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Frederick Sanger

United KingdomChemistry
30
Prestige
6 Awards
h-index: 56

for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

George Porter

George Porter

United KingdomChemistry
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Walter Gilbert

Walter Gilbert

United StatesChemistry
13
Prestige
2 Awards

for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids

Sir Nevill Francis Mott

Sir Nevill Francis Mott

United KingdomPhysics
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Luis Federico Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir(1906–1987)

ArgentinaChemistry
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd

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

United KingdomChemistry
13
Prestige
2 Awards
James Chadwick

James Chadwick

United KingdomPhysics
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson(1869–1959)

United KingdomPhysics
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Sir Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Hopkins

United KingdomMedicine
13
Prestige
2 Awards

for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins

J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

United KingdomPhysics
13
Prestige
2 Awards
Caucher Birkar

Caucher Birkar(1978)

IranMathematics
11
Prestige
2 Awards
h-index: 16
Robert G. Edwards

Robert G. Edwards(1925–2013)

United KingdomMedicine
11
Prestige
2 Awards
ORCIDh-index: 34
Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen(1933)

IndiaEconomics
11
Prestige
2 Awards
ORCIDh-index: 77
Timothy Gowers

Timothy Gowers(1963)

United KingdomMathematics
11
Prestige
2 Awards
ORCID
Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle

United KingdomPhysics
11
Prestige
2 Awards
h-index: 15

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

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish(1897–1978)

United KingdomChemistry
11
Prestige
2 Awards
Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston(1877–1945)

United KingdomChemistry
11
Prestige
2 Awards
Lord Rayleigh

Lord Rayleigh

United KingdomPhysics
11
Prestige
2 Awards
h-index: 50

for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies

James Mirrlees

James Mirrlees(1936–2018)

United KingdomEconomics
10
Prestige
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Robin Milner(1934–2010)

United KingdomComputer Science
10
Prestige
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Richard Stone

United KingdomEconomics
10
Prestige

for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis

James Meade

James Meade

United KingdomEconomics
10
Prestige
Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige

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

Brian Josephson

Brian Josephson(1940)

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige
ORCID
Alan Baker

Alan Baker(1939–2018)

United KingdomMathematics
10
Prestige
Maurice Wilkes

Maurice Wilkes(1913–2010)

United KingdomComputer Science
10
Prestige
Alexander Robertus Todd

Alexander Robertus Todd(1907–1997)

United KingdomChemistry
10
Prestige
h-index: 43
John Cockcroft

John Cockcroft

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige

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

Edward V. Appleton

Edward V. Appleton(1892–1965)

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige
h-index: 35

for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer

Edward Victor Appleton

Edward Victor Appleton(1892–1965)

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige
h-index: 35
Paul A.M. Dirac

Paul A.M. Dirac

United KingdomPhysics
10
Prestige
h-index: 60

for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory