Scientists

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

Maria Skalinska

1890-1977
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Frank Edward Smith

1879-1970
Scientist
Sitter in 10 portraits

Sir James Edward Smith

1759-1828
Botanist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sydney William Smith

1878-1963
Lecturer and scientist
Sitter in 5 portraits

(George) Robert Sabine Snow

1897-1969
Botanist and scholar
Sitter in 1 portrait

Maggie Snowling

1955-
Professor of Psychology
Sitter in 1 portrait

Daniel Solander

1736-1782
Botanist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Douglas Arthur Spencer

1901-1979
Chemist, inventor and photographer; Managing Director of Kodak Ltd and President of the Royal Photographic Society
Sitter in 1 portrait

Michael Alfred Spender

1906-1945
Scientist and explorer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope

1753-1816
Scientist and politician; MP for Wycombe
Sitter associated with 46 portraits

Patrick Steptoe

1913-1988
Obstetrician, gynaecologist and pioneer of IVF conception
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Thomas Stevenson

1838-1908
Scientific analyst and toxicologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Marie Stopes

1880-1958
Palaeobotanist and pioneer and advocate of birth control
Sitter in 14 portraits

Sir Richard Strachey

1817-1908
Lieutenant-General, scientist and engineer
Sitter in 32 portraits

Alexander Strange

1818-1876
Colonel and scientist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (Cyril) James Stubblefield

1901-1999
Palaeontologist and geologist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Sir John Edward Sulston

1942-2018
Geneticist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan

1828-1914
Chemist; inventor of photographical processes and electric light
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

John Lighton Synge

1897-1995
Mathematician and physicist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Arthur George Tansley

1871-1955
Plant ecologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Frank Sherwood Taylor

1897-1956
Chemist and science historian and Director of Science Museum
Sitter in 11 portraits

Charles Tennant

1768-1838
Manufacturing chemist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Joseph John Thomson

1856-1940
Physicist
Sitter in 16 portraits

Thomas Thomson

1773-1852
Chemist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir (Henry) Gerard Thornton

1892-1977
Microbiologist; Head of Department of Soil Microbiology
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Jocelyn Field Thorpe

1872-1948
Chemist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir Henry Thomas Tizard

1885-1959
Scientist and administrator
Sitter in 8 portraits

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd

1907-1997
Chemist
Sitter in 22 portraits

Francis Ralph Tubb

1907-1980
Plant physiologist
Sitter in 7 portraits

John Tyndall

1820-1893
Physicist and mountaineer
Sitter in 33 portraits

(Alfred René John) Paul Ubbelohde

1907-1988
Physical chemist; professor of Thermodynamics
Sitter in 3 portraits

Andrew Ure

1778-1857
Chemist and scientific writer
Sitter in 3 portraits

François Le Vailliant

1753-1824
French scientist, traveller and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Vane

1927-2004
Pharmacologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Delvalle Elizabeth Rebecca Varley (née Lowry)

1800-1860
Writer on mineralogy and geology; second wife of John Varley
Sitter in 1 portrait

Dame Janet Maria Vaughan

1899-1993
Haematologist and radiobiologist
Sitter in 13 portraits

Horace Middleton Vernon

1870-1951
Physiologist and industrial health specialist; lecturer in Chemical Physiology, Oxford
Sitter in 1 portrait

Augustus George Vernon-Harcourt

1834-1919
Chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Nicholas Aylward Vigors

1785-1840
Zoologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio Volta

1745-1827
Physicist
Sitter in 1 portrait