List of Fellows of the Royal Society M,N,O
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About 8,000 Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society of London since its inception in 1660.
Below is an 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
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Name Election Date
Otto Maass
Otto Maass
Otto Maass, was a Canadian academic and scientist.Born in New York City, New York, Maass started teaching at McGill University in 1923 retiring in 1955...

14/03/1940 8 July 1890 - 3 July 1961 Prof. of Physical Chemistry, Montreal
Alexander Macalister
Alexander MacAlister
Alexander MacAlister was 8th of Loup, Chief of Clan MacAlister from 1647, after his father Godfrey Mac Eachann MacAlasdair, styled 7th of Loup, was hanged for treason with his father Eachann Mac Goraidh MacAlasdair, 6th of Loup, Chief of Clan MacAlister and his uncle Coll Mac Eachann MacAlasdair,...

02/06/1881 9 April 1844 - 2 September 1919
Archibald Byron Macallum 03/05/1906 10 April 1858 - 5 April 1934
Robert Macandrew 02/06/1853 22 March 1801 - 22 May 1873
Justin Macarthy 05/04/1770 fl 1770
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB was an Irish-born British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled...

07/06/1792 14 May 1737 - 31 March 1806
James Macartney 21/02/1811 8 March 1770 - 6 March 1843
Francis Sowerby Macaulay
Francis Sowerby Macaulay
Francis Sowerby Macaulay FRS was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry. He is most famous for his 1916 book, The Algebraic Theory of Modular Systems, which greatly influenced the later course of algebraic geometry...

10/05/1928 12 February 1862 - 9 February 1937
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay 22/11/1849 25 October 1800 - 28 December 1859
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay
Zachary Macaulay was a slavery abolitionist and campaigner.-Early life:Macaulay was born in Inveraray, Scotland, the son of the Rev. John Macaulay Zachary Macaulay (2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a slavery abolitionist and campaigner.-Early life:Macaulay was born in Inveraray, Scotland, the son of...

08/02/1821 2 May 1768 - 13 May 1838
Forbes Macbean 09/11/1786 1725 - 11 November 1800
Ernest William MacBride 11/05/1905 12 December 1866 - 17 November 1940
James MacCullagh
James MacCullagh
James MacCullagh was an Irish mathematician.Born in Landahaussy, near Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Ireland, but the family moved to Curly Hill, Strabane when James was about 10. He was a fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a contemporary there of William Rowan Hamilton...

02/02/1843 1809 - 24 October 1847
John MacCulloch
John MacCulloch
John MacCulloch FRS was a Scottish geologist.-Biography:MacCulloch, descended from the MacCullochs of Nether Ardwell in Galloway, was born in Guernsey, his mother being a native of that island. Having displayed remarkable powers as a boy, he was sent to study medicine in the university of...

18/05/1820 6 October 1773 - 20 August 1835
Alan Graham MacDiarmid 15/05/2003 14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007
David Keith Chalmers Macdonald 24/03/1960 24 July 1920 - 28 July 1963 Physicist
Hector Munro Macdonald
Hector Munro Macdonald
Hector Munro Macdonald FRS was a Scottish mathematician, born in Edinburgh in 1865. He researched pure mathematics at Cambridge University after graduating from Aberdeen University with an honours degree....

06/06/1901 19 January 1865 - 16 May 1935
Ian Grant Macdonald
Ian G. Macdonald
Ian Grant Macdonald is a British mathematician known for his contributions to symmetric functions, special functions, Lie algebra theory and other aspects of algebraic combinatorics ....

15/03/1979
James Ramsay MacDonald 26/06/1930 13 October 1866 - 9 November 1937 Statute
John MacDonald 15/05/1800 30 October 1759 - 16 August 1831 Military Engineer
John Denis Macdonald
John Denis Macdonald
Sir John Denis Macdonald was a surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society of London.Born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, Macdonald served as an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy. In later life he researched in the fields of zoology and natural history...

09/06/1859 26 October 1826 - 7 February 1908 Surgeon
John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald KCB, PC was a Scottish politician and later a judge.He was called to the Scottish bar in 1859. On 30 July 1875 he was appointed by Queen Victoria to be Sheriff of the Shires of Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1876...

03/05/1888 28 December 1836 - 9 May 1919
John Smyth Macdonald 03/05/1917 28 April 1867 - 29 March 1941 Physiologist, Sheffield University
Georgina Mary Mace
Georgina Mace
Professor Georgina Mace, CBE, FRS is Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.She was the winner of the 2007 International Cosmos Prize...

13/05/2002
William Mace 23/05/1745
William Macewen
William Macewen
Sir William Macewen, CB, FRS, was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy .-Career:Macewen was born near Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland in 1848 and studied...

13/06/1895 22 June 1848 - 22 March 1924
Alexander MacFarlane 19/02/1747
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane
Robert Gwyn Macfarlane, CBE. FRS. hematologist, .Born in Worthing, Sussex, Gwyn Macfarlane left Cheltenham College in 1924 and a year later entered the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1936 he married Hilary Carson MD and over the next 11 years, 5 children were born...

15/03/1956 26 June 1907 - 26 March 1987
Alistair George James MacFarlane 15/03/1984
James Gordon MacGregor 14/06/1900 31 March 1852 - 21 May 1913
John Machin
John Machin
John Machin, , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, is best known for developing a quickly converging series for Pi in 1706 and using it to compute Pi to 100 decimal places.Machin's formula is:...

30/11/1710
Charles Macintosh 29/04/1824 29 December 1766 - 25 July 1843
Frank Campbell MacIntosh 18/03/1954 24 December 1909 - 11 September 1992
Angus John Macintyre
Angus MacIntyre
Angus John Macintyre is a British mathematician known for his contributions to Model theory and logic. He is professor of mathematics at the Queen Mary, University of London....

11/03/1993
Iain MacIntyre 14/03/1996
George Bellamy Mackaness 18/03/1976 20 August 1922 – 4 March 2007 Australian Microbiologist
Alan Lindsay Mackay 17/03/1988
David John Cameron MacKay 15/05/2009
George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay 09/11/1698 1678 - 21 March 1748
Robert Sinclair MacKay 11/05/2000
Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay
Trudy Mackay
Trudy Frances Charlene Mackay is a distinguished scientist, specializing in quantitative genetics,who was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. She is presently at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, North Carolina....

18/05/2006
Chalmers Jack Mackenzie 21/11/1946 11 July 1888 - 26 February 1984
Charles Mackenzie 01/06/1815 fl 1815
Colin Mackenzie
Colin Mackenzie
Colonel Colin Mackenzie was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.Mackenzie was born in Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, Scotland...

10/06/1819 c 1753 - 8 May 1821
Francis Humberston Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth 26/06/1794 9 June 1754 - 11 January 1815
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie FRS , known as Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet from 1654 to 1685 and as The Viscount of Tarbat from 1685 to 1703, was a Scottish statesman....

14/12/1692 1630 - 17 August 1714
Sir George Steuart Mackenzie 13/04/1815 22 June 1780 - October 1848
James Mackenzie
Sir James Mackenzie
Sir James Mackenzie FRS was a Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias.-Biography:James Mackenzie was born in Scone, where his father was a farmer...

06/05/1915 12 April 1853 - 26 January 1925
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth
Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth FRS was a British peer and politician and Chief of the Highland Clan Mackenzie.-Origins:...

12/11/1772 1744–1781
George Owen Mackie 14/03/1991 British biologist, Canada
John William Mackie 15/05/1817 c 1788 - Chaplain to Duke of York
William Alexander Mackinnon 14/06/1827 2 August 1789 - 30 April 1870
Allan Roy Mackintosh
Allan Mackintosh
Allan Roy Mackintosh, FRS was a prominent English-born Danish physicist and a leading authority on magnetism and neutron scattering, especially in the rare-earth metals....

14/03/1991 22 January 1936 - 20 December 1995
James Mackintosh
James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintosh was a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician.-Early life:Mackintosh was born at...

11/11/1813 24 October 1765 - 30 May 1832
Nicholas John Mackintosh
Nicholas Mackintosh
Nicholas John Mackintosh, FRS is a British experimental psychologist and author, specializing in intelligence, psychometrics and animal learning.-Career:...

19/03/1987
Gilbert Wakefield Mackmurdo 30/05/1839 c 1788 - 26 August 1869
Herbert Mackworth 09/01/1777 1 January 1737 - 25 October 1791
Colin MacLaurin
Colin Maclaurin
Colin Maclaurin was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, are named after him....

05/11/1719
Thomas Maclear
Thomas Maclear
Sir Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born South African astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope....

08/12/1831 17 March 1794 - 14 July 1879
David Herman MacLennan 10/03/1994 Canadian-born biochemist
John James Rickard Macleod 03/05/1923 6 September 1876 - 16 March 1935
Norman Macleod 24/03/1791 4 March 1754 - General in Army
Percy Alexander MacMahon
Percy Alexander MacMahon
Percy Alexander MacMahon was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.-Early life:...

05/06/1890 26 September 1854 - 25 December 1929
William Macmichael
William Macmichael
William Macmichael was a physician and medical biographer, remembered as the author of The Gold-Headed Cane .-Life and career:...

27/03/1817 1784 - 10 January 1839
John (Jake) MacMillan 16/03/1978
Maurice Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

31/05/1962 10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986 Statute 12
John Benjamin Macneill
John Benjamin Macneill
Sir John Benjamin MacNeill FRS was an eminent Irish civil engineer of the 19th century, closely associated with Thomas Telford. His most notable projects were railway schemes in Ireland...

05/04/1838 c 1793 - 2 March 1880
Enid Anne Campbell MacRobbie
Enid MacRobbie
Enid MacRobbie, FRS is a British plant scientist, whose specialty is biophysics,with particular interest are ion fluxes and stomata.-External links:*...

14/03/1991
James Ormiston MacWilliam 09/06/1848 1808 - 4 May 1862
John Alexander MacWilliam 11/05/1916 31 July 1857 - 13 January 1937
Paul Anthony Madden
Paul Madden
Paul Anthony Madden is a British chemist and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.From 1984 until 2005 he was Fellow in Chemistry at The Queen's College, Oxford and also Senior Tutor of the college and Chairman of the University Information Technology Committee...

10/05/2001
Frederick Madden 02/02/1832 16
Ieuan Maddock 16/03/1967 29 March 1917 - 29 December 1988
John Royden Maddox 11/05/2000 Honorary
Simon Hugh Piper Maddrell 19/03/1981
John Maddy 12/06/1817 c 1765 - 17 June 1853
Scipione Maffei 23/12/1736 2 June 1675 - 11 February 1755
John Hyacinth de Magalhaens 21/04/1774 5 November 1722 - 7 February 1790
Lorenzo Magalotti 04/05/1709 ? 23 October 1637 - ? 2 March 1711
William Magee, Archbishop of Dublin 11/11/1813 18 March 1766 - 18 August 1831
Philip Douglas Magnus 21/03/1985
George Magrath 24/06/1819 1775 - 12 June 1857
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis FRS was an Indian scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure. He made pioneering studies in anthropometry in India...

22/03/1945 29 June 1893 - 28 June 1972
Panchanan Maheshwari 18/03/1965 9 November 1904 - 18 May 1966 Professor of Botany, Delhi Univ.
Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society.He was a student at the universities in Frankfurt and Göttingen, graduating with a Ph.D...

18/03/1948 27 July 1903 - 25 February 1988, mathematician
Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS was a British statesman and scientist. He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger. He is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his,...

19/11/1772 3 August 1753 - 15 December 1816
Philip Henry Mahon, 4th Earl Stanhope
Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope
Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope FRS , was an English aristocrat, chiefly remembered for his role in the Kaspar Hauser case during the 1830s....

08/01/1807 4 December 1781 - 2 March 1855
Philip Henry Mahon, 5th Earl Stanhope 22/03/1827 30 January 1805 - 24 December 1875
Yiu-Wing Mai  16/05/2008
Joseph Henry Maiden 11/05/1916 25 April 1859 - 16 November 1925
John Paul Maier 13/05/1999
Robert Main
Robert Main
The Reverend Robert Main was an English astronomer.Born in Kent, the eldest son of Thomas Main, Robert Main attended school in Portsea before studying mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated as sixth wrangler in 1834...

07/06/1860 12 July 1808 - 9 May 1878
Henry James Sumner Maine
Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, KCSI , was an English comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in Ancient Law that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional...

04/06/1874 15 August 1822 - 03
Ravinder Nath Maini 17/05/2007
Robert James Mair 17/05/2007
Ebenezer Fuller Maitland 28/03/1829 c 1780 - 1 November 1858 Landowner, MP for Wallingford
John Gorham Maitland 15/04/1847 1818 - 27 April 1863 Barrister & civil servant
Samuel Roffey Maitland
Samuel Roffey Maitland
Samuel Roffey Maitland was an English historian and miscellaneous writer on religious topics. He was in Anglican orders, and worked also as a librarian, barrister and editor.-Early life:...

18/04/1839 7 January 1792 - 19 January 1866 clergyman
William Maitland 12/04/1733 c 1693 - 16 July 1757 Historian, Writer
Peter Michael Maitlis 15/03/1984
Montague Maizels 16/03/1961 30 September 1899 - 10 February 1976
Ashhurst Majendie 28/06/1821 24 April 1784 - 7 October 1867
John James Majendie 14/04/1768 1709 - 7 August 1783 Clergyman
Lewis Majendie 03/07/1794
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major was a Swiss zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist.Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany...

07/05/1908 15 August 1843 - 25 March 1923
Tak Wah Mak
Tak Wah Mak
Tak Wah Mak, OC OOnt FRS FRSC is an award-winning Canadian researcher who has worked in a variety of areas including biochemistry, immunology, and cancer genetics...

10/03/1994
Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield 26/06/1986 3 February 1904 - 9 February 1996
John Malcolm
John Malcolm
Major-general Sir John Malcolm was a Scottish soldier, statesman, and historian-Early life:Born at Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, Malcolm was the son of George Malcolm, a gentleman farmer of Eskdale and Burnfoot. Jock, as he was then known, was one of the four Malcolm brothers who attained knighthoods...

26/02/1824 2 May 1769 - 30 April 1833
John Grant Malcolmson 30/04/1840 17 November 1802 - 23 March 1844 geologist
John Christian Malet 08/06/1882 25 December 1847 - 9 April 1901 Prof of Mathematics, Queens College, Cork
Charles Warre Malet 23/01/1806 ? 1753 - 15 December 1815 Diplomat, Governor of Bombay
Michael Henry Malim 17/05/2007
John William Mallet
John Mallet
John William Mallet FRS was an Irish chemist who lived and worked in the United States.-Biography:John William Mallet was born near Dublin to Robert Mallet and Cordelia Mallet . Robert Mallet was a civil engineer and a fellow of the Royal Society and other societies and had an ample scientific...

07/06/1877 10 October 1832 - 7 November 1912
Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet FRS , Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology.-Early life:...

01/06/1854 3 June 1810 - 5 November 1881
John Malliet 02/04/1767
Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock
Arnulph Mallock
Arnulph Henry Reginald Mallock, FRS was a British scientific instrument designer and experimentalist.He was born in Cheriton Bishop, Devon the son of the Revd. William and Margaret Mallock. His father was Rector of Cheriton Bishop. He was educated at home and then from the age of 11 to 16 at a...

