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Also Known As Sir David Roxbee Cox
Born July 15, 1924 (age 102) • Birmingham • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2010)

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Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
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Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Sir Richard Owen
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Stephen Hawking, 2007
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
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Sir Alan Cottrell
British metallurgist
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist