Editing Newark-on-Trent (section)

===Science and technology===
*[[John Arderne]] (1307–1392) – notable surgeon, lived in Newark in early life.
*[[Basil Baily]] (1869–1942) – architect
*[[Francis Clater]] (1756–1823) – farrier and veterinary writer
*[[Godfrey Hounsfield]] (1919–2004) – electrical engineer, Nobel Laureate in medicine, inventor of the [[X-ray computed tomography|CT scanner]]<ref>ODNB entry: [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/93911 Retrieved 9 September 2011. Subscription required.]</ref>
*[[Rupert Sheldrake]] (born 1942) – biochemist and [[parapsychology]] researcher born in Newark
*[[Giovanni Francisco Vigani]] ({{Circa|1650}}–1712) – chemist from [[Verona]], who first settled in Newark in 1682
*[[Frederick Smeeton Williams]] (1829–1886) – writer on railways<ref>ODNB entry: [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29503 Retrieved 9 September 2011. Subscription required.]</ref>