> discovery of gravity, evolution, and deoxyribonucleic acid
Two of those happened quite a long time ago, when the world and UK's power was quite different, and the scientists and their students in question are long gone.
that's quite silly- Britain is still very strong in all three topics you cited.
It wouldn't be hard to show direct-line ancestry for many existing active british scientists to historically prominent scientists (well, OK, probably not Newton).
Two of those happened quite a long time ago, when the world and UK's power was quite different, and the scientists and their students in question are long gone.