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List of University of Birmingham academics

Index List of University of Birmingham academics

This is a list of notable academics related to the University of Birmingham and its predecessors, Mason Science College and Queen's College, Birmingham. [1]

169 relations: A. G. Hopkins, Aaron Sloman, Adams Prize, Adrian John Brown, Alan S. C. Ross, Alan Walters, Allardyce Nicoll, Alwyn Williams (geologist), Anand Menon, Andrew Barker (classicist), Anthony Burgess, Anticoagulant, Arnold Tustin, Bertram Windle, Bill Hopkins (composer), Bill Parry (mathematician), Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Birmingham Business School, Brinley Rees, Bryan M. Turner, Cannock and Burntwood (UK Parliament constituency), Carenza Lewis, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Centre of West African Studies, Charles Lapworth, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Clarke Medal, COBUILD, Colin Thain, Copley Medal, Daniel Pedoe, Daniela Kühn, Darwin Medal, David Edgar (playwright), David F. Ford, David J. Thouless, Deryk Osthus, Dion Morton, Douglas Vernon Hubble, E. R. Dodds, Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, Edward Arber, Edward Elgar, Ellis Waterhouse, Ernest de Sélincourt, European Prize in Combinatorics, Francis Richards (diplomat), Frank Hahn, Fraser Stoddart, Frederick William Shotton, ..., Freeman Dyson, G. N. Watson, Geoffrey Slaney, George Augustus Auden, Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie, Gordon Warwick, Governor of the Bank of England, Granville Bantock, Guy Medal, Henry Daniels, Hermann Georg Fiedler, Hirudin, Horace Waring, Hughes Medal, Ian Brockington, Ian Calman Muir MacLennan, J. Michael Kosterlitz, James Sayers (physicist), Jeannette Littlemore, Jerzy Lukowski, Joe Vinen, John Berry Haycraft, John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman, John Churton Collins, John Fage, John H. Coote, John Henry Muirhead, John Henry Poynting, John Hick, John Knott (scientist), John McHardy Sinclair, John Randall (physicist), John Robert Schrieffer, Jonathan Bennett (mathematician), Karin Barber, Keith Hancock (historian), Kenneth Mather, Kenneth Walton (pathologist), Klaus Fuchs, Labour Party (UK), Lancelot Hogben, Lars Onsager Prize, Leech, Leonard Huxley (physicist), Leroy Cronin, Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society), List of University of Birmingham alumni, List of University of Birmingham people, London Mathematical Society, Louis MacNeice, Margaret Thatcher, Mark Beeson, Mark Oliphant, Mason Science College, Maureen Perrie, Melville Arnott, Member of parliament, Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, Micaiah John Muller Hill, Michael Dummett, Michael Lyons (BBC chairman), Nanotechnology, Nathan Bodington, Nikolaus Pevsner, Ninian Smart, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nora Calderwood, Norman Haworth, Owen Hood Phillips, Percy F. Frankland, Peter Burnham, Peter Medawar, Philip Burton Moon, Philip Rahtz, Queen's College, Birmingham, Raymond Beazley, Raymond Priestley, Reginald Cline-Cole, Richard Hoggart, Richard Redmayne, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Rodney Hilton, Ronen Palan, Royal Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales, Rudolf Peierls, Rumford Medal, Rupert E. Billingham, Shakespeare Institute, Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, Stanley Wells, Stewart Brown, Stuart Hall (cultural theorist), Supramolecular chemistry, Susan Hunston, Sylvester Medal, The Independent, Thomas Diez, Thomas Turner (metallurgist), Tony Skyrme, Tony Wright (Cannock Chase MP), U. R. Ananthamurthy, UNESCO, University of Birmingham, University of Glasgow, University of Southampton, Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston, Whitehead Prize, William A. Tilden, William Ashley (economic historian), William Brunsdon Yapp, William Haywood (architect), William Sands Cox, William Whitehead Watts, Winifred Cavenagh, Yvonne Elsworth. Expand index (119 more) »

A. G. Hopkins

Antony "Tony" Gerald Hopkins, FBA (born 21 February 1938) is a British historian specialising in the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, and globalisation.

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Aaron Sloman

Aaron Sloman is a philosopher and researcher on artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

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Adams Prize

The Adams Prize is one of the most prestigious prizes awarded by the University of Cambridge.

