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University of Cambridge

Name	Area	Department	Start Year	Stop Year	Advisor
Sverre Aarseth		Institute of Astronomy	1960	1963	Fred Hoyle (grad student)
Ryan P. Adams	point process models		2004	2009	David J.C. Mackay (grad student)
John Couch Adams			1943	1945	John Hymers (grad student), James Challis (research scientist)
Ronald J. Adrian	turbulent fluid motion			1972	Alan A. Townsend (grad student)
Iván Agulló			2012	2013	Edward Paul Scott Shellard (post-doc)
George Biddell Airy	Astronomy			1823	George Peacock (research assistant)
Paul Alexander					Paul F Scott (grad student)
Bruce Allen				1984	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Kenneth W Allen					William Ernest Burcham (grad student)
Thomas Edward Allibone	particle physics, X-rays, high voltage equipment, and electron microscopes.		1926	1930	Ernest Rutherford (post-doc)
Philip Warren Anderson	magnetic properties of matter
E. Raymond Andrew	solid state NMR, MRI			1948	David Shoenberg (grad student)
Edward Victor Appleton	Optics, Electromagnetic Theory		1910	1914	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant), Ernest Rutherford (research assistant), John Edward Marr (research assistant), W. Lawrence Bragg (grad student)
Arnold Noel Argue			1954		Roderick O. Redman (research scientist)
Don Arnone					Raymond J. Butcher (grad student)
Michael F Ashby	Materials			1961	Gerry C. Smith (grad student)
Neil W. Ashcroft	theoretical condensed matter physics			1965	John Ziman (grad student)
Mete Atature	Optics Physics
Charles Babbage			1810	1815	Robert Woodhouse (grad student)
Arif Babul	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy	1989	1991	Martin John Rees (post-doc)
Yongjoo Baek	statistical physics	physics	2017	2019	Michael Cates (post-doc)
Xinyu Bai		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Kenneth T. Bainbridge	mass spectroscopy		1933	1934	Ernest Rutherford (post-doc)
John Bainbridge				1618	Joseph Hall (grad student)
John G. Baker				1959	T. Morris Sugden (grad student)
Amanda C. Baker				1995	Robert F. Carswell (grad student)
John Evan Baldwin	Radio Astronomy	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1952	1956	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Robin C. Ball	Statistical physics			1980	Samuel Frederick Edwards (grad student), Peter Richmond (grad student)
Leslie E. Ballentine	Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1965	Volker Heine (grad student)
Neil Balmforth		Institute of Astronomy	1987	1991	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Hrishit Banerjee	Electronic Structure Theory
Massimo Barbagallo				2010	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Jill Barber			1977	1980	James Staunton (grad student)
Zoe H. Barber
James R. Barber	Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics			1969	Frank Philip Bowden (grad student)
Charles Glover Barkla				1900	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Charles Andrew Barnes	nuclear physics			1950	Denys Haigh Wilkinson (grad student), Otto Robert Frisch (grad student)
Virgil Barnes	Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1962	Otto Robert Frisch (grad student)
Crispin H. W. Barnes			1994	1998	Michael Pepper (post-doc)
Sean Barrett				2004	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Jonathan Barrett				2002	Adrian PA Kent (grad student)
Isaac Barrow	General Mathematics		1643	1652	James Duport (grad student)
John Barrow
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett	statistics				John Wishart (grad student)
Peter Barwick			1647	1651	William Harvey (grad student)
Guillaume Bascoul		DAMTP	2005	2008	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Richard A Battye		Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)	1992	1996	Edward Paul Scott Shellard (grad student)
Mitchell C. Begelman	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astrophysics		1978	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Gregory A. Benesh	Condensed Matter Physics	Physics		1982	Volker Heine (post-doc), Roger Haydock (post-doc)
William Ernest Bennett	Nuclear physics			1937	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Natalia Berloff
John Desmond Bernal	Crystallography			1923	Arthur Hutchinson (research assistant)
Christopher P L Berry	Gravitational-wave astronomy	Institute of Astronomy	2009	2013	Jonathan Gair (grad student)
Hans Albrecht Bethe	Particle Theory		1930	1931	Ralph H. Fowler (post-doc)
Homi Jehangir Bhabha	Nuclear Physics	Gonvile and Caius College		1935	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (research assistant)
Harry K. D. H. Bhadeshia				1979	David Vernon Edmonds (grad student)
Nazim Ali Bharmal		Cavendish Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory		2004	David Felix Buscher (grad student), Peter J. Warner (grad student)
Etienne S. Bieler				1923	James Chadwick (grad student)
David Michael Bird		Physics		1982	Bernard F. Buxton (grad student)
M. Bithell					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Francis Bitter	magnetism		1933	1934	Pyotr Kapitsa (post-doc)
Patrick M.S. Blackett				1924	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Donald Blackwell				1950	Gordon B.B.M. Sutherland (grad student)
Mark G. Blamire	superconductivity and magnetism			1985	Jan E. Evetts (grad student)
Roger David Blandford	Astrophysics			1974	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Cecil Bloch		Institute of Theoretical Astronomy	1970	1973	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Jeremy Bloxham	Geophysics			1986	David Gubbins (grad student)
Niels Bohr	Theoretical nuclear physics			1911	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Hermann Bondi				1944	Harold Jeffreys (grad student)
Henry G. Booker	Geophysics			1936	John Ashworth Ratcliffe (grad student)
Edward Booker
Max Born	quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, optics		1906	1908	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc), Joseph Larmor (post-doc)
Jagadish Chandra Bose	Physics, Biophysics			1884	John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (grad student)
Debendra Mohan Bose	Particle physics, nuclear physics, radiochemistry			1910	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Matthew S Bothwell	Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy	2007	2011	Robert C. Kennicutt (grad student)
Raphael Bousso	Particle Physics			1997	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Frank Philip Bowden				1929	Eric Keightley Rideal (grad student)
Robert Boyle	physics and chemistry		1656	1659	John Wilkins (research assistant)
Reinier Braams	Molecular biophysics			1952	Joseph Stanley Mitchell (grad student), William Valentine Mayneord (grad student)
W. Lawrence Bragg	x-ray crystallography			1912	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
William Henry Bragg	Crystallography, X-rays			1885	Edward John Routh (research assistant)
Peter George Brereton	quantum dots, quantum optics		2009	2012	Richard T. Phillips (grad student)
Egon Bretscher	nuclear physics
Alan Henry Bridle				1967	Antony Hewish (grad student), John Evan Baldwin (research assistant), Peter Scheuer (research assistant)
Richard T. Brierley		Cavendish		2012	Peter B Littlewood (grad student)
Henry Briggs			1577	1581	John Dee (grad student)
Basil Hugh Briggs	Ionospheric Physics			1952	John Ashworth Ratcliffe (grad student)
L. Mick Brown	dislocations, Deformation, Scanning transmission electron microscopy				Peter B. Hirsch (post-doc)
Marcus Brueggen		Institute of Astronomy	1996	1999	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Richard Arthur Buckingham				1936	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Edward Crisp Bullard	Geophysics			1932	Patrick M.S. Blackett (research assistant), Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham (grad student)
William Ernest Burcham			1935	1937	Ernest Rutherford (grad student), James Chadwick (grad student), Mark LE Oliphant (grad student)
Alan Burgess
