List of Fellows of the Royal Society G,H,I
Encyclopedia
About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
Below is an list of people who are or were Fellows or Foreign Members of the Royal Society.
The date of election to the Fellowship follows the name.
Dates in brackets relate to an award or event associated with the person.
The Society maintains complete online list.
List of Fellows of the Royal Society
A,B,C D,E,F G,H,I J,K,L M,N,O P,Q,R S,T,U,V W,X,Y,Z

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Name Election Date
Erwin Gabathuler 15/03/1990 Nuclear Physicist
Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....

15/03/1956 6 June 1900 - 9 February 1979 physicist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 (1971)
Pieter Gabry 15/03/1753
John Henry Gaddum 22/03/1945 31 March 1900 - 30 June 1965
Hans Friedrich Gadow
Hans Friedrich Gadow
Hans Friedrich Gadow was a German ornithologist.Gadow was born in Pomerania, the son of an inspector of the Prussian royal forests. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. At Jena he studied under Ernst Haeckel and at Heidelberg under the anatomist Karl Gegenbaur...

02/06/1892 8 March 1855 - 16 May 1928
David Christopher Gadsby 26/05/2005 American Physiologist
Joseph Gaertner
Joseph Gaertner
Joseph Gaertner was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum ....

12/11/1761 12 March 1732 - ? 14 July 1791
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage
Thomas Gage, 1st Viscount Gage Bt was the son of Joseph Gage of Sherborne Castle and Elizabeth Penruddock.He married Benedicta Maria Theresa Hall in 1717. Gage's first son was born in 1718...

19/12/1728
William Tennant Gairdner
William Tennant Gairdner
Sir William Tennant Gairdner was a Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.-Personal life:William Tennant Gardiner was the son of Dr. John Gairdner, a physician in Edinburgh, and was born there on 8 November 1824. He was the elder brother of the historian James Gairdner...

01/06/1893 8 November 1824 - 28 June 1907
Ernest Frederick Gale 19/03/1953 15 July 1914 – 7 March 2005
Michael Denis Gale
Michael Denis Gale
Michael Denis Gale FRS was a British plant geneticist.He studied at Birmingham University, and Aberystwyth University with Hubert Rees...

14/03/1996
Roger Gale
Roger Gale (antiquary)
Roger Gale was an English scholar and antiquary as well as a Member of Parliament for Northallerton. His father was an ecclesiastic and professor at Cambridge, which the younger Gale also attended. After his graduation, Gale briefly served as a diplomat in France, as well as holding a position as...

28/03/1717 1672 - 25 June 1744 antiquary
Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale was an English classical scholar, antiquarian and cleric.-Life:He was born at Scruton, Yorkshire...

06/12/1677 ? 1636 - ? 8 April 1702
Celestino Galiani 23/01/1735 1681–1753
Charles Hyacinth Antoine Gallean 10/11/1763 18 September 1737 - supposed sovereign prince
Prince Demetrius Gallitzin 19/04/1798 21 December 1738 - 21 March 1803 Russian ambassador to France/Netherlands
Thomas Galloway
Thomas Galloway
Thomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician born in Symington, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1812 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself in mathematics...

18/12/1834 27 February 1796 - 1 November 1851
Gallucci 20/11/1706 fl 1706 aka Gatucci or Gatuzzi
Douglas Strutt Galton
Douglas Strutt Galton
Sir Douglas Strutt Galton KCB, GCB, F.R.S., MStJ, Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, DCL, LLD was a British engineer.-Education and early life:...

09/06/1859 ? 2 July 1822 - ? 18 March 1899
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...

07/06/1860 17 February 1822 - 17 January 1911
Samuel Galton
Samuel Galton, Jr.
Samuel "John" Galton Jr. FRS , born in Duddeston, Birmingham, England. Despite being a Quaker he was an arms manufacturer. He was a member of the Lunar Society and lived at Great Barr Hall.He married Lucy Barclay...

08/12/1785 1753–1832
Antonio Galvao 15/04/1725 fl 1725 - 1730 Portuguese ambassador
James Gambier 23/03/1738
Frederick William Gamble 02/05/1907 13 July 1869 - 14 September 1926
James Sykes Gamble
James Sykes Gamble
James Sykes Gamble FRS was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent.He was born in London, the son of Harpur Gamble, M.D...

01/06/1899 2 July 1847 - 16 October 1925
William Alexander Gambling
William Alexander Gambling
William Alexander Gambling FRS, FREng is a British electrical engineer.-Life:From 1950 to 1955, he was lecturer in electric power engineering at the University of Liverpool....

17/03/1983
Arthur Gamgee
Arthur Gamgee
Arthur Gamgee FRS was a British biochemist.Arthur Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, an Edinburgh veterinarian, and his wife Mary Ann West. He was born in Florence, Italy, where his father had a practice, but his family moved back to England when he was fourteen years old...

06/06/1872 10 October 1841 - 29 March 1909
Charon Robin Ganellin 20/03/1986
Rene Jacques Croissant de Garangeot 09/01/1729 30 June 1688 - 10 December 1759 French surgeon
Laurent Garcin 22/10/1730 1683 - 1751 French physician & botanist
Alexander Garden
Alexander Garden
Alexander Gardens was one of the first urban public parks in Moscow, Russia. The park comprises three separate gardens, which stretch along all the length of the western Kremlin wall for between the building of the Moscow Manege and the Kremlin.-History:...

10/06/1773 January 1730 - 15 April 1791
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner
John Stanley Gardiner FRS was a British zoologist and oceanographer.He was born in Belfast in 1872. His research career began in 1896 when he took part in the Royal Society's expedition to Funafuti atoll in the South Pacific ; from then onwards he was recognized as an authority on the distribution...

07/05/1908 24 January 1872 - 28 February 1946
Samuel John Gardiner 04/04/1816 ? 1792 - ? 1854 Clergyman
Walter Gardiner
Walter Gardiner
Walter Gardiner, FLS, FRS was a British botanist. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, and was a Fellow there and Lecturer in Botany at the University. He was a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1890...

05/06/1890 1 September 1859 - 31 August 1941
Richard Lavenham Gardner 15/03/1979
Christopher David Garner 15/05/1997
William Edward Garner 06/05/1937 12 May 1889 - 4 March 1960 chemist, Bristol Universiry
Percy Cyril Claude Garnham 19/03/1964 15 January 1901 - 25 December 1994
Christopher John Raymond Garrett 11/03/1993
Stephen Denis Garrett 16/03/1967 1 November 1906 - 26 December 1989
Alfred Henry Garrod
Alfred Henry Garrod
Alfred Henry Garrod FRS was an English vertebrate zoologist.Garrod was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod , a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout...

01/06/1876 18 May 1846 - 17 October 1879
Alfred Baring Garrod
Alfred Baring Garrod
Sir Alfred Baring Garrod FRS was an English physician.He was born in Ipswich, the son of Robert and Sarah Garrod.He initially apprenticed at Ipswich Hospital, and later moved to University College Hospital, where he earned his medical doctorate in 1843. Afterwards he was an assistant at West...

03/06/1858 13 May 1819 - 28 December 1907
Archibald Edward Garrod 05/05/1910 25 November 1857 - 28 March 1936
William Garrow
William Garrow
Sir William Garrow KC, PC, FRS was a British barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today...

05/03/1807 13 April 1760 - 24 September 1840
Edward Garth-Turnour, 1st Earl Winterton 02/04/1767 1734 - 10 August 1788
Samuel Garth
Samuel Garth
Sir Samuel Garth FRS was an English physician and poet.Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1676, graduating B.A. in 1679 and...

05/06/1706 1661 - 18 January 1719
Maxwell Garthshore
Maxwell Garthshore
Maxwell Garthshore was a fellow of the Royal Society.He was elected to membership in the society on March 23, 1775.-Further reading:* Dictionary of National Biography...

23/03/1775 28 October 1732 - 1 March 1812
George Alan Garton 16/03/1978 4 June 1922 - 13 May 2010 Biochemist, Aberdeen
William Reginald Stephen Garton 20/03/1969 7 March 1912 – 28 August 2002
Edmund Johnston Garwood
Edmund Johnston Garwood
Edmund Johnston Garwood was a British geologist and President of the Geological Society of London from 1930 to 1932....

07/05/1914 18 May 1864 - 12 June 1949
Bernard Gascoigne 20/06/1667 1614 - 10 January 1687
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury 30/05/1957 27 August 1893 - 23 February 1972
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 28/01/1869 4 February 1830 - 22 August 1903
Walter Holbrook Gaskell 08/06/1882 1 November 1847 - 7 September 1914
Thomas Gaskin 21/03/1839 13 May 1809 - 17 February 1887
Ian Graham Gass
Ian Graham Gass
Ian Graham Gass, FRS, geologist, was Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of Discipline at the Open University, Milton Keynes and he was President of the IAVCEI . He was married to Mary Pearce ....

17/03/1983 20 March 1926 - 8 October 1992
John Le Gassick 11/12/1673
John Peter Gassiot
John Peter Gassiot
John Peter Gassiot FRS was an English businessman and amateur scientist and who was particularly associated with public demonstrations of electrical phenomena and the development of the Royal Society.-Life:...

09/04/1840 2 April 1797 - 15 August 1877
Michael Gaster 21/03/1985
Reginald Ruggles Gates
Reginald Ruggles Gates
Reginald Ruggles Gates , was a Canadian born anthropologist, botanist, and geneticist. He did most of his work in the United Kingdom and the United States. He received his Bachelor of Science from McGill University with further education in Chicago and London. He did botanical work in Missouri in...

07/05/1931 1 May 1882 - 12 August 1962
Sidney Barrington Gates 16/03/1950 3 February 1893 - 12 June 1973
Hieronymous David Gaubius 23/02/1764 25 February 1705 - 29 November 1780
John Gauden
John Gauden
John Gauden was an English bishop of Exeter then bishop of Worcester and writer, and the reputed author of the important Royalist work Eikon Basilike.-Life:...

04/12/1661 c 1605–1662 Original
Karl Friedrich Gauss 12/04/1804 31 April 1777 - 23 February 1855
Nicholas Gay 15/11/1798
Robert Gay 06/11/1718
Alfred Gordon Gaydon
Alfred Gordon Gaydon
Alfred Gordon Gaydon was a leading spectroscopist and combustion scientist. He was responsible for developing the shock tube as a means to study flames and combustion, and has been awarded the Rumford Medal and was a fellow of the Royal Society of London.He is perhaps best known, however, for his...

19/03/1953 26 September 1911 – 16 April 2004
Raymond Michael Gaze 16/03/1972
Francis Geach 07/05/1767 1724–1798
Geoffrey Gee 15/03/1951 6 June 1910 - ? 13 December 1996
Orlando Gee 30/11/1717 fl 1717 - 1723
Alexander Geekie 30/11/1710
Walter Jakob Gehring
Walter Jakob Gehring
Walter Jakob Gehring is Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D...

15/05/1997
James Murdoch Geikie
James Geikie
James Geikie was a Scottish geologist.He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Stuart Geikie and younger brother of Sir Archibald Geikie...

03/06/1875 23 August 1839 - 1 March 1915
Archibald Geikie
Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE , was a Scottish geologist and writer.-Early life:Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie...

01/06/1865 28 December 1835 - 10 November 1924, PRS 1908-1913
Andre Konstantin Geim
Andre Geim
Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS is a Dutch-Russian-British physicist working at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene...

17/05/2007 physicist
Philip George Houthem Gell
Philip George Houthem Gell
Philip George Houthem Gell was an immunologist working in postwar Britain.Together with Robin Coombs, he developed the Gell-Coombs classification. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969.-References:...

20/03/1969 20 October 1914 - 3 May 2001
William Gell
William Gell
Sir William Gell was an English classical archaeologist and illustrator.-Life:Born at Hopton in Derbyshire, the son of Philip Gell and Dorothy Milnes...

16/04/1807 1778 - 4 February 1836
James Fairlie Gemmill 15/05/1924 28 November 1867 - 10 February 1926
Adrien Marie Le Gendre 30/04/1789 18 September 1752 - ? 10 January 1833
Jean Alexandre Genevois 19/02/1761 fl 1761
Claude Joseph Geoffroy
Claude Joseph Geoffroy
Claude Joseph Geoffroy was the brother of Étienne François Geoffroy.Like his brother, he was an apothecary and chemist. Having a considerable knowledge of botany, he devoted himself especially to the study of the essential oils in plants....

09/06/1715 8 August 1685 - 9 March 1752
Etienne Francois Geoffroy
Étienne François Geoffroy
Étienne François Geoffroy , French physician and chemist, best known for his 1718 affinity tables. He first contemplated a career as an apothecary, but then decided to practice medicine. He is sometimes known as Geoffroy the Elder.-Biography:He was born in Paris...

06/07/1698 14 February 1672 - 6 January 1731
George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland
George II of Great Britain
George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain. He was born and brought up in Northern Germany...

11/07/1727 10 November 1683 - 25 October 1760 Royal
George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland
George IV of the United Kingdom
George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...

18/05/1820 12 August 1762 - 25 June 1830 Royal
George V, King of Great Britain and Ireland
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....

08/06/1893 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936 Royal
George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...

16/06/1932 15 December 1895 - 6 February 1952 Royal Fellow; Patron 1936
George, Prince of Denmark 30/11/1704 23 April 1653 - 28 October 1708 Royal
Thomas Neville George
Thomas Neville George
Thomas Neville George FRS was a British geologist.-References:...

21/03/1963 13 May 1904 - 18 June 1980
John Georges
John Georges
John Georges is a New Orleans, Louisiana, businessman who formerly served on the Louisiana Board of Regents, the body which supervises higher education in his native state....

30/11/1719 fl 1719 - 1738
Henry Walther Gerdes 12/05/1726 24 August 1690 - January 1742
Christian Ludwig Gersten
Christian Ludwig Gersten
Christian Ludwig Gersten was a German scientist.He was born in Gießen, a town in the German federal state of Hessen. He studied law and mathematics at the University of Gießen and in the beginning of 1730s he travelled to London, England, to improve his mathematical knowledge. In London in 1733 he...

25/10/1733 7 February 1701 - 13 August 1762
Michel Agnola Giacomelli 06/11/1740 11 September 1695 - 17 April 1774
Alexander Gibb
Alexander Gibb
Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS was a Scottish civil engineer.Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the grandson of John Gibb, a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers...

07/05/1936 12
Claude Dixon Gibb 21/03/1946 29 June 1898 - 15 January 1959
George Smith Gibbes 18/02/1796 1771 - 23 June 1851
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament...

27/11/1788 27 April 1737 - 16 January 1794
Gary William Gibbons
Gary Gibbons
Gary William Gibbons , FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons studied in Cambridge,where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to Oxford, he became a student of Stephen Hawking, obtaining his PhD from Cambridge in 1973...

13/05/1999
Ian Read Gibbons 17/03/1983
James Gibbs
James Gibbs
James Gibbs was one of Britain's most influential architects. Born in Scotland, he trained as an architect in Rome, and practised mainly in England...

16/10/1729 23 December 1682 - 5 August 1754
Alan Frank Gibson 16/03/1978 30 May 1923 - 27 March 1988
Charles Stanley Gibson 07/05/1931 9 February 1884 - 24 March 1950
Frank William Ernest Gibson 18/03/1976
Quentin Howieson Gibson 20/03/1969 9 December 1918 - 16 March 2011
Vernon Charles Gibson 27/05/2004
Walcot Gibson
Walcot Gibson
Walcot Gibson was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1925 and won the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1924.-References:...

07/05/1925 24 August 1864 - 28 November 1941
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury 13/01/1887 3 September 1823 - 11 December 1921
John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury 20/03/1969 4 June 1908 - 4 January 2000
Sir Robert Giffen 02/06/1892 22 July 1837 - ? 10 April 1910
James William Gilbart
James William Gilbart
James William Gilbart banker and author.He was the General Manager of the London and Westminster Bank 1833–1859, one of the first joint-stock banks in England....

18/06/1846 21 March 1794 - 8 August 1863
Davies Gilbert
Davies Gilbert
Davies Gilbert FRS was a British engineer, author, and politician. He was elected to the Royal Society on 17 November 1791 and served as President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830....

17/11/1791 6 March 1767 - 24 December 1839, PRS 1827-1830
Geoffrey Alan Gilbert 15/03/1973 3 December 1917 – 1 March 2005
John Davies Gilbert
John Davies Gilbert
John Davies Gilbert was a land owner, born in Eastbourne the son of Davies Gilbert and Mary Ann Gilbert.John Davies Gilbert and his son, Carew Davies Gilbert played a major role, as landowners, in the development of the town of Eastbourne and also developed Trelissick Garden in Feock, Cornwall.In...

10/04/1834 5 December 1811 - 16 April 1854
Jeffrey Gilbert
Jeffrey Gilbert (judge)
Jeffrey Gilbert was an English judge and author who was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in both Ireland and England and later became renowned for his legal treatises, none of which were published in his lifetime.-Family and early career:...

12/05/1726 1674 - 14 October 1726 Chief Baron of Exchequer
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert was an English chemist, noteworthy for his long career spent improving the methods of practical agriculture. He was a fellow of the Royal Society.-Life:...

07/06/1860 1 August 1817 - 23 December 1901
Percy Carlyle Gilchrist 04/06/1891 27 December 1851 - ? 16 December 1935
Moreton Gilkes 24/04/1735
Adrian Edward Gill
Adrian Gill
Adrian Edmund Gill FRS was an Australian meteorologist and oceanographer best known for his textbook Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics . Gill was born in Melbourne Australia and worked at Cambridge, serving as Senior Research Fellow from 1963 to 1984 .He was chair of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere...

20/03/1986 23 February 1937 - 19 April 1986
David Gill
David Gill (astronomer)
Sir David Gill FRS was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy. He spent much of his career in South Africa.- Life and work :...

07/06/1883 12 June 1843 - 24 January 1914
Westby Gill 07/02/1740 1679 - October 1746
Hugh Gillan 12/02/1795
Ronald James Gillespie 17/03/1977
John Gillies
John Gillies
John Gillies was a Scottish historian and classical scholar.-Life:He was born at Brechin, in Forfarshire and was educated at the University of Glasgow, where, at the age of twenty, he acted for a short time as substitute for the professor of Greek. He lived for a while in Germany and returned in...

29/01/1789 18 January 1747 - 15 February 1836
John Gillon 23/03/1809 c 1748 - 14 December 1809
James Gimzewski
James Gimzewski
James Kazimierz Gimzewski is a Scottish physicist of Polish descent who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy.-Background:...

15/05/2009
Jean Patrice Piers de Girardin 27/04/1732 fl 1732
John Girle 07/02/1754
Thomas Gisborne 16/11/1758
Hieronymus Giuntini 27/05/1731
Lynn Faith Gladden 27/05/2004
John Hall Gladstone
John Hall Gladstone
John Hall Gladstone FRS was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society...

02/06/1853 7 March 1827 - 6 October 1902
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

13/01/1881 29 December 1809 - 19 May 1898
James Glaisher
James Glaisher
James Glaisher FRS , was an English meteorologist and aeronaut.Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker, Glaisher was a Junior assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1833 to 1835 before moving to the Royal Greenwich Observatories, where he served as Superintendent of the Department...

07/06/1849 8 April 1809 - 7 February 1903
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher son of James Glaisher, the meteorologist, was a prolific English mathematician.He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was second wrangler in 1871...

03/06/1875 5 November 1848 - 7 December 1928
Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill
Joseph Glanvill was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called "the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi", or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century.-Life:He was...

14/12/1664 1636 - 4 November 1680
William Henry Glanville
William Glanville
Sir William Henry Glanville CB CBE was a British civil engineer. During WWII he and the Road Research Laboratory were involved in important war work, developing temporary runways, beach analysis, and tank and aircraft design...

20/03/1958 2 February 1900 - 30 June 1976
David Victor Glass 18/03/1971 2 January 1911 - 23 September 1978, demographer
Samuel Glasse 05/07/1764 1735 - 27 April 1812
Hermann Glauert
Hermann Glauert
Hermann Glauert, FRS was a British aerodynamicist and Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until December 1934....

07/05/1931 4 October 1892 - 4 August 1934
Richard Tetley Glazebrook 08/06/1882 18 September 1854 - 15 December 1935
James Glenie
James Glenie
James Glenie was a Scottish-born businessman and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Sunbury County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1789 to 1809....

18/03/1779 1750 - 23 November 1817
Alexander Thomas Glenny 16/03/1944 18 September 1882 - 5 October 1965
Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets...

06/03/1661 1597 - ? 14 October 1677 Original
David Moore Glover 15/05/2009
George Glover 09/06/1832 1778 - 4 May 1862 Clergyman
Keith Glover 11/03/1993
Philips Glover 02/05/1723 1697 - ? 18 June 1745
Peter David Gluckman
Peter Gluckman
Sir Peter David Gluckman, KNZM, FRS, FMedSc, FRSNZ is a New Zealand scientist who is the first Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. -Life:...

10/05/2001
Eugen Glueckauf
Eugen Glueckauf
Eugen Glueckauf was a German-born British expert on nuclear power.After an education at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, he escaped from the Nazis to London...