11/06/1903 12 March 1851 - 26 June 1933 Mechanic
Paul Jacques Malouin
Paul Jacques Malouin
Paul Jacques Malouin was a French chemist and physicist.-Career:Malouin graduated in medicine in 1730 against the wishes of his father who had sent him to Paris to study law...

01/03/1753 29 June 1701 - ? 31 December 1777
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features, like the Malpighian tubule system.-Early years:...

04/03/1669 10 March 1628 - ? 30 November 1694
Edward Maltby
Edward Maltby
Edward Maltby was an English clergyman of the Church of England. He became Bishop of Durham, controversial for his liberal politics, for his slightly naive ecumenism, and for the great personal wealth that he amassed....

19/02/1824 6 April 1770 - 3 July 1859
Thomas Robert Malthus 05/03/1818 ? 17 February 1766 - 23 December 1834
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves
Jean Paul de Gua de Malves was a French mathematician who published in 1740 a work on analytical geometry in which he applied it, without the aid of differential calculus, to find the tangents, asymptotes, and various singular points of an algebraic curve.He further showed how singular points and...

10/03/1743 c 1714 - 2 June 1785
Charles Manby 02/06/1853 5 February 1804 - 31 July 1884
George William Manby
George William Manby
Captain George William Manby FRS , was an English author and inventor. He designed an apparatus for saving life from shipwrecks and also the first modern form of fire extinguisher.-Life:Manby went to school at Downham Market...

12/05/1831 28 November 1765 - 18 November 1854
Joel Mandelstam
Joel Mandelstam
Joel Mandelstam FRS was a British microbiologist. He was a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.-Career:* Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947-51...

18/03/1971
Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam
Stanley Mandelstam is a South African-born theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations...

15/03/1962 theoretical physicist
Lewis Norman Mander 15/03/1990
Xaverius Manetti 11/11/1756 1723 - 19 November 1785
Eustachio Manfredi 24/10/1728 20 September 1674 - 15
James Mangles 20/01/1825 1786 - 18 November 1867 Royal Navy
Frederick George Mann 20/03/1947 29 June 1897 - 29 March 1982
Nicholas Mann 26/01/1738
Stephen Mann 15/05/2003
Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann
Thaddeus Mann
Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University...

15/03/1951 4 December 1908 - 27 November 1993
Theodore Augustin Mann 03/04/1788 22 June 1735 - 23
Owen Manning
Owen Manning
Owen Manning was an English clergyman and antiquarian, known as a historian of Surrey.-Life:Son of Owen Manning of Orlingbury, Northamptonshire, he was born there on 11 August 1721, and received his education at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1740, M.A. in 1744, and B.D. in...

10/12/1767 11 August 1721 - 9 September 1801 Vicar of Godalming
Richard Manningham 10/03/1720 1690 - 11 May 1759
Anton Adam Mansberg 09/03/1727 fl 1727
James Mansergh 06/06/1901 29 April 1834 - 15 June 1905
Eric Harold Mansfield 18/03/1971
Peter Mansfield
Peter Mansfield
Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS, , is a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging . The Nobel Prize was shared with Paul Lauterbur, who also contributed to the development of MRI...

19/03/1987
Terence Arthur Mansfield 19/03/1987
Patrick Manson
Patrick Manson
Sir Patrick Manson was a Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology and was the founder of the tropical medicine field....

14/06/1900 3 October 1844 - 9 April 1922
Gideon Algernon Mantell 24/11/1825 4 February 1790 - 10 November 1852
Ernst Christoph Manteuffel 24/03/1748 1676 - 30 January 1749
Irene Manton
Irene Manton
Irene Manton, FRS was a British botanist. She was noted for study of ferns, algae and bums.-Biography:...

16/03/1961 17 April 1904 - 31 May 1988
Nicholas Stephen Manton 14/03/1996
Sidnie Milana Manton
Sidnie Manton
Sidnie Milana Manton, FRS was a British entomologist.-Early life:Sidnie Milana Manton was born in Kensington, London the daughter of a dentist. Her sister was Irene Manton , a botanist, She was educated in Kensington and at St...

18/03/1948 4 May 1902 - 2 January 1979
John Mapletoft
John Mapletoft
-Life:His father was Joshua Mapletoft, vicar of Margaretting and rector of Wickford, Essex, and his mother Susanna, daughter of John Collet by Susanna, sister of Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. She afterwards married James Chedley, and, dying on 31 October 1657, was buried at Little Gidding....

10/02/1676 15 June 1631 - 10 November 1721
Leslie William Mapson 20/03/1969 17 November 1907 - 3 December 1970
Alexander John Gaspard Marcet 02/06/1808 1770 - 19 October 1822
Francis Marcet 28/01/1836 25 May 1803 - 12 April 1883
William Marcet
William Marcet
William Marcet FRS FRCP was President of the Royal Meteorological Society- References :*http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2505774/* http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v61/n1586/abs/061497a0.html...

11/06/1857 13 May 1828 - 4 March 1900
Alfred Le Marchant 25/11/1819 fl 1819
Giovanni Giacomo Marinoni 20/03/1746 1676 - 10 January 1755
Leo Edmond Marion
Léo Marion
Léo Edmond Marion, CC, MBE, FRSC, FRS was a Canadian scientist.He was Vice-President of the National Research Council of Canada. From 1964 until 1965 he was President of the Royal Society of Canada...

16/03/1961 22 March 1899 - 16 July 1979
Roy Markham 15/03/1956 29 January 1916 - 16 November 1979
Clements Robert Markham 12/06/1873 20 July 1830 - 30 January 1916
George Markham 07/04/1708 1666 - 16 June 1736
James Heywood Markland 28/03/1816 7 December 1788 - 28 December 1864
Paul Jacob Marperger 09/06/1715 3 October 1683 - 20 November 1767
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr FGS FRS was a British geologist. After studying at Lancaster Royal Grammar School he matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in 1878...

04/06/1891 14 June 1857 - 1 October 1933
Philippa Charlotte Marrack
Philippa Marrack
Philippa "Pippa" Marrack FRS is an English biologist, based in the United States, best-known for her research into T cell development, T cell apoptosis and survival, adjuvants, autoimmune disease, and for identifying superantigens, the mechanism behind toxic shock syndrome. She collaborates with...

15/05/1997
Guy Frederic Marrian 16/03/1944 3 March 1904 - 24 July 1981
Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat
Captain Frederick Marryat was an English Royal Navy officer, novelist, and a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story...

13/05/1819 10 July 1792 - 9 August 1848
Charles David Marsden 17/03/1983 15 April 1938 - 29 September 1998
Jerrold Eldon Marsden 18/05/2006 17 August 1942 - 21 September 2010 Prof of Engineering, Caltech
Ernest Marsden
Ernest Marsden
Sir Ernest Marsden was an English-New Zealand physicist. He was born in East Lancashire, living in Rishton and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence bears his name.He met Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester...

21/03/1946 20 February 1889 - ? 14 December 1970 Fellow 21/03/1946
William Marsden 23/01/1783 16 November 1754 - 6 October 1836
Herbert Marsh, Bishop of Peterborough
Herbert Marsh
Herbert Marsh was a bishop in the Church of England.-Life:He was educated at Faversham Grammar School, The King's School, Canterbury and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA as second wrangler and was elected a fellow of St John's in 1779. He studied with J. D...

08/01/1801 10 December 1757 - 1 May 1839
James Ernest Marsh 03/05/1906 5 July 1860 - 13 April 1938 Chemist
Arthur Milnes Marshall 04/06/1885 8 June 1852 - 31 December 1893
Barry James Marshall 13/05/1999
Christopher John Marshall
Christopher Marshall (doctor)
Christopher Marshall FRS is a British scientist who works as director of the Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology run by Cancer Research UK. He was awarded the Royal Society's Buchanan Medal in 2008 for 'his outstanding contribution to understanding how cancers develop and identifying major...

09/03/1995
Francis Hugh Adam Marshall 13/05/1920 11 July 1878 - 5 February 1949
Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall
Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall
Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall , was an Indian-born British entomologist and authority on Curculionidae....

03/05/1923 20 December 1871 - 8 April 1959
Hugh Marshall 05/05/1904 7 January 1868 - 6 September 1913
John Marshall
John Marshall (surgeon)
John Marshall FRS FRCS was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy.-Early life and education:John Marshall was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire...

11/06/1857 11 September 1818 - 1 January 1891 Surgeon
John Charles Marshall 16/05/2008
Norman Bertram Marshall 19/03/1970 6 February 1915 - 13 February 1996 Zoologist
Robin Marshall 09/03/1995
Sheina Macalister Marshall 21/03/1963 20 April 1896 - 7 April 1977
Walter Charles Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring 18/03/1971 6 March 1932 - 20 February 1996
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney , known as The Lord Romney between 1793 and 1801, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1790, inherited his peerage in 1793 and was created Earl of Romney in 1801.-Background:Romney was the son of Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney,...

14/03/1776 28 September 1744 - 1 March 1811
Robert Marsham
Robert Marsham
Robert Marsham was an English naturalist considered to be the founding father of phenology, the study of the effects of the seasons on plants and animals....

09/03/1780 c 1707 - 4 September 1797
Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney
Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney
Robert Marsham, 1st Baron Romney , known as Sir Robert Marsham, Bt, between 1703 and 1716, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Romney.-Background:Marsham was the son of Sir Robert Marsham, 4th Baronet of Bushey Hall,...

21/11/1723 17 September 1685 - 28 November 1724
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney 19/05/1757 22 August 1717 - 16 November 1793
Thomas Nelson Marsham 20/03/1986 10 November 1923 - 12 October 1989
Luigi Ferdinand, Count Marsigli
Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli , was an Italian soldier and naturalist.He was born in Bologna. He was a member of an old patrician family and was educated in accordance with his rank...

25/11/1691 ? 10 July 1658 - 1 November 1730
Giovanni Marsili 06/04/1758
Hedley Ralph Marston 17/03/1949 26 August 1900 - 25 August 1965
Robert Anthony Martienssen 18/05/2006
Alan Douglas Martin 27/05/2004
Archer John Porter Martin
Archer John Porter Martin
Archer John Porter Martin, FRS was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge....

16/03/1950 1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002
Charles James Martin
Charles James Martin
Charles James Martin, FRS, FRCS was a British scientist who did seminal work on protein denaturation, nutrition, snake toxins and other medical topics...

06/06/1901 10 January 1866 - 15 February 1955
George Steven Martin 14/05/1998
Henry Newell Martin
Henry Newell Martin
Henry Newell Martin, FRS was a British physiologist.He was born in Newry, County Down, the son of Henry Martin, a Congregational minister, and educated at the University of London and Christ's College, Cambridge...

04/06/1885 1 July 1848 - 27 October 1896
James Ranald Martin
James Ranald Martin
Sir James Ranald Martin was a surgeon in India who worked in the service of the Honourable East India Company and was instrumental in publicising the effects of deforestation, and finding links between human and environmental health.-Early life:Born in the Isle of Skye in one of the oldest...

13/02/1845 1793 - 27 November 1874
Leslie Harold Martin 21/03/1957 22 December 1900 - 1 February 1983
Matthew Martin 10/07/1794 1748 - 20 November 1838 Merchant of Exeter
Sidney Harris Cox Martin 13/06/1895 8 April 1860 - 22 September 1924
Thomas John Martin 11/05/2000
George Martine 11/12/1740 1700 - ? April 1741
David Forbes Martyn
David Forbes Martyn
David Forbes Martyn was a Scottish-born Australian physicist and radiographer.Martyn was born in Cambuslang, Scotland , the son of a local doctor. He was educated at Alan Glen's School then the Royal College of Science at Imperial College London....

16/03/1950 27 June 1906 - 5 March 1970
John Martyn
John Martyn (botanist)
John Martyn or Joannis Martyn was an English botanist.Martyn's is best known for his Historia Plantarum Rariorum , and his translation, with valuable agricultural and botanical notes, of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil...

30/03/1727 12 September 1699 - 29 January 1768
Thomas Martyn
Thomas Martyn
Thomas Martyn was an English botanist and Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. He is sometimes confused with the conchologist and entomologist of the same name....

18/05/1786 23 September 1735 - 3 June 1825
Martin van Marum
Martin van Marum
Martin van Marum was a Dutch scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen...

19/04/1798 20 March 1750 - 26 December 1837
Francis Maseres
Francis Maseres
Francis Maseres was an English lawyer. He is known as attorney general of the Province of Quebec, judge, mathematician, historian, member of the Royal Society, and cursitor baron of the exchequer.- Biography :...

02/05/1771 15 December 1731 - 19 May 1824
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research , a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India....

14/05/1998
Ernest John Maskell 16/03/1939 2 February 1895 - 20 December 1958
Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne
The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811.-Biography:...

27/04/1758 6 October 1732 - 9 February 1811
Basil John Mason
Basil John Mason
Sir John Mason, CB, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRFPS, FRS is an expert on cloud physics and former Director of the UK Meteorological Office.His work includes the Mason Equation, giving the growth or evaporation of small water droplets...

18/03/1965
Charles Mason 24/06/1742 c 1699 - 18 December 1771 Clergyman, Geologist
Paul James Mason 09/03/1995
Ronald Mason 20/03/1975 Prof of Chemistry, Sussex University
Stephen Finney Mason 18/03/1982 Physical Chemist
Thomas Godfrey Mason 06/05/1937 24 July 1890 - 22 October 1959 Plant physiologist, Trinidad
David William Masser
David Masser
David William Masser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Basel, in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Cambridge in 1974 on the topic of Elliptic Functions and Transcendence....

26/05/2005
Victor Ame Philippe Ferrero de Fiesque Masseran 11/01/1770
Richard Myddleton Massey 23/10/1712 c 1678 - 27 March 1743
Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey 14/03/1940 16 May 1908 - 27 November 1983
Vincent Massey 17/03/1977 28 November 1926 – 26 August 2002
Jean Masson 08/12/1743 fl 1743 Chevalier de Besse
David Orme Masson
David Orme Masson
Sir David Orme Masson KBE FRS was a scientist born in England who emigrated to Australia to become Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:...

11/06/1903 13 January 1858 - 10 August 1937
James Irvine Orme Masson
Irvine Masson
Sir James Irvine Orme Masson was an Australian chemist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1938 to 1953....

16/03/1939 3 September 1887 - 22 October 1962
Arthur Thomas Masterman 06/05/1915 10 April 1869 - 10 February 1941 Fellow 06/05/1915
Maxwell Tylden Masters 02/06/1870 15 April 1833 - 30 May 1907
Thomas Guy Masters 26/05/2005
Yoshio Masui
Yoshio Masui
is a Japanese cell biologist.Masui studied biology at Kyoto University, graduating with his B.Sc. in zoology in 1953, his M.Sc. in 1955 and his Ph.D. in 1961. While still studying at Kyoto University, he taught biology, first as a teacher's assistant and then as a teacher, at Konan University,...

14/05/1998
Antonio Matani 10/03/1763 27 July 1730 - 21 June 1779
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather, FRS was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials...

27/07/1713 13 February 1663 - 13 February 1728
Robert Mather 08/05/1729 c 1700 - 6 January 1730
Kenneth Mather
Kenneth Mather
Sir Kenneth Mather FRS was a British geneticist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964....

