British famous scientists

by Karolina Grubba

Sir Isaac Newton 

Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is common recognised as one of the most important scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", first published in 1687, laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Newton also made knowing stake to optics, and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the faint mathematical analysis.

Charles Robert Darwin

Picture of Darwin from a newspaper

Born on 12 February 1809  was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his stake to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have results over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science. In a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, he launched his scientific theory that this pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for being has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species.

James Watt 

He was born in 1736 . Hewas a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

Sir Alexander Fleming 

Fleming was a Scottish biologist, physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world's first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) from the black mold Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy.