Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist, … , Victoria University of Manchester
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be...
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John Owens

John Owens

male, deceased
From Manchester, University of Manchester, Owens College, Victoria University of Manchester
John Owens (1790-1846), English merchant, was born in Manchester, England in 1790, the son of a prosperous merchant. Early in life he became a...
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Tom Kilburn

Tom Kilburn

male, deceased
From dewsbury, From West Yorkshire, Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester, Academic of the Victoria University of Manchester, Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Manchester Mark I, … , Victoria University of Manchester
Tom Kilburn (August 11, 1921 - January 17, 2001) was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he invented the Williams-Kilburn Tube and the first...
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John Cockcroft

John Cockcroft

male, deceased
Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, physicist, From Todmorden, Royal Artillery, Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester, Nobel laureate in Physics, … , Victoria University of Manchester
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 - September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the...
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Horace Lamb

Horace Lamb

male, deceased
1849-1934, physicist, Academic of the University of Manchester, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Maxwell's equations, Victoria University of Manchester
Sir Horace Lamb FRS (November 29, 1849 - December 4, 1934) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical...
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Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds

male, deceased
physicist, Owens College, Turbulent, Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge, Academic of the Victoria University of Manchester, fluid dynamics, … , Victoria University of Manchester
Osborne Reynolds (23 August, 1842-21 February, 1912) was a British fluid dynamics engineer. He was born in Belfast, Ireland and died in Watchet in...
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Arthur Schuster

Arthur Schuster

male, deceased
Sir (Franz) Arthur (Friedrich) Schuster, Knights Bachelor, Academic of the University of Manchester, British-Germans, Victoria University of Manchester, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
Sir (Franz) Arthur (Friedrich) Schuster FRS (September 12 1851 - October 17 1934) was a versatile physicist known for his work in spectroscopy,...
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Ben Elton

Ben Elton

male
Television director, director, English, University of Manchester, From fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia, … , Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. Born in Catford, London, he is the son of the physicist and...
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Steve Furber

Steve Furber

male (Manchester, United Kingdom)
microprocessor, arm, ARM architecture, Acorn Computers ltd, British, computer designer, … , Victoria University of Manchester
Stephen Byram "Furbie" Furber, FRS, FREng (born 1953 in Manchester, England) is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer...
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Sydney Chapman

male, deceased
Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics, Academic of the University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester, Adams Prize recipient, Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, University of Manchester
Sydney Chapman (January 29 1888 - June 16 1970) was a British mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist. He was born in Manchester and educated at...
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