17/03/1949 22 June 1911 - 21 March 1990
Thomas Mather 05/06/1902 15 December 1856 - 23 June 1937
Nicholas James Sutherland Matheson 19/02/1846 1796 - 31 December 1878
William Mathew 10/03/1720
George Ballard Mathews
George Ballard Mathews
George Ballard Mathews, FRS was an English mathematician who specialized in number theory.He was born in London....

03/06/1897 24 February 1861 - 19 March 1922
Thomas James Mathias
Thomas James Mathias
Thomas James Mathias, FRS was a British satirist and scholar.Mathias was educated in Kingston upon Thames and Trinity College, Cambridge...

19/03/1795 ? 1754 - August 1835
William George Maton 26/06/1800 31 January 1774 - 30 March 1835
Iain William Mattaj 13/05/1999
William Diller Matthew
William Diller Matthew
William Diller Matthew FRS was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils....

15/05/1919 20 February 1871 - 24 September 1930
Drummond Hoyle Matthews 21/03/1974 6 February 1931 - 20 July 1997
Leonard Harrison Matthews 18/03/1954 12 June 1901 - 27 November 1986
Paul Taunton Matthews
Paul Taunton Matthews
Paul Taunton Matthews CBE FRS was a British theoretical physicist.He was born in Erode in India. He was awarded the Adams Prize in 1958, elected to the Royal Society in 1963, and awarded the Rutherford Medal and Prize in 1978. He became head of the Physics Department of Imperial College, London...

21/03/1963 20 November 1919 - 26 February 1987
Peter Bryan Conrad Matthews 15/03/1973
Richard Ellis Ford Matthews 21/03/1974
Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews 14/03/1940 14 June 1906 - 22 July 1986
Philip Matthews 23/03/1671 c 1642 - ? December 1685
George Matthey 12/06/1879 9 May 1825 - 14 February 1913 Refiner, Johnson & Matthey
Augustus Matthiessen
Augustus Matthiessen
Augustus Matthiessen, FRS , the son of a merchant, was a British chemist and physicist who obtained his PhD in Germany at the University of Gießen in 1852 with Johann Heinrich Buff. He then worked with Robert Bunsen at the University of Heidelberg from 1853 to 1856...

06/06/1861 2 January 1831 - 6 October 1870
Matthew Maty
Matthew Maty
Matthew Maty , originally Matthieu Maty, was a Dutch physician and writer of Huguenot background, and after migration to England secretary of the Royal Society and the second principal librarian of the British Museum.-Early life:...

19/12/1751 17 May 1718 - 2 July 1776
Paul Henry Maty
Paul Henry Maty
Paul Henry Maty was an English librarian.He was born in London, the son of the librarian Matthew Maty and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He vacated a Trinity fellowship to marry in 1775. In 1777 he published his religious doubts about the 39 articles in the Gentleman's Magazine...

16/05/1771 1745 - 16 January 1787
John Maud 20/04/1738
Israel Mauduit
Israel Mauduit
Israel Mauduit was a British merchant, writer and colonial agent. His surname is sometimes spelled as Maudit.Mauduit was born in 1708, the son of a dissenting religious minister Isaac Mauduit. His brother was Jasper Mauduit who was also a colonial agent.Mauduit is best remembered for his popular...

13/06/1751 1708 - 14 June 1787
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 27/06/1728 ? 17 July 1698 - 27 July 1759
Douglas Mawson
Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

03/05/1923 5 May 1882 - ? 15 October 1958
King of Bavaria Maximilian I 04/03/1802 27 May 1756 - 13 October 1825 Royal
Joseph Maximilian, Archduke of Austria 21/01/1819 1782 - 1863 Royal
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. His most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. This united all previously unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and optics into a consistent theory...

06/06/1861 13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879, physicist
James Rankin Maxwell 15/05/1997
Herbert Eustace Maxwell 27/01/1898 8 January 1845 - 30 October 1937
John Maxwell 26/02/1829 12 May 1791 - 6 June 1865 Traveller, Cape of Good Hope
Murray Maxwell
Murray Maxwell
Captain Sir Murray Maxwell, CB, FRS was a British Royal Navy officer who served with distinction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, particularly during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars...

18/02/1819 10 September 1775 - 26 June 1831
Charles May 01/06/1854 1800 - 10 August 1860 Civil engineer
Michael David May
David May (computer scientist)
Michael David May, born February 24, 1951, is a British computer scientist. He is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol and founder and Chief Technology Officer of XMOS Semiconductor.May was lead architect for the transputer...

14/03/1991
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford 15/03/1979
Christian Mayer 19/12/1765 20 August 1719 - ? 16 April 1783
David Quinn Mayne
David Mayne
Professor David Quinn Mayne, FRS, FIEEE, FREng is a British academic, engineer, teacher and author.-Career:Mayne began his career in 1950 as a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand ....

21/03/1985
John Thomas Mayne 29/01/1818 fl 1818
William Valentine Mayneord
William Valentine Mayneord
William Valentine Mayneord, CBE FRS was a British radiologist and pioneer in the field of medical physics.He was born in Redditch, Worcestershire to Walter and Elizabeth Mayneord but after the early death of his mother was adopted by an aunt in Evesham...

18/03/1965 15 February 1902 - 10 August 1988
Charles Mayo 01/03/1827 24 March 1767 - 10 December 1858 Prof. of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford
Herbert Mayo 17/04/1828 ? 3 April 1796 - 15 May 1852
Paul Jose de Mayo 20/03/1975 8 August 1924 - 26 July 1994
Thomas Mayo
Thomas Mayo
Thomas Mayo was a British physician.He was born in London, the son of John Mayo, MD. After three years of private tuition and eighteen months at Westminster School, he was again privately tutored for Oriel College, Oxford, where he qualified MB in 1815 and MD in 1818...

04/06/1835 24 January 1790 - 13 January 1871
John Mayow
John Mayow
John Mayow FRS was a chemist, physician, and physiologist who is remembered today for conducting early research into respiration and the nature of air...

30/11/1678 24 May 1640 - October 1679
Guillaume Mazeas 28/05/1752 2 August 1720 - 13 September 1775
James William McBain
James William McBain
James William McBain was a Canadian chemist.He gained an MA at Toronto University and a DSC at Heidelberg University.He carried out pioneering work in the area of micelles at the University of Bristol...

03/05/1923 22 March 1882 - 12 March 1953
Robert Alexander McCance 18/03/1948 9 December 1898 - 5 March 1993
Andrew McCance 18/03/1943 30 March 1889 - 11 June 1983
John Vincent McCanny 09/05/2002
Frank McClean
Frank McClean
Frank McClean, FRS was a British astronomer and pioneer of objective prism spectrography.His father was the engineer J. R. McClean, FRS. Graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1859, Frank McClean was a Bachelor Scholar at Trinity for the next three years...

13/06/1895 13 November 1837 - 8 November 1904
John Robinson McClean
John Robinson McClean
John Robinson McClean CB FRS , was a British civil engineer and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:He was born in Belfast. Educated at Belfast Academical Institution and University of Glasgow.-Engineering career:...

03/06/1869 1813 - 13 July 1873
John Alexander McClelland 06/05/1909 1 December 1870 - 13 April 1920
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock 01/06/1865 8 July 1819 - 17 November 1907
James Desmond Caldwell McConnell 19/03/1987
Francis Patrick McCormick 14/03/1996
William Symington McCormick 21/06/1928 30 April 1859 - 23 March 1930 Statute
Frederick McCoy
Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy, KCMG, FRS was an Irish palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia.-Early life:McCoy was the son of Dr Simon McCoy, M.D. and was born in Dublin; some sources have his year of birth as 1823, but 1817 is the most likely...

03/06/1880 1823 - ? 13 May 1899
William Hunter McCrea 20/03/1952 13 December 1904 - 25 April 1999
Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh
Peter McCullagh is an Irish statistician, originally from Plumbridge, Northern Ireland. He attended Birmingham University and completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London under Sir David Cox and Anthony Atkinson. He is currently the John D...

10/03/1994
Ernest A McCulloch
Ernest McCulloch
Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.-Biography:...

13/05/1999
Arthur Bruce McDonald 15/05/2009
Robert McDonnell 01/06/1865 15 March 1828 - 6 May 1889 Surgeon
William McDougall
William McDougall (psychologist)
William McDougall FRS was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States...

02/05/1912 22 June 1871 - 28 November 1938
Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff
Dusa McDuff is an English mathematician. She was born in London, England as the daughter of the noted biologist Conrad Hal Waddington. Her mother, Justin, born Justin Blanco White, was an architect, while her maternal grandmother was the feminist Amber Reeves, a lover of H.G. Wells and an author...

10/03/1994
James Dwyer McGee 17/03/1966 17 December 1903 - 28
Simon McGillivray
Simon McGillivray
Simon McGillivray was the younger brother of William McGillivray and Duncan McGillivray. Born in Scotland, he was lame and slightly blind....

29/03/1838
Ian Alexander McGregor 19/03/1981 26 August 1922 – 01
James McGrigor 14/03/1816 9 April 1771 - 2 April 1858
William Carmichael McIntosh
William Carmichael McIntosh
William Carmichael McIntosh, FRS was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist. His medical qualification was granted in 1860 by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, following study at Edinburgh University...

07/06/1877 10 October 1838 - 1 April 1931
Michael Edgeworth McIntyre 15/03/1990
John Gray McKendrick 12/06/1884 12 August 1841 - 2 January 1926
Aleander McKenzie 11/05/1916 6 December 1869 - 11 June 1951 Prof of Chemistry, Univ College, Dundee
Dan Peter McKenzie 18/03/1976
Murdoch McKenzie
Murdoch McKenzie
Murdoch Mackenzie, FRS was a hydrographer and cartographer.Born in Orkney and employed by the Royal Navy, he became the first person to accurately chart the coastline around North Ronaldsay where many vessels had come to grief. His work led to the construction of a lighthouse at Dennis Head...

19/05/1774
Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop
Tom McKillop
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, born 19 March 1943, is a chemist, pharmaceutical company CEO and former chairman of RBS Group.McKillop was born in Dreghorn, a small village near the town of Irvine in Ayrshire, Scotland and educated at Irvine Royal Academy and then Glasgow University, where he...

26/05/2005 CEO, AstroZeneca
Andrew David McLachlan 16/03/1989
Robert McLachlan 07/06/1877 10 April 1837 - 23 May 1904 Botanist & Entomologist
Anne Laura McLaren
Anne McLaren
The Hon. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten. She became a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation...

20/03/1975 biologist, Foreign Secretary for the Royal Society (1991-6)
Digby Johns McLaren
Digby McLaren
Digby Johns McLaren, OC, FRSC was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.Born in Carrickfergus, Ireland and educated at Sedbergh School, he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge. During World War II, he fought in the Middle East and Europe with the Royal...

15/03/1979 11 December 1919 – 8 December 2004
Keith Alan McLauchlan 12/03/1992
Angela McLean
Angela McLean
Angela McLean, FRS is Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford.She studied Mathematics at Oxford and earned a PhD in Biomathematics from Imperial College, London...

15/05/2009
Alexander McLeay 19/01/1809 24 June 1767 - 18 July 1848
John Cunningham McLennan
John Cunningham McLennan
Sir John Cunningham McLennan, KBE, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian physicist.Born in Ingersoll, Ontario, the son of David McLennan and Barbara Cunningham, he was the director of the physics laboratory at the University of Toronto from 1906 until 1932.In 1926, he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's...

06/05/1915 14 April 1867 - 9 October 1935
Herbert McLeod
Herbert McLeod
Herbert McLeod was a British chemist, noted for the invention of the McLeod gauge and for the invention of a sunshine recorder.-Biography:McLeod was born in Stoke Newington on 9 Feb 1841 and died 3 October 1923,...

02/06/1881 20 February 1841 - 1 October 1923 Chemist, Royal Indian Eng.Coll.
James Walter McLeod 11/05/1933 2 January 1887 - 11 March 1978 Prof. of Bacteriology
John Bryce McLeod 12/03/1992
Andrew Paul McMahon 17/05/2007
Charles Alexander McMahon 09/06/1898 24 March 1830 - 21 February 1904 Geologist
Harvey Thomas McMahon  16/05/2008 Molecular Biologist, Cambridge
Andrew James McMichael 12/03/1992 Molecular Biologist, MRC
John McMichael
John McMichael
John "Big John" McMichael was a leading Northern Irish loyalist who rose to become the most prominent figure within the Ulster Defence Association as the Deputy Commander and leader of its South Belfast Brigade. He was also commander of the organisation's cover name, the "Ulster Freedom Fighters"...

21/03/1957 25 July 1904 - 3 March 1993
James McFadyen McNeill 17/03/1949 19 August 1892 - 24 July 1964
Bryan Austin McSwiney 16/03/1944 20 May 1894 - 8 March 1947
John Graham McWhirter
John McWhirter (mathematician)
John G. McWhirter FRS FREng FIMA FInstP FIEE FLSW is a British mathematician and engineer in the field of signal processing.John McWhirter graduated in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1970, gaining a PhD there in 1973...

13/05/1999
Richard Mead
Richard Mead
Richard Mead was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it , was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.-Life:The eleventh child of Matthew Mead , Independent divine, Richard was born...

30/11/1703 11 August 1673 - 16
Samuel Mead 08/03/1739
Thomas Wilson Meade 14/03/1996
Pierre Francois Andre Mechain 30/04/1789 ? 16 April 1744 - ? 20 September 1805
Peter Brian Medawar 17/03/1949 28
Henry Benedict Medlicott
Henry Benedict Medlicott
Henry Benedict Medlicott was an Irish geologist who worked in India.-Early life:He was born in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, the son of the Church of Ireland Rector of Loughrea, Samuel Medlicott and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Henry Benedict Dolphin, C. B...

07/06/1877 3 August 1829 - 6 April 1905
Gerard Meerman 24/04/1760 6 December 1722 - 15 December 1771
Charles Edward Kenneth Mees 16/03/1939 26 May 1882 - 15 August 1960
Goverdhan Mehta 26/05/2005
Raphael Meldola
Raphael Meldola
Raphael Meldola FRS was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.- Life :...

04/06/1886 19 July 1849 - 16 November 1915, chemist
Charles Meldrum 01/06/1876 19 October 1821 - 28 August 1901
John Mellanby 02/05/1929 12 June 1878 - 15 July 1939
Edward Mellanby 07/05/1925 8 April 1884 - 30 January 1955
Pierre de Mellarede 11/06/1713 c 1659 - 19 March 1730
Martinho de Mello e Castro 21/04/1757 fl 1757
Sebastian Joseph de Carvalho e Marquis of Pombal Mello 15/05/1740 13 May 1699 - 8 May 1782
Joseph William Mellor
Joseph William Mellor
-Early life:Joseph William Mellor was born in Lindley, Huddersfield, England, in 1869. He grew up on New Zealand's South Island where his father found employment in the textile industry. The family was too poor to send Joseph to secondary school, but he continued to study in his spare time.Mellor...

12/05/1927 9 July 1869 - 24 May 1938
James Cosmo Melvill 14/01/1841 1792 - 23 July 1861 Secretary to East India Co
Robert Melvill
Robert Melville
Robert Melvill was a Scottish soldier, botanist and inventor. He served as a general in the British Army and was a prominent antiquary....

