Shelford Bidwell
Shelford Bidwell
Shelford Bidwell was an English physicist and inventor. He is best known for his work with "telephotography", a precursor to the modern fax machine.-Private Life:...

04/06/1886 6 March 1848 – 18 December 1909
Mariann Bienz
Mariann Bienz
Mariann Bienz FRS is a distinguished molecular biologist based at the UK Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology. She has been a member of their Senior Scientific Staff since 1991, and Joint Head of Cell Biology, since 2007.-Life:...

15/05/2003
Rowland Harry Biffen 07/05/1914 28 May 1874 – 12 July 1949
George Biggin 01/07/1802 c 1762 - 3 November 1803
Peter Martin Biggs 18/03/1976
Jean Paul Bignon 07/11/1734 19 September 1662 – 14 March 1743
John Jeremiah Bigsby
John Jeremiah Bigsby
John Jeremiah Bigsby , English geologist and physician, the son of Dr. John Bigsby, was born at Nottingham on the 14th of August 1792....

03/06/1869 15 August 1792 – 10 February 1881
Robert Bigsby
Robert Bigsby
Robert Bigsby was an English antiquarian and author.Bigsby was born in Castle Gate, Nottingham in 1806, son of Robert Bigsby, the registrar of the archdeaconry of Nottingham....

08/06/1837 11 April 1806 – 27 September 1873
Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl 16/03/1944 23 November 1887 – 2 December 1948
Bruce Alexander Bilby 17/03/1977
William Billers 30/11/1726
Archibald Billing 06/06/1844 10 January 1791 – 2 September 1881
Rupert Everett Billingham 16/03/1961 15 October 1921 – 16 November 2002
Henry Bilson-Legge 10/01/1745 29 May 1708 – 23 August 1764
John Bingham 17/03/1977 Crop geneticist
Robert Bingley 22/06/1809
Edward William Binney
Edward William Binney
Edward William Binney FRS was an English geologist.Edward William Binney was born at Morton, in Nottinghamshire in 1812, and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Gainsborough. He was articled to a solicitor in Chesterfield, and in 1836 settled at Manchester...

05/06/1856 7 December 1812 – 19 December 1881
James Jeffrey Binney
James Binney
James Jeffrey Binney, FRS, FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is head of the Sub-Department of Theoretical Physics as well as a Professorial Fellow at Merton College...

11/05/2000
Alfred Maurice Binnie 24/03/1960 7 February 1901 – 31 December 1986
Geoffrey Morse Binnie 20/03/1975 13 November 1908 – 5 April 1989
Andrew Birch 27/11/1673 c 1652 - c 1691 Physician
Arthur John Birch 20/03/1958 3 August 1915 – 8 December 1995
Bryan John Birch
Bryan John Birch
Bryan John Birch F.R.S. is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture....

16/03/1972
Thomas Birch
Thomas Birch
Thomas Birch was an English historian.-Life:He was the son of Joseph Birch, a coffee-mill maker, and was born at Clerkenwell....

20/02/1735 23 November 1705 – 9 January 1766
James Derek Birchall 18/03/1982 7 October 1930 – 7 December 1995
Adrian Peter Bird
Adrian Peter Bird
Adrian Peter Bird CBE, FRS is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the Gabor Medal in 1999 "in recognition of his pioneering work in the study of global mechanisms by which transcription of the mammalian genome is regulated and for...

16/03/1989
Golding Bird
Golding Bird
Golding Bird was a British medical doctor and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Bird became a great authority on kidney diseases and published a comprehensive paper on urinary deposits...

22/01/1846 9 December 1814 – 27 October 1854
Robert Joseph Birgeneau 10/05/2001
John Birkenhead
John Birkenhead
Sir John Birkenhead or Berkenhead was a British political writer and journalist, imprisoned several times during the Commonwealth for his obtrusive royalism....

22/06/1663 24 March 1616 - 4 December 1679 Original
Timothy Robert Birkhead 27/05/2004
Peter Biron, Duke of Courland 07/11/1771 16 February 1724 – 13 January 1800
William Sawney Bisat 20/03/1947 19 October 1886 – 14 May 1973
Ann Bishop 19/03/1959 19 December 1899 - 7 May 1990 Parasitologist
George Bishop 09/06/1848 21 August 1785 - 14 June 1861 Astronomer
John Bishop 09/05/1844 15 September 1797 - 29 September 1873 Surgeon
Peter Orlebar Bishop 17/03/1977
Richard Evelyn Donohue Bishop 20/03/1980 1 January 1925 – 12 September 1989
Philip Bisse
Philip Bisse
Philip Bisse was an English bishop.-Life:He was born in Oldbury-on-the-Hill, Gloucestershire, the son of John Bisse, a clerk and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, ordained in 1686 and graduating M.A. in 1693. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March, 1706. He was...

13/02/1706 1677 - 6 September 1721
Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche 17/11/1791 20 December 1753 – 11 November 1828
Barrington Pope Blachford 01/06/1815
Davidson Black
Davidson Black
Davidson Black, FRS was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis . He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society...

05/05/1932 25 July 1884 – 15 March 1934
James Whyte Black
James W. Black
Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP was a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist. He spent his career both as researcher and as an academic at several universities. Black established the physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline...

18/03/1976 14 June 1924 - 22 March 2010 Prof of Analytical Pharmacology, London
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn 12/03/1992
John Blackburne 20/11/1794 5 August 1754 – 31 December 1833
Samuel Blackburne 14/12/1681 fl 1681
Thomas Blackburne 14/06/1781 c 1749 - 23 June 1782
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea
Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing Operational Research...

11/05/1933 18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974, PRS 1965-1970
Frederick Frost Blackman 03/05/1906 25 July 1866 – 30 January 1947
Geoffrey Emett Blackman 19/03/1959 17 April 1903 - 8 February 1980
James Blackman 29/03/1827 1769 - 24 August 1831
Moses Blackman
Moses Blackman
Moses Blackman was a South African-born British crystallographer.His father was a minister of religion, Rev. Joseph Blackman.-Education:...

15/03/1962 6 December 1908 – 3 June 1983
Vernon Herbert Blackman 01/05/1913 8 January 1872 – 1 October 1967
Jonas Blackwell 30/11/1692
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society...

09/02/1865 21 June 1826 - 12 February 1902
Richard Blacow 04/04/1754 20 May 1723 – 13 May 1760
Charles Blagden
Charles Blagden
Sir Charles Brian Blagden FRS was a British physician and scientist. He served as a medical officer in the Army and later held the position of Secretary of the Royal Society...

25/06/1772 17 April 1748 – 26 March 1820
Archibald Blair
Archibald Blair
Archibald Blair was a naval surveyor in the Bombay Marine.He joined the Bombay Marine, received his first commission in 1771 and in 1792 was promoted captain. In 1772, as a midshipman, he went on his first survey mission along the coasts of India, Iran and Arabia. In 1780 he was lieutenant on a...

02/05/1799 fl 1799
John Blair 09/01/1755
Patrick Blair 01/12/1712 fl 1706 - 1728 Physician and Botanist
Andrew Blake
Andrew Blake (scientist)
Andrew Blake, FREng, FRS, is a British scientist, Managing Director of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and a leading researcher in computer vision.-Career:...

26/05/2005
Benjamin Blake 04/03/1830
Henry Wollaston Blake 06/04/1843 1815 - 27 June 1899
Francis Blake
Sir Francis Blake, 1st Baronet, of Twizell Castle
Sir Francis Blake was a Northumbrian landowner who was created 1st Baronet of Twizell in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 25 May 1774....

19/06/1746 1708 - 29 March 1780
William Blake 14/05/1807 c 1774 - 24 November 1852 Mathematician
William John Blake 20/01/1831 12 May 1805 – 15 September 1875
Colin Brian Blakemore 12/03/1992
Peyton Blakiston 21/01/1841 6 September 1801 – 17 December 1878
Michael Bland 08/02/1816 c 1777 - 19 April 1851 Brewer
Miles Bland 12/04/1821 11 October 1786 – 27 December 1867
Roger David Blandford 16/03/1989
Gilbert Blane
Gilbert Blane
Sir Gilbert Blane of Blanefield, 1st Baronet FRSE FRS MRCP was a Scottish physician who instituted health reform in the Royal Navy....

23/12/1784 27 August 1749 – 27 June 1834
William Blane 16/04/1795
Henry Francis Blanford
Henry Francis Blanford
Henry Francis Blanford was a British meteorologist and paleontologist who worked in India...

03/06/1880 3 June 1834 – 23 January 1893
William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.-Biography:Blanford was born in London...

04/06/1874 7 October 1832 – 23 June 1905
Richard Blanshard 10/05/1827 c 1781 - 21 February 1836 Merchant
Wilkinson Blanshard 06/12/1759 c 1734 - 5 January 1770
John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere 13/01/1803 5 May 1732 – 27 August 1812
William Blaquiere 21/02/1805 27 January 1778 – 12 November 1851
Hermann Karl Felix Blaschko 15/03/1962 4 January 1900 – 18 April 1993
Kenneth Lyon Blaxter 16/03/1967 19 June 1919 – 18 April 1991
Brebis Bleaney
Brebis Bleaney
Brebis Bleaney CBE FRS was a British physicist. His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford from 1957 to 1977...

16/03/1950 6 June 1915 – 4 November 2006
Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley
Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley
Edward Bligh, 2nd Earl of Darnley was an English peer.He was educated at Westminster and at Geneva. He succeeded his mother to become Baron Clifton in 1722 and, in 1728, succeeded his father as Earl of Darnley....

09/02/1738 9 November 1715 – 22 July 1747
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley , styled Lord Clifton until 1831, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...

02/05/1833 26 February 1795 – 11 February 1835
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley
John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley was a British peer and cricketer.He was the son of John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley and succeeded his father as earl on the latter's death in 1781. He resided at Cobham Hall, near Gravesend in Kent....

22/03/1810 1767 - 17 March 1831
William Bligh
William Bligh
Vice Admiral William Bligh FRS RN was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMAV Bounty in 1789; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift in the Bounty's launch by the mutineers...

21/05/1801 ? October 1754 - 7 December 1817
Roger John Blin-Stoyle 18/03/1976 24 December 1924 – 30 January 2007
Nathaniel Bliss
Nathaniel Bliss
The Reverend Nathaniel Bliss was an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1762 and 1764....

20/05/1742 28 November 1700 – 2 September 1764
Timothy Vivian Pelham Bliss 10/03/1994
William Blizard
William Blizard
Sir William Blizard was an English surgeon.He was born in Barn Elms, Surrey, the fourth child of auctioneer William Blizard. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon in Mortlake he went to study at the London Hospital where he was a pupil of Sir Percivall Pott and John Hunter...

03/05/1787 1 March 1743 – 27 August 1835
Thomas Blizard 10/03/1803 1772 - 7 May 1838
Edward Blore
Edward Blore
Edward Blore was a 19th century British landscape and architectural artist, architect and antiquary. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland ....

10/06/1841 13 September 1787 – 4 September 1879
Thomas Blount
Thomas Blount (inventor)
Thomas Blount or Blunt was a British soldier, Member of Parliament and inventor.-Life:He was born in Wricklesmarsh, in Charlton, Kent, the second son of Edward Blount of the Middle Temple and his second wife, Fortune, daughter of Sir William Garway. Blount was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford...

08/02/1665 c 1604 - Soldier, Inventor
David Mervyn Blow 16/03/1972 27 June 1931 – 9 June 2004
Jeremy Bloxham
Jeremy Bloxham
Jeremy Bloxham FRS is a British geophysicist, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics, at Harvard University.He is Dean of Science.-External links:*http://www.cirs.net/researchers/researchers.php?id=500*http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=145941...

17/05/2007
Tom Leon Blundell 15/03/1984
Jonathan David Blundy
Jon Blundy
Jonathan David Blundy FRS , is Professor of Petrology, in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. -Life:...

16/05/2008
Richard Blyke 29/04/1773
Norman Keith Boardman 16/03/1978
Henry Samuel Boase
Henry Samuel Boase
Henry Samuel Boase FRS was an Cornish geologist.- Life and work :Boase was born in London on the 2 September 1799, the eldest son of Henry Boase , banker, of Madron, Cornwall. Henry Boase, the son, was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and then in Dublin, where he studied chemistry. He...

11/05/1837 2 September 1799 – 5 May 1883
Martin Bobrow
Martin Bobrow
Martin Bobrow CBE, FRS is a British geneticist, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge.-Life:He was professor of medical genetics, at University of Cambridge, from 1995 to 2005....

27/05/2004
Johann Elert Bode
Johann Elert Bode
Johann Elert Bode was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name.-Biography:...

30/04/1789 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826
Walter Fred Bodmer
Walter Bodmer
Sir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...

21/03/1974
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions...

30/04/1730 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738
Germain Boffrand
Germain Boffrand
Germain Boffrand was one of the most gifted French architects of his generation. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself...

10/01/1745 7 May 1667 – 18 March 1754
William Bogdani 26/02/1730
David Vernon Boger 17/05/2007
Johann Baptist Bohadsch
Johann Baptist Bohadsch
Johann Baptist Bohadsch was a German professor of botany and pharmacology and a naturalist.-Early life and career:Johann was born in 1724 in Prague. His father was manager of the estates of Count Wenzel von Zwrtby. Johann was educated at a Jesuit seminary where he learned Latin and philosophy...

23/12/1762
David Joseph Bohm 15/03/1990 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992
John Theophilus Boileau 05/03/1840 21 May 1805 – 7 November 1886
John Peter Boileau 01/06/1843 2 September 1794 – 9 March 1869
Charles Du Bois
Charles Dubois (treasurer)
Charles Dubois , was treasurer to the East India Company.Dubois lived at Mitcham, Surrey, where he had a garden filled with the newest exotics at that time in course of introduction. As regards botany, he seems to have been chiefly a patron rather than a worker; thus he appears as one of twelve...

30/11/1700 ? 1656 - 21 October 1740
Alexander Boksenberg
Alexander Boksenberg
Alexander Boksenberg FRS CBE is a British scientist. He won the 1999 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his landmark discoveries concerning the nature of active galactic nuclei, the physics of the intergalactic medium and of the interstellar gas in primordial galaxies...

16/03/1978
Peter Patten Bold 19/01/1815
Charles Bolton 02/05/1918 24 September 1870 - 6 December 1947 Pathologist
John Gatenby Bolton
John Gatenby Bolton
This article is on the astronomer John Bolton. For other people named "John Bolton," see John Bolton .John Gatenby Bolton was a British-Australian astronomer from Sheffield, England. He attended King Edward VII School , followed by Trinity College, Cambridge from 1940 to 1942, during which time...

15/03/1973 5 June 1922 – 6 July 1993
Francois Xavier Bon 15/02/1739 15 October 1678 – 18 January 1761
George Bond 16/03/1972 22 February 1906 - 5 January 1988 Prof. of Biology
John Richard Bond 10/05/2001 1950 – Canadian cosmologist
Phineas Bond 16/03/1815 c 1748 - 1815
Hermann Bondi
Hermann Bondi
Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important...

19/03/1959 1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005
Quentin Bone
Quentin Bone
Quentin Bone FRS is a British marine biologist. He won the 2003 Frink Medal from the Zoological Society of London.-Works:; Taylor & Francis, with R Moore, 2007, ISBN 9780415375627...

15/03/1984
William Arthur Bone
William Arthur Bone
William Arthur Bone FRS was a British fuel technologist and chemist.He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, the son of tea merchant Christopher and Mary Elizabeth Bone. He was educated at Middlesbrough High School, the Ackworth Quaker school and Stockton High School...

11/05/1905 19 March 1871 – 11 June 1938
Ludwig Friedrich Bonet 30/11/1711
William Bonfield
William Bonfield
William Bonfield CBE, FREng, FRS is a British material scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge.-Life:He earned a BSc with First Class Honours, and PhD at Imperial College, London....

15/05/2003
Silvestro Bonfigliuoli 29/04/1696 ? 1637 - ? 12
John George Bonner 18/06/1840 c 1788 - 3 March 1867
Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet , Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century.-Life and work:Bonnet's life was uneventful...

17/11/1743 13 March 1720 – 20 May 1793
Thomas George Bonney
Thomas George Bonney
Thomas George Bonney FRS was an English geologist.-Career:Bonney was the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, master of Rugeley Grammar School...

06/06/1878 27 July 1833 – 10 December 1923
Frank Featherstone Bonsall 19/03/1970 31 March 1920 – 22 February 2011
George Boole
George Boole
George Boole was an English mathematician and philosopher.As the inventor of Boolean logic—the basis of modern digital computer logic—Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of computer science. Boole said,...

11/06/1857 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864
William Robert Boon 21/03/1974 20 March 1911 – 28 October 1994
Benjamin Booth 09/01/1772
Charles Booth
Charles Booth (philanthropist)
Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...

01/06/1899 30 March 1840 – 23 November 1916
Eric Stuart Booth 16/03/1967 14 October 1914 – 1 May 2005
James Booth 22/01/1846 25 August 1806 - 15 April 1878 Clergyman & Mathematician
Felix Booth
Felix Booth
Sir Felix Booth, 1st Baronet was a wealthy UK gin distiller. His earlier family had founded Booth's Gin in London in 1740. In 1832 Booth bought the site of the old Ophthalmic Hospital in Albany Street, Regent's Park as a site for his distillery...

10/04/1834 1775 - 25 January 1850
Peniston Boothe 03/02/1703 1681 - 21 September 1765
Richard Wilbraham Bootle 02/04/1761
Robert Bootle 08/12/1757
Richard Ewen Borcherds 10/03/1994
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet 23/03/1916 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961
Marcantonio Borghese, Principe di Sulmona e Rossano 29/11/1682 20 May 1660 – 22 May 1729
George Simon Borlase 20/11/1828 30 January 1792 – 19 March 1837
William Borlase
William Borlase
William Borlase , Cornish antiquary, geologist and naturalist, was born at Pendeen in Cornwall, of an ancient family . From 1722 he was Rector of Ludgvan and died there in 1772.-Life and works:...

17/05/1750 3 February 1695 – 31 August 1772
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
Gustav Victor Rudolf Born is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College....

16/03/1972
Ignace De Born 02/06/1774 26 December 1742 – 24 July 1791
Max Born
Max Born
Max Born was a German-born physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s...

16/03/1939 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970
Philip Julius Borneman 01/11/1722 fl 1722 - 1726
William Borrer 04/06/1835 13 June 1781 – 10 January 1862
Piet Borst 26/06/1986
Leszek Borysiewicz
Leszek Borysiewicz
Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz, FRS is a Polish British physician, immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, his term of office started on 1 October 2010...

16/05/2008
Benjamin Bosanquet 21/05/1747 25 September 1708 – 22 December 1755
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet
Robert Holford Macdowall Bosanquet was an English scientist and music theorist, and brother of Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, and philosopher Bernard Bosanquet....

05/06/1890 30 July 1841 – 7 August 1912
Samuel Bosanquet 06/06/1793 1768–1843
Roger Joseph Boscovich
Roger Joseph Boscovich
Ruđer Josip Bošković was a theologian, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, Jesuit, and a polymath from the city of Dubrovnik in the Republic of Ragusa , who studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.He is famous for...

15/01/1761 19 May 1711 – 13 February 1787
Georg Matthias Bose 30/06/1757 22 September 1710 – 17 September 1761
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose FRS was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation...

20/03/1958 1 January 1894 - 04
Jagadish Chandra Bose 13/05/1920 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937
Brice Bosnich
Brice Bosnich
Brice Bosnich FRS is a Australian chemist, and Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago.-Life:He graduated from University of Sydney with a BSc in 1958, and from Australian National University with a PhD in 1962, where he studied with Alan Sargeson.He...

11/05/2000
Hugh Bostock
Hugh Bostock
Hugh Bostock FRS is a British neuroscientist, and Emeritus Professor of Neurophysiology, at University College, London.-Life:He earned a BA from University of Oxford in 1966, and MSc and PhD in 1974 from University of London.-External links:...

10/05/2001
John Bostock
John Bostock (physician)
John Bostock MD FRS was a physician, scientist and geologist from Liverpool. He spent some time at New College at Hackney where he attended Priestley's lectures on chemistry and natural philosophy, before graduating in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and practising medicine in Liverpool,...

02/04/1818 1773 - 6 August 1846
William Bosville 07/06/1792 21 July 1745 – 16 December 1813
Percy George Hamnall Boswell
Percy George Hamnall Boswell
Professor Percy George Hamnall Boswell FRS was a British geologist.He was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University and Head of the Department of Geology at the Imperial College of Science, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1931...

07/05/1931 7 August 1886 – 22 December 1960
Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth
Joseph Bosworth , English scholar of Anglo-Saxon language and Anglo-Saxon literature, was born in Derbyshire.-Biography:Educated at Repton, whence he proceeded to the University of Aberdeen, he became in 1817 vicar of Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, and devoted his spare time to literature and...

04/06/1829 1789 - 27 May 1876
Beriah Botfield
Beriah Botfield
Beriah Botfield was a British Member of Parliament representing Hopton Court of Shropshire. He was also a Conservative Party politician....

17/01/1839 5 March 1807 – 7 August 1863
Thomas Botfield 18/04/1833 c 1763 - 27 January 1843
Martin Harold Phillips Bott
Martin Bott
Martin Harold Phillips Bott FRS is an English geologist and now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, England.He is a Vice-President of Christians in Science...