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Adrian John Brown

Adrian John Brown, FRS (27 April 1852 – 2 July 1919) was a British Professor of Malting and Brewing at the University of Birmingham and a pioneer in the study of enzyme kinetics.

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Alan S. C. Ross

Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1 February 1907 – 23 September 1980) was a British academic specialising in linguistics.

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Alan Walters

Sir Alan Arthur Walters (17 June 1926 – 3 January 2009) was a British economist who was best known as the Chief Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1981 to 1983 and (after his return from the United States) again for five months in 1989.

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Allardyce Nicoll

John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll (28 June 1894 – 17 April 1976) was a British literary scholar and teacher.

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Alwyn Williams (geologist)

Sir Alwyn Williams (8 June 1921 – 4 April 2004) was a Welsh geologist, who was Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1976 to 1988, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1985 to 1988.

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Anand Menon

Anand Menon (born September 1965) is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London in the United Kingdom and was appointed in January 2014 as director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative.

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Andrew Barker (classicist)

Andrew Dennison Barker, FBA (born 24 April 1943) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in ancient Greek music and the intersection between musical theory and philosophy.

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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.

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Anticoagulant

Anticoagulants, commonly referred to as blood thinners, are chemical substances that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time.

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Arnold Tustin

Arnold Tustin, (16 July 1899 – 9 January 1994), was a British engineer, and Professor of Engineering at the University of Birmingham and at Imperial College London, who made important contributions to the development of control engineering and its application to electrical machines.

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Bertram Windle

Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, (8 May 1858 – 14 February 1929) was a British anatomist, administrator, archaeologist, scientist, educationalist and writer.

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Bill Hopkins (composer)

G.W. (Bill) Hopkins (5 June 1943 – 10 March 1981) was a British composer, pianist and music critic.

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Bill Parry (mathematician)

Professor William (Bill) Parry FRS (3 July 1934 – 20 August 2006) was an English mathematician.

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

The Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal on the history of science published annually by the Royal Society.

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Birmingham Business School

Birmingham Business School (BBS) is the business school of the University of Birmingham in England.

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Brinley Rees

Brinley Roderick Rees (27 December 1919 – 21 October 2004) was a Welsh academic.

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Bryan M. Turner

Bryan M. Turner is Professor of Experimental Genetics at School of Cancer Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham in Birmingham, UK.

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Cannock and Burntwood (UK Parliament constituency)

Cannock and Burntwood was a parliamentary constituency in Staffordshire which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Carenza Lewis

Professor Carenza Rachel Lewis MA ScD (born 30 November 1963) is a British academic archaeologist and television presenter.

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Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was a research centre at the University of Birmingham, England.

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Centre of West African Studies

Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) is a division of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK).

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Charles Lapworth

Prof Charles Lapworth FRS LLD FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England.

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Clarke Medal

The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences.

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COBUILD

COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers.

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Colin Thain

Colin Thain (born 20 January 1959) is professor of political science and a former head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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Copley Medal

The Copley Medal is a scientific award given by the Royal Society, for "outstanding achievements in research in any branch of science." It alternates between the physical and the biological sciences.

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Daniel Pedoe

Dan Pedoe (29 October 1910, London – 27 October 1998, St Paul, Minnesota, USA) was an English-born mathematician and geometer with a career spanning more than sixty years.

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Daniela Kühn

Daniela Kühn is a German mathematician and the Mason Professor in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England.

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Darwin Medal

The Darwin Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every alternate year for "work of acknowledged distinction in the broad area of biology in which Charles Darwin worked, notably in evolution, population biology, organismal biology and biological diversity".

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David Edgar (playwright)

David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain.

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David F. Ford

David Frank Ford (born 23 January 1948, Dublin) is an academic and public theologian.

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David J. Thouless

David James Thouless (born 21 September 1934) is a British condensed-matter physicist.

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Deryk Osthus

Deryk Osthus is the Professor of Graph Theory at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham.

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Dion Morton

Dion Morton is a leading colorectal surgeon at the University of Birmingham, where he has been Professor of Surgery since 2006.

