Award Laureates
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AW
Andrew Wiles
United KingdomMathematics
31
Prestige
Copley Medal (2017)Abel Prize (2016)Tang Prize in Mathematics (2016)Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2005)National Medal of Science (2000)Sylvester Medal (2000)King Faisal Prize (1998)MacArthur Fellowship (1997)Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1995)Schock Prize in Mathematics (1995)Harvey Prize (1995)Fermat Prize (1995)
h-index: 20
MA
Michael Atiyah
United KingdomMathematics
26
Prestige
Abel Prize (2004)Copley Medal (1988)King Faisal Prize (1987)Sylvester Medal (1973)Fields Medal (1966)Fellow of the Royal Society ()
h-index: 77
JB
John B. Goodenough(1922–2023)
GermanyChemistry
23
Prestige
Chemistry (2019)Copley Medal (2019)Welch Award in Chemistry (2017)Draper Prize (2014)National Medal of Technology (2013)Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2001)
ORCIDh-index: 182
SD
Simon Donaldson(1957)
United KingdomMathematics
20
Prestige
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009)Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008)Fields Medal (1986)
ORCIDh-index: 50
RR
Robert Robinson
United KingdomChemistry
17
Prestige
RR
Rodney Robert Porter(1917–1985)
United KingdomMedicine
16
Prestige
DH
Dorothy Hodgkin
United KingdomChemistry
15
Prestige
h-index: 12
PJ
Peter J. Ratcliffe(1954)
United KingdomMedicine
14
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 125

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood(1897–1967)
United KingdomChemistry
14
Prestige

Hans Krebs
GermanyMedicine
14
Prestige

Howard Florey
AustraliaMedicine
13
Prestige

Charles Scott Sherrington(1857–1952)
United KingdomMedicine
13
Prestige

James Maynard(1987)
United KingdomMathematics
11
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 10

Niko Tinbergen(1907–1988)
NetherlandsMedicine
11
Prestige
h-index: 6

Kim Nasmyth(1952)
United KingdomGenetics
10
Prestige
Gruber Prize in Genetics (2011)Gairdner International Award (2007)Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences ()Fellow of the Royal Society ()
ORCIDh-index: 140

Tony Hoare(1934–2026)
United KingdomComputer Science
10
Prestige

Nikolaas Tinbergen(1907–1988)
NetherlandsMedicine
10
Prestige
for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns



Ernst Boris Chain
GermanyMedicine
10
Prestige

Frederick Soddy
United KingdomChemistry
10
Prestige
for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes

William Hamilton(1730–1803)
United KingdomBiosciences
8
Prestige
Crafoord Prize in Biosciences (1993)Darwin Medal (1988)Gairdner International Award (1960)Copley Medal (1770)
ORCIDh-index: 74

Jocelyn Bell Burnell(1943)
United KingdomPhysics
7
Prestige
h-index: 12
RM
JC
John Cardy(1947)
United KingdomPhysics
4
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 78

Ehud Hrushovski(1959)
IsraelMathematics
4
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 29

Nigel Hitchin(1946)
United KingdomMathematics
4
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 44
MF
Marc Feldmann(1944)
Australia
4
Prestige
ORCID
DC
David Chilton Phillips(1924–1999)
United KingdomChemistry
4
Prestige

Robert H. Williams
United StatesArts
4
Prestige

Richard Doll
United Kingdom
4
Prestige

G.H. Hardy(1877–1947)
United Kingdom
4
Prestige

John Scott Haldane(1860–1936)
United Kingdom
4
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 37

James Joseph Sylvester(1814–1897)
United Kingdom
4
Prestige
h-index: 22
DD
David Deutsch(1943)
United KingdomPhysics
3
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 35


RS
Reinhard Strohm
Germany
3
Prestige

TC
Terence Cave
United Kingdom
3
Prestige
RP
Richard Peto(1943)
United Kingdom
3
Prestige

Isaiah Berlin(1909–1997)
United Kingdom
3
Prestige

Rudolf Peierls
Germany
3
Prestige
PH
Peter Hirsch(1925–2025)
United KingdomPhysics
3
Prestige
CE
Charles Elton
United Kingdom
3
Prestige


NP

Frances Kirwan(1959)
United Kingdom
2
Prestige
ORCIDh-index: 23