- 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.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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), …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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"."
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- Sandra Dawson
Dame Sandra J. N. Dawson DBE is Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, KPMG Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Judge Business School. In a 2004 poll, student newspaper Varsity named her as the 6th most powerful individual in the university - one place above Professor Stephen Hawking. Prior to becoming Director of the Judge Business School in 1995, …
- Alan MacFarlane
Alan Macfarlane (born 20 December 1941) is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of 19 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on a comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research.
- 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.
- Piers Vitebsky
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist and is the Head of Social Science at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England. Since the 1980s, Vitebsky has carried out fieldwork with the Evens of Siberia, and other peoples of India and Sri Lanka. Vitebsky won the Kiriyama Prize. Vitebsky has also collaborated with a number of documentary films, including: "Siberia: after the shaman"; "Arctic aviators" and "Flightpaths to the gods".
- George Coulouris
George Coulouris is a British computer scientist and the son of actor George Coulouris. He is Visiting Professor in Residence at University of Cambridge and the author of a textbook in distributed systems. He developed em, the Unix editor, which inspired Bill Joy to write vi.
- John Colson
Johnathan 'John' Colson was a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take a degree. He is remembered for producing several of Sir Isaac Newton's works including "De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum" in English in 1736; see "Method of Fluxions".
- Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.
- Adam Tooze
Adam Tooze is a British historian and Senior Lecturer in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge.
- John Hinch
John Hinch (born March 4, 1947) is a Professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research covers a wide range of fluid dynamics, including micro-hydrodynamics, colloidal dispersion, flow through porous media, polymer rheology and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics. He also works on industrial problems involving fluid dynamics, including collaborating with experimental groups in Paris, Marseilles and Toulouse.
- Charles Hampden-Turner
Charles Hampden-Turner, is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, is the author of "Charting the Corporate Mind" and "Corporate Culture: Vicious and Virtuous Circles". He received an MBA and a DBA from the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, after studying history at Cambridge. From 2002-2005 he was the Goh Tjoe Kok Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
- Edward Waring
Edward Waring was an English mathematician who was born in Old Heath (near Shrewsbury), Shropshire, England and died in Pontesbury, Shropshire, England. Waring was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1760 until his death. He made the assertion known as Waring's Problem without proof in his writings "Meditationes Algebraicae". Waring was awarded the Copley Medal in 1784.
- Arthur Shipley
Sir Arthur Everett Shipley GBE FRS (10 March 1861-22 September 1927) was an English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Shipley was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, brought up in Datchet, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire), and educated at University College School. He enrolled at St Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student in 1879, but in the following year transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge to read natural sciences, …
- Martin Hyland
J. Martin E. Hyland is professor of mathematics at King's College in the University of Cambridge, England. His interests include mathematical logic, category theory, and theoretical computer science.
- Carenza Lewis
Carenza Rachel Lewis (born c. 1964) is a British archaeologist who became famous as a result of her appearances on the Channel 4 television series "Time Team". Educated at the University of Cambridge, in 1985 she joined the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England (now part of English Heritage) as a field archaeologist for Wessex.
- Peter Goddard
Peter Goddard (born September 3 1945) is a mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory, and proved the no-ghost theorem. Goddard was educated at Emanuel School and the University of Cambridge, where he was a professor in DAMTP, and until 2004, Master of St John's College. He has been Director of the Institute for Advanced Study since January 2004. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1989, …
- Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley (August 16 1821 - January 26 1895) was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics. As a child, Cayley enjoyed solving complex math problems for amusement. At eighteen, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he excelled in Greek, French, German, and Italian, as well as mathematics. Cayley worked as a lawyer for 14 years, but that is not what he is remembered for.
- Anthony Snodgrass
Anthony McElrea Snodgrass FBA (July 7, 1934) is an academic and archaeologist noted for his work on Archaic Greece. Born to William McElrea and Kathleen (Owen) Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and D.Phil in 1963. He is Emeritus Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a specialist in Archaic Greece. He is a Fellow of Clare College and of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.