Edinburgh, United Kingdom

British author and literary critic best known for his 1821 work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, which inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West

British theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who theorized a mechanism for the mass of subatomic particles

English physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered characteristic X-rays

English physicist and Nobel laureate known for his investigations of the ionosphere and the discovery of the Appleton layer, which advanced radar and shortwave radio

British mathematician known for co-founding topological K-theory and the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004