The Times today published a list of 'the 100 most important figures in British science'.
Weirdly, David Willetts, science minister, does not make the list...
Being the Times it's all behind a pay wall but if you are interested I've posted the list on the
UCL STS department's blog, STS Observatory:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-observatory/?p=532
where comment is free...
cheers
Jon