Douglas Hartree

Douglas Hartree

male, deceased (1958)
PhD, University of Manchester, FRS, atomic physics, From cambridgeshire, From Cambridge
Douglas Rayner Hartree PhD, FRS (March 27, 1897 – February 12, 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of...
William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce

male, deceased (1833) (Houston, Texas, United States)
Evangelical Anglican, Tory MP, Clapham Sect, buried at Westminster Abbey, politician, slave trade…Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, cambridge university
William Wilberforce (24 August 1759 - 29 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and abolitionist who led the parliamentary campaign...
Neville Robinson

Neville Robinson

male, deceased (1996)
Oxford University, physicist, British, Academic, physics, magnetic resonance imaging…From Cambridge, Christ's College, Cambridge, Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
Neville Robinson. British physicist (1925-1996). Neville Robinson was born in Cambridge. He was educated at The Leys School and Christ's College,...
M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan

male, 84 years old
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, Alleppey District, Synergy, Tamilnadu, Kumbakonam, high yielding varieties…University of Cambridge
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a...
John Wilkins

John Wilkins

male, deceased (1672)
University of Cambridge, Robina Cromwell, robina, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, University of Oxford, Former student of Magdalen Hall, Oxford…Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
John Wilkins (1614-01-01 - 1672-11-19), an English clergyman, is the only person to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, Fields Medal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…University of Cambridge
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

male, deceased (1978)
Old Persean, Davy Medal, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, From Cambridge, From cambridgeshire, Old Perseans…Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (November 9, 1897 - June 7, 1978) was a British chemist. He was born in Cambridge and attended The Perse School. He...
Gillian Bradshaw

Gillian Bradshaw

female, 53 years old
physics, Byzantine Empire, Sub-Roman Britain, Roman Britain, ancient greece, Duchy of Brittany…University of Cambridge, Newnham College, Cambridge, Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, children's literature, science fiction and contemporary...
Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland

male, deceased (1811)
From Cambridge, Playwright, bury st edmunds, wrangler, Westminster School, English…Trinity College, Cambridge
Richard Cumberland was an English dramatist and civil servant. He was born in the master's lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge, the great-grandson...
Richard Lindzen

Richard Lindzen

male, 69 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
global warming skeptic, Bert Bolin, atmospheric physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, planetary waves, KNMI
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the...