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===Nobel laureates=== {{Div col}} # [[John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh|John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)]] (1842β1919): Physics 1904 with William Ramsay for the discovery of argon # [[Joseph John Thomson]] (1856β1940): Physics 1906 for studies of electrical connection through gases # [[Ernest Rutherford]] (1871β1937): Chemistry 1908 for work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and the disintegration of the elements # [[William Lawrence Bragg]] (1890β1971): Physics 1915 joint with WH Bragg, for determining the molecular structure of crystals using x-rays # [[William Henry Bragg]] (1862β1942): Physics 1915 joint with WL Bragg, for determining the molecular structure of crystals using x-rays # [[Charles Scott Sherrington]] (1857β1952): Medicine 1932 shared with [[Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian|Edgar Adrian]], for his discovery of the function of neurons # [[Henry Hallett Dale]] (1875β1968): Medicine 1936 joint with Otto Loewi, for their work on the chemical transmission of nerve impulses<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936 |website=www.nobelprize.org |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1936/dale.html |access-date=30 January 2013}}</ref> # [[Peter Brian Medawar]] (1915β1987): Medicine 1960 for his work on making permanent skin grafts # [[John Cowdery Kendrew]] (1917β1997): Chemistry 1962 with Perutz, for determining the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin using X-ray crystallography and (new at the time) electronic computers # [[Max Ferdinand Perutz]] (1914β2002): Chemistry 1962 with Kendrew, for determining the structures of haemoglobin and myoglobin using X-ray crystallography and (new at the time) electronic computers # [[Andrew Fielding Huxley]] (1917β2012): Medicine 1963 for explaining how nerves use electricity to send signals around the body # [[Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/collections/dorothy-hodgkin/|title=Nobel Prize - Dorothy Hodgkin}}</ref> (1910β1994): Chemistry 1964 for determining the structure of important biochemical substances including vitamin B12 and penicillin using X-ray techniques # [[George Porter]] (1920β2002): Chemistry 1967 for work on chemical reactions triggered by light, and for photographing the behaviour of molecules during fast reactions # [[Antony Hewish]] (1924β2021): Physics 1974 for his work on the discovery of pulsars # [[John Gurdon|Sir John Gurdon]] (1933β): in 2012, he and [[Shinya Yamanaka]] were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells {{div col end}}
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