17/03/1977
James Thomson Bottomley 07/06/1888 10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926
Domenico Bottoni 23/10/1695 6 October 1641 – c 1721
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of James Cook, he took part in the French and Indian War and the unsuccessful French attempt to defend Canada from Britain...

08/01/1756 11 November 1729 – 31 August 1811
John Fenton Boughey 05/12/1822 1 May 1784 – 27 June 1823
Sir Charles Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet
Sir Charles Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet
Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton was an administrator in India with the East India Company and subsequently a member of the British House of Commons representing first Evesham and then Bramber.-Early life:...

05/05/1814 December 1747-26 February 1821
William Edward Rouse Boughton 05/05/1814 14 September 1788 – 22 May 1856
Pierre Bouguer
Pierre Bouguer
Pierre Bouguer was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture"....

25/01/1750 17 February 1698 – 15 August 1758
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger FRS was a Belgian-British zoologist who identified over 2000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles and amphibians.-Life:...

07/06/1894 19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937
Geoffrey Stewart Boulton 12/03/1992
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton, FRS was an English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt. In the final quarter of the 18th century the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines, which were a great advance on the state of the art, making possible the...

24/11/1785 3 September 1728 – 18 August 1809
Claude Bourdelin 20 June 1667 – 20 April 1711
Gilbert Charles Bourne 05/05/1910 5 July 1861 – 9 March 1933
Alfred Gibbs Bourne
Alfred Gibbs Bourne
Sir Alfred Gibbs Bourne KCIE, DSc, FRS, FLS was a zoologist, botanist and educator....

13/06/1895 8 August 1859 – 14 July 1940
Jacques Louis, Count of Bournon 25/02/1802 21 January 1751 – 24 August 1825
William Robert Bousfield
William Robert Bousfield
William Robert Bousfield was a British lawyer, Conservative politician and scientist.He was the son of Edward Tenney Bousfield, an engineer, from Bedford. He attended Bedford Modern School before serving an apprenticeship as an engineer. In 1872 he was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, winning...

11/05/1916 12 January 1854 – 16 July 1943
William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor 17/12/1767 27 February 1725 – 28 January 1776
Henry Taylor Bovey
Henry Bovey
Henry Taylor Bovey, LLD, DCL, FRS was an engineering science academic. He was the first Rector of Imperial College of Science and Technology in London....

05/06/1902 7 March 1850 - 02
William Bovill
William Bovill
Sir William Bovill was an English lawyer, politician and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas between 1866 and his death in 1873.-Background:...

09/05/1867 26 May 1814 – 1 November 1873
Frank Philip Bowden
Frank Philip Bowden
-Education:Bowden received his BSc from the University of Tasmania in Australia in 1925. He completed his Msc there in 1927. Bowden was awarded his Dsc in 1931 while studying at the University of Cambridge in England...

18/03/1948 2 May 1903 – 3 September 1968
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler was an English physician who published an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Harriet, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original....

10/05/1781 12 July 1754 – 24 February 1825
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin
James Bowdoin II was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court in the colonial era and was president of the state's constitutional convention...

03/04/1788 7 August 1726 – 6 November 1790
Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen
Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen
Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen QC, PC was an English judge.-Biography:He was born at Woolaston in Gloucestershire, his father, the Rev. Christopher Bowen, originally of Hollymount, County Mayo, being then curate of the parish...

21/05/1885 1 January 1835 – 10 April 1894
David Keith Bowen 14/05/1998
Edmund John Bowen 16/05/1935 29 April 1898 – 19 November 1980
Edward George Bowen
Edward George Bowen
Edward George 'Taffy' Bowen, CBE, FRS was a British physicist who made a major contribution to the development of radar, and so helped win both the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic...

20/03/1975 14 January 1911 – 12 August 1991
Frederick Orpen Bower
Frederick Orpen Bower
Frederick Orpen Bower FRS was a British botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938....

04/06/1891 4 November 1855 – 11 April 1948
Thomas Bower 23/10/1712 fl 1703 - 1723 Prof. of Maths., Aberdeen
James Scott Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank
James Scott Bowerbank FRS was a British naturalist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Bowerbank was born in Bishopsgate, London, and succeeded in conjunction with his brother to his father's distillery, in which he was actively engaged until 1847.In early years astronomy and natural history,...

17/11/1842 July 1797 - 8 March 1877
Martin Bowes 30/11/1699 c 1671 - 1726 Barrister
Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie
Stanley Bowie
Stanley Hay Umphray Bowie FRS was considered a "world authority on uranium geology and a leader in the field of geochemistry and mineralogy". He developed methods and tools to identify opaque minerals using micro-indentation hardness and optical reflectance...

20/03/1975
William Bowman 22/04/1841 20 July 1816 – 29 March 1892
Walter Bowman
Walter Bowman (antiquary)
-Life:Bowman was a native of Scotland, and owned an estate at Logie in Fifeshire. He had been travelling tutor to the eldest son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, and was rewarded with the place of comptroller of the Port of Bristol...

04/11/1742
John Bowring
John Bowring
Sir John Bowring, KCB was an English political economist, traveller, miscellaneous writer, polyglot, and the 4th Governor of Hong Kong.- Early life :...

05/06/1856 17 October 1792 – 23 November 1872
George Edward Pelham Box 21/03/1985
Edward Mourrier Boxer 03/06/1858
Geoffrey Allan Boxshall 10/03/1994
Rubert William Boyce 05/06/1902 22 April 1863 – 16 June 1911
Arthur Edwin Boycott 07/05/1914 6 April 1877 – 12 May 1938
Brian Blundell Boycott 18/03/1971 10 December 1924 – 22 April 2000
John Smith Knox Boyd 15/03/1951 18 September 1891 – 10 June 1981
Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd 20/03/1969 20 October 1922 – 5 February 2004
Jean Baptiste Nicolas Boyer 20/04/1749 1693 - 2 April 1768
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....

03/04/1706 28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan
Charles Boyle, 3rd Viscount Dungarvan, 3rd Baron Clifford, FRS , was a British peer and politician...

06/01/1664 17 November 1639 – 12 October 1694
Courtenay Boyle 23/06/1814 3 September 1770 – 21 May 1844
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, GCH FRS , styled Lord Boyle until 1775, was a British peer.He was the son of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord Ross...

05/06/1788 ? 18 September 1765 – 6 July 1843
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson....

23/10/1746 2 January 1707 – 16 November 1762
Richard Boyle 20/05/1663
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork 25/10/1722 25 April 1695 – 15 December 1753
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle FRS was a 17th century natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor, also noted for his writings in theology. He has been variously described as English, Irish, or Anglo-Irish, his father having come to Ireland from England during the time of the English plantations of...

22/04/1663 25 January 1627 – 30 December 1691
Zabdiel Boylston
Zabdiel Boylston
Zabdiel Boylston, FRS was a physician in the Boston area. He apprenticed with his father, an English surgeon named Thomas Boylston. He also studied under the Boston physician Dr...

07/07/1726 9 March 1679 – 1 March 1766
Samuel Francis Boys 16/03/1972 20 December 1911 – 16 October 1972
Charles Vernon Boys 07/06/1888 15 March 1855 – 30 March 1944
Edward Arthur Boyse 17/03/1977
Claude Gros de Boze
Claude Gros de Boze
Claude Gros de Boze was a French scholar and numismatist.- Life :Studying in Lyon and Paris, and settling in the latter around 1700, he gained the support of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault and thus became a pensionary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres...

06/04/1749 1680 - 10 September 1753
Laurence Braddon
Laurence Braddon
Laurence Braddon , was an English politician and writer.Braddon was the second son of William Braddon of Treworgy, in St. Gennys, Cornwall. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, and for some time worked hard at his profession...

27/04/1681
John Rose Bradford
John Bradford, 1st Baronet
Sir John Rose Bradford, 1st Baronet Bradford, KCMG, CB, CBE, FRS, FRCP was a British physician.- Early life :John Rose Bradford was born in London, the son of Abraham Rose and Ellen Bradford. His father was a Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in the Royal Navy...

07/06/1894 7 May 1863 – 7 April 1935
Albert James Bradley 16/03/1939 5 January 1899 – 4 September 1972
Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley
Allan Bradley FRS is a British geneticist, and Director Emeritus of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.-Life:He earned a BA, MA and PhD in Genetics from University of Cambridge.He taught at Baylor College of Medicine, beginning in 1987....

09/05/2002
Daniel Joseph Bradley
Daniel Joseph Bradley
Daniel Joseph Bradley FRS, was an Irish physicist, and Emeritus Professor of Optical Electronics, at Trinity College, Dublin...

18/03/1976 18 January 1928 - 7 February 2010 Prof of Optical Electronics, Dublin
Derek Bradley 17/03/1988
Donal Donat Conor Bradley 27/05/2004
Donald Charlton Bradley
Donald Charlton Bradley
Donald Charlton Bradley CBE, FRS is a British chemist, who won the Royal Medal in 1998.-Life:He earned a first-class Bachelor’s Degree in 1946, a PhD in 1950 and a DSc in 1959, from Birkbeck, University of London....

20/03/1980
James Bradley
James Bradley
James Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis...

06/11/1718 March 1693 - 13 July 1762
Richard Bradley
Richard Bradley (botanist)
Richard Bradley was an English botanist. His early life is obscure and even his date of birth is uncertain, possibly it was 1688....

01/12/1712
Alexander Marian Bradshaw 16/05/2008
Anthony David Bradshaw 18/03/1982
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he was President of Footlights.Bradshaw is a film critic for The Guardian...

19/03/1981
George Stewardson Brady
George Stewardson Brady
George Stewardson Brady was a professor of natural history at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle-upon-Tyne who did important volumes on Copepoda, including those from the Challenger expedition ....

08/06/1882 18 April 1832 – 25 December 1921
Henry Bowman Brady 04/06/1874 24 February 1835 - ? 3 January 1891
John Michael Brady 15/05/1997 Information Engineering, Oxford Univ.
William Henry Bragg
William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics...

02/05/1907 2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942, PRS 1935-1940
William Lawrence Bragg
William Lawrence Bragg
Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. He was knighted...

12/05/1921 31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971
Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain was a British neurologist. He was principal author of the standard work of neurology, Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System, and longtime editor of the eponymous neurological medical journal titled Brain...

19/03/1964 23 October 1895 – 29 December 1966
Daniel Braithwaite 14/03/1782 c 1731 - 28 December 1817
William Brakenridge 09/11/1752 c 1700 - 30 July 1762
Francis William Rogers Brambell 17/03/1949 26 February 1901 – 6 June 1970
George William Wilshere, Baron Bramwell 12/01/1882 12 June 1808 – 9 May 1892
Frederick Joseph Bramwell 12/06/1873 7 March 1818 – 30 November 1903
William Thomas Brande
William Thomas Brande
William Thomas Brande FRS , English chemist.Brande was born in London, England. After leaving Westminster School, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his brother, an apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of medicine. However, Brande's bent was towards chemistry, a sound knowledge of...

13/04/1809 12 February 1788 – 11 February 1866
Gustavus Brander
Gustavus Brander
Gustavus Brander , English naturalist, who came of a Swedish family, was born in London in 1720, and was brought up as a merchant, in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the Bank of England....

07/03/1754 1720 - 21 January 1787
Dietrich Brandis
Dietrich Brandis
Sir Dietrich Brandis, KCIE, FRS was a German forester who worked in India. He is considered the father of tropical forestry.-Early life:...

03/06/1875 31 March 1824 – 29 May 1907
Henry Rowland Brandreth 21/01/1841
Thomas Shaw Brandreth
Thomas Shaw Brandreth
Thomas Shaw Brandreth, FRS was an English mathematician, inventor and classicist.-Early life and education:Brandreth was the son of a Cheshire physician, Joseph Brandreth. He studied at Eton and received a BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1810 as Second Wrangler, second Smith's Prizeman, and...

08/03/1821 24 July 1788 – 27 May 1873
William Brattle 11/03/1714 22 November 1662 - 15
Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray 14/03/1991
Edward William Brayley
Edward William Brayley
Edward William Brayley FRS was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.-Early life:Brayley was born in London, the son of Edward Wedlake Brayley, a notable antiquary and his wife Anne . His early schooling, in the company of his brothers Henry and Horatio was private and sheltered...

01/06/1854 1803 - 1 February 1870
Robert Bree
Robert Bree
Robert Bree, MD was an English physician-Biography:Bree was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1759. He was educated at Coventry and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated on 6 April 1775, and took his B.A. degree on 10 Nov. 1778, and, having studied medicine at Edinburgh, proceeded...

11/02/1808 1759 - 6 October 1839
Francois de Bremond 26/02/1741 14 September 1713 - 1742
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner, CH FRS is a South African biologist and a 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, shared with H...

18/03/1965
Owen Salusbury Brereton
Owen Salusbury Brereton
Owen Salusbury Brereton, born Owen Brereton FRS , was an antiquary.-Life:Brereton was born in 1715, the son of Thomas Brereton, by his first wife, Miss Trelawney. The father came to own Shotwick Park, Cheshire, and other property through his second marriage with Catherine, daughter of Mr. Salusbury...

17/06/1762 1715 - 8 September 1798
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton FRS was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in the Irish peerage in 1664....

22/04/1663 May 1632 - 17 March 1680 Original
Mark Steven Bretscher
Mark Bretscher
Mark Bretscher is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. He works at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom...

21/03/1985
David Brewster
David Brewster
Sir David Brewster KH PRSE FRS FSA FSSA MICE was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.-Early life:...

04/05/1815 12 December 1781 – 10 February 1868
Johannes Philippus Breynius
Johann Philipp Breyne
Johann Philipp Breyne , son of Jacob Breyne , was a German botanist, palaeontologist, zoologist and entomologist. He is best known for his work on the Polish cochineal , an insect formerly used in production of red dye...

21/04/1703 c 1680 - 1764
Percy Wragg Brian
Percy Wragg Brian
Percy Wragg Brian was a British botanist.He was born in Hall Green, Birmingham to Percy Brian, a schoolteacher from Macclesfield and his wife Adelaide. He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1931...

20/03/1958 5 September 1910 – 17 August 1979
Bewick Bridge
Bewick Bridge
Bewick Bridge was an English vicar and mathematical author.In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrangler in 1790....

11/06/1812 1767 - 15 May 1833
Thomas William Bridge 11/06/1903 5 November 1848 – 29 June 1909
Orlando Bridgeman 29/04/1696
Orlando Bridgeman
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet FRS was an English baronet and politician.-Background:Bridgeman was the second son of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, by his second wife Dorothy, daughter of John Saunders. He was educated at Westminster College from 1662 and after two years went to Magdalene...

23/03/1698 ? December 1649 - 20 April 1701
William Bridgeman
William Bridgeman (MP for Bramber)
William Bridgeman FRS was a senior English civil servant and MP.He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Richard Bridgeman, a merchant for the East India Company and was the cousin of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1662...

18/12/1679 c 1646-10 May 1699
Edward Bridgen 13/03/1777
Edward Ettingdean Bridges, Baron Bridges 15/05/1952 4 August 1892 – 27 August 1969
John Bridges 07/04/1708 1666 - 16 March 1724 Barrister
Brook Bridges 12/05/1726 12 August 1679 – 16 March 1728
William Bridgman 15/03/1821
Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs 13/05/1999
George Edward Briggs
George Edward Briggs
George Edward Briggs was a British botanist.He was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Walker Thomas and Susan Briggs....

16/05/1935 25 June 1893 - 7 February 1985
John Briggs 22/11/1838 18 September 1785 – 27 April 1875
Robert Briggs 30/11/1693 1660 - 22 December 1718
Richard Bright
Richard Bright (physician)
Richard Bright was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease.He was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the third son of Sarah and Richard Bright Sr., a wealthy merchant and banker. Bright Sr. shared his interest in science with his son,encouraging him to consider it...

08/03/1821 28 September 1789 – 16 December 1858
Owen Brigstocke 30/11/1710 ? April 1679 - April 1746
Giles Skey Brindley
Giles Brindley
Sir Giles Skey Brindley, GBE , is a British physiologist, musicologist and composer.He made important contributions to the treatment of erectile dysfunction, and is perhaps best known for an unusual scientific presentation at the 1983 Las Vegas meeting of the American Urological Association, where...

18/03/1965
David Maurice Brink 19/03/1981 Physics Professor, Oxford University
John Brinkley, Bishop of Cloyne
John Brinkley (astronomer)
The Rt. Rev. John Mortimer Brinkley D.D. was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne.-Early years:...

17/03/1803 1763 - 14 September 1835
William Brinton
William Brinton
-Life:He was born at Kidderminster, where his father was a carpet manufacturer, 20 November 1823. After education at private schools and as apprentice to a Kidderminster surgeon he matriculated at London University in 1843, and began medical studies at King's College, London. He won several prizes,...

02/06/1864 20 November 1823 – 17 January 1867
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane 10/05/1810 23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860
Henry William Bristow
Henry William Bristow
Henry William Bristow , English geologist, was the son of Major-General H. Bristow, who served in the Peninsular War...

05/06/1862 17 May 1817 – 14 June 1889
William Bristow 25/03/1742
John Syer Bristowe 02/06/1881 19 January 1827 – 20 August 1895
Donald Eric Broadbent 21/03/1968 6 May 1926 – 10 April 1993
Edward Granville Broadbent 17/03/1977
William Henry Broadbent 03/06/1897 23 January 1835 – 10 July 1907
William Brockedon
William Brockedon
William Brockedon was a 19th century English painter.-Early life:He was born at Totnes on 13 October 1787, son of a watchmaker. He was educated at a private school in Totnes, but learned more from his father, taking over the business during the illness of nearly twelve months which ended in his...

18/12/1834 13 October 1787 – 29 August 1854
Jeremy Patrick Brockes 10/03/1994
Bertram Neville Brockhouse 18/03/1965 15 July 1918 – 13 October 2003
Richard Brocklesby
Richard Brocklesby
Richard Brocklesby , an English physician, was born at Minehead, Somerset.He was educated at Ballitore, in Ireland, where Edmund Burke was one of his school fellows, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and finally graduated at Leiden in 1745...

26/02/1747 11 August 1722 – 11 December 1797
Charles Broderip 11/01/1816 fl 1816
William John Broderip 14/02/1828 21 November 1789 - 27
James Brodie 06/07/1797 31 August 1744 – 17 January 1824
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English chemist.Brodie was the son of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, and his wife Anne , and was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford...

07/06/1849 6 February 1817 – 24 November 1880
Benjamin Collins Brodie 18/02/1810 9 June 1783 – 21 October 1862, PRS 1858-1861
Thomas Gregor Brodie 05/05/1904 9 February 1866 – 20 August 1916
Wallace Smith Broecker 17/05/2007
Alec Nigel Broers 20/03/1986
Robert Bromfield 15/04/1779
Thomas Bromfield 11/03/1714 c 1678 - 1722
Edward Thomas French Bromhead 13/03/1817 26 March 1789 – 14 March 1855
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich
Thomas John I'Anson Bromwich was an English mathematician, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His third name begins with an uppercase i, as opposed to the lowercase L which would seem more likely.-Life:...

03/05/1906 9 February 1875 – 24 August 1929
Charles Brooke
Charles Brooke (surgeon)
Charles Brooke FRS was an English surgeon and inventor.-Surgical career:Brooke, son of the well-known mineralogist, Henry James Brooke, was born 30 June 1804. His early education was carried on at Chiswick, under Dr. Turner. After this he was entered at Rugby School in 1819 and St John's College,...

04/03/1847 30 June 1804 – 17 May 1879
Henry James Brooke
Henry James Brooke
Henry James Brooke , was an English crystallographer.Brooke was the son of a broadcloth manufacturer, born in Exeter on 25 May 1771, studied for the bar, but went into business in the Spanish wool trade, South American mining companies, and the London Life Assurance Association successively. He...

22/04/1819 25 May 1771 – 26 June 1857
John Brooke
John Brooke
John Brooke was a significant British historian. He studied history at the University of Manchester under Lewis Namier:, and in 1951 became Namier's principal assistant for the History of Parliament. When Namier died in 1960, Brooke succeeded him as editor of the section dealing with 1754 to 1790...

21/01/1819 28 January 1773 – 23 November 1821
Arthur de Capell Brooke
Arthur de Capell Brooke
Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke, 2nd Baronet was a British baronet and travel writer, Fellow of the Royal Society and co-establisher of the Raleigh Club .-Remarks on Norway:...

29/05/1823 22 October 1791 – 6 December 1858
John Brooke 08/01/1662 c 1635 - 18 November 1691 Original
William O'Shaughnessy Brooke
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy MD FRS was an Irish physician famous for his work in pharmacology and inventions related to telegraphy...

16/03/1843 October 1809 - 10 January 1889 See William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
Joshua Brookes
Joshua Brookes
'Joshua Brookes was a British anatomist and naturalist.He studied under John Hunter in London. He became a teacher of anatomy in London, and the founder of the Brookesian Museum of Comparative Anatomy.This private museum is described in his 1830 catalogue Museum Brookesianum Embracing an Almost...

