| RYLE | Recipient of a Nobel Prize for research in radio astrophysics whose uncle Gilbert wrote The Concept of Mind (4) |
| IGNOBEL | Satiric science prize for "research that makes people laugh, then think" |
| ECCLES | John -; co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for his contributions towards the understanding of synaptic transmission in the brain (6) |
| 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) |
| LOEWI | Co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses (5) |
| 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) |
| ARAFAT | Yasser ---, co-recipient of a Nobel prize with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin |
| LAUREATE | One crowned with bay leaves; winner of a Nobel prize; or, a person appointed as court poet of Britain (8) |
| CURIE | Who became the first female winner of a Nobel Prize in 1903? (5) |
| MADAMECURIE | Only two-time winner of a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields (6,5) |
| REDSHIFT | A phenomenon in astrophysics characterised by displacement of spectral lines of distant galaxies toward longer wavelengths as a result of the Doppler effect (3,5) |
| PAULING | The only person to have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and for Peace, and known for his research in quantum chemistry and molecular biology (last name only) |
| MACLEOD | Scottish physiologist awarded a Nobel Prize for his role in directing the research by F. G. Banting |
| RAMAN | Indian physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for work in the field of light-scattering (5) |
| LAUE | Max von -; physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals (4) |
| APPLETON | Sir Edward Victor -; physicist awarded a Nobel Prize for proving the existence of the ionosphere (8) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels whose uncle Daniel Rutherford was the first to isolate nitrogen (5) |