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	Radio Astronomy, Pulsars	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1965	1969	Antony Hewish (grad student)
Eli Franklin Burton			1904	1906	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
David Felix Buscher	Optical/infrared aperture synthesis, Image reconstruction, Photon-counting infrared detectors, Adaptive optics, Precision astronomical instrumentation	Cavendish Laboratory, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory		1988	Peter Scheuer (grad student)
Raymond J. Butcher
Hugh Ernest Butler			1946	1949	Andrew David Thackeray (grad student)
Bernard F. Buxton
Fernando Caballero Pedrero		Physics	2015	2020	Michael Cates (grad student)
Hugh Longbourne Callendar	platinum resistance thermometer			1886	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Russell David Cannon				1968	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Nicholas Carr			1540	1544	Cuthbert Scot (grad student), Nicholas Ridley (grad student)
Bernard J. Carr		Department of Apllied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics		1976	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Caitlin Meryl Casey				2010	Scott Chapman (grad student)
James M. Cassels	Nuclear physics			1950	Otto Robert Frisch (grad student)
Jose Rafael Castrejon Pita	Fluid Dynamics, Quantum Optics		2001	2012	Alfonso Arturo Castrejon-Pita (collaborator)
Alfonso Arturo Castrejon-Pita	Fluid Dynamics, Drops and Liquid Jets, Chaos and Fractals, Atmospheric Physics
Michael Cates		Cavendish Lab		1985	Samuel Frederick Edwards (grad student)
Stephenson Caticha-Ellis	Crystallography	Cavendish Lab			William Cochran (grad student)
Andrea Cattaneo					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Joan M. Centrella	gravitational wave astrophysics			1979	Bernard J.T. Jones (grad student)
James Chadwick	nuclear physics
James Challis				1836	George Biddell Airy (research scientist)
John Alan Chalmers	Atmospheric electricity	Physics	1926	1930	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Frank Clive Champion	Experimental Physics			1932	Patrick M.S. Blackett (grad student)
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar	astrophysics			1933	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student), Edward Arthur Milne (grad student)
T.S. (宗燧) Chang
Hong-Young Chang		Institute of Astronomy	1996	1999	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
T.S. (宗燧) Chang (张)				1938	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Scott Chapman
Ricardo Chavez	Cosmology, Astronomy	Institute of Astronomy	2008	2014	Roberto Terlevich (grad student)
Hwan-He Cho		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Changsoon Cho	Optoelectronics	Physics	2018	2023	Neil Greenham (post-doc)
Matthias Christandl				2006	Artur Ekert (grad student)
Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard		DAMTP	1974	1978	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Marcello Cini					Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student)
John Clarke	Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, SQUID magnetometer			1968	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Arthur Bradbury Clegg				1956	Denys Haigh Wilkinson (grad student)
Charles Francis Clement	nuclear physics; heat and mass transfer; nuclear fuel modelling; nuclear safety; aerosol physics	Mathematics	1957	1960	Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Phillip Charles Clemmow	Mathematics			1951	Henry G. Booker (grad student)
David H. Cobden	nanoscale systems			1991	Michael Pepper (grad student)
William Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran			1931	1934	John Wishart (grad student)
John Douglas Cockcroft	nuclear physics		1929	1928	Ernest Rutherford (grad student), Pyotr Kapitsa (grad student), George Gamow (research scientist)
Piers Coleman		Physics	1979	1980	Gilbert Lonzarich (grad student)
John C. Collins	QCD, neuroscience			1975	Alan J. Macfarlane (grad student)
Malcolm Collins		Physics			Gordon Leslie Squires (grad student)
John Colson				1728	Nicholas Saunderson (grad student)
Patrick Conaghan
Francesco Paolo Conto	Fluid mechanics	Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics	2020		Stuart Dalziel (post-doc)
Robin G. Conway	Radio Astronomy	Cavendish Astrophysics Group		1957	Martin Ryle (grad student)
H. Lester Cooke	acoustics		1903	1906	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
William Cooke
Alan J. Cooper		Institute of Astronomy	1976	1979	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Edmund J. Copeland				1985	Paul Charles William Davies (grad student)
Thierry Corbard		Institute of Astronomy	2000	2001	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Allan M. Cormack				1950	Otto Robert Frisch (grad student)
Niccolo R. C. Corsini	Computational Physics, Theory and simulation of materials	physics	2011	2015	Nicholas D M Hine (grad student)
Paul Cosgrove		Engineering			Eugene Shwageraus (grad student)
Miguel Costa		Physics			Malcolm J. Perry (grad student)
Cecil Clifford Costain	Spectroscopy			1951	Gordon B.B.M. Sutherland (grad student)
Roger Cotes
Garret Cotter	Physics
Charles Alfred Coulson	molecular physical chemistry			1936	John Lennard-Jones (grad student)
Roger Arthur Cowley				1964	William Cochran (grad student)
Paul R. Coxon	nanomaterials, spectroscopy
Miles Cranmer	https://astroautomata.com/
Dan Credgington
Robert Creighton			1613	1621	George Herbert (grad student), Andrew Downes (grad student)
Michael C. Cross	Theoretical physics			1975	Philip Warren Anderson (grad student)
Bingyu Cui					Alessio Zaccone (grad student)
Margarida S. Cunha		Institute of Astronomy	1995	1999	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Samuel Crowe Curran	nuclear physics			1941	Philip Ivor Dee (grad student)
Jack Dainty	plant biophysics		1943	1945	Norman Feather (research assistant)
Richard H. Dalitz				1950	Nicholas Kemmer (grad student)
Stuart Dalziel
Marcello Damy	nuclear physics		1938	1939	W. Lawrence Bragg (grad student)
Werner Dappen	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy	1980	1982	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Charles Galton Darwin	mathematical physics		1906	1910	Robert Alfred Herman (research assistant)
Nilanjana Datta	quantum information
Paul Charles William Davies					Fred Hoyle (grad student)
Nathaniel Davis
Bergen Davis		Cavendish Laboratory	1902	1903	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Edward A Davis
Clinton Joseph Davisson	crystallography, electromagnetism			1913	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Senarath P. de Alwis	Theory Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1969	Peter Vincent Landshoff (grad student)
Augustus De Morgan	mathematics, logic				George Peacock (grad student), William Whewell (grad student)
Nathan W. Dean		Physics		1968	Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Philip Ivor Dee				1927	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (grad student)
John Dee
Stanley F. Dermott	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy	1970	1975	Roger John Taylor (grad student)
Felix Deschler			2013	2014	Richard H. Friend (post-doc)
Vikram S Deshpande	Solid Mechanics	Engineering			Michael F Ashby (grad student), David Cebon (grad student)
Josh Deutsch	General Biophysics, Biochemistry, Cell Biology	Physics		1983	Samuel Frederick Edwards (grad student)
Robin C.E. Devenish	Deep Inelastic Scattering			1968	Elliot Leader (grad student)
Samuel Devons				1939	Norman Feather (grad student)
Markus Diehl					Peter Vincent Landshoff (grad student)
Fisher W. Dilke		Institute of Theoretical Astronomy	1970	1973	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Robert Balson Dingle				1952	Douglas R. Hartree (grad student)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac				1926	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Robert W. Ditchburn				1928	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Bartholomew Dodington				1571	Nicholas Carr (grad student)
