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Formally, The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge. <p> Offers awards for scientific accomplishment including: <ul> <li> <a href="/honors/763/000072547/">Copley Medal</a> <li> <a href="/honors/028/000111692/">Darwin Medal</a> <li> <a href="/honors/624/000100324/">Davy Medal</a> <li> <a href="/honors/275/000099975/">Hughes Medal</a> <li> <a href="/honors/968/000100668/">Royal Medal</a> </ul> <p> <b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/">http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/</a><p> <b>Founding Date:</b><br>1660<p><table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000163787/"><font size=-1>Edward P. Abraham</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cephalosporins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000027937/"><font size=-1>Alexei A. Abrikosov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist, explored superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000116114/"><font size=-1>Peter Ackroyd</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Great Fire of London</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000141366/"><font size=-1>Walter S. Adams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000127556/"><font size=-1>Edgar Adrian</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electricity within nerve cells</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000082528/"><font size=-1>Louis Agassiz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Paleontologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1807</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ichthyologist at Harvard</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000096478/"><font size=-1>George Biddell Airy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British Astronomer Royal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000164535/"><font size=-1>John Anderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1943-45</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000099614/"><font size=-1>Philip W. Anderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solid state physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000397017/"><font size=-1>Ross Anderson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Why Cryptosystems Fail</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000100629/"><font size=-1>Anders Jonas Ångström</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000099456/"><font size=-1>Edward Victor Appleton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ionosphere, shortwave radio</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000107734/"><font size=-1>John Arbuthnot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1667</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1735</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scriblerus Club</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000092599/"><font size=-1>Svante Arrhenius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explored electrolytic conductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000099989/"><font size=-1>Francis W. Aston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the mass spectograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000179555/"><font size=-1>Michael Atiyah</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atiyah-Singer index theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/180/000023111/"><font size=-1>David Attenborough</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Naturalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Life on Earth</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/970/000024898/"><font size=-1>Clement Attlee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Prime Minister, 1945-51</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000179799/"><font size=-1>John Aubrey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1626</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1697</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English antiquary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000031820/"><font size=-1>Charles Babbage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the <i>Difference Engine</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000167576/"><font size=-1>Harold D. Babcock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/250/000100947/"><font size=-1>Sir Benjamin Baker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bridged the Firth of Forth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000104539/"><font size=-1>David Baltimore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer, reverse transcriptase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000100774/"><font size=-1>Sir Joseph Banks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1743</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1820</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accompanied James Cook</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/549/000099252/"><font size=-1>Charles Glover Barkla</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray scattering</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000100282/"><font size=-1>Derek Barton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Sep-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000167626/"><font size=-1>David Bates</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atmospheric and interstellar physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000141025/"><font size=-1>Thomas Bayes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1701</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bayes' theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/990/000100690/"><font size=-1>William Bayliss</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000072392/"><font size=-1>Henri Becquerel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discoverer of radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000164370/"><font size=-1>John Stewart Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bell's theorem of quantum physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/118/000100815/"><font size=-1>Sir Charles Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Nov-1774</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/404/000107083/"><font size=-1>Richard Bentley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1662</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1742</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Reformed classical scholarship</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000100331/"><font size=-1>Paul Berg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in recombinant DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000179725/"><font size=-1>J. D. Bernal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000023504/"><font size=-1>Tim Berners-Lee</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the World Wide Web</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000094777/"><font size=-1>Henry Bessemer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1813</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bessemer process to manufacture steel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/023/000025945/"><font size=-1>Hans Bethe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atomic scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/930/000165435/"><font size=-1>Robert J. Birgeneau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Educator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chancellor, UC Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/068/000132669/"><font size=-1>James W. Black</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Propranolol and cimetidine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000208264/"><font size=-1>Elizabeth H. Blackburn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of telomerase</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000099459/"><font size=-1>Patrick M. S. Blackett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmic radiation, continental drift</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000167706/"><font size=-1>Brebis Bleaney</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron paramagnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/443/000177909/"><font size=-1>William Bligh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Sep-1754</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Captain of the <I>Bounty</I></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000129690/"><font size=-1>Konrad Bloch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000116511/"><font size=-1>David Bohm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000024488/"><font size=-1>Niels Bohr</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of Quantum Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000167775/"><font size=-1>Alec Boksenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Image Photon Counting System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000167783/"><font size=-1>John G. Bolton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First Director of Parkes Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/040/000100737/"><font size=-1>Charles Bonnet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Naturalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1720</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered parthenogenesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/823/000031730/"><font size=-1>George Boole</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1815</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of Boolean Algebra</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000179961/"><font size=-1>Charles Booth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Sociologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied poverty in London</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/271/000125893/"><font size=-1>Jules Bordet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched antibodies and antigens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000166112/"><font size=-1>Gutzon Borglum</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Sculptor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mount Rushmore</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000071294/"><font size=-1>Max Born</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer of quantum mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000101875/"><font size=-1>Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1787</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Theoria philosophiae