- Susan Blackmore
Susan Jane Blackmore (born July 29, 1951) is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book "The Meme Machine". - Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and holds this honour till 2009. Rosen's father was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, … - Susan Greenfield
Susan Greenfield read for a first degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently worked for a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology. She subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York, until being appointed in 1985 as University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College. - George Walker
Professor George Walker is a British educator, and the former director-general of the International Baccalaureate Organisation. He is also a productive author of articles and other works regarding international education and physical chemistry. Walker has studied chemistry at Oxford University, and music at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has worked as a schoolteacher and headmaster at several UK state schools, … - Marcus Borg
Marcus Borg held the Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture in the Philosophy Department at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Now retired, he has been described by The New York Times as "a leading figure of his generation of Jesus scholars," and has been interviewed on many nationally-aired TV and radio programs. Borg was born in Park River, ND, and spent part of his youth in Fergus Falls, MN. - David Berlinski
David Berlinski (born 1942 in New York City) is an educator and author of popular books on mathematics. He is a leading proponent of intelligent design, critic of evolution and author of numerous articles on the topic. - Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D, MA, BA (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, … - Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist who appears as a terrorism analyst on CNN. He is known for conducting the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. He has written several books on terrorism, including "Holy War, Inc." and "The Osama bin Laden I Know". Bergen is Adjunct Professor in South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University"s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. - Tim Hames
Tim Hames is a columnist and Chief Leader Writer at the The Times. Before joining the newspaper in 1999, he was a lecturer in politics at Oxford University. - Wasim Sajjad
Wasim Sajjad Wasim Sajjad was born on March 30, 1941 in Jalandhar. He is the son of late Justice Sajjad Ahmad Jan. Wasim Sajjad has excellent academic credentials; he graduated in 1961 from Punjab University with first class honors in English. He topped and secured gold medals in several other exams at the University including F. E. L., L. L. B. and M. A. in Political Science in 1964. Wasim Sajjad was not only outstanding in his academics but also in sports and debates. - Alexander Thom
Professor Alexander Thom was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, he returned there as a lecturer from 1922–1939. Thom later became a professor of engineering at the University of Oxford when he became interested in the methods used by prehistoric peoples in building megalithic monuments especially the stone circles of the British Isles. He travelled in the company of his son Archie, … - Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine is a British psychologist. He currently holds the chair of Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California. He is noted for his research on the neurobiological and biosocial causes of antisocial and violent behavior in children and adults. - Geoff Gallop
Professor Geoffrey Ian Gallop (born 27 September 1951), Australian academic and former politician, was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006. Gallop was born in Geraldton and joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. After studying economics at the University of Western Australia (UWA), he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1972, and as an undergraduate studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at St John's College, … - Gerald Heard
Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and authored over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known Americans, including Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the 1950s and 1960s. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, … - Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is a Romanian political scientist, academic, journalist and writer. A commentator on national politics, she is one of the most prominent civil society activists in post-1989 Romania, and, since 1990, an active contributor to "22". Mungiu-Pippidi is a professor at the Şcoala Naţională de Ştiinţe Politice şi Administrative in Bucharest, where she holds courses on Nationalism and Electoral Behavior. - Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education. - Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow. - Malcolm McCulloch
Malcolm McCulloch was born in 1965 in South Africa. He graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, cum laude, with a BSc(Eng) in 1986 and with a PhD in 1991. Malcolm continued his work in the field of power engineering, working for Eskom for several years before returning to the Wits Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1993, he moved to Oxford University and started up the Electrical Power Group (EPG). He is a Student (Fellow) of Christ Church, Oxford. - Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer, professional philatelist and past member of the European Parliament who, in 1980, founded the Right Livelihood Awards (a.k.a. the Alternative Nobel Prize). He holds both Swedish and German citizenship. Jakob von Uexkull stems from a Baltic German family that was forced to leave Estonia during World War II. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden. - Edwin Hatch
Edwin Hatch (1835-1889) was an English theologian born on September 4, 1835 in Derby, England. He is best known as the author of the paper "Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church", which he presented during the 1888 Hibbert Lectures. Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, … - Guglielmo Verdirame
Guglielmo Verdirame (born 1974 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy) is a university lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is a leading expert on UN accountability issues and on refugee law. Before coming to Cambridge, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford between 2000-2003. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics, where he studied with Christine Chinkin, … - Timothy Winter
Timothy Winter (also known as Shaykh Abdal-Hakim Murad) is a prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is a convert to Islam. Winter is one of the very few contemporary Muslim thinkers who is equally well-versed in both the Islamic intellectual disciplines, and the modern Occidental academic method at its very highest level. - Jonathan Shepard
