Frederick Abel	Developed explosives.
Edward Abraham
George Airy	Director of Greenwich Observatory and Astronomer Royal of England 1835-81.
Richard Arkwright
Edward Appleton
Charles Babbage	Inventor of the Analytical Engine seen as the forerunner to the modern computer.
John Logie Baird	Inventor of the Television.
Alexander Graham Bell	Inventor of the Telephone.
Jocelyn Bell	Discovered Pulsars in 1967.
Tim Berners Lee	Inventor of the Internet.
Robert Boyle
Henry Cavendish	English chemist and physicist. Known for his discoveries with Hydrogen gas and the composition of water, he was the first person to determine Newton's Gravitational Constant and accurately measured Earth's mass and density.
William Caxton	Invented the Printing Press.
Francis Crick	Famous for his work on human DNA.
John Dalton
Charles Darwin	Theory on Evolution and Natural Selection.
Humphry Davy	Discovered Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Barium and Boron. Worked on the lemental nature of Chlorine and Iodine. Invented Davy Lamp allowing miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases. Also known for work on Electrolysis.
Paul Dirac	Fundamental contribution to work on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Electrodynamics. Predicted existence of Anti-Matter and formed the Dirac Equation describing the behaviour of Fermions.
Arthur Eddington	English scientist who first described the internal structure of a star.
Michael Faraday	Prolific scientist famous for Faraday Effect, Wheel, Cage, Constant, Cup, Laws of Electrolysis, Paradox, Rotator, Efficiency Effect, Wave and Lines of Force.
Alexander Fleming	Discovered Pennicillin in 1928.
William Henry Fox Talbot
Francis Galton	Invented the use of fingerprinting. Half cousin of Charles Darwin. Pioneered use of weather maps, first one printed in the times newspaper 1st April 1875. Also known for work on Standard Deviation and Regression Toward the Mean. Galton Board or Bean Machine to demonstrate Central Limit Theorem.
William Gilbert	Early studies on Electricity and Magnetism. Proposed that Earth had giant magentic poles.
James Gregory	Invented first reflecting telescope in 1663.
Edmund Halley	Famously predicted the return of Halley's Comet on its 76 year cycle.
John Harrison	Inventor of the Marine Chronometer which made long distance sea-travel much safer.
William Harvey	Discovered Circulation of Blood.
Stephen Hawking	Work centres around the physics of Black Holes. A Brief History of Time is one of the world's most popular books.
Benjamin Hawkins	Made the first Dinosaur models in 1854 and sold them through Ward's catalogue of scientific supplies.
William Herschel	Built improved reflecting telescope and observed Uranus through it in 1781. Catalogued over 2500 objects in deep space including moons of Uranus and Saturn.
William and Margaret Huggins	First person to use spectroscopy to determine the compositions of astronomical objects.
Arthur Holmes	First proposed idea of Geologic Time scale. Soon after discovery of radioactivity Holmes used radio-isotype dating to determine that Earth was actually a lot older than people originally thought.
Thomas Huxley	Friend of Darwin. First to notice similarity between birds and dinosaurs.
Lord Kelvin (William Thomson )	Designed Kelvin Temperature Scale where 0 K equals absolute zero. Water freezes at 273.15 K, water boils at 373.15 K
William Lassell	Discovered Triton (largest moon of Neptune) 1846 and Ariel (brightest moon of Uranus) in 1851.
Jospeh Lister	Antiseptic Surgery.
James Clerk Maxwell
Patrick Moore	Famous writer and TV presenter on Astronomy. Performed some work on Lunar Mapping.
Thomas Newcomen
Isaac Newton	Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, natural philosopher, and theologian. Worked on Newton Mechanics, Universal Gravitation, Infitesimal Calculus, Optics, Binomial Series and Mathematics.
Richard Owen	Coined the term Dinosaur (terrible lizard). Named a large number of dinosaurs.
Jospeph Priestley	Discovered Oxygen.
Harry Seeley	Paleontologist, divided dinosaurs by hip structures into their distinctive orders.
George Stephenson
Joseph John Thompson	Discovered the electron in 1897.
Alan Turing	Mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. Famously worked at Bletchley Park decyphering German codes on the Enigma machine. Worked on automatic computing engine.
Barnes Wallis
James Watt	Made improvements to the Newcomen steam engine. Gives his name to the S.I unit of Power.
Frank Whittle	He invented the Jet Engine in 1930.
Thomas Wright	One of the pioneers speculating about the origins of the Solar System and the galaxy.

Great Britain is world renowned for it's scientists and inventors with many of today's everyday items originationg from work by British scientists. The following page records some of the most prolofic and important British scientists along with facts and records pertaining to their life and works.