Scientists

Alexander Nasmyth

1758-1840
Painter and scientist
Sitter in 3 portraits | Artist associated with 7 portraits

Joseph Needham

1900-1995
Scientist and sinologist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Isaac Newton

1642-1727
Mathematical scientist
Sitter associated with 46 portraits

William Nicholson

1753-1815
Scientist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Frederick Norman

1857-1936
Scientist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

1897-1978
Chemist and Director of Department of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University
Sitter in 6 portraits

Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie

1938-
Biologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Dixon Oldham

1858-1936
Geologist and seismologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Mark Oliphant

1901-2000
Physicist involved in developing the atomic bomb
Sitter in 7 portraits

Eleanor Anne Ormerod

1828-1901
Entomologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel

1930-2007
Professor of astrophysics and Fellow of the Royal Society
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Richard Arthur Surtees Paget, 2nd Bt

1869-1955
Barrister and physicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Edward Talbot Paris

1889-1985
Scientist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Samuel Parkes

1761-1825
Chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

George Pearson

1751-1828
Physician and chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Rudolf Peierls

1907-1995
Physicist
Sitter in 9 portraits

Thomas Pentycross

1748-1808
Rector of Wallingford
Sitter in 2 portraits

Jonathan Pereira

1804-1853
Pharmacologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Max Ferdinand Perutz

1914-2002
Molecular biologist and chemist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Colin Trevor Pillinger

1943-2014
Professor of Planetary Science; lead scientist BEAGLE 2 project for ESA Mars Express Mission
Sitter in 2 portraits