Award Laureates
The brilliant minds who have shaped science, mathematics, and human knowledge
Showing 50 of 164 laureates from University of Cambridge
Frederick Sanger
for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Michael Atiyah
John G. Thompson
Martin Rees(1942)
Paul Dirac
Stephen Hawking(1942–2018)
Greg Winter(1951)
John B. Gurdon(1933–2025)

Ernest Rutherford

Didier Queloz(1966)

J.J. Thomson

William Lawrence Bragg(1890–1971)

Alan Lloyd Hodgkin(1914–1998)

Edgar Douglas Adrian(1889–1977)

Shankar Balasubramanian(1966)

David Klenerman(1959)

George Porter
Walter Gilbert
for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

Sir Nevill Francis Mott

Luis Federico Leloir(1906–1987)

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd(1907–1997)

James Chadwick

Archibald V. Hill

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson(1869–1959)

Sir Frederick Hopkins
for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins

J. J. Thomson

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

Caucher Birkar(1978)

Robert G. Edwards(1925–2013)

Amartya Sen(1933)

Timothy Gowers(1963)

Martin Ryle
for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish(1897–1978)

Francis William Aston(1877–1945)

Lord Rayleigh
for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies
Michael Berridge(1938–2020)

James Mirrlees(1936–2018)
Robin Milner(1934–2010)
Richard Stone
for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis

Allan McLeod Cormack

James Meade

Antony Hewish
for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars


Alan Baker(1939–2018)

Maurice Wilkes(1913–2010)


John Cockcroft
for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles

Edward V. Appleton(1892–1965)
for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer


Paul A.M. Dirac
for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory