Birth country
United Kingdom
213 award-winning recipients with a recorded birthplace in this country.
- Simon Donaldson
- Frederick Sanger
- Oliver Smithies
- James W. Black
- Demis Hassabis
- Adrian Bird
- Francis Harry Compton Crick
- Ronald Drever
- John B. Gurdon
- Godfrey N. Hounsfield
- Tim Berners-Lee
- David Mumford
- Paul M. Nurse
- Tony Pawson
- Peter J. Ratcliffe
- John E. Sulston
- Andrew Wiles
- Michael Atiyah
- David Baulcombe
- Roger Blandford
- Denis Parsons Burkitt
- John Charnley
- Cyril A. Clarke
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
- Richard Doll
- Christian de Duve
- Freeman Dyson
- Robert G. Edwards
- Martin J. Evans
- James L. Gowans
- John Hardy
- Stephen Hawking
- Peter W. Higgs
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Michael Houghton
- Alec Jeffreys
- Niels K. Jerne
- David Jewitt
- David Klenerman
- Anthony J. Leggett
- Nicholas Lydon
- Mary F. Lyon
- Dan McKenzie
- Kim Nasmyth
- Roger Penrose
- Ernest John Christopher Polge
- John A. Pople
- Rodney R. Porter
- Martin Rees
- John Maynard Smith
- Michael Smith
- Edwin Southern
- Jack W. Szostak
- Richard Taylor
- David J. Thouless
- John R. Vane
- Maurice Wilkes
- Gregory P. Winter
- Edgar Douglas Adrian
- James Roger Prior Angel
- Sir Edward Victor Appleton
- Peter Shaw Ashton
- Francis William Aston
- Alan Baker
- Charles Glover Barkla
- Derek H. R. Barton
- Alan R. Battersby
- Donald Lynden-Bell
- Michael V. Berry
- Peter M. Biggs
- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- Kenneth Blaxter
- David M. Blow
- Sir William Henry Bragg
- Russell Brock
- Bernard B. Brodie
- Herbert C. Brown
- Joshua H. Burn
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Alan C. Burton
- Eric G.L. Bywaters
- Roy Calne
- Keith H. S. Campbell
- John Cardy
- James Chadwick
- Joseph Chatt
- John Clarke
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
- Edgar F. Codd
- Shaun Cole
- Basil O'Connor
- Robin R.A. Coombs
- Pieter Cullis
- Sir Henry Hallett Dale
- Geoffrey S. Dawes
- Caroline Dean
- Robert D. Defries
- George Efstathiou
- Michael Elliott
- R. John Ellis
- Michael A. Epstein
- Ronald Finn
- Sir Alexander Fleming
- Richard Friend
- Steve Furber
- Ian R. Gibbons
- John B. Glen
- Jane Goodall
- Douglas Gough
- W. Timothy Gowers
- Barbara Rosemary Grant
- Peter Raymond Grant
- George William Gray
- Michael Green
- Bryan Grenfell
- Christopher Hacon
- F. Duncan M. Haldane
- Alan Hall
- Arthur Harden
- Walter Norman Haworth
- Richard Henderson
- Antony Hewish
- Archibald Vivian Hill
- Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
- Nigel J. Hitchin
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- Christine Holt
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
- Brian Hoskins
- John Houghton
- Fred Hoyle
- John Hughes
- Tim Hunt
- Anthony R. Hunter
- Tony Hunter
- George Evelyn Hutchinson
- Andrew Fielding Huxley
- Hugh E. Huxley
- Peter Jenni
- Thomas M. Jessell
- Jonathan D. G. Jones
- Brian David Josephson
- Jonas H. Kellgren
- John Cowdery Kendrew
- Hans W. Kosterlitz
- J. Michael Kosterlitz
- Sir Harold W. Kroto
- John H. Lawton
- Duncan Lorimer
- Iain Macintyre
- John James Rickard Macleod
- David W.C. MacMillan
- Sir Peter Mansfield
- Philippa Marrack
- Archer John Porter Martin
- James Maynard
- Ian L. McHarg
- James McKernan
- Anne McLaren
- John McMichael
- Brenda Milner
- Robin Milner
- Peter D. Mitchell
- Sir Nevill Francis Mott
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
- Stuart Parkin
- William D.M. Paton
- David N. Payne
- John A. Peacock
- John Pendry
- L.S. Penrose
- Michael Perryman
- Richard Peto
- David C. Phillips
- John A. Pickett
- William Pollack
- George Porter
- Cecil Frank Powell
- Judah H. Quastel
- Robert R. Race
- Sir William Ramsay
- Owen Willans Richardson
- Ralph Riley
- R. Michael Roberts
- Richard J. Roberts
- Sir Robert Robinson
- Richard Robson
- Ivan M. Roitt
- Sir Martin Ryle
- Nicholas Shackleton
- Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
- William Bradford Shockley
- F. Horace Smirk
- Frederick Soddy
- Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
- Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)
- Richard Laurence Millington Synge
- George Paget Thomson
- Joseph John Thomson
- Lord (Alexander R.) Todd
- Alain R.M. Townsend
- John E. Walker
- David Weatherall
- Simon D. M. White
- M. Stanley Whittingham
- John Julian Wild
- Geoffrey Wilkinson
- James H. Wilkinson
- Ian Wilmut
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
- John Foster Wilson
- Raymond N. Wilson
- Andrew H. Wyllie