Noel Dolez		Institute of Astronomy	1981	1982	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Gerald Dolling					Gordon Leslie Squires (grad student)
Cyril Domb	Statistical mechanics			1949	Fred Hoyle (grad student)
Karl-Johan Donner				1979	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Peter John Dornan	High energy Physics			1965	Otto Robert Frisch (grad student)
John Peter Dougherty	Mathematics			1961	Phillip Charles Clemmow (grad student)
Allie Vibert Douglas	Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics	Cambridge Observatory	1921	1923	Arthur Stanley Eddington (grad student)
Fay Dowker					Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Andrew Downes				1571	Bartholomew Dodington (grad student)
Bluebell Drummond		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Jörn Dunkel			2010	2013	Raymond E. Goldstein (post-doc)
James Duport			1625	1627	Robert Creighton (grad student)
Freeman John Dyson	q.e.d., solid-state physics, astronomy, nuclear engineering		1946	1947	Nicholas Kemmer (research assistant)
Stuart Easton				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Claudia Eberlein	Quantum Field Theory
Arthur Stanley Eddington	Astrophysics		1901	1905	Robert Alfred Herman (research assistant), Ernest William Barnes (research assistant), Edmund Taylor Whittaker (research assistant)
Richard J. Eden	Quantum Theory		1948	1951	Werner Heisenberg (grad student), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student)
Samuel Frederick Edwards	theoretical study of complex materials such as polymers, gels, colloids and similar systems
R. Nigel Edwards	Geological Engineering, Physical Oceanography			1970	Edward Crisp Bullard (grad student)
Jamie K Edwards	Nuclear Engineering
George P. Efstathiou
Peter P. Eggleton	evolution of stars			1966	Fred Hoyle (grad student)
Stephen R Elliott		Physics			Nevill Francis Mott (post-doc), Edward A Davis (grad student)
Julian R. Elliott		Institute of Astronomy	1995	1998	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
A. Nick Ellis		DAMTP	1986	1989	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Richard S. Ellis	Astrophysics
Charles Drummond Ellis	nuclear physics			1924	James Chadwick (grad student), Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
George F. R. Ellis				1964	Dennis W. Sciama (grad student)
Johanna Erdmenger		Physics	1993	1996	Hugh Osborn (grad student)
Carlos Ourivio Escobar					John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student), Peter Vincent Landshoff (grad student)
John Douglas Eshelby	defect mechanics, micromechanics of inhomogeneous solids
Marc Etherington
James Alfred Ewing	Physics, magnetics, engineering
Thomas Erle Faber	superconductivity, liquid metals, liquid crystals			1955	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Andrew C. Fabian	X-ray Astronomy
Leopoldo M. Falicov	Theoretical physics			1959	Volker Heine (grad student)
Eric Fawcett				1954	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Norman Feather	nuclear physics		1926	1929	James Chadwick (grad student), Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Jiale Feng		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Roberto Cid Fernandes
Anastasia Fialkov	Cosmology
John Ambrose Fleming	electrical engineering			1877	James Clerk Maxwell (post-doc)
W. Matthew. C. Foulkes	Electronic Structure of solids				Roger Haydock (grad student)
Ralph H. Fowler	Introduced the theory of field emission from bulk metals and formulated the zeroth law of thermodynamics. Also worked with Dirac on the statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars.			1919	Archibald Vivian Hill (grad student), Ernest Rutherford (research scientist)
Michael Fowler				1962	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Geoffrey Fox	Computer Science		1961	1967	Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Frederick Charles Frank	crystal structure, crystal growth		1938	1940	Eric Keightley Rideal (post-doc)
Juhan Frank	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Martin John Rees (grad student)
Anthony French	Intermediate Energy Physics			1948	Egon Bretscher (grad student)
Daan Frenkel	soft condensed matter, simulation techniques
Richard H. Friend		Cavendish Laboratory	1975	1979	Abraham Yoffe (grad student)
Otto Robert Frisch	nuclear physics
Charlotte Froese Fischer	atomic theory		1951	1956	Douglas R. Hartree (grad student)
Jonathan Gair		Institute of Astronomy	1999	2002	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
David J. Galloway		DAMTP	1972	1973	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student), Nigel O. Weiss (grad student)
George Gamow	nuclear theory, stellar theory, relativistic cosmogony, protein coding		1929	1929	Ernest Rutherford (post-doc)
Feng Gao			2007	2011	Neil Greenham (grad student)
Ashish Garg				2002	Zoe H. Barber (grad student)
Gary W. Gibbons	Theoretical physics		1970	1972	Dennis W. Sciama (grad student), Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Gerald Gilbert	quantum information science, quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum communications, theoretical physics of elementary particles	DAMTP			Stephen Hawking (post-doc)
G.R. Gisler					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Peter Goddard				1971	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Lucas Goehring			2008	2011	Alex Routh (post-doc), William Clegg (post-doc)
Maria Goeppert-Mayer				1928	Ernest Rutherford (research assistant)
A. V. Gold		Physics			David Shoenberg (grad student)
Thomas Gold	Geophysics		1947	1948	Richard Julius Pumphrey (grad student)
Nigel D. Goldenfeld	Condensed Matter Physics, Ecology Biology, Microbiology Biology			1982	Samuel Frederick Edwards (grad student)
Maurice Goldhaber	nuclear physics			1936	James Chadwick (grad student)
Peter Martin Goldreich	Planetary Science		1963	1964	Donald Lynden-Bell (post-doc)
Raymond E. Goldstein	biological physics
Jeffrey Goldstone	Field Theory, Quantum Computing			1958	Hans Albrecht Bethe (grad student), Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Eduardo Gonzalez Solares	Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei, Instrumentation, Surveys and Projects
Heather Goodwin
Richard M. Goody	atmospheric physics			1950	Gordon B.B.M. Sutherland (grad student)
P G Gott
Douglas Owen Gough	Astrophysical fluid dynamics, helioseismology, asteroseismology	Institute of Astronomy		1967	Roger J. Tayler (grad student), Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos				2009	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Francis Graham-Smith	Radio Astronomy, pulsars	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1946	1952	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Keith Grainge					Mike Jones (grad student)
Will Grainger					Richard Saunders (grad student)
Alexander D. C. Grassie				1963	David Shoenberg (grad student)
Leslie Leonard Green	Nuclear physics			1949	Norman Feather (grad student)
Michael Green	String Theory		1967	1970	Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Neil Greenham	Optoelectronics, device physics	Cavendish Laboratory			Richard H. Friend (grad student)
Alan Lindsay Greer
John R. Gribbin		Institute of Astronomy	1973	1974	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Stephen D. Griffiths		Mathematics			Michael E McIntyre (grad student)
Cathy Gu		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
David Gubbins	Geophysics			1972	Edward Crisp Bullard (grad student)
John Currie Gunn	Theoretical physics			1939	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Ronald Wilfrid Gurney		Physics	1922	1926	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Zoran Hadzibabic
M. Haehnelt					Martin John Rees (grad student)
F. Duncan M. Haldane	condensed-matter physics		1973	1978	Philip Warren Anderson (grad student)
Joseph Hall
Ian Gibson Halliday	Nuclear Physics		1962	1964	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Jonathan Halliwell		Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics			Stephen Hawking (grad student)
James Hamilton	mathematics, theoretical physics	Mathematics faculty Mathematics faculty	1955	1956	Abdus Salam (collaborator), Hans Albrecht Bethe (collaborator)
