Scientists

Edward Charles Howard

1774-1816
Scientist and sugar refiner
Sitter in 3 portraits

Luke Howard

1772-1864
Meteorologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Tim Hunt

1943-
Principal Scientist, Cancer Research UK
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Hunter

1728-1793
Surgeon and anatomist
Sitter in 13 portraits

William Hunter

1718-1783
Anatomist and physician; obstetrician and physician to Queen Charlotte
Sitter associated with 6 portraits

Sir Joseph Burtt Hutchinson

1902-1988
Geneticist and agriculturalist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley

1917-2012
Physiologist
Sitter in 9 portraits

Sir Julian Huxley

1887-1975
Biologist and writer
Sitter in 58 portraits

Thomas Henry Huxley

1825-1895
Biologist and science educationist
Sitter in 48 portraits

Christiaan Huygens

1629-1695
Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Constantine Huygens

1596-1687
Diplomat, poet, scientist, musician and scholar
Sitter in 3 portraits

David John Edward Ingram

1927-2001
Physicist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Robert Jameson

1774-1854
Mineralogist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Margaret Jennings

1904-1994
Scientist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Jean Fréderic Joliot-Curie

1900-1958
French physicist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones

1911-2002
Organic chemist
Sitter in 12 portraits

Steve Jones

1944-
Geneticist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Dame Carole Jordan

1941-
Professor of Physics, University of Oxford and President of the Royal Astronomical Society
Sitter in 1 portrait

Brian David Josephson

1940-
Physicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Carl Gustav Jung

1875-1961
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Bernard Katz

1911-2003
Biophysicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

David Keilin

1887-1963
Biologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir John Cowdray Kendrew

1917-1997
Molecular biophysicist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Olga Kennard (née Weisz) (Lady Burgen)

1924-2023
Crystallographer; former wife of David Kennard; later wife of Sir Arnold Burgen
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir (John) Graham Kerr

1869-1957
Zoologist and politician; MP for Scottish Universities
Sitter in 14 portraits

Sir Aaron Klug

1926-2018
Molecular biologist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Charles Dietrich Eberhard Konig

1774-1851
Mineralogist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

1900-1981
Biochemist
Sitter in 12 portraits

Sir Harold Walter Kroto

1939-2016
Chemist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Charles Carmichael Lacaita

1853-1933
Botanist, Assistant Private Secretary to Earl Glanville and Liberal politician; MP for Dundee
Sitter in 1 portrait

Edwin Lankester

1814-1874
Public health reformer and natural historian
Sitter in 6 portraits

Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester

1847-1929
Zoologist; son of Edwin Lankester
Sitter in 8 portraits

Ernest Charles ('E.C.') Large

1902-1976
Scientist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

Zoe Laughlin

Artist, maker, presenter and materials scientist; Co-founder of the Institute of Making
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir William Boog Leishman

1865-1926
Bacteriologist and medical director-general, Army Medical Services
Sitter in 5 portraits

Baron Justus von Liebig

1803-1873
Chemist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Denis Gascoigne Lillie

1884-1963
Caricaturist and marine biologist
Sitter in 2 portraits | Artist of 5 portraits

Carl Linnaeus

1707-1778
Botanist and taxonomist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Hugh Nicholas Linstead

1901-1987
President of International Pharmaceutical Federation and Conservative politician; MP for Putney
Sitter in 33 portraits

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge

1851-1940
Physicist
Sitter in 45 portraits

William Michael Lomer

1926-2013
Physicist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Daniel Longley

1971 or 1972-
Biologist
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Ephraim Lovelock

1919-2022
Chemist and ecologist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Robert Lyall

1789-1831
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Mary Elizabeth (née Horner), Lady Lyell

1808-1873
Geologist and conchologist; wife of Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Bt; daughter of Leonard Horner
Sitter associated with 3 portraits

Alexander Wiseman Macara

1932-2012
Epidemiologist and teacher of medicine
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Montgomery McGovern

1897-1964
Scientist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Frederick George Mann

1897-1982
Chemist
Sitter in 2 portraits

Sir Peter Mansfield

1933-2017
Physicist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Guglielmo Marconi

1874-1937
Physicist and inventor of wireless transmission
Sitter in 29 portraits

James Ernest Marsh

1860-1938
Chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Archer John Porter Martin

1910-2002
Biochemist
Sitter in 4 portraits

John Martyn

1699-1768
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Thomas Martyn

1735-1825
Botanist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Brian Mathew

1936-
Botanist, taxonomist and writer
Sitter in 1 portrait

John Mawson

1816-1867
Chemist and druggist; with Joseph Swan developer of Mawson's collodion
Sitter in 1 portrait

James Clerk Maxwell

1831-1879
Physicist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne

1573-1655
Physician and chemist
Sitter in 12 portraits

John Mayow

1643-1679
Physiologist and chemist
Sitter in 4 portraits

Dame Anne McLaren

1927-2007
Reproductive and developmental biologist
Sitter in 1 portrait