- Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born February 2, 1960) is an author of poetry, novels, and drama. D'Aguiar was born in London of Guyanese parents. He spent his childhood, from the age of two to twelve, in Guyana. His work has received much, and growing, acclaim. His "Bill of Rights", about the Jonestown Massacre of 1978, was a finalist for the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize. He was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University (1989-90), Visiting Writer at Amherst College, Amherst, … - Graham Virgo
Graham Virgo is a fellow of, Director of Studies in Law at and Senior Tutor at Downing College, Cambridge and a Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of works on the Law of Restitution and the Criminal Law. He graduated from Downing College in 1987 after obtaining a BA in Law. He is to be made a Professor in Law at Downing in October 2007. - Simon Blackburn
Simon Blackburn (born 1944) is a British academic philosopher also known for his efforts to popularise philosophy. He attended Clifton College and went on to receive his bachelor's degree in Moral Sciences (i.e. philosophy) in 1965 from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, a position formerly held by such philosophers as Elizabeth Anscombe, G.H. Von Wright, Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore, and a fellow of Trinity College, … - Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - David Mackay
David J. C. MacKay (born April 22, 1967) is the professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He was born the fifth child of Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and Valerie MacKay. He was educated at Newcastle High School (later Newcastle-under-Lyme School) and represented Britain in the International Physics Olympiad in Yugoslavia in 1985, receiving the first prize for experimental work. - Brian J. Ford
Brian J. Ford (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an English independent scientist, prolific author and popular interpreter of scientific issues for the general populace, whose scientific papers and numerous books have been published internationally. He is also a TV celebrity and lecturer in many countries. Professor Ford is a Fellow of Cardiff University, Member of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Honorary member of Keynes College, University of Kent, … - John Guy
John Guy (born 1949 in Warragul, Australia) is a leading British historian and biographer. Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read History, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. He was awarded a Greene Cup by Clare College and the Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge. - Michael Levey
Sir Michael Vincent Levey LVO (born 1927) is a British art historian and former director of the National Gallery, London. Shortly after graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1950 he joined the National Gallery as an Assistant Keeper. In 1954, he married the novelist and critic Brigid Brophy. Levey's approach to art history was already considered backward-looking by the 1960s, … - Ian Roberts
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985-1993), Bangor (1991-1996) and Stuttgart (1996-2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. - Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet (born 2 August 1927), commonly known as Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, is an English mathematician specialising in number theory at Cambridge University. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Master of St Catharine's College and vice-chancellor of Cambridge University from 1979 to 1981. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and awarded the Sylvester Medal in 2006. - David Feldman
David Feldman is the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, as well as the author and editor of several books on British law. He was formerly the Acting Director of the Centre of Public Law and since early 2006 has been Chairman of the Faculty of Law. Since 2002 he has been a Judge on the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is currently Vice-President of that court. - John G. Thompson
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13 1932 in Ottawa, Kansas, USA) is a mathematician noted for his work in the field of finite groups. - Anthony Kenny
Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny FBA (born Liverpool, 16 March 1931) is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the philosophy of religion. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism, … - Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. With the exception of five years, he grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine "Perfect Bound" and helped organize several Cambridge International Poetry Festivals. He was awarded a doctorate in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson. - Hermann Bondi
Professor Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919-10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will probably be his important contributions to the theory of general relativity. - Oliver Rackham
Oliver Rackham is Fellow and Praelector Rhetoricus of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also Keeper of the College Silver. An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and pasture, he has written a number of well-known books, including "The History of the Countryside" (1986) and one on Hatfield Forest. He has also studied and published extensively on the ecology of Crete. In 2005 he was awarded the OBE. - Mary Beard
Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Newnham College. She is also Classics editor of the "Times Literary Supplement". Her books include "Religions of Rome" (with John North and Simon Price, 1998), "Classics: A Very Short Introduction" (with John Henderson, 2000), "Rome in the Late Republic" (with Michael Crawford, 2000), "The Invention of Jane Harrison" (2000), … - Nick Baylis
Nick Baylis is a Cambridge University lecturer, author, and Times columnist. He is a psychologist and a self-described well-being scientist. He writes and lectures on the topic of happiness. - Dennis Bray
Dr. Dennis Bray is an active emeritus professor at University of Cambridge. On November 3, 2006, he was awarded the Microsoft European Science Award for his work on chemotaxis of E. coli. - W. H. R. Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers M.D.(Lond.), F.R.C.P.(Lond.), F.R.S., Medical Officer, Craiglockhart War Hospital (March 12, 1864 - 4 June, 1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898, … - Roger Needham
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, … - Glyn Daniel
