List of British scientists
This is a list of British scientists.
The Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle, who is considered the founder of Modern Chemistry
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- Alcuin (735-804), scholar and theologian
- Adelard (1080-1150), mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, physicist philosopher
- Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist
- Arthur Adams (1820–1878), physician and naturalist
- William Grylls Adams (1836-1915), physicist and astronomer
- Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), electrophysiologist
- Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), chemist
- John Arderne (1307-1392), was an English physician and surgeon who invented his own anesthetic that combined hemlock, henbane, and opium. In his writings, he also described how to properly excise and remove the abscess caused by anal fistula.
- William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist
- John Albery (1936–2013), physical chemist
- Francis William Aston (1877–1945), physicist
- David Attenborough (born 1926), naturalist
- Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), geneticist
- David Axon (1951–2012), astrophysicist
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- Bede (672-735), He wrote a study on the Nature of Objects, several books on the mathematical/astronomical subject of computation, the most influential of which was titled On Computation. Time _ He made original discoveries about the nature of tides, and his work on calculations became necessary elements of the education of the clergy, and thus greatly influenced the knowledge of the natural world of the early Middle Ages.
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher, "father of the scientific method"
- Roger Bacon (1219–1292 approximately), philosopher, advocate of the scientific method
- Isaac Barrow (1640-1676), mathematician
- James Bradley (1692-1762), astronomer
- John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), botanist
- Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), chemist
- Derek Barton (1918–1998), chemist
- Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), naturalist
- Patrick Bateson (1938–2017), zoologist
- Michael Bearpark (born 20th century), chemist
- John Beddington (born 1945)
- Thomas Bell (1792–1880), zoologist
- David Bellamy (1933–2019),
- Ralph Benjamin (1922–2019), inventor
- Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836)
- George Bentham (1800–1884), botanist
- Robert Bentley (1821–1893), botanist
- Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist
- Kevin Beurle (1956–2009)
- Thomas Bewick (1753–1828)
- Sheila Bingham (1947–2009)
- Ann Bishop (1899–1990)
- Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist
- John Blackwall (1790–1881)
- Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), naturalist
- William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), geologist
- David Mervyn Blow (1931–2004), physician
- Edward Blyth (1810–1873), ornithologist
- Edward August Bond (1815–1898)
- Edmund John Bowen (1898–1980), physical chemist
- Humphry John Moule Bowen (1929–2001), chemist
- Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), botanist
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691), "father of chemistry"
- Charles Vernon Boys (1855–1944), physicist
- Dennis Bray (born 20th century), biologist
- Malcolm Brenner (born 1951)
- Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), molecular biologist
- Alan Brisdon (born 20th century), fluorine chemist
- Donald Broadbent (1926–1993)
- Robert Brown (1773–1858), botanist
- David Bruce (1855–1931)
- Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829)
- John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), physiologist
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astrophysicist
- Alan Butement (1904–1990), physicist
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- Roger Coset (1682-1716), mathematician
- William Crabtree (1610-1644), mathematician and astronomer
- Robert W. Cahn (1924–2007), metallurgist
- Sandy Cairncross (born 1948), epidemiologist
- George Caley (1770–1829), explorer and botanist
- Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), conchologist
- Mark Catesby (1683–1749), naturalist
- Richard Caton (1842–1926), physiologist
- Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), physicist and chemist
- Colin Cherry (1914–1979), cognitive scientist
- Harriette Chick (1875–1977), microbiologist and protein scientist
- Samuel Hunter Christie (1784–1865), physicist and mathematician
- G. Marius Clore FRS (born 1955), molecular biophysicist
- Marcela Contreras (born 1942), blood expert and immunologist
- Verona Conway (1910–1986), plant zecologist
- Charles Coulson (1910–1974), theoretical chemist
- Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), chemist
- Brian Cox (born 1968), physicist
- Eva Crane (1912–2007), entomologist
- Francis Crick (1916–2004), molecular biologist
- Andrew Crosse (1784–1855), pioneer in the study of electricity
- Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922), organic chemist
- Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), botanist
- Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), botanist
- William Curtis (1746–1799), botanist
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- John Dalton (1766–1844), chemist: "father of modern atomic theory"
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882), originator of the theory of natural selection
- Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), naturalist
- George Darwin (1845-1912), astronomer, the first person to develop an evolutionary theory for the Sun-Earth-Moon system based on mathematical analysis
- Donald Davies (1924–2000), computer scientist
- Humphry Davy (1778–1829), chemist and inventor
- Richard Dawkins (born 1941), ethologist and evolutionary biologist
- James Dewar (1842–1923), chemist and physicist
- Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), botanist and conchologist
- Paul Dirac (1902–1984), theoretical physicist
- Deborah Doniach (1912–2004), clinical immunologist
- James Donn (1758–1813), botanist
- Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), entomologist
- David Douglas (1799–1834), botanist
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- George Edwards (1693–1773), ornithologist
- Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), inorganic chemist
- Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880), zoologist
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- John Flamsteed (1646-1719), astronomer
- Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), palaeontologist
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867), pioneer of electricity
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), philosopher, physicist, political scientist
- John Farrah (1849–1907), English botanist and meteorologist
- Barry Fell (1917–1994), zoologist
- James Fisher (1922–1970), ornithologist
- Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), geneticist and statistician
- Jim Flegg (born 20th century), ornithologist
- Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), physician and microbiologist
- Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (1878–1950), entomologist
- E. B. Ford (1901–1988), ecological geneticist
- Jeff Forshaw (born 1968), particle physicist
- Robert Fortune (1813–1880), botanist
- Carey Foster (1835–1919), chemist and physicist
- Henry Foster (1797–1831), naval surveyor
- Ruth Fowler Edwards (1930–2013), geneticist
- Edward Frankland (1825–1899), chemist
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), X-ray crystallographer
- Elizabeth Fulhame (18th–19th centuries), chemist, pioneer in study of catalysis
- Vera Furness (1921–2002) industrial chemist
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- Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, theologian,
- Stephan Gray (1666-1736), physicist, first made the distinction between conduction and insulation, and discovered the action-at-a-distance phenomenon of electrostatic induction.
- William Gascoigne (1610-1644), mathematician and astronomer
- William Gilbert (1544-1603), philosopher and physician
- Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), biologist and geographer
- John Gerard (1545–1611/12), botanist
- Michael Gerzon (1945–1996), acoustic physicist
- Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018), botanist
- Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), naturalist and ornithologist
- Jane Goodall (born 1934), primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
- June Goodfield (born 1927), historian of science
- Dougal Goodman (born 20th century), low-temperature physicist
- Guy Goodwin (born 1947), neuroscientist
- George Gordon (1806–1879), botanist
- Raymond Gosling (1926–2015), physicist
- Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), naturalist
- John Gould (1804–1881), ornithologist
- Monica Grady (born 1958), space scientist
- Thomas Graham (1805–1869) chemist
- George Robert Gray (1808–1872), zoologist
- John Edward Gray (1800–1875), zoologist
- Malcolm Green (1936–2020), inorganic chemist
- Edward Grey (1862–1933), ornithologist
- Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), bacteriologist
- Albert Günther (1830–1914), zoologist
- Frederick Guthrie (1833–1886), physicist and chemist
- Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967), botanist and mycologist
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- Robert Hues (1553-1632), geographer
- Jeremiah Horrocks (1618-1641), astronomer
- William Herschel (1738-1822), astronomer
- J. B. S. Haldane (John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1892–1964), evolutionary biologist
- John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), physiologist
- Wendy Hall (born 1952), computer scientist
- Edmond Halley (1656–1742), astronomer
- Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980), chemist
- William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000), evolutionary biologist
- Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899), conchologist and malacologist
- William Vernon Harcourt (1789–1871), clergyman and student of glass
- Arthur Harden (1865–1940), biochemist
- Anita Harding (1952–1995), neurologist
- Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), naturalist
- Alister Clavering Hardy (1896–1985), marine biologist
- Richard Harrison (born 20th century), physicist
- William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), phycologist
- Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), mineralogist and analytical chemist
- Walter Norman Haworth (1883–1950), chemist
- Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), cosmologist
- Arthur Hay (1824–1878), ornithologist
- Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), mathematician and physicist
- James Hector (1834–1907), geologist and naturalist
- John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), mineralogist and botanist
- Vernon Heywood (born 1927), botanist
- Julia Higgins (born 1942), polymer scientist
- Peter Higgs (born 1929), particle physicist
- Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977), physiologist,
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), physical chemist
- Peter Hirsch (born 1925), minerals scientist
- George Hockham (1938–2013), electromagnetic engineer
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), chemist
- Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), naturalist
- Anthony Hollander (born 1964), integrative biologist
- Robert Hooke (1635–1703), natural philosopher
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), botanist
- William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), biochemist
- Victor Horsley (1857–1916), medical scientist
- Albert Howard (1873–1947), botanist
- Henry Eliot Howard (1873–1940), ornithologist
- Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), ornithologist
- Rob Hume (born 20th century), ornithologist
- Rosalinde Hurley (1929–2004), microbiologist
- Harold Edwin Hurst (1880–1978), hydrologist
- Janet Husband (born 20th century), radiologist
- Frederick Hutton (1835–1905), biologist and geologist
- Hugh Huxley (1924–2013), muscle biochemist
- Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975), zoologist and evolutionary theorist
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), zoologist
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- Ray Iles (born 20th century), oncologist
- Jane Ingham (1897–1982), botanist
- Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), botanist
- Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), mechanistic organic chemist
- Keith Ingold (born 1929), chemist
- Tom Iredale (1880–1972), conchologist and ornithologist
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- William Jardine (1800–1874), naturalist
- James Prescott Joule (1818-1889), physicist and chemist
- Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), geneticist
- Edward Jenner (1749–1823), pioneer immunologist
- John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885), conchologist and malacologist
- Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872), zoologist and botanist
- Harren Jhoti (born 1962), structural biologist
- Joanne Johnson (born 1977): geologist, Antarctic scientist
- Mark H. Johnson (born 1960), cognitive neuroscientist
- Pauline Johnson (born 20th century), immunologist and microbiologist
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- Ebenezer Kinnersley (1711-1778), physicist
- Henrik Kacser (1918–1995), geneticist and biochemist
- Charles K. Kao (1933–2018), electrical engineer and physicist
- Alan R. Katritzky (1928–2014), chemist
- Janet Kear (1933–2004), ornithologist
- Frank Kearton (1911–1992), chemist
- Douglas Kell (born 1953), biochemist
- David Kelly (1944–2003), weapons expert
- John Kendrew (1917–1997) biochemist and crystallographer
- Gerald A. Kerkut (1927–2004), zoologist and physiologist
- Aaron Klug (1926–2018), biophysicist and chemist
- Alexander King (1909–2007), chemist
- Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957), zoologist
- William Kirby (1759–1850), entomologist
- Gilbert Knowles (1667–1734), botanist
- Jeremy Knowles (1935–2008), enzyme chemist
- Rudolf Kompfner (1909–1977), engineer and physicist
- Harry Kroto (1939–2016), chemist.
- John Howard Kyan (1774–1850), inventor
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- John Lathem (1740-1837), physician
- David Lack (1910–1973), ornithologist
- Patrick Laidlaw (1881–1940), virologist
- Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), botanist
- Hugh Lamprey (1928–1996), ecologist
- John Latham(1740–1837), ornithologist
- Colin Leakey (1933–2018), tropical botanist
- Louis Leakey (1903–1972), archaeologist and naturalist
- Louise Leakey (born 1972), paleontologist
- Mary Leakey (1913–1996), paleoanthropologist
- Meave Leakey (born 1942), paleontologist
- Richard Leakey (1944–2022), paleontologist and archaeologist
- John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), physicist and magnetism surveyor
- John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954), theoretical physicist
- John Lightfoot (1735–1788), conchologist and botanist
- John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist
- Joseph Lister (1827–1912), pioneer of antiseptic surgery
- Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist
- John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), botanist
- Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), mathematician and computing pioneer
- James Lovelock (1919–2022), father of the Gaia hypothesis
- Percy Lowe (1870–1948), ornithologist
- Martin Lowry (1874–1936), physical chemist
- Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), naturalist
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- John Macadam (1827–1865), botanist
- George G. Macfarlane (1916–2007), researcher on radar
- William MacGillivray (1796–1852), naturalist
- Emery Molyneux (death 1598), sphere maker geometric and mathematician
- Walcher of Malvern (death 1135), mathematician
- Harry Marsh (born 1926), carbon chemist
- Charles James Martin (1866–1955), epidemiologist
- John Martyn (1699–1768), botanist
- Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), botanist, entomologist and conchologist
- Francis Masson (1741–1805), botanist
- Neil D. Mathur (born 20th century), materials physicist
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), physicist
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (1877–1925), entomologist
- John McCafferty (born 20th century), immunologist
- Robert May (1936–2020), ecologist and mathematician
- Edmund Meade-Waldo (1855–1934), ornithologist
- Archibald Menzies (1754–1852), naturalist
- Peter H Millard (1937–2018), geriatrician
- Philip Miller (1691–1771), botanist
- John F. B. Mitchell (born 1948), climatologist
- Peter Mitchell (1920–1992), biochemist
- George Jackson Mivart (1827–1900), biologist
- Henry Moseley (1887–1915), physicist, originator of the concept atomic number
- William Musgrave (1655–1721), physician and antiquary
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- John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- John Needham (1713–1781), naturalist
- Thomas Newcomen (1664-1729), inventor
- Joseph Needham (1900–1995), biochemist and historian
- Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924), botanist
- John Newlands (1837–1898), chemist who studied the periodicity of elements
- Alfred Newton (1829–1907), zoologist
- Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27), mathematician, physicist and astronomer
- Thomas Norton (1416-1513), alchemist
- Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899), zoologist
- William Nicholson (1753–1815), chemist
- Denis Noble (born 1936), physiologist
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), chemist
- Paul Nurse (born 1949), geneticist
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- William Ogilby (1808–1873), naturalist
- Bridget Ogilvie (born 1938), parasitologist
- William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
- Tony Orchard (1941–2005) inorganic chemist.
- Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901), entomologist
- Edward Latham Ormerod (1819–1873), physician and entomologist
- William Charles Osman Hill (1901–1975), anatomist and primatologist
- Ian Osterloh (born 20th century), clinical researcher
- Richard Owen (1804–1892), biologist, palaeontologist and taxonomist
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- James Price (1752—1783), chemist
- Edward Palmer (1829–1911), botanist
- Woodbine Parish (1796–1882), geology and palaeontologist
- William Paterson (1755–1810), botanist and explorer
- Arthur Lindo Patterson (1902–1966), X-ray crystallographer
- Robert Patterson (1802–1872), naturalist
- David Peakall (1931–2001), toxicologist
- Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), naturalist and antiquary
- Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797–1873), geographer
- William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), organic chemist
- William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), organic chemist
- Max Perutz (1914–2002), x-ray crystallographer and molecular biologist
- George Perry, 19th century naturalist
- Eva Philbin (1914–2005), chemist
- Chris Phillips (born ca. 1958), physicist
- Constantine John Phipps (1744–1792), explorer
- David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), biochemist
- Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1860–1905), entomologist
- Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), entomologist
- Henry Piddington (1797–1858), meteorologist
- Andrew Pitman (born 1964), atmospheric scientist
- Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947), taxonomist
- Vicky Pope (born 20th century), climatologist
- John Pople (1925–2004), theoretical chemist
- Cicely Popplewell (1920–1995), computer scientist
- George Porter (1920–2002), chemist
- Thomas Littleton Powys (1833–1896), ornithologist
- Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883–1944), botanist
- Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), chemist and philosopher
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- George Ripley (1415-1490), alchemist
- Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), statesman and botanist
- Lawrence Rooke (1622-1662), mathematician and astronomer
- Venki Ramakrishnan (born 1952), structural biologist
- William Ramsay (1852–1916), chemist who discovered the noble gases
- Matthew Raper (1705–1778), astronomer and mathematician
- Chris Rapley (born 1947), climatologist
- John Ray (also written John Wray, 1627–1705), naturalist
- Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), conchologist
- Michael Reiss (born 1960), bioethicist
- Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912), physicist
- Tracey Reynolds, sociologist
- John Richardson (1787–1865) naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer
- Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956) botanist, geologist and naturalist
- Robert Robinson (1886–1975) organic chemist
- Sheila Rodwell (Sheila Bingham, 1947–2009), nutritional epidemiologist
- Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), entomologist
- Walter Rothschild (1868–1937), zoologist
- William Roxburgh (1759–1815), botanist
- Gordon Rugg (born 1955), computer scientist
- Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), physician, chemist and botanist
- Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), physicist, known as the father of nuclear physics
- Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), philosopher and mathematician
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- Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195-1256), mathematician and astronomer
- Joseph Sabine (1770–1837), botanist and horticulturist
- Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978), botanist
- Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829), botanist
- Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), biochemist
- Philip Sclater (1829–1913), zoologist
- Henry Seebohm (1832–1895), ornithologist
- Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), botanist and ornithologist
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), zoologist
- Nigel Shadbolt (born 1956), computer scientist
- George Shaw (1751–1813), botanist and zoologist
- George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910), ornithologist
- John Sherwood (ca. 1933 to 2020), physical organic chemist
- Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1922), physiologist and neuroscientist
- Sydney Selwyn (1934–1996), medical microbiologist
- Andrew Smith (1797–1872), zoologist
- Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916), zoologist and conchologist
- Frederick Smith (1805–1879), entomologist
- George D. W. Smith (born 1943), materials scientist
- James Edward Smith (1759–1828), botanist
- John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), biologist
- Douglas Spalding (1841–1877), behaviourist
- Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), anthropologist
- Charles Stanhope (1753–1816), mathematician and physicist
- Edward Stanley (1775–1851), naturalist
- James Francis Stephens (1792–1853), zoologist
- Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), botanist
- James Stirling (1953–2018), physicist
- Peter A. Stott (born 20th century), climatologist
- John Struthers (1823–1899), anatomist
- Audrey Stuckes (1923–2006), material scientist
- Samuel Stutchbury (1798–1859), naturalist and geologist
- William John Swainson (1789–1855), ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist and entomologist
- Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), naturalist
- Peter Sykes (1923–2003), chemist
- William Henry Sykes (1790–1872), ornithologist
- Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), chemist
- Thomas Savery (17-18th century), Engineer who invented the first commercial steam pump
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- Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929) zoologist
- Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753–1814), physicist and inventor
- Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), marine biologist
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1942), mathematician and biologist
- William Thompson (1805–1852), ornithologist and naturalist
- J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), physicist
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1824–1907), physicist
- Samuel Tickell (1811–1875), ornithologist
- Stephen Toulmin (1922–2009), philosopher and historian of science
- John Sealy Townsend (1868–1957), mathematical physicist
- Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), doctor and naturalist
- Eric Trist (1909–1993), psychologist
- Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), ornithologist
- Bernard Tucker (1901–1950), ornithologist
- Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–1790), ornithologist
- Alan Turing (1912–1954), computer scientist
- Arthur James Turner (1889–1971), textile technologist
- William Turton (1762–1835), naturalist
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- James Underwood (born 1942), pathologist
- Olga Uvarov (1910–2001), veterinary surgeon
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- Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), zoologist
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- Richard Of Wallingford (1292-1336), mathematician, astronomer, astrologer
- William of Ockham (1287-1347), physicist and philosopher
- John Westwyk (born 14th century), astronomer
- Nicholas Wald (born 20th century), Professor of Preventive Medicine
- Francis Willoughby (1635-1672), versatile scientist
- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), naturalist and biologist
- Kevin Warwick (born 1954), computer scientist and neurobiologist
- Charles Waterton (1782–1865), naturalist
- Andrew Watson (born 1952), marine biologist
- Alexander Watt (1892–1985), botanist
- Edwin C. Webb (1921–2006), biochemist
- Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), botanist
- Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), botanist
- Richard Burkewood Welbourn (1919–2005), endocrinologist
- Michael Wells (born 20th century), pathologist
- Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), chemist
- Michael Whelan (born 1931), materials scientist
- William Joseph Whelan (1924–2021) biochemist
- Gilbert White (1720–1795), naturalist
- John White (c. 1756–1832), botanist
- Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), nutritionist
- Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), biophysicist
- James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986), numerical analyst
- Mark Williamson (born 20th century), biologist
- Francis Willughby (1635–1672), ornithologist and ichthyologist
- Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), ornithologist
- Alan Wilson (born 1939), mathematician
- E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), naturalist
- Greg Winter (born 1951), molecular biologist
- Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), bioengineer
- John Wray (1627–1705), naturalist
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- William Yarrell (1784–1856), naturalist
- John Zachary Young (1907–1997), neurophysiologist
- Thomas Young (1773–1829), polymath
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