Scientists & Engineers

SCIENTISTS

Boot, Henry Albert Howard (Harry)
1935 (c)
Joint inventor of the cavity magnetron (the transmitter that was a vital part of radar) in 1939.

Croxall, John P
1964
Head of Conservation Biology of the British Antarctic Survey; Scientific Medallist of the Zoological Society of London (1984); FRS (2005).

Davis, Ben
1937
Home Office Consultant on Forensic Medicine.

Galton, Francis
1840
Kt; cousin of Charles Darwin; explorer in the Sudan and South-West Africa, anthropologist and meteorologist; he established the existence of anticyclones and explained them, and laid the foundations for the science of eugenics.

Gane, Christopher
1957
Computer Systems Development Consultant in the USA; author of several authoritative books on computer systems.

Godfrey, C
1891
Co -author with AW Siddons, also an OE, of the famous log tables.

Jephcott, Harry
1909 (c)
Kt; Chemist with Glaxo and ultimately Honorary President of Glaxo Holdings Ltd.

May, Alan Nunn
1929
Atomic scientist involved in passing information to Moscow. Professor of Physics, University of Ghana (1961-1976).

Napier Shaw, W
1872
Kt; FRS (1891); Director of the Meteorological Office (1915-1920); President of the International Meteorological Society (1907-1923).

Siddons, A W
1890-1895
Co -author with C Godfrey, also an OE, of the famous log tables.

Vane, John R
1944
Kt; Nobel Prize Winner (1982) for his work on prostaglandins; Director of Group Research and Development, the Wellcome Research Labs: Professor of Experimental Pharmacology, London University, FRS.

Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick
1935
Professor of Biophysics, King's College, London (1970-1981); with Crick and Watson, shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for work on the structure of DNA (1962).

ENGINEERS

Chalmers, David
1959
Naval Architect, involved with the work of the National Historic Ships Committee. One of the UK's leading ship structural experts, having written a definitive book on the subject and been a member of Lloyd's Register Technical Committee as well as an advisor in the 1990s to the US Navy. He is currently a member of Council and Vice President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.