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Also Known As Sir David Roxbee Cox
Born July 15, 1924 (age 100) • Birmingham • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (2010)

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Frederick Sanger
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Charles Frank
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
British chemist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
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Patrick Blackett
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Klug, Aaron
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