Glyn Edmund Daniel (23 April, 1914-13 December, 1986) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the European Neolithic and made some of the earliest efforts to popularise the subject on radio and television. He was born in Barry in South Wales and studied geology at University College, Cardiff before transferring to St John's College, Cambridge to read archaeology and anthropology. - Sam Edwards
Sir Samuel Frederick "Sam" Edwards (born February 1 1928) is a British physicist. Edwards was educated at Swansea Grammar School, Wales; Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, England; and Harvard University, United States. He did his thesis under Julian Schwinger on the structure of the electron, and subsequently developed the functional integral form of field theory. - Robin Osborne
Robin Osborne is an English historian of antiquity, who is particularly interested in Ancient Greece. He authored standard monographs on archaic Greek history ("Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC") and on Greek art ("Archaic and Classical Greek Art"). Osborne is currently a faculty member of King's College, Cambridge. - Robert Lethbridge
Professor Robert Lethbridge has been Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University since 3 October 2005. He is Emeritus Professor of French Language and Literature in the University of London. His current research and postgraduate teaching is now in association with Cambridge's Department of French, where he was a University Lecturer until 1994. His work is focused on late nineteenth-century France and, in particular, … - Charles Samuel Myers
Charles Samuel Myers was a significant English psychologist. In 1909, when W. H. R. Rivers resigned a part of his Lectureship, C. S. Myers became the first University Lecturer in Cambridge University whose whole duty was to teach Experimental psychology. For this he received a stipend of £50 a year. - Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (31 August 1921 - 26 January 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature reflected his Marxist outlook. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. Some 750,000 copies of his books have sold in UK editions alone ("Politics and Letters", 1979) and there are many translations of his various work. - Alec Stokes
Alec Stokes (Alexander Rawson Stokes, June 27 1919-February 5 2003) was one of the key contributors in the original DNAa research team at King's College London. Stokes worked alongside Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, and Herbert Wilson, to determine the structure of DNA in the 1950s, under the direction of Sir John Randall. In 1993, on the 40th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, … - John Fincham
John Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE (11 August 1926 - February 9 2005) was a noted British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics. Perhaps most notably, he obtained the first direct evidence for the "one gene-one enzyme" hypothesis. He accomplished this considerable feat using mutants of Neurospora crassa deficient in a specific enzyme. Fincham was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. - Mary Hesse
Mary B. Hesse (born 1924) is a contemporary English philosopher of science. She is now professor emerita of the philosophy of science at Cambridge University. Her publication "Models and Analogies in Science" is a widely cited and accessible introduction to the topic. - Simon Goldhill
Simon Goldhill is a professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College, Cambridge.<sup></sup> He is renowned for his work on Greek tragedy. His publications on Classical literature include "Language, Sexuality and Narrative", "Reading Greek Tragedy", "The Poet's Voice", and "Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the ancient world shapes our lives"." - Andrew H. Wyllie
Andrew H. Wyllie is a Scottish researcher. In 1972, while working with electron microscopes at the University of Aberdeen he became the first person to realise the significance of natural cell death. He called this process apoptosis, from the use of this word in an ancient Greek poem to mean "falling off" (like leaves falling from a tree). His works have contributed to the understanding of apoptosis in health and in disease. - Christopher Chippindale
Christopher Chippindale (born 1951) is a British archaeologist, most well-known for his work on Stonehenge. He is Reader in Archaeology and Curator for British Collections at the Museum of archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University. His publications include: *"Stonehenge Complete" (Thames and Hudson, London, 2004) *"(with others) "Who owns Stonehenge? (London, Batsford 1990) - Chaiyapoj Netsiri
Chaiyapoj Netsiri, Ph.D. is a Thai engineer and researcher. Dr. Netsiri graduated with B.S.E.E. with Honors from Department of Electronics at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Bangkok, Thailand. He received his M.S. in Computer and Information Science from Chiba University and Ph.D.in Electronics Engineering from the University of Tokyo, both in Japan. He received his post-doctoral training at the University of Cambridge in England. - Richard Finn
The Very Reverend fr. Richard Damian Finn OP is Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford. Richard Finn was educated at the St Catherine's College, Cambridge (BA English, MA). He joined the Order of Preachers in 1985 and was ordained a Priest in the Catholic Church in 1990. He read Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was awarded the Haigh Prize. - John Henderson
John Henderson is Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He has written widely on all aspects of Latin literature and is commonly regarded as one of the most subversive and idiosyncratic Latinists of his generation. His books include "Writing Down Rome" and "Fighting for Rome". - Gregory Lee
- Paul Cartledge
Paul Cartledge is a Professor of Greek History at Cambridge University, and a fellow of Clare College. A world expert on Athens and Sparta in the Classical Age, he has been described as a Laconophile. He was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series "The Greeks" and the Channel 4 series "The Spartans", presented by Bettany Hughes. Cartledge completed his doctoral thesis in Spartan archaeology at Oxford in 1975. - William Whiston
William Whiston (December 9, 1667 - August 22, 1752), was as English theologian, historian, and mathematician. He is probably best known for his translation of the "Antiquities of the Jews" and other works by Josephus, his "A New Theory of the Earth", and his Arianism. - Graeme Barker
Graeme W. W. Barker (born October 23, 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. Barker was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He began lecturing in archaeology at the University of Sheffield in 1972, moving to become Director of the British School at Rome in 1984.
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