Ideas for EPQ

I'd say a couple of names, but it will have to be someone who you have an interest in, because you'll be spending hours of your life finding out things about them.

What particular areas of maths and physics are you interested in?

In physics I'm mainly interested in astrophysics and nuclear physics and any part of maths really

For maths you could really look at just about any mathematician. Pythagoras was a pretty cool (and terrifying!) guy. Or you could look at the Newton v Leibniz debate about who first "discovered" calculus. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh talks about a lot of interesting people, so reading that might be worth it to find a starting point.

For physics perhaps look at some of the key figures in the Manhattan or Tube Alloys (British nuclear weapon program) projects? e.g. Oppenheimer, Chadwick (discovered the neutron also). Or you could look at the research which lead up to the discovery of nuclear fission of heavy nuclides just before the outbreak of WW2. I am afraid off the top of my head I cannot remember what team discovered it. I think it included Lise Meitner (a good example of a physicist if you want to look at the historical role of women in science perhaps as she was overlooked for a Nobel prize pretty much just because she was a woman). Paul Dirac (not an astro-or-nuclear physicist) is a pretty interesting guy who was fundamental to the development of relativistic quantum mechanics.

Just some ideas. I'm not going to lie I do not know that much about the history of physics anymore, I'm more of a maths guy now.

Thank you for the ideas, I was thinking about Pythagoras too and the Newton vs Leibniz debate sounds interesting

Thank you for the ideas, I was thinking about Pythagoras too and the Newton vs Leibniz debate sounds interesting