20/03/1969 9 April 1906 - 12 September 1981
Ian Michael Glynn
Ian Glynn
Ian Michael Glynn FRS FRCP is a British biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge, 1986–95, now Professor Emeritus...

19/03/1970
Joseph Glynn
Joseph Glynn (engineer)
Joseph Glynn, FRS was a British steam engine designer.He was born the son of James Glynn of the Ouseburn Iron Foundry in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and taught by John Bruce at the Percy Street Academy....

08/02/1838 7 February 1799 - 6 February 1863 Steam Engineer
Philip Friedrich Gmelin 16/02/1758 19 August 1721 - 9 May 1768
Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard was an English physician, known both as army surgeon to the forces of Oliver Cromwell, and as an active member of the Royal Society.-Life:...

28/11/1660 c 1617 - 24 March 1675
Peter Goddard 16/03/1989
Hugh Charles Jonathan Godfray 10/05/2001
Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz 22/01/1730 1660 - 15 January 1741
John Godfrey
John Godfrey
John Ferguson Godfrey, PC is a Canadian educator, journalist and former Member of Parliament.- Education :He was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey , was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960...

10/11/1715 fl 1715
Louis Godin
Louis Godin
Louis Godin was a French astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences. He worked in Peru, Spain, Portugal and France.-Biography:...

27/03/1735 29 February 1704 - 11 September 1760
Frederick DuCane Godman
Frederick DuCane Godman
Frederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....

08/06/1882 15 January 1834 - 19
William Godolphin
William Godolphin (diplomat)
Sir William Godolphin was an English diplomat and Member of Parliament.Godolphin was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, gaining the degrees of Master of Arts in 1661 and Doctor of Civil Law in 1663...

02/11/1664 ? February 1635 - 11 July 1696
William Man Godschall 16/02/1758 c 1719 - 1 December 1802
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU , was an English topographer, geologist and surveyor.The eldest son of Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen, Godwin-Austen was born in Teignmouth...

03/06/1880 6 July 1834 - 2 December 1923
Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen 07/06/1849 19 March 1808 - 25 November 1884
George Godwin
George Godwin
George Godwin FRS was an influential architect, journalist, and editor of The Builder magazine.He was one of nine children of the architect George Godwin senior and trained at his father's architectural practice in Kensington where he set up in business with his brother Henry Godwin .Encouraged...

07/03/1839 28 January 1815 - 27 January 1888
Harry Godwin
Harry Godwin
Sir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:...

22/03/1945 9 May 1901 - 12 August 1985
Michel Goedert 11/05/2000
Ernest Gold
Ernest Gold (meteorologist)
Ernest Gold CB DSO OBE FRS was a British meteorologist.- References :* ‘GOLD, Ernest’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 * http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976QJRMS.102..945....

02/05/1918 24 July 1881 - 30 January 1976 meteorologist
Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold
Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society . Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed the now mostly abandoned 'steady...

19/03/1964 22 May 1920 – 22 June 2004, physicist, astronomer
Victor Gold
Victor Gold (chemist)
Victor Gold was a chemist who served on the faculty of King's College, London.Gold was born in Vienna, the son of lawyer Oscar Gold and his first wife, the former Emmy Kopperl. He was raised primarily by his mother...

16/03/1972 29 June 1922 - 29 September 1985
George Dashwood Taubman Goldie
George Taubman Goldie
Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie was a Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria...

15/05/1902 20 May 1846 - 20 August 1925
John Goldingham
John Goldingham
John Goldingham was the first official astronomer of the Madras Observatory, appointed in 1802. Goldingham headed the Madras Survey School later which grew into the Guindy Engineering College and then Anna University...

26/05/1808 c 1766 - ? 7 June 1849
Peter Martin Goldreich
Peter Goldreich
Peter Goldreich is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a...

27/05/2004 U.S. astrophysicist
George Ridsdale Goldsbrough 02/05/1929 19 May 1881 - 26 May 1963
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Isaac Lyon Goldsmid
Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Baronet was a financier and one of the leading figures in the Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom....

13/03/1828 13 January 1778 - 27 April 1859
Sydney Goldstein
Sydney Goldstein
Sydney Goldstein FRS was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics. He is described as:...

06/05/1937 3 December 1903 - 22 January 1989, fluid mechanics
Jeffrey Goldstone
Jeffrey Goldstone
Jeffrey Goldstone is a British-born theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.He worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977....

17/03/1977
William Gomildon 11/11/1663
Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz was a British self educated mathematician and actuary, who became a Fellow of the Royal Society...

28/01/1819 5 March 1779 - 14 July 1865, actuary mathematician
John Mason Good
John Mason Good
John Mason Good , English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects, was born at Epping, Essex.John Good's parents were the Nonconformist minister Revd Peter Good and Sarah Good, the daughter of another Nonconformist minister, Revd Henry Peyto of Great Coggeshall...

31/03/1808 25 May 1764 - 2 January 1827
Edmund Goodenough
Edmund Goodenough
-Life:Goodenough was the youngest son of Samuel Goodenough, bishop of Carlisle, by his wife, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dr. James Ford, physician extraordinary to Queen Charlotte, was born at Baling, Middlesex, on 3 April 1785. At an early age he was sent to Westminster School, where in 1797,...

01/04/1824 6 April 1785 - 2 May 1845
George Trenchard Goodenough 06/12/1787 1743 -
Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle
Samuel Goodenough
Samuel Goodenough was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1808 until his death in 1827, and an amateur botanist and collector. He is honoured in the scientific names of the plant genus Goodenia and the Red-capped Robin .-Life:Born at Kimpton, near Weyhill, Hampshire, on 29 April 1743 , he was the third...

14/05/1789 29 April 1743 - 12 August 1827
Charles Frederick Goodeve 14/03/1940 22 February 1904 - 7 April 1980
Tom Goodey 20/03/1947 28 July 1885 - 7 July 1953
Peter Neville Goodfellow 12/03/1992
Christopher Carl Goodnow
Chris Goodnow
Professor Chris Goodnow BVSc, PhD, FAA FRS is a Professor at the Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research , at the ANU's campus in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. He holds dual Australian and US citizenship...

15/05/2009
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich
Edwin Stephen Goodrich , was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946...

11/05/1905 21 June 1868 - 6 January 1946
John Goodricke
John Goodricke
John Goodricke FRS was an eminent and profoundly deaf amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol in 1782.- Life and work :...

06/04/1786 17 September 1764 - 20 April 1786
John Goodsir
John Goodsir
John Goodsir was a Scottish anatomist, born at Anstruther, Fife. He was a pioneer in the study of the cell.- Life :Goodsir was trained in St Andrews and Edinburgh...

11/06/1846 ? 20 March 1814 - 6 March 1867
Graham Clifford Goodwin
Graham Clifford Goodwin
Graham Clifford Goodwin is an Australian electrical engineer.He is ARC Federation Fellow and Laureate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia.-Life:...

09/05/2002
Leonard George Goodwin
Leonard Goodwin
Leonard George Goodwin CMG FRS was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was born in London to a shoe shop manager, and became interested in nature thanks to holidays spent with his grandfather, a...

18/03/1976
Trevor Walworth Goodwin 21/03/1968
Goodwyn 27/04/1681 fl 1681 Merchant
Coluthur Gopalan 19/03/1987
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and 5th Duke of Lennox KG, PC , styled Earl of March until in 1819, was a British soldier, politician and a prominent Conservative.-Background and education:...

02/04/1840 3 August 1791 - 21 October 1860
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon KT , styled Marquess of Huntly until 1752, was a Scottish nobleman, described by Kaimes as the "greatest subject in Britain", and was also known as the Cock o' the North, the traditional epithet attached to the chief of the Gordon clan.-Early life:Alexander...

24/06/1784 June 1743 - 17 June 1827
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen 28/04/1808 28 January 1784 - 14 December 1860
Henry Percy Gordon
Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet
Sir Henry Percy Gordon, 2nd Baronet FRS .He was the only son of Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet, succeeding to his father's title in 1851....

09/12/1830 21 October 1806 - 29 July 1876
James Alexander Gordon 02/04/1835 1793 - 18 April 1872 Physician
James Willoughby Gordon 11/06/1801 1773 - ? 4 January 1851
Mervyn Henry Gordon 15/05/1924 22 June 1872 - 26 July 1953
Michael John Caldwell Gordon 10/03/1994
Patrick Gordon 30/11/1694
Robert Gordon 03/02/1686 7 March 1647 - ? 5 October 1704 Scottish MP and courtier
Siamon Gordon 17/05/2007
Thomas Gordon
Thomas Gordon (British Army officer)
Major-General Thomas Gordon was a British army officer and historian. He is remembered for his role in the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s and 1830s and his History of the war published in 1833.- Early career :...

08/02/1821 8 December 1788 - 20 April 1841
George Gore 01/06/1865 22 January 1826 - ? 23 December 1908 Electrochemist, Birmingham
Peter Alfred Gorer
Peter Alfred Gorer
Peter Alfred Gorer FRS was a British immunologist, pathologist and geneticist who pioneered the field of transplant immunology....

24/03/1960 14 April 1907 - 11 May 1961
Antonio Francesco Gori
Antonio Francesco Gori
Antonio Francesco Gori, on his titlepages Franciscus Gorius was a Florentine antiquarian, a priest in minor orders, provost of the Baptistery of San Giovanni from 1746, and a professor at the Liceo, whose numerous publications of ancient Roman sculpture and antiquities formed part of the repertory...

04/05/1738 9 December 1691 - 21 January 1757
John Eldon Gorst
John Eldon Gorst
Sir John Eldon Gorst PC, QC, FRS was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Solicitor General for England and Wales from 1885 to 1886 and as Vice-President of the Committee on Education between 1895 and 1902....

17/12/1896 24 May 1835 - 4 April 1916
David de Gorter
David de Gorter
David de Gorter was a Dutch physician and botanist.He was professor at the then University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia...

21/02/1760 30 April 1717 - 1783
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen 18/01/1872 10 August 1831 - 7 February 1907
Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology...

05/06/1856 6 April 1810 - 23 August 1888
Isaac Gosset 18/06/1772 ? 1735 - 12 December 1812
George Gostling 12/12/1793 c 1745 - 27 May 1821
Francis Gotch
Francis Gotch
Francis Gotch was a British neurophysiologist who was professor of physiology at University College Liverpool and Oxford University.He was educated at London University....

02/06/1892 13 July 1853 - 15 July 1913
Georg Gottlob
Georg Gottlob
Georg Gottlob FRS is an Oxford-based Austrian computer scientist who works in the areas of database theory, logic, and artificial intelligence.Gottlob obtained his PhD in computer science at Vienna University of Technology in 1981...

20/05/2010
Douglas Owen Gough 15/05/1997
Herbert John Gough
H.J. Gough
Herbert John Gough, CB, MBE, FRS was a British engineer, and research director.-Life:Born Bermondsey, London, he attended the Regent Street Polytechnic, and won a scholarship to University College London. In 1909, he became an apprentice at Vickers, Sons in 1913. He graduated from the University...

11/05/1933 26 April 1890 - 1 June 1965, engineer at NPL and pioneer in metal fatigue
Metal Fatigue
Metal Fatigue , is a futuristic science fiction, real-time strategy computer game developed by Zono Incorporated and published by Psygnosis and TalonSoft .-Plot:...

Richard Gough
Richard Gough
Charles Richard Gough is a former Scottish football central defender who enjoyed great success as captain of Rangers. He also played for Scotland 61 times and had a brief spell as manager of Livingston...

09/03/1775 21 October 1735 - 20
Henry Goulburn
Henry Goulburn
Henry Goulburn PC FRS was an English Conservative statesman and a member of the Peelite faction after 1846.-Background and education:...

27/04/1820 19 March 1784 - 12 January 1856
John Gould
John Gould
John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...

19/01/1843 14 September 1804 - 03
William Gould 12/05/1774 c 1719 - 16 March 1799
William Gould 02/05/1683 c 1652 - ? October 1686 Physician
Jonathan Gouldsmyth 15/01/1730 ? May 1694 - ? 17 April 1732
James Learmonth Gowans
James Learmonth Gowans
-References:...

21/03/1963
William Richard Gowers
William Richard Gowers
Sir William Richard Gowers was a British neurologist.The Gowers' tract is named after him....

09/06/1887 20 March 1845 - 4 May 1915
William Timothy Gowers
William Timothy Gowers
William Timothy Gowers FRS is a British mathematician. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he also holds the Rouse Ball chair, and is a Fellow of Trinity College...

13/05/1999
William Gowland
William Gowland
William Gowland was an English mining engineer most famous for his archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He is known in Japan as the "Father of Japanese Archaeology", which is an exaggeration. He was a major founding figure....

07/05/1908 16 December 1842 - 10 June 1922
James de Graaff-Hunter 16/05/1935 11 September 1881 - 3 February 1967 Geodesist, Survey of India
John Hilton Grace
John Hilton Grace
John Hilton Grace was a British mathematician.-Early life:He was born in Halewood, near Liverpool, the eldest of the six children of a farmer. He was educated at the village school and the Liverpool Institute...

07/05/1908 21 May 1873 - 4 March 1958
Michael Anthony Grace 16/03/1967 13 May 1920 - 17 May 1988
William Graeme 30/04/1730 c 1700 - 19 February 1745 Fellow 30/04/1731
William Graeme 13/03/1766 fl 1766
George Stuart Graham-Smith 15/05/1919 25 September 1875 - 30 August 1950
Francis Graham-Smith
Francis Graham-Smith
Sir Francis Graham-Smith is a British astronomer. He was the thirteenth Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.He was educated at Rossall School, Lancashire, England...

19/03/1970
Aaron Graham 17/03/1785 fl 1785 Astronomer
Alastair Graham 15/03/1979 6 November 1906 - 12 December 2000 zoologist
Christopher Forbes Graham 19/03/1981
George Graham
George Graham (clockmaker)
George Graham was an English clockmaker, inventor, and geophysicist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was born to George Graham in Kirklinton, Cumberland. A Friend like his mentor Thomas Tompion, Graham left Cumberland in 1688 for London to work with Tompion...

09/03/1721 7 July 1673 - ? 20 November 1751
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke and 4th Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish aristocratic statesman in the early eighteenth century....

28/05/1707 c 1680 - 7 January 1742
Richard Graham 17/11/1726 8 March 1693 - 8 May 1749 Comptroller of Westminster Bridge
James Robert George Graham 22/12/1831 1 June 1792 - 25 October 1861
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham (chemist)
Thomas Graham FRS was a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist who is best-remembered today for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases.- Life and work :...

15/12/1836 ? 20 December 1805 - ? 11 September 1869
Richard Dugard Grainger
Richard Dugard Grainger
Richard Dugard Grainger FRCS FRS was an English surgeon, anatomist and physiologist.Grainger was born in Birmingham, the son of a surgeon, and educated at a grammar school. He was the brother of Edward Grainger, whose anatomical school he carried forward...

22/01/1846 1801 - 1 February 1865
Guido Grandi
Guido Grandi
thumb|Guido GrandiDom Guido Grandi, O.S.B. Cam., was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, mathematician, and engineer.-Life:...

04/05/1709 1 October 1671 - 4 July 1742
Jacobus Grandi 01/12/1690 1646 - 11
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI, CIE, PC FRS , known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author...

03/02/1881 22 February 1829 - ? 12 January 1906
Barbara Rosemary Grant
Peter and Rosemary Grant
Peter Raymond Grant and Barbara Rosemary Grant, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major...

17/05/2007
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator.-Background and education:...

27/03/1828 26 October 1778 - 23 April 1866
Ian Philip Grant
Ian Grant
Ian Grant is a British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a founding member of University of Oxford's Department of Theoretical Chemistry in 1972....

12/03/1992
James Augustus Grant
James Augustus Grant
James Augustus Grant, CB, CSI, FRS, FRGS was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa.Grant was born at Nairn in the Scottish Highlands, where his father was the parish minister, and educated at the grammar school and Marischal College, Aberdeen. In 1846 he joined the Indian army...

12/06/1873 12 April 1827 - 11 February 1892
John Grant 11/11/1779 fl 1779 President of Royal Institution
Lewis Alexander Grant 10/03/1791 fl 1791
Peter Raymond Grant
Peter and Rosemary Grant
Peter Raymond Grant and Barbara Rosemary Grant, a married couple, are both British evolutionary biologists at Princeton University; each holds the position of Emeritus Professor. They are noted for their work concerning Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Island named Daphne Major...

19/03/1987
Robert Grant
Robert Grant (astronomer)
Robert Grant was a Scottish astronomer.Overcoming health problems and financial difficulties, he published in 1852 the complete text of his book The History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century...

01/06/1865 17 June 1814 - 24 October 1892 astronomer
Robert Edmond Grant
Robert Edmond Grant
Robert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University as a physician. He became one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently the first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London...

04/02/1836 11 November 1793 - 23 August 1874
Ronald Thomson Grant 03/05/1934 5 November 1892 - 7 November 1989
Sir Thomas Tassell Grant
Sir Thomas Tassell Grant
Sir Thomas Tassell Grant KCB FRS was a notable inventor in the 19th century.He was born in Portsea, Hampshire, the son of Thomas and Ann Grant of Soberton, Hampshire....

21/05/1840 1795 - 15 October 1859
Augustus Bozzi Granville
Augustus Granville
Augustus Bozzi Granville MD, FRS was a physician, writer, and Italian patriot.Born in Milan, he studied medicine before leaving to avoid being enlisted in Napoleon's army. After practicing medicine in Greece, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal, he joined the British Navy and sailed to the West Indies...

20/11/1817 7 October 1783 - 3 March 1872, 1817, physician and writer
John Graunt
John Graunt
John Graunt was one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Born in London, the eldest of seven or eight children of Henry and Mary Graunt. His father was a draper who had moved to London from Hampshire...

26/02/1662 24 April 1620 - 18 April 1674
William Gravatt 02/02/1832 14 July 1806 - 30 May 1866 civil engineer
Charles Graves
Charles Graves (bishop)
The Rt. Rev. Charles Graves, F.R.S., D.D., LL.D. was a 19th Century Anglican Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. He was also a mathematician.-Early life:...

03/06/1880 6 November 1812 - 17 July 1899
John Thomas Graves 18/04/1839 4 December 1806 - 29 March 1870 Barrister
Robert James Graves
Robert James Graves
Robert James Graves, M.D., F.R.C.S. was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science...

06/06/1850 ? 27 March 1797 - 20 March 1853
Andrew Gray
Andrew Gray (physicist)
Andrew Gray was a Scottish physicist and mathematician.Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and studied at the University of Glasgow , where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876...

04/06/1896 2 July 1847 - 10 October 1925
Charles Gray
Charles Gray (MP)
Charles Gray FRS was a lawyer, antiquary and Tory Member of Parliament for Colchester....

13/06/1754 1696–1782
Edward George Gray 18/03/1976 11 January 1924 - 14 August 1999
Edward Whitaker Gray
Edward Whitaker Gray
Edward Whitaker Gray , English botanist and secretary to the Royal Society, was uncle of Samuel Frederick Gray, author of The Practical Chemist.-Educational and professional roles:...

11/02/1779 1748 - 27 December 1806 Librarian, RCP
Francis Gray, 14th Baron Gray 15/02/1816 1 September 1765 - 20 August 1842
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years...

01/06/1865 ? July 1808 - 5 May 1872
George William Gray
George William Gray
George William Gray CBE, FRS is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible...

17/03/1983
Henry Gray
Henry Gray
Henry Gray was an English anatomist and surgeon most notable for publishing the book Gray's Anatomy. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 25.-Biography:...

03/06/1852 c 1827 - ? 8 June 1861
James Gray
James Gray (zoologist)
- External links :*...

02/05/1929 14 October 1891 - 14 December 1975
John Gray 16/03/1732
John Archibald Browne Gray 16/03/1972 30 March 1918 - 4 January 2011
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....

02/02/1832 13 February 1800 - 7 March 1875
Joseph Alexander Gray 05/05/1932 8 February 1884 - 5 March 1966 Physicist
Louis Harold Gray
Louis Harold Gray
Louis Harold Gray was a British physicist who worked mainly on the effects of radiation on biological systems, inventing the field of radiobiology as he went. A summary of his work is given below...

16/03/1961 10 November 1905 - 8 July 1965
Peter Gray 17/03/1977
Robert Gray 02/05/1728 fl 1728 - 1731 East India Coy Factor
Stephen Gray
Stephen Gray (scientist)
Stephen Gray was an English dyer and amateur astronomer, who was the first to systematically experiment with electrical conduction, rather than simple generation of static charges and investigations of the static phenomena....

25/01/1733 ? 1666 - ? 25 February 1736
Richard Wilson Greatheed 21/11/1793 fl 1793
Thomas Greatorex
Thomas Greatorex
Thomas Greatorex was an English composer, astronomer and mathematician. As well as being organist of Westminster Abbey, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society.-Career:...

11/03/1819 5 October 1758 - 18 July 1831
Melvyn Francis Greaves 15/05/2003
William Michael Herbert Greaves
William Michael Herbert Greaves
William Michael Herbert Greaves FRS was a British astronomer.He was born in Barbados, West Indies to Dr. E. C. Greaves, a medical doctor trained at Edinburgh University. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School and Codrington College in Barbados then travelled to England to study at St...

18/03/1943 10 September 1897 - 24 December 1955
Albert Edward Green 20/03/1958 11 November 1912 - 12 August 1999
Alexander Henry Green
Alexander Henry Green
Alexander Henry Green FRS was an English geologist.Born at Maidstone, he was the son of the Rev. Thomas Sheldon Green, master of the Ashby Grammar School...

04/06/1886 10 October 1832 - 19 August 1896
Arthur George Green 06/05/1915 28 February 1865 - 12 September 1941
David Headley Green 14/03/1991 Geologist, Tasmanis
James Alexander Green
James Alexander Green
James Alexander "Sandy" Green FRS is a mathematician and retired Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who is still active in the field of representation theory.-Early life:...

19/03/1987
Joseph Henry Green
Joseph Henry Green
Joseph Henry Green was an English surgeon who became the literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.-Life:Green was the only son of Joseph Green, a prosperous merchant, and was born on 1 November 1791, at the house over his father's office in London Wall. His mother was Frances Cline, sister of...

24/02/1825 1 November 1791 - 13 December 1863 Surgeon
Joseph Reynolds Green 13/06/1895 3 December 1848 - 3 June 1914
Malcolm Leslie Hodder Green
Malcolm Green (chemist)
Malcolm Green also known as M. L. H. Green is a British Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.Born in Eastleigh, Hampshire, he received his BSc degree from Acton Technical College in 1956 and his PhD from Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1959 under the supervision of Professor...

21/03/1985
Michael Boris Green
Michael Green (physicist)
Michael Boris Green FRS is a British physicist and one of the pioneers of string theory. Currently a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow in Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge in England, he succeeded Stephen Hawking on 1 November 2009...

16/03/1989 string theorist
Norman Michael Green 19/03/1981
Peter James Green
Peter Green (statistician)
Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of...

15/05/2003
Richard Green 31/05/1753 28 June 1708 - June 1786 Clergyman
William Green 29/04/1790 4 April 1725 - 10 January 1811 Soldier
Thomas Greene 22/03/1798 10 December 1737 - 1810 Antiquarian
Thomas Greene 30/11/1711
William Greene 06/11/1729
Alfred George Greenhill
Alfred George Greenhill
Sir George Greenhill, F.R.S. , was a British mathematician.George Greenhill was educated at Christ's Hospital School and from there he went up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1866. In 1876, Greenhill was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, London, UK...

07/06/1888 29 November 1847 - 10 February 1859
Edward Headlam Greenhow
Edward Headlam Greenhow
Edward Headlam Greenhow was an English physician.Physician, epidemiologist, sanitarian, statistician, clinician and lecturer. He was arguably the first "Green", a century before the term was invented....

02/06/1870 10 December 1814 - 22 November 1888
Dennis James Greenland 10/03/1994
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough
George Bellas Greenough FRS , an English geologist, was born in London.-Biography:Greenough was born George Bellas, named after his father, George Bellas, who had a profitable business in the legal profession as a proctor in Doctor's Commons, St Paul's Churchyard Doctors' Commons and some real...

05/03/1807 18 January 1778 - 2 April 1855
William Greenwell
William Greenwell
Canon William Greenwell FRS FSA FSA.Scot was an English archaeologist.-Life:William Greenwell was born 23 March 1820 in the estate known as Greenwell Ford near Lanchester, County Durham, England...

06/06/1878 23 March 1820 - 27 January 1918
Brian Mellor Greenwood
Brian Greenwood
Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, FRCP, FRS is a British physician, biomedical research scientist, academic, and recipient of the first Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize....

14/05/1998 tropical diseases
Duncan Joseph Greenwood 21/03/1985 16 October 1932- 13 February 2010 soil scientist, Wellesbourne
Geoffrey Wilson Greenwood 12/03/1992 Materials Scientist, Sheffield Univ
Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there...

10/05/1928 9 August 1880 - 5 October 1949 epidemiologist, London Univ.
Norman Neill Greenwood 19/03/1987 Univ of Leeds
Peter Humphry Greenwood 21/03/1985 21 April 1927 - 3 March 1995 ichthyologist, Uganda
John Greg 09/07/1772
Henry Gregg 06/12/1798 fl 1798
James Gregorie 11/06/1668 November 1638 - October 1675 mathematician
David Gregory 30/11/1692 ? 24 June 1661 - 10 October 1708
Frederick Gugenheim Gregory
Frederick Gugenheim Gregory
Frederick Gugenheim Gregory was a British botanist, plant physiologist and winner of the Royal Medal....

14/03/1940 22 December 1893 - 27 November 1961
John Gregory
John Gregory (moralist)
John Gregory , a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist....

04/11/1756 3 June 1724 - 9 February 1773
John Walter Gregory
John Walter Gregory
John Walter Gregory, FRS, was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa.-Early life:...

06/06/1901 27 January 1864 - 2 June 1932
Philip Herries Gregory 15/03/1962 24 July 1907 - 9 February 1956 biologist
Richard Gregory
Richard Gregory
Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.-Life and career:...

24/11/1803
Richard Arman Gregory 22/06/1933 29 January 1864 - 15 September 1952 Statute astronomer
Richard Langton Gregory 12/03/1992 24 July 1923 – 17 May 2010 Neuropsychologist, Bristol
Roderic Alfred Gregory
Roderic Alfred Gregory
Roderic Alfred Gregory CBE FRS was a British biologist.He was born in 1913 in Plaistow, London, the only child of Alfred Gregory and Alice Jane Gregory. His father was a fitter and turner who, in 1913, was employed by Brunner and Monde...

18/03/1965 29 December 1913 - 5 September 1990
William Henry Gregory
William Henry Gregory
Sir William Henry Gregory PC was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician.The only child of Robert Gregory and Elizabeth O'Hara Gregory, he was born at the Castle, in Dublin's Phoenix Park. From 1830 to 1835 he attended Harrow, where he was an award-winning student...

14/02/1878 ? 12 July 1817 - 6 March 1892
Samuel Greig
Samuel Greig
Samuel Greig, or Samuil Karlovich Greig , as he was known in Russia - Scottish-born Russian admiral who distinguished himself in the Battle of Chesma and the Battle of Hogland...

14/03/1782 30 November 1735 - October 1788
Woronzow Greig 07/02/1833 c 1805 - 20 October 1865
James Greive 23/02/1769
Bryan Thomas Grenfell 27/05/2004
William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville 23/04/1818 25 October 1759 - 12 January 1834
Charles Gresham 30/11/1688 ? 31 May 1660 - 28 March 1718
Thomas Gresley 22/04/1784
Richard Greswell
Richard Greswell
Richard Greswell , was the re-founder of the National Society.Greswell was born at Denton, Lancashire, on 22 July 1800, the fourth son of the Rev. William Parr Greswell, was educated first by his father, and afterwards at Worcester College, Oxford, on the foundation of which college he was placed...

10/06/1830 22 July 1800 - 22 July 1881
Charles Francis Greville
Charles Francis Greville
Charles Francis Greville PC, FRS , was a British antiquarian, collector and politician.-Background:Greville was the second son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick, by Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton...

13/02/1772 12 May 1749 - 23 April 1809
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, FRS, FSA , styled Lord Greville until 1773, was a British nobleman and politician....

17/12/1767 16 September 1746 - 2 May 1816
Robert Fulke Greville
Robert Fulke Greville
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Fulke Greville FRS MP was a British Member of Parliament and courtier.The son of Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick and Elizabeth Hamilton, and brother to Charles Francis Greville, he was educated at Edinburgh University...

03/04/1794 4 February 1751 - 27 April 1824
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew
Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, very famously known as the "Father of Plant Physiology"...

02/11/1671 ? September 1641 - 25 March 1712
Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton 10/02/1831 13 November 1806 - 5 April 1881
Thomas Grey 16/02/1815
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham PC , was a British peer and politician. He served as Joint Postmaster General between 1787 and 1794 and was for many years Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords.-Background:...

05/03/1778 14 July 1748 - 16 January 1818
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham
Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham was an English politician and amateur entomologist.-Biography:...

09/06/1887 29 July 1843 - 3 December 1919
Thomas Philip De Grey, 2nd Earl De Grey 29/04/1841 8 December 1781 - 14 November 1859
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford PC was a British peer and politician.He was the only son of Thomas, Lord Grey of Groby, and inherited his title from his grandfather....

12/05/1708 1654 - 31 January 1720
Donald Grierson 11/05/2000
John Peter Griess 04/06/1868 6 September 1829 - 30 August 1888
John Grieve
John Grieve
John Grieve may refer to:* John Grieve , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross award for gallantry* John Grieve , Scottish actor*John Grieve , friend of Alexander Bald...

22/05/1794 fl 1794
Alan Arnold Griffith
Alan Arnold Griffith
Alan Arnold Griffith was an English engineer, who, among many other contributions, is best known for his work on stress and fracture in metals that is now known as metal fatigue, as well as being one of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine.-Early work:A. A...

20/03/1941 13 June 1893 - 11 October 1963
Edward Griffith 10/04/1834 1790 - 8 January 1858
Ernest Howard Griffiths
Ernest Howard Griffiths
Ernest Howard Griffiths was a British physicist born in Brecon, Wales. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and won its Hughes Medal in 1907...

13/06/1895 15 June 1851 - 3 March 1932
Ezer Griffiths
Ezer Griffiths
Ezer Griffiths OBE, FRS was a Welsh physicist most noted for his work on the insulation properties of metals, heat transference, evaporation and refrigiration....

06/05/1926 27 November 1888 - 14
John Griffiths
John Griffiths
John Griffiths AM is a Welsh Labour Co-operative politician and the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development...

01/05/1806 fl 1806
Robert Charles Griffiths
Robert Griffiths (mathematician)
Robert Charles Griffiths, FRS is an Australian mathematician and statistician known for his work in mathematical population genetics. He is Professor of Mathematical Genetics in the University of Oxford and a fellow and tutor at Lady Margaret Hall....

20/05/2010
Ronald Ernest Grigg
Ron Grigg
Ron Grigg , FRS, is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leeds, and from 1974 to 1989 held the same chair at Queen's University, Belfast. He had earlier worked at the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge. Likes the colour blue.-External Links:...

13/05/1999
Pietro Grimani
Pietro Grimani
Pietro Grimani was a Venetian statesman who served as the 115th Doge of Venice from June 30, 1741 until his death. Grimani was a cultured and learned man, who wrote poetry and counted among his acquaintances Isaac Newton, who he had met while serving as a diplomat in England...

23/10/1712 5 October 1677 - 7 March 1752
John Philip Grime 14/05/1998
James Bucknall Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston and Baron Dunboyne
James Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston
James Bucknall Grimston, 3rd Viscount Grimston was a British peer and Member of Parliament.Grimston was the son of James Grimston, 2nd Viscount Grimston, and Mary Bucknall. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge...

02/02/1786 9 May 1747 - 30 December 1808
Richard Grindall 06/04/1758 ? August 1716 - 30 April 1797 Surgeon
Nigel David Forster Grindley 18/05/2006
Steddy Grinfield 02/04/1767
Jean de la Grive 24/01/1734 1689–1757
Laurence Theodore Gronovius 10/03/1763 1730 - ? 1778
Percy Groom 15/05/1924 12 September 1865 - 16 September 1931
Stephen Groombridge
Stephen Groombridge
Stephen Groombridge FRS was a British astronomer.In 1806, using a then new transit circle built by Edward Troughton, he began compiling a star catalogue of stars down to about eighth or ninth magnitude...

27/02/1812 7 January 1755 - 30 March 1832
Frederick le Gros Clark 06/06/1872 8 February 1811 - 19 July 1892
Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark 16/05/1935 5 June 1895 - 28 June 1971
Pierre Jean Grosley 20/02/1766 18 November 1718 - 1785
Franklin Gerardus Grosveld
Frank Grosveld
Professor Frank Grosveld FRS is a distinguished molecular biologist whose research interests are in the regulation of transcription during development with a particular emphasis on mammalian erythroid differentiation...

14/03/1991 Cell Biologist
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor , known as Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet between 1755 and 1761 and as The Lord Grosvenor between 1761 and 1784, was a British peer, racehorse owner and art collector...

13/02/1777 18 June 1731 - 5 August 1802
George Grote
George Grote
George Grote was an English classical historian, best known in the field for a major work, the voluminous History of Greece, still read.-Early life:He was born at Clay Hill near Beckenham in Kent...

11/06/1857 17 November 1794 - 18 June 1871
Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills
Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills
Edmond Herbert Grove-Hills was a British soldier and astronomer.He was born the son of Herbert Augustus and Anna Hills in High Head Castle, Cumberland and educated at Winchester College until 1882, after which he entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich...

04/05/1911 1 August 1864 - 2 October 1922
William Robert Grove
William Robert Grove
Sir William Robert Grove PC QC FRS was a judge and physical scientist. He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a pioneer of fuel cell technology.-Early life:...

26/11/1840 11 July 1811 - ? 2 August 1896
Johm Grover 22/04/1830 c 1796 - 6 November 1847
Howard Grubb
Howard Grubb
Sir Howard Grubb FRS was an optical designer from Dublin, Ireland. He was head of a family firm that made large optical telescopes, telescope drive controls, and other optical instruments...

07/06/1883 1844–1931
Thomas Grubb
Thomas Grubb
Thomas Grubb was an Irish optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company.He was born probably near Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland, the son of William and Eleanor Grubb....

02/06/1864 4 August 1800 - 19 September 1878
Hans Grüneberg
Hans Gruneberg
Hans Grüneberg, also written as Hans Grueneberg and Hans Gruneberg, was a British geneticist. Grüneberg was born in Wuppertal–Elberfeld in Germany. He obtained an MD from the University of Bonn, a PhD in biology from the University of Berlin and a DSc from the University of London. He arrived in...

15/03/1956 26 May 1907 - 23 Oct 1982
Edwin Guest
Edwin Guest
Edwin Guest, FRS was an English antiquary.He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as eleventh wrangler, subsequently becoming a fellow of his college...

20/06/1839 1800-23 November 1880
Edward Armand Guggenheim 21/03/1946 11 August 1901 - 9 August 1970
Josiah John Guest
John Josiah Guest
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...

10/06/1830 2 February 1785 - 29 November 1862
Joseph de Guignes
Joseph de Guignes
Joseph de Guignes , French orientalist and sinologist, was born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in Paris....

20/202/1752 19 October 1721 - 19 March 1800
Keith Gull
Keith Gull
Keith Gull CBE, FRS is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Molecular Microbiology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford...

15/05/2003 microbiologist
Ronald Campbell Gunn
Ronald Campbell Gunn
Ronald Campbell Gunn, FRS, was a South African-born Australian botanist and politician.-Early life:Gunn was born at Cape Town, Cape Colony, , the son of William Gunn, lieutenant in the 72nd Regiment, and his wife Margaret, née Wilson. Gunn accompanied his father to Mauritius, the West Indies, and...

01/06/1854 4 April 1808 - 14 March 1881
Albert Charles Lewis Gottgilf Günther 06/06/1867 3 October 1830 - 1 February 1914
Henry Brougham Guppy 02/05/1918 23 December 1854 - 23 April 1926
John Bertrand Gurdon
John Gurdon
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon , FRS is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was recently awarded the Lasker Award.-Career:...

18/3/1971
Ludwig Guttmann
Ludwig Guttmann
Sir Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann CBE, FRS was a German neurologist who founded the Paralympic Games while living in England, and is considered one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability....

18/03/1976 3 July 1899 - 18 Mar 1980 neurologist
Henry Lewis Guy
Henry Lewis Guy
Sir Henry Lewis Guy CBE, FRS, was a leading British mechanical engineer, notable in particular for his work on steam turbine design.-Early life:Guy was born at Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales in 1887...

07/05/1936 15 June 1887 - 20 July 1956
William Augustus Guy
William Guy
William Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...

07/06/1866 13 June 1810 - 10 September 1885

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Name Election Date
Theodore Haak
Theodore Haak
Theodore Haak was a German Calvinist scholar, resident in England in later life. Haak’s communications abilities and interests in the new science provided the backdrop for convening the “1645 Group,” a precursor of the Royal Society.Although not himself known as a natural philosopher, Haak's...

20/05/1663 25 July 1605 - ? May 1690 Original
Julius von Haast
Julius von Haast
Sir Johann Franz "Julius" von Haast was a German geologist. He founded Canterbury Museum at Christchurch.-Biography:...

06/06/1867 ? 1 May 1824 - ? 15 August 1887
Albert George Hadcock 02/05/1918 22 March 1861 - 4 June 1936
Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist.Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman, Sidney Ray, Anthony Wilkin on the Torres Strait Islands...

01/06/1899 24 May 1855 - 20 April 1940
Alexander John Haddow 16/03/1972 27 December 1912 - 26 December 1978
Alexander Haddow 20/03/1958 18 January 1907 - 21 January 1976
Muhammad ibn Haddu 26/04/1682 fl 1682
Robert Abbott Hadfield 06/05/1909 28 November 1858 - 30 September 1940
George Hadley
George Hadley
George Hadley was an English lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the Trade Winds are sustained. As a key factor in ensuring that European sailing vessels reached North American shores, understanding the Trade Winds was becoming a matter of great...

20/02/1735 13 February 1685 - 28 June 1768
John Hadley
John Hadley
John Hadley was an English mathematician, inventor of the octant, a precursor to the sextant, around 1730.He was born in Bloomsbury, London, to Katherine FitzJames and George Hadley....

21/03/1717 16 April 1682 - 14 February 1744 mathematician
John Hadley
John Hadley (chemist)
John Hadley was a British chemist and physician.John Hadley was appointed in 1756 as the fourth Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, the oldest continuously occupied chair of Chemistry in the UK. During his time there he co-operated in 1758 with Benjamin Franklin on a series of...

25/05/1758 1731 - 5 November 1764 chemist
Hendrik van Haemstede 12/03/1761 8 September 1690 - 31 May 1765
Francis Haggitt 20/04/1820
Robert Wolseley Haig 06/06/1867 21 December 1830 - 6 June 1872
John Haighton
John Haighton
John Highton , was an English physician and physiologist.Highton was born in Lancashire about 1755, and, after being a pupil of Else at St. Thomas's Hospital, became a surgeon to the guards, but resigned on being appointed demonstrator of anatomy at St. Thomas's, under Henry Cline [q. v.] He had...

06/04/1815 c 1755 - 23 March 1823
John Hailstone
John Hailstone
John Hailstone , geologist, born near London on 13 Dec. 1759, was placed at an early age under the care of a maternal uncle at York, and was sent to Beverley school in the East Riding. Samuel Hailstone was a younger brother. John went to Cambridge, entering first at Catharine Hall, and afterwards...

07/05/1801 13 December 1759 - 9 June 1847
Edward Haistwell 09/11/1698 1658 - 4 January 1709
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane 14/03/1996 physicist, Princeton
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane 05/05/1932 5 November 1892 - 1 December 1964
John Scott Haldane 03/06/1897 3 May 1860 - 15 March 1936
Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane KT, OM, PC, KC, FRS, FBA, FSA , was an influential British Liberal Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were implemented...

01/11/1906 31 July 1856 - 19 August 1928
Richard Hale
Richard Hale
Richard Hale was an American character actor of film, stage and television. Hale was known for his unusual appearance which usually landed him in the roles of either Middle Eastern or Native American characters....

09/03/1721 1670 - 26 September 1728 physician, London
Charles Nicholas Hales 12/03/1992 25 April 1935 - 15 September 2005 medical biochemist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales, FRS was an English physiologist, chemist and inventor.Hales studied the role of air and water in the maintenance of both plant and animal life. He gave accurate accounts of the movements of water in plants, and demonstrated that plants absorb air...

13/03/1718 ? 17 September 1677 - 4 January 1761 physiologist and inventor
Henry Halford
Henry Halford
Sir Henry Halford, 1st Baronet, GCH , born Henry Vaughan, royal and society physician, was physician extraordinary to King George III from 1793 to 1820, then as physician in ordinary to his three successors - George IV, William IV and the young Victoria...

08/03/1810 2 October 1766 - 9 March 1844
Stephen Edgar Halford 27/05/2004 biochemist, Bristol University
Alan Hall 13/05/1999 microbiologist, New York
Alfred Daniel Hall
Alfred Daniel Hall
Sir Alfred Daniel Hall, FRS, sometimes known as Sir Daniel Hall was a British agricultural educationist and researcher.He was born in Rochdale, Lancashire....

06/05/1909 22 June 1864 - 5 July 1942
Arnold Alexander Hall
Arnold Alexander Hall
Sir Arnold Alexander Hall FRS was a British aeronautical engineer, scientist, and industrialist.-Life:Hall was born in Liverpool, and attended Alsop High School in Walton, before going to Clare College, Cambridge, where he won several prizes As a postgraduate he worked with Frank Whittle, then...

19/03/1953 23 April 1915 - 9 January 2000
Arthur Lewis Hall 16/05/1935 10 January 1872 - 13 August 1955 geologist, South Africa
Basil Hall
Basil Hall
Basil Hall, FRS was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. He was the second son of Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet, an eminent man of science.-Biography:...

