David Wheeler (computer scientist)
David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004) was an English computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge.
April 6, 2026
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David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004) was an English computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge.
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest computers that use stored programs. He also invented microprogramming, a method that uses stored-program logic to control the circuits of a computer’s central processing unit. In 1967, he received the ACM Turing Award.
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare ( / h ɔːr / HOR ; 11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), also known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R.
Peter Llewelyn Davies MC (25 February 1897 – 5 April 1960) was one of five brothers born to Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. He was one of the Llewelyn Davies boys who became friends with J. M.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield ( / ˈ h aʊ n z f iː l d / HOWNZ -feeld ; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his role in creating the medical imaging method called X-ray computed tomography (CT). His name is remembered in the Hounsfield scale, a way to measure how dense different materials are in CT scans. The scale uses Hounsfield units (symbol HU) to show values.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack. He was recognized for his role in creating X-ray computed tomography (CT), a diagnostic technique used to produce detailed images of the body. His name is associated with the Hounsfield scale, a measurement system used to evaluate CT scans.
Sir Peter Mansfield FRS was born on October 9, 1933, and died on February 8, 2017. He was an English physicist who received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with Paul Lauterbur. They were honored for their discoveries related to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (pronounced dih-RAK; August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist who helped create quantum mechanics. He played a key role in developing quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, and he was the first to use the term “quantum electrodynamics.” From 1932 to 1969, Dirac held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics position at the University of Cambridge. He later taught physics at Florida State University from 1970 to 1984.
Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist. He won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on how electricity moves through gases. In 1897, he proved that cathode rays are made of tiny, negatively charged particles (now called electrons) that are much smaller than atoms and have a very high charge-to-mass ratio.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was an English physicist and electrical engineer who studied electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which helped develop radio technology. He discovered EMR on his own, separate from Heinrich Hertz’s work. In his 1894 Royal Institution lecture, The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors, Lodge demonstrated methods to transmit and detect radio waves.