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Sean A. Hartnoll	Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Theoretical Particle Physics			2005	Gary W. Gibbons (grad student)
Douglas R. Hartree	atomic theory		1921	1926	Archibald Vivian Hill (research scientist), Ernest Rutherford (grad student), Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Martin O. Harwit	Infrared astronomy				Fred Hoyle (post-doc)
Evatt R. Hawkes	turbulent combustion, direct numerical simulation, large-eddy simulation, solar energy		1996	2001	R. Stewart Cant (grad student)
Stephen Hawking	cosmology, relativity theory			1966	Dennis W. Sciama (grad student)
Roger Haydock	Electronic Structure of solids			1972	Volker Heine (grad student)
Pyae Hein Htet
Volker Heine	Electronic Structure of solids			1956	Nevill Francis Mott (grad student)
Manfred A. Hellberg	Plasma Physics	Culham Laboratory		1965	John Peter Dougherty (grad student)
A. Carl Helmholz	Nuclear/high-energy physics	Cavendish Laboratory	1936	1937	Mark LE Oliphant (research assistant)
Christian Hepp					Mete Atature (post-doc)
George Herbert
Laura M Herz		Department of Physics			Richard T. Phillips (grad student)
Antony Hewish	Radio Astronomy, Pulsars	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1946	1952	Martin Ryle (grad student)
John Philips Higman			1812	1816	Charles Babbage (grad student)
Robert Dickson Hill			1937	1940	Maurice Goldhaber (grad student)
Megan O Hill	Nanowires, X-Ray imaging, functional materials
Archibald Vivian Hill		Physiology	1905	1914	John Newport Langley (grad student), Walter Morley Fletcher (research assistant)
Philip W. Hill					Roderick O. Redman (grad student)
Nicholas D M Hine	Electronic Structure
Colin O Hines				1954	John Ashworth Ratcliffe (grad student), Hermann Bondi (grad student)
Peter B. Hirsch	Metallurgy, structure of coal, transmission electron microscopy			1950	W. Lawrence Bragg (grad student), W. H. Taylor (grad student)
P C Ho		Physics	1932		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (grad student)
Thomas Hobbes			1621		Francis Bacon (research scientist)
Mike Hobson					Peter Scheuer (grad student)
Craig Hogan	Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theory Physics				Martin John Rees (grad student)
Archibald Cameron Hollis-Hallett				1951	David Shoenberg (grad student)
Robert W. K. Honeycombe			1947	1949	Egon Orowan (grad student)
Ludwig Hopf	Theoretical Physics, Mathematics, Special Relativity, Hydrodynamics, Aerodynamics
William Hopkins	Mathematics and geology		1833	1830	Adam Sedgwick (grad student), William Fairbairn (research scientist)
John Hopkinson	Electrical Engineering, Electromagnetism		1867	1871	Edward John Routh (research assistant)
Guenter Houdek		Institute of Astronomy	1997	2005	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Archibald Howie	Scanning transmission electron microscopy			1961	Peter B. Hirsch (grad student), Michael John Whelan (grad student)
Fred Hoyle	cosmology			1939	Rudolf Ernst Peierls (research assistant), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student)
KC Huang	Cellular Organization			1999	Guna Rajagopal (research assistant)
John Hudson				1800	Thomas Jones (grad student)
John F. P. Hudson
John F. P. Hudson				1963	Eric Christopher Zeeman (grad student)
Eliu Huerta		Institute of Astronomy	2007	2011	Jonathan Gair (grad student)
Arthur Llewelyn Hughes			1908	1912	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
John Kenneth Hulm	superconductivity			1949	David Shoenberg (grad student), A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Ling-Yan Hung					Michael Green (grad student)
Ian Hunter		Mathematics faculty	1958	1960	James Hamilton (grad student)
Charles Angas Hurst		Mathematics faculty	1950	1952	James Hamilton (grad student)
John Hymers			1822	1826	Thomas Turton (grad student), George Peacock (grad student), William Whewell (grad student)
Anthony J Illingworth
John C. Inkson					Philip Warren Anderson (grad student)
Edward (Ted) Irving		Geology			S. Keith Runcorn (grad student)
Robert L. Jack
Carole Ann Jackson
Andrew Jackson				1989	David Gubbins (grad student)
Maziyar Jalaal	Soft Matter	Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics			Raymond E. Goldstein (post-doc)
Reginald William James	X-ray crystallography		1912	1914	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Gary T. Jarvis	Planetary Physics			1978	Dan Peter McKenzie (grad student)
Stephen John Jenkins	Surface Chemistry
Susanna Jenkins	Volcanic hazard modeling, quantitative vulnerability and risk assessment
Christopher A. Jones		DAMTP	1972	1975	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Mike Jones					Richard Saunders (grad student)
Saul Jones		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
William Jeremy Jones	Physical Chemistry	University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, Cambridge	1959	1962	Norman Sheppard (grad student)
Thomas Jones	Mathematics				Thomas Postlethwaite (grad student)
Bernard J.T. Jones	formation of galaxies				Dennis W. Sciama (grad student), Martin John Rees (grad student)
Harry Jones					Ralph H. Fowler (post-doc)
Richard A.L. Jones	"physics"	Cavendish Laboratory	1984	1987	Jacob Klein (grad student)
Alister Vallance Jones	infra-red spectra of the nightglow and aurora		1947	1949	Gordon B.B.M. Sutherland (grad student)
Christopher Jordinson		Institute of Astronomy	1987	2000	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Anosh Joseph	Theoretical Physics, Elementary Particle Physics		2015	2016	David Tong (post-doc)
Brian D. Josephson	Condensed Matter		1961	1964	Philip Warren Anderson (research assistant), A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Bernard Jouffrey	electron microscopy			1965	Peter B. Hirsch (post-doc)
Nick Kaiser	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Martin John Rees (grad student)
Marlous Kamp	complex colloids, nanophotonics, SERS, nano-optics		2020	2022	Sarah Bohndiek (post-doc)
Keehoon Kang	Organic semiconductors, Metal-halide perovskties		2012	2017	Henning Sirringhaus (grad student)
Pyotr Kapitsa	Magnetic Research				Ernest Rutherford (research scientist)
A. Kashlinsky					Martin John Rees (grad student)
John Kaye			1800	1804	Richard Porson (grad student)
Jonathan Keeling		Physics		2004	Peter B Littlewood (grad student)
Philip Kelland				1834	William Hopkins (grad student)
Robert C. Kennicutt
Adrian PA Kent	Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Cryptography			1986	Peter Goddard (grad student)
David Arnold Keys				1922	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble	Quantum field theory and cosmology		1956	1958	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Ji-Seon Kim		Imperial College London			Richard H. Friend (grad student)
Richard Daniel Kleeman	Radioactivity, kinetic theory		1905	1908	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Talya Klinger	numerical relativity, gravitational waves		2020	2021	Ulrich Sperhake (grad student)
Aaron Klug	Transcription factors, Biochemistry, structural chemistry		1953	1953	Douglas R. Hartree (grad student), Francis John Worsley Roughton (post-doc)
Alexander Kosovichev	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy			Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Jari Kotilainen			1989	1993	Martin J. Ward (grad student)
Mikolaj Kowalski		Engineering			Eugene Shwageraus (grad student)
Rappal Sangameswara Krishnan	Colloid optics, Raman spectroscopy, Nuclear physics			1941	Norman Feather (grad student)
Max Krook	applied mathematics, astrophysics			1938	Arthur Stanley Eddington (grad student)
Zdenka Kuncic		Institute of Astronomy		1996	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Jakob Kunz	photoelectric effect	Cavendish Laboratory	1906	1907	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
David Küpper				2008	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Hidekazu Kurebayashi				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Behram Kursunoglu			1949	1952	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student)