28/03/1816 31 December 1788 - 11 September 1844
Benjamin Hall
Benjamin Hall (ironmaster)
Benjamin Hall, FRS was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.- Background, Education & Connections :...

23/04/1812
Fayrer Hall 30/03/1732
Henry Hall 10/02/1676 fl 1670 - 1692 lawyer, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (1688)
Henry Edgar Hall 18/03/1982
James Hall 22/05/1806 17 January 1761 - 23 June 1832 Geology, Chemistry
John Hall 27/04/1820 16 September 1787 - 2 April 1860 Geology, Chemistry
Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall (physiologist)
Marshall Hall FRS was an English physician and physiologist. His name is attached to the theory of reflex arc mediated by the spinal cord, to a method of resuscitation of drowned people, and to the elucidation of function of capillary vessels....

05/04/1832 19 February 1790 - ? 11 May 1857
Michael George Hall 11/03/1993
Peter Gavin Hall 11/05/2000
Philip Hall
Philip Hall
Philip Hall FRS , was an English mathematician.His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.-Biography:...

19/03/1942 11 April 1904 - 30 December 1982
Thomas Henry Hall 22/11/1827 1796 - 24 December 1870
Wendy Hall
Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy Hall DBE, FREng, FBCS, FIET, FCGI, FRS is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.- Background :...

15/05/2009
William Hutcheon Hall
William Hutcheon Hall
Admiral Sir William Hutcheon Hall, KCB, FRS , was a British officer in the Royal Navy. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War and Crimean War. In China, he commanded the iron steamship Nemesis of the East India Company....

22/04/1847 c 1797 - 25 June 1878
Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam was an English historian.-Life:The only son of John Hallam, canon of Windsor and dean of Bristol, Henry Hallam was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1799...

08/03/1821 9 July 1777 - 21 January 1859
Albrecht von Haller
Albrecht von Haller
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet.-Early life:He was born of an old Swiss family at Bern. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had the more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind...

01/11/1739 16 October 1708 - 12 December 1777
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...

30/11/1678 ? 8 November 1656 - ? 14 January 1742
William Dobinson Halliburton
William Dobinson Halliburton
William Dobinson Halliburton FRS was a British physiologist, noted for being one of the founders of the science of biochemistry....

04/06/1891 21 June 1860 - 21 May 1931
Alexander Norman Halliday 11/05/2000
Robert Hallifax 21/04/1785 c 1735 - 17 September 1810
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was an English Shakespearean scholar, and a collector of English Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales....

30/05/1839 21 June 1820 - 3 January 1889
Charles Skinner Hallpike
Charles Skinner Hallpike
Charles Skinner Hallpike, CBE, FRS was an English otologist.He was born in Murree, India, a hill station now in Pakistan, the son of Frank Hallpike. The family returned to the UK when he was 3 years old. He attended St Paul's School as a classical scholar and then Guy's Hospital in 1919 on an...

15/03/1956 19 July 1900 - 26 September 1979
Jack Halpern 21/03/1974
Edmund Halswell 10/04/1834 fl 1834
Hugh Hamersley 16/12/1779
John Hamett 05/02/1835
Alexander Hamilton 14/01/1808 1762 - 30 December 1824 Sanskrit scholar
Andrew David Hamilton 27/05/2004
Anthony Hamilton 01/05/1777 5 May 1739 - 4 October 1812 Clergyman
Archibald Hamilton 23/04/1795 fl 1795
Charles Hamilton
Charles Hamilton (MP)
Charles Hamilton , styled The Honourable from birth, was a British politician.He was a younger son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn....

26/03/1747 ? November 1704 - 11 September 1786
David Hamilton 07/04/1708 1663 - 28 August 1721 Physician
David James Hamilton 07/05/1908 6 March 1849 - 19 February 1909 Prof of Pathology, Aberdeen
Henry Parr Hamilton 17/01/1828 3 April 1794 - 7 February 1880 Clergyman
Hugh Hamilton
Hugh Hamilton (bishop)
Hugh Hamilton FRS was a Irish clergyman.He was dean of Armagh, from 1768 to 1796, Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh, from 1796 to 1799, and Bishop of Ossory, from 1799 to 1805.His portrait was painted by Gilbert Stuart....

19/02/1761 26 March 1729 - 1 December 1805
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon KT FRS was a Scottish peer, the son of the 4th Duke of Hamilton....

08/04/1736 5 January 1703 - 2 March 1743
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn FRS PC was a Scottish and Irish nobleman, the son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Elizabeth Reading. He was styled Lord Paisley from 1701 until his accession in 1734...

10/11/1715 22 March 1686 - 11 January 1744
John Hamilton 21/11/1734 fl 1734 Clerk, Court of Chancery
John Hamilton 13/03/1746
Robert Hamilton 11/02/1819
William Hamilton
William Hamilton (diplomat)
Sir William Hamilton KB, PC, FRS was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and vulcanologist. After a short period as a Member of Parliament, he served as British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764 to 1800...

06/11/1766 13 December 1730 - 6 April 1803
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington
Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington KT PC FRS , known as Lord Binning from 1794 to 1828, was a British Conservative politician and statesman.-Background and education:...

18/04/1844 21 June 1780 - 1 December 1858
William Donald Hamilton 20/03/1980 1 August 1936 - 7 March 2000
William John Hamilton
William John Hamilton
William John Hamilton, FRS was an English geologist.He was the son of William Richard Hamilton , and was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Göttingen. He became a fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1831...

07/06/1855 5 July 1805 - 27 June 1867
William Richard Hamilton
William Richard Hamilton
William Richard Hamilton, FRS, was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. He was son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of Colchester and Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London....

08/04/1813 9 January 1777 - 11 July 1859
John Michael Hammersley
John Hammersley
John Michael Hammersley was a British mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. He was born in Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire, and educated at Sedbergh School. He started reading mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge but was...

18/03/1976 21 March 1920 – 2 May 2004
Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick
Dalziel Hammick
Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick FRS , was an English research chemist. His major work was in synthetic organic chemistry. He promulgated Hammick's rule, which predicts the order of substitution in benzene derivatives, while the Hammick reaction is used in the synthesis of larger molecules.-Early life:The...

20/03/1952 8 March 1887 - 17 October 1966
Anthony Hammond
Anthony Hammond
-Life:Born 1 September 1668, he was the son and heir of Anthony Hammond of Somersham Place, Huntingdonshire, who was the third son of Anthony Hammond of St. Alban's Court, Kent, elder brother of William Hammond. His mother was a Miss Amy Browne of Gloucestershire. He was educated at St Paul's...

30/11/1698 1 September 1668 - 30 March 1739
Bartholomew Hammond 14/03/1754
John Hammond 11/05/1933 24 February 1889 - 25 August 1964
William Hammond
William Hammond
The William Hammond was a barque used to transport convicts to Western Australia.Built in Sunderland in 1853 for Thomas and Co, the William Hammond was long, wide and deep, and weighed 683 tons. In 30 September 1854, it sailed from Plymouth to Hobart with 261 emigrating passengers on board...

20/05/1663 ? 1614 - ? 1685 Original
Andrew Snape Hamond
Andrew Snape Hamond
Captain Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st Baronet was a British naval officer and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1781 to 1782.-Career:...

02/03/1797 17 December 1738 - 12 October 1828
Joannes Henricus Hampe 05/02/1730 1697 - 1777 German Physician & Metallurgist
Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley 22/03/1888 3 July 1840 - 9 December 1922
Daniel Hanbury
Daniel Hanbury
Daniel Hanbury , a British botanist and pharmacologist, was one of the leading 19th century experts on pharmacognosy, the study of the medicinal applications of nature, principally of plants.-Life:...

06/06/1867 11 September 1825 - 24 March 1875 Pharmaceutical Chemist
William Hanbury 02/05/1728
John Handfield 07/03/1816 Soldier, Royal Engineers
Nicholas Charles Handy 15/03/1990
Charles Samuel Hanes 19/03/1942 21 May 1903 - 6 July 1990
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey of the Chart
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...

18/06/1942 2 April 1877 - 26 January 1963 Statute
Edward Hanmer 23/01/1817 16 July 1758 - 24 July 1821
Thomas Hanmer 21/06/1804 5 April 1747 - 4 October 1828
David Colin Hanna 14/05/1998
James Hannen, Baron Hannen
James Hannen, Baron Hannen
James Hannen, Baron Hannen, , English judge, son of a London merchant, was born at Peckham.He was educated at St Paul's School and at Heidelberg University, which was famous as a school of law. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1848, he joined the home circuit...

12/03/1891 19 March 1821 - 29 March 1894
David Hannisius 30/11/1678
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS is a Luxembourgian chemist.He gained a PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for the French National Centre for Scientific Research...

09/05/2002
John Jacob Hansler 18/01/1838 1788 - 28 April 1867
Emmeline Jean Hanson 16/03/1967 14 November 1919 - 10 August 1973 Biophysicist
Nicholas Paul Harberd 15/05/2009
Jeffrey Barry Harborne 09/03/1995 1 September 1928 - 21 July 2002
Erasmus Harby 16/04/1668 ? February 1628 - ? July 1674
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt
Augustus George Vernon Harcourt FRS was an English chemist who spent his career at Oxford University. He was one of the first scientists to do quantitative work in the field of chemical kinetics...

04/06/1868 24 December 1834 - 23 August 1919
Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt
Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt
Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, PC, FRS, Viceroy of Ireland , known as 2nd Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, between 1727 and 1749, was a British diplomat and general....

15/03/1753 1714 - 16 September 1777
William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt 15/12/1881 14 October 1827 - 30 September 1904
William Venables Vernon Harcourt
William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)
William Vernon Harcourt was founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.-Family:He was born at Sudbury, Derbyshire, a younger son of Edward Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York and his wife Lady Anne Leveson-Gower, who was a daughter of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of...

29/04/1824 June 1789 - 1 April 1871
Arthur Harden
Arthur Harden
Sir Arthur Harden FRS was an English biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes....

06/05/1909 12 October 1865 - 17 June 1940
Friedrich August von Hardenberg 13/06/1745 1700–1768
David Grahame Hardie 17/05/2007
Karl Ludwig Harding
Karl Ludwig Harding
Karl Ludwig Harding was a German astronomer notable for having discovered the asteroid 3 Juno.-Biography:...

17/04/1806 ? 29 September 1765 - 31 August 1834
Wyndham Harding
Wyndham Harding
Wyndham Harding was a notable English Civil Engineer and Philanthropist. He was awarded the Telford Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1847, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1852...

03/06/1852 9 August 1818 - ? 2 April 1855
Caleb Hardinge 15/03/1753
George Hardinge
George Hardinge
-Life:He was born on 22 June 1743 at Canbury, a manorhouse in Kingston upon Thames. He was the third but eldest surviving son of Nicholas Hardinge, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir John Pratt. He was educated by Woodeson, a Kingston schoolmaster, and at Eton College under Edward Barnard.Hardinge...

03/04/1788 22 June 1743 - 26 April 1816
John Hardwick 05/04/1838 3 December 1791 - 31 May 1875 Barrister
Philip Hardwick
Philip Hardwick
Philip Hardwick was an eminent English architect, particularly associated with railway stations and warehouses in London and elsewhere...

08/12/1831 15 June 1792 - 28 December 1870
Thomas Hardwicke
Thomas Hardwicke
Major-General Thomas Hardwicke was an English soldier and naturalist who was resident in India from 1777 to 1823. After returning to England he collaborated with John Edward Gray in the publication of Illustrations of Indian Zoology .At the age of 22, he joined the East India Company...

08/04/1813 ? 1755 - ? 3 May 1835
Alister Clavering Hardy 14/03/1940 11 February 1896 - 22 May 1985
Godfrey Harold Hardy 05/05/1910 8 February 1877 - 1 December 1947
John Hardy
John Hardy (geneticist)
John Anthony Hardy is a human geneticist and molecular biologist whose research interests focus on neurological disease.-Career:...

15/05/2009 Geneticist
Peter Hardy 17/01/1839 17 December 1813 - 23 April 1863 Actuary
William Bate Hardy
William Bate Hardy
Sir William Bate Hardy FRS was a British biologist and food scientist.He was born in Erdington, Birmingham and graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge, where he carried out biochemical research. He first suggested the word hormone to E.H...

05/06/1902 6 April 1864 - 23 January 1934
Francis George Hare 10/12/1812
Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine 08/01/1730 10 May 1693 - 10 August 1749
John Scandrett Harford
John Scandrett Harford
John Scandrett Harford, FRS was a British banker, benefactor and abolitionist.He was born the son of John Scandrett Harford, a prominent banker in the English city of Bristol and educated at Christ College, Cambridge...

29/05/1823 8 October 1785 - 16 April 1866
James Hargraves 07/07/1726
Charles James Hargreave
Charles James Hargreave
Charles James Hargreave was an English judge and mathematician.-Life:The eldest son of James Hargreave, woollen manufacturer, he was born at Wortley, Leeds, Yorkshire, in December 1820. He was educated at Bramham, near Leeds, and at University College, London, and took the degree of LL.B. with...

18/04/1844 December 1820 - 23 April 1866
Charles Robert Harington 07/05/1931 1 August 1897 - 04
Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially Harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. -Life:...

15/03/1973 11 October 1923 - 16 October 1983
Alfred Harker
Alfred Harker (petrologist)
Alfred Harker FRS was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye...

05/06/1902 20 February 1859 - 28 July 1939
John Allen Harker 05/05/1910 23 January 1870 - 10 October 1923 Chemist & Physicist
Robert Harkness
Robert Harkness
Robert Harkness , was an English geologist.He was educated at the high school, Dumfries, and afterwards at the university of Edinburgh where he acquired an interest in geology from the teachings of Robert Jameson and JD Forbes...

05/06/1856 28 July 1816 - ? 5 October 1878
Sydney Cross Harland 18/03/1943 19 June 1891 - 8 November 1982
Edward Harley
Edward Harley (Parliamentarian)
Sir Edward Harley KB was an English Parliamentarian.He was born in Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, the son of Sir Robert Harley, KB and his third wife Brilliana, the daughter of Edward Conway, 1st Viscount Conway...

22/07/1663 21 October 1624 - 8 December 1700
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Mortimer 23/11/1727 2 June 1689 - 16 June 1741
George Harley 01/06/1865 13 February 1829 - 27 October 1896 Scottish Physician
John Laker Harley 19/03/1964 17 November 1911 - 13 December 1990 Prof. of Botany, Sheffield Inivesity
Robert Harley 04/06/1863 23 January 1828 - 26 July 1910 Clergyman & mathematician
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer KG was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as First Lord of the Treasury, effectively Queen...

20/03/1712 5 December 1661 - 21 May 1724
Robert Harley 14/08/1661 6 April 1626 - 6 November 1673 Original
Thomas Harley 30/05/1667
Sidney Frederic Harmer
Sidney Frederic Harmer
Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer was a British zoologist. He was President of the Linnean Society 1927-1931 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1934....

09/06/1898 9 March 1862 - 22 October 1950
John Harper 09/03/1727
John Lander Harper
John L. Harper
John Lander Harper CBE FRS was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in and his MA and MPhil from Oxford...

16/03/1978
Samuel Harper 24/04/1766 fl 1766 Librarian, British Museum
Edward Harrington
Edward Harrington
Edward Phillip Harrington was an Australian poet and short story writer, the last of the bush balladists.-Biography:...

04/04/1734
William Harrington 21/03/1666
Daniel Harris 24/03/1768
Geoffrey Wingfield Harris 19/03/1953 4 June 1913 - 29 November 1971 Dept.of Neuroendocrinology, Inst.of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London
Harry Harris 17/03/1966 30 September 1919 - 17 July 1994 Geneticist
Henry Harris 21/03/1968
James Harris
James Harris (grammarian)
James Harris, FRS was an English politician and grammarian.-Life and works:He was born at Salisbury and educated at the grammar school in the Close at Salisbury, and at Wadham College, Oxford. On leaving the university he was entered at Lincoln's Inn as a student of law, though not intended for...

23/06/1763 20 July 1709 - 22 December 1780
John Harris
John Harris (writer)
John Harris was an English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest. He is best known as the editor of the Lexicon Technicum: Or, A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences , the earliest of English encyclopaedias, and as the compiler of the Collection of Voyages and Travels which was...

29/04/1696 c 1666 - 7 September 1719
John Edward Harris 15/03/1956 15 September 1910 - 24 June 1968
John Edwin (Jack) Harris 17/03/1988 Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Review
John Greathed Harris 05/02/1835 c 1774 - 25 October 1850
Samuel Harris 01/11/1722 9 December 1682 - 21 December 1733 Clergyman & Prof of History, Cambridge
Thomas Maxwell Harris
Thomas Maxwell Harris
Thomas Maxwell Harris FRS was a British botanist. He received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge and was a Fellow of the Royal Society...

18/03/1948 8 January 1903 - 1 May 1983
William Anthony Harris 17/05/2007
William Snow Harris
William Snow Harris
Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships...

02/06/1831 1 April 1791 - 22 January 1867
Bryan Desmond Harrison 19/03/1987
George Harrison
George Harrison (civil servant)
Sir George Harrison, FRS, GCH was an English barrister and civil servant. During a tenure of twenty-one years at the Treasury, he presided over the growth of a professional civil service and an increasing transfer of power from political appointees to administrators.-Biography:An able young...

05/02/1807
Richard John Harrison
Richard John Harrison
Sir Richard John Harrison FRS was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.-References:...

15/03/1973 8 October 1920 - 17 October 1999 Professor of Anatomy, University of Cambridge
Thomas Harrison 07/06/1804 August 1771 - 21 March 1824 Barrister & mathematician
Thomas Charles Harrison 08/05/1845 c 1793 - 2 May 1858 Head of a Treasury Department
William Harrison 09/05/1765 20 May 1728 - 24 April 1815 Scientific instrument maker
William Harrison 11/05/1815 fl 1815
Michael Hart 18/03/1982 Physicist, Brookhaven, NY
Brian Selby Hartley 18/03/1971
David Hartley
David Hartley (philosopher)
David Hartley was an English philosopher and founder of the Associationist school of psychology. -Early life and education:...

25/03/1736 ? 1705 - 28 August 1757
Percival Hartley 06/05/1937 29 May 1881 - 16 February 1957
Harold Brewer Hartley 06/05/1926 3 September 1878 - 9 September 1972
Walter Noel Hartley 12/06/1884 4 February 1847 - 11 September 1913
George Harry Fleetwood Hartopp 02/03/1815 20 August 1785 - 31 March 1824
Douglas Rayner Hartree 05/05/1932 28 March 1897 - 12 February 1958
Hamilton Hartridge
Hamilton Hartridge
Hamilton Hartridge was a British eye physiologist and medical writer.Hamilton Hartridge was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow from 1912 to 1926. He graduated in medicine from St George's Hospital in 1914, serving during the war as an experimental officer at...

06/05/1926 7 May 1886 - 13 January 1976
Eliab Harvey 29/03/1764 23 May 1716 - 23 October 1769 Barrister
George Harvey 05/05/1825
Henry Harvey 17/02/1825 fl 1825 - 1837 Astronomer
Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey
H. W. Harvey
Dr Hildebrand Wolfe Harvey CBE FRS was an English marine biologist.-Background:...

22/03/1945 31 December 1887 - 26 November 1970
Paul H. Harvey
Paul H. Harvey
Paul H. Harvey CBE FRS is a British evolutionary biologist. He is Professor of Zoology and was head of the zoology department at Oxford University from 1998 - 2011, holding these posts in conjunction with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford. He was elected to the Fellowship of the...

12/03/1992
Robert John Harvey 02/04/1835 22 February 1785 - 18 June 1860 Fellow 02/04/1835
William Henry Harvey
William Henry Harvey
William Henry Harvey was an Irish botanist who specialised in algae.- Biography :William Henry Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father Joseph Massey Harvey, was a Quaker and prominent merchant...

03/06/1858 6 February 1811 - 15 May 1866 Fellow 03/06/1858
John Harwood 03/11/1686 1661 - 1 January 1731 Advocate
John Harwood 24/05/1827 c. 1794 - 1854 Prof of Natural History, London (poss. used name "Ian" as initial, given in 1827 paper, was "I")
Busick Harwood 27/05/1784 c 1745 - 10 November 1814
Thomas Haselden 17/01/1740
Cedric Herbert Hassall 21/03/1985
Michael Patrick Hassell
Michael Hassell
Michael Patrick Hassell CBE, FRS is a British biologist, noted for his work in population ecology, especially in insects. He is a professor at Imperial College London....

19/03/1987
Richard Hassell 12/05/1726
Edward Hasted
Edward Hasted
Edward Hasted was the author of a major county history, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent .-Life:...

08/05/1766 20 December 1732 - 14 January 1812
Henry Hasted 09/01/1812 17 September 1771 - 26 November 1852
Nicholas Dixon Hastie 09/05/2002
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon
Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon PC was a British peer and politician.He was the son of the 9th Earl of Huntingdon and his wife, Selina. Hastings succeeded as Earl of Huntingdon and Baron Botreaux on his father's demise in 1746...

02/03/1758 13 March 1729 - 2 October 1789
Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings
Warren Hastings PC was the first Governor-General of India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.-Early life:...

