- 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. - Lucy Cavendish
Lucy Caroline Cavendish, née Lyttelton was the wife of the assassinated Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and a pioneer of women's education. Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge is named after her. Born into the aristocracy, she became a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria in 1863. The following year she married Lord Frederick Cavendish, the second-eldest son to the Duke of Devonshire. - Philip Hazel
Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent and the PCRE library. He is currently employed by the University of Cambridge computing service, where he is due to retire at the end of September 2007. - Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems. - John Adams
John Adams D.D. (1662-1720), provost of King's College, Cambridge, was born in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was admitted of King's College in 1678; took the degree of B.A. 1682, and M.A. 1686. He afterwards travelled into Spain, Italy, France, and Ireland; and in 1687 was presented by the lord chancellor Jeffries to the living of Hickam in Leicestershire. In London, he was lecturer of St. Clement's; rector of St. Alban's Woodstreet, … - Alison Richard
Professor Alison Fettes Richard (born 1 March 1948 in Kent, United Kingdom) is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. She is the first woman Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became executive rather than just ceremonial. Richard was an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, before gaining a PhD at the University of London, and went on to have an academic career in Physical Anthropology with a specialisation in lemurs. - Simon Baron-Cohen
Dr. Baron-Cohen holds a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford; a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry; and a Ph.D. in Psychology from UCL. He serves as Director of the Autism Research Centre and as a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He also is a Director of CLASS , the C ambridge L ifespan A sperger S yndrome S ervice. - Markus Kuhn
Dr. Markus G. Kuhn (born 1971 in Munich) is a German computer scientist, currently teaching and researching at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He graduated from the University of Erlangen (Germany), Purdue University (Indiana, US), and the University of Cambridge (England), and is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Kuhn's main research interests include computer security, in particular the hardware and signal-processing aspects of it, … - Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, … - James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was formulating a set of equations - eponymously named Maxwell's equations - that for the first time expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in a unified fashion. He also developed the Maxwell distribution, a statistical means to describe aspects of the kinetic theory of gases. - Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics. He held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and spent the last ten years of his life at Florida State University. Among other discoveries, he formulated the so-called "Dirac equation," which describes the behavior of fermions and which led to the prediction of the existence of antimatter. - John Marshall
Sir John Hubert Marshall (March 19, 1876 Chester - August 17, 1958 Guildford) was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928. He was responsible for the excavation that lead to the discovery of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, two of the main cities that comprise the Indus Valley Civilization. Marshall was educated at Cambridge. In 1902 he was appointed Director-General of Archaeology within the British Indian administration, … - David King
Sir David King ScD FRS is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, and consequently head of the Office of Science and Innovation. He is also the Director of the Surface Science Research Group at the Department of Chemistry at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. He was Master of Downing College, Cambridge until 2000. In 1988, he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge, … - 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. - Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson is Professor of Computer Technology and Deputy Head of Department at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he leads the Rainbow Group working on computer graphics and interaction. He is also a Fellow, Praelector and Director of Studies in Computer Science at Gonville and Caius College where he previously studied for a first degree in Mathematics and a PhD in Computer Science under Neil Wiseman. - Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey, Ph.D., (born 20 April 1963 in London, England) is a controversial biomedical gerontologist who lives in the city of Cambridge, UK. He is working to expedite the development of a cure for human aging, a medical goal he refers to as engineered negligible senescence. To this end, he has identified what he concludes are the seven areas of the aging process that need to be addressed medically before this can be done. - James Boyd
James Boyd, the son of a wealthy coal and oil family in Pennsylvania, was an American novelist. Boyd's parents, John Yeomans Boyd and Eleanor Gilmore Herr Boyd, were from North Carolina and he was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He attended Princeton University where he wrote verse and fiction for the "Tiger" and was its managing editor in his senior year. After graduation in 1910, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, … - Andrew Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley, OM, FRS (born 22 November 1917, Hampstead, London) is an English physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin on the basis of nerve action potentials, the electrical impulses that enable the activity of an organism to be coordinated by a central nervous system. Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses. - Mark Welland
Prof. Mark E. Welland FRS FREng is the head of The Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge University. He started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA, where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunneling microscopes. Upon moving to Cambridge in 1985 he set up the first tunneling microscopy group in the UK in collaboration with Prof. John Pethica. - Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris FRS is a British paleontologist. He was born in 1951 and brought up in London, England. He made his reputation with a very detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life", though Conway Morris' own book on the subject, "The Crucible of Creation", is somewhat critical of Gould's presentation and interpretation. - George Herbert
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led on to him holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, … - Adam Sedgwick
Adam Sedgwick (March 22nd, 1785-January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. The latter proposal was based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Sedgwick was born in Dent, Yorkshire, the third child of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge. - Thomas May
Thomas May was a poet and historian. May was born in Mayfield, the son of Sir Thomas May. He went to Cambridge, and then to Gray's Inn, but discarded law for literature. In 1622 he produced his first comedy, "The Heir", and also a translation of Virgil's "Georgics". Six years later, in 1627, appeared his translation of "Lucan", which gained him the favour of Charles I at whose command he wrote two poems, "The Reigne of King Henry II", … - Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941. He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College. After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new) University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination. - 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. - Richard Friend
Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS is Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge with a world-renowned reputation for his research into the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors. His work has been applied to development of polymer field effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaic diodes, optically pumped lasing and directly printed polymer transistors. - William Bill
William Bill (cir 1505-15 July 1561) was Master of St Johns College, Cambridge (1547-1551?), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1548) and twice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1551-1553, 1558-1561), Provost of Eton College (1558-1561) and Dean of Westminster (1560-1561). He was born to John and Margaret Bill of Ashwell, Hertfordshire. He had two brothers and two sisters. His brother Thomas became physician to Henry VIII of England. - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - Quentin Skinner
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He will be a distinguished visiting professor in the humanities at Queen Mary, University of London, in the 2007-2008 academic year and will be professor in the humanities at Queen Mary beginning the 2008-2009 academic year - John Moore
John Moore (1646-1714) was an English cleric, scholar, and book collector. He was bishop of Norwich (1691-1707) and bishop of Ely (1707-1714). At the time of his death, Moore's collection of books and papers contained over 30,000 items, and may have been the largest in England. To celebrate his coronation, King George I caused it to be purchased intact, at a cost of 6,000 guineas, and donated to Cambridge University. - Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang (b. South Korea in 1963) is one of the world's foremost heterodox economists specialising in development economics. Trained at the University of Cambridge, where he currently works as a Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Chang is the author of several influential policy books, including 2002's "Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective,". - Austin Robinson
Professor E. Austin G. Robinson (20 November 1897 - 1 June 1993) was a Cambridge economist and husband of Joan Robinson. He was a fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. A close associate of John Maynard Keynes, Robinson served as assistant editor during Keynes' period as editor of the Economic Journal; following Keynes' retirement in 1944, Robinson took over the joint editorship with Roy Harrod. - Tom Blundell
Sir Tom L. Blundell, FRS (born 1942-07-07) is a British biologist and science administrator. His MA and DPhil are from the University of Oxford, working with Dorothy Hodgkin. His early posts were at the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex. In 1976, Blundell joined the Department of Crystallography at Birkbeck, University of London, becoming head of department in 1978. - Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis FRS (born 25 May 1950, Colwyn Bay, Wales) is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He read astronomy at University College London and obtained a DPhil at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford in 1974. After a career as an academic at the University of Durham (with two years at the Royal Greenwich Observatory), being appointed a professor at Durham in 1985, … - 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, … - Herchel Smith
Herchel Smith (1925 - 2001) was the inventor of key intellectual property and patents behind oral and injectable contraceptives. In later life, he was a major benefactor to university science. In England, Cambridge University, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London have been the major beneficiaries. In the US, it has been Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Williams College. - Fred Hoyle
Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (born on June 24, 1915 in Gilstead, Yorkshire, England - August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by his son Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, and was director of the institute for a number of years. - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - Peter Williams
Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FRS (born 1945) is a British physicist. Williams completed his first degree and PhD at the University of Cambridge, and began an academic career at Selwyn College. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments. He was chairman of Oxford Instruments from 1991 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Peter is currently Chairman of the National Physical Laboratory. - Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor (born in London 1840; died 1908) was an English Christian Hebraist. He was educated at King's College, London, and St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he became Master in 1881. In 1874 he published an edition of "Coheleth"; in 1877 "Sayings of the Jewish Fathers", an elaborate edition of the "Pirḳe Abot" (2 ed., 1897); and in 1899 a valuable appendix giving a list of manuscripts.
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