Westminster Abbey announced that physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking will be buried at the cathedral. The honor of interment at the cathedral has also been bestowed to Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Ernest Rutherford.

• Scientist, Physicist
  (1942–2018)

Robert Woodrow Wilson is a Nobel Prize–winning radio astronomer and physicist best known for a discovery that advanced the Big Bang model of creation.

• Astronomer, Scientist, Physicist
  (1936–)

Linus Pauling was a theoretical physical chemist who became the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.

• Chemist, Scientist
  (1901–1994)

Taiwanese AIDS researcher David Ho's work has influenced the understanding, investigation and treatment of HIV/AIDS worldwide.

• Scientist, Academic
  (1952–)

Frank Capra is a celebrated Italian-American director known for films like It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

• Director
  (1897–1991)

Carl D. Anderson and Victor Francis Hess received the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the positron, or the positively charged electron.

• Scientist, Physicist
  (1905–1991)