18/11/1819 24 November 1761 – 10 January 1833
Joseph Brookesbank 13/06/1751
Frederick Tom Brooks
Frederick Tom Brooks
Frederick Tom Brooks was an English botanist, and was Professor of Botany, Cambridge University.He was born in Somerset and attended Sexey's School, Somerset from 1895-1898. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1902 and became Professor of Botany there in 1936...

15/05/1930 17 December 1882 – 11 March 1952
John Burns Brooksby 20/03/1980 25 December 1914 – 17 December 1998
Robert Broom
Robert Broom
Professor Robert Broom was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow...

13/05/1920 30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951
Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux 03/03/1803 19 September 1778 – 7 May 1868
Robert Edwards Broughton 17/02/1842 c 1781 - 29 June 1860
Samuel Daniel Broughton
Samuel Daniel Broughton
-Life:Broughton was son of the Rev. Thomas Broughton, M.A., who became rector of St. Peter's, Bristol, in 1781. He was born in Bristol in July 1787, and was educated at the Grammar school there, under Samuel Seyer, author of 'Memorials of Bristol.'...

11/02/1830 July 1787 - 20 August 1837
John Allan Broun
John Allan Broun
John Allan Broun FRS was a Scottish magnetician and meteorologist who carried out his studies on magnetism in India. One of the fundamental discoveries he made was that the Earth loses or gains magnetic intensity not locally, but as a whole...

02/06/1853 21 September 1817 – 22 November 1879
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, PRS was an English mathematician.Brouncker obtained a DM at the University of Oxford in 1647. He was one of the founders and the first President of the Royal Society. In 1662, he became Chancellor to Queen Catherine, then chief of the Saint Catherine's...

28/11/1660 c 1620 - 5 April 1684, PRS 1662-1677
Peter Maria Augustus Broussonet 14/02/1782 19 January 1761 – 27 July 1807
Charles Edward Brown-Sequard 07/06/1860 8 April 1817 – 1 April 1894
Adrian John Brown
Adrian John Brown
Adrian John Brown, FRS was a British Professor of Malting and Brewing at the University of Birmingham and a pioneer in the study of enzyme kinetics....

04/05/1911 1852 - 2 July 1919
Alexander Crum Brown
Alexander Crum Brown
Alexander Crum Brown FRSE FRS was a Scottish organic chemist.-Biography:Born in Edinburgh, the half-brother of the physician and essayist John Brown, he studied for five years at the Royal High School, succeeded by one year at Mill Hill School in London...

12/06/1879 26 March 1838 – 28 October 1922
Daniel McGillivray Brown 18/03/1982
David Anthony Brown
David Brown (professor)
David Anthony Brown is Professor of Pharmacology at University College London, having joined the department in April 1987 and served as Head of Department from October 1987 to April 2002....

15/03/1990
Edward Brown 02/01/1668 1644 - 28 August 1708 Physician
Ernest William Brown
Ernest William Brown
Ernest William Brown FRS was a British mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States....

09/06/1898 29 November 1866 - ? 22 July 1938
Fred Brown
Fred Brown (virologist)
Fred Brown was a British virologist and molecular biologist.-Early life:He was born in Clayton-le-Moors, Lancashire and lived in neighbouring Burnley, where he was educated at Burnley Grammar School and played cricket for Burnley Cricket Club...

19/03/1981 31 January 1925 – 20 February 2004 Virologist
George Lindor Brown
George Lindor Brown
Sir George Lindor Brown was an English physiologist and secretary of the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1946.He was commonly referred to as Sir Lindor Brown; by his own preference....

21/03/1946 10 February 1903 – 22 February 1971
George Malcolm Brown
George Malcolm Brown
Sir George Malcolm Brown, FRS was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth century...

20/03/1975 5 October 1925 – 27 March 1997
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown
Horace Tabberer Brown was a British chemist. He was a born after the death of his biological father so his stepfather was the only father he knew. The stepfather was a banker and amateur naturalist which lead to Brown's interest in science, which began around age 12...

06/06/1889 20 July 1848 - 6 February 1925
John Brown 5/06/1902 25 February 1850 - 1 November 1911 Manufacturer
John Michael Brown 14/03/1996
John Milton Brown 15/05/2003
Lawrence Michael Brown
Lawrence Michael Brown
Lawrence Michael Brown FRS is a British material scientist.He is emeritus fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.-External links:...

18/03/1982
Littleton Brown 15/01/1730
Malcolm Watson Brown 27/05/2004
Nicholas Brown 15/06/1826 fl 1826
Robert Brown
Robert Brown (botanist)
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...

12/12/1811 21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858
Robert Browm 15/03/1956 29 July 1908 - July 1999 Plant Physiologist
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy...

24/03/1960 31 August 1916 – 16 January 2002
Sidney George Brown
Sidney George Brown
Sidney George Brown FRS was a British electrical engineer and inventor. He is best remembered for his pioneering work on the design of gyro compasses, radio equipment and loudspeakers.-Early life:...

11/05/1916 6 July 1873 – 7 August 1948
Thomas Graham Brown
Thomas Graham Brown
Thomas Graham Brown FRS was a Scottish mountaineer and physiologist.-Life and family:Graham Brown was born in Edinburgh 1882; his father – Dr J. J. Graham Brown – was a President of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. T...

12/05/1927 27 March 1882 – 28 October 1965
William Brown 17/03/1938 18 February 1888 - 18 January 1975 Plant pathologist
William Brown 20/02/1777 c 1747 - 26 April 1794 County Clerk
Edmund John Philip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
Edmund John Philip Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, FRS FREng is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and was group Chief Executive of BP until his resignation on 1 May 2007...

18/05/2006
Henry Browne 25/05/1797 c 1754 - 16 June 1830 East India Company
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Isaac Hawkins Browne (coalowner)
Isaac Hawkins Browne was a British Tory politician, industrialist, essayist, and a lord of the manor of Badger, Shropshire.-Family and education:...

05/07/1770 7 December 1745 – 30 May 1818
Isaac Hawkins Browne
Isaac Hawkins Browne (poet)
Isaac Hawkins Browne is remembered as the author of some clever imitations of contemporary poets on the theme of A Pipe of Tobacco, somewhat analogous to the Rejected Addresses of a later day...

22/02/1750 22 January 1705 – 14 February 1760
John Browne 30/11/1721
William Browne
William Browne (physician)
-Life:Browne was born in County Durham, and was educated in Durham and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After graduating, he worked as a doctor in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for more than thirty years before moving to Bloomsbury, London, in 1749...

15/02/1739 1692 - 10 March 1774
Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....

30/11/1699 January 1673 - 1710
Carl Hamilton Browning 10/05/1928 21 May 1881 – 22 January 1972
Keith Anthony Browning 16/03/1978
George Gow Brownlee 19/03/1987
John Brownlow, Baron Brownlow of Belton
Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow
Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow FRS , known as Sir Brownlow Cust, 4th Baronet, from 1770 to 1776, was a British Tory Member of Parliament....

08/05/1783 1744 - 25 December 1807
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel KB , known as Sir John Brownlow, 5th Baronet, from 1701 to 1718, was a British Member of Parliament....

17/04/1735 c 1690 - 1754
William Brownrigg
William Brownrigg
William Brownrigg M.D. F.R.S. was a doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland. While there, William Brownrigg carried out experiments that won him not only a place in The Royal Society but the prized Copley Medal....

20/05/1742 24 March 1711 – 6 January 1800
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine FRS was a Scottish inventor, politician, judge and freemason, responsible for developing the pendulum clock, in collaboration with Christiaan Huygens....

20/05/1663 c 1629 - 9 July 1680
David Bruce
David Bruce (physician)
David Bruce , was a Scottish physician.Bruce was the son of Andrew Bruce, D.D., principal of St. Leonard's College in St. Andrew's University. He was first educated at St. Andrews, and proceeded M.A. there. Later he went to France, and studied physic at Paris and Montpellier...

20/05/1663 fl 1657-1690 Original, Physician
David Bruce
David Bruce (microbiologist)
Major-General Sir David Bruce KCB FRS FRSE was a Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated the Malta-fever and trypanosomes, identifying the cause of sleeping sickness....

01/06/1899 29 May 1855 – 27 November 1931
Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare 20/01/1876 16 April 1815 – 25 February 1895
James Bruce
James Bruce
James Bruce was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia, where he traced the origins of the Blue Nile.-Youth:...

11/01/1776 14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794
John Bruce 26/05/1791 1745 - 16 April 1826
Peter George Bruce 17/05/2007
Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin 20/05/1663 March 1626 - 20 October 1685
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne
Stanley Bruce
Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, CH, MC, FRS, PC , was an Australian politician and diplomat, and the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. He was the second Australian granted an hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, but the first whose peerage was formally created...

15/06/1944 15 April 1883 – 25 August 1967
Johann Moritz, Count of Bruhl 07/11/1765 20 December 1736 – 9 June 1809
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS , was a British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges...

10/06/1830 9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859
Marc Isambard Brunel
Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS FRSE was a French-born engineer who settled in England. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel...

24/03/1814 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849
Giuseppe Lorenzo Bruni 23/02/1744
David Brunt
David Brunt
Sir David Brunt KBE was a Welsh meteorologist.-Early life:He was born in Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the youngest of the nine children of farmworker John Brunt. His father moved the family to the mining district on Monmouthshire to work as a coal miner. David attended the local Abertillery...

16/03/1939 17 June 1886 – 5 February 1965
Thomas Lauder Brunton 04/06/1874 14 March 1844 – 16 December 1916
Norman Adrian de Bruyne 16/03/1967 8 November 1904 – 7 March 1997
George Hartley Bryan 13/06/1895 1 March 1864 – 13 October 1928
Peter Elwood Bryant 14/03/1991
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce 14/12/1893 10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922
Thomas Hastie Bryce 11/05/1922 20 October 1862 – 16 May 1946
Harry Leonard Bryden 26/05/2005
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, MP, PC was the first of fourteen children by Sir James Brydges, 3rd Baronet of Wilton Castle, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 8th Baron Chandos; and Elizabeth Barnard...

30/11/1694 6 January 1674 – 9 August 1744
Patrick Brydone
Patrick Brydone
Patrick Brydone FRSE FRS FSA FSA was a Scottish traveller and author who served as Comptroller of the Stamp Office.Brydone was born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, where his father Robert Brydon was a Church of Scotland minister....

04/03/1773 5 January 1736 – 19 June 1818
Alexander Bryson 01/06/1854 1802 - 12 December 1869
Alexander Buchan
Alexander Buchan (meteorologist)
Alexander Buchan FRS FRSE was a Scottish meteorologist, oceanographer and botanist, credited with establishing the weather map as the basis of weather forecasting...

09/06/1898 11 April 1829 – 13 May 1907
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Dr Francis Buchanan, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India.The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to...

01/05/1806 15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829
John Young Buchanan 09/06/1887 20
George Buchanan 08/06/1882 5 November 1831 - 5 May 1895 Physician
Andreas Elias Buchner 17/02/1763 9 April 1701 – 29 July 1769
Martin Buck
Martin Buck
Martin Buck FRS is a British microbiologist.He is a professor at Imperial College, London.-External links:*http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_22-5-2009-11-51-2*http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mbuck/mbuck.htm...

15/05/2009
Amyand David Buckingham
A. David Buckingham
Amyand "David" Buckingham, CBE, FRS is a chemist, with primary expertise in chemical physics. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Emeritus Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He obtained a B.Sc. and M. Sc., under Professor R. J. W...

20/03/1975 28 January 1930 -
William Buckland
William Buckland
The Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...

26/02/1818 12 March 1784 – 15 August 1856
John Charles Bucknill
John Charles Bucknill
Sir John Charles Bucknill FRS English mental health reformer. Father of judge Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill QC MP.-Biography:Bucknill was born in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, and educated at Rugby School and at University College, London...

07/06/1866 25 December 1817 – 19 July 1897
George Bowdler Buckton
George Bowdler Buckton
George Bowdler Buckton was an English entomologist who specialised in aphidsHe was assistant to August Wilhelm von Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry in London. He wrote scientific papers on chemistry until 1865 when he moved to Haslemere and started to study Homoptera...

11/06/1857 24 May 1818 – 25 September 1905
George Budd 21/01/1836
William Budd
William Budd
William Budd was an English physician and epidemiologist known for recognizing the contagiousness of infectious diseases. He recognized that the "poisons" involved in infectious diseases multiplied in the intestines of the sick, appeared in the excretions of the sick, and could then be...

08/06/1871 ? 11 September 1811 – 9 January 1880
Kenneth George Budden 17/03/1966 23 June 1915 – 4 September 2005
Thomas Bugge 03/04/1788 12 October 1740 – 15 January 1815
Paul Buissiere 30/11/1699 c 1655 - January 1739
George Buist 29/01/1846 ? 22 November 1805 – 1 October 1860
Edith Bulbring
Edith Bülbring
Edith Bülbring was Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University, 1967–71, later Emeritus Professor.She was educated at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Freiburg, and became a hospital doctor...

20/03/1958 27 December 1903 – 4 July 1990
Eugenius Bulgaris 03/04/1788 1716–1806
Richard Bulkeley
Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet
Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Baronet FRS was an Irish politician and baronet.He was the elder son of Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, sometime Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer...

25/11/1685 17 August 1660 – 7 April 1710
Edward Crisp Bullard 20/03/1941 21 September 1907 – 3 April 1980
Keith Edward Bullen
Keith Edward Bullen
Keith Edward Bullen FRS was a New Zealand-born mathematician and geophysicist. He is noted for his seismological interpretation of the deep structure of the Earth's mantle and core...

17/03/1949 29 June 1906 – 23 September 1976
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust.- Academic career :...

02/05/1929 19 August 1874 – 3 July 1944
Walter Lawry Buller 12/06/1879 9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906
William Bullerwell 16/03/1972 27 September 1916 – 25 November 1977
Ismael Bullialdus
Ismaël Bullialdus
Ismaël Bullialdus was a French astronomer.Bullialdus was born Ismaël Boulliau in Loudun, Vienne, France, the first surviving son to Calvinists Susanna Motet and Ismaël Boulliau, a notary by profession and amateur astronomer. At age twenty-one he converted to Catholicism, and by twenty-six was...

04/04/1667 28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694
William Bulloch 01/05/1913 19 August 1868 - 11 February 1941 Bacteriologist
Ronald Bullough 21/03/1985
Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman 14/03/1940 20 May 1902 - 18 February 1974
Michael George Bulmer 15/05/1997
Charles James Fox Bunbury
Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet
Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet, FRS was an English naturalist.He was born in Messina, the eldest son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet and Louisa Amelia Fox and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Frances Joanna Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner, on 31 May 1844 in...

05/06/1851 5 February 1809 – 18 June 1886
Oscar Peter Buneman
Peter Buneman
Oscar Peter Buneman FRS, FRSE is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory.Buneman received his PhD in mathematics from the University of Warwick, in 1970. After that he worked briefly at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a professorship of...

15/05/2009
Charles William Bunn 16/03/1967 15 January 1905 – 13 April 1990
Eleanor Margaret Burbidge 19/03/1964
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge 21/03/1968 24 September 1925 - 26 January 2010 Physicist, San Diego
Samuel Hawksley Burbury 05/06/1890 18 May 1831 – 18 August 1911
Cecil Reginald Burch
Cecil Reginald Burch
Cecil Reginald Burch, FRS was a British physicist and engineer.He was born in Leeds. He graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1923 and began research at the Metropolitan-Vickers company in Trafford Park, Manchester. There he developed 'apiezon' oils which enabled high vacua to...

16/03/1944 12 May 1901 – 19 July 1983
George James Burch 14/06/1900 11 May 1852 - 17
William Ernest Burcham 21/03/1957
Frederick Michael Burdekin 11/03/1993
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
John Scott Burdon-Sanderson
Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, Bt., F.R.S. was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne. A member of a well known Northumbrian family, he received his medical education at the University of Edinburgh and at Paris...

06/06/1867 21 December 1828 – 23 November 1905
William Burge
William Burge
William Burge was a British lawyer and Privy Councillor.-Biography:William Burge matriculated at Oxford University in 1803 and was admitted to the Inner Temple being called to the bar in 1808...

21/05/1840 1786 - 12 November 1849
Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen
Arnold Burgen
Sir Arnold Stanley Vincent Burgen FRS was Master of Darwin College, Cambridge 1982-89 , Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, 1985–89, and founding President of the Academia Europæa....

19/03/1964
Thomas Burgess 19/02/1807 18 November 1756 – 19 February 1837
Ivan de Burgh Daly 18/03/1943 14 April 1893 - 08
John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde
John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde
John Smith de Burgh, 11th Earl of Clanricarde, was an Irish peer.Succeeded his father Michael Burke, 10th Earl of Clanricarde as an infant. Married Hester Amelia Vincent, daughter of Sir Henry Vincent, 6th Baronet of Stoke d'Abernon.He changed his name to de Burgh by deed poll in 1752...

08/02/1753 11 Nov 1720 – 21 April 1782
John Fox Burgoyne
John Fox Burgoyne
Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet GCB was a British Army officer.-Military career:Burgoyne was the illegitimate son of General John Burgoyne and opera singer Susan Caulfield. In 1798, he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant...

05/06/1856 24 July 1782 – 7 October 1871
Eric Henry Stonely Burhop 21/03/1963 31 January 1911 – 22 January 1980
Philip George Burke 16/03/1978
John Charles Burkill
John Charles Burkill
John Charles Burkill FRS was an English mathematician who worked on analysis and introduced the Burkill integral. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1953.-References:...

19/03/1953 2 February 1900 – 6 April 1993
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt , surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and Dean Close School, England...

16/03/1972 28 February 1911 – 23 March 1993
John Boscawen Burland
John Burland
John Boscawen Burland CBE, DSc, FREng, FRS is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London.-Early education:...

15/05/1997
Eric Burman 27/06/1728 23 September 1692 - 3 November 1729 Swedish Mathematician
Joshua Harold Burn 19/03/1942 6 March 1892 – 13 July 1981
Richard Higgins Burne 12/05/1927 5 April 1868 – 9 October 1953
James Burnes 02/04/1835 13 February 1801 - 19 September 1862 Surgeon
Alexander Burnes
Alexander Burnes
Captain Sir Alexander Burnes was a Scottish traveller and explorer who took part in The Great Game. He was nicknamed Bokhara Burnes for his role in establishing contact with and exploring Bukhara, which made his name.-Early life:He was born in Montrose, Scotland, to the son of the local provost,...

10/04/1834 16 May 1805 – 2 November 1841
John Burnet
John Burnet (painter)
John Burnet was a Scottish engraver and painter.-Life:Son of the Surveyor-General of Excise of Scotland, Burnet was born either in Edinburgh in 1781 or in Fisherrow in 1784...

16/03/1837 20 March 1784 – 29 April 1868
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology....

19/03/1942 3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985
Thomas Burnet
Thomas Burnet
Thomas Burnet , theologian and writer on cosmogony.-Life:He was born at Croft near Darlington in 1635. After studying at Northallerton Grammar School under Thomas Smelt, he went to Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1651. There he was a pupil of John Tillotson...

03/05/1838
Gilbert Burnett 23/03/1664 18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715
Gilbert Burnett 30/11/1723 1690 - 17 June 1726
Keith Burnett
Keith Burnett
Keith Burnett CBE FRS is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. According to the Yorkshire Post his salary is £251,000.Burnett was born in Llwynypia in the Rhondda Valley. He studied Physics at Jesus College, Oxford obtaining a BA in 1972 then a DPhil in 1979...

10/05/2001
Thomas Burnett 22/12/1748 1694 - 8 January 1753 Judge
William Burnett
William Burnett
Sir William Burnett M.D. KCB was a British physician who served as Physician-General of the Royal Navy after 9 June 1832....

18/04/1833 1779 - 16 February 1861
William Burnett 13/02/1706 March 1688 - 7 September 1729
Charles Burney
Charles Burney (scholar)
Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.-Family and education:...

25/02/1802 4 December 1757 – 28 December 1817
Charles Burney
Charles Burney
Charles Burney FRS was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.-Life and career:...

16/12/1773 12 April 1726 – 12 April 1814
Charles Parr Burney 22/12/1814 19 October 1785 – 1 November 1864
James Burney
James Burney
James Burney was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages.-Family:Burney was born in London, the son of the composer and music scholar Charles Burney and his wife Esther Sleepe...

08/06/1809 1750 - 17 November 1821
Benedict Delisle Burns 21/03/1968 23 February 1915 – 6 September 2001
John Burns
John Burns (surgeon)
John Burns FRS, was a Scottish surgeon.He was the eldest son of Rev. John Burns, who was the minister of the Barony Church until his death....

01/04/1830 1774 - 18 June 1850
William Burnside
William Burnside
William Burnside was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early contributor to the theory of finite groups....

01/06/1893 2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927
Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock
Geoffrey Burnstock is Emeritus Professor and President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre of the UCL Medical School. He was educated at King's College London and at University College London . He played a key role in the discovery of ATP as neurotransmitter...

20/03/1986
Sidney Gerald Burrard 05/05/1904 12 August 1860 – 16 March 1943
Peter Burrell 28/05/1752 27 August 1724 – 6 November 1775
William Burroughs 24/04/1817
Edward John Burrow
Edward John Burrow
Edward John Burrow was an English divine and miscellaneous writer.-Biography:A member of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he graduated with a B.A. in 1805 and M.A. in 1808. He then continued his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, and took the degrees of B.D. and D.D. in 1820...

