Where to start? Isaac Newton? James Clerk Maxwell? Darwin, Babbage or Turing? From the extraordinarily big (Hoyle) to the really very small (Rutherford, Chadwick, Cockcroft, Walton and Oppenheimer). From the stuff of life (Watson, Crick, Franklin and Wilkins) to the scarcely believable (pulsars – Jocelyn Bell Burnell, exoplanets – Didier Queloz). Household names like Dorothy Hodgkin and Stephen Hawking to some barely recognised (mostly women) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Constance Wood, Hertha Marks Ayrton, Dorothy Jordan Lloyd and Gertrude Bacon, who was born in Cambridge.
It’s worth delving deeper. Always.