A list of the UK’s 100 leading practising scientists has been published to highlight the many talents of this diverse community and three of our scientists have been listed.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall, Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Professor AbuBakr Bahaj were announced in list which is produced by the Science Council, a membership organisation for societies and professional bodies across the discipline. The list splits the top 100 into ten categories to differentiate between different types of scientists from ‘explorers’ to ‘policy-makers’.
Science Council member organisations were invited to nominate individuals for each category before a judging panel, chaired by council president Sir Tom Blundell, made the selections.
Find out more about who has been nominated and the categories here.