Thomas Howell Laby		Physics		1907	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Ofer Lahav				1988	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student), George P. Efstathiou (grad student)
Elizabeth R. Laird		Cavendish Laboratory		1905	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Austen Lamacraft					Benjamin D. Simons (grad student)
Horace Lamb				1872	James Clerk Maxwell (research assistant), George Gabriel Stokes (research assistant)
James Lambert				1764	Michael Lort (grad student)
Peter Vincent Landshoff	Mathematical Physics			1962	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Paul Langevin	paramagnetism and diamagnetism			1898	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Michael Ison Large	atmospheric physics and astrophysics				Thomas Wilson Wormell (grad student)
Joseph Larmor	Physics			1880	Edward John Routh (grad student)
Robert Latham	Plasma Physics
John Law		Physics	1959	1963	Thomas Wilson Wormell (grad student)
Andrei Lazanu	cosmology	DAMTP	2012	2016	Edward Paul Scott Shellard (grad student)
Elliot Leader			1957	1960	Richard J. Eden (grad student)
Felix Leditzky		Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics	2013	2016	Nilanjana Datta (grad student)
Umin Lee		Institute ofAstronomy			Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Julia C. Lee		Institute of Astronomy	1996	2000	Andrew C. Fabian (grad student)
Dong Wook Lee		Physics		2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Michel Lefebvre	Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics		1985	1989	David John Munday (grad student)
Amoury Legait		Institute of Astronomy	1976	1977	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
John Lennard-Jones				1924	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham	Geodesy
Victor Fritz Lenzen	philosophy, physics		1916		Joseph John Thomson (post-doc), George Edward Moore (post-doc)
Geraint Lewis					Paul Hewett (grad student)
Wilfrid Bennett Lewis
Chi-Te Liang		Physics	1996	1999	Michael Pepper (post-doc)
M James Lighthill	fluid mechanics		1945	1946	G H (Godfrey Harold) Hardy (grad student), John Edensor Littlewood (grad student), Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (grad student)
Douglas N. C. Lin	Fluid dynamics, star formation, galactic structure, planetary systems, accretion disks, extra-solar planets	Institute of Astronomy	1973	1976	Brandon Carter (grad student), Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Stephen G. Lipson	Non-linear Optics			1965	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
Maciej Lisicki		DAMTP	2015	2019	Eric Lauga (post-doc)
Peter B Littlewood		Physics	1976	1979	Volker Heine (grad student)
Yawei Liu	soft condensed matter, computer simulation	Department of Chemistry	2014	2016	Daan Frenkel (grad student)
Tianjun Liu
Nakarin Lohitsiri	Quantum Field Theory		2016	2020	David Tong (grad student)
Malcolm Sim Longair	Experimental Astrophysics			1967	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Gilbert Lonzarich
Ilidio Lopes		Instituteof Astronomy			Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Vanessa López-Barquero		Astronomy			Christopher S. Reynolds (post-doc)
Michael Lort
Lionel Lovich		Mathematics faculty	1958	1960	James Hamilton (grad student)
Geoffrey Luckhurst		Theoretical Chemistry	1962	1965	Alan Carrington (grad student)
Theodore T. Lyman	spectroscopy of the extreme ultraviolet		1901	1902	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Christian Lynch				2010	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Donald Lynden-Bell	Astrophysical black holes, Active Galactic Nuclei			1960	Leon Mestel (grad student)
Mohamed A. M.
Malcolm A. H. MacCallum				1971	George F. R. Ellis (grad student), Dennis W. Sciama (grad student)
Alan J. Macfarlane	Theoretical physics
W A Macky		Physics	1935		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (grad student)
Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis			1915	1915	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (grad student)
Raja Mahmudabad		Institute of Theoretical Astronomy	1970	1973	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
George Malliaras
Paul Robert William Mansfield				1982	Peter Goddard (grad student)
John Stewart Marshall	Radar meteorology			1940	W. Lawrence Bragg (grad student)
Leslie H. Martin				1926	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Peter Gordon Martin	Astronomy and Astrophysics			1972	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Stefano Martiniani	Statistical and Computational Physics	Chemistry	2012	2017	Daan Frenkel (grad student)
Harrie Massey	atomic physics, atmospheric physics			1932	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
T. Guy Masters	Geophysics			1978	David Gubbins (grad student)
Neil D. Mathur		Cavendish		1995	Gilbert Lonzarich (grad student)
Campbell Matthews		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Paul Taunton Matthews	theoretical physics			1950	Nicholas Kemmer (grad student)
James Clerk Maxwell	colour vision		1851	1854	William Hopkins (grad student)
William Valentine Mayneord
Jim N. McElwaine	Fluid Dynamics, Granular Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics	Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics	1993	1996	Adrian PA Kent (grad student)
Dan Peter McKenzie	Geophysics			1966	Edward Crisp Bullard (grad student)
William McKenzie
Alastair McLean		Cavendish Laboratory		1985	Michael Pepper (grad student), Gilbert Lonzarich (grad student)
William L. McLean				1960	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
John Cunningham McLennan				1899	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Helen Dick Megaw	Ferroelectrics				John Desmond Bernal (grad student)
William J. Merryfield		Institute of Astronomy	1987	1990	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Lance Miller		Physics			Malcolm Sim Longair (grad student)
Joseph Stanley Mitchell	Radiotherapy			1937	Eric Keightley Rideal (grad student)
Prahar Mitra	Quantum Gravity, String Theory, Asymptotic Symmetries
John W. Moffat					Fred Hoyle (grad student), Abdus Salam (grad student)
Henry Keith Moffatt
Federico García Moliner				1958	John Ziman (grad student)
Mainak Mookherjee	Geology, Mineralogy, Mineral Physics	Department of Earth Sciences	1999	2003	Simon Redfern (grad student)
Philip Burton Moon	Nuclear physics, particle physics			1931	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Christopher J. Moore		Institute of Astronomy			Jonathan Gair (grad student)
Stefano Moretti	Particle Physics
Alexander Moroz				2002	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Cherilynn A. Morrow		Institute of Astronomy	1987	1990	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Arash A. Mostofi	Condensed Matter Physics	Physics			Mike C. Payne (grad student)
Nevill Francis Mott	Electronic Structure, Strongly-correlated materials				Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Eric Balliol Moullin
Christoforos Moutafis				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Markus Mueller			1995		Michael Cates (research assistant)
Niclas Sven Müller			2021	2023	Jeremy J. Baumberg (post-doc)
David John Munday	Experimental particle physics
Kathleen A. Mussack	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy	2007	2010	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Daniel Muthukrishna	Astrophysics
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar	Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology	Institute of Astronomy	1960	1963	Fred Hoyle (grad student)
Władysław Natanson				1886	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Priyamvada Natarajan				1998	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Nir Navon		Physics	2013	2016	Zoran Hadzibabic (post-doc)
Tim Naylor	Astrophyiscs
Lida Nejad		Institute of Astronomy	1985	1988	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Philip C Nelson	Biological Physics		1980	1980	Malcolm J. Perry (research assistant)
