Babbage, Charles (Devonshire) (Teignmouth)
The inventor of the Difference Engine
Famous Brainiacs from England
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Bentham, Jeremy (London)
The father of Utilitarianism -
Berners-Lee, Tim (London)
Inventor of the World Wide Web -
Boole, George (Lincoln)
Developer of Boolean algebra -
Carroll, Lewis (Daresbury)
The author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -
Carter, Howard (London)
The discoverer of King Tut's tomb -
Crick, Francis (Northampton)
Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA -
Dalton, John (Eaglesfield)
The weather pioneer who advocated atomic theory -
Darwin, Charles (Shrewsbury)
The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution -
Davy, Sir Humphry (Penzance)
The chemist known as the father of electrolysis -
Faraday, Michael (Newington) (Surrey)
Inventor of the first dynamo -
Franklin, Rosalind (London)
The woman whose crystal studies showed the structure of DNA -
Gilbert, William (Colchester) (Essex)
The guy who figured out magnetism and electricity -
Goodall, Jane (London)
Chimpanzee expert and conservationist -
Halley, Edmond (Haggerston)
Discoverer of Halley's Comet -
Hawking, Stephen (Oxford)
The author of A Brief History of Time -
Hooke, Robert (Freshwater)
The author of 1665's Micrographia -
Keynes, John Maynard (Cambridge)
The British economist who created macroeconomics -
Leakey, Mary (London)
The archaeologist who discovered early human fossils in Olduvai Gorge, Africa -
Locke, John (Wrington)
Author of Essay Concerning Human Understanding -
Mawson, Douglas (Shipley) (Yorkshire)
Australian explorer of the Antarctic -
Mill, John Stuart (London)
The author of 1859's On Liberty -
Newton, Sir Isaac (Woolsthorpe)
The genius who explained gravity -
Turing, Alan (London)
The famous British pioneer of computers and artificial intelligence -
Whitehead, Alfred North (Kent) (Ramsgate)
Mathematician who turned to metaphysics and religion -
William of Ockham (Ockham)
Medieval thinker responsible for the principle of Ockham's Razor