naturalis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000213255/"><font size=-1>J. C. Bose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plant physiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000208524/"><font size=-1>Satyendra Nath Bose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bose-Einstein condensates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/811/000086553/"><font size=-1>Matthew Boulton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Aug-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Financed the early steam engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/425/000164930/"><font size=-1>Nathaniel Bowditch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1773</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>American Practical Navigator</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/110/000102801/"><font size=-1>Sir John Bowring</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>4th Governor of Hong Kong</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000179813/"><font size=-1>George E. P. Box</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-2013</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Statistician at University of Wisconsin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/878/000031785/"><font size=-1>Robert Boyle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1627</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1691</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer of modern chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000102821/"><font size=-1>James Bradley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1693</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Aberration of Light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/538/000099241/"><font size=-1>Lawrence Bragg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bragg's Law of diffraction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000114786/"><font size=-1>Melvyn Bragg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The South Bank Show</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000099236/"><font size=-1>William Bragg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analyzed crystal structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/770/000135365/"><font size=-1>Sydney Brenner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic regulation of organ development</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000099453/"><font size=-1>Percy Williams Bridgman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>High-pressure physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000099744/"><font size=-1>Bertram N. Brockhouse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Triple-axis crystal spectrometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000072097/"><font size=-1>Louis de Broglie</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the wave nature of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000168036/"><font size=-1>Ernest W. Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Tables of the Motion of the Moon</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000168135/"><font size=-1>R. Hanbury Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical intensity interferometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000100747/"><font size=-1>Robert Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1773</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Brownian motion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000164663/"><font size=-1>Stanley Bruce</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prime Minister of Australia, 1923-29</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000162462/"><font size=-1>Isambard Kingdom Brunel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000026746/"><font size=-1>Charles F. Brush</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Street lights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000100752/"><font size=-1>William Buckland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Reliquiae Diluvianae</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000168164/"><font size=-1>Edward Bullard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Apr-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continental drift, magnetic fields</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000168188/"><font size=-1>E. Margaret Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesis of the elements in stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000168232/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasi-steady state cosmology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000129550/"><font size=-1>Frank Macfarlane Burnet</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acquired immunological tolerance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/183/000102874/"><font size=-1>George Busk</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1807</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British surgeon and zoologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000100124/"><font size=-1>Adolf Butenandt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Research in sex hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/"><font size=-1>Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/"><font size=-1>William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Stellar Motions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000179840/"><font size=-1>Frederick Carder</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Artist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>"Aurene" glass artist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000179892/"><font size=-1>Élie Cartan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spinor groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000179898/"><font size=-1>Henri Cartan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leader of the math Bourbakistes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000083778/"><font size=-1>Henry Cavendish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Oct-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1810</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered hydrogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/728/000099431/"><font size=-1>James Chadwick</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the neutron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000128626/"><font size=-1>Ernst B. Chain</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000099663/"><font size=-1>Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary stages of stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000180005/"><font size=-1>John Charnley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hip replacement surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000100610/"><font size=-1>Michel-Eugène Chevreul</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemistry of fats, dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000168320/"><font size=-1>Charles Chree</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetic phenomena</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000180010/"><font size=-1>A. J. Clark</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Drug responses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/827/000168323/"><font size=-1>John Clarke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superconducting quantum interference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000168366/"><font size=-1>William Cochran</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000099469/"><font size=-1>John Cockcroft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Split the atom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/585/000180045/"><font size=-1>Christopher Cockerell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hovercraft</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000082434/"><font size=-1>John Conway</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Dec-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Game of Life</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000086499/"><font size=-1>James Cook</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Explorer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explorer of the South Pacific</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000128748/"><font size=-1>Carl Cori</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catalytic conversion of glycogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000180068/"><font size=-1>E. J. H. Corner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Durian theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000100311/"><font size=-1>John Cornforth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-2013</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000168531/"><font size=-1>Alan Cottrell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metallurgist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/"><font size=-1>Thomas George Cowling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cowling model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000100665/"><font size=-1>Sir William Crookes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered element Thallium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000100489/"><font size=-1>Paul J. Crutzen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/641/000127260/"><font size=-1>Harvey Cushing</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cushing's Syndrome</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/470/000128086/"><font size=-1>Henry Dale</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000168548/"><font size=-1>Richard Dalitz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Dalitz pairs and Dalitz plots</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000049131/"><font size=-1>John Dalton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1766</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early proponent of Atomic Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000168655/"><font size=-1>George Darwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000083776/"><font size=-1>Humphry Davy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1778</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leading early 19th century chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/281/000024209/"><font size=-1>Richard Dawkins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Zoologist and evolutionary biologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/120/000096829/"><font size=-1>John William