16/02/1775 12 October 1723 - 29 August 1809 General in British Army
Alexander Melville 01/02/1827 14 October 1790 - 16 September 1840 Supt East India Co Mint
Harry Work Melville 20/03/1941 27 April 1908 - 15 June 2000 Professor of Chemistry
Bruno Mendel 21/03/1957 3 November 1897 - 23 August 1959
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn
Kurt Mendelssohn
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...

15/03/1951 7 January 1906 - 18 September 1980, German-born British medical physicist cryogenic engineering
Diego de Mendoca 05/02/1736 fl 1736
Joseph Mendoza y Rios 11/04/1793 ? 15 September 1762 - ? 3 March 1815
Francisco Xavier de Menezes 02/11/1738 fl 1738
Johann Burchard Menkenius 30/11/1699 27 March 1675 - 1 April 1732
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon 19/03/1970
James Woodham Menter 17/03/1966 22 August 1921 – 18 July 2006
Alexander Danilovich Menzicoff 29/07/1714 ? 1673 - ? 12 November 1729
Robert Gordon Menzies
Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....

03/06/1965 20 December 1894 - 15 May 1978, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...

Nicolas Mercator 14/11/1666 c 1620 - ? February 1687
Frank Brian Mercer
Frank Brian Mercer
Frank Brian Mercer OBE FRS was an English chemist and businessman.He was born into a Blackburn family, which for generations had been involved in the textile industry and which owned and controlled companies engaged in spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing and educated at the Queen Elizabeth's...

15/03/1984 22 December 1927 - 22 November 1998
James Mercer
James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer FRS was a mathematician, born in Bootle, close to Liverpool, England. He was educated at University of Manchester, and then University of Cambridge...

11/05/1922 15 January 1883 - 21 February 1932
John Mercer
John Mercer (scientist)
John Mercer was an English dye and fabric chemist and fabric printer born in Great Harwood, Lancashire. In 1844 he developed a process for treating cotton, mercerisation, that improves many of its qualities for use in fabrics.John Mercer never went to school, he learned basic reading and writing...

03/06/1852 22 February 1791 - 30 November 1866
Roger Meredith 06/04/1681 1637 - 17
William George Meredith 18/03/1830 c 1804 - August 1831
John Meres 12/03/1724
John Meres
John Meres
Sir John Meres knight, FRS of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire was the director of a number of companies in the early 18th century, including the Charitable Corporation, the York Buildings Company, and Company of Mineral and Battery Works...

12/03/1719
Thomas Meres
Thomas Meres
Thomas Meres was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1710.Meres was the eldest son of Robert Meres, DD, of Kirton, Lincolnshire, chancellor of Lincoln cathedral, and his first wife Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Hugh Williams of Wegg. Caernarvonshire. He was...

08/12/1686 c 1662 -
John Merewether 03/05/1838 1797 - 4 April 1850
Christopher Merrett
Christopher Merrett
Christopher Merret FRS was an English physician and scientist. He was the first to document the deliberate addition of sugar for the production of sparkling wine, and produced the first list of British birds.-Life:Merret was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire on 16 February; Hunter gives the...

20/05/1663 ? 16 February 1614 - 19 August 1695 Original Fellow 20/05/1664
Charles Watkins Merrifield 04/06/1863 20 October 1827 - 1 January 1884
John Merrill 21/03/1745 fl 1745 Mathematician
Alexander Walter Merrison 20/03/1969 21 March 1924 - 19 February 1989
Patrick Anthony Merton 15/03/1979 8 October 1920 - 13 June 2000
Thomas Ralph Merton
Thomas Ralph Merton
Sir Thomas Ralph Merton KBE, DSc, FRS was an English physicist, inventor and art collector. He is particularly noted for his work on spectroscopy and diffraction gratings.-Early life and education:...

13/05/1920 12 January 1888 - 10 October 1969
Rudolf Messel 02/05/1912 14 January 1848 - 18 April 1920
Charles Messier
Charles Messier
Charles Messier was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects"...

06/12/1764 26 June 1730 - ? 12 April 1817
Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel
Leon Mestel is a British astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He has won both the Eddington Medal and the Gold...

17/03/1977 astronomer
Donald Metcalf
Donald Metcalf
Emeritus Professor Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA is an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne...

17/03/1983
Philip Metcalfe
Philip Metcalfe
Philip Metcalfe was a distiller in London, UK and member of Parliament from Horsham from 1784. He representedPlympton Erle, Devon from 1790 to 1796 and Malmesbury Wiltshire from 1796....

04/11/1790 c 1733 - 26 August 1818
Friedrich Christian Meuschen
Friedrich Christian Meuschen
Friedrich Christian Meuschen was a German diplomat and conchologist born in Hanau. He was the son of theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen ....

05/04/1764 1719 -
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick
Edward Meyrick FRS was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics....

05/05/1904 24 November 1854 - 31 March 1938
James Meyrick 19/06/1800 ? 1748 - 27 November 1818
Owen Putland Meyrick 09/05/1776 c 1752 - 24 March 1825
Louis Compton Miall 02/06/1892 13 September 1842 - 21 February 1921
John David Michaelis 30/04/1789 1717 - 22 August 1791
Anthony George Maldon Michell
Anthony Michell
Anthony George Maldon Michell FRS was an Australian mechanical engineer of the early 20th century.-Early life:...

03/05/1934 21 June 1870 - 17 February 1959
John Michell
John Michell
John Michell was an English natural philosopher and geologist whose work spanned a wide range of subjects from astronomy to geology, optics, and gravitation. He was both a theorist and an experimenter....

12/06/1760 1724 - 21 April 1793
John Henry Michell
John Henry Michell
John Henry Michell FRS was an Australian mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:...

05/06/1902 26 October 1863 - 3 February 1940
Richard Michell 12/05/1774 1728–1789
Robert Hall Michell 20/03/1986
Pietro Antonio Michelotti 11/12/1718 1680 - 1 January 1740
James Mickleton 03/07/1718 fl 1718
Charles Stewart Middlemiss 12/05/1921 22 November 1859 - 11 June 1945
Benjamin Middleton 14/12/1687 fl 1668 - 1712
Christopher Middleton
Christopher Middleton (navigator)
Christopher Middleton was an English naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 April 1737....

07/04/1737
Thomas Hudson Middleton 25/06/1936 32 August 1863 - 14 May 1943 Statute Bishop of Calcutta
Thomas Fanshawe Middleton 19/05/1814 26 January 1769 - 8 July 1822
John Edwin Midwinter 21/03/1985 Prof of Electronic Eng, University College, London
John Miers
John Miers (botanist)
John Miers, FRS FLS, knight grand cross of the Order of the Rose, was a British botanist and engineer, best known for his work on the flora of Chile and Argentina....

09/03/1843 25 August 1789 - 17 October 1879
Henry Alexander Miers 04/06/1896 25 May 1858 - 10 December 1942
Ricardo Miledi
Ricardo Miledi
Ricardo Miledi is a Mexican neuroscientist who won the Royal Medal in 1998.In 1999 was awarded with the . In 2010 won the outstanding contributions to the field.He is a professor at the University of California, Irvine....

19/03/1970
Henry Miles
Henry Miles
Henry Miles, FRS was an English Dissenting minister and scientific writer, a Fellow of the Royal Society known for experiments on electricity.-Life:...

09/06/1743 3 June 1698 - 10 February 1763
Arnold Ashley Miles 16/03/1961 21 March 1904 - 11 February 1988 Fellow 16/03/1961
Thomas Miles 15/03/1722
David Andrew Barclay Miller 09/03/1995
Frederick Robert Miller 05/05/1932 2 May 1881 - 11 November 1967 Prof of Physiology, Univ of W.Ontario
George Miller 24/05/1827
Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller 19/03/1970
John Fletcher Miller 06/06/1850 20 June 1816 - 14 July 1856
Joseph Miller 30/03/1843 ? 1798 - 23 February 1860 Marine Engineer
Philip Miller
Philip Miller
Philip Miller FRS was a Scottish botanist.Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden from 1722 until he was pressured to retire shortly before his death...

22/01/1730 1691 - 18 December 1771
Roger Ervin Miller 26/05/2005
Stewart Crichton Miller 14/03/1996 2 July 1934 - 7 August 1999
William Allen Miller
William Allen Miller
William Allen Miller FRS was a British scientist.He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and educated at Ackworth School and King's College London....

06/02/1845 17 December 1817 - 30 September 1870
William Hallowes Miller
William Hallowes Miller
William Hallowes Miller FRS , British mineralogist and crystallographer.- Life and work :Miller was born in 1801 at Velindre near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826 as fifth wrangler. He became a Fellow there in 1829...

08/02/1838 6 April 1801 - 20 May 1880
Daniel Milles 14/01/1675 1626–1689
Edward Milles 19/06/1746
Jeremiah Milles 23/02/1775 c 1751 - ? November 1796
Jeremiah Milles 01/04/1742 c 1714 - 13
Thomas Milles 07/04/1708 19 June 1671 - 13 May 1740
Langford Millington 06/05/1802
Abraham Mills 30/05/1799 c 1750 - 2 March 1828 Mineralogist
Bernard Yarnton Mills 21/03/1963
Edmund James Mills 04/06/1874 8 December 1840 - 21 April 1921
Ian Mark Mills 14/03/1996
John Mills 13/02/1766 c 1717 - ? 1796
Walter Mills 12/07/1682 1654 - 7 January 1726 Physician
William Hobson Mills
William Hobson Mills
William Hobson Mills FRS was a British organic chemist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923 and won its Davy Medal in 1933....

03/05/1923 6 July 1873 - 22
Francis Milman 07/05/1772 31 August 1746 - 24 June 1821
Edward Arthur Milne 06/05/1926 15 February 1896 - 21 September 1950
John Milne
John Milne
For other uses, see John Milne .John Milne was the British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.-Biography:...

09/06/1887 30 December 1850 - ? 30 July 1913
Malcolm Davenport Milne 16/03/1978 22 May 1915 - 3 April 1991
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner
Robin Milner
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE was a prominent British computer scientist.-Life, education and career:...

17/03/1988 13 January 1934 - 20 March 2010 Computer Scientist, Cambridge
Brenda Atkinson Milner
Brenda Milner
Brenda Milner, is a Canadian neuroscientist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. -Biography:...

15/03/1979
Isaac Milner
Isaac Milner
Isaac Milner FRS was a mathematician, an inventor, the President of Queens' College, Cambridge and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics....

15/06/1780 11 January 1750 - 1 April 1820
Samuel Roslington Milner
Samuel Milner
Samuel Roslington Milner was a British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.Education: King Edward VI School, Retford; University College, Bristol; University of Göttingen.-Career:* 1851 Exhibition Scholar, 1895-1898...

11/05/1922 22 August 1875 - 12 August 1958
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.-Background and education:...

10/12/1868 19 June 1809 - 11 August 1885
César Milstein
César Milstein
César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...

20/03/1975 8 October 1927 – 24 March 2002, 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...

 (1984)
Edward Milward 14/01/1742 c 1712 - 26 August 1757
Edward Alfred Minchin 04/05/1911 22 February 1866 - 30 September 1915
George Minchin Minchin 13/06/1895 25 May 1845 - 23 March 1914
Daniel Minet 18/06/1767
David Michael Patrick Mingos
Michael Mingos
David Michael Patrick Mingos FRS was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in the University of Oxford...

12/03/1992
Andrew Mitchell
Andrew Mitchell (diplomat)
Sir Andrew Mitchell was a British diplomat noted for his service as envoy to the court of Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War.-Early Career and Interests:...

26/02/1736 15 April 1708 - 28 January 1771 Diplomat
Edgar William John Mitchell
William Mitchell (physicist)
Sir Edgar William John Mitchell, CBE, FRS was a professor of physics at Oxford, and helped pioneer the field of neutron scattering....

20/03/1986 25 September 1925 – 30 October 2002
George Francis Mitchell 15/03/1973 15 October 1912 - 25 November 1997
George Hoole Mitchell 19/03/1953 31 December 1902 - 11 March 1976
John Mitchell
John Mitchell (geographer)
John Mitchell was a colonial American doctor and botanist. He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map...

15/12/1748 14 April 1711 - 29 February 1768
John Francis Brake Mitchell
John F. B. Mitchell
Professor John F B Mitchell OBE FRS is a British climatologist and climate modeller.He was a convening lead author for the first and third IPCC Working Group I reports and lead author for the second...

27/05/2004
John Wesley Mitchell 15/03/1956
Joseph Stanley Mitchell 20/03/1952 22 July 1909 - 22
Peter Chalmers Mitchell
Peter Chalmers Mitchell
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD , zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park.- Early life :Peter...

03/05/1906 23 November 1864 - 2 July 1945
Peter Dennis Mitchell 21/03/1974 29 September 1920 - 10 April 1992
John Murdoch Mitchison 16/03/1978 15 June 1922 – 17 March 2011
Nicholas Avrion Mitchison
Avrion Mitchison
The Honourable Avrion "Av" Mitchison FRS is a British zoologist and immunologist.- Biography :Mitchison was born in 1928, the son of the Labour politician Dick Mitchison and his wife, the writer Naomi . His uncle was the biologist J.B.S...

16/03/1967
Timothy John Mitchison 15/05/1997
William Mitford 13/04/1749
Ashesh Prosad Mitra 17/03/1988
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra [or Shishirkumar Mitra] was an Indian physicist.He was born and raised in Calcutta. His parents were the doctor Saratkumari and the school teacher Jaykrishna. At the age of nine he witnessed a hot air balloon and became intrigued in the phenomenon, so he began studying science...

20/03/1958 24 October 1890 - 13 August 1963
St. George Jackson Mivart 03/06/1869 30 November 1827 - 1 April 1900
Henry Keith Moffatt 20/03/1986
James Reid Moir 06/05/1937 13 June 1879 - 24 February 1944 Archaeologist
Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling...

30/11/1697 26 May 1667 - 27 November 1754
Coote Molesworth 18/03/1731 ? 1695 - 29 November 1782
Richard Molesworth 04/05/1786 1737 - 29 September 1799
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
Field Marshal Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, PC , styled The Honourable Richard Molesworth from 1716 to 1726, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and nobleman.-Military career:...

15/03/1722 1680 - 12 October 1758
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth PC came of an old Northamptonshire family. He married Letitia Coote, daughter of Richard Coote, 1st Lord Coote of Coloony and Mary St. George.His father Robert Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth PC (7 September 1656 – 22 May 1725) came of an old...

23/03/1698 7 September 1656 - 22 May 1725
William Molesworth 26/11/1835 23 May 1810 - 22 October 1855
Pietro Paolo Molinelli 20/04/1749 2 March 1702 - 11 October 1764
Patrick Loudon Mollison 21/03/1968 17 March 1914 - 26 November 2011 Haematologist
John Dixon Mollon 13/05/1999
Adam Gottlob Moltke
Adam Gottlob Moltke
Count Adam Gottlob Moltke , Danish courtier, statesman and diplomat, born at Riesenhof in Mecklenburg.-Early life:...

05/04/1764 10 November 1710 - 25 September 1792
Daniel Molyneux 19/02/1736 1708–1738
Samuel Molyneux
Samuel Molyneux
Samuel Molyneux FRS , son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light...

01/12/1712 ? 16 July 1689 - 13 April 1728
Thomas Molyneux
Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet FRS was an Irish physician.Molyneux was the youngest son of Samuel Molyneux, Master Gunner of Ireland, and grandson of Daniel Molyneux , Ulster King of Arms. Educated Trinity College, Dublin, he became a doctor with an MA and MB in 1683, aged 22...

