- Eric Hobsbawm
Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London. One of Hobsbawm's interests is the development of traditions. His work is a study of their construction in the context of the nation state.
- Sami Zubaida
Sami Zubaida is an Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London and, as of early 2006, teaches Law and Politics in the Islamic World at New York University School of Law.
- Bernard Crick
Sir Bernard Crick is Emeritus Professor of Birkbeck College, University of London, and has been an Honorary Fellow of the Politics Department since coming to live in Edinburgh in 1984. He began his teaching career as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, taught at McGill a year before returning to teach at the LSE from 1956 to 1967 and was first professor Politics at Sheffield from 1967 to 1973, thereafter at Birkbeck.
- George Birkbeck
George Birkbeck (10 January 1776 - 1 December 1841) was a British doctor, academic, philanthropist, an early pioneer in adult education and founder of Birkbeck College. Born to a Quaker family in Settle, North Yorkshire, Birkbeck went to Sedbergh School and then completed his training as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1799. Before practising as a physician, however, he initially embarked on an academic career, …
- Janet Thornton
Professor Janet Thornton CBE, FRS, is Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute on the Genome Campus at Hinxton, near Cambridge, U.K. She is one of the world’s leading researchers in structural bioinformatics, using computational methods to understand protein structure and function. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, interfacing with structural biology, bioinformatics, biological chemistry and chemoinformatics, amongst others. Together with Prof.
- Ben Pimlott
Professor Ben Pimlott (4 July, 1945 - April 10, 2004) was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. Educated at Rokeby school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a BPhil in politics. Bill Clinton was a contemporary of his there.
- Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904-22 September 1979), Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Frisch was Jewish, born in Vienna in 1904 the son of a painter and a concert pianist. He himself was talented at both but also had inherited his aunt Lise Meitner's love of physics and commenced a period of study at the University of Vienna, …
- Paul Raffield
Paul Raffield (born 19 June 1957, London) is a British actor, best known for his role as Robert in "Joking Apart" opposite Tracie Bennett. He has played two different characters in "Coronation Street": in 1996 as Dr Stirling, and in 2005 as a vicar. Other TV credits include "The Worst Week of My Life", "The Robinsons", "The Bill", "Karaoke" and "2point4 Children".
- Julia Goldsworthy
Julia Anne Goldsworthy (born September 10, 1978) is a British politician. She is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne and shadows the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the House of Commons.
- Derek Harold Richard Barton
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS (1918-1998) was a British physical chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate. He was born on 8 September 1918, son of William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton. In 1938 he entered Imperial College, University of London, where he graduated in 1940 and obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1942. From then to 1944 he was a government research chemist, from 1944 to 1945 he was with Albright and Wilson in Birmingham.
- Roger Cotterrell
Roger Cotterrell is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary, University of London and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. Previously he was the Acting Head of the Department of Law (1989-90), Head of the Department of Law (1990-1), Professor of Legal Theory (1990-2005) and the Dean of the Faculty of Laws (1993-6) at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
- Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan, GBE was a prominent British botanist and mycologist. In 1909, Helen Fraser became head of the botany department at Birkbeck College in London. In 1911 she married David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan, who died four years later. In 1917, she was appointed chief controller of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. For her service she became the first woman to receive a military CBE in 1918.
- Timothy O'Shea
Timothy O'Shea (born Hamburg 1949) is the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom. Professor O'Shea was brought up in London and went to school in Essex. A Computer Scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2001. A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, …
- Ehsan Masood
Ehsan Masood is a writer and journalist based in London, writing mainly about science, international development and the politics of the Muslim world. He writes a fortnightly column for the online magazine Opendemocracy.net and is a consultant to the Science and Development Network. He also writes for "Prospect magazine" and the journal "Nature ".
- Christina Scull
Christina Scull is a researcher and writer best known for her books about the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. She worked for the London Board of Trade from 1961 to 1971 while completing with Honours her Bachelor of Arts degree in art history and medieval history at Birkbeck College. From 1971 to 1995 she served as Librarian of the Soane Museum in London. She has also done several Harry Potter projects, …
- David Sutton
David Sutton is the current editor of the Fortean Times magazine. He was born in 1966 in Canterbury, Kent, and was educated at the University of East Anglia, University College London, Birkbeck College and the British Film Institute. He holds a doctorate, earned for his thesis on the origins and progress of British film comedy, and is the author of the book "A Chorus of Raspberries: British Film Comedy, 1929-1939".
- Leonard Mandel
Leonard Mandel (May 9, 1927 - February 9 2001) was the Lee DuBridge Professor Emeritus of Physics and Optics at the University of Rochester when he died at the age of 73 at his home in Pittsford, New York. He contributed immensely to theoretical and experimental optics. With Emil Wolf he published the highly-regarded book "Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics." Mandel was born in Berlin, Germany, where his father had emigrated from Eastern Europe.
- Chris French
Christopher C. French BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS FRSA is a psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. He is currently Professor of psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is head of their Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit which he founded in the year 2000 and is the co-editor of "The Skeptic" (UK) magazine with Victoria Hamilton.
- Tessa Blackstone Baroness Blackstone
Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC (born 27 September 1942 in Bures, Suffolk) is a British politician and university administrator. Blackstone was educated at Ware Grammar School for Girls and the London School of Economics, where she ultimately gained a doctorate. She has been Minister for Education at the Department of Education from 1997 to 2001 then Minister for the Arts at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport 2001-2003.
- Andrej Šali
Andrej Šali is a structural and computational biologist. He joined the faculty of the Rockefeller University in 1995, following his postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Since 2003, he has been the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as an editor for the journal "Structure".