Dawson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1820</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Air Breathers of the Coal Period</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000097110/"><font size=-1>Henry de la Beche</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1796</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Created first Geologic Survey</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/241/000027160/"><font size=-1>Michael DeBakey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of cardiovascular surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000099890/"><font size=-1>Peter Debye</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied molecular structure, dipoles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/363/000165865/"><font size=-1>Martin R. Delany</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Activist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1812</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Black nationalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/348/000129958/"><font size=-1>Max Delbrück</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Sep-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular structure of viral genes (phages)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000097125/"><font size=-1>Joseph-Nicolas Delisle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1688</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1768</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founded St. Petersburg observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000097139/"><font size=-1>Jean-André Deluc</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1727</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Lettres... sur les montagnes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000168703/"><font size=-1>Henri Alexandre Deslandres</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spectroheliograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/134/000083882/"><font size=-1>Kenelm Digby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1603</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1665</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founding member of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000072098/"><font size=-1>Paul Dirac</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Principles of Quantum Mechanics</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000165026/"><font size=-1>Jeremiah Dixon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1733</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/573/000167072/"><font size=-1>T. G. Dobzhansky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jan-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Genetics and the Origin of Species</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/801/000180261/"><font size=-1>E. C. Dodds</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Oct-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Dec-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diethylstilbestrol</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000049694/"><font size=-1>John Dollond</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1706</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented achromatic lenses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/744/000128360/"><font size=-1>Gerhard Domagk</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Apr-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sulfa drugs for strep, stapf infections</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000085069/"><font size=-1>John Dryden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1631</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Absalom and Achitophel</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/292/000168785/"><font size=-1>William Duddell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electronic music</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000168815/"><font size=-1>Frank W. Dyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Six pips on the BBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000022901/"><font size=-1>Freeman Dyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theoretical physicist at Institute for Advanced Study</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000129651/"><font size=-1>John Eccles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Membrane potential of nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/"><font size=-1>Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/367/000168860/"><font size=-1>Peter P. Edwards</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metal-non-metal transition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000168861/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Eglinton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular organic geochemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/927/000126549/"><font size=-1>Willem Einthoven</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the electrocardiograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/099/000132700/"><font size=-1>Gertrude B. Elion</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/622/000117271/"><font size=-1>Charles Elton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Animal Ecology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000100474/"><font size=-1>Richard R. Ernst</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>NMR spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/894/000163405/"><font size=-1>Martin Evans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Embryonic stem cells</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/353/000103044/"><font size=-1>John Evelyn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1620</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1706</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English diarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/583/000195995/"><font size=-1>George Everest</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Explorer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Namesake of Mt. Everest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/616/000196028/"><font size=-1>Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>England's electrical grid</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/584/000026506/"><font size=-1>Richard Feynman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Surely he's joking</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000169028/"><font size=-1>George Finch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Oxygen for mountain climbing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000196175/"><font size=-1>Ronald Fisher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analysis of variance and covariance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000044320/"><font size=-1>Martin Fleischmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cold fusion crank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000091423/"><font size=-1>Alexander Fleming</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Mar-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000128651/"><font size=-1>Howard Florey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated penicillin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000102027/"><font size=-1>William Edward Forster</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1880-82</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/609/000169102/"><font size=-1>Richard Fortey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Paleontologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Trilobites and graptolites</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000086348/"><font size=-1>Léon Foucault</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Feb-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000087297/"><font size=-1>Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1768</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1830</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fourier series</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000169106/"><font size=-1>Alfred Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Celestial spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/618/000169111/"><font size=-1>Peter Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmic radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000072110/"><font size=-1>James Franck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-May-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Franck-Hertz experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000026500/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Franklin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Diplomat</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1706</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American founding father</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/917/000196329/"><font size=-1>T. R. Fraser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1841</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Made poison and venom into medicine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000100625/"><font size=-1>Augustin-Jean Fresnel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1788</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optician, invented Fresnel lens</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/119/000099819/"><font size=-1>Otto Robert Frisch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Oct-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Described fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000100350/"><font size=-1>Kenichi Fukui</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Frontier orbitals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/340/000099043/"><font size=-1>Dennis Gabor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of holography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/316/000203704/"><font size=-1>John H. Gaddum</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Drug antagonism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000098950/"><font size=-1>Francis Galton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Anthropologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Word Association Test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000128563/"><font size=-1>Herbert S. Gasser</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nerve conduction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000254077/"><font size=-1>Andre Geim</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000358381/"><font size=-1>Israel Gelfand</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Oct-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Banach algebras, Lie groups</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/"><font size=-1>Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/816/000099519/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular structure of polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/738/000138324/"><font size=-1>Roy J. Glauber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/550/000091277/"><font size=-1>Kurt Gödel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>G鰀el's Incompleteness Theorems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000047691/"><font size=-1>Thomas Gold</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Certain that oil is not a fossil fuel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000132208/"><font size=-1>Joseph L. Goldstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Apr-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/294/000129904/"><font size=-1>Ragnar Granit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Oct-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/994/000169487/"><font size=-1>Richard Gregory</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Psychologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical illusions and "hands-on" science</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000169493/"><font size=-1>Ernest Howard Griffiths</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Thermal Measurement of Energy</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000169526/"><font size=-1>Stephen Groombridge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1755</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><I>A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000101607/"><font size=-1>Jacques-Salomon Hadamard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prime number theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000100700/"><font size=-1>J. B. S. Haldane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Haldane's principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/006/000100703/"><font size=-1>John Scott Haldane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Breathing regulated by CO2</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000085888/"><font size=-1>Stephen Hales</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1677</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1761</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Statical Essays</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000096389/"><font size=-1>Albrecht von Haller</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000030518/"><font size=-1>Edmund Halley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1656</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1742</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Predicted return of Halley's Comet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000101729/"><font size=-1>Christopher Hansteen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied terrestrial magnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000100078/"><font size=-1>Arthur Harden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Enzymes of sugar fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/858/000159381/"><font size=-1>G. H. Hardy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Mathematician's Apology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000101765/"><font size=-1>William Snow Harris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1867</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented a lightning rod for ships</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000165309/"><font size=-1>Ross Granville Harrison</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Zoologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jan-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Embryology and tissue culture techniques</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000129925/"><font size=-1>Haldan K. Hartline</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physiology of the retina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/563/000022497/"><font size=-1>Stephen Hawking</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wheelchair-bound physicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000100116/"><font size=-1>Norman Haworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Carbohydrates and vitamin C</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/627/000204015/"><font size=-1>Oliver Heaviside</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1850</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kennelly-Heaviside layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/488/000071275/"><font size=-1>Werner Heisenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000086793/"><font size=-1>John Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered many moons of Saturn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/594/000100294/"><font size=-1>Gerhard Herzberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000099935/"><font size=-1>George de Hevesy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radioisotope researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000099595/"><font size=-1>Antony Hewish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000169790/"><font size=-1>Raymond Hide</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Earth's rotation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000169795/"><font size=-1>Peter Higgs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Higgs boson and Higgs field</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000087474/"><font size=-1>David Hilbert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hilbert Space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000126290/"><font size=-1>Archibald V. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied muscles and nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000169840/"><font size=-1>George W. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/015/000166514/"><font size=-1>Rowland Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Aug-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the postage stamp</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000100240/"><font size=-1>Sir Cyril Hinshelwood</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Kinetics of Chemical Change</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/351/000169841/"><font size=-1>Peter B. Hirsch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron microscopy in metallurgy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/045/000129655/"><font size=-1>Alan L. Hodgkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrical impulses in nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000100264/"><font size=-1>Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined structure of Vitamin B12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000100353/"><font size=-1>Roald Hoffmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Woodward-Hoffmann reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000177495/"><font size=-1>William Holder</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Musicologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1616</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Music theorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/739/000204127/"><font size=-1>Arthur Holmes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Sep-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the geological timescale</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/356/000087095/"><font size=-1>Robert Hooke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1635</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1703</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Law of Elasticity, microscopist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000102964/"><font size=-1>Joseph Dalton Hooker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Botanist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Genera Plantarum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000127229/"><font size=-1>Frederick Hopkins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered vitamins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/302/000102993/"><font size=-1>Leonard Horner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jan-1785</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scottish geologist, educator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000131107/"><font size=-1>Godfrey N. Hounsfield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Aug-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000113419/"><font size=-1>Fred Hoyle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opposed the Big Bang but named it</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000103080/"><font size=-1>William Huggins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spectrographic astronomy pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000135291/"><font size=-1>Tim Hunt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Regulators of cell cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/759/000091486/"><font size=-1>John Hunter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English pathologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000100706/"><font size=-1>Julian Huxley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary biologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000024498/"><font size=-1>Thomas Henry Huxley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1825</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Debated Wilberforce over evolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000087071/"><font size=-1>Christiaan Huygens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1629</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wave theory of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/019/000204404/"><font size=-1>Alec Issigonis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Designer of the Mini Cooper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/788/000097497/"><font size=-1>Sir James Ivory</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ivory's Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/498/000169988/"><font size=-1>Henry B. Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio telegraphy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000204405/"><font size=-1>J. Hughlings Jackson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of British neurology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/157/000129767/"><font size=-1>François Jacob</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-2013</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000204478/"><font size=-1>James H. Jeans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continuous creation theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/603/000091330/"><font size=-1>Edward Jenner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-1823</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Smallpox Vaccination</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000132141/"><font size=-1>Niels K. Jerne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Immune theory (anti-antibody)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000099590/"><font size=-1>Brian D. Josephson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Josephson Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000049128/"><font size=-1>James Prescott Joule</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English physicist, Joule's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000099224/"><font size=-1>Heike Kamerlingh Onnes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/895/000208271/"><font size=-1>Charles K. Kao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fiber optics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000099635/"><font size=-1>Pyotr Kapitsa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1894</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/657/000170147/"><font size=-1>Jacobus C. Kapteyn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Star streaming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000170217/"><font size=-1>Theodore von Kármán</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>K醨m醤 vortices</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/"><font size=-1>Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/814/000130424/"><font size=-1>Bernard Katz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Apr-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/775/000196187/"><font size=-1>Ephraim Katzir</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-May-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Israel, 1973-78</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000050457/"><font size=-1>Lord Kelvin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/832/000170322/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Kemmer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear weapons and reactors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000100251/"><font size=-1>John C. Kendrew</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Determined structure of myoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000170412/"><font size=-1>Tom Kibble</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Zurek-Kibble theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/642/000100342/"><font size=-1>Aaron Klug</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Structural analysis of viruses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000127282/"><font size=-1>Jeremy R. Knowles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemistry Professor, Harvard University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000023502/"><font size=-1>Donald E. Knuth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Computer Programmer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Art of Computer Programming</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000100536/"><font size=-1>Walter Kohn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Density-functional theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/936/000129549/"><font size=-1>Arthur Kornberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesized DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000129232/"><font size=-1>Hans Krebs</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tricarboxylic acid cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000126200/"><font size=-1>August Krogh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1949</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered how capillaries regulate oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000100500/"><font size=-1>Sir Harold Kroto</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discovered fullerenes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000170521/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Kurti</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Nov-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular gastronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000119852/"><font size=-1>Edwin H. Land</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Polaroid Land Camera</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/"><font size=-1>Lev Landau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000091425/"><font size=-1>Karl Landsteiner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered blood typing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000165175/"><font size=-1>Samuel P. Langley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heavier-than-air flying machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/"><font size=-1>Irving Langmuir</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the high-vacuum tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000099231/"><font size=-1>Max von Laue</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-ray crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000129524/"><font size=-1>Joshua Lederberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-May-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic properties of bacteria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000087094/"><font size=-1>Anton van Leeuwenhoek</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1632</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1723</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Master of the Microscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/024/000027940/"><font size=-1>Anthony J. Leggett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Particle physicist, explored superfluidity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000100374/"><font size=-1>Jean-Marie Lehn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000087405/"><font size=-1>Gottfried Leibniz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1646</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1716</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of calculus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/589/000100289/"><font size=-1>Luis Leloir</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Dec-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conversion of carbohydrates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/212/000031119/"><font size=-1>Tullio Levi-Civita</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explored tensor calculus and PDE's</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/791/000055626/"><font size=-1>Edward B. Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Drosophila</i> researcher, Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000170680/"><font size=-1>Frederick Lindemann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jul-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Churchill's scientific and war advisor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000129238/"><font size=-1>Fritz Lipmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Carbohydrate oxidation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000099147/"><font size=-1>Gabriel Lippmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Aug-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Photographic color plate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/597/000091324/"><font size=-1>Joseph Lister</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1827</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Feb-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer of antiseptic surgery</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/813/000055648/"><font size=-1>John Locke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1632</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1704</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>An Essay Concerning Human Understanding</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000128123/"><font size=-1>Otto Loewi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Dec-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000091483/"><font size=-1>Hendrik Lorentz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000091484/"><font size=-1>Konrad Lorenz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Zoologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of modern ethology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000206469/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lovell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000129768/"><font size=-1>André Lwoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-May-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000086988/"><font size=-1>Charles Lyell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Nov-1797</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Principles of Geology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/233/000170720/"><font size=-1>Donald Lynden-Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000205067/"><font size=-1>Charles Macintosh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1766</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1843</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the raincoat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000126493/"><font size=-1>John Macleod</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Helped discover insulin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/821/000165326/"><font size=-1>George William Manby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented the fire extinguisher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000136252/"><font size=-1>Peter Mansfield</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic resonance imaging</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/048/000095760/"><font size=-1>Gideon Mantell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Nov-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English paleontologist and geologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000100478/"><font size=-1>Rudolph A. Marcus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron-transfer reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000166550/"><font size=-1>George Perkins Marsh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ecologist and camel enthusiast</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000100192/"><font size=-1>Archer J. P. Martin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Partition chromatography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000165033/"><font size=-1>Charles Mason</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Apr-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000170899/"><font size=-1>Harrie Massey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British National Committee for Space Research</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/377/000048233/"><font size=-1>Cotton Mather</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Religion</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1663</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pastor at Boston North Church</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/447/000170934/"><font size=-1>Drummond Matthews</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Feb-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plate tectonics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000095722/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sur la figure de la terre</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000072214/"><font size=-1>James Clerk Maxwell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jun-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Maxwell's equations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000044960/"><font size=-1>John Maynard Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Applied game theory to evolutionary biology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000083759/"><font size=-1>Barbara McClintock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered transposable genes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000115683/"><font size=-1>William McDougall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Psychologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jun-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Nov-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>An Introduction to Social Psychology</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000125765/"><font size=-1>Ilya Mechnikov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched the immune system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000113667/"><font size=-1>Peter Medawar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acquired immunological tolerance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/360/000099063/"><font size=-1>Lise Meitner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered nuclear fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000275263/"><font size=-1>Edward Mellanby</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jan-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rickets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000100648/"><font size=-1>Macedonio Melloni</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1798</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Aug-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diathermancy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000171181/"><font size=-1>Kurt Mendelssohn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cryogenics and pyramids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000206637/"><font size=-1>Charles Messier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1730</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cataloguer of M objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/705/000126327/"><font size=-1>Otto Meyerhof</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Glycogen-lactic acid cycle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000100453/"><font size=-1>Hartmut Michel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jul-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proteins of photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000107286/"><font size=-1>John Michell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1724</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Phaenomena of Earthquakes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000099204/"><font size=-1>Albert A. Michelson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Dec-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-May-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/603/000132207/"><font size=-1>César Milstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000100307/"><font size=-1>Peter Mitchell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/913/000171400/"><font size=-1>Keith Moffatt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000099922/"><font size=-1>Henri Moissan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isolated fluorine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/441/000097150/"><font size=-1>Abraham de Moivre</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1667</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1754</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Doctrine of Chances</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/204/000129814/"><font size=-1>Jacques Monod</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Operon theory of genetic control</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000171412/"><font size=-1>Philip Moon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gamma ray fluorescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000031697/"><font size=-1>Simon Conway Morris</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Paleontologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Nov-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary paleobiologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/734/000172218/"><font size=-1>Alexander Muirhead</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Submarine cable telegraphy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000099911/"><font size=-1>Robert S. Mulliken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular orbital theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/853/000099556/"><font size=-1>Louis Néel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Magnetic properties of solids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000099944/"><font size=-1>Walther Nernst</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Third Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/473/000103164/"><font size=-1>Simon Newcomb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nautical Almanac</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000024792/"><font size=-1>Isaac Newton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1643</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1727</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of the clockwork universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/575/000100275/"><font size=-1>Ronald G. W. Norrish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rapid chemical processes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000254078/"><font size=-1>Konstantin Novoselov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Aug-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000133795/"><font size=-1>Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Embryonic development of fruit flies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/021/000227337/"><font size=-1>Onora O'Neill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Aug-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of the British Academy, 2005-09</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000087388/"><font size=-1>Georg Simon Ohm</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1789</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ohm's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000171573/"><font size=-1>Mark Oliphant</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jul-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deuterium reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000171566/"><font size=-1>Ernst J. Öpik</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Andromeda Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000096232/"><font size=-1>Sir James Paget</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of modern pathology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/558/000096270/"><font size=-1>Denis Papin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1647</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1712</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Steam engine innovator</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000071284/"><font size=-1>Wolfgang Pauli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Dec-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pauli Exclusion Principle</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000097376/"><font size=-1>George Peacock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Apr-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Treatise on Algebra</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000099898/"><font size=-1>Rudolf Peierls</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Frisch-Peierls Memorandum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000165234/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Peirce</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Idempotent and nilpotent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/277/000024205/"><font size=-1>Roger Penrose</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Aug-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of cosmic censorship</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000024206/"><font size=-1>Samuel Pepys</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Feb-1633</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-May-1703</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>London diarist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/720/000099423/"><font size=-1>Jean Perrin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified atomic nature of matter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/548/000100248/"><font size=-1>Max F. Perutz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-May-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000172147/"><font size=-1>John Pethica</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1953</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atomic force microscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/156/000205538/"><font size=-1>William Pitt