26/02/1818 1785 - 8 August 1861
Robert Burrow 18/03/1762
James Burrow
James Burrow
Sir James Burrow, FRS, FSA , was a Legal Reporter at Inner Temple, London, and was Vice President and twice briefly President of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1773....

07/04/1737 28 November 1701 – 5 November 1782, PRS 1768-1768
Malcolm Burrows
Malcolm Burrows
Malcolm Burrows FRS is a British zoologist, and emeritus professor of zoology at University of Cambridge.He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge.He studied with Adrian Horridge at the Gatty Marine Laboratory....

21/03/1985
George Burrows
George Burrows, 1st Baronet
Sir George Burrows, Bt, PRS, was an English physician and President of the Royal College of Physicians.He was born in London, the son of George Man Burrows, F.R.C.P...

22/04/1847 28 November 1801 - 12 December 1887 Physician
Thomas Seymour Burt 17/03/1836 c 1805 - 8 March 1890
Decimus Burton
Decimus Burton
Decimus Burton was a prolific English architect and garden designer, He is particularly associated with projects in the classical style in London parks, including buildings at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and London Zoo, and with the layout and architecture of the seaside towns of Fleetwood and...

06/12/1832 30 September 1800 – 14 December 1881
Edward Burton
Edward Burton
Edward G. Burton was an English professional footballer who played in the Football Alliance for Small Heath. Born in the Acocks Green district of Birmingham, he played for Highfield Villa before joining Small Heath. A centre forward, he played only once for the club, deputising for the injured...

05/05/1836 9 January 1791 – 11 March 1867
Kenneth Burton
Kenneth Burton
Kenneth Burton FRS was a British biochemist, and Professor at University of Newcastle upon Tyne....

21/03/1974
Charles William Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville 31/03/1803 1764 - 31 October 1835
Edward Bury
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was an English locomotive manufacturer.Edward Bury was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of a timber merchant, and was educated at Chester. By 1823 he was a partner in Gregson & Bury's steam sawmill at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, but in 1826 he set himself up as an iron-founder and...

01/02/1844 22 October 1794 – 25 November 1858
Thomas Bury
Thomas Bury (judge)
-Birth and education:Bury was the youngest son of Sir William Bury, knight, of Linwood, Lincolnshire, was born in 1655, took a bachelor's degree at Lincoln College, Oxford, in February 1667, and in 1668 was entered a student at Gray's Inn.-Career:...

01/12/1718 1655 - 4 May 1722
Thaddeus Joseph, Count Burzynski 11/05/1769
John Busby
John Busby
John Busby was an English-born surveyor and civil engineer, active in Australia.-Early life:Busby was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, eldest son of George Busby, a miner and coalmaster of Stamford, and his wife Margaret, née Wilson, of Dunstan, Northumberland...

09/04/1719 fl 1719
Stephen John Williams Busby 26/05/2005
Amyas Bushe 15/06/1758 fl 1758
George Busk
George Busk
George Busk RN FRS was a British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Busk was born in St Petersburg, the son of the merchant Robert Busk and grandson of Sir Wadsworth Busk...

06/06/1850 12 August 1807 – 10 August 1886
Colin Gasking Butler 19/03/1970
George Butler
George Butler (headmaster)
George Butler was an English schoolmaster and divine, headmaster of Harrow School from 1805 to 1829.Son of Weeden Butler , George Butler was educated at the Chelsea school where his father taught and proceeded to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated senior wrangler in 1794...

20/05/1819 5 July 1774 – 30 April 1853
John Alfred Valentine Butler
John Alfred Valentine Butler
John Alfred Valentine Butler was an English physical chemist best known for his contributions to the development of electrode kinetics .-Works:* The Fundamentals of Chemical Thermodynamics ....

15/03/1956 15 February 1899 – 16 July 1977
Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield
Samuel Butler (schoolmaster)
Samuel Butler FRS was an English classical scholar and schoolmaster of Shrewsbury, and Bishop of Lichfield. His grandson was Samuel Butler , noted author of the novel "Erewhon"....

27/06/1822 30 January 1774 – 4 December 1839
Clifford Charles Butler
Clifford Charles Butler
Sir Clifford Charles Butler FRS was an English physicist, best known for the discovery of the hyperon and meson types of particles...

16/03/1961 20 May 1922 – 19 June 1999
Edwin John Butler
Edwin John Butler
Sir Edwin John Butler FRS was a British mycologist and plant pathologist. He became the Imperial Mycologist in India and later the first director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology in England. He was knighted in 1939....

06/05/1926 13 August 1874 – 4 April 1943
John Martin Butt 26/02/1767
John Butter 21/03/1822 22 January 1791 – 13 January 1877
Anthony Edward Butterworth 10/03/1994
Ian Butterworth 19/03/1981 Prof. of Phuysics, Imperial College, London
George Buxton 22/04/1779 14 December 1730 – 1 January 1805
Patrick Alfred Buxton 18/03/1943 24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955
Willem Buys
Willem Buys
Willem Buys was acting Grand Pensionary of Holland in 1745 and 1746. He was pensionary of Amsterdam and first secretary of the estates of Holland .He had successes as negotiator of the United Provinces...

13/02/1706 1661–1749
George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
George Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford
George Stevens Byng, 2nd Earl of Strafford, PC , styled Viscount Enfield between 1847 and 1860, was a British peer and Whig politician.-Background, education and military career:...

06/05/1841 8 June 1806 – 29 October 1886
George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington
George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington
George Byng, 6th Viscount Torrington was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy. His son, the seventh Viscount, served as Governor of Ceylon between 1847 and 1850....

19/06/1817 5 November 1768 – 18 June 1831
William Byrd
William Byrd II
Colonel William Byrd II was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia.-Biography:...

29/04/1696 28 March 1674 – 26 August 1744
John Byrom
John Byrom
John Byrom or John Byrom of Kersal or John Byrom of Manchester FRS was an English poet and inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand. He is also remembered as the writer of the lyrics of Anglican hymn Christians Awake, salute the happy morn.- Early life :John Byrom was descended from an old...

12/03/1724 30 February 1692 – 26 September 1763
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS , commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was a British poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement...

11/01/1816 22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824
Edward Bysshe
Edward Bysshe
Sir Edward Bysshe FRS was an English barrister, politician and officer of arms. He sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1679 and was Garter King of Arms during the Commonwealth period.-Life:...

22/06/1663 c 1615 - 15 December 1679 Original

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Name Election Date
Benjamin Bond Cabbell
Benjamin Bond Cabbell
Benjamin Bond Cabbell FRS DL , British politician and philanthropist, was educated at Westminster School, and went up to Oriel College, Oxford, in June 1800, but left the university in 1803 without a degree. He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1816 and practised on the western circuit...

19/01/1837 1781 - 9 December 1874
William Archibald Cadell 28/06/1810 28 June 1775 – 19 February 1855
John Cadman, Baron Cadman of Silverdale
John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman
John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman FRS, GCMG was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.-Early life:...

14/03/1940 7 September 1877 – 31 May 1941
Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan
General Charles Cadogan, 2nd Baron Cadogan was a British peer, soldier and Whig politician.Charles Cadogan was the younger son of Henry Cadogan and his wife, Bridget, the second daughter of Sir Hardress Waller...

1/12/1718 1685 - 24 September 1776
John Ivan George Cadogan 18/03/1976
William Cadogan
William Cadogan (childcare)
William Cadogan was a 18th century British physician and writer on childcare and nursing.-Career:Codogan was probably born at Cowbridge in Wales in 1711, He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating as MA in 1727. He then studied Physic at Leyden University from 1732, matriculating as MD...

28/05/1752 1712 - 26 February 1797
Robert Wolfgang Cahn 14/03/1991 9 September 1924 – 9 April 2007
Arthur James Cain 16/03/1989 25 July 1921 – 20 August 1999
James Caird 03/06/1875 29 July 1816 - 09
Hugh John Forster Cairns
John Cairns (biochemist)
John Forster Cairns FRS is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health....

21/03/1974
Marco Antonio Leopoldo Caldani 04/06/1772 21 November 1725 – 30 December 1813
Alexander Caldcleugh 10/03/1831
John Caldecott 20/02/1840 1800 - 16 December 1849
William Calderwood 06/06/1776
Peter Christopher Caldwell 20/03/1975 25 January 1927 – 7 June 1979
James Caldwell 21/12/1752 c 1722 - Army Officer
John Caley
John Caley
-Life:He was the eldest son of John Caley, a grocer in Bishopsgate Street, London. Acquaintance with Thomas Astle led to a place in the Record Office in the Tower of London. In 1787 he received from Lord William Bentinck, as clerk of the pipe, the keepership of the records in the Augmentation...

07/06/1821 c 1763 - 28 April 1834
John Call
Sir John Call, 1st Baronet
Sir John Call, 1st Baronet was an English engineer and baronet.He was born at Fenny Park, Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and went to India at the age of 17 with Benjamin Robins, the chief engineer and captain-general of artillery in the East India Company's settlements...

09/11/1775 30 June 1732 – 1 March 1801
Christopher Reuben Calladine 15/03/1984
Paul Terence Callaghan 10/05/2001
Harold Garnet Callan 21/03/1963 5 March 1917 – 3 November 1993
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
Hugh Longbourne Callendar
Hugh Longbourne Callendar FRS was a British physicist. He was born at Hatherop as the eldest son of the Reverend Hugh Callendar, a local Anglican rector...

07/06/1894 18 April 1863 – 21 January 1930
George William Callender 08/06/1871 24 June 1830 – 20 October 1878
Robert Kenneth Callow 20/03/1958 16 February 1901 – 12 April 1983
William Thomas Calman
William Thomas Calman
William Thomas Calman was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea.He was born in Dundee, studying at the High School. In the scientific societies in the city, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at University College, Dundee...

12/05/1921 29 December 1871 – 29 September 1952
Roy Yorke Calne 21/03/1974
Edward Killwick Calver 12/06/1873 6 December 1813 – 28 October 1892
Benedict Leonard Calvert
Benedict Leonard Calvert
The Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert was the 15th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his older brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore . He was named after his father, Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore...

25/03/1731 21 September 1700 – 1 June 1732
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 3rd Proprietor and 17th Proprietary Governor of Maryland, FRS was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland...

09/12/1731 29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751
Frederick Crace Calvert
Frederick Crace Calvert
Frederick Crace Calvert , English chemist, was born in London.From about 1836 until 1846 he lived in France, where, after a course of study at Paris, he became manager of some chemical works, later acting as assistant to Michel Eugène Chevreul...

09/06/1859 14 November 1819 – 24 October 1873
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore
Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, 4th Proprietor of Maryland was an English nobleman and last in the line of Barons Baltimore...

26/02/1767 7 February 1732 – 14 September 1771
Peter Calvert 29/03/1781
William Camac 01/02/1821 c 1762 - 11 August 1837
John Campbell 04/06/1868 31 March 1817 - 30 June 1878 Ordnance Survey
Gordon Roy Cameron
Roy Cameron
Gordon Roy Cameron FRCP FRS was an Australian pathologist.-Childhood and education:Cameron was born in 1899 in Echuca, Victoria to George Cameron and his wife Emily Pascoe...

21/03/1946 30 June 1899 – 7 October 1966
Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston
Alexander Robert Johnston
Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnston was a British colonial official who served twice as acting administrator of the former British colony of Hong Kong from 1841 to 1842...

05/06/1845 14 June 1812 – 21 January 1888
Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood
Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood
Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood FRS was a Scottish Conservative politician....

02/05/1907 23 February 1835 – 8 July 1908
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish peer.He was born in 1629 in Dalkeith, Scotland, the son of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll....

28/10/1663 27 February 1629 – 30 June 1685
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell (astronomer)
Colin Campbell FRS was a Scottish astronomer.He grew up in Jamaica. He matriculated at Glasgow University, in 1720. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society in 1733. He studied Newton's theory of the diminution of gravity away from the equator...

10/12/1730
Fergus William Campbell 16/03/1978 30 January 1924 – 3 May 1993
George Campbell 10/12/1730
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll 19/06/1851 30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900
Hugh Campbell
Hugh Campbell (disambiguation)
Hugh Campbell is a former American football and Canadian football player, coach, and executive.Hugh Campbell may also refer to:*Hugh Campbell , Irish-American baseball player...

19/05/1748 fl 1748
Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont
Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont
Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont PC FRS , styled Lord Polwarth between 1724 and 1740, was a Scottish politician....

01/02/1753 15 March 1708 – 10 January 1794
Iain Donald Campbell 09/03/1995
James Campbell 01/12/1718
John Campbell 17/05/1764 c 1720 - 16 December 1790
John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll
-External links:...

20/05/1819 21 December 1777 – 25 April 1847
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell was a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula.-Biography:...

11/05/1905 17 May 1862 – 1 October 1924
John Campbell, 1st Earl of Cawdor
John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
John Frederick Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor was a British earl and MP.He was born the son of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor and Lady Caroline Howard and educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1912...

11/06/1812 8 November 1790 – 7 November 1860
John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane
John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane
John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane KT, PC, FRS , styled Lord Glenorchy until 1831 and as Earl of Ormelie from 1831 to 1834, was a Scottish nobleman and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...

05/06/1834 26 October 1796 – 8 November 1862
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Breadalbane
John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane
Lieutenant-General John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane FRS , known as John Campbell until 1782 and as The Earl of Breadalbane and Holland between 1782 and 1831, was a Scottish soldier and landowner....

19/02/1784 1762 - 29 March 1834
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
Major-General John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun was a British nobleman and army officer.-Early career:Campbell inherited the peerage on the death of his father in 1731, becoming Lord Loudoun. The earl raised a regiment of infantry that took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 on the side of the...

09/02/1738 5 May 1705 – 27 April 1782
John Campbell, Baron Cawdor
John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor
John Campbell of Cawdor, 1st Baron Cawdor of Castlemartin was the son of Pryse Campbell and Sarah Bacon.He married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard, daughter of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle and Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, on 28 July 1789...

04/06/1795 c 1755 - 1 June 1821
Lord Frederick Campbell 07/11/1793 1729 - 8 June 1816
Simon Fraser Campbell 13/05/1999
Peter Camper 17/01/1751 11 May 1722 – 7 April 1789
Charles Etienne Louis Camus
Charles Étienne Louis Camus
Charles Étienne Louis Camus , was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crecy-en-Brie, near Meaux....

26/01/1764 26 August 1699 – 2 February 1768
Johnson Robin Cann 09/03/1995
George Canning
George Canning
George Canning PC, FRS was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister.-Early life: 1770–1793:...

12/01/1826 11 April 1770 – 8 August 1827
George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh
George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh
George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh FRS was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament.Garvagh was the son of Paul Canning and the grandson of Stratford Canning of Garvagh in County Londonderry. Prime Minister George Canning and the diplomat Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, were his...

01/02/1810 15 November 1778 – 20 August 1840
Herbert Graham Cannon 16/05/1935 14 April 1897 – 6 January 1963
John Canton
John Canton
John Canton FRS was an English physicist.Canton was born in Middle Street Stroud, Gloucestershire, the son of a weaver John Canton and Esther He had only a common education, after which he was put apprentice to a broadcloth weaver, but his leisure hours were devoted to mathematical studies, and...

22/03/1750 31 July 1718 – 22 March 1772
Andrew Cantwell 01/06/1738
Peter Canvane 16/05/1765 c 1720 - 1786
Jonathan Cape 03/06/1852 c 1790 - 9 September 1868 Clergyman
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex, KG, PC was the son of the 2nd Earl of Essex.Capell was one of the founding governors of the charity, the Foundling Hospital, created in October 1739 to care for abandoned children....

17/11/1737 1697 - 8 January 1743
Maurice Antonio de Capeller 15/04/1725 9 June 1685 – 16 September 1769
Pietro Andrea Capello 07/06/1744 fl 1744
Robert Capper 26/01/1797 1767 - 22 April 1851
Domenico Caraccioli 23/05/1765 1715–1789
Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Noia 08/03/1759 ? 1715 - 8 July 1768
Francesco d'Aquino, Prince of Caramanico Caramanico See Aquino,
Joanne Baptista Carbone 06/11/1729
Giovanni Battista Carburi, Count Carburi 21/03/1765 1722 - ? 1808
Henry Card 02/03/1820 1779 - 4 August 1844
Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is currently an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well-known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions he implemented the first compiler for the functional programming...

26/05/2005
Edward Cardwell, Viscount Cardwell 18/12/1873 24 July 1813 – 15 February 1886
John Lawrence Cardy
John Cardy
John Lawrence Cardy FRS is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford. He is best known for his work in theoretical condensed matter physics and statistical mechanics, and in particular for research on critical phenomena and conformal field theory.He was an undergraduate and...

14/03/1991
James Carkesse 23/03/1664 fl 1657 - 1675
Richard Carleton 09/02/1826 11 February 1792 - 2 February 1869 Clergyman
Nicholas Carlisle 19/05/1814 ? January 1771 - 27 August 1847
Anthony Carlisle
Anthony Carlisle
Sir Anthony Carlisle FRCS, FRS was an English surgeon.He was born in Stillington, County Durham, the third son of Thomas Carlisle and his first wife, and the half-brother of Nicholas Carlisle, FRS. He was apprenticed to medical practitioners in York and Durham, including his uncle Anthony Hubback...

08/03/1804 16 February 1768 – 2 November 1842
Ian Stuart Edward Carmichael 13/05/1999 29 March 1930 - 27 August 2011 Geologist
John Carnac
John Carnac
Brigadier-General John Carnac was a British officer who served three times as Commander-in-Chief of India.-Military career:...

20/02/1772 1716–1800
James Rivett Carnac
James Rivett Carnac
Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet was the governor of the Bombay Presidency of British India from 1839 to 1842...

03/05/1838 11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846
Joseph Carne
Joseph Carne
Joseph Carne was a British geologist and industrialist.-Early life:Carne was born at Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, the eldest son of William Carne, a banker, and was educated at the Wesleyan school, Keynsham, near Bristol. His younger brother was John Carne...

28/05/1818 17 April 1782 – 12 October 1858
David Carnegie
Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet
Sir David Carnegie of Pitcarrow, 4th Baronet was a Scottish politician and de jure 7th Earl of Southesk, 7th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and 7th Baron Carnegie, of Kinnaird and Leuchards.-Background:...

21/11/1799 22 November 1753 – 25 May 1805
George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter of Killaghy
George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter
Lieutenant-Colonel George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter FRS was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.-Background:...

05/06/1729 ? 1694 - 12 July 1749
Philip Herbert Carpenter
Philip Herbert Carpenter
Philip Herbert Carpenter, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., born in February 1852 in London, fourth son of Dr. William Benjamin Carpenter, died October 21, 1891, at Eton College, England, in at age 39. He took his own life, by self-administration of chloroform during a bout of temporary insanity caused by...

04/06/1885 7 February 1852 – 21 October 1891
Henry Cort Harold Carpenter 02/05/1918 7 February 1875 – 13 September 1940
William Benjamin Carpenter
William Benjamin Carpenter
William Benjamin Carpenter MD CB FRS was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.-Life:...

01/02/1844 29 October 1813 - ? 19 November 1885
Joseph Constantine Carpue
Joseph Constantine Carpue
Joseph Constantine Carpue was an English surgeon who was born in London. He was associated with St. George's Hospital and Duke of York Hospital in Chelsea. He was a skilled surgeon and popular lecturer of anatomy....

13/02/1817 4 May 1764 – 30 January 1846
Robert James Carr
Robert James Carr
Robert James Carr was an English churchman, bishop of Chichester in 1824 and bishop of Worcester in 1831.-Life:The son of the Rev. Colston Carr, a schoolmaster at Twickenham, who was afterwards vicar of Ealing, he was born at Twickenham. He received his primary education in his father's school...

24/02/1831 1774 - 24 April 1841
Thomas William Carr 27/04/1815
William Carr 22/06/1727
William Holwell Carr
William Holwell Carr
Rev. William Holwell Carr, was an English art dealer, art collector and painter.He was born William Holwell in Exeter, Devon the son of Edward Holwell, an apothecary, and educated from 1776 at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1783, MA in 1784 and BD in 1790, remaining as a Fellow...

16/01/1806 1758 - 24 December 1830
Robin Wayne Carrell 09/05/2002
Alan Carrington
Alan Carrington
Alan Carrington CBE, FRS is a British chemist. He was educated at the University of Southampton where he was awarded the degrees of B. Sc. and Ph. D. He was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge from 1959 to 1967. From 1967 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1999, he was Professor of Chemistry at the...

18/03/1971
Richard Christopher Carrington
Richard Christopher Carrington
Richard Christopher Carrington was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential...

07/06/1860 26 May 1826 – 27 November 1875
Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington
Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington
Robert John Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington was a baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the son of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington....

14/02/1839 16 January 1796 – 17 March 1868
Codrington Edmund Carrington 18/12/1800 22 October 1769 – 28 November 1849
Carron, Count of Briancon 05/06/1706
William Carruthers
William Carruthers (botanist)
William C Carruthers was a Scottish botanist.Carruthers was keeper of the Botanical Department at the Natural History Museum from 1871 to 1895. He was consulting botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society ....

08/06/1871 29 May 1830 – 2 June 1922
James Carson 01/06/1837 1772 - 12 August 1843 Liverpool Physician
John Carstairs 14/03/1811
Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter
Brandon Carter, FRS is an Australian theoretical physicist, best known for his work on the properties of black holes and for being the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form. He is a researcher at the Meudon campus of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories, part of...

19/03/1981
Frederick William Carter 05/05/1932 16 December 1870 – 29 May 1952
Henry John Carter
Henry John Carter
Henry John Carter, FRS was a surgeon working in Bombay, India, who carried out work in geology and zoology. He worked as an army surgeon in Bombay from 1859 on Her Majesty's Indian Service, Bombay Establishment. He edited a collection of geological papers on Western India, including a summary of...

09/06/1859 18 August 1813 – 4 May 1895
Philippe Carteret
Philip Carteret FRS
Sir Philip Carteret Kt FRS , was son of Sir George Carteret.Philip was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on the 15th February 1665....

15/02/1665 24 October 1642 – 28 May 1672
Mary Lucy Cartwright 20/03/1947 17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998
David Edgar Cartwright 15/03/1984
Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright
Edward Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor of the power loom.- Life and work :...

05/04/1821 24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823
Samuel Cartwright
Samuel Cartwright
Samuel Cartwright FRS was a British dentist.-Life:Cartwright was born at Northampton in 1789, and was originally an ivory turner. He came to London at an early age, wholly dependent upon his own exertions for his daily support, and commenced life in the metropolis as a mechanical assistant to Mr...

11/02/1841 1789 - 10 June 1864
Thomas Cartwright 05/04/1716 1671 - 10 March 1748
Walter Cary 22/06/1727
Charles, Marquis of Casaux 13/04/1780
John Casey
John Casey (mathematician)
John Casey was a respected Irish geometer. He is most famous for Casey's theorem on a circle that is tangent to four other circles, an extension of the problem of Apollonius. However, he contributed several novel proofs and perspectives on Euclidean geometry...

03/06/1875 May 1820 - 3 January 1891
Raymond Casey 19/03/1970
John Theodore Cash 09/06/1887 16 December 1854 – 30 November 1936
Roger John Cashmore
Roger Cashmore
Roger John Cashmore CMG is the Chair of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Previously he was Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford and Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford....

14/05/1998
James Macdonald Cassels 19/03/1959 9 September 1924 – 18 October 1994
John William Scott Cassels 21/03/1963
Lorna Ann Casselton
Lorna Casselton
Professor Lorna Ann Casselton FRS is Emeritus Professor of Fungal Genetics in the Department of Plant Science at the University of Oxford, and is known for her genetic and molecular analysis of the mushroom Coprinus cinereus.The daughter of William Charles Henry Smith and Cecile Smith , she...

13/05/1999
César-François Cassini de Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury , also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.- Biography :...

17/01/1751 17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784
Jacques Cassini
Jacques Cassini
Jacques Cassini was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. Admitted at the age of seventeen to membership of the French Academy of Sciences, he was elected in 1696 a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and...

23/03/1698 19 February 1677 – 16 April 1756
Jean Dominique Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
This article is about the Italian-born astronomer. For his French-born great-grandson, see Jean-Dominique Cassini.Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer...

22/05/1672 8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712
Andrew John Casson 14/05/1998
Louis-Bertrand Castel 23/04/1730 11 November 1688 – 11 January 1757
Edmund Castell
Edmund Castell
Edmund Castell was an English orientalist.He was born at Tadlow, in Cambridgeshire. At the age of fifteen he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1624-5 and his MA in 1628. Appointed Professor of Arabic in 1666, with the full title 'Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic'. He...

16/04/1674 1606–1685
George Castle 04/02/1669 c 1635 - 12 October 1673 Physician
John Castlecomer, 1st Earl Wandesford 04/04/1754 ? 1725 - 12 January 1784
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Jacob de Castro Sarmento was a Portuguese physician, naturalist, poet and Deist....

05/02/1730 1692 - 14 September 1762
Claude Nicholas Le Cat 31/01/1740 6 September 1700 – 20 August 1768
David Guthrie Catcheside 15/03/1951 31 May 1907 – 1 June 1994
Michael Elmhirst Cates 17/05/2007
Mark Catesby
Mark Catesby
Mark Catesby was an English naturalist. Between 1731 and 1743 Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America...

26/04/1733 24 March 1683 – 23 December 1749
Edward Provan Cathcart 13/05/1920 18 July 1877 - 18 February 1954 Prof. of Physiology, Univ. of London
Charles Richard Arthur Catlow 27/05/2004
Bruce Macintosh Cattanach 19/03/1987
Thomas Catton 31/05/1821 1760 - 6 January 1838
James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont
James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont
James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont KP PC was an Irish statesman.The son of the 3rd Viscount Charlemont, he was born in Dublin, and succeeded his father as 4th Viscount in 1734...

29/05/1755 18 August 1728 – 4 August 1799
Wade Toby Caulfeild 02/04/1778 1732 - August 1800
R. Caumont 09/05/1754
Proby Thomas Cautley 02/04/1846 1802 - 25 January 1871
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Professor Thomas Cavalier-Smith , FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford...

14/05/1998
Tiberius Cavallo
Tiberius Cavallo
Tiberius Cavallo was an Italian physicist and natural philosopher.-Life:He was born at Naples, where his father was a physician....

09/12/1779 30 March 1749 – 21 December 1809
Thomas Cave 09/04/1778 22 August 1737 - 31 May 1780 Naturalist
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish FRS was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper "On Factitious Airs". Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and...

01/05/1760 10 October 1731 – 10 March 1810
Charles Cavendish
Lord Charles Cavendish
Lord Charles Cavendish FRS was a British nobleman, Whig politician and scientist.Cavendish was the youngest son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire and Rachel Russell....

08/06/1727 c 1693 - 28 April 1783
James Cavendish 09/04/1719 c 1673 - 14 December 1751
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire 03/03/1892 23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire KG PC was a soldier and Whig statesman, the son of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Cecil.-Life:...

20/05/1663 25 January 1641 - 18 August 1707 Original
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC was a British nobleman and Whig politician, the son of William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire and Hon. Rachel Russell....

21/01/1748 1698 - 5 December 1755
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire was the son of William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire....

20/05/1663 10 October 1617 – 23 November 1684
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, KG, PC , styled Lord Cavendish before 1729 and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great Britain...

12/11/1761 1720 - ? 2 October 1764
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire KG, PC , styled as Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1831 and 1834 and known as The Earl of Burlington between 1834 and 1858, was a British landowner, benefactor and politician.-Background and education:Cavendish was the son of William Cavendish, eldest...

10/12/1829 27 April 1808 – 21 December 1891
John Caverhill 09/02/1769
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley F.R.S. was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics....

03/06/1852 16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter , known as Lord Burghley from 1725 to 1754, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.-Life:...

15/01/1767 21 September 1725 – 26 December 1793
Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter
Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter
Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter , known as Henry Cecil from 1754 to 1793 and as The Earl of Exeter from 1793 to 1801, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.-Background:...

08/05/1800 14 March 1754 – 1 May 1804
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury
James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , styled Viscount Cranborne until 1780 and known as 7th Earl of Salisbury between 1780 and 1789, was a British politician.-Background:...

13/05/1784 1748 - 13 June 1823
Paolo Celesia 16/06/1757 fl 1757
Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius...

29/01/1736 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744
Gasparo Cerati 05/02/1736 1690–1769
Joseph Cervi 09/12/1736 1663 - 25 January 1748
Joseph Bernard Chabert 10/05/1764 29 February 1724 – 1 December 1805
James Chadwick 15/07/1696 c 1660 - 11 May 1697 MP for Dover
Peter Chadwick
Peter Chadwick
Peter Chadwick was an English first-class cricketer, who played six matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1960 and 1965. A right-handed batsman, he scored 106 runs at 17.66 with a top score of 59 against Middlesex...

17/03/1977
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick CH FRS was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron....

12/05/1927 20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974
Ernst Boris Chain
Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...

17/03/1949 19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979
James Challis
James Challis
James Challis FRS was an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge Observatory, he investigated a wide range of physical phenomena though made few lasting contributions outside astronomy...

09/06/1848 12 December 1803 – 3 December 1882
George Chalmers
George Chalmers
George Chalmers was a Scottish antiquarian and political writer.-Biography:Chalmers was born at Fochabers, Moray, in 1742. His father, James Chalmers, was a grandson of George Chalmers of Pittensear, a small estate in the parish of Lhanbryde, now St Andrews-Lhanbryde, in Moray, owned by the family...

05/05/1791 1742 - 31 May 1825
Robert Chaloner 04/04/1811 1811
William Gilbert Chaloner
William Gilbert Chaloner
Professor William Gilbert Chaloner FRS is a distinguished British paleobotanist. He is Emeritus Professor of Botany in the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor in Earth Sciences at University College, London.-Life:Chaloner was born in Chelsea,...

18/03/1976
Arthur Neville Chamberlain 16/06/1938 19 March 1869 - 9 November 1940 Statute
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....

14/12/1882 8 July 1836 – 2 July 1914
Edward Chamberlayne
Edward Chamberlayne
Edward Chamberlayne was an English writer, known as the author of The Present State of England.-Life:The grandson of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, knight, at one time English ambassador in the Low Countries, and son of Thomas Chamberlayne, he was born at Oddington, Gloucestershire, on 13 December 1616...

03/12/1668 13 December 1616 - May 1703
John Chamberlayne 06/05/1702 c 1666 - 2 November 1723
Hugh Chamberlen 06/04/1681 c 1630 - ? 1720
Charles Chambers 03/06/1869 30 May 1834 - 26
Ephraim Chambers
Ephraim Chambers
Ephraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopaedist, who is primarily known for producing the Cyclopaedia, or a Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences.-Early life:...

06/11/1729 c 1680 - 15 May 1740
Richard Dickinson Chambers 15/05/1997 Professor of Chemistry, Durham University
William Chambers
William Chambers (architect)
Sir William Chambers was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.Returning to Europe, he studied...

25/04/1776 1726 - 8 March 1796
William Frederick Chambers
William Frederick Chambers
William Frederick Chambers MD was a British physician.Chambers was the eldest son of William Chambers, a political servant of the East India Company, and a distinguished oriental scholar, who died in 1793, by his marriage with Charity, daughter of Thomas Fraser, of Balmain, Inverness-shire...

13/03/1828 10 October 1786 – 16 December 1855
Anthony Chamier 28/05/1767 6 October 1725 – 12 October 1780
George Chandler
George Chandler
George Chandler was an American actor best known for playing the character of "Uncle Petrie" on the television series Lassie...

07/02/1833 c 1780 - 3 February 1859
John Chandler 06/02/1735 1700 - 12 December 1780 London apothecary
Samuel Chandler
Samuel Chandler
Samuel Chandler was an English Nonconformist minister.-Life:He was born at Hungerford in Berkshire, where his father was a minister. He was sent to school at Gloucester, where he began a lifelong friendship with Bishop Butler and Archbishop Secker; and he afterwards studied at Leiden...

05/12/1754 1693 - 8 May 1766
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar was an Indian physicist who won the Royal Medal in 1994. He was the founder-president of the International Liquid Crystal Society....

17/03/1983 6 August 1930 – 8 March 2004
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ) was an Indian origin American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars...

16/03/1944 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995
Francis Legatt Chantrey
Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey was an English sculptor of the Georgian era. He left the Chantrey Bequest or Chantrey Fund for the purchase of works of art for the nation, which was available from 1878 after the death of his widow.-Life:Francis Leggatt Chantrey was born at Norton near Sheffield ,...

30/04/1818 7 April 1781 – 25 November 1841
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle
Jean-Baptiste de La Chapelle was a French priest, mathematician and inventor.He contributed 270 articles to the Encyclopédie in the subjects of arithmetic and geometry...

18/06/1747 ? 1710 - 1792
Alfred Chaston Chapman 13/05/1920 24 April 1869 - 17 October 1932 Chemist
David Leonard Chapman
David Chapman (scientist)
David Leonard Chapman FRS was an English physical chemist, whose name is associated with the Chapman-Jouget treatment and the Gouy-Chapman layer...

01/05/1913 6 December 1869 – 17 January 1958
Dennis Chapman 20/03/1986 6 May 1927 – 28 October 1999 Biospectroscopist
John James Chapman 28/04/1836 1790 - 1867 Captain, of Whitby
Stephen Remnant Chapman 21/11/1816 1776 - 6 March 1851 Military Engineer
Sydney Chapman 15/05/1919 29 January 1888 – 16 June 1970
Thomas Chapman 26/05/1842 21 June 1798 - 8 December 1885 of Whitby
Thomas Algernon Chapman 02/05/1918 2 June 1842 - 17 December 1921 Entomologist
Leonard Chappelow 15/03/1792 c 1744 - 11 September 1820 Clergyman
Jean Chardellou 30/11/1702 c 1664 - 1771
John Chardin 30/11/1682 16 November 1643 – 25 December 1712
Charles Frederic, Margrave of Baden-Dourlach 10/12/1747 22 November 1728 – 10 June 1811
Charles II, King of Great Britain and Ireland
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

09/01/1665 30 May 1630 – 6 February 1686
Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...

09/02/1978 Royal
Charles Theodore, Elector Palatine of Bavaria
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
Charles Theodore, Prince-Elector, Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria reigned as Prince-Elector and Count palatine from 1742, as Duke of Jülich and Berg from 1742 and also as Prince-Elector and Duke of Bavaria from 1777, until his death...

12/08/1784 11 December 1724 – 16 February 1799
Charles William Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick 19/01/1764 9 October 1735 – 10 November 1806
Brian Charlesworth
Brian Charlesworth
Professor Brian Charlesworth FRS is a British evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, and editor of Biology Letters....

14/03/1991
Deborah Charlesworth 26/05/2005
Rice Charleton 03/11/1748 1710–1789
Walter Charleton
Walter Charleton
Walter Charleton was an English writer. According to Jon Parkin, he was "the main conduit for the transmission of Epicurean ideas to England".-Life:...

20/05/1663
Henry Marshall Charlton 10/03/1994
John Charnley
John Charnley
Sir John Charnley was a British orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world...

20/03/1975 29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982
Henry Charnock
Henry Charnock
Henry Charnock CBE FRS was a British meteorologist.-Bibliography:* 'CHARNOCK, Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007...

18/03/1976 25 December 1920 – 27 November 1997
Mark Wayne Chase
Mark Wayne Chase
Mark Wayne Chase is a US born British botanist. He is noted for work in plant classification and evolution, and one of the instigators of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-classification for flowering plants which is partly based on DNA studies. In particular he has researched orchids, and currently...

15/05/2003
Stephen Chase 30/11/1724
Keith Frederick Chater 09/03/1995
Joseph Chatt
Joseph Chatt
Joseph Chatt, CBE FRS was a renowned researcher in the area of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. His name is associated with the description of the pi-bond between transition metals and alkenes, the so-called Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model.Chatt received his Ph.D. at the University of...

16/03/1961 6 November 1914 – 19 May 1994
Frederick Daniel Chattaway 02/05/1907 9 November 1860 – 26 January 1944
Arthur Prince Chattock
Arthur Prince Chattock
Arthur Prince Chattock, FRS was a British physicist.Chattock was educated at University College School and University College, London. After a short time as an electrical engineer for Siemens he returned to University College, London to study under George Carey Foster.In 1885 he succeeded Silvanus P...

13/05/1920 14 August 1860 – 1 July 1934
Lewis Andrew de la Chaumette 04/05/1826 1763 - 1 January 1836
Francis Stephen Bennet Francois de Chaumont 12/06/1879 7 April 1833 – 18 April 1888
Charles Chauncey 29/01/1741 30 September 1709 - 25 December 1777 Physician
Anthony Kevin Cheetham
Anthony Cheetham
Anthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials scientist.He was accepted into St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1965 to study chemistry, and graduated with a first class BA in 1969. He started his doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford in the same year, preparing a dissertation on 'The Structures of...

10/03/1994
Richard Chenevix
Richard Chenevix (chemist)
Richard Chenevix FRS was an Irish chemist.Chenevix was a chemist who played a role in the discovery of the elemental nature of the metal palladium. Disbelieving this solid to be an element, in 1803 he published his opinions that it was a combination of mercury and platinum...

05/03/1801 c 1774 - 5 April 1830
Thomas MacFarland Cherry
Thomas MacFarland Cherry
Sir Thomas MacFarland Cherry Sc.D., F.A.A., F.R.S. was a noted Australian mathematician, serving as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne from 1929 until his retirement in 1963...

18/03/1954 21 May 1898 – 21 November 1966
William Cheselden
William Cheselden
William Cheselden was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.-Life:...

30/11/1711 19 October 1688 – 10 April 1752
Francis Rawdon Chesney
Francis Rawdon Chesney
right|thumb|200px|General F.R.Chesney in 1863Francis Rawdon Chesney , general and explorer, was a son of Captain Alexander Chesney, an Irishman of Scottish descent who, having emigrated to South Carolina in 1772, served under Lord Rawdon in the American War of Independence, and subsequently...

06/02/1834 16 March 1789 – 30 January 1872
John Hugh Chesters 20/03/1969 16 October 1906 – 14 December 1994
Richard Brown Cheston 15/03/1781 fl 1781
John Chetwode 16/05/1776 1732–1779
Walter Chetwynd
Walter Chetwynd
Walter Chetwynd FRS , of Ingestre Hall, was an antiquary and politician.He was the only child of Walter Chetwynd , the eldest son of Walter Chetwynd , who built Ingestre Hall. He was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1657, but returned his native Staffordshire and occupied various local offices...

31/01/1678 1 May 1633 – 21 March 1693
John Chevalier 23/05/1754 c 1730 - 7 March 1789
Thomas Chevalier 18/02/1819 3 November 1767 – 9 June 1824
George Cheyne 18/03/1702 1671 - ? 13 April 1743
William Watson Cheyne 07/06/1894 14 December 1852 – 19 April 1932
Albert Charles Chibnall 06/05/1937 28 January 1894 – 10 January 1988
Mark Sheard Child 16/03/1989
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers 16/01/1873 25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896
John George Children
John George Children
John George Children was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist.Children studied at Queens' College, Cambridge. In 1822 he was working as a librarian in the Department of Antiquities at the British Museum when he was appointed assistant keeper of the Natural History Department in succession...

12/03/1807 18 May 1777 – 1 January 1852
Amos Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield 18/03/1982 30 October 1926 -
Colin Chisholm 24/11/1808 1755 - 1825 Army Surgeon, West Indies
Malcolm Harold Chisholm 15/03/1990 Prof of Maths and Physical Science, Ohio
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, PC, FRS , styled The Honourable from birth until 1715 and then known as Lord Newborough to 1725, was an English soldier....

09/06/1715 c 1666 - 7 May 1733
Cyrus Chothia
Cyrus Chothia
Cyrus Chothia FRS is an emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and emeritus fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge....

11/05/2000
Charles Chree
Charles Chree
Charles Chree was a British physicist.He was born in Lintrathen, Forfarshire, Scotland and educated at the Grammar School, Old Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen where he graduated MA in 1879 and the University of Cambridge...

03/06/1897 5 May 1860 – 12 August 1928
Michel Chretien
Michel Chrétien
Michel Chrétien is the youngest son of former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his wife Aline. He was adopted as a Gwichʼin child from an Inuvik orphanage....

15/05/2009
Christian Friedrich Karl Alexander, Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth
Christian Frederick Charles Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Christian Frederick Charles Alexander was the last Margrave of the two Franconian principalities Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth, which he sold to the King of Prussia, a fellow member of the House of Hohenzollern.-Life:His parents were Charles William...

10/02/1780 25 February 1736 – 5 January 1806
Christian VII, King of Denmark
Christian VII of Denmark
Christian VII was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death. He was the son of Danish King Frederick V and his first consort Louisa, daughter of King George II of Great Britain....

01/09/1768 1749 - 13 March 1808 Royal
Christian VIII, King of Denmark
Christian VIII of Denmark
Christian VIII , was king of Denmark from 1839 to 1848 and, as Christian Frederick, king of Norway in 1814. He was the eldest son of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Denmark and Norway and Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, born in 1786 at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen...

06/06/1822 18 September 1786 - 20 January 1848 Royal
John Wyrill Christian
John Wyrill Christian
John Wyrill Christian FRS was a British metallurgist.Christian is world wide recognized for his contribution on the foundation of modern understanding on Martensitic transformation....

20/03/1975 10 April 1926 – 27 February 2001
James Robert Christie 18/03/1847 10 February 1814 – 28 February 1879
Samuel Hunter Christie
Samuel Hunter Christie
Samuel Hunter Christie was a British scientist and mathematician.He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was second wrangler. He was particularly interested in magnetism, studying the earth's magnetic field and designing improvements to the magnetic compass...

12/01/1826 22 March 1784 – 24 January 1865
William Henry Mahoney Christie 02/06/1881 1 October 1845 – 22 January 1922
Samuel Rickard Christophers
Samuel Rickard Christophers
Sir Rickard Christophers was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes....

