Scientists

Norman Wingate Pirie

1907-1997
Biochemist and nutritionist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

1818-1898
Chemist, scientific adviser and Scottish politician; MP
Sitter in 16 portraits

Henry Crozier Plummer

1875-1946
Astronomer, scientist and mathematician
Sitter in 2 portraits

Michael Polanyi

1891-1976
Physical chemist and sociologist
Sitter in 5 portraits

George Porter, Baron Porter

1920-2002
Chemist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Helen Kemp Porter

1899-1987
Biochemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Price

1752-1783
Chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Chandler Alexander Prior

1809-1902
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Richard Pulteney

1730-1801
Writer and botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Venkatraman ('Venki') Ramakrishnan

1952-
Senior Scientist and Group Leader, Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge; recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Sitter in 1 portrait

Robert John Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh

1875-1947
Experimental physicist
Sitter in 34 portraits

Lewis Fry Richardson

1881-1953
Physicist, meteorologist and mathematician
Sitter in 3 portraits

Gilbert Wooding Robinson

1888-1950
Professor of Agricultural Chemistry
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Robert Robinson

1886-1975
Organic chemist
Sitter in 8 portraits

Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe

1833-1915
Chemist and university administrator
Sitter in 11 portraits

Sir Joseph Rotblat

1908-2005
Physicist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild

1868-1937
Zoologist; Trustee of the British Museum and Conservative politician; MP for Aylesbury
Sitter in 2 portraits

Dame Miriam Louisa Rothschild

1908-2005
Zoologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

William Roxburgh

1751-1815
Botanist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Keith Runcorn

1922-1995
Geophysicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dorothy Stuart Russell

1895-1983
Pathologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford

1871-1937
Physicist
Sitter in 16 portraits

Daniel Rutherford

1749-1819
Physician and botanist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Edward Sabine

1788-1883
Army officer and physicist; President of the Royal Society
Sitter in 7 portraits

Sir Edward James Salisbury

1886-1978
Botanist
Sitter in 11 portraits

John Drew Salmon

1802-1859
Botanist and manager of Wenham Lake Ice Company
Sitter in 1 portrait

(James) Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter

1881-1975
Civil servant, politician and political scientist
Sitter in 20 portraits

Frederick Sanger

1918-2013
Biochemist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Berthold Carl Seemann

1825-1871
Botanist and traveller
Sitter in 1 portrait

Boshi Sen

1887-1970
Scientist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Tom Shakespeare

1966-
Sociologist and bioethicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Sharpey

1802-1880
Physiologist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer

1850-1935
Physiologist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir (William) Napier Shaw

1854-1945
Meteorologist
Sitter in 5 portraits

John Sheldon

1752-1808
Anatomist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

1857-1952
Physiologist
Sitter in 12 portraits

Humphry Sibthorp

1713-1797
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Sibthorp

1758-1796
Botanist; son of Humphry Sibthorp
Sitter in 1 portrait

(Cedric) Keith Simpson

1907-1985
Forensic scientist
Sitter in 7 portraits

Frank Sturdy Sinnatt

1880-1943
Fuel engineer
Sitter in 3 portraits