| Isaac Newton 1642-1727 | 1696 1699. | Laws of motion and gravitation. Newtonian telescope and light theory. Warden of the Mint in 1696. Master of the Mint in 1699. |
| William Herschel 1738-1832 | 1782 | Astronomer Royal to George III. Discoverer of Uranus and infrared radiation. |
| Sir James Ivory 1765-1842 | 1831 | Scottish mathematician. |
| John Dalton 1766-1844 | 1833 | Law of partial pressures. Atomic theory : - Each element is composed of different types of atoms. |
| Robert Brown 1773-1858 | Circa 1858 | Brownian motion. Recognized the importance of and named the cell nucleus. |
| Mary Fairfax-Somerville 1780-1872 | | Scottish science writer, mathematician and astronomer. Somerville College Oxford named after her. Translated Laplace's "Celestial Mechanics". |
| Michael Faraday 1791-1867 | 1836 1858 | Laws of induction. Laws of electrolysis. 1858 Grace and favor house, Queen Victoria. |
| Sir George Airy 1801- 1892 | 1835 | Northumberland, Astronomer Royal. Established prime meridian at Greenwich. Airy Crater defines prime meridian on Mars. |
| James Prescott Joule 1818-1889 | 1878 | First Law of Thermodynamics, Principle of the Conservation of Energy, Joule’s Law, speed of gas molecules. |
| John Couch Adams 1819-1892 | 1861 | Mathematically predicted the position of Neptune facilitating its discovery. |
| Alfred Wallace 1823-1913 | 1881 | Wrote a book on evolution, which led to Darwin publishing his own book. |
| Oliver Heaviside 1850-1925 | 1896 | Maxwell-Heaviside equations and theory. Mathematician, physicist and engineer. |
| William F. Denning 1848-1931 | 1904 | Denning of Somerset, astronomer, comet hunter and science writer. |
| Myron Evans 1950- | 2005 | Completed Einstein’s work, by docking the curved space of relativity with Cartan’s torsion of electromagnetism. |
List of British Civil List Scientists