06/05/1926 27 November 1873 – 19 February 1978
Derman Guy Christopherson 24/03/1960 6 September 1915 – 7 November 2000
Nam-Hai Chua 17/03/1988
Arthur Harry Church 12/05/1921 28 March 1865 – 24 April 1937
Arthur Herbert Church 07/06/1888 2 June 1834 – 31 May 1915
Henry John Spencer Churchill 09/06/1832 22 September 1797 – 2 June 1840
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

28/12/1664 April 1620 - 26 March 1688
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

29/05/1941 30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965
Francis Chute 10/03/1743
Giovanni Francesco Cigna 22/11/1764 2 July 1734 – 16 July 1790
Jennifer Alice Clack 15/05/2009
Alexis Claude Clairaut 27/10/1737 7 May 1713 – 17 May 1765
Arthur Roy Clapham
Arthur Roy Clapham
Arthur Roy Clapham, CBE FRS , was a British botanist.Born in Norwich and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist , and then took a teaching post in the botany department at Oxford University. He was Professor of Botany at...

19/03/1959 24 May 1904 – 18 December 1990
Martin Clare 27/03/1735
Alfred Joseph Clark 07/05/1931 19 August 1885 – 30 July 1941
Andrew Clark 04/06/1885 28 October 1826 – 6 November 1893
Colin Whitcomb Clark 15/05/1997
Graeme Milbourne Clark 27/05/2004
James Clark 09/06/1832 14 December 1788 – 29 June 1870
James Clark 11/04/1799
Josiah Latimer Clark
Josiah Latimer Clark
Josiah Latimer Clark , was an English electrical engineer, born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire.-Biography:...

06/06/1889 10 March 1822 – 30 October 1898
Robin Jon Hawes Clark 15/03/1990
William Clark 28/01/1836 5 April 1788 - 15 September 1869 Prof of Anatomy, Cambridge University
William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark FRS was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges...

11/05/1837 23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852
Alexander Ross Clarke
Alexander Ross Clarke
Alexander Ross Clarke was a British geodesist, primarily remembered for his work defining different reference ellipsoids approximating the shape of the geoid.Clarke was born on December 16, 1828 in Reading, Berkshire, England...

05/06/1862 17 December 1828 – 11 February 1914
Bryan Campbell Clarke 18/03/1982
Charles Baron Clarke
Charles Baron Clarke
Charles Baron Clarke was a British botanist.He was born at Andover, the eldest son of Turner Poulter Clarke. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at Trinity and Queens' Colleges, Cambridge....

08/06/1882 17 June 1832 – 25 August 1906
Charles Mansfield Clarke 09/06/1825 28 May 1782 – 7 September 1857
Cyril Astley Clarke 19/03/1970 22 August 1907 – 21 November 2000
David William Clarke 14/05/1998
George Sydenham Clarke, Baron Sydenham of Combe
George Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe
George Sydenham Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe GCSI, GCIE, GCMG, GBE was a British colonial administrator and British Army officer.-Background and education:Clarke was born in Lincolnshire...

04/06/1896 4 July 1848 – 7 February 1933
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke
Jacob Augustus Lockhart Clarke was a British physiologist and neurologist who is primarily known for his studies of the brain and the spinal cord....

01/06/1854 1817 - 25 January 1880
James Stanier Clarke 19/04/1792 ? 1765 - 4 October 1834
John Clarke
John Clarke (physicist)
John Clarke is an English physicist and a Professor of Experimental Physics at University of California at Berkeley.Clarke received BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge University in 1964, 1968, and 1968, respectively....

20/03/1986
John Frederick Clarke 19/03/1987
Loftus Longueville Tottenham Clarke 18/05/1820 ? 1794 - 24 April 1863
Malcolm Roy Clarke 19/03/1981
Patricia Hannah Clarke
Patricia Clarke
Patricia Hannah Clarke, née Green, FRS was a British biochemist.Clarke was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, and was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, from 1930 to 1937, before studying the Natural Sciences Tripos at Girton College, Cambridge, from 1937 to 1940.After graduating she took a post...

18/03/1976 29 July 1919 – 28 January 2010
Samuel Clarke 17/04/1735
Samuel Clarke 02/05/1728
Thomas Clarke
Thomas Clarke (judge)
Sir Thomas Clarke, KC, FRS, PC was a British judge who served as Master of the Rolls. He was the son of a carpenter and a pawnbroker from St Giles in the Fields, and was educated at Westminster School between 1715 and 1721 thanks to the help of Zachary Pearce. On 10 June 1721 he matriculated to...

14/11/1754 1703 - 13 November 1764
Timothy Clarke
Timothy Clarke (physician)
Timothy Clarke was an English physician, a founding Fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:He was a member of Balliol College, Oxford at the time of the parliamentary visitation in May 1648. He refused to submit, but was allowed to proceed M.D. on 20 July 1652...

22/04/1663
William Branwhite Clarke
William Branwhite Clarke
William Branwhite Clarke, FRS was an English geologist and clergyman, active in Australia.-Early life and England:...

01/06/1876 2 June 1798 – 17 June 1878
William Stanley Clarke 07/06/1821
Peter John Bell Clarricoats 15/03/1990
David Charles Clary
David Clary
David Clary, FRS is a British theoretical chemist. He has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005.-Life:He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School from 1964–71. He has a BSc from the University of Sussex and a PhD and ScD from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus...

15/05/1997
Antoine Jean Francois Claudet 02/06/1853 12 August 1797 – 27 December 1867
Walter Clavell 30/11/1704 fl 1704 - 1740
Douglas Charles Clavering 13/05/1824 fl 1824
John Clayton 30/11/1688 1657 - 23 September 1725
John Clayton 20/05/1663
Robert Clayton
Robert Clayton (bishop)
Robert Clayton was an Irish Protestant bishop, now known for his Essay on Spirit.-Life:Clayton was born at Dublin in 1695, a descendant of the Claytons of Fulwood, Lancashire, whose estates came to him by inheritance. He was the eldest of eight children of Dr. Robert Clayton, minister of St...

12/01/1744 1696 - 26 February 1758 Irish bishop
Robert Norman Clayton 19/03/1981
Richard Clayton 20/03/1806 c 1745 - 29 April 1828 Barrister
John Brian Clegg 13/05/1999
John Cleland 06/06/1872 15 June 1835 - 5 March 1925 Anatomist
George Roger Clemo 06/05/1937 2 August 1889 – 2 March 1983
Andrew Clenche 01/04/1680
John Clendinning 18/02/1841 fl 1841
John Clephane
John Clephane
John Clephane, M.D. , was a Scottish physician.Clephane took his degree of M.D. at St. Andrews University on 29 May 1729. He acted as physician to the army in the Low Countries. He was appointed physician to St. George's Hospital on 8 May 1751, and admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians...

08/01/1747
Henry Ckerk 09/06/1848 27 December 1821 - 28 February 1913 Army Captain
Dugald Clerk 07/05/1908 31 March 1854 – 12 November 1932
George Clerk
Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet
Sir George Clerk of Pennycuik, 6th Baronet PC, DL , was a British Tory politician.-Background:Clerk was the son of James Clerk, third son of Sir George Clerk-Maxwell, 4th Baronet, by his wife Janet Irving, daughter of George Irving, of Newton.-Political career:Clerk sat as Member of Parliament for...

27/05/1819 19 November 1787 – 23 December 1867
John Clerk 16/10/1729 8 November 1676 – 4 October 1755
Henry Clerke
Henry Clerke
Henry Clerke was an English academic and physician, President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1672.-Life:He was son of Thomas Clerke of Willoughby, Warwickshire, England, and matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford on 20 April 1635, at the age of 16. He obtained a demyship at Magdalen College, and...

24/10/1667 c 1622 - 24 March 1687
Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke
Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke
Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke , was an Irish major unattached, military journalist.Clerke was a native of Bandon, co. Cork. Being intended for the army, a profession also adopted by his brothers, St...

18/04/1833 1792 - 19 April 1849
Robert Clifford 01/06/1797 16 October 1767 – 18 February 1817
William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford FRS was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour, with interesting applications in contemporary mathematical physics...

04/06/1874 4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879
William Clift
William Clift
William Clift, , British naturalist, born at Burcombe, about half a mile from the town of Bodmin in Cornwall, on 14 Feb. 1775, was the youngest of the seven children of Robert Clift, who died a few years later, leaving his wife and family in the depths of poverty.-Education:The boy was sent to...

08/05/1823 15 February 1775 – 20 June 1849
Francis Clifton
Francis Clifton
Francis Clifton, M.D. , was an English physician.Clifton was the fourth and youngest son of Josiah Clifton, merchant, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, by his wife Mary, only child of Thomas Fenne of the same town...

22/06/1727
Marshall Waller Clifton 05/06/1828 1 November 1787 -
Robert Bellamy Clifton 04/06/1868 13 March 1836 – 22 February 1921
Clifford Clifton
Clifford Clifton
Sir Clifford Clifton was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1659.Clifford was the son of Sir Gervase Clifton, 1st Baronet and his second wife Lady Frances Clifford, daughter of Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland, and was baptised on 22 June 1626. He was...

28/03/1667 June 1626 - June 1670
Henry Cline
Henry Cline
-Life:Cline was born in London, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to Mr. Thomas Smith, one of the surgeons to St. Thomas's Hospital, and before the close of his apprenticeship he frequently lectured for Else, then lecturer on anatomy. On 2 June...

15/01/1807 1750 - 2 January 1827
Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
thumb|right|"The Return From Shooting" by [[Francis Wheatley |Sir Francis Wheatley]] depicting The Duke of Newcastle, his friend Colonel Litchfield and the Duke's gamekeeper, Mansell along with four Clumber Spaniels....

22/10/1747 24 April 1720 - 22
Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey
Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB , also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown...

24/11/1768 29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774
Frederick Geoffrey Nethersole Cloke 17/05/2007
Charles Frederick Arden Close
Charles Close
Colonel Sir Charles Frederick Arden-Close, KBE CB CMG FRS was a British geographer and surveyor, he was Director General of the Ordnance Survey from 1911 to 1922...

Frederick See Arden-Close, Sir Charles
John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene
John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene
John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene was an Anglo-Irish politician.-Life:He was a son of Sir Hugh Clotworthy, sheriff of county Antrim....

20/05/1663
Thomas Clutterbuck 30/11/1676 c 1627 - 1683
Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock
Tim Clutton-Brock
Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock, MA PhD ScD FRS is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly red deer and meerkats.-Career:...

11/03/1993
Dethlevus Cluverus 30/11/1678 c 1645 - 21 February 1708
John Flavell Coales 19/03/1970 14 September 1907 – 6 June 1999
John Henry Coates 21/03/1985
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
Thomas Spencer Cobbold FRS , English man of science, was born at Ipswich, the third son of the Rev. Richard Cobbold , the author of the History of Margaret Catchpole....

02/06/1864 26 May 1828 – 20 March 1886
Antonio Cocchi
Antonio Cocchi
Antonio Cocchi was an Italian physician, naturalist and writer. He was best known for his work on anatomy....

05/02/1736 1695 - 1 January 1758
William Cochran
William Cochran (physicist)
William Cochran was a prominent Scottish physicist.Bill Cochran was born in Scotland and educated at Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh. He studied physics at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his PhD under Arnold Beevers in the Chemistry Department in X-ray crystallography of...

15/03/1962 30 July 1922 – 28 August 2003
George Cock 21/03/1666
David John Hugh Cockayne
David Cockayne
Professor David John Hugh Cockayne, FRS, FInstPhys, was a professor in the materials science department of the University of Oxford.. He was an electron microscopist who played an important role in the development of weak-beam transmission electron microscopy , and in the application of high...

13/05/1999
Leonard Cockayne
Leonard Cockayne
Leonard Cockayne FRS is regarded as New Zealand's greatest botanist and a founder of modern science in New Zealand.-Biography:He was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College...

02/05/1912 7 April 1855 – 8 July 1934
George Cockburn
George Cockburn
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet GCB was a British naval commander of the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries. He held important commands during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and eventually rose to become Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord.-Naval...

21/12/1820 22 April 1772 – 19 August 1853
William Cockburn 30/11/1696 1669 - November 1739
John Douglas Cockcroft 07/05/1936 27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967
Christopher Sydney Cockerell 16/03/1967 4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999
Edward Charles Daniel Cocking 17/03/1983
James Cockle 01/06/1865 14 January 1819 – 27 January 1895
James Cocks 09/03/1815 2 December 1774 -
Reginald Cocks 23/05/1799 14 January 1777 – 19 November 1805
James Cockshutt 06/12/1804 c 1742 - 29 September 1819
Henry Coddington
Henry Coddington
Henry Coddington was an English natural philosopher, fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge and Church of England clergyman....

12/02/1829
Edward Codrington
Edward Codrington
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington GCB RN was a British admiral, hero of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of Navarino.-Early life and career:...

21/11/1822 27 April 1770 – 28 April 1851
Enrico Sandro Coen 14/05/1998
John Michael David Coey
Michael Coey
-En Breve:John Michael David Coey , born in Belfast, February 1945, Northern Ireland is an experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics. He is Ireland's most highly cited scientist, having an h-index of 53...

15/05/2003
Richard John Cogdell 17/05/2007
Francis Cohen ir Francis See Palgrave, Sir
Julius Berend Cohen 04/05/1911 6 May 1859 – 14 June 1935
Philip Cohen
Philip Cohen
Sir Philip Cohen FRS FRSE is a British researcher, academic and Royal Medal winner. During the 1990s he was Britain's third most cited professor and has been described by Professor Garry Taylor of the University of St Andrews as "one of the world’s top scientists"...

15/03/1984
Stephen Michael Cohen (biologist) 16/05/2008 Prof of Biology, Singapore
Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen
Sydney Cohen CBE, FRS is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School and an authority on malaria.He was educated at King Edward VIIth School, Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand and London universities...

16/03/1978
Paul Moritz Cohn
Paul Cohn
Paul Moritz Cohn FRS was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra...

20/03/1980
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Viscount Coke
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB was a wealthy English land-owner and patron of the arts. He is particularly noted for commissioning the design and construction of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk. Between 1722 and 1728, he was Member of Parliament for Norfolk.He was the son of Edward Coke ...

27/03/1735 c 1695 - 20 April 1759
Ernest George Coker 11/05/1916 26 April 1869 – 9 April 1946
Thomas Frederick Colby
Thomas Frederick Colby
Thomas Frederick Colby , a British major-general and director of the Ordnance Survey , was born at St. Margaret's, Rochester, Kent, England, as a member of a South Wales family. Entering the Royal Engineers he overcame the loss of one hand in a shooting accident to begin in 1802 a lifelong...

13/04/1820 1 September 1784 – 9 October 1852
Francis Joseph Cole 06/05/1926 3 February 1872 – 27 January 1959
Grenville Arthur James Cole 03/05/1917 21 October 1859 – 21 April 1924
Stewart Thomas Cole 17/05/2007
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen FRS , known by his courtesy title of Viscount Cole from 1807 to 1840, was a British palaeontologist and Conservative Member of Parliament....

15/01/1829 25 January 1807 – 12 November 1886
Leonard Colebrook
Leonard Colebrook
Leonard Colebrook FRS was an English physician and Bacteriologistwho in 1935 showed Prontosil was effective against haemolytic streptococcus in childbirthand hence a cure for puerperal fever...

22/03/1945 2 March 1883 – 29 September 1967
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an English orientalist.-Biography:Henry Thomas Colebrooke, third son of Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, was born in London. He was educated at home; and when only fifteen he had made considerable attainments in classics and mathematics...

22/02/1816 15 June 1765 – 10 March 1837
Josiah Colebrooke 13/03/1755
James Edward Colebrooke 20/12/1821 7 July 1761 – 5 November 1838
Arthur Philemon Coleman
Arthur Philemon Coleman
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a Canadian geologist and academic.-Biography:Born in Lachute, Quebec, the son of Rev. Francis Coleman and Emmeline Maria Adams , he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1876 and Master of Arts in 1880 from Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario. He received a Ph.D...

05/05/1910 5 April 1852 – 27 February 1939
Edward Coleman 09/06/1831 1766 - 14 July 1839
William Colenso
William Colenso
William Colenso was a Cornish Christian missionary to New Zealand, and also a printer, botanist, explorer and politician.-Life:Born in Penzance, Cornwall, he was the cousin of John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal...

04/06/1886 c 1811 - 10 February 1899
Thomas Colepeper 28/05/1668 25 December 1637 - December 1708 Steward
John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge 03/05/1877 3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894
Bryan Randell Coles 14/03/1991 10 June 1926 – 24 February 1997
Arthur Roderick Collar 18/03/1965 23 February 1908 – 12 February 1986
Philibert Collet 30/11/1711 27 February 1643 – 30 March 1718
Peter Colleton
Peter Colleton
Sir Peter Colleton, 2nd Baronet of the Colleton Baronets, was MP for Bossiney 1681–1685 and 1689–1694.-References:...

13/12/1677 c September 1635 - 24 March 1694
John Norman Collie 04/06/1896 10 September 1859 – 1 November 1942
Charkles Collier 18/02/1830 c 1784 - 6 May 1870 Army Surgeon
John Gordon Collier 15/03/1990 22 January 1935 – 18 November 1995
Charles Collignon 03/05/1770 1725 - 1 October 1785 Physician
John Collinge 26/05/2005 Biochemist, Prof. at UCL
Graham Leon Collingridge 10/05/2001
George Lewis Newnham Collingwood 09/12/1819 c 1782 - 4 July 1837
Edward Foyle Collingwood
Edward Collingwood
Sir Edward Foyle Collingwood CBE FRS FRSE DL was an English mathematician and scientist.He was a member of the Eglingham branch of a prominent Northumbrian family, the son of Col. Cuthbert Collingwood of the Lancashire Fusiliers, whose family seat was at Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, Northumberland...

18/03/1965 17 January 1900 – 25 October 1970
John Collins
John Collins (mathematician)
John Collins was an English mathematician. He is most known for his extensive correspondence with leading scientists and mathematicians such as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Gottfried Leibniz, Isaac Newton, and John Wallis...

17/10/1667 5 March 1625 – 10 November 1683
Peter Collinson 05/12/1728 January 1694 - 11 August 1768
James Bertram Collip 11/05/1933 20 November 1892 – 19 June 1965
David Colquhoun
David Colquhoun
David Colquhoun, FRS is a British pharmacologist at University College London . He has contributed to the general theory of receptor and synaptic mechanisms of single ion channel function. He previously held the A.J. Clark chair of Pharmacology at UCL, and was the Hon. Director of the Wellcome...

21/03/1985
James Nisbet Colquhoun 14/01/1830 23 June 1791 - 17 September 1853 Lt-Col, RA
John Colson
John Colson
Johnathan "John" Colson was an English clergyman and mathematician, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.John Colson was educated at Lichfield School before becoming an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, though he did not take a degree there...

11/06/1713 1680 - 20 January 1760
James William Colvile
James William Colvile
Sir James William Colvile was a British legal civil servant in India.He was born the eldest son of Alexander Wedderburn Colvile of Ochiltree and Crombie, Fife and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1834...

29/04/1875 12 January 1810 – 6 December 1880
Daniel Colwall
Daniel Colwall
Daniel Colwall was a wealthy merchant of London and philanthropist.-Life:Elected an original Fellow of the Royal Society on 20 May 1663, he was placed its council in the following November, and acted as treasurer for nearly fourteen years, from 1665 to 1679. Colwall in 1663 and 1666 presented the...

20/05/1663
John Colwall 14/05/1668 fl 1664 - 1679
Charles Combe
Charles Combe
-Life:He was born on 23 September 1743, in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London where his father, John Combe, carried on business as an apothecary. He was educated at Harrow School, and among his schoolfellows were Sir William Jones and Samuel Parr...

11/01/1776 23 September 1743 – 18 March 1817
Taylor Combe
Taylor Combe
-Life:He was the eldest son of Dr. Charles Combe, the physician and numismatist. He was educated at Harrow School and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 5 June 1795, M.A. 10 July 1798....

05/03/1807 1774 - 7 July 1826
Peter George Le Comber 12/03/1992 20 February 1941 – 9 September 1992
Andrew Ainslie Common
Andrew Ainslie Common
Andrew Ainslie Common FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astrophotography.-Biography:...

04/06/1885 7 August 1841 – 2 June 1903
William Compston 19/03/1987
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton , known as Lord Compton from 1630 to 1643, was an English peer, soldier and politician....

20/05/1663 19 August 1622 - 15 December 1681 Original
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton 27/05/1830 1 January 1790 – 17 January 1851, PRS 1838-1848
Leslie John Comrie 16/03/1950 15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950
James Comyn 24/04/1760
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.-Biography:Charles Marie de La...

15/12/1748 28 January 1701 – 13 February 1774)
John Conduitt
John Conduitt
John Conduitt was a British Member of Parliament and Master of the Mint.-Early life, education and family:Conduitt was the son of Leonard and Sarah Conduitt, and was baptized at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, on 8 March 1688. He was admitted to St Peter's College Westminster School as a King's...

01/12/1718 March 1688 - 23 May 1737
William Congreve 28/03/1811 20 May 1772 – 16 May 1828
Arthur Connell 07/06/1855 30 November 1794 – 31 October 1863
Bernard Connor 27/11/1695 c 1666 - 30 October 1698
Arthur Conolly
Arthur Conolly
Arthur Conolly was a British intelligence officer, explorer and writer. He was a captain of the 1st Bengal Light Cavalry in the service of the British East India Company...