03/11/1686 14 April 1661 - 19 October 1733
William Molyneux
William Molyneux
William Molyneux FRS was an Irish natural philosopher and writer on politics.He was born in Dublin to Samuel Molyneux , lawyer and landowner , and his wife, Anne, née Dowdall. The second of five children, William Molyneux came from a relatively prosperous Anglican background...

03/02/1686 17 April 1656 - 11 October 1698
Salvador Moncada
Salvador Moncada
Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FRCS is a Honduran-British physician and pharmacologist. He is the husband of Princess Marie-Esméralda of Belgium, who is a member of the Belgian Royal Family.-Background:...

17/03/1988
Andre Monceaux 15/12/1670 fl 1670
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle 09/01/1665 6 December 1608 - 3 January 1670
Alexander Moncrieff 08/06/1871 17 April 1829 - 3 August 1906 Military Engineer
Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett 21/06/1928 24 October 1868 - 27 December 1930 Statute, chemist
Ludwig Mond
Ludwig Mond
Dr Ludwig Mond , was a German-born chemist and industrialist who took British nationality.-Education and career:...

04/06/1891 7 March 1839 - 11 December 1909, 1928, chemist
Robert Ludwig Mond
Robert Mond
Sir Robert Ludwig Mond FRS, FRSE was a British chemist and archaeologist.-Early life and education:Robert Mond was born at Farnworth, Widnes, Lancashire, the elder son of Ludwig Mond, chemist and industrialist...

17/03/1938 9 September 1867 - 22 October 1938, chemist and archaeologist
William Taylor Money 11/06/1818
Louis Guillaume Le Monnier 07/02/1745 27 June 1717 - 7 September 1799
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
Pierre Charles Le Monnier
Pierre Charles Le Monnier was a French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier.-Biography:...

05/04/1739 20 November 1715 - ? 31 May 1799
Alexander Monro
Alexander Monro (primus)
Alexander Monro was the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. To distinguish him as the first of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as primus....

27/06/1723 8 September 1697 - 10 July 1767
Charles Monro 17/05/1821 c 1757 - 25 September 1821
Donald Monro 24/04/1766 15 January 1728 - 9 June 1802
James Monson 12/11/1684 c 1660 - ? 1688
Joseph de Montagny 07/06/1739 fl 1739
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS was an English poet and statesman.-Early life:Charles Montagu was born in Horton, Northamptonshire, the son of George Montagu, fifth son of 1st Earl of Manchester...

30/11/1695 16 April 1661 - 19 May 1715
Edward Montagu 12/12/1745
Edward Wortley Montagu
Edward Wortley Montagu
Edward Wortley Montagu was an English author and traveller.He was the son of Edward Wortley Montagu, MP and of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, whose talent and eccentricity he seems to have inherited....

31/05/1750 1713 - 29 April 1776
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG was an English Infantry officer who later became a naval officer. He was the only surviving son of Sir Sidney Montagu, and was brought up at Hinchingbrooke House....

20/05/1663 27 July 1625 - 28 May 1672 Original
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG, KB, FRS was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.-Life:...

10/05/1665 1602 - 5 May 1671
Frederick Montagu
Frederick Montagu
Frederick Montagu PC, FRS was a British Whig MP.Montagu was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was MP for Northampton from 1759 to 1768, and for Higham Ferrers from 1768 to 1790. He was in favour of tolerance for Dissenters and the removal of adherence to the Thirty-Nine Articles...

16/02/1792 July 1733 - 30 July 1800
George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, KG PC, FRS was a British peer.He was born George Brudenell in 1712 at Cardigan House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in London, the son of the 3rd Earl of Cardigan and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Bruce...

07/12/1749 26 July 1712 - 23 May 1790
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, KG, KB, PC , styled Viscount Monthermer until 1705 and Marquess of Monthermer between 1705 and 1709, was a British peer...

13/03/1718 29 March 1690 - 6 July 1749
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten...

20/03/1740 3 November 1718 - 30 April 1792
Matthew Montagu 05/03/1795 fl 1795
Nicholas de Montaudouin 16/02/1749 fl 1749
Marques de Monte Leone 05/04/1716 fl 1716 - 1718
Moses Haim Montefiore
Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, Kt was one of the most famous British Jews of the 19th century. Montefiore was a financier, banker, philanthropist and Sheriff of London...

16/06/1836 24 October 1784 - 28 July 1885
John Lennox Monteith
John Monteith
John Lennox Monteith DSc, FRS, born September 3, 1929 in Ayrshire, Scotland, is a leading authority in the related fields of water management for agricultural production, soil physics, micrometeorology, transpiration, and the influence of the natural environment on field crops, horticultural crops,...

18/03/1971
William Monteith 13/02/1845 22 June 1790 - 18 April 1864
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu 26/02/1730 18 January 1689 - 10 February 1755
Jean Baptiste Montesquieu 06/12/1744 10 December 1716 - 1796
Thomas George Montgomerie
Thomas George Montgomerie
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie was a British surveyor who participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India as a lieutenant in the 1850's. He was the person to label K2, the second highest mountain in the world, the K standing for Karakoram...

06/06/1872 23 April 1830 - 31 January 1878
Charles Daniel Trudaine De Montigny 23/01/1766 3 January 1703 - 19 January 1769
Conde de Montijo 16/11/1732 fl 1732
Pierre Remond de Montmort 09/06/1715 27 October 1678 - 7 October 1719
Antoine Jean Baptiste Robert Auget Montyon, Baron de Montyon 05/11/1812 26 December 1733 - 29 December 1820
Philip Burton Moon 20/03/1947 17 May 1907 - 9 October 1994
Edward Moor
Edward Moor
Edward Moor was a British soldier and Indologist, known for his book The Hindu Pantheon, an early treatment in English of Hinduism as a religion.He was a soldier for the East India Company, joining in 1782 as a cadet...

01/05/1806 1771 - 26 February 1848
Robert Michael Moor 10/03/1994
Stephen Erwin Moorbath 17/03/1977
Benjamin Moore
Benjamin Moore (biochemist)
Benjamin Moore B.Eng., M.A., D.Sc., FRS was an early British biochemist. He held the first chair of biochemistry in the UK, and founded the Biochemical Journal, one of the earliest academic journals in the subject....

02/05/1912 14 January 1867 - 3 March 1922
Brian Cecil Joseph Moore 09/05/2002 Prof of Auditory Perception, Cambridge
Charles Moore 25/02/1768 c 1722 - 18 May 1775 antiquary
Daniel Moore 28/06/1810 c 1760 - 6 January 1828 barrister
Derek William Moore 15/03/1990 Prof of Maths, Imperial College
George Moore 02/04/1835 c 1777 - 8 November 1859
John Noore 10/11/1715 fl 1715 - 1734
John Arthur Moore 26/02/1846 1791 - 7 July 1860 Major, East India Co.
John Carrick Moore 05/06/1856 14 February 1805 - 12 February 1898
Michael Arthur Moore 16/03/1989
Jonas Moore 12/03/1680
Jonas Moore
Jonas Moore
Sir Jonas Moore, FRS was an English mathematician, surveyor, Ordnance Officer and patron of astronomy. He participated in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century: the draining of the Great Level of the Fens and the building of the Mole at Tangier...

03/12/1674 9 February 1617 - 25 August 1679 Surveyor-general of Ordnance (father)
Patrick Alfred Caldwell Moore
Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...

10/05/2001 Honorary
Stephen Moore, 3rd Earl of Mountcashel 22/04/1847 20 May 1792 - 10 October 1883
Thomas Edward Lawes Moore 01/06/1854 1819 - 1 May 1872 Naval (magnetic) surveyor
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran FRS , commonly known as Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who made significant contributions to probability theory and its application to population and evolutionary genetics....

20/03/1975 14 July 1917 - 19 September 1988
Jean Francois Clement Morand 01/06/1769 28 April 1726 - 13 August 1784
Sauveur Francois Morand 09/01/1729 2 April 1697 - 21 July 1773
Robert Moray
Robert Moray
Sir Robert Moray was a Scottish soldier, statesman, diplomat, judge, spy, freemason and natural philosopher. He was well known to Charles I and Charles II, and the French cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin...

28/11/1660 1608 - 4 July 1673
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, KG, PC, FRS was an English soldier, peer and courtier.-Early life:Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough...

18/11/1663 ? October 1624 - 19 June 1697
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt , a British officer and poet, is best remembered for his oft-quoted poem `The Call', written during the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763:-References:...

14/04/1796 c 1729 - 13 February 1809 Lt-General in Army
Louis Joel Mordell
Louis Mordell
Louis Joel Mordell was a British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, USA, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction...

15/05/1924 28 January 1888 - 12 March 1972
Henry More
Henry More
Henry More FRS was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.-Biography:Henry was born at Grantham and was schooled at The King's School, Grantham and at Eton College...

25/05/1664 October 1614 - 1 September 1687
Robert More
Robert More
Sir Robert More was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1601.More was the eldest son of Sir George More of Loseley and his first wife Anne Poynings, daughter of Sir Adrian Poynings. He enterd Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1595 and was awarded BA in 1598. In 1600 he...

05/02/1730 1703 - January 1780
Cesar Moreau 08/02/1827 1791 - 28 November 1861
Thomas Morell
Thomas Morell
Thomas Morell was a librettist, classical scholar, and printer.Morell is important for having written the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel.-Librettos:...

16/06/1768 18 March 1703 - 19
Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie 22/02/1855 25 June 1827 - 28 October 1921
Thomas Reynolds Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie 09/06/1814 31 August 1776 - 22 June 1840
Giambattista Morgagni 30/11/1722 26 February 1682 - ? 6 December 1771
Anthony Morgan
Anthony Morgan
Anthony Eugene Morgan is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers ....

20/05/1663 1621 - c November 1668 Original Soldier & MP
Arthur Morgan 02/04/1835 1801 - 10 March 1870 Actuary
Campbell Greig De Morgan 06/06/1861 22 November 1811 - 12 April 1876
Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan
Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan
Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan DL, JP, FRS, FSA , known as Octavius Morgan, was a British politician, historian and antiquary. He was a significant benefactor to the British Museum.-Background and education:...

02/02/1832 15 September 1803 - 5 August 1888
Conwy Lloyd Morgan 01/06/1899 7 February 1852 - 6 March 1936
John Morgan
John Morgan (physician)
John Morgan was co-founder of the Medical College at the University of Pennsylvania, the first medical school in Colonial America; and he served as the second "Chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army...

07/03/1765 10 June 1735 - 15 October 1789
Michael John Morgan 26/05/2005
Charles Morgan
Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Gould Morgan, 2nd Baronet , was a Welsh soldier and politician, the MP for Brecon and later the County of Monmouth ....

30/05/1816 5 February 1760 - 5 December 1846
Gilbert Thomas Morgan 06/05/1915 22 September 1870 - 01
Morien Bedford Morgan 16/03/1972 20 December 1912 - 4 April 1978
Walter Thomas James Morgan
Walter Thomas James Morgan
Walter Thomas James Morgan CBE FRS was a British biochemist noted for his work on the immunochemistry of Antigens and described as 'one of the pioneers of immunochemistry'.-Early life:...

17/03/1949 5 October 1900 – 10
William Morgan 06/05/1790 June 1750 - 4 May 1833
James Justinian Morier
James Justinian Morier
James Justinian Morier was a British diplomat and author noted for his novels about Qajar dynasty Iran, most famously for the Hajji Baba series.-Early life:...

04/02/1819 c 1780 - 19 March 1849
William Morison 03/03/1842
Benjamin Morland 12/03/1707 c 1653 - 9 October 1733 Schoolmaster
Joseph Morland 30/11/1703 c 1671 - 1716 Author & Physician
Samuel Morland 30/11/1704
Samuel Morlend 24/05/1722
George Morley
George Morley
George Morley D.D. was an English bishop.-Life:He was born in London, England, and educated at Westminster school and the University of Oxford. In 1640, he was presented to the sinecure living of Hartfield, Sussex, and in the following year he was made canon of Christ Church, Oxford and exchanged...

28/11/1666 27 Feb 1597 -29 October 1684
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn OM, PC was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Initially a journalist, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1883...

15/12/1892 24 December 1838 - 23 September 1923 MP
Leslie Sydney Dennis Morley 12/03/1992 - 16 June 2011
Lorenzo Morosini 10/03/1763 fl 1763
Hervey Redmond Morres, 2nd Viscount Mountmorres 12/12/1793 c 1746 - 18 August 1797
Corbyn Morris 19/05/1757
Edward Morris 18/06/1812 c 1769 - 13 April 1815 Mp for Newport, Cornwall
George Paulet Morris 14/02/1805 c 1760 - 17 September 1837 Physician
Howard Redfern Morris 17/03/1988
John Carnac Morris 10/03/1831 16 October 1798 - 2 August 1858 Civil Servant
John Gareth Morris 17/03/1988
Matthew Robinson Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby
Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby
Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby was an English eccentric nobleman who preferred a watery environment to a dry one....

27/11/1746 ? April 1713 - 30 November 1800
Michael Morris 05/04/1764
Richard Graham Michael Morris 15/05/1997
Robert Hunter Morris
Robert Hunter Morris
Robert Hunter Morris, born 1700 in Trenton, New Jersey, died 27 January 1764 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, was a prominent governmental figure in Colonial Pennsylvania, serving as governor of Pennsylvania and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court....

12/06/1755 c 1700 - 27 January 1764 Governor of Pennsylvania
Peter John Morris 10/03/1994
William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield 08/06/1939 11 October 1877 - 22 August 1963 Statute
Robert Morrison 12/05/1825 5 January 1782 - 1 August 1834
Henton Morrogh 19/03/1964 29 September 1917 – 20 September 2003
Leonard Morse 15/05/1766
Robert Morse 12/11/1789 30 February 1743 - 28 January 1818 Military Engineer
Clifford Hiley Mortimer 20/03/1958 27 February 1911 - 11 May 2010 Biologist, Wisconsin
Cromwell Mortimer
Cromwell Mortimer
Cromwell Mortimer FRS was a British physician, antiquary and second secretary of the Royal Society from 1730-1752.-Early life:...

27/06/1728 c 1699 - 7 January 1752
John Mortimer 30/11/1705 c 1656 - 1736 Author, Merchant, Agricuturalist
Charles Morton
Charles Morton (librarian)
Charles Morton MD was an English medical doctor and librarian who became the principal librarian of the British Museum.-Life:Morton first attended Leiden University from September 18, 1736. Some time before 1745, he moved to Kendal, Westmoreland, where he practiced as a physician...

16/01/1752 1716 - 10 February 1799
John Morton 30/11/1703 c 1670 - 18 July 1726 Naturalist
Richard Alan Morton 16/03/1950 22 September 1899 - 21 January 1977 Spectroscopist
Henry Moseley 07/02/1839 9 July 1801 - 20 January 1872
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Henry Nottidge Moseley, FRS was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of the HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876....

07/06/1877 14 November 1844 - 10 November 1891
Charles Moss
Charles Moss
Charles Moss was an Anglican clergyman who served as Bishop of St David's from 1766 to 1774 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1774 to 1802.-Biography:...