the Elder</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1708</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1778</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Seven Years War</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000058055/"><font size=-1>Max Planck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Apr-1858</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Originator of quantum theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/850/000172334/"><font size=-1>Julius Plücker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-May-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Analytical geometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000100368/"><font size=-1>John C. Polanyi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared chemiluminescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/995/000395807/"><font size=-1>Martyn Poliakoff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Periodic Table of Videos</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/833/000100533/"><font size=-1>John A. Pople</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum mechanics of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/164/000087900/"><font size=-1>Karl Popper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Critical Rationalist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000100277/"><font size=-1>George Porter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Dec-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rapid chemical and biological processes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/111/000130718/"><font size=-1>Rodney R. Porter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemical structure of antibodies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/806/000169299/"><font size=-1>George H. Poste</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Health Technology Networks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/762/000099465/"><font size=-1>Cecil Powell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the pi-meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/614/000100314/"><font size=-1>Vladimir Prelog</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1998</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000086552/"><font size=-1>Joseph Priestley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1733</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1804</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/938/000172422/"><font size=-1>Joseph Proudman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Tidal currents</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000134731/"><font size=-1>Stanley B. Prusiner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/167/000100864/"><font size=-1>Reginald Punnett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jun-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early geneticist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000099475/"><font size=-1>E. M. Purcell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000208274/"><font size=-1>Venkatraman Ramakrishnan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ribosomes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/724/000099427/"><font size=-1>Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the Raman Effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/578/000240855/"><font size=-1>Srinivasa Ramanujan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Self-educated mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000125487/"><font size=-1>Santiago Ramón y Cajal</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Structure of the nervous system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000099193/"><font size=-1>Sir William Ramsay</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered noble gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000172570/"><font size=-1>C. N. R. Rao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemistry of superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/"><font size=-1>Lord Rayleigh</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1842</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Why the sky is blue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000172613/"><font size=-1>Martin Rees</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000128984/"><font size=-1>Tadeus Reichstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Adrenocortical hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/722/000099425/"><font size=-1>Owen Willans Richardson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1879</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron emissions of metals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000172653/"><font size=-1>David Rittenhouse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1732</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000100132/"><font size=-1>Sir Robert Robinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of alkaloids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/098/000117744/"><font size=-1>Peter Mark Roget</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jan-1779</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Roget's Thesaurus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000094057/"><font size=-1>Ronald Ross</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000090707/"><font size=-1>Joseph Rotblat</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Nov-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000100495/"><font size=-1>F. Sherwood Rowland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/092/000099792/"><font size=-1>Henry Augustus Rowland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied optics, magnetism, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000104350/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Count Rumford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Established the Rumford Medal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000044822/"><font size=-1>Bertrand Russell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mathematician, atheist, and social critic</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/646/000167145/"><font size=-1>Henry Norris Russell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Giant stars and dwarfs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000068014/"><font size=-1>Ernest Rutherford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of nuclear physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/427/000100127/"><font size=-1>Leopold Ruzicka</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Terpenes and hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000099592/"><font size=-1>Martin Ryle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000099965/"><font size=-1>Paul Sabatier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1854</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Aug-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heterogeneous catalysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000099651/"><font size=-1>Abdus Salam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000031777/"><font size=-1>Paul Samuelson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Dec-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of revealed preference</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000172856/"><font size=-1>Allan R. Sandage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/213/000099913/"><font size=-1>Frederick Sanger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-2013</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/"><font size=-1>Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000072092/"><font size=-1>Erwin Schrödinger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Schr鰀inger's wave equation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000168229/"><font size=-1>Martin Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Structure and Evolution of the Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000173058/"><font size=-1>Michael Seaton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opacity Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000100242/"><font size=-1>Nikolay Semyonov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000023865/"><font size=-1>Claude Shannon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in information theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000127479/"><font size=-1>Charles Sherrington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Neurons and synapses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000173158/"><font size=-1>David Shoenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Mar-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Physicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000099262/"><font size=-1>Manne Siegbahn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1978</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>X-Ray spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000092588/"><font size=-1>Sir Hans Sloane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Curator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1660</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Milk chocolate and the British Museum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/309/000030219/"><font size=-1>Adam Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1723</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Wealth of Nations</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000163432/"><font size=-1>Oliver Smithies</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Knock-out mice</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000056960/"><font size=-1>James Smithson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1765</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/286/000099986/"><font size=-1>Frederick Soddy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Isotopes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/112/000099812/"><font size=-1>Arnold Sommerfeld</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1951</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fine-structure constant</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000170070/"><font size=-1>Harold Spencer Jones</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>10th Royal Astronomer of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000131529/"><font size=-1>Roger W. Sperry</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Apr-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>"Split brain" hemispheric neurophysiology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000097811/"><font