Neptune [SEP] discoverer or inventor
position predicted by Urbain Le Verrier. Its largest moon, Triton, was discovered shortly thereafter, though none of the planet's remaining known 13 moons were located telescopically until the 20th century. The planet's distance from Earth gives it a very small apparent size, making it challenging to study with Earth-based telescopes. Neptune was visited by "Voyager 2", when it flew by the planet on 25 August 1989. The advent of the "Hubble Space Telescope" and large ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics has
, Professor of Biological Chemistry at Cambridge
- John Couch Adams, mathematician and discoverer of Neptune
- Bernard Armitage, fellow of the College and psychiatrist
- George Barnard, statistician known for his work on the foundations of statistics
- Henry Briggs, mathematician
- Sir David Cox, prominent statistician
- Sir Samuel Curran, physicist, inventor of the scintillation counter and proportional counter, and founder of Strathclyde University
- John Dee, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I