- George Frederick James Temple
Dom George Frederick James Temple OSB (born 2 December 1901, London; died 30 January 1992, Isle of Wight) was an English mathematician, recipient of the Sylvester Medal in 1969. He was President of the London Mathematical Society in the years 1951-1953. Temple took his first degree as an evening student at Birkbeck College, London, between 1918 and 1922, and also worked there as a research assistant. In 1924 he moved to Imperial College as a demonstrator, …
- Fergus I. M. Craik
Fergus Craik is a cognitive psychologist known for his groundbreaking research on levels of processing in memory. This work was done in collaboration with Robert Lockhart at the University of Toronto. Craik has received numerous awards and is considered a leader in the area of memory, attention and cognitive aging. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 17, 1935, and attended the University of Edinburgh. In 1965, he received his PhD from the University of Liverpool.
- John Redcliffe-Maud Baron Redcliffe-Maud
John Primatt Redcliffe Maud, Baron Redcliffe-Maud was a British civil servant and diplomat. John Maud was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). In 1928, he gained a one-year scholarship to Harvard University. During World War II he was Master of Birkbeck College and was also based at Reading Gaol, working for the Ministry of Food.
- J. H. Kwabena Nketia
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (b. Mampong, Sekyere West District, Ashanti Region, Ghana, June 22, 1921) is a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. He studied at the University of London from 1944 to 1949, beginning with two years of study in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1949 he began three years' study at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining a B.A. degree.
- Ivor Stanbrook
Ivor Robert Stanbrook (13 January 1924 - 18 February 2004) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Orpington from 1970-1992. As the member for Orpington he introduced a private members bill called the Bromley London Borough (Crystal Palace) Bill. Stanbrook was born in Willesden, north London, to a laundry manager. He was educated at Willesden high school, leaving at 15, and became a legal assistant at Wembley Council, …
- G. E. M. De Ste. Croix
Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, February 10, 1910-February 5, 2000 was a British historian who specialized in examining the classical era from a historical materialist perspective. De Ste. Croix was born at Macau. He was educated at Clifton School, in Bristol, and obtained a law degree. He was a physically strong man and a talented tennis player, who once defeated Fred Perry and who competed at Wimbledon in 1929. In 1926-40, he practised as a solicitor.
- Eric Fletcher Baron Fletcher
Sir Eric George Molyneux Fletcher, Baron Fletcher (26 March 1903 - 9 June 1990) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Fletcher was the son of a former town clerk of Islington. He studied at Radley College and the University of London and became a solicitor, specialising in international law. He was deputy chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation. Fletcher was elected onto the London County Council for Islington South, serving 1934-49.
- Joseph Hiam Levy
Joseph Hiam Levy (1838-1913) was an English author and economist. He was educated at the City of London School and joined the Civil Service. He later became a lecturer in economics at Birkbeck College and an important figure in the Personal Rights Association.
- Christina Koning
Christina Koning is a novelist and short story writer, who has reviewed extensively for the UK national press. Koning was born in Kuala Belait, British Borneo, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. She is currently Paperbacks Editor for The Times. Her first novel, "A Mild Suicide", was published by Lime Tree in 1992. Her most recent novel is "Fabulous Time" (Viking), which won a Society of Authors Traveling Scholarship; her second novel, …
- Anthony Julius
Anthony is a highly regarded litigation lawyer. As this Firm's senior solicitor-advocate, he has appeared in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He has acted for many high profile clients. Anthony was for ten years the head of the Firm's litigation department and served on the management board from 1985-1997. He taught part-time in the Law Faculty, UCL, for three years and is now a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London.
- Maia Gur
Maia Gur , Content Advisor Maia has studied Cinematic Theory and Filmmaking both at Birkbeck College in London and at the Film & Television Dept. of Tel Aviv University. During her studies she has made several short films and is currently working on the final project for her degree.
- Bill Bowring
- Todd Malan
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- Frederick
Welcome to Frederick Kamara MySpace Site. First, let me tell about myself before rumours fester into facts! I am : a Londoner, metro-sexual, urbano-llectual, hippo-fessional, cosmopolitan, straight-forward, easy-going, friendly and loyal.
- Otto Frisch
The Austrian-British physicist Otto Robert Frisch (1904-1979) was recognized for his significant role in the discovery of nuclear fission. Otto Robert Frisch was born on October 1, 1904, in Vienna, Austria, the son of Justinian and Auguste (Meitner) Frisch. Though his father had a doctorate in law, his mother was an accomplished musician, and the family had intellectual connections, his father was forced by financial circumstances to pursue a career as a printer.
- Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was born in London, England. Her family was well-to-do and both sides were very involved in social and public works. Franklin's father wanted to be a scientist, but World War I cut short his education and he became a college teacher instead. Rosalind Franklin was extremely intelligent and she knew by the age of 15 that she wanted to be a scientist. Her father actively discouraged her interest since it was very difficult for women to have such a career.
- Steve Bundred
Steve Bundred , Chief Executive Steve Bundred has been Chief Executive of the Audit Commission since 1 September 2003. Prior to joining the Audit Commission, Steve was Executive Director of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government and before that worked for the London Borough of Camden, joining as Director of Finance in 1992 and becoming Chief Executive in 1995.
- Neil Walker
Neil Walker Chief Operating Officer With over 20 years experience in the software industry, in systems development and delivery, and in the provision of software post-sales support services, Neil is well equipped to lead his teams in the provision of professional services, product development and responsive customer support at Eqos.
- Graham Sadler
Graham Sadler has a BSc in Chemistry and Computing (Nottingham Trent University)
- Barry Ife
Barry Ife is Cervantes Professor of Spanish and Acting Principal of King's College London. He graduated from King's with a first class degree in Spanish in 1968, and was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck College in 1984. From 1969 to 1972 he was lecturer in Spanish at Nottingham University, and from 1973-1988 was lecturer in Spanish at Birkbeck College.