| BOHR | Niels -; scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for contributions towards the understanding of quantum theory and atomic structure (4) |
| ECCLES | John -; co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for his contributions towards the understanding of synaptic transmission in the brain (6) |
| ARROW | Kenneth -; economist co-awarded a Nobel Prize for contributions towards general economic equilibrium theory (5) |
| 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 |
| EINSTEIN | Albert -; scientist awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the photoelectric effect (8) |
| HESS | Geologist whose theories on seafloor spreading contributed towards the understanding of plate tectonics (4) |
| 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) |
| LODGE | Den of a beaver; a gatekeeper's cottage; or a physicist noted for contributions towards electromagne |
| EHRLICH | Paul -; German scientist who shared a Nobel Prize with Elie Metchnikoff for contributions towards immunology (7) |
| RAYLEIGH | 3rd Baron -; title of John Strutt, scientist awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics with William Ramsay for his part in the discovery of argon (8) |
| APPLETON | Sir Edward Victor -; physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for proving the existence of the ionosphere (8) |
| LAUE | Max von -; physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals (4) |
| HODGKIN | Dorothy Crowfoot -; chemist awarded a Nobel Prize for solving the atomic structure of molecules including insulin and penicillin by means of X-ray crystallography (7) |
| RONTGEN | Scientist awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of x-rays (7) |
| ASTON | Physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for invention of the mass spectrograph (5) |
| RAMAN | Indian physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the field of light-scattering (5) |
| NAIPAUL | Awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001, a Trinidad-born Oxford-educated novelist who wrote A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest a"; awarded a Nobel Prize in 1954, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls (9) |
