Scientific and technological

contributions from United Kingdom

The history of science
and technology in the
United Kingdom It is
one of the most
important, given the
position of scientific
and economic
leadership of that
country during the
scientific (17th
century) and
industrial revolutions
(18th to 20th
centuries).
 Isaac Newton
He was an English physicist,
theologian, inventor, alchemist
and mathematician. He is the
author of the Principia, where
he describes the law of
universal gravitation and
established the foundations of
classical mechanics through
the laws that bear his name.
 Stephen Hawking
He was a theoretical physicist, astrophysicist,
cosmologist and British scientific popularizer. His most
important works consisted of contributing, within the
framework of general relativity and the theoretical
prediction that black holes would emit radiation, what is
known today as Hawking radiation.
 Charles Darwin

He was an English naturalist, recognized for being

the most influential scientist of those who raised
the idea of ​biological evolution through natural
selection, justifying it in his work The Origin of
Species.
 Alan Turing

He was a mathematician,
logician, computer
scientist, cryptographer,
philosopher, theoretical
biologist, marathoner and
British ultra-distance
runner. He is considered
one of the parents of
computer science and
forerunner of modern
computing.