Science
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 – 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicil...
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". His experiment to measure the density of the Earth has come to be k...
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his mo...
Michael Faraday FRS was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. He was one of the most influential scientists in history, and it was...
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon. Maxwell's equations for elect...
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics...
Francis Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule. Crick and Watson's paper in Nature in 1953 laid the groundwork for und...
Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. In 2012 the fundamental particle he predicted in the 1960s was discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Col...
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with its headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, England. It was involved in developing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, and has earned global admiration for its decision to place global a...
Science parks, also called "university research parks", or "science and technology parks" (STPs) are property-based developments that foster the growth of tenant firms, usually early-stage and often affiliated with universities. In the UK, Cambridge and Oxford Universities have taken the lead i...
Nature is one of the world's most-read, most-cited and most prestigious academic journals. Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England since 1869 Now, as a multidisciplinary publication, Nature features peer-reviewed research from a variety of academic d...
The Cambridge Science Park, founded by Trinity College in 1970, is the oldest science park in the United Kingdom. It is a concentration of science and technology related businesses, and has strong links with the nearby University of Cambridge.