25/06/1801 6 December 1732 - 22 August 1818
William Aitcheson Haswell
William Aitcheson Haswell
William Aitcheson Haswell was a Scottish-born Australian zoologist specialising in crustaceans, winner of the 1915 Clarke Medal.-Early life:...

03/06/1897 5 August 1854 - 24 January 1925
Robert Neville Haszeldine 21/03/1968
Marshall Davidson Hatch 20/03/1980
Charles Hatchett
Charles Hatchett
Charles Hatchett FRS was an English chemist who discovered the element niobium.- Biography:Hatchett was born, raised, and lived in London...

09/03/1797 2 January 1765 - ? 10 March 1847
William Herbert Hatfield
William Herbert Hatfield
Dr William Herbert Hatfield FRS was a metallurgist who contributed to the development of stainless steel.- Early life :...

16/05/1935 10 April 1882 - 16 October 1943
Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton 20/05/1663 ? July 1605 - 4 July 1670 Original
George Finch-Hatton
George Finch-Hatton (MP for Rochester)
George Finch-Hatton was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1772 to 1784.Finch-Hatton was born George Finch, the son of the Honourable Edward Finch-Hatton, fifth son of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea. He was educated at Westminster School and at Christ's College,...

07/12/1775 30 June 1747 - 17 February 1823
Ronald George Hatton 16/03/1944 6 July 1886 - 11 November 1965
Samuel Haughton
Samuel Haughton
Samuel Haughton was an Irish scientific writer.-Biography:He was born in Carlow, the son of James Haughton ....

03/06/1858 21 December 1821 - 31 October 1897
Sidney Henry Haughton 16/03/1961 7 May 1888 - 24 May 1982
Graves Champney Haughton 15/11/1821 1788 - 28 August 1849
Francis Hauksbee
Francis Hauksbee
Francis Hauksbee the elder , also known as Francis Hawksbee, was an 18th-century English scientist, and a Fellow of the Royal Society...

30/11/1705 c 1666 - April 1713
Jean de Hautefeuille
Jean de Hautefeuille
Jean de Hautefeuille was a French abbé, physicist and inventor.-Biography:One of de Hautefeuille's most important achievements was his proposal to use a spiral spring with a balance wheel in place of a pendulum to control a clock. In the 1670s, he was involved in a dispute with Christian Huygens,...

14/12/1687 20 March 1647 - 18 October 1724
Thomas Henry Havelock 07/05/1914 24 June 1877 - 1 August 1968
Clopton Havers
Clopton Havers
Clopton Havers was an English physician who did pioneering research on the microstructure of bone. He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey's fibres.-Biography:He was born Stambourne, Essex,...

17/11/1686 25 February 1657 - April 1702
Leonard Hawkes
Leonard Hawkes
Leonard Hawkes FRS was a British geologist.-External links:* http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=910&inst_id=11...

20/03/1952 6 August 1891 - 29 October 1981
Christopher John Hawkesworth 09/05/2002
Stephen William Hawking 21/03/1974
Caesar Henry Hawkins
Caesar Henry Hawkins
Caesar Henry Hawkins FRS was a British surgeon.-Life:He was the son of the Rev. E. Hawkins and grandson of Sir Cæsar Hawkins, 1st Baronet , Serjeant-Surgeon to George II and George III ; and was brother to Edward Hawkins , Provost of Oriel, Oxford...

05/06/1856 19 September 1798 - 20 July 1884
Edward Hawkins
Edward Hawkins (numismatist)
Edward Hawkins was an English numismatist and antiquary. He is known as a keeper at the British Museum.-Life:Born at Macclesfield on 5 May 1780, he was the eldest son of Edward Hawkins of Macclesfield, banker, by his wife Ellen, daughter of Brian Hodgson of Ashbourne, Derbyshire...

24/05/1821 5 May 1780 - 22 May 1867
Francis Bisset Hawkins 18/12/1834 18 October 1796 - 7 December 1894
Herbert Leader Hawkins
Herbert Leader Hawkins
Herbert Leader Hawkins FRS was a British geologist.-References:...

06/05/1937 1 June 1887 - 29 December 1968
John Hawkins 12/01/1826 fl 1826 East India Co engineer
John Hawkins
John Hawkins (geologist)
John Hawkins was a geologist, traveller and writer,He was the youngest son of Thomas Hawkins of Trewinnard, St Erth, Cornwall, M.P. for Grampound, by Anne, daughter of James Heywood of London...

05/05/1791 6 May 1761 - 4 July 1841
John Heywood Hawkins 10/06/1830 21 May 1802 - 27 June 1877
Christopher Hawkins
Christopher Hawkins
Christopher James Hawkins was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for High Peak constituency in Derbyshire from 1983 until he stood down in 1992. Born in Saffron Walden, his successor was Charles Hendry.- External links:...

21/12/1815 1758–1829
William Bentinck Letham Hawkins 19/11/1835 1802 - 31 August 1894
John Hawkshaw
John Hawkshaw
Sir John Hawkshaw , was an English civil engineer.-Early life:He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and was educated at Leeds Grammar School...

07/06/1855 1811 - 2 June 1891
Thomas Hawksley
Thomas Hawksley
Thomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water and gas engineering projects.The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham on , Hawksley was largely self-taught from the age of 15 onwards, having at that point...

06/06/1878 12 July 1807 - 23 September 1893
James Hawley 01/05/1740 2 March 1706 - 22 December 1777 Physician
Lionel Haworth 18/03/1971 4 August 1912 - 12 April 2000
Robert Downs Haworth 16/03/1944 15 March 1898 - 21 May 1990
Walter Norman Haworth 10/05/1928 19 March 1883 - 19 March 1950
William Rede Hawthorne 17/03/1955
Alexander Hay 18/06/1778 fl 1778 Physician
Allan Stuart Hay 19/03/1981
Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale , known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. He was born at Yester, Gifford, East Lothian. He served as a soldier in India and the Crimea. He succeeded his father to the...

08/06/1871 9 November 1824 - 29 December 1878
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull was a British peer and diplomat.He was the son of Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull....

20/03/1712
John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweedale 03/02/1664 c 13 August 1626 - 11 August 1697
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale was a Scottish nobleman.Hay was the eldest son of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his wife, Jean, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch. In 1666, at Highgate in London, he married Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of John Maitland, 1st Duke of...

23/05/1666 1645 - 20 April 1713
Robert William Hay 03/03/1814 c 1787 - 9 May 1861
Andrew Leith Hay
Andrew Leith Hay
Sir Andrew Leith Hay, KH was a Scottish soldier, politician and writer on architecture.-Biography:Andrew Leith Hay was the eldest son of General Alexander Leith Hay, and was born at Aberdeen on 17 February 1785...

18/12/1834 18 February 1785 - 13 October 1862
Henry Hubert Hayden 06/05/1915 25 July 1869 - 13 August 1923
Denis Arthur Haydon 20/03/1975 22 February 1930 - 29 November 1988
James Hayes
James Hayes (Prince Rupert's secretary)
Sir James Hayes was secretary to Prince Rupert and first Deputy-Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.He was born the son of James Hayes in Beckington, Somerset. He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1649...

20/05/1663
William Hayes
William Hayes (geneticist)
William Hayes FRS was an Irish geneticist.-Early life:He was born in Rathfarnham, Co Dublin, the only son of William Hayes, a successful Dublin pharmacist, and his second wife, Miriam, née Harris...

19/03/1964 18 January 1913 - 7 January 1994 geneticist, Australia
John Haygarth
John Haygarth
John Haygarth was an important 18th-century British physician who discovered new ways to prevent the spread of fever among patients and reduce the mortality rate of smallpox....

08/02/1781 1740 - 10 June 1827
Walter Kurt Hayman 15/03/1956
Edward Haynes 02/05/1683 fl 1683 - 1708
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter was an English divine, who served as a Church of England bishop for 13 years.He was born in Chagdord, Devon , officially the son of George Hayter. It has often been claimed that Lancelot Blackburne was his father, but there is no conclusive evidence either way...

22/03/1750 ? November 1702 - 9 January 1762
Robert Baldwin Hayward 01/06/1876 7 March 1829 - 2 February 1903
William Hayward 17/05/1665 c 1617 - 1704 Commissioner
Richard Hazard 04/06/1752
Alan Kenneth Head 17/03/1988 10 August 1925 - 9 January 2010 Australia
Edmund Walker Head
Edmund Walker Head
Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB was British colonial administrator.He was born at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, the son of Reverend Sir John Head, 7th Bt. and Jane Head. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's title in 1838...

16/04/1863 17 February 1805 - 28 January 1868
Henry Head
Henry Head
Sir Henry Head, FRS was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation...

01/06/1899 4 August 1861 - 8 October 1940
Thomas Healde 21/06/1770 c 1724 - 26 March 1789
Robert Brian Heap
Brian Heap
Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS is a biologist.He was born on 27 Feb. 1935 and educated at New Mills Grammar School and the University of Nottingham . He also has an MA and a DSc from Cambridge and Honorary DScs from Nottingham , York and St Andrews .-Career:* 1960 University Demonstrator,...

16/03/1989
Walter Heape 03/05/1906 25 April 1855 - 10 September 1929
David Rodney Roger Heath-Brown
Roger Heath-Brown
David Rodney "Roger" Heath-Brown F.R.S. , is a British mathematician working in the field of analytic number theory. He was an undergraduate and graduate student of Trinity College, Cambridge; his research supervisor was Alan Baker...

11/03/1993
Benjamin Heath 30/04/1778
George Heath 26/03/1795 fl 1795 Headmaster of Eton
George Crawford Heath 28/05/1818 c 1794 - 18 July 1860 Barrister
John Benjamin Heath 02/02/1843 6 June 1790 - 16 January 1879 Merchant
Oscar Victor Sayer Heath 24/03/1960 26 July 1903 - 16 June 1997 Botanist
Thomas Little Heath 02/05/1912 5 October 1861 - 16 March 1940
George Heathcote
George Heathcote
George Heathcote was an eighteenth century English politician and philanthropist who was a Member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of London.He was a nephew of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bank of England...

16/01/1729 7 December 1700 - 7 June 1768
Henry Heathcote 30/06/1720
John Heathcote 12/05/1768
Gilbert Heathcote 30/11/1705 2 January 1652 - 25 January 1733
Thomas Heathcote 16/05/1751 23 July 1721 - 27 June 1787
John Heaviside 14/12/1797 1748 - 19 September 1828 Surgeon
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations , reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and...

04/06/1891 18 May 1850 - 03
Donald Olding Hebb
Donald Olding Hebb
Donald Olding Hebb FRS was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning...

17/03/1966 22 July 1904 - 20 August 1985
Thomas Heberden 10/12/1761 1703–1769
William Heberden
William Heberden
William Heberden , English physician, was born in London, where he received the early part of his education.At the end of 1724 he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, around 1730, became master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of MD in 1739...

25/01/1750 August 1710 - 17 May 1801
William Heberden
William Heberden
William Heberden , English physician, was born in London, where he received the early part of his education.At the end of 1724 he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, around 1730, became master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of MD in 1739...

24/02/1791 23 March 1767 - 19 February 1845
James Hector
James Hector
Sir James Hector was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist...

07/06/1866 16 March 1834 - 5 November 1907
Johann Hedwig
Johann Hedwig
Johann Hedwig , also seen as Johannes Hedwig or Latinised as Joannis Hedwig, was a German botanist notable for his studies of mosses , in particular the observation of sexual reproduction in the cryptogams.He was born in Romania, and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig,...

03/04/1788 8 December 1730 - 7 February 1799
Ian Morris Heilbron 07/05/1931 6 November 1886 - 14 September 1959
Hans Arnold Heilbronn 15/03/1951 8 October 1908 - 28 April 1975
Volker Heine
Volker Heine
Volker Heine FRS is a New Zealand-British physicist.He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He obtained his PhD in physics in Cambridge as student of Sir Nevill Mott.He was elected Fellow of...

21/03/1974
Johann Theodor Heinson 30/11/1692 5 July 1666 - 22 September 1726
Lawrence Heister 17/12/1730 19 September 1683 - 18 April 1758
Walter Heinrich Heitler
Walter Heitler
Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory...

18/03/1948 2 January 1904 - 15 November 1981
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940, and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in...

01/06/1899 29 July 1854 - 30 January 1941
John Hellins
John Hellins
John Hellins FRS was an autodidact, schoolteacher, mathematician, astronomer and country parson.-Early years:He was born in Devon ca...

22/12/1796 ? 1749 - 5 April 1827
Jean Hellot 23/10/1740 20 November 1685 - 15
Gustavus Helmfeld 21/04/1670 10 November 1651 - 27 March 1674
Jean Claude Adrian Helvetius 24/04/1755 18 July 1685 - 17 July 1755
Johan Anton Helvetius 10/02/1763 fl 1763
John Hely-Hutchinson 06/03/1794 1724 - 4 September 1794
Samuel Hemming 20/06/1776
Brian Arthur Hemmings 15/05/2009
Benjamin Arthur Hems 20/03/1969 29 June 1912 - 2 July 1995
William Botting Hemsley 06/06/1889 29 December 1843 - 7 October 1924
Humphrey Henchman
Humphrey Henchman
Humphrey Henchman was a Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1663 to 1675.-Early life:He was born in Burton Latimer , Northamptonshire, the son of Thomas Henchman, a skinner, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge where he achieved BA in 1613 and MA in 1616...

29/03/1665 ? December 1592 - 7 October 1675
David Willis Wilson Henderson
David Willis Wilson Henderson
David Willis Wilson Henderson CB FRS was a Scottish-born microbiologist; a former President of the Society for General Microbiology and recipient of the U.S...

19/03/1959 23 July 1903 - 16 August 1968
George Gerald Henderson 11/05/1916 30 January 1862 - 28 September 1942
George Hugh Henderson 19/03/1942 8 December 1892 - 19 June 1949
James Henderson 28/04/1831 c 1783 - 18 September 1848
Richard Henderson
Richard Henderson (molecular biologist)
Richard Henderson FRS is a Scottish molecular biologist and pioneer in the field of electron microscopy of biological molecules.-Career:...

17/03/1983
William MacGregor Henderson
William MacGregor Henderson
Sir William MacGregor Henderson FRS FRSE PZS was a Scottish veterinary expert on foot and mouth disease. He was also President of the Zoological Society of London, 1984–1989....

18/03/1976 17 July 1913 - 29 November 2000
Thomas Henderson
Thomas James Henderson
Thomas James Alan Henderson was a Scottish astronomer noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.-Early life:Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was educated...

09/04/1840 28 December 1798 - 23 November 1844
Arthur Henfrey 3/06/1852 1 November 1819 - 7 September 1859 Botanist
John Henley 30/11/1693 fl 1693 - 1706 Customer, Bristol
William Henly 20/05/1773 fl 1773
Henry Hennell 12/03/1829
John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey 03/06/1875 1 August 1829 - ? 23 March 1910
Henry Hennessy 03/06/1858 19 March 1826 - 8 March 1901
John Henniker, Baron Henniker 11/11/1779 15 June 1724 - 18 April 1803
John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker
John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker
John Henniker-Major, 2nd Baron Henniker was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Henniker was the son of John Henniker, 1st Baron Henniker, and Anne Major. He was elected to the House of Commons for New Romney in 1785, a seat he held until 1790, and then represented Steyning from 1794 to 1802...

15/12/1785 19 April 1752 - 4 December 1821
Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici 04/06/1874 9 March 1840 - 10 August 1918
Henry Henricksen 10/02/1743 1715–1780
Henry Frederick William, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn 26/01/1789 27 October 1745 - 18 September 1790 Royal
Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester was a soldier and member of the British Royal Family, the third son of George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary....

08/12/1938 31 March 1900 - 10 June 1974 Royal
Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry (apothecary)
Thomas Henry was a surgeon and apothecary. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of England. He was also the father of William Henry, the chemist that formulated Henry's Law....

18/05/1775 ? 26 October 1734 - 18 June 1816 Manchester Apothecary
Thomas Hetherington Henry 23/04/1846 c 1816 - 9 October 1859
William Henry 20/02/1755
William Henry
William Henry (chemist)
William Henry was an English chemist.He was the son of Thomas Henry and was born in Manchester England. He developed what is known today as Henry's Law.-Life:...

23/02/1809 12 December 1774 - 2 September 1836
William Charles Henry 10/04/1834 31 March 1804 - 7 January 1892
Nathaniel Henshaw 20/05/1663 1628 - c September 1673 Original
Thomas Henshaw 22/04/1663 15 June 1618 - 2 January 1700 Original, soldier
John Henslow 20/03/1794 fl 1794
William Jory Henwood
William Jory Henwood
William Jory Henwood FRS , Cornish mining geologist, was born at Perran Wharf, Cornwall.In 1822 he commenced work as a clerk in an office of the Perran Foundry, owned by the Fox family of Falmouth, a post previously held by his father, John Henwood....

27/02/1840 16 January 1805 - 5 August 1875
William Bird Herapath 09/06/1859 29 February 1820 - 12 October 1868
Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon 08/04/1875 24 June 1831 - 28 June 1890
Henry John George Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon 27/05/1841 8 June 1800 - 9 December 1849
Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke and 6th Earl of Montgomery 15/12/1743 29 January 1693 - 9 January 1750
John Herbert 13/12/1677 c 1647 - Virtuoso
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke and 5th Earl of Montgomery 13/05/1685 1656 - 22 January 1733, PRS 1689-1690
William Abbott Herdman
William Abbott Herdman
Sir William Abbott Herdman was a Scottish marine zoologist and oceanographer.Archibald Geikie taught him geology during his time at the University of Edinburgh. Herdman graduated at Edinburgh in 1879 and became the assistant of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson...

02/06/1892 8 September 1858 - 21 July 1924
Francois David Herissant 01/11/1750 29 September 1714 - 21 August 1771
Edward Heron-Allen
Edward Heron-Allen
Edward Heron-Allen was an English polymath, writer, scientist and Persian scholar who translated the works of Omar Khayyam.-Life:...

15/05/1919 17 December 1861 - 28 March 1943
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Professor Alexander Stewart Herschel was a British astronomer, born in Feldhausen, South Africa.He was the son of John Herschel and the grandson of William Herschel. Although much less well known than either of them, he did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy. He also worked on identifying...

12/06/1884 6 February 1836 - 18 June 1907
John Herschel 08/06/1871 29 October 1837 - 31 May 1921 Surveyor
John Frederick William Herschel 27/05/1813 7 March 1792 - 11 May 1871
William Herschel
William Herschel
Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19...

06/12/1781 15 November 1738 - 25 August 1822
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell GCB, PC, QC was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in 1886, and again from 1892 to 1895.-Early career:...

21/01/1892 2 November 1837 - 1 March 1899
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol 28/02/1782 1 August 1730 - 8 July 1803
Frederick William Hervey, 5th Earl of Bristol 23/05/1805 3 June 1769 - 15 February 1859
John Hervey 07/12/1664 18 August 1616 - 18 January 1680
Ewald Friedrich Herzberg 30/04/1789 1725–1795
Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned...

15/03/1951 25 December 1904 - 3 March 1999
John Heslop-Harrison
Jack Heslop-Harrison
John "Jack" Heslop-Harrison FRS FAAAS was a British soldier and botanist.-Early life and education:He was born in Middlesbrough to John William Heslop-Harrison and his wife Christian Henderson, the last of three children...

19/03/1970 11 February 1920 - 7 May 1998
John William Heslop-Harrison
John William Heslop-Harrison
John William Heslop Harrison, FRS, , was Professor of Botany at King's College, Durham , now perhaps best remembered for an alleged academic fraud....

10/05/1928 22 January 1881 - 23 January 1967
Johann Heinrich Heucher 06/11/1729 1677 - 23
Johann Christian Heusch 29/01/1680 fl 1680 - 1684
Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish:Some sources refer to Hevelius as German:*Encyplopedia Britannica * of the Royal Society was a councilor and mayor of Danzig , Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

30/03/1664 28 January 1611 - 28 January 1687
Hewer Edgley Hewer 27/06/1723 c 1692 - 6 November 1728
John Hewitt 25/05/1786 fl 1786 Clergyman
Prescott Gardner Hewett
Prescott Gardner Hewett
Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett, 1st Baronet, FRCS was a British surgeon, and the son of a Yorkshire country gentleman....

04/06/1874 3 July 1812 - 19 June 1891
Thomas Hewett 02/11/1721 9 September 1656 - 9 April 1726
Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars...

21/03/1968
Eric John Hewitt 18/03/1982 28 February 1919 - 1 January 2002
Geoffrey Frederick Hewitt 16/03/1989
John Theodore Hewitt 05/05/1910 12 October 1868 - 9 July 1954
William Hewson 08/03/1770 14 November 1739 - 1 May 1774
Donald Holroyde Hey 17/03/1955 12 September 1904 - 21 January 1987
James Stanley Hey
James Stanley Hey
James Stanley Hey FRS was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he lay the basis for the development of radio astronomy...

16/03/1978 4 May 1909 - 27 February 2000
William Hey
William Hey (surgeon)
William Hey was an English surgeon, born in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. He was a surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from its opening in a temporary building in 1776, and senior surgeon from 1773 to 1812....

