List of British scholars

This is a list of scientists from the Isle of Britain

Medieval

Alcuin (735-804), mathematician and scholar
Walcher of Malvern, astrologer
Adelard of Bath (1080–1150), mathematician, astronomer, physicist, alchemist and philosopher
Robert of Chester, translator
Robert Grosseteste (1168–1253), philosopher
Gilbertus Anglicus (1180-1250), physician
Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195–1256), mathematician and astronomer
Roger Bacon (1212–1292), mathematician, astronomer, alchemist and philosopher
John Peckham (1230–1292), astronomer
William Ockham (1287–1347), theologian, philosopher and physicist
Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336), mathematician and astronomer
John Dastin (1293–1386), alchemist
Thomas Bradwardine (1300–1349), mathematician, physicist, theologian and philosopher
Simon Bredon (1300–1379), mathematician
Richard Swineshead (1340-1354), philosopher
William Heytesbury (1313-1373), philosopher
John Westwyk (14th century), astronomer
John Ardarne (1307–1392), physician
George Ripley (1415–1490), alchemist
Thomas Norton (1416–1513), alchemist

Emery Molyneux (1500–1598), astronomer
William Gilbert (1544–1603), physician and philosopher
John Gerard (1545–1612), botanist
Robert Hues (1553–1632), geographer and mathematician
Francis Bacon (1561–1626), philosopher
William Crabtree (1610–1644), mathematician and astronomer
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641), astronomer
Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), physician
Lawrence Rooke (1622–1662), mathematician and astronomer
Francis Willoughby (1635–1672), biologist
İsaac Barrow (1640–1676), mathematician and theologian
Robert Hooke (1635–1703), scientist: physicist, botanist, biologist, philosopher, , sage, mathematician, astronomer, architect, wise, inventor
İsaac Newton (1642–1727), mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, theologian, inventor
Thomas Savery (1650–1715), architect, inventor an polymath
John Flamsteed (1646–1719), astronomer