size=-1>Robert Stephenson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Oct-1803</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Builder of railroad bridges</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/748/000253986/"><font size=-1>Patrick Steptoe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Doctor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>In vitro fertilization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000173582/"><font size=-1>Ian Stewart</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Catastrophe theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000097837/"><font size=-1>George Gabriel Stokes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamicist, optic waves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000097931/"><font size=-1>William Stukeley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Nov-1687</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Stonehenge, a Temple Restored</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/266/000097972/"><font size=-1>Eduard Suess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1831</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Das Antlitz der Erde</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000136018/"><font size=-1>John E. Sulston</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Genetic regulation of organ development</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/252/000099952/"><font size=-1>The Svedberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1884</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the ultracentrifuge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000098042/"><font size=-1>Sir Joseph Wilson Swan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1828</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Light bulb, photographic printing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000100196/"><font size=-1>Richard L. M. Synge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Partition chromatography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000172934/"><font size=-1>Terence Tao</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jul-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prolific math prodigy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000100317/"><font size=-1>Henry Taube</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Nov-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Nov-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mechanisms of electron transfer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/460/000098166/"><font size=-1>Brook Taylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Aug-1685</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Dec-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Calculus of Finite Differences</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000099741/"><font size=-1>Richard E. Taylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Verified existence of quarks</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000098188/"><font size=-1>Thomas Telford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1757</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Sep-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/669/000129282/"><font size=-1>Hugo Theorell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Oxidation enzymes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/782/000159305/"><font size=-1>D'Arcy Thompson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Biologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>On Growth and Form</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000099185/"><font size=-1>George Paget Thomson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Diffraction of electrons</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000099182/"><font size=-1>J. J. Thomson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Dec-1856</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the electron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/975/000104663/"><font size=-1>Shirley M. Tilghman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Educator</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Princeton University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/415/000173893/"><font size=-1>Stephen Timoshenko</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Engineer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000113461/"><font size=-1>Nikolaas Tinbergen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Zoologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Grand Master of Ethology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/436/000100136/"><font size=-1>Arne Tiselius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electrophoresis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/459/000100159/"><font size=-1>Alexander R. Todd</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jan-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nucleic acid, nucleotides</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/849/000099552/"><font size=-1>Charles H. Townes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jul-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jan-2015</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000173894/"><font size=-1>John Townsend</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electron's charge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000117790/"><font size=-1>G. M. Trevelyan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jul-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>England under Queen Anne</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000174148/"><font size=-1>Edward Troughton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1753</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jun-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early scientific instruments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000177161/"><font size=-1>Roger Y. Tsien</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Feb-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Green Fluorescent Protein</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/708/000174186/"><font size=-1>Herbert Hall Turner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar positions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000099014/"><font size=-1>Edward Tylor</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Anthropologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of cultural anthropology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/873/000092597/"><font size=-1>Harold C. Urey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1981</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered Deuterium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000099619/"><font size=-1>John H. van Vleck</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1980</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantum theory of paramagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000132136/"><font size=-1>John R. Vane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-2004</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prostaglandins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000275320/"><font size=-1>John Venn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Aug-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Venn diagrams</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000365533/"><font size=-1>Frederick Vine</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plate tectonics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/807/000100507/"><font size=-1>John E. Walker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>ATP process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000087338/"><font size=-1>John Wallis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1616</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1703</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Arithmetica Infinitorum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000127301/"><font size=-1>Otto Warburg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Effect of oxygen on cancer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/058/000206437/"><font size=-1>Robert Watson-Watt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Dec-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/531/000050381/"><font size=-1>James Watt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Inventor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invented modern steam engine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/097/000099797/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Weber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1804</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Student of electromagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000099648/"><font size=-1>Steven Weinberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Electroweak Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/925/000086667/"><font size=-1>Arthur Wellesley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Military</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-May-1769</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1852</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>1st Duke of Wellington</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/932/000100632/"><font size=-1>Charles Wheatstone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1802</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Inventor of the telegraph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/273/000032177/"><font size=-1>Alfred North Whitehead</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1861</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Dec-1947</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Metaphysical mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000100070/"><font size=-1>Heinrich Wieland</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jun-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied acids of bile</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000099538/"><font size=-1>Eugene Wigner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jan-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Law of conservation of parity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/483/000062297/"><font size=-1>Andrew Wiles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Proved Fermat's Last Theorem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000103899/"><font size=-1>John Wilkes</a></td> <td><font 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