British experimental physicists

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

British scientist (1791–1867)

British physicist (1856-1940)

British scientist (1862–1942)

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

English physicist (1842–1919)

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

English physicist (1892–1975)

British physicist (1897–1967)

British physicist (1897-1974)

British physicist

British physicist (1931-2017)

British meteorologist

surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder, gentleman scientist, inventor (1793–1875)

British physicist and Soviet spy (1911–2003)

British particle physicist

British scientist

English nuclear research assistant

British physicist

British particle physicist

English naturalist and microscopist

British physicist (1895-1980)