Introduction
1 - William Gilbert
2 - William Harvey
3 - Isaac Newton: Creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition
4 - William Whewell: A Cambridge historian and philosopher of science
5 - Adam Sedgwick: A confident mind in turmoil
6 - Charles Babbage: Science and reform
7 - Charles Darwin
8 - Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat
9 - James Clerk Maxwell
10 - The duo from Trinity: A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell on the foundations of mathematics
11 - Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish
12 - Hopkins and biochemistry
13 - Charles Sherrington, E.D. Adrian, and Henry Dale: The Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the physiology of the nervous system
14 - Hardy and Littlewood
15 - Arthur Stanley Eddington
16 - Paul Dirac: A quantum genius
17 - Alan Turing
18 - Francis Crick and James Watson
19 - Mary Cartwright
20 - Joseph Needham
21 - Molecular biology in Cambridge
22 - The discovery of pulsars – prelude and aftermath
23 - Stephen W. Hawking

Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell. The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history.