28/05/1752 1711 - 13 April 1802
Joseph William Moss 18/02/1830 1803 - 23 May 1862
William Branks Motherwell 27/05/2004 Professor of Chemistry, University College
Basil Mott
Basil Mott
Sir Basil Mott, 1st Baronet FRS was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was responsible for some of the most innovative work on tunnels and bridges in the United Kingdom in the 40-year period centred on World War I.Basil Mott was born in...

05/05/1932 16 September 1859 - 7 September 1938
Frederick Walker Mott
Frederick Walker Mott
Sir Frederick Walker Mott FRS was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Britain. He is noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to mental disorder, and consequently as psychiatrist and sociologist...

04/06/1896 23 October 1853 - 8 June 1926
Nevill Francis Mott
Nevill Francis Mott
Sir Nevill Francis Mott, CH, FRS was an English physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H...

07/05/1936 30 September 1905 - 8 August 1996
Allen Moulin 18/07/1683 c 1653 - 1690
Jacques du Moulin 05/12/1667
George Moult 30/11/1689
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton 03/06/1880 18 November 1844 - 9 March 1921
Pierre Moultou 27/04/1780
James Mounsey 08/03/1750 1700 - 02
William Mountaine 14/03/1751
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS , was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...

19/05/1966 26 June 1900 - 27 August 1979 Statute
Arthur Ernest Mourant 17/03/1966 11 April 1904 - 29 August 1994
Edward Richard Moxon 17/05/2007
Joseph Moxon
Joseph Moxon
Joseph Moxon , hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer of mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer. He produced the first English language dictionary devoted to mathematics...

30/11/1678 8 August 1627 - 28 February 1691
John Mudge
John Mudge
John Mudge was an English physician and amateur creator of telescope mirrors. He won the Copley Medal in 1777 for a paper on reflecting telescopes.-Life:...

29/05/1777 1721 - 26 March 1793
Richard Zachary Mudge 05/12/1822 6 September 1790 - 24 September 1854
William Mudge
William Mudge
William Mudge was an English artillery officer and surveyor, an important figure in the work of the Ordnance Survey.-Life:He was a son of Dr. John Mudge of Plymouth, by his second wife, and grandson of Zachariah Mudge, and was born at Plymouth on 1 December 1762...

28/06/1798 1 December 1762 - 17 April 1820
Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich Mueller 06/06/1861 30 June 1825 - 9 October 1896, botanist
Isabella Helen Mary Muir 17/03/1977 20 August 1920 - 28 November 2005
Robert Muir
Robert Muir (pathologist)
Sir Robert Muir, FRS, FRSE, FRCP, FRCPE, RFPSG was a Scottish physician and pathologist who carried out pioneering work in immunology, and was one of the leading figures in medical research in Glasgow in the early 20th century.The son of a United Presbyterian minister , he studied at the...

04/05/1911 5 July 1864 - 30 March 1959
Thomas Muir
Thomas Muir (mathematician)
Sir Thomas Muir FRS was a Scottish mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. He was born in Stonebyres in South Lanarkshire, and brought up in the small town of Biggar. At the University of Glasgow he changed his studies from classics to mathematics after advice from the future...

14/06/1900 25 August 1844 - 21 March 1934
Alexander Muirhead
Alexander Muirhead
Alexander Muirhead, FRS, born in East Saltoun, East Lothian, Scotland was an electrical engineer specialising in wireless telegraphy.-Biography:...

05/05/1904 26 May 1848 - 13 December 1920
Gerhard Friedrich Muller 10/12/1730 1705–1783
Hugo Muller 07/06/1866 29 July 1833 - 23 May 1915
Benjamin von Munchausen 30/04/1684 fl 1684
Jan de Munck 21/01/1748 fl 1748
Nicholas Munckley 26/01/1749 c 1721 - 20 February 1770
Anthony John Mundella
Anthony John Mundella
Anthony John Mundella PC , known as A. J. Mundella, was an English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1897...

09/03/1882 28 March 1825 - 21 July 1897
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Ludovico Antonio Muratori
Ludovico Antonio Muratori was an Italian historian, notable as a leading scholar of his age, and for his discovery of the Muratorian fragment, the earliest known list of New Testament books....

14/11/1717 21 October 1673 - 23 January 1750
Charles Murchison
Charles Murchison (physician)
Charles Murchison was a British physician and a noted authority on fevers and diseases of the liver.-Early life:...

07/06/1866 26 July 1830 - 23 April 1879
Roderick Impey Murchison 06/04/1826 20 February 1792 - 22 October 1871
Patrick Murdoch
Patrick Murdoch
Patrick Murdoch was an author, publisher and mathematician, who published a biography of poet James Thomson, and also An account of Sir Isaac Newton's philosophical discoveries by Colin MacLaurin....

20/03/1746
Thomas Murdoch 04/07/1805 1758–1846
Robert Murphy 05/06/1834 1806 - 12 March 1843
David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield 20/05/1802 8 March 1777 - 18 February 1840
David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont 29/08/1666
George Murray
George Murray (Lieutenant-Governor)
Sir George Murray, GCB, GCH, FRS was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Background and education:Murray was born in Perth, the second son of Sir William Murray, of Ochtertyre, 5th Baronet , and was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh.-Military career:In...

19/06/1823 7 February 1772 - 28 July 1846
George Robert Milne Murray
George Robert Milne Murray
George Robert Milne Murray FRS was a Scottish botanist.Murray was born and educated in Arbroath. In 1875 he studied cryptogamic botany at the University of Strasbourg under Anton de Bary. He became an assistant in the Department of Botany at the Natural History Museum, succeeding William...

03/06/1897 11 November 1858 - 16 December 1911
James Murray 24/06/1779 c 1722 - 19 April 1794
James Alexander Murray 07/05/1925 25 November 1873 - 20 November 1950 Director, Imp. Cancer Relief Fund
James Dickson Murray 21/03/1985
James Murray, Baron Glenlyon 09/04/1818 29 May 1782 - 12 October 1837
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl KT, PC, FRS , styled Marquess of Tullibardine 1764 and 1774, was a Scottish peer.-Background:...

09/11/1780 30 June 1755 - 29 September 1830
John Murray
John Murray (oceanographer)
Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS was a pioneering Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist.-Early life:...

04/06/1896 3 March 1841 - 16 March 1914
Kenneth Murray 15/03/1979
Mungo Murray 11/09/1661 12 October 1599–1670
Noreen Elizabeth Murray 18/03/1982
John Norman Murrell 14/03/1991
Samuel Musgrave
Samuel Musgrave
Samuel Musgrave, FRS was an English classical scholar and physician.Musgrave was born at Washfield in Devon, and was educated at the University of Oxford. There he was elected to a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, and he spent several years abroad...

12/06/1760 29 September 1732 - 4 July 1780
William Musgrave 17/03/1774 8 October 1735 - 3 January 1800 Barrister
William Musgrave
William Musgrave
William Musgrave , physician and antiquary. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was a fellow from 1677 to 1692. In 1680 he spent a brief period at the University of Leiden....

19/03/1684 4 November 1655 - ? December 1721
William Musgrave 15/03/1722 c 1696 - November 1724 Physician
Pieter van Musschenbroek
Pieter van Musschenbroek
Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astrology. He is credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar. He performed pioneering work on the...

14/11/1734 14 March 1692 - 19 September 1761
John Myddleton 08/03/1739
Charles Samuel Myers
Charles Samuel Myers
Charles Samuel Myers FRS was a significant English psychologist, who coined the term shell shock. He was co-founder of the British Psychological Society and the National Institute of Industrial Psychology....

06/05/1915 13 March 1873 - 12 October 1946
Robert Mylne
Robert Mylne
Robert Mylne was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London. Born and raised in Edinburgh, he travelled to Europe as a young man, studying architecture in Rome under Piranesi...

21/05/1767 4 January 1734 - 5 May 1811
Robert William Mylne
Robert William Mylne
Robert William Mylne, FRS was a British architect, civil engineer and geologist.He was born in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, the son of William Chadwell Mylne and grandson of Robert Mylne , both of whom were chief engineers of the New River Company.Robert William himself also practiced as an...

07/06/1860 14 June 1817 - 2 July 1890
William Chadwell Mylne
William Chadwell Mylne
William Chadwell Mylne, FRS was a British engineer and architect.He was descended from a Scottish family of masons and architects, and was the second son of Robert Mylne , surveyor to the New River Company, and builder of the first Blackfriars Bridge in London.Initially, William's elder brother...

16/03/1826 ? 5 April 1781 - 25 December 1863
John Mytton 26/02/1767

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Names Election Date
Frank Reginald Nunes Nabarro 18/03/1971 7 March 1916 – 20 July 2006, British-South African physicist
Kiyoshi Nagai 11/05/2000
Edward Nairne
Edward Nairne
Edward Nairne b. Sandwich, England, 1726; d. London, 1 September 1806, was an optician and scientific instrument maker. He was apprenticed to the optician Matthew Loft in 1741 and established his own business at 20 Cornhill in London after Loft's death in 1748...

20/06/1776 1726 - 1 September 1806
William Naper 01/12/1679
Henry Edward Napier
Henry Edward Napier
-Life:Napier, born on 5 March 1789, was son of Colonel George Napier, younger brother of Sir Charles James Napier, conqueror of Scinde, of Sir George Thomas Napier, governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, historian and general....

18/05/1820 5 March 1789 - 13 October 1853
James Robert Napier
James Robert Napier (engineer)
James Robert Napier, FRS , engineer and inventor of Napier's diagram, a tool for nautical navigation.-Early life and education:...

06/06/1867 12 September 1821 - 13 December 1879
Macvey Napier
Macvey Napier
Macvey Napier FRS FRSE was a Scottish lawyer and an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica. A hard-working scholar in his youth, he was recruited by Archibald Constable...

12/06/1817 12 April 1776 - 11 February 1847
Robert Cornelis Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala 16/12/1869 6 December 1810 - 14 January 1890
James Napier 30/03/1775 c 1710 - 21 December 1799 Insp-Gen. of N.American hospitals
Roddam Narasimha
Roddam narasimha
Roddam Narasimha is an Indian aerospace scientist and fluid dynamicist. He was the chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Unit at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research JNCASR, India...

12/03/1992
Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan 14/03/1996
Ramesh Narayan 18/05/2006 Prof of Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian
Robert Nares
Robert Nares
Robert Nares was an English clergyman, philologist and author.-Life:He was born at York in 1753, the son of James Nares , organist of York Minster and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.From 1779 to 1783 he lived with the family of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet as...

10/05/1804 9 June 1753 - 23 March 1829
George Strong Nares 03/06/1875 24 April 1831 - 15 January 1915
John Narrien 18/06/1840 1782 - 30 March 1860
Joseph Nash 09/04/1778
Kim Ashley Nasmyth
Kim Nasmyth
Professor Kim Nasmyth FRS is the Whitley Professor of Biochemistry . Nasmyth was formerly the Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria and the Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Oxford...

16/03/1989
James Naesmyth 12/02/1767 c 1704 - 4 February 1779 MP Peebles
Lorenz Natter 24/11/1757 21 March 1705 - ? December 1763
Philip Naude 23/02/1738 18 October 1684 - 17 January 1745
Louis Jouard de La Nauze 27/01/1732 27 March 1696 - 2 May 1773
George Nayler
George Nayler
Sir George Nayler, KH was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London....

01/06/1826 c 1764 - 28 October 1831
Thomas Neale
Thomas Neale
Thomas Neale was a British project-manager and politician who was also well-known in the United States as the first person to hold a position equivalent to postmaster-general of the North American colonies....

01/06/1664 ? October 1641 - December 1699
Richard Neave
Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Neave, 1st Baronet was a British merchant and a Governor of the Bank of England.Neave was the son of James Neave and Susanna Trueman...

16/06/1785 22 November 1731 - 28 January 1814
Thomas Neave 05/05/1814 11 November 1761 - 11 April 1848
Caspar Needham 20/05/1663 c 1622 - 31 October 1679 Original
Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham 18/03/1948 22 September 1896 - 22 December 1987
John Turberville Needham 22/01/1747 10 September 1713 - 30 December 1781
Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham, CH, FRS, FBA , also known as Li Yuese , was a British scientist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as a fellow of the British...

20/03/1941 9 December 1900 - 25 March 1995
Roger Michael Needham 21/03/1985 10 February 1935 – 28 February 2003 Fellow 21/03/1985
Walter Needham 20/06/1667
Paul Neile
Paul Neile
Sir Paul Neile FRS was an English astronomer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640 and from 1673 to 1677....

28/11/1660 ? May 1613 - ? January 1686
William Neile
William Neile
William Neile was an English mathematician and founder member of the Royal Society. His major mathematical work, the rectification of the semicubical parabola, was carried out when he was aged nineteen, and was published by John Wallis...

20/05/1663 7 December 1637 - 24 August 1670 Original
James Beaumont Neilson 15/01/1846 22 June 1792 - 18 January 1865
Arthur Charles Neish 18/03/1971 4 July 1916 - 7 September 1973, Canadian plant biochemist
John Ashworth Nelder 19/03/1981 8 October 1924 - 7 August 2010 Biomathematician, Rothamsted
Richard John Nelmes 15/05/2003
Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson (nonjuror)
Robert Nelson was an English lay religious writer and nonjuror.-Life:He was born in London on 22 June 1656, the only surviving son of John Nelson, a merchant in the Turkey trade, by Delicia, daughter of Lewis and sister of Sir Gabriel Roberts, who, like John Nelson, was a member of the Levant...

01/04/1680 22 June 1656 - 16 January 1715
Edward Nelthorpe 27/06/1666 ? 1604 - c 1685
Evan Nepean
Evan Nepean
Sir Evan Nepean, 1st Baronet PC was a British politician and colonial administrator.-Early career:...

04/05/1820 1751 - 2 October 1822
Robert Nesbitt 15/04/1725 c 1697 - 27 May 1761
Edward Nettleship
Edward Nettleship
Edward Nettleship was an English ophthalmologist.He was a native of Kettering. After finishing his medical studies, Nettleship became an assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson at the London Hospital, and a coworker with Warren Tay at the Moorfields Eye Hospital. Afterwards he spent nearly twenty years...

02/05/1912 3 March 1845 - 30 October 1913
Albert Neuberger
Albert Neuberger
Albert Neuberger CBE FRS FRCP was Professor of Chemical Pathology, St Mary's Hospital, University of London, 1955–1973, and later Emeritus Professor.-Education in Germany:...

15/03/1951 15 April 1908 - 14 August 1996, chemical pathologist
Michael Samuel Neuberger
Michael Neuberger
Michael Samuel Neuberger FRS is a British biochemist and immunologist.-Education:He was educated at Westminster School, and then read Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar where he obtained a Master of Arts; he then obtained a PhD at Imperial College, London.-Career:He has...

11/03/1993 biochemist
Bernhard Hermann Neumann
Bernhard Neumann
Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject....

19/03/1959 15 October 1909 - 21 October 2002
Caspar Neumann
Caspar Neumann
Caspar Neumann was a German professor and clergyman from Breslau with a special interest in mortality rates.-Biography:...

09/12/1725 11 July 1683 - 20 October 1737
Peter Le Neve
Peter Le Neve
Peter Le Neve was an English herald and antiquary. He was appointed Rouge Dragon Pursuivant 17 January 1690 and created Norroy King at Arms on 25 May 1704. From 1707 to 1721 he was Richmond Herald of Arms in Ordinary, an officer of arms of the College of Arms...

