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People in science

June 2024

  • John Boardman at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, in 2011.

    Sir John Boardman obituary

    Archaeologist who became a leading authority on the history of Greek art, with a particular interest in gems and finger rings

May 2024

  • Arno Penzias, right, and fellow Nobel laureate Robert Wilson in front of the Holmdel microwave horn antenna with which they discovered background radiation.

    Arno Penzias obituary

    US astrophysicist whose discovery of the cosmic microwave radiation resulting from the big bang brought him the Nobel prize

April 2024

  • Peter Higgs at the Science Museum in London, 2013.

    Peter Higgs obituary

  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

March 2024

  • Derek Shaw

    Other lives
    Derek Shaw obituary

  • Stephen Salter in 1982.

    Stephen Salter obituary

  • Edwin Hancock

    Other lives
    Edwin Hancock obituary

  • Marion Ecob-Prince

    Other lives
    Marion Ecob-Prince obituary

February 2024

  • Peter McGuffin in the laboratory of the MRC Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre (SGDP), London, where he was director from 1998 to 2012.

    Peter McGuffin obituary

  • Colin Murray Parkes

    Colin Murray Parkes obituary

January 2024

  • Caroline Richmond

    Caroline Richmond obituary

  • Marie Curie c1913. She won two Nobel prizes.

    ‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now

December 2023

  • Tony Roth clinical psychologists at University College London, where he became a professor

    Other lives
    Tony Roth obituary

  • Felix Munkonge

    Other lives
    Felix Munkonge obituary

  • Jonathan Tubb, seated, at the British Museum with finds from Tell es-Sa’idiyeh in Jordan, probably the ancient city of Zarethan mentioned in the Book of Joshua.

    Jonathan Tubb obituary

  • Jim Bennett to the right of an armillary sphere at the History of Science Museum, Oxford, 2012.

    Jim Bennett obituary

November 2023

  • Bill Yule, William Yule in Istanbul

    William Yule obituary

    Psychologist who pioneered the treatment of children after such disasters as the Zeebrugge ferry sinking and the King’s Cross fire
  • Jim Zoro at Pointe de l'Observatoire, Aussois, France, in 2012

    Other lives
    James Zoro obituary

    Other lives: Forensic scientist who helped improve the consistency and quality of evidence used in the UK justice system
  • Frances Arnold won the Nobel and technology prizes for her work on directed evolution of enzymes.

    ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

    Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

October 2023

  • Evelyn Fox Keller<br>Professor Fox Keller is both a scientist and social commentator who graduated from Harvard's Department of Physics in 1963 with a degree in theoretical physics and molecular biology. She has has authored, co-authored and edited 10 books and more than 70 articles, many of them dealing with the issue of gender and science. Here she is photographed at Harvard University where she is a visiting professor. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Evelyn Fox Keller obituary

    American theoretical physicist, philosopher and writer who viewed the history of science and gender through a feminist lens
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