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from Oxford University and was a University Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Among other works, he is co-author (with Simon Franklin) of "The Emergence of Rus" 750–1200 (1996), … - Cheryl Praeger
Cheryl Elisabeth Praeger, AM (born September 7, 1948, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian mathematician. She is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Western Australia. She is best known for her works in group theory, algebraic graph theory and combinatorial designs. Praeger received BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Queensland, and doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1973 under direction of Peter M. Neumann. - Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department. - Guido Calabresi
Judge Calabresi was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1994, and entered into duty on September 16, 1994. Prior to his appointment, he was Dean and Sterling Professor at Yale Law School, where he began teaching in 1959, and is now Sterling Professor Emeritus and Professorial Lecturer in Law. Judge Calabresi received his B.S. degree, summa cum laude , from Yale College in 1953, a B.A. degree with First Class Honors from Magdalene College, Oxford University, in 1955, an LL.B. - Bill Hopkins
G.W. (Bill) Hopkins was a British composer, pianist and music critic. Hopkins was born in Prestbury, Cheshire and educated at Rossall School, Lancashire; his mother was educationally subnormal and unable to look after him, and he was raised by aunts. An encounter with Luigi Nono at Dartington consolidated his interest in serialism; subsequently he studied at Oxford University with Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz. - Henry Owen
The Reverend Dr. Henry Owen (1716 - 14 October 1795) was a Welsh theologian and Biblical scholar. Perhaps his most significant contribution to biblical scholarship is his discussion of the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts. It is arguable whether his thoughts on the subject contributed to the development of Johann Jakob Griesbach's Synoptic Gospel hypothesis. - Jonathan A. Jones
Jonathan A. Jones (born in 1967) is a university lecturer in atomic and laser physics at Oxford University, and a fellow and tutor in physics at Brasenose College, Oxford. Although trained in chemistry he is better known for his work in physics, especially for his work on NMR quantum computation for which he was awarded the 2000 Marlow Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. - Dorothy Maud Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (September 12, 1894 - February 11, 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to explain protein structure using mathematical principles. Dorothy Wrinch was born in Rosario, Argentina, the daughter of Hugh Edward Hart Wrinch, an engineer, and Ada Souter. The family returned to England and Dorothy grew up in Surbiton, near London. - Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a fellow in 1995-96. Ms. Esfandiari has worked as a journalist in Iran and taught at the College of Mass Communication in Tehran. She served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and was the deputy director of a foundation at which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers. - Lynette Nusbacher
Dr Lynette Nusbacher is a Canadian military historian, a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a talking head for many historical documentaries. Born in New York City, she grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. She went to school in Rochester, and took a BA Honours in history and economics at the University of Toronto in 1988, working there in a variety of administrative posts for 6 years. She holds graduate degrees from the Royal Military College of Canada and Oxford. - Dugald Sutherland Maccoll
Dugald Sutherland MacColl was a Scottish watercolour painter, art critic, lecturer and writer. MacColl was born in Glasgow and educated at London University and Oxford University between 1876 and 1884. He also studied at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School under Alphonse Legros between 1884 and 1892. Although an accomplished watercolourist, he is best remembered as a writer and lecturer on art. From 1890 to 1895 he was art critic for The Spectator, … - Maurice Tucker
Maurice Edwin Tucker (born November 6, 1946) is a leading British sedimentologist, specialising in the field of carbonate sedimentology, more commonly known as limestones. Since 1993, he has held the position of Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Durham, and since 1998 he has been Master of University College, Durham. - George Malcolm Brown
Professor Sir (George) Malcolm Brown FRS (October 5, 1925 - March 27, 1997) was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth Century. His formidable reputation as an igneous petrologist enabled him to become one of the few scientists invited by NASA to work on the moon rock samples recovered from the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Brown was born in Redcar and was educated at Coatham School. - John K. Inglis
John K. (Kenneth) Inglis, B.Sc., B.A., Dip.Ed., M.Inst.Biol., is a British biologist, writer, and a former lecturer at Oxford University in England.<br /> He has also taught anatomy, physiology, and health, at College of Lake County, Illinois, U.S.A., and at Durham College, Canada.<br /> His published books include: "A Textbook of Human Biology", "Introduction to Laboratory Animal Science and Technology", … - Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis. - Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas. Fodor argues that mental states, such as beliefs and desires, are relations between individuals and mental representations. - Alfred Morel-Fatio
Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio was the leading French Hispanist of his time, born at Strasbourg and educated at École des chartes, Paris. From 1875 to 1880 he was attaché of the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale, during which period he prepared his excellent "Catalogue des manuscrits espagnols et portugais de la Bibliothèque Nationale". For the next five years he was professor at the École supérieure des lettres at Algiers. - Mildred Trotter
Mildred Trotter (February 3, 1899 - August 23, 1991) was an important 20th century forensic anthropologist. Trotter was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. in zoology and physiology from Mount Holyoke College in 1920 and her Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1924. She spent a year on fellowship at Oxford University and was a professor at Washington University Medical School for the rest of her career.
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