20/03/1712 ? January 1662 - 24 September 1729
Edmund Neville Nevill
Edmund Neville Nevill
Edmund Neison FRS , whose real name was Edmund Neville Nevill, wrote a key text in selenography called The Moon and the condition and configuration of its surface and later set up an observatory in Durban, Natal Province...

07/05/1908 27 August 1849 - 14 January 1940
Francis Henry Neville 03/06/1897 2 December 1847 - 5 June 1915
Hugh Frank Newall 05/06/1902 22 June 1857 - 22 February 1944
Robert Stirling Newall
Robert Stirling Newall
Robert Stirling Newall FRS was a Scottish engineer and astronomer.Born in Dundee, he was befriended by civil engineer L.D.B. Gordon. In 1838, whilst studying at the Freiburg School of Mines, Germany, Gordon visited the mines at Clausthal, and met Wilhelm Albert...

03/06/1875 27 May 1812 - 21 April 1889
Thomas John Newbold 06/01/1842 9 February 1807 - 29 May 1850
John Newburgh 02/11/1664 1630–1692
Peter Newcome 24/02/1743
John Newey 30/11/1696 4 December 1664 - 13 September 1735
Dudley Maurice Newitt
Dudley Maurice Newitt
Dudley Maurice Newitt was a British chemical engineer who was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1962 'In recognition of his distinguished contributions to chemical engineering'....

19/03/1942 28 April 1894 - 14 March 1980
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman
Max Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897...

16/03/1939 8 February 1897 - 22 February 1984
Ronald Charles Newman 14/05/1998
William Newmarch
William Newmarch
William Newmarch was a Yorkshireman, English banker, economist and statistician born at Thirsk, Yorkshire.He took his schooling at York, and, as a young man, held some clerkly appointments in that city...

06/06/1861 28 January 1820 - 23 March 1882
George Newport
George Newport
George Newport was a prominent English entomologist .Newport is especially noted for his studies utilizing the microscope and his skills in dissection. He was President of the Entomological Society of London 1843-1844 and also a member of the Ray Society .George Newport wrote several scholarly...

26/03/1846 4 July 1803 - 7 April 1854
John Michael Newsom-Davis 14/03/1991
Robert Newstead 02/05/1912 12 September 1859 - 17 February 1947
Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...

02/06/1870 11 June 1829 - 7 June 1907
Edwin Tulley Newton
Edwin Tulley Newton
Edwin Tulley Newton was a British paleontologist. He originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865 was appointed as his assistant. In 1882 he became paleontologist to the "Geologic Survey", a position he retained until 1905...

01/06/1893 4 May 1840 - 28 January 1930
Henry Newton 04/05/1709 18 August 1651 - 29 July 1715 Advocate, Diplomat
Ian Newton
Ian Newton
Professor Ian Newton FRS, OBE is an English ornithologist.-Career:Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He graduated from Bristol University. He received his D.Phil. and D.Sc. degrees from the University of Oxford and has studied a wide...

11/03/1993
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...

11/01/1672 25 December 1642 - 20 March 1727, PRS 1703-1727, natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, physicist
William Nicholas 01/04/1742
Sir John Nicholl 20/03/1806 16 March 1759 - 26 August 1838
Whitlock Nicholl 18/02/1830 1786 - 3 December 1838
Frank Nicholls
Frank Nicholls
Frank Nicholls was a physician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728. He was made reader of anatomy at Oxford University when young and moved to London in the 1730s.-Life:...

02/05/1728 1699 - 7 January 1788
John Nicholls 08/03/1744 ? 1710 - 11 January 1745 Merchant
John Graham Nicholls 17/03/1988
Henry Nicholson 05/04/1716
Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on 11 September 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Göttingen and Edinburgh...

03/06/1897 11 September 1844 - 19 January 1899
John William Nicholson
John William Nicholson
John William Nicholson, FRS was an English mathematician.Based on the results of astronomical spectroscopy of nebula he proposed in 1911 the existence of several yet undiscovered elements. Coronium with an atomic weight of 0.51282, nebulium wit a weight of 1.6281 and protofluorine with a weight of...

03/05/1917 1 November 1881 - ? 3 October 1955
Robert Nicholson 04/06/1807 fl 1807
Francis Nicholson
Francis Nicholson
Francis Nicholson was a British military officer and colonial administrator. His military service included time in Africa and Europe, after which he was sent as leader of the troops supporting Sir Edmund Andros in the Dominion of New England. There he distinguished himself, and was appointed...

04/12/1706 1660 - 5 March 1728
Robin Buchanan Nicholson 16/03/1978
Joseph Arthur Colin Nicol 16/03/1967 5 December 1915 – 20 December 2004
Antonio Nicolini, Marchese di Ponsacco 26/03/1747 1700–1769
Alexander Nicoll 23/02/1826 3 April 1793 - 24 September 1828
John Nicoll 28/02/1765 fl 1765
William Nicolson
William Nicolson
William Nicolson was an English divine and antiquary.-Life:He was born in Plumbland, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Nicolson, Rector of Plumbland and educated at the school in nearby Dovenby...

30/11/1705 3 June 1655 - 14 February 1727
James Nihill 01/04/1742 1705 - 1 June 1759
Robert Adam Nisbet-Hamilton 18/04/1833
Charles Niven 03/06/1880 14 September 1845 - 11 May 1923
William Davidson Niven 08/06/1882 24 March 1842 - 29 March 1917
Louis Jules Barbon Mancini Mazarini Nivernois 10/02/1763 16 December 1716 - 25
John Nixon 15/11/1744
John Forster Nixon 10/03/1994
Robert Nixon 11/06/1801 1759 - 5 November 1837 Clergyman
Henry Minchin Noad
Henry Minchin Noad
-Biography:Noad, born at Shawford, near Frome, Somerset, 22 June 1815, was son of Humphrey Noad, by Miss Hunn, a half-sister of the Rt. Hon. George Canning. He was educated at Frome grammar school, and was intended for the civil service in India, but the untimely death of his patron, William...

05/06/1856 22 June 1815 - 23 July 1877
Denis Noble
Denis Noble
Denis Noble CBE FRS FRCP is a British biologist who held the Burdon Sanderson Chair of Cardiovascular Physiology at Oxford University from 1984 to 2004 and was appointed Professor Emeritus and co-Director of Computational Physiology. He is one of the pioneers of Systems Biology and developed the...

15/03/1979
Andrew Noble 02/06/1870 13 September 1831 - 22 October 1915
Stephen Robert Nockolds
Stephen Robert Nockolds
Stephen Robert Nockolds, FRS was a geochemist, petrologist and winner of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London....

19/03/1959 11 May 1909 - 7 February 1990
George Henry Noehden 04/05/1820 23 January 1770 - 14 March 1826
Henry Noel-Fearn 14/04/1842 1811 - 11 March 1868
John Anthony Noguier 13/04/1809 fl 1809
Frederick Nolan 07/02/1833 9 February 1784 - 16 September 1864 Clergyman, theologian
Gustavus Adam Nolcken 08/05/1777 c 1732 - 16 December 1812
Jean Antoine Nollet 23/01/1735 19 November 1700 - 24 April 1770
John Mervin Nooth 03/03/1774 ? September 1737 - 3 May 1828
Frederic Lewis Norden
Frederic Louis Norden
Frederic Louis Norden was a Danish naval captain and explorer.Also known as Frederick, Frederik, Friderick, Ludwig, Ludvig and Lewis, the name used on the first publication of his famous Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie is Frederic Louis Norden. His name is often shortened F. L...

08/01/1741 22 October 1708 - 22 September 1742, Danish naval captain and explorer
Alfred Merle Norman
Alfred Merle Norman
Alfred Merle Norman was an English clergyman and naturalist.-Early life:Norman was born in Exeter, England in 1831. His father was a landowner, surgeon and Deputy-Lieutenant of Somerset. He studied the molluscs and plants of Somerset at young age. He studied at Winchester College from 1844 to 1848...

05/06/1890 29 August 1831 - 26 October 1918
Richard Oswald Chandler Norman 17/03/1977 27 April 1932 - 6 June 1993
Edward Norris
Edward Norris
-Selected filmography:-External links:...

09/11/1698 1663 - 22 July 1726
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School. He was a former student of Eric Rideal...

07/05/1936 9 November 1897 - 7 June 1978
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford , known as the Honourable Frederick North until 1817, was a British politician and colonial administrator....

06/02/1794 7 February 1766 - 14 October 1827
George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford 17/01/1782 11 September 1757 - 20 April 1802
Richard Alan North 09/03/1995
Ford North 21/06/1900 10 January 1830 - 12 October 1913
William North, 6th Baron North and 2nd Lord Grey 30/06/1720 22 December 1678 - 31 October 1734
Donald Henry Northcote 21/03/1968 27 December 1921 – 8 January 2004
Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh and Viscount St Cyres 18/02/1875 27 October 1818 - 12 January 1887
Douglas Geoffrey Northcott
Douglas Northcott
Douglas Geoffrey Northcott, FRS was a British mathematician who worked on ideal theory.He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St John's College, Cambridge.He started research under the supervision of G.H...

16/03/1961 31 December 1916 – 8 April 2005
William Northey 21/06/1753 1721 - 24 December 1770 Commissioner & MP gor Calne,Maidstone & Bedwin
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley PC was an English politician.He was the eldest son of Thomas Norton of Grantley, Yorkshire. He became a barrister in 1739, and, after a period of inactivity, built up a profitable practice, becoming a King's Counsel in 1754, and later attorney-general for the...

18/04/1776 23 June 1716 - 1 January 1789
Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal
Gustav Nossal
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal, AC, CBE, FRS, FAA is an Australian research biologist.-Life and career:Gustav Nossal's family was from Vienna, Austria. He was born four weeks prematurely in Bad Ischl while his mother was on holiday...

18/03/1982 biologist
Thomas Nott
Thomas Nott
Sir Thomas Nott , eldest son of Roger Nott of London. He was a royalist army officer and an original fellow of the Royal Society. In 1640 he acquired the remainder of the crown lease of Twickenham Park, Middlesex which he sold in 1659....

20/05/1663 ? December 1606 - 18 December 1681 Original
Edward Nourse 24/10/1728 1701 - 13 May 1761 Surgeon
Thomas Novell 06/04/1681
Christopher Nugent
Christopher Nugent
Sir Christopher Nugent, 6th Baron Delvin was an Irish nobleman and writer. He was arrested on suspicion of treason against Queen Elizabeth I of England, and died while in confinement before his trial had taken place....

14/04/1768
Paul Maxime Nurse
Paul Nurse
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, PRS is a British geneticist and cell biologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Leland H. Hartwell and R...

16/03/1989
Phillip Sadler Nutman 21/03/1968 10 October 1914 – 5 May 2004
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall 05/05/1904 5 July 1862 - 16 December 1937
John Frederick Nye 18/03/1976
Peter Hague Nye 19/03/1987 16 September 1921 - 13 February 2009 Soil Chemist
Ronald Sydney Nyholm
Ronald Sydney Nyholm
Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm was an Australian chemist, born on 29 January 1917 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, as the fourth in a family of six children. Broken Hill is a mining town whose streets are named after minerals, a fit place for to sire an inorganic chemist. Beryl-and-Sulphide...

20/03/1958 29 January 1917 - 4 December 1971

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Name Election Date
Lucius Henry O'Brien 27/05/1773 1731 - 15 January 1795
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra, FRS, is a distinguished British immunologist who made important discoveries on the mechanism of action of Interleukin 10. She is a fellow of the Royal Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and the Academy of Medical Sciences.-Biography:Since 2001 O'Garra...

16/05/2008
James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley 07/01/1748 1690 - 14 July 1773
Michael John O'Hara 19/03/1981
John Michael O'Keefe 12/03/1992 Cognitive neuroscientist
Robert Keith O'Nions 17/03/1983
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy MD FRS was an Irish physician famous for his work in pharmacology and inventions related to telegraphy...

16/03/1843 October 1809 - 10 January 1889
Cornelius O'Sullivan 04/06/1885 20 December 1841 - 8 January 1907
Sylvia Onora O'Niell, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve 17/05/2007 Honorary
Stephen Patrick O’Rahilly 15/05/2003
Charles Henry Oakes 02/04/1835 25 November 1810 - 16 May 1864
Cyril Leslie Oakley 21/03/1957 20 June 1907 - 27 March 1975
Charles William Oatley 20/03/1969 15 February 1904 - 11 March 1996
John Richard Ockendon 13/05/1999
William Odling
William Odling
William Odling, FRS was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table....

09/06/1859 5 September 1829 - 17 February 1921 Prof of Chemistry, Guys Hospital
Albert Cyril Offord 20/03/1952 9 June 1906 - 4 June 2000
Raymond William Ogden 18/05/2006
Bridget Margaret Ogilvie
Bridget Ogilvie
Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, AC, DBE, FRS is an Australian and British scientist.Ogilvie was born in 1938 at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, to John Ogilvie and Margaret Beryl McRae...

15/05/2003
James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield and 4th Earl of Findlater 09/11/1698 11 July 1663 - 15 August 1730
James Adey Ogle 02/02/1826 22 October 1792 - 25 September 1857
James Edward Oglethorpe 09/11/1749 22 December 1696 - 1 July 1785
Alexander George Ogston
Alexander George Ogston
Alexander George Ogston FRS was a biochemist who specialised in the thermodynamics of biological systems. He was particularly interested in connective tissue and the use of physico-chemical methods to study the size, weight and structure of molecules...

17/03/1955 30 January 1911 - 29 June 1996
Takeshi Oka 15/03/1984
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers was a German physician and astronomer.-Life and career:Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing medicine in Bremen, Germany...

12/04/1804 11 October 1758 - 2 March 1840
Henry Oldenburg
Henry Oldenburg
Henry Oldenburg was a German theologian known as a diplomat and a natural philosopher. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, with a network of correspondents to rival those of Fabri de Peiresc, Marin Mersenne and Ismaël Boulliau...

22/04/1663 c 1617 - ? September 1677 Original
John Oldershaw
John Oldershaw
John Oldershaw was a British clergymen.He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge University in 1771 and was senior wrangler and 1st Smith's prizeman in 1776. He received an M.A. in 1779, a B.D. in 1786....

16/11/1786 27 May 1754 - 31 January 1847
Richard Dixon Oldham
Richard Dixon Oldham
Richard Dixon Oldham FRS was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.-Life:Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal...

04/05/1911 31 July 1858 - 15 July 1936
Thomas Oldham
Thomas Oldham
Thomas Oldham was a Anglo-Irish geologist.He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh as well as geology under Robert Jameson....

09/06/1848 4 May 1816 - 17 July 1878
Charles Oliphant 11/06/1713 c 1666 - 1720
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.During his retirement, Oliphant was appointed as the Governor of...

06/05/1937 8 October 1901 - 14 July 2000
David Ian Olive
David Olive
David Olive CBE FLSW FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to the string theory and duality theory. He was Professor of physics at Imperial College, London...

19/03/1987
Benjamin Oliveira 04/06/1835 c 1807 - 28 September 1865
Daniel Oliver
Daniel Oliver
Daniel Oliver, FRS was a British botanist.He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888....

04/06/1863 7 February 1830 - 21 December 1916
Francis Wall Oliver
Francis Wall Oliver
Francis Wall Oliver FRS was a British botanist. He was Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1890-1925 and then Professor of Botany at the University of Cairo 1929–1935. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1925.- References :...