Andriy H. Nevidomskyy	theoretical physics; condensed matter physics	Physics	2001	2005	Mike C. Payne (grad student)
Robert Newnham				1960	Helen Dick Megaw (grad student)
Isaac Newton	physics	Trinity College	1666	1669	Isaac Barrow (grad student), Benjamin Pulleyn (grad student)
Geoffrey Nicholls					Peter Vincent Landshoff (grad student)
Henryk Niewodniczański		Royal Society Mond Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory	1936	1937	Ernest Rutherford (research scientist), Ernest Rutherford (research scientist)
Bart de Nijs		Physics	2008		Alfons van Blaaderen (grad student)
Francis Nimmo	Geophysics, Astrophysics Physics			1997	Dan Peter McKenzie (grad student)
William Davidson Niven				1877	James Clerk Maxwell (grad student), John Couch Adams (research scientist)
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim			1927	1928	Ralph H. Fowler (post-doc)
Eva Novotny		Instituteof Astronomy			Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Giuseppe Occhialini		Cavendish Laboratory		1929	Patrick M.S. Blackett (post-doc)
Mark LE Oliphant	Physics				Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
David Ian Olive				1963	John Clayton Taylor (grad student)
J. Robert Oppenheimer	nuclear physics		1925	1926	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant), Patrick M.S. Blackett (research assistant)
Egon Orowan	metallurgy, plastic deformation
Hugh Osborn
Jeremiah P. Ostriker	theoretical astrophysics		1964	1965	Donald Lynden-Bell (post-doc)
William Oughtred
Cormac O’Ceallaigh	cosmic rays, elementary particle physics		1935	1938	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Hugh M. P. Couchman	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Martin John Rees (grad student)
Miles Padgett		Physics	1985	1989	Raymond J. Butcher (grad student)
Enrico Pajer
Justin Palfreyman				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Richard G. Palmer	Condensed Matter Theory, Statistical Physics, Complex Systems, Adaptive Systems	Physics		1973	Philip Warren Anderson (grad student)
Meera Parish		Cavendish		2005	Peter B Littlewood (grad student)
Q-Han Park			1990	1992	Stephen Hawking (post-doc)
Robert Ladislav Parker	Geophysics			1966	Edward Crisp Bullard (grad student)
Stuart S.P. Parkin	Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science Engineering, Electricity and Magnetism Physics			1980	Richard H. Friend (grad student)
Miguel Paulos					Michael Green (grad student)
Joseph L. Pawsey	radio astronomy			1935	John Ashworth Ratcliffe (grad student)
Mike C. Payne				1984	John C. Inkson (grad student)
Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin	astrophysics		1919	1923	Arthur Stanley Eddington (grad student)
George Peacock	Mathematics				Adam Sedgwick (grad student), John Hudson (grad student)
Michael Pedder		Physics	1965	1969	Thomas Wilson Wormell (grad student)
John B. Pendry	Metamaterials, condensed matter theory	Department of Physics		1969	Volker Heine (grad student)
Bo Peng	Theory of Condensed Matter
William G. Penney				1936	John Lennard-Jones (grad student)
Roger Penrose				1958	John Arthur Todd (grad student), William VD Hodge (research assistant)
Michael V. Penston			1964	1965	Roger J. Tayler (grad student)
Michael Pepper	Semiconductor Physics
Malcolm J. Perry					Stephen Hawking (grad student)
John B. Pethica					David Tabor (grad student)
Richard T. Phillips	semiconductors, quantum dots				Abraham Yoffe (grad student)
E. Sterl Phinney	Theoretical Astrophysics			1983	Martin John Rees (grad student)
A. Brian Pippard	low-temperature physics			1947	David Shoenberg (grad student)
Felix A. E. Pirani	General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Quantum Gravity			1957	Hermann Bondi (grad student)
James Brian Pitts					Don A Howard (grad student)
John Charlton Polkinghorne			1952	1955	Abdus Salam (grad student), William McKenzie (grad student), Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student)
Ernest Charles Pollard	effects of radiation on cells and viruses			1932	James Chadwick (grad student)
Richard Porson			1778	1785	William Cooke (grad student), James Lambert (grad student)
Thomas Postlethwaite					Stephen Whisson (grad student)
Cecil Frank Powell	Physics
Rajesh Prasad	Materials Science				Alan Lindsay Greer (grad student)
William Charles Price			1936	1937	Thomas Martin Lowry (grad student), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (grad student)
Keith Priestley
Jim Pringle					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Peter Pringsheim	Luminescence			1908	Joseph John Thomson (post-doc)
Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce					Ralph H. Fowler (grad student), Max Born (grad student)
Benjamin Pulleyn			1650	1654	James Duport (grad student)
Richard Julius Pumphrey			1929	1932	Owen Haddon Wansbrough-Jones (grad student), James Gray (grad student)
Michael I. Pupin	Electrical engineering			1885	Edward John Routh (research assistant)
Fernando Quevedo	Theoretical High Energy Physics
Carlos A. R.					Gary W. Gibbons (grad student)
Sheena Radford				1987	Richard Perham (grad student)
Valeria Raffuzzi		Engineering			Eugene Shwageraus (grad student)
Shubeur Rahman				2006	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Guna Rajagopal	theoretical and computational physics
Arttu Rajantie
Robert F. Rakowski	synaptic transmission, ion channels			1975	Richard Hume Adrian (post-doc)
Fethi Mübin Ramazanoğlu	General relativity, alternative theories of gravity, numerical relativity, formal aspects of classical field theories, quantum gravity, black hole evaporation
Joe Ratanaprechachai		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
John Ashworth Ratcliffe	Radioastronomy		1924	1927	Edward Victor Appleton (grad student), Joseph Larmor (research assistant), Alexander Wood (research assistant)
Steven G. Rawlings	Radio Astronomy			1987	Richard Saunders (grad student)
Somak Raychaudhury	Astrophysics, Cosmology, Galaxies	Institute of Astronomy	1986	1990	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Peter Read	Atmospheric, Oceanic, Planetary Physics	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1975	1979	Gareth Wynn-Williams (grad student), Martin Ryle (grad student)
Nathaniel Read		Engineering			Eugene Shwageraus (grad student)
Anthony C. Readhead	observational cosmology			1972	Antony Hewish (grad student)
Roderick O. Redman			1931	1937	Arthur Stanley Eddington (grad student), Frederick John Marrian Stratton (research scientist)
Roger C. Reed		Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy			Harry K. D. H. Bhadeshia (grad student)
James Reekie					Charles Glover Barkla (grad student)
Martin John Rees		Institute of Astronomy	1964	1967	Dennis W. Sciama (grad student)
Antti Reponen		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Thomas Maurice Rice	Condensed Matter Physics			1964	Volker Heine (grad student)
Owen Willans Richardson	Physics			1900	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Nicholas Ridley			1534	1537	Thomas Cranmer (research scientist)
Henry Rishbeth	Ionospheric Physics	Cavendish Laboratory	1957	1960	John Ashworth Ratcliffe (grad student)
Jasmine Rivett		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Paul H. Roberts	Geophysics			1954	S. Keith Runcorn (grad student)
Allan R. Robinson	Mathematics, Physical Oceanography, Geophysics	Cavendish Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory	1959	1960	Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (post-doc), George Keith Batchelor (post-doc)
Robert Robinson				1982	Gordon Leslie Squires (grad student)
Jason Joseph William Alexander Robinson	Superconducty, magnetism, spintronics	Materials Science	2004	2007	Mark G. Blamire (grad student)
Roberta Rodriquez				2007	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Colin S. Rosenthal		Institue of Astronomy	1986	1991	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Elena Maria Rossi			2000	2005	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Karwan Rostem	Physics, Detectors, Phononics	Physics	2005	2009	Stafford Withington (grad student)
