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B. Nigel Badnell; Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge; Rose Baker; Peter Barker (physicist) Richard Beeching; Michael Berry (physicist) James Binney; Mark Birkinshaw
Gari Clifford – British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher; John Cockcroft – U.K. (1897–1967) Nobel laureate; Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – France (born 1933) Nobel laureate; Arthur Compton – United States (1892–1962) Nobel laureate; Karl Compton – United States (1887–1954) Edward Condon – United States ...
Emery Molyneux (1500–1598), astronomer; William Gilbert (1544–1603), physician and philosopher; John Gerard (1545–1612), botanist; Robert Hues (1553–1632), geographer and mathematician
One of the first messages Hawking produced with his speech-generating device was a request for his assistant to help him finish writing A Brief History of Time. [152] Peter Guzzardi, his editor at Bantam, pushed him to explain his ideas clearly in non-technical language, a process that required many revisions from an increasingly irritated ...
In 1989, Penrose was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize of the British Institute of Physics. He was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (HonFInstP). [92] In 1990, Penrose was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for outstanding work related to the work of Albert Einstein by the Albert Einstein Society (Switzerland).
James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician [1] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born at his parents' home in Bristol, England, on 8 August 1902, [43] and grew up in the Bishopston area of the city. [44] His father, Charles Adrien Ladislas Dirac, was an immigrant from Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, of French descent, [45] who worked in Bristol as a French teacher.
B. George Bacon (physicist) Peter Barham; Ronald Hugh Barker; Charles Glover Barkla; William F. Barrett; Arthur W. Barton; Ted Bastin; Leslie Fleetwood Bates