| ECCLES | John -; co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for his contributions towards the understanding of synaptic transmission in the brain (6) |
| BOHR | Niels -; scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for contributions towards the understanding of quantum theory and atomic structure (4) |
| SEABORG | Nuclear chemist noted for his contribution towards producing nine elements (including plutonium and nobelium) in a cyclotron (7) |
| HUME | John -, co-recipient with David Trimble of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize (4) |
| EEG | Printout of synaptic activity: Abbr. |
| HESS | Geologist whose theories on seafloor spreading contributed towards the understanding of plate tectonics (4) |
| HOYLE | Fred -; astronomer noted for contributions towards the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis (5) |
| PLANCK | Scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for his contribution to the advancement of physics by his discovery |
| FREUD | Father of psychoanalysis who received the 1930 Goethe Prize for his contribution to psychology and G |
| INPUT | I made a contribution towards the building of this youth centre in Plymouth last August (5) |
| TITHE | Tenth of farm produce in a parish, taken originally as tax or contribution towards the church and clergy (5) |
| EINSTEIN | Recipient of a Nobel prize "for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| WILSON | Charles Thomson Rees -; recipient of a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cloud chamber (6) |
| EHRLICH | German physician, co-recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1908 in recognition of his work on immunity (7) |
| FLOREY | Co-recipient of a Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain for his part in developing penicillin (6) |
| CHAIN | (Co-recipient of a Nobel Prize with Florey and Fleming for his part in isolating and purifying penicillin (5) |
| LOEWI | Co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses (5) |
| RYLE | Recipient of a Nobel Prize for research in radio astrophysics whose uncle Gilbert wrote The Concept of Mind (4) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser ---, co-recipient of a Nobel prize with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin |
| BETHE | Hans ___, German-American physicist awarded a Nobel Prize in 1967 'for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions' (5) |