Edward John Routh	Mathematics			1857	William Hopkins (grad student)
Alex Routh
Henry Norris Russell			1903	1905	Arthur Robert Hinks (post-doc)
Ernest Rutherford	Atomic Structure				Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Michael John Rycroft	Ionosphere; Atmospheric electricity
Martin Ryle	Radio Astronomy
Meghnad Saha				1920	Ralph H. Fowler (post-doc)
Abdus Salam	theoretical physics			1952	Nicholas Kemmer (grad student), Paul Taunton Matthews (grad student)
Miguel Angel Sanchez-Rey	advance science, advance physics, high-energy physics, nuclear physics, engineering physics, mathematical physics, biophysics, rational psychology, logical positivism, logical intuitionism, geometry, topology, decision science, mathematical logic, logic
Peter W. Sanford
N. Sanitt					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Vikram Sarabhai		Cavendish Laboratory		1946	Edward S. Shire (grad student)
William C. Saslaw	Cosmology, radio galaxies, stellar dynamics			1971	Dennis W. Sciama (grad student)
John A. Sauer	fracture, nuclear magnetic resonance, dynamic mechanical behavior, single crystal morphology			1942	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Richard Saunders
Nicholas Saunderson			1707	1711	Roger Cotes (grad student), Isaac Newton (grad student), William Whiston (grad student)
Siddharth S. Saxena		Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics		1998	Gilbert Lonzarich (grad student)
James Sayers	Electron Physics			1938	Edward Victor Appleton (grad student)
Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife
Joop Schaye		Institute of Astronomy		2000	George P. Efstathiou (grad student)
Peter Scheuer					Martin Ryle (grad student)
Andrew John Schofield	Theory of condensed matter, strongly correlated quantum systems		1989	1993	Joseph M. Wheatley (grad student)
Herwig Franz Schopper					Otto Robert Frisch (research scientist)
Arthur Schuster	spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography	Cavendish Laboratory Cavendish Laboratory		1881	John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (post-doc), James Clerk Maxwell (post-doc)
Dennis W. Sciama	cosmology, relativity theory		1949	1953	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (grad student), Neville Temperley (research assistant), Hermann Bondi (research assistant)
Cuthbert Scot
Paul F Scott			1957		Martin Ryle (grad student)
Douglas Scott	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Institute of Astronomy	1987	1991	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Gordon R. Screaton				1959	John Charlton Polkinghorne (grad student)
Adam Sedgwick	Geology				Thomas Jones (grad student), John Dawson (grad student)
Takashi Sekii		Institute of Astronomy	1985	1995	Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Thomas B. A. Senior	Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Electricity and Magnetism Physics			1954	Phillip Charles Clemmow (grad student)
Francesca Serra					Eugene Terentjev (grad student)
Ashwin Arunkumar Seshia
Stanislav Shabala					Paul Alexander (grad student)
John R. Shakeshaft	Radio astronomy			1954	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Lu Jeu Sham	Theory Physics, Condensed Matter Physics			1963	John Ziman (grad student)
N.A. Sharp					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Robert Gordon Sharp
Edward Paul Scott Shellard	cosmology		1983	1986	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Antony Shepherd			1740	1760	Robert Smith (research scientist)
Peter M. A. Sherwood	Materials Science Engineering, Nanotechnology, Biomedical Engineering			1970	Jim J. Turner (grad student)
Ravi Sheth	Cosmology		1990	1994	William C. Saslaw (grad student)
David Shoenberg	low-temperature physics			1935	Pyotr Kapitsa (grad student), Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Eugene Shwageraus
John Silcox	Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science Engineering	Physics		1961	Peter B. Hirsch (grad student)
Benjamin D. Simons				1991	J. Michael F. Gunn (grad student)
Sunil K. Sinha	X-ray and neutron scattering, condensed matter physics, surfaces and interfaces, thin films, magnetism			1964	Gordon Leslie Squires (grad student)
Herbert Wakefield Banks Skinner	Nuclear physics	Cavendish Laboratory	1922	1927	Ernest Rutherford (grad student), Charles Drummond Ellis (grad student)
Marcin J. Skwark	protein structure prediction, bioinformatics, drug discovery	Biochemistry	2017	2019	Tom Blundell (post-doc)
N. C. Smart					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Robert Smith					Roger Cotes (grad student)
Robert Smith		Physics		2018	Zoran Hadzibabic (post-doc)
Neville V. Smith	photoemission spectroscopy			1967	Thomas Erle Faber (grad student)
Samuel Walter Johnson Smith			1894	1896	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Henry DeWolf Smyth	Atomic Energy			1923	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Adam Solomon		DAMTP	2011	2015	John Barrow (grad student)
Dan Sowood		Cavendish Laboratory			Dan Credgington (grad student)
Thomas David Spearman		Mathematics faculty	1958	1961	James Hamilton (grad student)
Ulrich Sperhake
Lyman Spitzer			1935	1936	Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (grad student), Arthur Stanley Eddington (grad student)
Gordon Leslie Squires	Neutron Scattering			1952	James M. Cassels (grad student)
G. Srinivasan	Astrophysics, Neutron star, Pulsars, Condensed matter physics
Thomas Stace				2004	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Susan Stepney					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Alec Thompson Stewart				1952	Gordon Leslie Squires (grad student)
Phillip J. Stiles	experimental solid state physics		1962	1963	David Shoenberg (post-doc)
W. James Stirling
William Stoeger					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Michael (Mike) Stone	Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics			1976	Alan J. Macfarlane (grad student)
Howard Alvin Stone	Fluid Mechanics				E. John Hinch (post-doc)
Edmund Clifton Stoner	astrophysics, magnetism, ferromagnetism.	Cavendish Laboratory	1921	1924	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Martin Strangwood			1985	1987	Harry K. D. H. Bhadeshia (grad student)
John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)	Human sound localization, wave theory			1868	Edward John Routh (grad student)
Otto Struve	Astrophysics		1928	1929	Arthur Stanley Eddington (research scientist)
Peter Andrew Sturrock	astrophysics, plasma physics, solar physics			1951	Thomas Edward Allibone (grad student)
Petar Suman	Cosmology, CMB, inflation
Hugh P Summers					Alan Burgess (grad student)
Peter Alan Sweet	Astrophysics				Fred Hoyle (grad student)
D. Syer					Martin John Rees (grad student)
David Tabor	frictional interaction between surfaces			1939	Frank Philip Bowden (grad student)
Peter Guthrie Tait	Mathematical physics, thermodynamics			1852	William Hopkins (grad student)
Masao Takata		Institute of Astronomy			Douglas Owen Gough (post-doc)
Roger J. Tayler	astrophysics		1950	1953	Hermann Bondi (grad student)
Walter Taylor					Robert Smith (grad student)
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor	turbulent flow		1905	1910	Joseph John Thomson (grad student), Alfred North Whitehead (research assistant), G H (Godfrey Harold) Hardy (research assistant), Edmund Taylor Whittaker (research assistant)
John Clayton Taylor	Gauge Field Theory and Thermal Field Theory			1956	Richard J. Eden (grad student), Abdus Salam (grad student)
Stephen R Taylor			2010	2014	Jonathan Gair (grad student)
Peter P. Taylor		DAMTP	1982	1984	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Roger John Taylor
Neville Temperley				1940	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student), Alan Herries Wilson (grad student)
Eugene Terentjev
Roberto Terlevich		Cavendish		1982	Cyril Hazard (grad student)
Elena Terlevich		IoA	1981	1984	Sverre Aarseth (grad student)
Noel W. Thomas
