126 people found
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Brian May
English musician and astrophysicist
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
Christopher Wren
English architect
John Dee
English mathematican, astrologer and antiquary
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
George Howard Darwin
English astronomer, mathematician
John Harrison
English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer
William Gascoigne (scientist)
English astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer
Will Hay
English comedian, actor, film director
Thomas Young
English polymath
William Lax
Astronomer
John Herschel
English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist
William Henry Smyth
English naval officer and hydrographer
John Browning
English inventor and manufacturer of scientific instruments
Vincent Wing
English astronomer
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
English aristocrat
William Gilbert (astronomer)
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher
Thomas Digges
English mathematician and astronomer (c.1546–1595)
Jeremiah Horrocks
English astronomer
Ernest William Brown
English-American astronomer and mathematician
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
John Phillips
English geologist
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer
John Michell
English philosopher
Ralph H. Fowler
English physicist
Chris Lintott
English astrophyicist, TV presenter, and GalaxyZoo founder.
William Yolland
Military surveyor, astronomer, and engineer
Richard Towneley
English mathematician and astronomer
Richard A. Proctor
English astronomer
Edmund Neville Nevill
English astronomer
Charles Mason
English astronomer and surveyor
William Pearson
English schoolmaster and astronomer
Christopher Heydon
English politician
William Scott
English cleric and colonial astronomer for New South Wales
James Bradley
English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
Bernard Lovell
English physicist and radio astronomer
John Russell Hind
English astronomer