Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

male, deceased (1727) (london, United Kingdom)
physicist, classical mechanics, laws of motion, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, celestial mechanics, sir isaac newton…Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, President of the Royal Society, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton's laws of motion, law of universal gravitation
Sir Isaac Newton <small>&lt;nowiki>[&lt;/nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki&gt;]</nowiki></small&gt; was an English physicist, ma...
Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

male, 68 years old
meme, atheist, The Selfish Gene, Atheist activist, British, British atheist…Criticism of religion, The Extended Phenotype, gene-centered view of evolution, FellowoftheRoyalSociety, University of Oxford
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles...
Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

male, 67 years old
black holes, Quantum Gravity, theoretical physics, physicist, agnostic, cosmology…Academic of the University of Cambridge, a brief history of time, Alumni of University College, Oxford, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Prince of Asturias Award winner
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of...
Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

male, deceased (1867)
farad, electromagnetism, Electromagnetism physicist, electron, electricity, Faraday's law of induction…Royal Institution of Great Britain, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or "natural philosopher", in the terminology of th...
Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus Darwin

male, deceased (1802)
Member of the Lunar Society, Darwin-Wedgwood family, English, physician, derby, Lichfield…Lunar Society, FellowoftheRoyalSociety
Erasmus Darwin, was an English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar...
James Cook

James Cook

male, deceased (1779)
explorer, From Middlesbrough, Explorer of Australia, Royal Navy, endeavour, MeRchAnT NavY…Royal Society, Kingdom of Great Britain, Explorer of the Pacific, FellowoftheRoyalSociety, Explorer of British Columbia
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1965) (United Kingdom)
World War II political leader, Time Magazine Person of the Year, orator, anti-communist, British, Légion d'honneur recipient…Secretary of State for War, Boer War prisoner of war, Secretary of State for Air, First Lord of the Admiralty, British military personnel of the Boer War
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as...
Francis Galton

Francis Galton

male, deceased (1911)
electrocardiograph, Darwin-Wedgwood family, fingerprints, forensic science, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Intelligence researcher…Explorer of Africa, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, inheritance of intelligence, regression toward the mean, FellowoftheRoyalSociety
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist,...
Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1688)
FellowoftheRoyalSociety, Board of Green Cloth, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, St John's College, Oxford, Royalist, Lyme Regis…member of parliament, not the famous Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill FRS (18 April 1620-26 March 1688), was an English soldier, historian and politician. He was the father of John Churchill, 1st...