21/02/1839 2 July 1807 - ? 17 June 1842
Valentine Conolly 15/03/1804
John Conroy 04/06/1891 16 August 1845 - 15 December 1900 Scientist, Keble College, Oxon
William Constable 04/05/1775 1721 - May 1791
Hayne Constant
Hayne Constant
Hayne Constant, C.B., C.B.E., F.R.S, F.R.Ae.S. was an English mechanical and aeronautical engineer who developed jet engines during World War II....

18/03/1948 26 September 1904 – 12 January 1968
Antonio Schinella Conti 10/11/1715 22 January 1677 – 6 April 1749
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris FRS is an English paleontologist made known by his detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould...

15/03/1990
Arthur William Conway 06/05/1915 2 October 1875 – 11 July 1950
Edward Joseph Conway
E. J. Conway
Professor Edward J. Conway was an Irish biochemist known for works pertaining to electrolyte physiology and analytical chemistry....

20/03/1947 3 July 1894 – 29 December 1968
Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway
Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway
Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway PC, FRS was an English peer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department between 1681 and 1683.-Life:...

02/01/1668 c 1623 - 11 August 1683
John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory...

19/03/1981
Gordon Richard Conway
Gordon Conway
Sir Gordon Richard Conway, KCMG, FRS, FRGS, is an agricultural ecologist and former President of the Royal Geographical Society. He often speaks about biotechnology and global food security.-Early life:...

27/05/2004
William Daniel Conybeare
William Daniel Conybeare
William Daniel Conybeare FRS , dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman. He is probably best known for his ground-breaking work on marine reptile fossils in the 1820s, including important papers for the Geological Society of London on ichthyosaur anatomy and the...

09/12/1819 7 June 1787 – 12 August 1857
Alan Hugh Cook
Alan Cook
Sir Alan Hugh Cook FRS was a British physicist who specialised in geophysics, astrophysics and particularly precision measurement.-Early life and family:Cook was born in Felsted, Essex in 1922...

20/03/1969 2 December 1922 – 23 July 2004
Arthur Herbert Cook 15/03/1951 10 July 1911 – 26 July 1988
Gilbert Cook 14/03/1940 26 October 1885 - 28 August 1951 Prof of Engineering, Kings College
James Cook
James Cook
Captain James Cook, FRS, RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer who ultimately rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy...

29/02/1776 27 October 1728 – 14 February 1779
James Wilfred Cook 17/03/1938 10 December 1900 – 21 October 1975
Stanley Smith Cook 10/05/1928 25 January 1875 – 21 May 1952
Stephen Arthur Cook
Stephen Cook
Stephen Arthur Cook is a renowned American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity...

14/05/1998
Thomas Cook 04/06/1840
William Richard Joseph Cook 15/03/1962 10 April 1905 – 16 September 1987
Benjamin Cooke 11/03/1736
Edward William Cooke
Edward William Cooke
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.-Life and work:...

04/06/1863 27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880
George William Cooke 20/03/1969 6 January 1916 - 10
John Cooke
John Cooke (academic)
John Cooke D.D. was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Cooke was elected President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1783, a post he held until 1823....

06/12/1821 1756 - 1 January 1838
John Cooksey 04/04/1754
Richard Clive Cookson 21/03/1968
Robert Royston Amos Coombs 18/03/1965 9 January 1921 – 25 January 2006
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC , known as Anthony Ashley Cooper from 1621 to 1631, as Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 2nd Baronet from 1631 to 1661, and as The Lord Ashley from 1661 to 1672, was a prominent English politician during the Interregnum and during the reign of King Charles...

05/08/1663 22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley-Cooper FRS was the 5th Earl of Shaftesbury. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, in 1771....

03/02/1785 17 September 1761 – 14 May 1811
Anthony Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury , 4th Earl of Shaftesbury.The 4th Earl served as Lord Lieutenant of Dorset from 1734 until his death.-Family Legacy:...

28/03/1754 10 February 1711 – 27 May 1771
Bransby Blake Cooper 18/06/1829 2 September 1792 - ? 11 August 1853
Charles Purton Cooper 06/12/1832 1793 - 26 March 1873
Edward Joshua Cooper 02/06/1853 May 1798 - 23 April 1863
John Hutton Cooper 20/05/1819 7 December 1765 – 24 December 1828
John Philip Cooper 17/03/1977
Leslie Hugh Norman Cooper 19/03/1964 17 June 1905 – 20 September 1985
Samuel Cooper 05/02/1846 September 1780 - 2 December 1848 Surgeon PRCS
Astley Paston Cooper 18/02/1802 23 August 1768 – 12 February 1841
William Cooper 25/04/1776
John Mordaunt Cope 20/06/1765 1731 - 7 March 1779
Thomas Copeland
Thomas Copeland
Thomas Copeland was an eminent British surgeon.-Life:Copeland, son of the Rev. William Copeland, curate of Byfield, Northamptonshire , was born in May 1781, studied under Mr. Denham at Chigwell in Essex, and in London under Edward Ford, his maternal uncle. He afterwards attended the medical...

06/02/1834 May 1781 - 19 November 1855
Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman
Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman
Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St.J FRS FRCP was a British medical doctor and senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health....

11/06/1903 22 February 1862 – 11 April 1947
James Copland 05/12/1833 November 1791 - 12 July 1870
John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst 13/04/1826 21 May 1772 – 12 October 1863
Godfrey Copley
Godfrey Copley
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet FRS was a wealthy English landowner, art-collector and public figure, who lived in Sprotbrough, now part of Doncaster in South Yorkshire....

30/11/1691 ? 1653 - 9 April 1709
Douglas Harold Copp
Harold Copp
Douglas Harold Copp, was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease....

18/03/1971 16 January 1915 – 17 March 1998
John Copping 13/11/1740
John Copplestone 09/05/1666 1623 - 24 August 1689
Francis Corbaux 10/04/1834 c 1769 - 1 May 1843
Richard Corbet 03/05/1665 September 1640 - 1 August 1683 MP for Shrewsbury
Paul Bruce Corkum 26/05/2005
Francesco Cornaro 30/11/1708 1670 - 1734 Venetian Ambassador
Edred John Henry Corner 17/03/1955 12 January 1906 – 14 September 1996
George Washington Corner 28/04/1955 12 December 1889 – 28 September 1981
John Warcup Cornforth 19/03/1953
Samuel Cornish
Samuel Cornish
Samuel Eli Cornish was an American abolitionist, journalist, and Presbyterian minister.-Early years:Cornish was born in Sussex County, Delaware, to free parents. In 1815, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

09/03/1749
John Corrie 17/02/1820 c 1769 - 16 August 1839 Clergyman, JP
Francis Edward Corrigan 09/03/1995
Isaac Corry
Isaac Corry
Isaac Corry FRS, PC , PC was an Irish and British Member of Parliament and lawyer.-Early career:Born in Newry, he was the son of Edward Corry , sometime Member of Parliament, and Catharine Bristow...

21/02/1811 1755 - 15 May 1813
Suzanne Cory
Suzanne Cory
Suzanne Cory, AC, FAA, FRS is an Australian biologist.Cory is the current President of the Australian Academy of Science. She is the first-elected female President of the Academy and took office on 7 May 2010 for a five year term...

12/03/1992
Vernon Ellis Cosslett
Vernon Ellis Cosslett
Vernon Ellis Cosslett, FRS was a British microscopist.He worked with William Lawrence Bragg at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University on the electron microscope and founded the Electron Microscopy Department. He also developed improved x-ray machines...

16/03/1972 16 June 1908 – 21 November 1990
Emanuel Mendes da Costa 26/11/1747 5 June 1717 – 31 May 1791
Moses da Costa 10/02/1737
Pierre Coste 25/11/1742 27 October 1668 – 24 January 1747
Roger Cotes
Roger Cotes
Roger Cotes FRS was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas and first introduced what is known today as...

30/11/1711 10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716
Caleb Cotesworth 03/07/1718
James Henry Cotterill 06/06/1878 2 November 1836 – 8 January 1922
Edward Cotton 20/05/1663 c 1616 - 11 November 1675 Original
Joseph Cotton 15/03/1810 7 March 1746 - 26 January 1825 Trinity House
Robert Salusbury Cotton
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton was an English politician. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire from 1780 to 1796.He was one of the founders of the Tarporley Hunt Club in 1762.- References:*...

24/11/1774
William Cotton
William Cotton (banker)
William Cotton FRS was an English inventor, merchant, philanthropist, and Governor of the Bank of England from 1842 to 1845....

24/05/1821 12 September 1786 – 1 December 1866
Alan Howard Cottrell 17/03/1955
Charles Alfred Coulson 16/03/1950 13 December 1910 – 7 January 1974
George Coupland 17/05/2007
Leonard Francis La Cour 19/03/1970 28 July 1907 – 3 November 1984
Peter Courthope 06/08/1668 fl 1655-1685
John Le Couteur
John Le Couteur
Sir John Le Couteur, Colonel, was a British Army officer and Aide-de-camp for Jersey to William IV and Victoria.-War of 1812:...

11/05/1843 21 October 1794 – 24 December 1875
William Maxwell Cowan 18/03/1982 27 September 1931 – 30 June 2002
Philip Herbert Cowell
Philip Herbert Cowell
Philip Herbert Cowell was a British astronomer.Philip Herbert Cowell was born in calcutta, India and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became second chief assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in 1896 and later became the Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office during...

03/05/1906 7 August 1870 – 6 June 1949
Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey is a British scientist and academic, and the Emeritus Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Oxford. He gained a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1957 and a PhD from Cambridge in 1961. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988, and a Fellow of the...

17/03/1988
Lennox Cowie 27/05/2004
Alan Herbert Cowley 17/03/1988
John Lodge Cowley
John Lodge Cowley
John Lodge Cowley was an English cartographer, geologist and Mathematician.John Cowley was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich – London for a number of years between 1761 and 1773. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April, 1768...

14/04/1768 c 1729 - 29 December 1797
John Maxwell Cowley 15/03/1979 19 February 1923 – 18 May 2004
Roger Arthur Cowley
Roger Cowley
Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstPhys is an English physicist who has specialised in the excitations of solids. He obtained a B.A. in physics from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge in 1960 and a Ph.D. in 1963...

16/03/1978
Thomas George Cowling
Thomas George Cowling
Thomas George Cowling FRS was an English astronomer.Cowling was born in Hackney, London and studied mathematics at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1924 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930 he worked under Edward Arthur Milne...

20/03/1947 17 June 1906 – 16 June 1990
George Nassau Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
George Nassau Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper was an English peer who went on the grand tour as a young man, but actually emigrated. Despite becoming a Member of Parliament and inheriting lands and the title of Earl Cowper in England, he remained in Italy. He amassed a valuable art collection...

13/02/1777 26 August 1738 – 22 December 1789
Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau Clavering Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper 11/05/1809 6 May 1778 – 21 July 1837
William Cowper
William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry...

11/01/1699 c 1666 - 8 March 1709
William Clavering Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper
William Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper , styled Viscount Fordwich between 1718 and 1723, was a British peer and courtier....

11/05/1732 1709 - 18 September 1764
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper PC KC FRS was an English politician who became the first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Cowper was the son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet, of Ratling Court, Kent, a Whig member of parliament of some mark in the two last Stuart reigns...

03/04/1706 c 1665 - 10 October 1723
Keith Gordon Cox
Keith Cox
Keith Gordon Cox FRS was a British geologist and academic at the University of Oxford. He had a particular interest in flood basalts and was regarded as one of the leading experts in this area.-Life and career:...

17/03/1988 25 April 1933 – 27 August 1998
Leslie Reginald Cox
Leslie Reginald Cox
Leslie Reginald Cox was an eminent palaeontologist and malacologist.Cox was born to parents who worked as government servant in the Post Office telephone engineers' department. When he was just a few years old Cox moved to Harringay, where he at six he started attendance at the South Harringay...

16/03/1950 22 November 1897 – 5 August 1965
David Roxbee Cox 15/03/1973
Ernest Gordon Cox 18/03/1954 24 April 1906 – 23 June 1996
William Sands Cox
William Sands Cox
William Sands Cox was a surgeon in Birmingham, England. He founded Birmingham's first medical school in 1828 as a residential Anglican-based college in Temple Row, where a blue plaque commemorates him on the House of Fraser department store, and in Brittle Street...

05/05/1836 1802 - 23 December 1875
Daniel Coxe
Daniel Coxe
Dr. Daniel Coxe was a governor of West Jersey from 1687-1688 and 1689-1692.-Biography:The Coxe family traced their lineage to a Daniel Coxe who lived in Somersetshire, England in the 13th century and obtained a doctor of medicine degree from Salerno University. Daniel Coxe's father was also called...

22/03/1665 1640 - 19 January 1730
Thomas Coxe 04/11/1663 c 1640 -
Thomas Coxe 20/05/1663 c 1615 - 1685 Original
William Coxe
William Coxe
William Coxe , English historian, son of Dr. William Coxe, Physician to the Royal Household, was born in London. After his father's death his mother Martha married John Christopher Smith, who was Handel's amanuensis ....

14/02/1782 7 March 1747 – 8 June 1828
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, was a British-born Canadian geometer. Coxeter is regarded as one of the great geometers of the 20th century. He was born in London but spent most of his life in Canada....

16/03/1950 10 February 1907 – 31 March 2003
Francois Gabriel Coyer 20/03/1766 18 November 1707 – 18 July 1782
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode was an English book and old master print collector, and a major benefactor of the British Museum.-Life:...

15/12/1785 23 June 1730 – 5 April 1799
David Parker Craig 21/03/1968
John Craig 30/11/1711
James Craigie 20/03/1947 25 June 1899 – 26 August 1978 Epidemiologist, professor.
John Hubert Craigie
John Hubert Craigie
John Hubert Craigie, was a Canadian plant pathologist. He is known for his "research and development of rust resistant cereals which have been of vital significance to Canada as a cereal producing nation"....

20/03/1952 8 December 1887 – 26 February 1989
Fergus Ian Muirden Craik 16/5/2008
Gabriel Cramer
Gabriel Cramer
Gabriel Cramer was a Swiss mathematician, born in Geneva. He showed promise in mathematics from an early age. At 18 he received his doctorate and at 20 he was co-chair of mathematics.In 1728 he proposed a solution to the St...

09/02/1749 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752
Philip Crampton
Sir Philip Crampton
Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, FRS was an eminent Irish surgeon and anatomist.-Life:Crampton was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a dentist. He was a childhood friend of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the United Irishman, and a cousin, on his mother's side, of Thomas Verner, Grand Master of the Orange...

16/04/1812 7 June 1777 – 10 June 1858
Morley Benjamin Crane 20/03/1947 17 March 1890 – 17 September 1983
Peter Robert Crane 14/05/1998
Henry Crathorne
Henry Crathorne
Henry Crathorne was a member of the Royal Society.His membership was proposed in 1774 by Lord Leeds, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Leicester, Alexander Aubert and Lord Greville; and he was promptly elected.-References:...

23/04/1795
Patrick George Craufurd 09/06/1774
John Crawford-Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford 20/05/1663 1596-1678 Original
Adair Crawford
Adair Crawford
Adair Crawford FRS , a chemist and physician, was a pioneer in the development of calorimetric methods for measuring the specific heat capacity of substances and the heat of chemical reactions...

11/05/1786 1748 - 29 July 1795
Andrew Charles Crawford 15/03/1990
Lionel Vivian Crawford
Lionel Crawford
Lionel Vivian Crawford FRS FRSE is a British cancer expert and virologist.He was educated at Rendcomb College between 1941 and 1950 before being called up for National Service. After demobilization in 1952 he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a State Scholarship, graduating with a first...

17/03/1988
John Crawfurd
John Crawfurd
John Crawfurd , Scottish physician, and colonial administrator and author, was born in the island of Islay, Scotland...

07/05/1818 13 July 1783 – 11 May 1868
Michael John Crawley 09/05/2002
Jeremiah Cray 22/10/1730
Ettrick William Creak 04/06/1885 28 May 1835 - 3 April 1920 Royal Navy Surveyor
James Creed
James Creed
Sir James Creed was an English merchant and politician.Creed was a merchant of London and a director of the Honourable East India Company. He was in business in the manufacture of white lead, for which he obtained a patent in December 1749...

10/02/1743
John Creed 16/12/1663
Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell
Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell
Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell was a German chemist. In 1778 he started publishing the first periodical journal focusing on chemistry...

03/04/1788 ? 21 January 1744 – 7 June 1816
Henry Cressener 04/05/1709 1683 - 11 February 1710
Daniel Cresswell
Daniel Cresswell
Daniel Cresswell D.D. ,was a British clergyman and mathematician.He was son of Daniel Cresswell, a native of Crowden-le-Booth, in Edale, Derbyshire, who lived for many years at Newton, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was born at Wakefield in 1776 and educated in the grammar school there and at Hull...

20/11/1823 1776 - 21 March 1844
Peter Cresswell 11/05/2000 Immunologist
Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze 22/12/1842 1800 - 23 November 1852
Francis Albert Eley Crew 16/03/1939 2 March 1886 – 26 May 1973
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe
Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe FSA, FRS was an English landowner and peer.The son of John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe, an army general, and Henrietta Maria Anna Walker-Hungerford, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford...

17/06/1841 10 August 1812 – 3 January 1894
James Crichton-Browne
James Crichton-Browne
Sir James Crichton-Browne MD FRS was a leading British psychiatrist famous for studies on the relationship of mental illness to neurological damage and for the development of public health policies in relation to mental health...

07/06/1883 29 November 1840 – 31 January 1938
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, KT, FRS was the son of John, Lord Mount Stuart and the former Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton...

08/01/1818 10 August 1793 – 18 March 1848
Alexander Crichton
Alexander Crichton
Sir Alexander Crichton was a Scottish doctor, physician and author.- Medical career :Born in Newington, Edinburgh, Crichton received his M.D. from Leyden, Holland, in 1785. He developed his medical skills through studies at Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Halle...

08/05/1800 2 December 1763 – 4 June 1856
Francis Harry Compton Crick 19/03/1959 8 June 1916 – 29 July 2004
David George Crighton
David Crighton
David George Crighton FRS was a British mathematician and physicist.- Life :...

11/03/1993 15 November 1942 – 12 April 2000
Richard Stafford Cripps 27/05/1948 24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952
Dennis John Crisp 21/03/1968 29 April 1916 – 18 January 1990
John Crisp 17/01/1788 1788
Thomas Crisp 23/05/1666
Giovanni Francesco Crivelli
Giovanni Francesco Crivelli
Giovanni Francesco Crivelli was a Venetian priest.Crivelli was a priest member of Somasco holy order in the Cloister of the Health, then was provincial Father of the order and rector of the Seminar of Murano...

24/01/1734 20 September 1690 – 14 February 1743
John Croft 05/03/1818 21 March 1778 - 5 February 1862 Diplomat
Morgan William Crofton 04/06/1868 27 June 1826 – 13 May 1915
Thomas Crofts
Thomas Crofts
The Reverend and Learned Thomas Crofts FRS FSA was a British bibliophile, Anglican priest, Fellow of the Royal Society and European traveller.- Early life :Thomas was born in Monmouth, Wales and was the son of John Crofts...

13/06/1776
Francois Boissier Sauvages de la Croix s Boissier See Sauvages de la Croix,
George Croke 08/02/1677
John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker was an Irish statesman and author.He was born at Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800...

05/07/1810 20 December 1780 – 10 August 1857
James Croll
James Croll
James Croll was a 19th century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.-Life:...

01/06/1876 2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890
Alexander Crombie
Alexander Crombie
The Rev Dr Alexander Crombie was a Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher....

05/02/1829 1762–1840
Leslie Crombie 15/03/1973 10 June 1923 – 3 August 1999
Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton 11/05/1933 31 May 1845 - 15
Andreas Henry de Cronhelm 15/04/1725 fl 1725 - 1753
William Crookes
William Crookes
Sir William Crookes, OM, FRS was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy...

04/06/1863 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919, PRS 1913-1915
William Croone
William Croone
William Croone was an English physician and one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society.-Life:He was born in London on 15 September 1633, and admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 December 1642. He was admitted on 13 May 1647 a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in...

20/05/1663 15 September 1633 - 12 October 1684 Original
John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore
John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore
John Crosbie, 2nd Earl of Glandore PC, FRS , styled Viscount Crosbie between 1777 and 1781, was an Irish politician and judge....

24/02/1803 25 May 1752 – 23 October 1815
Charles Frederick Cross
Charles Frederick Cross
Charles Frederick Cross FRS was a British chemist.Born in Brentford, Middlesex, his father was a schoolmaster turned soap manufacturer...

03/05/1917 11 December 1855 – 15 April 1935
George Alan Martin Cross 15/03/1984
Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross 03/04/1879 30 May 1823 – 8 January 1914
Barry Albert Cross 20/03/1975 17 March 1925 – 27 April 1994
John Green Crosse
John Green Crosse
John Green Crosse, FRCS, FRS was a well known surgeon of his day at the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.Crosse was born on 6 September 1790 in Suffolk, the son of a farmer by the name of William, of Boyton Hall, Great Finborough. Crosse died on 9 June 1850 and is buried in the cloisters of...

