| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh | (Physics) |
| 1906 | Sir J. J. Thomson | (Physics) |
| 1908 | Ernest Rutherford (Lord Rutherford) | (Chemistry) |
| 1915 | Sir William Henry Bragg | (Physics) |
| 1915 | Sir Lawrence Bragg | (Physics) |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | (Physics) |
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | (Physics) |
| 1922 | Francis William Aston | (Chemistry) |
| 1922 | Archibald V. Hill | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | (Peace) |
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | (Physics) |
| 1929 | Sir Frederick Hopkins | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1932 | Edgar Adrian (Lord Adrian) | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1936 | Sir Henry Dale | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1937 | George Paget Thomson | (Physics) |
| 1950 | Bertrand Russell | (Literature) |
| 1951 | Ernest T. S. Walton | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1952 | Richard L. M. Synge | (Chemistry) |
| 1962 | Sir John Kendrew | (Chemistry) |
| 1963 | Sir Alan Hodgkin | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1963 | Sir Andrew F. Huxley | (Physiology or Medicine) |
| 1973 | Brian D. Josephson | (Physics) |
| 1974 | Sir Martin Ryle | (Physics) |
| 1977 | James E. Meade | (Economic Sciences) |
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa | (Physics) |
| 1980 | Walter Gilbert | (Chemistry) |
| 1982 | Sir Aaron Klug | (Chemistry) |
| 1983 | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar | (Physics) |
| 1996 | Sir James Mirrlees | (Economic Sciences) |
| 1998 | John Pople | (Chemistry) |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | (Economic Sciences) |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | (Chemistry) |