11/05/1905 10 May 1864 - 14 September 1951
William Oliver
William Oliver (physician)
William Oliver was an English physician and philanthropist, and inventor of the Bath Oliver. He was born at Ludgvan, Cornwall, and baptised on 27 August 1695, described as the son of John Oliver. His family, originally seated at Trevarnoe in Sithney, resided afterwards in Ludgvan, and the estate...

22/01/1730 4 August 1695 - 17 March 1764
William Oliver 30/11/1703 1659 - 4 April 1716 Army Physician
William David Ollis 16/03/1972 22 December 1924 - 13 June 1999
Erasmus Ommanney
Erasmus Ommanney
thumb|right|Sir Erasmus OmmanneyAdmiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney KCB, FRS, FRGS, JP was a Royal Navy officer and an Arctic explorer of the Victorian era.-Early life:...

04/06/1868 22 May 1814 - 21 December 1904
Charles Savill Onley 18/02/1819 ? 1757 - 31 August 1843
Edward Onslow
Edward Onslow
Edward Onslow was a British nobleman, the younger son of George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow.Onslow was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1774...

27/01/1780 9 April 1758 - 18 October 1829
Sir Henry John Oram 02/05/1912 19 June 1858 - 5 May 1939
Craven Ord 03/05/1787 1756 - ? January 1832
John Ord 01/06/1780 c 1729 - 6 June 1814
Ralph Ord 30/11/1723
Robert Ord
Robert Ord
Robert Ord was a British politician.He was a Member of Parliament for Morpeth, Northumberland from to .He died aged 77....

12/03/1724
Leslie Eleazer Orgel
Leslie Orgel
Leslie Eleazer Orgel FRS was a British chemist.Born in London, England, Orgel received his B.A. in chemistry with first class honours from Oxford University in 1949...

15/03/62
Barnaba Oriani
Barnaba Oriani
__FORCETOC__Barnaba Oriani was an Italian priest, geodesist, astronomer and scientist.-Life:Oriani was born in Garegnano , the son of a mason, and died in Milan....

16/04/1795 17 July 1752 - 12 November 1832
Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, Count of Paris 27/04/1865 24 August 1838 - 8 September 1894
Edward Latham Ormerod 06/06/1872 27 August 1819 - 18 March 1873 Physician & Entomologist
George Ormerod
George Ormerod
George Ormerod was an English antiquary and historian. Amongst his writings was a major account of the history of Cheshire, a county in northwestern England.-Biography:...

25/02/1819 20 October 1785 - 9 October 1873
H. Alexander Ormsby 11/04/1839 fl 1839
Egon Orowan
Egon Orowan
Egon Orowan was a Hungarian/British/U.S. physicist and metallurgist.-Life:Orowan was born in the Óbuda district of Budapest. His father, Berthold, was a mechanical engineer and factory manager, and his mother, Josze Spitzer Ságvári was the daughter of an impoverished land owner...

20/03/1947 2 August 1902 - 3 August 1989
William McFadden Orr
William McFadden Orr
William McFadden Orr, FRS was a British and Irish mathematician.He was born in Comber, County Down and educated at Methodist College Belfast and Queen's College, Belfast before entering St John's College, Cambridge and graduating as Senior Wrangler in 1888...

06/05/1909 2 May 1866 - 14 August 1934
Giovanni Giuseppe, Marquis Orsi 30/11/1716 19 June 1652 - 21 December 1733
Casimiro Gómez Ortega
Casimiro Gómez Ortega
Casimiro Gómez de Ortega was a Spanish physician, and botanist who was the First Professor of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid...

05/06/1777 4 March 1740 - 30 August 1818
Jose Arcadio de Ortega 08/03/1753
James Herbert Orton 18/03/1948 12 March 1884 - 2 February 1953
Kennedy Joseph Previte Orton 12/05/1921 21 January 1872 - 16 March 1930
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan 23/01/1735 27 November 1678 - 20 February 1771
John Osborn 17/04/1777 16 July 1743 - 12 January 1814 Diplomat
Sherard Osborn
Sherard Osborn
Sherard Osborn , was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer.-Early life:Born in Madras, he was the son of an Indian army officer...

02/06/1870 25 April 1822 - 6 May 1875
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds
Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds KG, PC , styled Marquess of Carmarthen until 1789, was a British politician...

01/04/1773 29 January 1751 - 31 January 1799
Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds
Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds
Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds KG, PC, DL, FRS , styled Earl of Danby from birth until 1729 and subsequently Marquess of Carmarthen until 1731, was a British peer, politician and judge.-Background:...

20/12/1739 6 November 1713 - 23 March 1789
Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway
Oscar I of Sweden
Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm . Oscar's father was the first ruler of the current House of Bernadotte...

21/12/1826 4 July 1799 - 8 July 1859 Royal
Abraham Follett Osler 07/06/1855 22 March 1808 - 26 April 1903
William Osler
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet was a physician. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the first Professor of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there. Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a physician. He was...

09/06/1898 12 July 1849 - 29 December 1919
Charles Barry Osmond 15/03/1984
Il Cavaliere Osorio 21/04/1748 fl 1748
Jeremiah Ostriker 17/05/2007
Ronald Harry Ottewill 18/03/1982
Alexander Ouchterlony 07/03/1734
Nicholas Oudart 21/11/1667
Gore Ouseley
Gore Ouseley
Sir Gore Ouseley, 1st Baronet GCH , was a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He was born in 1770 and died at Hall Barn Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1844...

18/12/1817 24 June 1770 - 18 November 1844
Benjamin Fonseca Outram 03/05/1838 1775 - 16 February 1856
David Roger Jones Owen
Henry Owen
Henry Owen
The Reverend Dr. Henry Owen was a Welsh theologian and Biblical scholar. Perhaps his most significant contribution to biblical scholarship is his discussion of the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts...

12/06/1755 1716 - 14 October 1795
John Joseph Thomas Owen 17/03/1988
Paul Robert Owen 18/03/1971 24 January 1920 - 11 November 1990
Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...

18/12/1834 20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
of Liverpool in the County of Merseyside
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
Ernest Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh, KBE, FRS is an eminent geologist and geophysicist. Lord Oxburgh is well known for his work as a public advocate in both academia and the business world in addressing the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and develop alternative energy sources as well as...

 
16/03/1978
George D'Oyly 16/03/1815 31 October 1778 - 8 January 1846 Clergyman

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Names Election Date
Heinrich Gustav Magnus 30/04/1863 2 May 1802 - 4 April 1870
Ho-kwang (David) Mao
Ho-Kwang Mao
Ho-Kwang Mao is an eminent American geologist and Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.-Family:...

 
16/05/2008
Rudolph Arthur Marcus 25/06/1987 Canadian-born U.S. chemist, Nobel Prize (1992)
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie 25/06/1931 11 November 1862 - ? 20 December 1953
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei and whose study of the rare earth elements led to his discovery of ytterbium in 1878 and codiscovery of gadolinium in 1880.- Life and work...

12/05/1881 24 April 1817 - 15 April 1894
Hubert Simon Markl 09/05/2002
Peter Robert Marler
Peter Robert Marler
Robert Peter Marler ForMemRS is a British - American neurobiologist, and ethologist. He is emeritus professor of neurobiology, physiology and ethology of the University of California, Davis.He was a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow.-Life :...

16/05/2008
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer.Martius was born at Erlangen, where he graduated M.D. in 1814, publishing as his thesis a critical catalogue of plants in the botanic garden of the university...

20/12/1838 17 April 1794 - 13 December 1868
Eleuthere Elie Nicolas Mascart
Éleuthère Mascart
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics and electricity.Mascart was born in Quarouble, Nord. He attended the École normale supérieure...

19/05/1892 21 February 1837 - ? 24 August 1908
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...

30/06/1988 5 July 1904 – 3 January 2005
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock , the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics...

29/06/1989 16 June 1902 - 2 September 1992
Elmer Verner McCollum 27/04/1961 3 March 1879 - 15 November 1967
Hugh O'Neill McDevitt 09/06/1994
Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel , often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger, was a German anatomist born in Halle...

06/06/1833 ? 17 October 1781 - 31 October 1833
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...

28/04/1955 7 November 1878 - 27 October 1968, Austrian-born Swedish physicist nuclear fission
Macedonio Melloni
Macedonio Melloni
Macedonio Melloni was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light.-Life:...

30/05/1839 11 April 1798 - 11 August 1854
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleeff 19/05/1892 ? 7 February 1834 - 2 February 1907 Foreign Member
Matthew Stanley Meselson
Matthew Meselson
Matthew Stanley Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant...

28/06/1984 U.S. molecular biologist
Elias Metchnikoff
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian biologist, zoologist and protozoologist, best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system. Mechnikov received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1908, shared with Paul Ehrlich, for his work on phagocytosis...

12/12/1895 ? 15 May 1845 - 15 July 1916, aka Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Ukrainian-born Russian French scientist, Nobel Prize for Medicine (1908)
Otto Fritz Meyerhof 17/06/1937 12 April 1884 - 6 October 1951, German-born U.S. scientist, Nobel Prize (1922)
Elliot Martin Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz is an American biologist.He is George W. Beadle Professor of Biology, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, he served as Chair of the Biology Division from 2000 to 2010....

27/05/2004 U.S. plant biologist
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel Laureate.He was born 18 July 1948 in Ludwigsburg. After compulsory military service, he studied biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, working for his final year at Dieter Oesterhelt’s laboratory on ATPase activity of halobacteria.In 1986, he...

26/05/2005
Albert Abraham Michelson 27/11/1902 19 December 1852 - 9 May 1931, Polish-born U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize (1907)
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards
Henri Milne-Edwards was an eminent French zoologist.Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and militia colonel in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a French. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, where his parents had retired. At that time, Bruges was a part of the...

30/03/1848 23 October 1800 - 29 July 1885
Charles Francois Brisseau Mirbel 27/04/1837 27 March 1776 - 12 September 1854
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer.He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell , and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....

04/06/1908 16 February 1829 - 4 January 1914
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Eilhard Mitscherlich was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his law of isomorphism , which states that compounds crystallizing together probably have similar structures and compositions...

15/05/1828 7 January 1794 - ? 28 August 1863
Gösta Mittag-Leffler 26/11/1896 16 March 1846 - 7 July 1927
Hugo von Mohl
Hugo von Mohl
Hugo von Mohl was a German botanist from Stuttgart.He was a son of the Württemberg statesman Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl , the family being connected on both sides with the higher class of state officials of Württemberg...

26/03/1868 8 April 1805 - 1 April 1872
Henri Moissan
Henri Moissan
Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan was a French chemist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.-Biography:...

11/05/1905 28 September 1852 - 20 February 1907, French chemist, artificial diamonds, Nobel Prize (1906)
Jacques Lucien Monod 25/04/1968 10 February 1910 - 31 May 1976
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in zoology...

26/06/1919 25 September 1866 - 4 December 1945
Domenico Pini Morichini 08/03/1827 23 September 1773 - 19 November 1836
Kurt Albin Mothes 22/04/1971 3 November 1900 - 12 February 1983
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle 14/03/1996
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation as well as his outspoken political beliefs...

23/04/1953 21 December 1890 - 5 April 1967
Johannes Muller
Johannes Peter Müller
Johannes Peter Müller , was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and ichthyologist not only known for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.-Early years and education:...

04/06/1840 14 July 1801 - 28 April 1858
Robert Sanderson Mulliken 20/04/1967 7 June 1896 - 31 October 1986
David Mumford
David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science...

16/05/2008
Walter Heinrich Munk
Walter Munk
Walter Heinrich Munk is an American physical oceanographer. He is professor of geophysics emeritus and holds the Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations Oceanography Chair at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.-Early life:Born in 1917 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary,...

08/04/1976 Austrian-born U.S. geophysicist

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Name Election Date
Carl Wilhelm von Nageli 12/05/1881 27 March 1817 - ? 11 May 1891
Louis Eugene Felix Neel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel ForMemRS was a French physicist born in Lyon. He studied at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He was corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids...

21/04/1966 22 November 1904 - 14 November 2000
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher
Erwin Neher is a German biophysicist.Erwin Neher studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the US...

09/06/1994
Hermann Walther Nernst 02/06/1932 25 June 1864 - ? 19 November 1941
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Nesmeyanov 27/04/1961 9 September 1899 - 17 January 1980
Franz Ernst Neumann
Franz Ernst Neumann
Franz Ernst Neumann was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician.-Biography:Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, located not far from Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to serve as a volunteer in the Hundred Days against Napoleon, and was...

19/06/1862 11 September 1798 - 23 May 1895
Georg Balthasar von Neumayer 01/06/1899 21 June 1826 - 25 May 1909
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of...

13/12/1877 12 March 1835 - 11 July 1909
Hubert Anson Newton
Hubert Anson Newton
Hubert Anson Newton was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors.He was born at Sherburne, New York, and graduated from Yale in 1850. The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists his advisor as Michel Chasles. In 1855, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Yale...

19/05/1892 19 March 1830 - 12 August 1896
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...

26/04/1979 16 April 1894 - 5 August 1981
Yasutomi Nishizuka
Yasutomi Nishizuka
was a Japanese biochemist who discovered protein kinase C and made important contribution to the understanding of molecular mechanism of signal transduction across the cell membrane.- Birth and education :...

28/06/1990 12 July 1932 – 4 November 2004
Niels Erik Norlund
Niels Erik Nörlund
Niels Erik Nørlund was a Danish mathematician.His book Vorlesungen über Differenzenrechnung was the first bookon complex function solutions of difference equations....

19/05/1938 26 October 1885 - 4 July 1981
Ryōji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori
is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the Prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions...

26/05/2005
Shosaku Numa
Shosaku Numa
Shosaku Numa ForMemRS was a Japanese neurobiologist.He graduated from Kyoto University in 1952. He studied at Harvard Medical School with John Lawrence Oncley. He worked at the Max Planck Society with Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen....

26/06/1986 8 February 1929 - 15 February 1992
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German biologist who won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1991 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward B...

28/06/1990

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Name Election Date
Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini 25/04/1974 1907 - 30 December 1993
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American doctor and biochemist, and joint winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Arthur Kornberg.-Early life:...

08/04/1965 24 September 1905 - 1 November 1993
Hans Christian Oersted 12/04/1821 14 August 1777 - 9 March 1851
Georg Simon Ohm 05/05/1842 ? 16 March 1787 - ? 7 July 1854
George Olah 1997 Hungarian-born U.S. 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...

 (1994)
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy
Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy was a Belgian geologist. He also wrote on races.- Early life and education :He was born at Liège, Belgium on February 16, 1783. He was the only son of an ancient and noble family, and his education was carefully directed...

27/11/1873 17 February 1783 - 15 January 1875 Foreign Member
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques, and he explored how materials behaved when cooled to nearly absolute zero. He was the first to liquify helium...

23/03/1916 22 September 1853 - 21 February 1926 Foreign Member
Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager
Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University....

24/04/1975 27 November 1903 - 5 October 1976
Jan Hendrik Oort 23/04/1959 28 April 1900 - 5 November 1992
Julius Robert Oppenheimer 03/05/1962 23 April 1904 - 18 February 1967 Foreign Member, U.S. Physicist
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. ForMemRS was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.-Early life and career:...

29/04/1926 8 August 1857 - 6 November 1935

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