18/02/1836 6 September 1790 – 9 June 1850
Bernard Crossland
Bernard Crossland
Prof Sir Bernard Crossland CBE, FRS was an engineering educator with a career spanning some seven decades. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1987 and was knighted in 1990 for services to Northern Ireland.-Life:...

15/03/1979 20 October 1923 – 17 January 2011
Arthur William Crossley 02/05/1907 26 February 1869 – 5 March 1927
Richard Anthony Crowther 11/03/1993
John Patrick Croxall 26/05/2005
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier 07/12/1843 c 1796 - c 1848
Durward William John Cruickshank 15/03/1979
William Cruickshank
William Cruickshank (chemist)
William Cruickshank was a Scottish military surgeon and chemist, and professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.-Career:...

24/06/1802
William Cumberland Cruikshank
William Cumberland Cruikshank
William Cumberland Cruikshank was a British chemist and anatomist. He was the author of The Anatomy of the Absorbing Vessels of the Human Body, which was first published in 1786....

01/06/1797 1745 - 27 June 1800
Jodocus Crull
Jodocus Crull
Jodocus Crull, M.D., FRS was a late 17th-century and early 18th-century "miscellaneous writer" of historical subjects with political and sociological insights...

23/11/1681
Walter Crum 29/02/1844 1796 - 5 May 1867
Michael Joseph Crumpton 15/03/1979
Nicolaus Cruquius 12/03/1724 2 December 1678 - 6 February 1654 Dutch Surveyor
Lewis Crusius 07/03/1754 1701 - 23 May 1775
Samuel Cruwys 01/12/1718
William Cubitt
William Cubitt
Sir William Cubitt was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright. Born in Norfolk, England, he was employed in many of the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as chief engineer, at Ransomes of Ipswich,...

01/04/1830 1785 - 13 October 1861
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth was an English philosopher, the leader of the Cambridge Platonists.-Life:Born at Aller, Somerset, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his MA and becoming a Fellow of Emmanuel in 1639. In 1645, he became master of Clare Hall and professor of Hebrew...

17/03/1662 1617 - 26 June 1688
John Leonard Celistus Culhane 21/03/1985
Stuart Graham Cull-Candy 09/05/2002
Alexander Lamb Cullen
Alexander Lamb Cullen
Alexander Lamb Cullen, FRS was a British electrical engineer.He was awarded an OBE in 1960.He was the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London, held the Pender Chair, from 1967 to 1980....

17/03/1977
William Cullen
William Cullen
William Cullen FRS FRSE FRCPE FPSG was a Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist, and one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday as the leading center of medical education in the English-speaking world.Cullen was also a central figure in the...

08/05/1777 15 April 1710 - 05
Anthony George Cullis 27/05/2004
John Cullum 02/03/1775 21 June 1733 – 9 October 1785
Thomas Gery Cullum
Thomas Gery Cullum
Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, 7th Baronet was a medical doctor educated at London Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, and who later practiced surgery at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, where he served as an alderman and DL for Suffolk...

19/04/1787 30 November 1741 – 8 September 1831
Alexander Cuming 30/06/1720 c 1690 - 20 August 1775
Thomas Hovell Thurlow Cumming Bruce, Baron Thurlow
Thomas Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow
Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 5th Baron Thurlow, PC, DL , was a British Liberal politician who served as Paymaster-General in 1886.-Family:...

10/06/1886 5 December 1838 – 12 March 1916
James Cumming
James Cumming
Rev. Prof. James Cumming was the ninth Professor of Chemistry in Cambridge from 1815 to 1860. Cumming is remembered for his research-led teaching and his lectures during which he would literally shock the audience with a galvanic apparatus...

11/01/1816 24 October 1777 – 10 November 1861
Antonio Alvares da Cunha 09/04/1668 1626–1690
Daniel John Cunningham 04/06/1891 15 April 1850 – 23 June 1909
David Douglas Cunningham
David Douglas Cunningham
David Douglas Cunningham was a Scottish doctor and researcher into cholera.He was born in 1843, in Prestonpans, the third son of the Rev...

06/06/1889 29 September 1843 – 31 December 1914
Gordon Herriot Cunningham
G. H. Cunningham
Gordon Herriot Cunningham C.B.E., F.R.S., was the first New Zealand-based mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1936 he was appointed the first director of the DSIR Plant Diseases Division. Cunningham established the New Zealand Fungal Herbarium, and he published extensively on taxonomy of many...

16/03/1950 27 August 1892 – 18 July 1962
James Cunningham 20/12/1699 c 1667 - 1709 Merchant & Financier
William Cureton
William Cureton
-Life:He was born in Westbury, Shropshire. After being educated at the Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire and at Christ Church, Oxford, he took orders in 1832, became chaplain of Christ Church, sublibrarian of the Bodleian, and, in 1837, assistant keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum...

25/01/1838 1808 - 17 June 1864
Thomas Blizard Curling
Thomas Blizard Curling
Thomas Blizard Curling was a British surgeon.He was born in Tavistock Place, London in 1811, the son of civil sevant Daniel and Elizabeth Curling and educated at Manor House, Chiswick...

06/06/1850 1 January 1811 – 4 March 1888
Samuel Crowe Curran 19/03/1953 24 May 1912 – 25 February 1998
Tom Curran
Tom Curran
Tom Curran FRS is a Scottish medical researcher, and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.He is Associate Director of Translational Genomics, at the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute.-Life:...

26/05/2005
Frederick Currey
Frederick Currey
Frederick Currey was a rugby union international who represented England from 1872 to 1872.-Rugby union career:Currey made his international debut on 5 February 1872 at The Oval in the England vs Scotland match.-References:...

03/06/1858 19 August 1819 – 8 September 1881
George Gilbert Currey 28/01/1819
James Currie 20/12/1792 31 May 1756 – 31 August 1805
Ardaseer Cursetjee
Ardaseer Cursetjee
Ardaseer Cursetjee FRS was an Indian shipbuilder and engineer.He is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...

27/05/1841 6 October 1808 – 16 November 1877
David Roderick Curtis 21/03/1974
William Edward Curtis 03/05/1934 23 October 1889 – 6 May 1969
William Curtius 03/10/1667 ? 1599 - 23 January 1678
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 15/12/1898 11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925
David Henry Cushing 17/03/1977
Arthur Robertson Cushny
Arthur Robertson Cushny
Physician Arthur Robertson Cushny , attended a local rural school until he enrolled at the University of Aberdeen and received an M.A. in 1866. Then in 1889 he graduated from medical studies at Marischal College, Aberdeen, receiving C.M., M.B. and M.D...

02/05/1907 7 March 1866 – 25 February 1926
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow
John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, GCH was a British Peer and Tory politician.Cust was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and his second wife, Frances. In 1802, he was elected as MP for Clitheroe and held the seat until he succeeded to his father's title in 1807. In May, 1805 he was elected a...

02/05/1805 19 August 1779 – 15 September 1853
Edward Cust 06/02/1834 17 March 1794 - 14 January 1878 Bt and MP
Alan William Cuthbert 18/03/1982
John Cuthbert 13/06/1765
Clive Cuthbertson 07/05/1914 29 November 1863 – 16 November 1943
John Cutler 09/11/1664 c 1608 - 15 April 1693
Abraham Cyprianus 30/11/1700 c 1660 - 26 April 1718
Nicola Cyrillo 09/03/1727 12 September 1671 – 2 July 1735
Peter Czernichew 10/03/1748 24 March 1712 – 17 August 1773

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Name Election Date
John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel
John Jacob Abel was a significant American biochemist and pharmacologist.Born near Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1883 from the University of Michigan. In 1891 he founded and chaired the first department of pharmacology in the United States at the University of Michigan...

19/05/1938 19 May 1857 – 26 May 1938
Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Russia, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925.After being educated at the University of Paris, , he...

30/06/1984
Alexei Alekseyevich Abrikosov
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003.- Biography :...

10/05/2002
Walter Sydney Adams
Walter Sydney Adams
Walter Sydney Adams was an American astronomer.-Life and work:He was born in Antioch, Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in Germany...

27/04/1950 21 December 1876 – 11 May 1956
Alexander Agassiz 26/11/1891 18 December 1835 – 27 March 1910
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 20/12/1838 29 May 1807 – 14 December 1873
Bruce Martin Alberts
Bruce Alberts
Bruce Michael Alberts is an American biochemist known for his work in science public policy and as an original author of the Molecular Biology of the Cell...

17/06/1994
Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven 24/04/1980 31 May 1908 – 2 April 1995
Claude Jean Allegre 09/05/2003
Emile Hilaire Amagat 04/03/1897 2 January 1841 – 15 February 1915
Edoardo Amaldi
Edoardo Amaldi
Edoardo Amaldi was an Italian physicist.He was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, son of Ugo Amaldi, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, and Luisa Basini....

25/04/1968 5 September 1908 – 5 December 1989
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian 24/04/1969 18 September 1908 – 12 August 1996
Per Oskar Andersen
Per Andersen
Per Oskar Andersen is a Norwegian brain researcher at the University of Oslo. Research by his lab, specifically by Terje Lømo , led to the discovery of long-term potentiation in 1966.He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.He is also a fellow at the Royal...

09/05/2002
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson is an American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity.- Biography :...

24/04/1980
Anders Jonas Ångström
Anders Jonas Ångström
Anders Jonas Ångström was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.-Biography:...

24/11/1870 13 August 1814 – 21 June 1874
Dominique François Jean Arago
François Arago
François Jean Dominique Arago , known simply as François Arago , was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.-Early life and work:...

12/03/1818 26 February 1786 – 2 October 1853
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances.- Life and work :...

23/04/1846 22 March 1799 – 17 February 1975
Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni is a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He has worked on the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.- Birth and education :...

20/06/1991
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold
Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory,...

30/06/1988 12 June 1937 - 3 June 2010 Mathematician, Moscow
Svante August Arrhenius 30/06/1910 20 February 1859 – 2 October 1927
Kenneth Joseph Arrow 18/05/2006
Karl Frank Austen 27/05/2004
Arthur Auwers
Arthur Auwers
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers was a German astronomer.Auwers was born in Göttingen, attended the University of Göttingen and worked at the University of Königsberg. He specialized in astrometry, making very precise measurements of stellar positions and motions...

03/04/1879 12 September 1838 – 24 January 1915
Oswald Theodore Avery 15/06/1944 21 October 1877 – 20 February 1955
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod
Julius Axelrod was an American biochemist. He won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler...

26/04/1979 30 May 1912 – 29 December 2004

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Name Election Date
Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache
Alexander Dallas Bache was an American physicist, scientist and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey mapping of the United States coastline.-Biography:...

24/05/1860 19 July 1806 – 17 February 1867
Jons Oskar Backlund 09/11/1911 28 April 1846 – 29 August 1916
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a...

15/06/1854 29 February 1792 – 28 November 1876
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer 10/12/1885 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917
Henri Ernest Baillon
Henri Ernest Baillon
Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...

26/04/1894 29 November 1827 – 18 July 1895
David Baltimore
David Baltimore
David Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech...

25/06/1987
John Bardeen
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a...

03/05/1973 23 May 1908 – 30 January 1991
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt 11/05/2000
Charles Eugene Barrois 26/06/1913 21 August 1851 – 5 November 1939
Anton Heinrich de Bary 31/01/1884 26 January 1831 – 22 January 1888
Felipe Bauza
Felipe Bauza
Felipe Bauzá y Cañas FMRS was a Spanish Captain, politician, geographer, and astronomer.-Life:He fled to Cadiz after refusing to submit his work mapping to the army of Napoleon at the beginning of the Peninsular War .After the war in 1815, he was appointed director of the Hydrographic Office.He...

01/04/1819 20 February 1764 – 3 March 1834
Denis Baylor 15/05/2003
George Wells Beadle 28/04/1960 22 October 1903 – 9 June 1989
Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Leonce Elie de Beaumont
Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont
Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist.-Biography:Élie de Beaumont was born at Canon, in Calvados...

04/06/1835 25 September 1798 – 21 September 1874
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel 31/05/1888 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891
Antoine Cesar Becquerel
Antoine César Becquerel
Antoine César Becquerel was a French scientist and a pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.He was born at Châtillon sur LoCrea...

27/04/1837 8 March 1788 – 18 January 1878
Antoine Henri Becquerel 04/06/1908 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908
Martinus Willem Beijerinck 29/04/1926 16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931
Joseph Achille Le Bel
Joseph Achille Le Bel
Joseph Achille Le Bel was a French chemist. He is best known for his work in stereochemistry. Le Bel was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris. In 1874 he announced his theory outlining the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity...

09/11/1911 ? 21 January 1847 – 6 August 1930
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden was a Belgian zoologist and paleontologist.Born in Mechelen, Belgium, he studied medicine at the University of Louvain, and studied zoology in Paris under Georges Cuvier...

08/04/1875 19 December 1809 – 8 January 1894
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer
Seymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...

08/04/1976
Paul Berg
Paul Berg
Paul Berg is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids...

18/06/1992
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard was a French physiologist. He was the first to define the term milieu intérieur . Historian of science I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard "one of the greatest of all men of science"...

09/06/1864 12 July 1813 - 10
Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot 13/12/1877 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907
Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand
Joseph Louis François Bertrand
Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics....

08/04/1875 11 March 1822 – 2 April 1900
Jons Jakob Berzelius
Jöns Jakob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist. He worked out the modern technique of chemical formula notation, and is together with John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier, and Robert Boyle considered a father of modern chemistry...

29/04/1813 29 August 1779 – 7 August 1848
Hans Albrecht Bethe 09/05/1957 2 July 1906 – 6 March 2005
J. Michael Bishop
J. Michael Bishop
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16/05/2008
Johannes Martin Bijvoet
Johannes Martin Bijvoet
Johannes Martin Bijvoet was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at the University of Utrecht...

27/04/1972 23 January 1892 – 4 March 1980
Jean Baptiste Biot 06/04/1815 21 April 1774 - 03
Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff 26/03/1868 28 October 1807 – 5 December 1882
Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes 25/05/1933 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville was a French zoologist and anatomist.Blainville was born at Arques, near Dieppe. In about 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Georges Cuvier, for whom he occasionally...

09/06/1832 12 September 1788 – 1 May 1850
Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch ForMemRS was a German American biochemist. Bloch received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.-Biography:Bloch was born in Neisse in the German Empire's Prussian...

27/06/1985 21 January 1912 – 18 October 2000
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German physician, physiologist and anthropologist, one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history, whose teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to classification of what he called human races, of which he determined...

11/04/1793 11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840
Niels Henrik David Bohr 29/04/1926 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962
Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond 13/12/1877 1818–1896
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics...

01/06/1899 21 February 1844 – 5 September 1906
Norman Ernest Borlaug 25/06/1987
Jean Baptiste Edouard Bornet 30/06/1910 2 September 1828 – 18 December 1911
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...

26/05/2005 1 January 1923 – 19 December 2005
Alexis Bouvard
Alexis Bouvard
Alexis Bouvard was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system.-Life:...

23/11/1826 27 June 1767 – 7 June 1843
Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and...

03/05/1962 23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992
Nathaniel Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S...

12/03/1818 26 March 1773 - ? 17 March 1838
Norman Levi Bowen 12/05/1949 21 June 1887 – 11 September 1956
Albert Auguste Toussaint Brachet 21/06/1928 1 January 1869 – 27 December 1930
Jean Brachet
Jean Brachet
Jean Louis Auguste Brachet was a Belgian biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA....

21/04/1966 19 March 1909 – 10 August 1988
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau was a French naturalist.- Life :He was born at Berthézène, in the commune of Valleraugue , the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine at Strasbourg, where he took the double degree of M.D...

03/04/1879 11 February 1810 – 12 January 1892
Ronald Breslow
Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow is an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology; he has also been on the faculty of its...

11/05/2000
Edouard Brézin
Edouard Brezin
Édouard Brézin is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics of the École normale supérieure since 1986....

18/05/2006
Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science.- Biography :Bridgman entered Harvard University in 1900,...

12/05/1949 21 April 1882 – 20 August 1961
Waldemar Christofer Brogger 27/11/1902 11 November 1851 – 17 February 1940
Louis Cesar Victor Maurice de Broglie, Duc de Broglie
Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie
Louis-César-Victor-Maurice, 6th duc de Broglie , was a French physicist.-Early years:Maurice de Broglie was born in Paris, to Victor de Broglie, 5th duc de Broglie. In 1901, he was married to Camille Bernou de Rochetaillée in Paris. They had one daughter, Laure, born on 17 November 1904, who...

23/05/1940 27 April 1875 – 14 July 1960
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie, Duc de Broglie 23/04/1953 15 August 1892 – 19 March 1987
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of...

25/11/1852 15 January 1801 – 18 February 1876
Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris...

09/06/1825 6 February 1770 – 7 October 1847
Detlev Wulf Bronk 27/05/1948 13 August 1897 – 17 November 1975
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer FRS , usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.-Biography:Early in his career,...

27/05/1948 28 February 1881 – 2 December 1966
Michael S. Brown 20/06/1991
Leopold von Buch 15/05/1828 26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen 25/11/1858 31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt 25/04/1968 24 March 1903 – 18 January 1995

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Name Election Date
Leon Charles Albert Calmette 05/05/1921 12 July 1863 – 29 October 1933
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Calvin
Melvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...

23/04/1959 8 April 1911 – 8 January 1997
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.-Biography:...

28/02/1918 11 April 1862 - ? 15 June 1938
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle 29/04/1869 ? 27 October 1806 – 4 April 1893
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle 18/04/1822 5 February 1778 – 9 September 1841
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro, FRS was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860.-Biography:...

05/12/1889 13 July 1826 – 10 May 1910
Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon, M.D. was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term fight or flight response, and he expanded on Claude Bernard's concept of homeostasis...

11/05/1939 19 October 1871 – 2 October 1945
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Axel Edvard Carleson is a Swedish mathematician, known as a leader in the field of harmonic analysis.-Life:He was a student of Arne Beurling and received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in 1950...

17/06/1993
Francesco Carlini
Francesco Carlini
Francesco Carlini was an Italian astronomer. Born in Milan, he became director of the observatory there in 1832. He published Nuove tavole de moti apparenti del sole in 1832. In 1810, he had already published Esposizione di un nuovo metodo di construire le taole astronomiche applicato alle...

09/06/1832 8 January 1783 – 29 August 1862
Elie Joseph Cartan 01/05/1947 9 April 1869 – 6 May 1951
Henri Paul Cartan 22/04/1971
John Edward Casida
John E. Casida
John Edward Casida is an American entomologist, toxicologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.- Birth and education :...

14/05/1998
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir 23/04/1970 15 July 1909 – 4 May 2000
Torbjorn Oskar Caspersson 20/04/1978 15 October 1910 – 7 December 1997
Jean Dominique Cassini, Count of Thury
Dominique, comte de Cassini
This article is about the French astronomer. For his Italian-born great-grandfather, see Giovanni Domenico Cassini.Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini was a French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury....

30/04/1789 30 June 1748 – 18 October 1845
William A. Catterall 16/05/2008
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra exploited by earlier authors...

09/06/1832 21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857
Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery 27/05/1948 5 September 1868 – 13 July 1958
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford University since 1970 .-Books:...

18/06/1992
Catherine Jeanne Cesarsky 26/05/2005
Britton Chance
Britton Chance
Britton Chance was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry and Radiological Physics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.At the 1952 Summer Olympics, Chance won a gold medal in...

09/04/1981
Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Chaptal
Jean-Antoine Claude, comte Chaptal de Chanteloup was a French chemist and statesman. He established chemical works for the manufacture of the mineral acids, soda and other substances...

09/06/1825 ? 4 June 1756 – 30 July 1832
Michel Chasles
Michel Chasles
Michel Floréal Chasles was a French mathematician.He was born at Épernon in France and studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris under Siméon Denis Poisson. In the War of the Sixth Coalition he was drafted to fight in the defence of Paris in 1814...

15/06/1854 15 November 1793 – 18 December 1880
Henry Louis Le Chatelier 26/06/1913 8 October 1850 – 17 September 1936
Jean Baptiste Auguste Chauveau 05/12/1889 21 November 1827 – 4 January 1917
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...

27/06/1985 26 October 1911 – 3 December 2004
Michel Eugene Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt...

23/11/1826 31 August 1786 – 9 April 1889
Rudolph Julius Emmanuel Clausius 26/03/1868 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888
Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloizeaux
Alfred Des Cloizeaux
Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and afterwards at the Muséum National...

08/04/1875 17 October 1817 – 6 May 1897
Ernst Julius Cohen 29/04/1926 7 March 1869 - c 5 March 1944
Ferdinand Julius Cohn 04/03/1897 24 January 1828 - ? 26 June 1898
Kenneth Stewart Cole
Kenneth Stewart Cole
Kenneth Stewart Cole was an American biophysicist described by his peers as "a pioneer in the application of physical science to biology". Cole was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1967.-Biography:...

27/04/1972 10 July 1900 – 18 April 1984
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was a chemist, educational administrator, and government official. As thePresident of Harvard University he reformed it as a research institution.-Biography :...

29/03/1941 27 March 1893 – 11 February 1978
Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis...

14/05/1998
Carl Ferdinand Cori
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James F. Crow
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