30/03/1775 23 August 1736 - 23 March 1819
Charles Thomas Heycock 13/06/1895 21 August 1858 - 3 June 1931
James Heygate 06/04/1843 1801 - ? 5 August 1872
Christian Gottlob Heyne
Christian Gottlob Heyne
Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony...

30/04/1789 25 September 1729 - 14 July 1812
James Heywood
James Heywood (philanthropist)
James Heywood was a British MP, philanthropist and social reformer.He was born in Manchester, the son of banker Nathaniel and Ann Heywood, and was the brother of Benjamin Heywood and Thomas Heywood and grandson of Thomas Percival...

07/02/1839 28 May 1810 - 17 October 1897 barrister and geologist.
Benjamin Heywood
Benjamin Heywood
Sir Benjamin Heywood, 1st Baronet FRS was an English banker and philanthropist.Born in St Ann's Square, Manchester, grandson of Thomas Percival, son of Nathaniel Heywood and Ann Percival, and brother to Thomas Heywood and James Heywood...

19/01/1843 12 December 1793 - 11 August 1865
Urban Hiarne 18/11/1669 20 December 1641 - 22 March 1724
George Hibbert
George Hibbert
George Hibbert was an eminent English merchant, politician, slave- and ship-owner, amateur botanist and book collector. With Robert Milligan, he was also one of the principals of the West India Dock Company which instigated the construction of the West India Docks on London's Isle of Dogs in 1800...

30/05/1811 1757 - 8 October 1837
John Hickes 30/11/1703 fl 1703 - 1717
Henry George Albert Hickling 07/05/1936 5 April 1883 - 26 July 1954
Nathan Hickman 15/04/1725 c 1695 - 1746
Samuel Hickman 07/03/1745
Henry Hicks
Henry Hicks
Henry Davies Hicks was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia.He was born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, the son of Henry Hicks and Annie Kinney. Hicks was educated in Bridgetown and at Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Oxford University. He was admitted to...

04/06/1885 26 May 1837 - 18 November 1899
John Braxton Hicks
John Braxton Hicks
John Braxton Hicks was a 19th century English doctor who specialised in obstetrics.He was born to Edward Hicks in Rye, Sussex. He was educated privately and in 1841 entered Guy's Hospital Medical School. He obtained his MB at the University of London in 1845 and an MD in 1851...

05/06/1862 24 February 1823 - 28 August 1897
William Mitchinson Hicks
William Mitchinson Hicks
William Mitchinson Hicks, FRS was a British mathematician and physicist. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1873, and became a Fellow at the College....

04/06/1885 23 September 1850 - 17 August 1934
Sydney John Hickson 13/06/1895 26 June 1859 - 6 February 1940
Raymond Hide
Raymond Hide
Raymond Hide CBE FRS is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.-Life:...

18/03/1971
William Philip Hiern
William Philip Hiern
William Philip Hiern was a British mathematician and botanist.Hiern attended St. John's College, Cambridge, from 1857 to 1861 and attained a "first class degree" in mathematics...

11/06/1903 19 January 1839 - 29 November 1929
John Higginbottom 03/06/1852 14 June 1788 - 7 April 1876
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins
Julia Higgins
Dame Julia Stretton Higgins, DBE, FRS, FREng is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London...

09/03/1995
William Higgins
William Higgins (chemist)
William Higgins , an Irish chemist, was one of the early proponents of atomic theory. Known mainly for his speculative ideas on chemical combination, William Higgins is popular for the insights his life offers into the emergence of chemistry as a career during the British industrial revolution...

12/06/1806 ? 1762 - 30 June 1825
Douglas Roland Higgs 26/05/2005 Haematologist
Peter Ware Higgs 17/03/1983
Nicholas Higham
Nicholas Higham
Nicholas John Higham FRS is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester....

17/05/2007
Graham Higman
Graham Higman
Graham Higman FRS was a leading British mathematician. He is known for his contributions to group theory....

20/03/1958
John Philips Higman 23/03/1820 1793 - 7 August 1855
Thomas Percy Hilditch 19/03/1942 22 April 1886 - 9 August 1965
Allen Hugh Oliver Hill 15/03/1990
Archibald Vivian Hill 02/05/1918 26 September 1886 - 3 June 1977
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire PC, FRS , styled Viscount Kilwarlin until 1789 and Earl of Hillsborough from 1789 to 1793, was a British peer and MP.-Life:...

21/01/1790 1753 - 7 September 1801
Arthur William Hill
Arthur William Hill
Sir Arthur William Hill FLS FRS , was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and a noted botanist and taxonomist....

13/05/1920 11 October 1875 - 3 November 1941
Austin Bradford Hill
Austin Bradford Hill
Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS , English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer...

18/03/1954 8 July 1897 - 18 April 1991
David Keynes Hill
David Keynes Hill
David Keynes Hill FRS was a British biophysicist.Hill was the son of Nobel-prize winning physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill and his wife Margaret Keynes, the daughter of John Neville Keynes and sister of John Maynard Keynes. His sister was economist Polly Hill and his brother the oceanographer...

16/03/1972 23 July 1915 – 18 August 2002
Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS . She was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.-Education:...

18/03/1965 10 September 1907 - 23 April 1997
James Hill 09/04/1719 8 February 1696 - ? January 1728 Barrister, Antiquary
James Peter Hill
James Peter Hill
James Peter Hill was a British embryologist.Born in Edinburgh he gained a DSc at Edinburgh University but went to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal....

01/05/1913 22 February 1873 - 24 May 1954
John Hill 08/12/1748
John McGregor Hill 19/03/1981
Leonard Erskine Hill
Leonard Erskine Hill
Sir Leonard Erskine Hill was a British physiologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and was knighted in 1930. One of his sons was the epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill...

14/06/1900 28 January 1858 - 30 March 1952
Maurice Neville Hill 15/03/1962 29 May 1919 - 11 January 1966
Micaiah John Muller Hill 07/06/1894 23 February 1856 - 11 January 1929
Oliver Hill
Oliver Hill
Oliver White Hill, Sr. was a civil rights attorney from Richmond, Virginia. His work against racial discrimination helped end the doctrine of "separate but equal." He also helped win landmark legal decisions involving equality in pay for black teachers, access to school buses, voting rights, jury...

08/11/1677 c 1630 -
Robert Hill
Robin Hill (biochemist)
Robert Hill FRS , known as Robin Hill, was a British plant biochemist who, in 1939, demonstrated the 'Hill reaction' of photosynthesis, proving that oxygen is evolved during the light requiring steps of photosynthesis...

21/03/1946 2 April 1899 - 15 March 1991 aka Robin Hill
Rodney Hill
Rodney Hill
Rodney Hill FRS was an applied mathematician and a former Professor of Mechanics of Solids at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge....

16/03/1961 11 June 1921 - 2 February 2011
Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill (postal reformer)
Sir Rowland Hill KCB, FRS was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of penny postage and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters...

11/06/1857 3 December 1795 - 27 August 1879
Samuel Hill 30/11/1711 1648 - 7 March 1716 Clergyman
Thomas Hill 15/04/1725 c 1683 - 20 September 1758 Poet
William George Hill 21/03/1985
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire PC , known as the Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era...

08/03/1764 30 May 1718 - 7 October 1793
Edward Hilliard 23/12/1802
Edwin Sherbon Hills
Edwin Sherbon Hills
Edwin Sherbon Hills CBE was an Australian geologist, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and at the time of his death was regarded as one of Australia's "most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists".Hills grew in the Melbourne suburb Carlton...

18/03/1954 31 August 1906 - 1 May 1986
Philip Hills 18/04/1799 fl 1799
Cyril Hilsum
Cyril Hilsum
Cyril Hilsum CBE FRS FREng HonFInstP is a British physicist and academic.-Life:He entered Raine's Foundation School in 1936 as the middle of three brothers, leaving in 1943 after being accepted into University College London, where he did his Bsc. In 1945 he joined the Royal Naval Scientific...

15/03/1979
John Hilton 10/01/1839 1804 - 14 September 1878
Nicolaus de Himsel 27/11/1760 October 1729 - 10 December 1764
Harold Percival Himsworth
Harold Percival Himsworth
Sir Harold Percival Himsworth, KCB was a British scientist, best known for his medical research on diabetes mellitus.-Early life:...

17/03/1955 19 May 1905 - 3 November 1993
Edward John Hinch
John Hinch (mathematician)
Edward John Hinch is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge....

15/05/1997
Thomas Hincks
Thomas Hincks
Thomas Hincks was a British cleric and a naturalist known for his work on zoophytes and bryozoa.He was born the son of the Rev. W. Hincks in Exeter, Devon, studied at Manchester New College, York, from 1833 to 1839 and the University of London....

06/06/1872 15 July 1818 - 25 January 1899
John Russell Hind
John Russell Hind
John Russell Hind FRS was an English astronomer.- Life and work :John Russell Hind was born in 1823 in Nottingham, the son of lace manufacturer John Hind, and was educated at Nottingham High School...

04/06/1863 12 May 1823 - 23 December 1895
George Jennings Hinde 04/06/1896 24 March 1839 - 18 March 1918
Robert Aubrey Hinde 21/03/1974
Edward Hindle 19/03/1942 21 March 1886 - 22 January 1973
Edward Hinds
Edward Hinds
Edward Hinds FIOP FAPS FRS is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter. He was educated at Dame Allan's Boy's School in Newcastle before being offered a place at Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1968. He obtained both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate before...

27/05/2004
Arthur Robert Hinks
Arthur Robert Hinks
Arthur Robert Hinks, CBE, FRS was a British astronomer and geographer..As an astronomer, he is best known for his work in determining the distance from the Sun to the Earth from 1900–1909: for this achievement, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and was elected a...

01/05/1913 26 May 1873 - 18 April 1945
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood OM PRS was an English physical chemist.Born in London, his parents were Norman Macmillan Hinshelwood, a chartered accountant, and Ethe Frances née Smith. He was educated first in Canada, returning in 1905 on the death of his father to a small flat in Chelsea where he...

02/05/1929 19 June 1897 - 9 October 1967
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside 18/03/1954 12 May 1901 - 22 June 1983
Geoffrey Everest Hinton 14/05/1998
Howard Everest Hinton 16/03/1961 24 August 1912 - 2 August 1977
Martin Alister Campbell Hinton 03/05/1934 29 June 1883 - 3 October 1961
John Hippisley 07/06/1855 29 October 1804 - 4 April 1898 Astronomer
John Cox Hippisley 12/06/1800 1748 - 3 May 1825
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
Hirohito
, posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...

13/05/1971 29 April 1901 - 7 January 1989 Statute
Peter Bernhard Hirsch 21/03/1963
John Malcolm Hirst 19/03/1970 20 April 1921 - 30 December 1997
Edmund Langley Hirst 03/05/1934 21 July 1898 - 29 October 1975
Thomas Archer Hirst
Thomas Archer Hirst
Thomas Archer Hirst FRS was a 19th century mathematician, specialising in geometry. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1883.-Life:...

06/06/1861 23 April 1830 - 16 February 1892
William Hurst 20/02/1755
Nigel James Hitchin 14/03/1991
Benjamin Hoadly 09/03/1727 11 February 1706 - 10 August 1757 Physician
Cecil Arthur Hoare 16/03/1950 6 March 1892 - 23 August 1984
Charles Hoare
Charles Hoare
Charles Hoare may refer to:*C. A. R. Hoare , a British computer scientist*Charles Hoare *Charles Hoare *Charles Hoare of the Hoare Baronets...

21/12/1809 25 August 1767 - 16 November 1851
Charles Antony Richard Hoare 18/03/1982
Henry Hugh Hoare 17/06/1784 28 February 1762 - c 1842
James Hoare 02/11/1664 c 1620 - 30 November 1696 Goldsmith (the elder)
James Hoare 21/01/1669 1642 - ? August 1679 Goldsmith (the younger)
Joseph Hoare
Joseph Hoare
Joseph Hoare was a Welsh clergyman and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford from 1768 to 1802.The son of Joseph Hoare, from Cardiff, Wales, Hoare studied at Jesus College from 1727 , obtaining his BA in 1730 and his MA in 1733. He was a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. He was appointed Principal in...

24/05/1753
Richard Hoare 07/05/1752 2 March 1709 - 12 October 1754 Lord Mayor of London
Richard Colt Hoare
Richard Colt Hoare
Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county, Wiltshire.-Career:Hoare was descended from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of...

26/04/1792 9 December 1758 - 19 May 1838
William Hoare 20/05/1663
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire
John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire was an English nobleman and politician.The son of John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire by his first marriage, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Member of Parliament for Norwich from 1747–56, having also been...

03/02/1785 17 August 1723 - 3 September 1793
John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton de Gyfford
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton GCB, PC, FRS , known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was a British politician and memoirist.-Background and education:...

19/05/1814 27 June 1786 - 3 June 1869
Benjamin Hobhouse 13/12/1798 1757 - 14 August 1831
Robert Hoblyn
Robert Hoblyn
-Life:Hoblyn was born at Nanswhyden House, and baptised at St. Columb Major in Cornwall 5 May 1710. His father, Francis Hoblyn, born in 1687, a J.P. for Cornwall and a member of the Stannary parliament, was buried at St. Columb on 9 Nov. 1711. His mother was Penelope, daughter of Colonel Sidney...

13/06/1745 ? May 1710 - 17 November 1756
Thomas Hoblyn 27/06/1811 1778 - 6 August 1860
Ernest William Hobson 01/06/1893 27 October 1856 - ? 18 April 1933
William Vallance Douglas Hodge 17/03/1938 17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975
Joseph Hodges 05/04/1716 c 1704 - 1 April 1722
Thomas Hodges 09/06/1715 fl 1715 - 1720 Attorney-General
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin 20/03/1947 12 May 1910 - 29 July 1994
Jonathan Alan Hodgkin 15/03/1990
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles....

18/03/1948 6 February 1914 - 20 December 1998
Eaton Hodgkinson
Eaton Hodgkinson
Eaton A. Hodgkinson was an English engineer, a pioneer of the application of mathematics to problems of structural design.-Early life:...

18/02/1841 27 February 1789 - 18 June 1861
Robert Banks Hodgkinson 30/04/1778 ? 1721 - 11 November 1792
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson was an early naturalist and ethnologist working in British India and Nepal where he was an English civil servant. He described many species, especially birds and mammals from the Himalayas, and several birds were named after him by others such as Edward Blyth...

07/06/1877 2 February 1800 - 23 May 1894
James Hodgson 30/11/1703 1672 - 25 June 1755 Schoolmaster, Royal School of Mathematics
James Hodgson 14/04/1831 1789 - 7 February 1869
Robert Hodgson
Robert Hodgson
Sir Robert Hodgson was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and the second Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island....

05/07/1810 fl 1810
William Hodgson
William Hodgson
William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

23/04/1807
Edward Hody 08/03/1733 1698 - 1 November 1759
Tycho Hoffman 29/05/1746 16 December 1714 - 14 February 1754
Friedrich Hoffmann
Friedrich Hoffmann
Friedrich Hoffmann was a German physician and chemist.-Life and career:His family had been connected with medicine for 200 years before him. Born in Halle , he attended the local gymnasium where he acquired that taste for and skill in mathematics to which he attributed much of his after success...

30/11/1720 20 February 1660 - 12 November 1742
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.-Biography:Hofmann was born at Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse. Not intending originally to devote himself to physical science, he first took up the study of law and philology at Göttingen. But he then turned to chemistry, and studied under Justus von...

05/06/1851 8 April 1818 - ? 5 May 1892
Brigid L. M. Hogan
Brigid Hogan
Brigid L. M. Hogan, PhD, FRS, is a distinguished British developmental biologist noted for her contributions to stem cell research and transgenic technology and techniques...

10/05/2001
Lancelot Thomas Hogben 07/05/1936 9 December 1895 - 22 August 1975
John Hogg
John Hogg
John Joseph Hogg is an Australian politician, and has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was elected the 23rd President of the Senate on 26 August 2008.Hogg was born in Brisbane to Francis Patrick and...

20/06/1839 21 March 1800 - 16 September 1869
Henry Hoghton 13/06/1765 22 October 1728 - 9 March 1795
David William Holden 27/05/2004
Henry Capel Lofft Holden 13/06/1895 23 January 1856 - 30 March 1937
Douglas William Holder 15/03/1962 14 April 1923 - 18 April 1977
William Holder
William Holder
William Holder FRS was an English clergyman and music theorist of the 17th century. His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony.-Life:...

20/05/1663 1616 - 24 January 1698 Original
Peter Holford 12/02/1747 c 1719 - 14 July 1804
Robert Holford 28/03/1805 c 1758 - 14 August 1838
Stayner Holford 12/05/1785
Charles Holland
Charles Holland
Charles Holland was an English actor, was born in Chiswick, the son of a baker.He made his first appearance on the stage in the title role of Oroonoko at Drury Lane in 1755, John Palmer, Richard Yates and Susanna Cibber being in the cast...

19/01/1837 1802 - 21 March 1876
Peter William Harold Holland 15/05/2003
Richard Holland
Richard Holland
Richard Holland or Richard de Holande , Scottish writer, author of the Buke of the Howlat, was secretary or chaplain to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray and rector of Halkirk, near Thurso....

30/11/1726 1688 - 29 October 1730
Henry Holland
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet FRS, DCL , was a British physician and travel writer.-Private Life:Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Holland was the son of the physician Peter Holland and his wife Mary Willets. Peter's sister Elizabeth was the mother of the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary was the...

19/01/1815 27 October 1788 - 27 October 1873
Thomas Henry Holland
Thomas Henry Holland
Sir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS was a British geologist and educational administrator.Thomas Holland was born in Helston, Cornwall. In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology...

05/05/1904 22 November 1868 - 15 May 1947
Frescheville Holles
Frescheville Holles
Sir Frescheville Holles was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1666 to 1672. He was killed in action fighting in the Anglo-Dutch war....

18/01/1672 8 June 1642 - 28 May 1672
John Holliday 09/03/1786 c 1730 - 9 March 1801 Barrister
Robin Holliday
Robin Holliday
Robin Holliday PhD, FRS, FAA is a British molecular biologist. Heproposed a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction.-Education and...

18/03/1976
John Hollier 11/12/1718 c 1687 - c 1722
Thomas Hollingbery 23/01/1783
John Hollings
John Hollings
John Hollings or Hollins, M.D. was an English physician.Hollings was born about 1683, the son of John Hollings, M.D., of Shrewsbury, and formerly fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. After attending Shrewsbury School, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1700, shortly afterwards migrating...

09/03/1727 c 1683 - 10 May 1739
Thomas Hollis 30/06/1757 14 April 1720 - 1 January 1774
Thomas Brand Hollis
Thomas Brand Hollis
Thomas Brand Hollis , born Thomas Brand, was a British political radical and dissenter.Thomas Brand was born the only son of Timothy Brand of Ingatestone, Essex and was educated at Felsted School, Trinity College, Cambridge, the Inner Temple and Glasgow University.In 1748-9 he toured Europe with...

03/06/1756
Samuel Christian Hollman 21/05/1747 3 December 1696 - 4 September 1787
Benjamin Holloway 30/11/1723 c 1691 - 10 April 1759
John Ernest Holloway 06/05/1937 13 February 1881 - 6 September 1945
James Holman
James Holman
James Holman FRS , known as the "Blind Traveler," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels...

02/02/1826 15 October 1786 - ? 29 July 1857
George Holme-Sumner 17/11/1796 10 November 1760 - 1831
Andrew Bruce Holmes 11/05/2000
Arthur Holmes
Arthur Holmes
Arthur Holmes was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead and attended the Gateshead Higher Grade School .-Age of the earth:...

19/03/1942 14 January 1890 - 20 September 1965
George Holmes
George Holmes
George Holmes can refer to:* George Holmes , 3rd Bishop of Athabasca* George Holmes , Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of Oxford* Dr. George Holmes, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bolton...

12/11/1741 1663 - 16 February 1749
Gordon Morgan Holmes
Gordon Morgan Holmes
Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes CMG CBE FRS was a British neurologist. He is best known for carrying out pioneering research into the cerebellum and the visual cortex....

11/05/1933 22 February 1876-29 December 1965
Kenneth Charles Holmes
Kenneth Holmes
Kenneth Charles Holmes FRS is a British scientist.He was born in Hammersmith, London. He was a former colleague of Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College with Aaron Klug, and John Finch and moved to the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge in 1962...

19/03/1981
Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes (dean)
Robert Holmes was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Winchester and a biblical scholar known for textual studies of the Septuagint.-Life:...

14/12/1797 ? November 1748 - 12 November 1805
George Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield 21/06/1860 16 March 1802 - 5 April 1876
John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield 03/04/1783 1735 - 30 May 1821
Ronald Holroyd 24/03/1960 26 April 1904 - 29 September 1973
John Louis Holstein 01/07/1762 1694–1763
Christine Elizabeth Holt 15/05/2009
John Riley Holt
John Holt (physicist)
John Riley Holt, FRS was an English experimental physicist who played a part in the development of the atom bomb and later became one of the pioneers of elementary particle physics research....

19/03/1964
Rowland Holt 12/03/1707 c 1652 - 11
John Zephaniah Holwell
John Zephaniah Holwell
John Zephaniah Holwell FRS was a surgeon, an employee of the English East India Company, and a temporary Governor of Bengal...

29/01/1767 17 September 1711 - 5 November 1798
Everard Home
Everard Home
Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS was a British physician.Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School. He gained a schoalrship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but decided instead to become a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter, at St. George's Hospital...

15/02/1787 6 May 1756 - 31 August 1832
James Everard Home
James Everard Home
Sir James Everard Home 2nd Bt CB, FRS was an eminent Nineteenth Century British Naval Officer. -References:...

21/04/1825 25 October 1798 - 2 November 1853
Ernest Demetrios Hondros 15/03/1984
Robert William Kerr Honeycombe
Robert Honeycombe
Sir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, FREng, FRS, was a former Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge....

19/03/1981
Charles Hood 07/12/1843 1805 - 10 December 1889
James Hook 29/02/1816 c 1772 - 5 February 1828 Clergyman
Walter Farquhar Hook
Walter Farquhar Hook
Walter Farquhar Hook , was an eminent Victorian churchman.-Background:He was the Vicar of Leeds responsible for the construction of the current Leeds Parish Church and for many ecclesiastical and social improvements to the city in the mid-nineteenth century...

05/06/1862 13 March 1798 - 20 October 1875
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath.His adult life comprised three distinct periods: as a scientific inquirer lacking money; achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666, but...

20/05/1663 18 July 1635 - 3 March 1703 Original
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...

22/04/1847 30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911
Stanley George Hooker 15/03/1962 30 September 1907 - 24 May 1984
William Jackson Hooker
William Jackson Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...

09/01/1812 6 July 1785 - 12 August 1865
Christopher Hooley
Christopher Hooley
Christopher Hooley FLSW FRS is a British mathematician, emeritus professor of mathematics at Cardiff University. He did his PhD under the supervision of Albert Ingham. He won the Adams Prize of Cambridge University in 1973. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983...

17/03/1983
Edward Hooper 31/05/1759
Hendrik Hop 24/10/1734 8 December 1686 - 8 December 1761
Charles Hope-Weir
Charles Hope-Weir
The Hon. Charles Hope-Weir was a Scottish politician.Born The Hon. Charles Hope, he was the second son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone, daughter of William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale...

26/04/1744 8 May 1710 - 30 December 1791
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope
Frederick William Hope was an English entomologist and founder of the Hope Department of Entomology at the University of Oxford....

05/06/1834 3 January 1797 - 15 April 1862
James Hope 09/06/1832 24 February 1801 - 12 May 1841 Surgeon
John Hope
John Hope (botanist)
John Hope was a Scottish physician and botanist. He is best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification, largely because he published very little of the research that might have made him a name in plant physiology....

12/02/1767 10 May 1725 - 10 November 1786
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....

08/02/1728 7 September 1704 - 26 February 1781
Thomas Hope 06/12/1804 30 August 1769 - 03
Thomas Charles Hope
Thomas Charles Hope
Thomas Charles Hope was a Scottish physician and chemist. He discovered the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at 4°C....

31/05/1810 21 July 1766 - 13 June 1844
William Johnstone Hope
William Johnstone Hope
Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet actions, disputes with royalty, party politics and entry to both Russian and British...

24/03/1808 16 August 1766 - 2 May 1831
Daniel Hopkins 27/06/1765
Frederick Gowland Hopkins 11/05/1905 20 June 1861 - 16 May 1947
Harold Horace Hopkins 15/03/1973 6 December 1918 - 22 October 1994
William Hopkins
William Hopkins
William Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the senior-wrangler maker....

01/06/1837 3 February 1793 - 13 October 1866
Bertram Hopkinson
Bertram Hopkinson
Bertram Hopkinson, CMG, FRS, was a patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer designer of the internal combustion engine.Hopkinson was born in Birmingham, in 1874, the...

05/05/1910 11 January 1874 - 26 August 1918
John Hopkinson
John Hopkinson
John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882...

06/06/1878 27 July 1849 - 27 August 1898
Andy Hopper
Andy Hopper
Andrew Hopper CBE FRS FREng FIET is the Professor of Computer Technology and Head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.-Research:...

18/05/2006
John Hoppus
John Hoppus
Rev. John Hoppus LL.D., PH.D., F.R.S. , English Congregational minister, author, Fellow of the Royal Society, abolitionist and educational reformer, was appointed the first Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Mind at the newly formed London University , a position he secured and held against his...

20/05/1841 1789 - 29 January 1875
Richard Cope Hopton 12/12/1771 c 1738 - 13 January 1810
David Alan Hopwood
David Hopwood
Sir David Alan Hopwood FRS is a British geneticist.He gained his PhD from St John's College, Cambridge and served as an assistant lecturer in genetics at Cambridge until he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Glasgow in 1961...

15/03/1979
John Harold Horlock 18/03/1976
Gabriel Horn
Gabriel Horn
Sir Gabriel Horn, FRS is a British biologist. His research is into the neural mechanisms of learning and memory.He was Professor and Head of the Department of Anatomy, University of Bristol, 1974–77, then Professor of Zoology, University of Cambridge, 1978–95 . He was Master of Sidney Sussex...

20/03/1986
James Horne 20/05/1742 fl 1742
James Horne 06/02/1834 1790 - 26 October 1856
John Horne
John Horne
John Horne was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. He was a pupil of Ben Peach....

14/06/1900 1 January 1848 - 30 May 1928
Michael Rex Horne 19/03/1981 29 December 1921 - 6 January 2000
Anthony Horneck
Anthony Horneck
Anthony Horneck was a German Protestant clergyman and scholar who made his career in England. He became an influential evangelical figure in London from the later 1670s, in partnership with Richard Smithies, curate of St Giles Cripplegate....

28/01/1669 1641 - 31 January 1697
Leonard Horner
Leonard Horner
Leonard Horner , Scottish geologist, brother of Francis Horner, was born in Edinburgh.Horner was a 'radical educational reformer' who was involved in the establishment of University College School....

11/11/1813 17 January 1785 - 5 March 1864
Thomas Hornsby
Thomas Hornsby
Thomas Hornsby FRS was a British astronomer and mathematician.Hornsby became a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1760....

21/04/1763 28 August 1733 - 11 April 1810
George Adrian Horridge 20/03/1969
James Horsburgh
James Horsburgh
James Horsburgh was a Scottish hydrographer. He worked for East India Company, who mapped many seaways around Singapore in the late 18th century and early 19th century....

13/03/1806 23 September 1762 - 14 May 1836
Stephen Horseman 15/02/1728 fl 1702 - 1737
James Horsfall 14/04/1768
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield M. D. was an American physician and naturalist.Horsfield was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the grandson of Timothy Horsfield, Sr., a colonel and justice of the peace in Bethlehem, and a friend mentioned in Benjamin...

10/01/1828 12 May 1773 - 24 July 1859
John Horsley 08/05/1729 1685 - 12 January 1732
Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley
Samuel Horsley was a British churchman, bishop of Rochester from 1792.Entering Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1751, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts. In the following year he succeeded his father in the living of Newington Butts in Surrey...

09/04/1767 15 September 1733 - 4 October 1806
Victor Alexander Haden Horsley 04/06/1886 14 April 1857 - 16 July 1916
Frank Horton 03/05/1923 20 August 1878 - 31 August 1957 Physicist, Royal Holloway
David Hosack
David Hosack
Dr. David Hosack , a noted physician, botanist, and educator, is perhaps most widely known as the doctor who attended to Alexander Hamilton after Hamilton's deadly duel with Aaron Burr. Born in New York City to parents Alexander and Jane Hosack, David was the first of their seven children...

23/05/1816 31 August 1769 - 22 December 1835
Brian John Hoskins 17/03/1988
Samuel Elliott Hoskins
Samuel Elliott Hoskins
-Life:Hoskins was born at Guernsey in 1799. His father, Samuel Hoskins, a native of Honiton, Devonshire, was in business at 66 Mark Lane, London, with the firm of Merrick, Hoskins, & Co...

25/05/1843
John Hoskins
Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Hoskyns, 2nd Baronet was an English baronet.He was one of the founders of the Royal Society and served as its President from 1682 to 1683. Between 1685 and 1687 he also represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons.-References:*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David . Debrett's Peerage and...

20/05/1663 23 July 1634 - 12 September 1705 Original
Charles Hotham
Charles Hotham (rector)
Charles Hotham was an English cleric.Charles Hotham was the son of Sir John Hotham, Governor of Hull. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained his MA in 1639. He became a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1640, but was deprived by parliament of his...

09/01/1668 13 May 1615 - ? February 1674 Rector, Bermuda
Pieter Hotton 01/01/1703 18 June 1648 - 10 January 1709
James Hough 15/05/2003
Sydney Samuel Hough 05/06/1902 11 June 1870 - 8 July 1923
John Houghton 29/01/1680 1645 - 1705 Apothecary
John Theodore Houghton
John T. Houghton
As co-chair of the IPCC, he defends the IPCC process, in particular against charges of failure to consider non-CO2 explanations of climate change. In evidence to, the Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2000 he said:...

16/03/1972
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield 20/03/1975 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004
Robert Houston 09/12/1725 ? December 1678 - 15 May 1734 Physician
Alexander Cruikshank Houston 07/05/1931 18 September 1865 - 29 October 1933
William Houstoun
William Houstoun (botanist)
William Houstoun was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who retrieved plants from Mexico and South America.He was born in Houston, Renfrewshire. He began a degree course in medicine at St Andrew's University but completed his medical training at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1729...

18/01/1733 c 1695 - 14 August 1733
Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk 15/02/1816 21 November 1765 - ? 16 March 1842
Charles Howard 20/05/1663 13 September 1630 - 31 March 1713 Original
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal , the son of Henry Charles Howard and Mary Aylward . He married Catherine Brockholes , daughter of John Brockholes, on 8 November 1739...

24/03/1768 1 December 1720 - 31 August 1786
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk
Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk , styled Earl of Surrey from 1777 to 1786, was a British peer, the son of Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Brockholes....

18/06/1767 5 March 1746 - 16 December 1815
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle was an English politician and military leader.The first in the Howard line of earls, he was the son and heir of Sir William Howard, of Naworth in Cumberland, by Mary, daughter of William, Lord Eure, and great-grandson of Lord William Howard, "Belted Will" , the...

14/06/1665 5 February 1629 - 24 February 1685
Edward Howard 05/11/1668 fl 1668-1706 Barrister
Edward Charles Howard
Edward Charles Howard
Edward Charles Howard FRS the youngest son of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, was a British chemist who has been described as the first chemical engineer of any eminence....

17/01/1799 28 May 1774 - 27 September 1816
George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle 03/06/1847 18 April 1802 - 5 December 1864
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle
George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Morpeth until 1825, was a British statesman...

26/02/1795 17 September 1773 - 7 October 1848
Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk 15/12/1842 12 August 1791 - 18
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk was the second son of Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart. He succeeded his brother Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk after his death in 1677...

28/11/1666 12 July 1628 - 11 January 1684
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC, Earl Marshal was a politician and soldier. He was the son of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester and Elizabeth Dormer.He married Mary Mordaunt, the only daughter and heiress of...

30/10/1672 11 January 1655 - 2 April 1701
Hugh Howard
Hugh Howard
Hugh Howard was a portrait-painter and collector of works of art from Dublin.-Biography:Hugh Howard was born in Dublin on the 7 February 1675. He was the eldest son of Dr. Ralph Howard of Shelton, county Wicklow...

30/11/1696 8 February 1675 - 17 March 1737
James Griffiths Howard 15/03/1984 25 September 1927 - 6 October 1998
John Howard
John Howard (prison reformer)
John Howard was a philanthropist and the first English prison reformer.-Birth and early life:Howard was born in Lower Clapton, London. His father, also John, was a wealthy upholsterer at Smithfield Market in the city...

13/05/1756 2 September 1726 - 20 January 1790
John Eliot Howard
John Eliot Howard
John Eliot Howard was an English chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine....

04/06/1874 11 December 1807 - 22 November 1883
John Stafford Howard 06/11/1673
Jonathan Charles Howard 09/03/1995
Judith Ann Kathleen Howard
Judith Howard
Judith Ann Kathleen Howard, CBE, FRS, is a distinguished British chemist, crystallographer and Professor at Durham University....

09/05/2002
Lord Thomas Howard 06/11/1672 c 1655 - 9 November 1689 Courtier, Diplomat
Luke Howard
Luke Howard
Luke Howard FRS was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science...

08/03/1821 28 November 1772 - 21 March 1864
Samuel Howard 14/03/1771 c 1731 - ? 31 December 1811 Surgeon
William Augustus Howard 14/05/1778
William Howard, Viscount Stafford 18/01/1665 ? 30 November 1612 - 29 December 1680
Leslie Howarth 16/03/1950 23 May 1911 - 22 September 2001
Thomas Bayly Howell
Thomas Bayly Howell
Thomas Bayly Howell FRS was an English lawyer and writer who edited and lent his name to Howell's State Trials.-Life:Born, in Jamaica, his family returned to England in 1770 to settle at Prinknash Park near Gloucester...

08/03/1804 1768 - 13 April 1815
Thomas George Bond Howes 03/06/1897 7 September 1853 - 04
Archibald Howie
Archibald Howie
Archibald "Archie" Howie FRS is a British physicist, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals. Born in 1934, he attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge,...

16/03/1978
William Howley
William Howley
William Howley was a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848.-Early Life, education, and interests:...

17/11/1796 13 February 1766 - 11 February 1848
Henry Hoyle Howorth
Henry Hoyle Howorth
Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth KCIE FRS was a British Conservative politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist....

01/06/1893 1 July 1842 - 15 July 1923
Thomas Hoy 01/12/1707 12 December 1659 - c 1718
Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally...

21/03/1957 24 June 1915 - 20 August 2001
Johann Jacob Huber 07/05/1752 11 September 1707 - 6 July 1778
Martin Hubner 20/03/1755 fl 1755
Richard Huck-Saunders 18/02/1768 1720 - 24 July 1785
Robert Hucks 01/11/1722
Joseph Huddart
Joseph Huddart
Joseph Huddart F.R.S. was a hydrographer. He surveyed harbours and coasts but made a fortune from improving the design and manufacture of rope. He was highly regarded in the nineteenth century. His likeness featured in an engraving of distinguished men of science...

17/11/1791 11 January 1741 - 19 August 1816
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston FRS was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884. He was the president of the Geological Society of London from 1892 to 1894...

12/06/1884 2 June 1828 - 29 January 1909
Charles Thomas Hudson 06/06/1889 11 March 1828 - 23 October 1903
John Hudson
John Hudson
John Hudson may refer to:* John Hudson , older brother of actor William Hudson* John Hudson , former NFL player* John Hudson , former American basketball player...

05/12/1754
Peter John Hudson 16/05/2008
Robert Hudson 10/04/1834 1801 - 9 February 1883
Robert Francis Hudson 18/03/1982
Robert George Spencer Hudson
Robert George Spencer Hudson
Robert George Spencer Hudson was an English Geologist and Paleontologist. He was born in Rugby, Warwickshire, the eldest son of Robert Spencer Hudson....

16/03/1961 17 November 1895 - 29 December 1965
Charles Grave Hudson 19/05/1757 3 April 1730 - 24 October 1813
William Hudson
William Hudson (engineer)
Sir William Hudson, KBE , Australian engineer, headed construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme for hydroelectricity and irrigation in Australia from 1949 to 1967, when he reluctantly retired at 71...

19/03/1964 27 April 1896 - 12 September 1978
William Hudson
William Hudson (botanist)
William Hudson FRS was a British botanist and apothecary based in London. His main work was Flora Anglica, published in 1762. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1761.- Life and work :...

05/11/1761 c 1730 - 23 May 1793
Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett 20/03/1958 23 April 1897 - 21 July 1968
William Huggins
William Huggins
Sir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.-Biography:...

01/06/1865 8 February 1824 - 12 May 1910
Nevin Campbell Hughes-Jones 21/03/1985
David Edward Hughes 03/06/1880 16 May 1831 - 22 January 1900
Edward Hughes 09/03/1727 c 1701 - 13 January 1734 MP for Saltash
Edward David Hughes 17/03/1949 18 June 1906 - 30 June 1963
Griffith Hughes
Griffith Hughes
The Reverend Griffith Hughes , FRS, was a naturalist and author. Hughes wrote The Natural History of Barbados, which included the first description of the grapefruit...

09/06/1748 fl 1748 - 1758
John Hughes 11/03/1993 Pharmacologist, Cambridge
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Thomas McKenny Hughes was a Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.-Private life:...

06/06/1889 17 December 1832 - 9 June 1917
Johann August Hugo 14/11/1717 11 September 1686 - 16
Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier
Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier
Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier was a Swiss mathematician of French Hugenot descent...

05/05/1791 24 April 1750 - 28 March 1840
John Whitaker Hulke 06/06/1867 7 November 1830 - 19 February 1895
Derek Hull 16/03/1989
Edward Hull
Edward Hull (geologist)
Edward Hull , M.A., L.L.D., F.R.S., a geologist and stratigrapher, held the position of Director of theGeological Survey of Ireland. He was also a professor of geology in the Royal College of Science, Dublin. His dates are listed in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.He was born in...

06/06/1867 21 May 1829 - 18 October 1917 Geologist
Nathaniel Hulme 03/07/1794 17 June 1732 - 28 March 1807
Alexander, Baron Hume-Campbell 01/04/1773 30 July 1750 - 9 March 1781
William Hume-Rothery
William Hume-Rothery
William Hume-Rothery OBE was a British metallurgist who studied the constitution of alloys.- Career :Hume-Rothery was born the son of lawyer Joseph Hume-Rothery in Worcester Park, Surrey but spent his youth in Cheltenham and was educated at Cheltenham College. In 1917 he was made totally deaf by a...

06/05/1937 15 May 1899 - 27 September 1968
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume
Joseph Hume FRS was a Scottish doctor and Radical MP, born in Montrose, Angus.-Medical career:He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and moved to India in 1797...

08/01/1818 23 January 1777 - 20 February 1855
Abraham Hume 14/12/1775 21 February 1749 - 24 March 1838 Fellow 14/12/1775
John Herbert Humphrey 21/03/1963 16 December 1915 - 25 December 1987
David Humphreys
David Humphreys (soldier)
David Humphreys was a American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, American minister to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature...

11/06/1807 11 July 1752 - 21 February 1818
George Murray Humphry
George Murray Humphry
Sir George Murray Humphry was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer.-Life:He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk on 18 July 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, a barrister...

09/06/1859 18 July 1820 - 24 September 1896 Surgeon, Cambridge University
Francis Joseph Hunauld 14/02/1734 25 February 1701 - 15 December 1742 Anatomist Royal Garden, Paris
Karl Friedrich Hundertmark 13/03/1755 11 April 1715 - 8 May 1762
George Hunt 11/11/1819 1790 - 20 February 1861 Clergyman
John David Hunt 10/05/2001
Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt
Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton
Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton FRS is a leading British authority on turbulence modelling, former Director General and Chief Executive of the UK Meteorological Office.-Life:...

16/03/1989
Robert Hunt
Robert Hunt (scientist)
Robert Hunt , a scientist and antiquarian, was born at Devonport, Plymouth, in the United Kingdom. He was involved in statistical, mineralogical and other studies. He died in London on 17 October 1887.-Early life:...

01/06/1854 6 September 1807 - 17 October 1887
Richard Timothy Hunt 14/03/1991
Thomas Hunt
Thomas Hunt (professor)
Thomas Hunt FRS was an English academic, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1738 until his death.-Life:...

13/11/1740 1696 - 31 October 1774
Thomas Hunt 15/04/1725
Thomas Sterry Hunt
Thomas Sterry Hunt
Thomas Sterry Hunt , American geologist and chemist, was born at Norwich, Connecticut.He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two years he found employment in a printing office, in an apothecary shop, in a book store and as a clerk...

09/06/1859 6 September 1826 - 12 February 1892
William Le Hunt 13/02/1668 fl 1668-1682
Alexander Hunter
Alexander Hunter
-Life:Born at Edinburgh in 1729 , he was eldest son of a prosperous druggist. He was sent to the grammar school at ten, and at fifteen to the university, where he remained until he was twenty-one, having devoted the last three years to medicine...

02/02/1775 1729 - 17 May 1809
Anthony Rex Hunter 19/03/1987
Christopher Alexander Hunter 16/05/2008
Christopher Neil Hunter 15/05/2009
John Hunter
John Hunter (surgeon)
John Hunter FRS was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The Hunterian Society of London was named in his honour...

05/02/1767 14 February 1728 - 16 October 1793 The surgeon
John Hunter 12/01/1786 ? February 1754 - 29 January 1809 A physician
Peter John Hunter 18/05/2006
Robert Hunter 04/05/1709
Robert Hunter 06/04/1837
William Hunter
William Hunter (anatomist)
William Hunter FRS was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day...

30/04/1767 23 May 1718 - 30 March 1783
George Isaac Huntingford
George Isaac Huntingford
George Isaac Huntingford was bishop successively of Gloucester and HerefordHe was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow in 1770, graduating M.A., 1776 and D.D. in 1793. He was then curate of Compton, south of Winchester, before becoming a master of his...

23/02/1804 9 September 1748 - 29 April 1832
Herbert Eric Huppert
Herbert Huppert
Herbert Eric Huppert is an Australian-born geophysicist living in Britain. He has been Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Foundation Director, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge University, since 1989 and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1970.He was born and received...

19/03/1987
Joseph Hurlock 14/03/1782 c 1715 - 15 August 1793
Philip Hurlock 16/11/1780 c 1713 - 1803
Noel Sydney Hush 17/03/1988
Thomas Hussey
Thomas Hussey (bishop)
Bishop Thomas Hussey was a diplomat, chaplain, and Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore from 1797 until his death in 1803...

08/03/1792 1741 - 11 July 1803
James Devereux Hustler 18/11/1819
Archibald Hutcheson
Archibald Hutcheson
Archibald Hutcheson was a British Member of Parliament .He was the son of Archibald Hutcheson of Stracum or Stranocum, Co. Antrim. He trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1683. He was appointed Attorney-General of the Leeward Islands...

30/11/1708 c 1660 - 12 August 1740
Graham John Hutchings 15/05/2009
Andrew Hutchinson 26/04/1804
Arthur Hutchinson 11/05/1922 6 July 1866 - 12 December 1937 Mineralogist
Benjamin Hutchinson 19/03/1795
George Henry Hutchinson 19/03/1829
John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (botanist)
John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:...

20/03/1947 7 April 1884 - 2 September 1972 Botanist
Richard John Hely, 4th Earl of Donoughmore Hutchinson 25/03/1865 4 April 1823 - 22 February 1866
Jonathan Hutchinson
Jonathan Hutchinson
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson , was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist.-Life:He was born in Selby, Yorkshire, England of Quaker parents and educated in the local school...

08/06/1882 23 July 1828 - 26 June 1913
Joseph Burtt Hutchinson
Joseph Hutchinson
Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson FRS was a British biologistHe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in Mar 1951 and was awarded their Royal Medal in 1967 "In recognition of his distinguished work on the genetics and evolution of crop-plants with particular reference to cotton."His FRS...

15/03/1951 21 March 1902 - 16 January 1988
Alexander Copland Hutchison 13/03/1828
William Kenneth Hutchison 17/03/1966 30 October 1903 - 28 November 1989
Addison Hutton 09/02/1738
Charles Hutton
Charles Hutton
Charles Hutton was an English mathematician.Hutton was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was educated in a school at Jesmond, kept by Mr Ivison, a clergyman of the Church of England...

16/06/1774 14 August 1737 - 27 January 1823
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, was an English scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.- Biography :...

02/06/1892 16 November 1836 - 27 October 1905
John Hutton 30/11/1697
William Hutton 04/06/1840 ? 21 March 1797 - ? 21 November 1860
John Huxham
John Huxham
John Huxham was born 1672 close to Totnes, Devon. He was a provincial doctor and surgeon notable for his study of fevers. In 1750 Huxham published his Essay on Fevers and in 1755 received the Copley Medal for his contribution to medicine.-Biography:...

05/04/1739 1692 - 11 August 1768
John Corham Huxham 16/03/1769 fl 1769
Hugh Esmor Huxley 24/03/1960
Andrew Fielding Huxley 17/03/1955
Julian Sorell Huxley 17/03/1938 22 June 1887 - 14
Thomas Henry Huxley 05/06/1851 4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895
Christian Huyghens 22/06/1663 14 April 1629 - ? 8 June 1695 Original
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon was an English historian and statesman, and grandfather of two English monarchs, Mary II and Queen Anne.-Early life:...

08/02/1665 19 February 1609 - 9 December 1674
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Henry Hyde 2nd Earl of Clarendon PC was an English aristocrat and politician. He held high office at the beginning of the reign of James II of England, who had married his sister.-Early life:...

01/12/1684 3 June 1638 - 31 October 1709
John Hyde
John Hyde
John Hyde may refer to:* John Hyde , federal politician from Western Australia for the Division of Moore...

28/05/1752
Benjamin Hyett 02/06/1796 c 1741 - ? 21 June 1810
Anthony A. Hyman
Anthony A. Hyman
Anthony A. Hyman is a noted British scientist and academic figure. Anthony studied zoology at the University College in London, went on to complete his PhD in molecular cell biology at King's College in Cambridge, and then completed his postdoc at the University of California in San Francisco....

17/05/2007 Molecular Cell Biologist

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Name Election Date
Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson
Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson
Captain Levett Landon Boscawen Ibbetson was an English 19th century geologist, inventor, organiser and soldier. He is particularly associated with early developments in photography, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society .From his London home , Ibbetson corresponded with William Henry Fox Talbot in...

06/06/1850 ? - 8 September 1869
Ainsley Iggo 16/03/1978 Professor of Veterinary
Veterinary medicine
Veterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...

 Physiology
Vincent Charles Illing 22/03/1945 24 September 1890 - 16 May 1969 Prof. of Oil Tech., Imperial Coll.
Augustus Daniel Imms
Augustus Daniel Imms
Augustus Daniel Imms FRS was an English educator, research institution administrator and entomologist.-Early life:...

02/05/1929 24 August 1880 - 3 April 1949
Harry Raymond Ing 15/03/1951 31 July 1899 - 23 September 1974 Pharmacologist
John Ingenhousz
Jan Ingenhousz
Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz FRS was a Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist. He is best known for showing that light is essential to photosynthesis and thus having discovered photosynthesis. He also discovered that plants, like animals, have cellular respiration...

25/05/1769 8 December 1730 - 7 September 1799
Albert Edward Ingham 22/03/1945 3 April 1900 - 6 September 1967
Philip William Ingham 09/05/2002
John Ingilby 07/02/1793 1758 - 13 May 1815
Edward Augustus Inglefield
Edward Augustus Inglefield
Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield was a Royal Naval officer who led one of the searches for the missing Arctic explorer John Franklin during the 1850s. In doing so, his expedition charted previously unexplored areas along the northern Canadian coastline, including Baffin Bay, Smith Sound and...

02/06/1853 27 March 1820 - 5 September 1894
John Inglis
John Inglis
John Inglis may refer to:* John Inglis, Lord Glencorse , Scottish former politician and Judge* Sir John Inglis, 2nd Baronet , Postmaster General for Scotland* John Inglis , American college football coach...

22/01/1713
Charles Edward Inglis 15/05/1930 31 July 1875 - 19 April 1952 Prof. of Engineering, Cambridge University
Claude Cavendish Inglis 19/03/1953 3 March 1883 - 29 August 1974 Director, Hydraulic Research Station
Robert Harry Inglis 04/03/1813 12 January 1786 - 5 May 1855
Keith Usherwood Ingold
Keith Usherwood Ingold
Keith Usherwood Ingold OC FRS FRSCan FRSE is a British chemist.He was born in to Sir Christopher Ingold and Dr. Hilda Usherwood, and studied for a BSc in Chemistry at the University of London, completing his degree in 1949. He continued his higher education with a PhD in chemistry at Oxford...

15/03/1979
Christopher Kelk Ingold
Christopher Kelk Ingold
Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold FRS was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile,...

15/05/1924 28 October 1893 - 8 December 1970
Vernon Martin Ingram
Vernon Ingram
Vernon M. Ingram, Ph.D., FRS was a German American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-Biography:Ingram was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia...

19/03/1970 19 May 1924 – 17 August 2006
Joshua Iremonger 30/04/1747 c 1716 - 31 December 1804
Robin Francis Irvine 11/03/1993
James Colquhoun Irvine 02/05/1918 9 May 1877 - 12 June 1952
Edward A. Irving
Edward A. Irving
Edward A. "Ted" Irving, CM, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift...

15/03/1979
Malcolm Irving 15/05/2003
Alick Isaacs
Alick Isaacs
Alick Isaacs was a British virologist. He is best remembered for his work on interferon, having been Head of the Laboratory for Research on Interferon, National Institute for Medical Research, 1964–7....

17/03/1966 17 July 1921 - 26 January 1967, virologist, interferon
Interferon
Interferons are proteins made and released by host cells in response to the presence of pathogens—such as viruses, bacteria, or parasites—or tumor cells. They allow communication between cells to trigger the protective defenses of the immune system that eradicate pathogens or tumors.IFNs belong to...

Peter Gershon Isaacson 15/05/2009
David Ish-Horowicz
David Ish-Horowicz
David Ish-Horowicz is a British scientist. He has been Principal Scientist and head of developmental genetics at Cancer Research UK , since 1987. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and won the Waddington Medal from the British Society for Developmental Biology in...

09/05/2002
Justinian Isham 01/07/1663 20 January 1611 - 2 March 1675
Werner Israel
Werner Israel
Werner Israel, OC, FRSC, FRS is a Canadian physicist.Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he received his B.Sc. in 1951 and his M.Sc. in 1954 from the University of Cape Town. He received his Ph.D...

20/03/1986 German-born Canadian physicist, cosmologist
Jacob Nissim Israelachvili
Jacob Israelachvili
Jacob Israelachvili is a professor of chemical engineering and materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara . Israelachvili received his Ph.D. in Physics from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972, and joined UCSB in 1986. His research has involved study of molecular and interfacial forces...

17/03/1988
Charles Issac 30/11/1692 fl 1692 - 1711
Alec Arnold Constantine Issigonis 16/03/1967 18 November 1906 - 2 October 1988
George Isted 16/04/1801
Thomas Isted 09/11/1698 9 December 1677 - 9 October 1731
Andre Jarowiewitch Italinski 16/06/1814 15 May 1743 - 27 June 1827
Leslie Lars Iversen 20/03/1980
Jeremiah Ives 16/12/1819 c 1777 - 14 September 1829
John Ives
John Ives
John Ives FRS was an antiquarian and officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was born in Great Yarmouth, the son of another John Ives, a wealthy merchant. He was baptized at a Congregationalist church and it was from a Congregationalist minister that he received his earliest...

25/03/1773 1751 - 9 June 1776
James Ivory
James Ivory (mathematician)
Sir James Ivory was a Scottish mathematician.Ivory was born in Dundee and attended Dundee Grammar School. In 1779 he entered the University of St Andrews, distinguishing himself especially in mathematics...

06/04/1815 17 February 1765 - 21 September 1842

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Name Election Date
Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Antonio Garcia-Bellido
Antonio García-Bellido ForMemRS is a Spanish Developmental biologist.-Life:He is Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council since 1974.-External links:...

26/06/1986
Herbert Spencer Gasser 09/05/1946 5 July 1888 - 11 May 1963, medicine, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 (1944)
Jean Albert Gaudry
Jean Albert Gaudry
Jean Albert Gaudry , French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas....

12/12/1895 ? 16 September 1827 - 27 November 1908
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- External links :* from the American Chemical Society* from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 10th Edition * , Paris...

06/04/1815 6 December 1778 - 9 May 1850
Gerard Jakob De Geer
Gerard De Geer
Baron Gerard Jacob De Geer was a Swedish geologist who made significant contributions to Quaternary geology, particularly geomorphology and geochronology. De Geer is best known for his discovery of varves.- Early life and family :...

26/06/1930 2 October 1858 - ? 23 July 1943
Carl Gegenbaur 31/01/1884 21 August 1826 - 14 June 1903
Izrael Moiseivich Gelfand 21/04/1977 Ukrainian-born Russian-American mathematician
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is an American physicist and linguist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles...

20/04/1978 U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1969)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.-Biography:...

28/06/1984 24 October 1932 – 18 May 2007
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American theoretical physicist, chemist, and mathematician. He devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry. As a mathematician, he invented vector analysis . Yale University awarded Gibbs the first American Ph.D...

04/03/1897 12 February 1839 - 28 April 1903
Grove Karl Gilbert
Grove Karl Gilbert
Grove Karl Gilbert , known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist....

28/02/1918 6 May 1843 - 1 May 1918
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert
Walter Gilbert is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932...

25/06/1987 U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman
Henry Gilman was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within which his most notable work was done. He discovered the Gilman reagent, which bears his name....

24/04/1975 9 May 1893 - 7 November 1986, U.S. organometallic chemist
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg
Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb...

25/06/1987 Russian physicist, Nobel Prize (2003)
Roy J. Glauber 15/05/1997 U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (2005)
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.- Life and scientific career :...

09/03/1995 German-born U.S. geneticist, co-founder of developmental genetics
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher. Later in his life he emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the...

25/04/1968 28 April 1906 - 14 January 1978
Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel 29/04/1926 8 March 1855 - ? 9 October 1932
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Victor Goldschmidt
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a mineralogist considered to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classification of elements.-Early life & career:Goldschmidt was born in Zürich...

20/05/1943 27 January 1888 - 20 March 1947, Swiss-born U.S. chemist, founder of modern geochemistry
Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein
Joseph L. Goldstein from Kingstree, South Carolina is a Nobel Prize winning biochemist and geneticist, and a pioneer in the study of cholesterol metabolism.-Biography:...

20/06/1991 U.S. biologist, Nobel Prize (1985)
Boris Borisovich Golitsyn 23/03/1916 ? 18 February 1862 - ? 17 May 1916
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a pioneering American astronomer. He is notable for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.-Biography:He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of...

26/11/1891 27 September 1824 - 26 November 1896
Ragnar Arthur Granit 28/04/1960 30 October 1900 - 12 March 1991
Asa Gray
Asa Gray
-References:*Asa Gray. Dictionary of American Biography. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936.*Asa Gray. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.*Asa Gray. Plant Sciences. 4 vols. Macmillan Reference USA, 2001....

27/11/1873 ? 8 November 1810 - 30 January 1888
Harry Barkus Gray
Harry B. Gray
Harry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991, Harvey Prize in 2000, The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry in 2004, and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.-Career:Gray received his B.S...

11/05/2000
Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth
Paul Heinrich von Groth
Paul Heinrich von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures....

09/11/1911 23 June 1843 - 2 December 1927

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Names Election Date
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Salomon Hadamard FRS was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.-Biography:...

02/06/1932 8 December 1865 - 17 October 1963
Erwin L. Hahn 11/05/2000
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn FRS was a German chemist and Nobel laureate, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner...

09/05/1957 8 March 1879 - 28 July 1968
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger
Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist, geologist and physicist....

20/11/1856 5 February 1796 - 19 March 1871
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...

25/03/1909 29 June 1868 - ? 23 February 1938
Albin Haller
Albin Haller
Albin Haller was a French chemist.Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy and later won the Davy Medal. Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923....

05/05/1921 7 March 1849 - 1 May 1925
Joachim August Wilhelm Hammerling
Joachim Hämmerling
Dr. Joachim Hämmerling was a pioneering Danish-German biologist funded by Nazi Germany who determined the nucleus of a cell controls the development of organisms by containing the hereditary information, or DNA...

23/04/1970 9 March 1901 - 5 August 1980
Peter Andreas Hansen
Peter Andreas Hansen
Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.-Biography:The son of a goldsmith, Hansen learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820...

04/06/1835 8 December 1795 - 28 March 1874
Ilkka Aulis Hanski
Ilkka Hanski
Ilkka A. Hanski FRS is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of ecology, at Helsinki University, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Group led by Hanski has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland...

26/05/2005
Christopher Hansteen
Christopher Hansteen
Christopher Hansteen was a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, best known for his mapping of Earth's magnetic field.-Early life and career:...

30/05/1839 26 September 1784 - ? 11 April 1873
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison
Ross Granville Harrison was an American biologist and anatomist credited as the first to work successfully with artificial tissue culture....

23/05/1940 13 January 1870 - 30 September 1959
Haldan Keffer Hartline
Haldan Keffer Hartline
Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.Hartline began his study of retinal electrophysiology as a National Research Council Fellow at Johns...

21/04/1966 22 December 1903 - 17 March 1983
René Just Haüy
René Just Haüy
René Just Haüy – 3 June 1822 in Paris) was a French mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. He is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography." -Biography:...

12/03/1818 29 February 1743 - ? 3 June 1822 Foreign Member
Michael Heidelberger
Michael Heidelberger
Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins...

24/04/1975 29 April 1888 - 15 June 1991
Rudolph Peter Heinrich Heidenhain
Rudolf Heidenhain
Rudolf Peter Heinrich Heidenhain was a German physiologist who was born in Marienwerder, East Prussia . He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle and Berlin. After receiving his doctorate, he remained in Berlin as an assistant to Emil du Bois-Reymond...

04/03/1897 29 January 1834 - 13 October 1897
Albert Heim
Albert Heim
Albert Heim was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.Born at Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group...

26/11/1896 12 April 1849 - ? 31 August 1937
Werner Karl Heisenberg 28/04/1955 5 December 1901 - 01
Friedrich Robert Helmert
Friedrich Robert Helmert
Friedrich Robert Helmert was a German geodesist and an important writer on the theory of errors.Helmert was born in Freiberg, Kingdom of Saxony. After schooling in Freiberg and Dresden, he entered the Polytechnische Schule, now Technische Universität, in Dresden to study engineering science in 1859...

04/06/1908 31 July 1843 - 15 June 1917
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz 24/05/1860 31 August 1821 - 8 September 1894
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle was a German physician, pathologist and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay "On Miasma and Contagia" was an early argument for the germ theory of disease...

27/11/1873 19 July 1809 - 13 May 1885
Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering 27/11/1902 5 August 1834 - 26 January 1918
Ludimar Hermann
Ludimar Hermann
Ludimar Hermann was a German physiologist and speech scientist who used the Edison phonograph to test theories of vowel production, particularly those of Robert Willis and Charles Wheatstone. He coined the word formant, a term of importance in modern acoustic phonetics...

11/03/1905 21 October 1838 - 5 June 1914
Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite
Charles Hermite was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra....

27/11/1873 24 December 1822 - 14 January 1901
George Charles de Hevesy
George de Hevesy
George Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,...

11/05/1939 1 August 1885 - 5 July 1966, Hungarian-born Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 (1943)
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...

08/04/1965 20 December 1890 - 27 March 1967
David Hilbert
David Hilbert
David Hilbert was a German mathematician. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of...

21/06/1928 24 January 1862 - ? 23 February 1943 Foreign Member
Abraham Hill
Abraham Hill
Abraham Hill FRS was a British merchant.His father was a merchant....

28/11/1660 19 April 1633 - 5 February 1721 Founder Fellow
George William Hill
George William Hill
George William Hill , was an American astronomer and mathematician.Hill was born in New York City, New York to painter and engraver John William Hill. and Catherine Smith Hill. He moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from...

27/11/1902 3 March 1838 - 16 April 1914
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch 09/06/1994
George Herbert Hitchings 25/04/1974 18 April 1905 - 27
Johan Hjort
Johan Hjort
Johan Hjort FRS was a Norwegian fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time.- The early years :...

23/03/1916 19 February 1869 - 7 October 1948 Foreign Member
Jacobus Hendrik Van't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Jr. was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the first winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. He is best known for his discoveries in chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, osmotic pressure, and stereochemistry...

25/11/1897 30 August 1852 - 1 March 1911
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...

28/06/1984
Barbara Leonare Hohn
Barbara Leonare Hohn
Barbara Leonare Hohn ForMemRS is an Austrian molecular biologist, andwas a researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research from 1976 to 2004...

16/05/2008
John Holdren
John Holdren
John Paul Holdren is advisor to President Barack Obama for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...

 
15/05/2009
Olaf Holtedahl
Olaf Holtedahl
Olaf Holtedahl, , was a geologist who was a winner of the Wollaston Medal. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1961.- Bibliography :...

27/04/1961 24 June 1885 - 26 August 1975
Howard Robert Horvitz  16/05/2009
Sven Otto Horstadius
Sven Hörstadius
Sven Hörstadius FRS was a Swedish embryologist known for his work on sea urchin embryos.He was responsible for an increased understanding of the neural crest....

01/05/1952 18 February 1898 - 16 June 1996
Bernardo Alberto Houssay 20/05/1943 10 April 1887 - 21 September 1971
David Hunter Hubel 24/06/1982
Robert Huber
Robert Huber
Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.He was born 20 February 1937 in Munich where his father, Sebastian, was a bank cashier. He was educated at the Humanistisches Karls-Gymnasium from 1947 to 1956 and then studied chemistry at the Technische Hochschule, receiving his diploma in 1960...

13/05/1999
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Huckel
Erich Hückel
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:*The Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions...

21/04/1977 10 August 1896 - 16 February 1980
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst 20/06/1991 19 November 1918 - 31 July 2000
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt 06/04/1815 14 September 1769 - 6 May 1859
George Evelyn Hutchinson 30/06/1983 30 January 1903 - 17 May 1991

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George Rankine Irwin
George Rankine Irwin
Dr. George Rankin Irwin FRS was an American scientist in the field of fracture mechanics and strength of materials. He was internationally known for his study of fracture of materials.-Early life and education:...

25/06/1987 26 February 1907 - 6 October 1998
Masao Ito
Masao Ito
is a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute.He won the 2006 Gruber Neuroscience Prize, and the 1996 Japan Prize.-Life:...

18/06/1992

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