Llewellyn H. Thomas	Theoretical physics			1927	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Michael J. Thompson		DAMTP	1985	1988	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Joseph John Thomson	Atomic Structure			1880	Edward John Routh (research assistant), William Davidson Niven (research assistant)
George Paget Thomson	Electron diffraction, nuclear physics			1914	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Colin Thomson				1982	David Gubbins (grad student)
Adam Thorn				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
William Thorne		Institute of Astronomy	1998	2001	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Frederik Tilmann	Seismology	Earth Science			Keith Priestley (grad student)
John Arthur Todd				1932	Henry Frederick Baker (grad student)
David Tong	Quantum Field Theory
Juri Toomre	Astronomy and Astrophysics				Henry Keith Moffatt (grad student)
Patrick D. Tooth		DAMTP	1985	1988	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Erio Tosatti	Condensed matter physics	physics	1972	1974	Philip Warren Anderson (post-doc)
Alan A. Townsend				1947	Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (grad student)
Paul Kingsley Townsend
Emmanuel Trizac	Statistical physics		1994	1997	Jean-Pierre Hansen (grad student)
Desmond Tse				2009	Crispin H. W. Barnes (grad student)
Leonid A. Turkevich	aerosols, finely divided solids, complex fluids		1971	1973	Aaron Klug (research assistant)
Matthew S. Turner	Biological Physics, soft condensed matter, neuroscience, behaviour			1991	Michael Cates (grad student)
Thomas Turton				1827	John Kaye (research scientist)
Peter G. Tuthill	Optical interferometry				John Evan Baldwin (grad student)
Maria Ubiali	High enegy physics theory, Phenomenology, PDFs, QCD, heavy quarks
Cora Uhlemann	Theoretical Cosmology	DAMTP	2017	2019	Edward Paul Scott Shellard (post-doc)
F. Nur Ünal	Condensed matter physics				Nigel Cooper (post-doc)
Darcy Unson
Sunny Vagnozzi	Cosmology, Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Mauri Valtonen		Institute of Astronomy Institute of Astronomy	1971	1974	Sverre Aarseth (grad student), William C. Saslaw (grad student), Arnold Noel Argue (grad student)
Tjeerd Hendrik van Andel	Oceanography, geophysics
Harry van der Laan	Radio Astronomy	Cavendish Astrophysics Group		1962	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Balthasar van der Pol	Radio physics		1917	1919	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Dale Jay Van Harlingen	Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physics		1977	1978	John R Waldram (post-doc)
Michel Van Hove	electron scattering theory and computation			1974	John B. Pendry (grad student)
Jasper van Wezel		Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics			Siddharth S. Saxena (post-doc)
José Alberto Vázquez		Kavli Institute for Cosmology	2009	2013	Mike Hobson (grad student)
Samuel Vince			1778	1796	Antony Shepherd (research scientist)
Wolf von Klitzing	Bose Einstein Condensation, Matterwave Optics, Space Optics
John R Waldram	Superconductivity			1963	A. Brian Pippard (grad student)
John Francis Walker	Invertebrate paleontology, chemistry
Gordon A.H. Walker					Roderick O. Redman (grad student)
Miles Walker			1896	1899	James Alfred Ewing (grad student)
Aron C. Wall
John Wallis			1647	1649	William Oughtred (research assistant)
Ernest T.S. Walton	nuclear physics			1931	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
J.S. (竹溪) Wang (王)	statistical mechanics			1938	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Owen Haddon Wansbrough-Jones			1930	1939	Eric Keightley Rideal (post-doc), Thomas Martin Lowry (research scientist)
Paul A. Warburton	superconducting devices, quantum annealing				Mark G. Blamire (grad student)
Edward Waring	Mathematics		1753	1757	John Colson (grad student)
Nicholas P. Warner	Theory Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics		1978	1982	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Peter J. Warner
William Whitehead Watts				1908	John Francis Walker (grad student)
Arthur Henry Waynick	Ionosphere research			1939	Edward Victor Appleton (research assistant), John Ashworth Ratcliffe (research assistant)
Ronald Frederick Webbink				1975	Peter P. Eggleton (grad student)
Rachel Webster					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Victor Frederick Weisskopf				1933	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (post-doc)
Alexander Frank Wells				1939	John Desmond Bernal (grad student)
Ariel Werle	Astronomy	Astronomy	2015	2019	Roberto Cid Fernandes (grad student)
Ludwik Wertenstein	nuclear physics		1925	1927	Ernest Rutherford (post-doc)
Paul Stephen Wesson	Gravitation, relativity, cosmology, astrophysics	Physics and Astronomy	1972	1980	Martin John Rees (grad student)
Roger Whatmore
Joseph M. Wheatley
Michael John Whelan	Transmission electron microscopy of materials, transmission electron diffraction of thin specimens, Reflection electron diffraction of surfaces			1957	Peter B. Hirsch (grad student)
William Whewell					John Hudson (grad student), John Gough (grad student)
Richard Whiddington				1911	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Stephen Whisson					Walter Taylor (grad student)
William Whiston		Physics		1695	Isaac Newton (grad student)
Simon David Manton White	clustering of galaxies, cold dark matter universe, semi-analytic cosmological simulations			1977	Donald Lynden-Bell (grad student)
Lionel Robert Wilberforce				1884	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
John Wilkins
Denys Haigh Wilkinson
Tim Wilkinson
Derek Wills	Astrophysics			1966	Antony Hewish (grad student)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	meteorology			1892	Joseph John Thomson (grad student)
Harold Albert Wilson	Physics		1897	1899	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Andrew Stephen Wilson	Radio Astronomy	Cavendish Astrophysics Group Cavendish Astrophysics Group		1973	John R. Shakeshaft (grad student), Martin Ryle (grad student)
D.B. Wilson					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Alan Herries Wilson			1926	1930	Ralph H. Fowler (grad student)
Alan Windle	Nano materials
John Wishart	statistics
Joachim Wittmer			1994	1995	Michael Cates (post-doc)
Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth					Paul Kingsley Townsend (grad student)
Toby Wood		DAMTP	2006	2010	Douglas Owen Gough (grad student)
Alexander Wood
Robert Woodhouse			1790	1801	Samuel Vince (grad student)
Jay Walter Woodrow				1927	Ernest Rutherford (research scientist)
William Stewart Woolcock		Mathematics faculty	1958	1961	James Hamilton (grad student)
William Alfred Wooster	Crystal physics, crystallography			1927	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Thomas Wilson Wormell				1929	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (grad student)
Edward Wright
Jiun-Huei Proty Wu				1999	Stephen Hawking (grad student)
Shin-Tza Wu		Department of Physics	1996	1999	Claudia Eberlein (grad student)
Gareth Wynn-Williams	Astronomy	Cavendish Astrophysics Group	1968	1971	Martin Ryle (grad student)
Rosemary F.G. Wyse	Astronomy and Astrophysics	Astronomy	1978	1982	Bernard J.T. Jones (grad student)
Jize Yan	Microsystem and Sensor system	Engineering	2003	2007	Ashwin Arunkumar Seshia (grad student)
Zihan Yan	Black Hole Thermodynamics, Quantum Gravity	DAMTP	2021		Aron C. Wall (grad student)
Peter YANG
Tun Jan Young	glaciology, radar, Greenland, Antarctica	Scott Polar Research Institute	2013	2018	Poul Christoffersen (grad student)
Roland MB Young	Atmospheric Physics				Peter Read (grad student)
Alessio Zaccone	condensed matter physics	Cavendish Laboratory			Eugene Terentjev (post-doc)
Paul Zavala Rivera	Nanomaterials, Biomaterials, Nanoengineering	Biological and Soft Systems	2010	2014	Easan Sivaniah (grad student)
František Záviška		Physics	1906		Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
John Zeleny				1900	Joseph John Thomson (research assistant)
Szymon J. Zelewski
Wenyu Zhang	Cosmic rays			1938	Ernest Rutherford (grad student)
Roman L. Znajek					Martin John Rees (grad student)
Jonathan TL Zwart	Observational cosmology & radio astronomy: CMB, SZ, galaxy evolution