List of Cornish scientists
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This is a list of scientists from Cornwall, a county of England, in the United Kingdom.
Biologists
- Henry Charlton Bastian, physiologist and neurologist
- Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Nicholson Betts, Indian Army officer and ornithologist
- George Carter Bignell, entomologist
- William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
- William Clift, naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society [1]
- Jonathan Couch, naturalist and physician[2]
- Richard Quiller Couch, naturalist[3]
- Frederick Hamilton Davey, botanist[4]
- Jean Golding, epidemiologist
- Henry Brougham Guppy, naturalist and botanist
- Charles Alexander Johns, botanist and clergyman
- Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist
- William Lobb, plant collector[5][6]
- John Keast Lord, veterinarian and naturalist
- Richard Lower, blood transfusion pioneer[7]
- John Mayow, physiologist[8]
- William Noye of Paul, entomologist[9]
- Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe, entomologist
- John Ralfs, botanist[10]
- Edward Hearle Rodd, ornithologist[11]
- Henry Harpur Spry (1804 – 1842), army medical officer in India and naturalist
- John Coulson Tregarthen, naturalist
- Ethelwynn Trewavas, ichthyologist
- Sir Richard Vyvyan, Bart, MP for Cornwall and scientist
- William Wagstaff, ornithologist and naturalist[12][13][14]
- Elizabeth Andrew Warren, botanist
Earth scientists
- William Borlase, naturalist, geologist and antiquary, Rector of Ludgvan
- Edward Budge, geologist and clergyman[15]
- Elizabeth Carne, geologist and philanthropist[16]
- Joseph Carne, geologist, industrialist and Fellow of the Royal Society[17]
- Richard Edmonds, geologist and antiquary[18]
- Robert Were Fox, geologist[19]
- William Gregor, discoverer of titanium and clergyman[20]
- John Hawkins, geologist, traveller[21]
- Robert Hunt, mineralogist and writer[22]
- Matthew Paul Moyle, meteorologist and mining writer[23]
- Charles William Peach, naturalist and geologist[24]
- Benjamin Neeve Peach, geologist[25]
- William Pengelly, geologist and archaeologist[26]
- John Arthur Phillips, geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer[27]
Physical scientists
- John Couch Adams, co-discoverer of the planet Neptune[28]
- Herbert Stanley Allen, physicist
- Edmund Davy, chemist[29]
- Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, chemist and inventor
- Edwin Dunkin, President of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Institution of Cornwall[30]
- Antony Hewish, astronomer[31]
- Sir William Lower (1570 – 1615), astronomer and Member of Parliament
- William Oliver, inventor of the Bath Oliver and a founder of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath[32]
- Roy Sambles, physicist[33]
Others
- Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet, mathematician
- Davies Gilbert, applied mathematician and technocrat, President of the Royal Society[34]
- John Hellins, mathematician, curate of Constantine[35]
- Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939), Australian mathematician