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Douglas Vernon Hubble

Sir Douglas Vernon Hubble (25 December 1900 – 6 November 1981) was a paediatric endocrinologist, general practitioner, and professor of paediatrics and dean of medicine at the University of Birmingham.

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E. R. Dodds

Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classical scholar.

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Edward Adolf Sonnenschein

Edward Adolf Sonnenschein (20 November 1851 – 2 September 1929, Bath) was an English classical scholar and writer on Latin grammar and verse.

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Edward Arber

Edward Arber (4 December 1836 – 23 November 1912) was an English scholar, writer, and editor.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.

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Ellis Waterhouse

Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse (16 February 1905 – 7 September 1985) was an English art historian who specialized in Roman baroque and English painting.

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Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic.

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European Prize in Combinatorics

The European Prize in Combinatorics is a prize for research in combinatorics, a mathematical discipline, which is awarded biennially at Eurocomb, the European conference on combinatorics, graph theory, and applications.

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Francis Richards (diplomat)

Sir Francis Neville Richards (born 1945) is a former British civil servant and diplomat who was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar from 2003 to 2006, and the director of the Government Communications Headquarters from 1998 to 2003.

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Frank Hahn

Frank Horace Hahn FBA (26 April 1925 – 29 January 2013) was a British economist whose work focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and monetarism.

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Fraser Stoddart

Sir James Fraser Stoddart (born 24 May 1942) is a Scottish-born chemist who is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States.

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Frederick William Shotton

Professor Frederick William Shotton FRS (1906–1990) was a British geologist.

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Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson (born 15 December 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician.

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G. N. Watson

George Neville Watson (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.

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Geoffrey Slaney

Sir Geoffrey Slaney, (19 September 1922 – 29 January 2016) was a British surgeon and academic, specialising in vascular and gastrointestinal surgery.

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George Augustus Auden

George Augustus Auden (27 August 1872 – 3 May 1957) was an English physician, professor of public health, school medical officer, and writer on archaeological subjects.

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Gordon Borrie, Baron Borrie

Gordon Johnson Borrie, Baron Borrie, (13 March 1931 – 30 September 2016) was an English lawyer and Labour Party life peer.

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Gordon Warwick

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Governor of the Bank of England

The Governor of the Bank of England is the most senior position in the Bank of England.

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Granville Bantock

Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music.

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Guy Medal

The Guy Medals are awarded by the Royal Statistical Society in three categories; Gold, Silver and Bronze.

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Henry Daniels

Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician.

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Hermann Georg Fiedler

Hermann Georg Fiedler (1862–1945), was a German scholar, who became Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (1907–37).

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Hirudin

Hirudin is a naturally occurring peptide in the salivary glands of blood-sucking leeches (such as Hirudo medicinalis) that has a blood anticoagulant property.

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Horace Waring

Horace Waring (17 December 1910 – 9 August 1980) was an English/Australian zoologist, winner of the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1962.

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Hughes Medal

The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications".

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Ian Brockington

Ian Brockington (born 1935) is a British psychiatrist.

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Ian Calman Muir MacLennan

Ian Calman Muir MacLennan is Emeritus Professor of Immunology at the University of Birmingham MRC Centre for Immune Regulation in Birmingham, UK.

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J. Michael Kosterlitz

John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a Scottish born British-American physicist.

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James Sayers (physicist)

Professor James Sayers (2 September 1912 – 13 March 1993) was an important Northern Irish physicist, who played a crucial role in developing centimetric radar - now used in microwave ovens.

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Jeannette Littlemore

Jeannette Littlemore is a British scholar of English and applied linguistics, whose work focuses on the interpretation of figurative language, including metaphor and metonymy, as it relates to second language learning and teaching.

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Jerzy Lukowski

Jerzy (George) Tadeusz Lukowski (or Łukowski) is a Polish-British historian at University of Birmingham.

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Joe Vinen

William Frank "Joe" Vinen (born 15 February 1930) is a retired British physicist specialising in low temperature physics.

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John Berry Haycraft

Prof John Berry Haycraft FRSE (1859–1922) was a British professor in physiology who carried out important medical research.

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John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman (7 September 1877 – 31 May 1941) was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.

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John Churton Collins

John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 25 September 1908) was a British literary critic.

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John Fage

John Donnelly Fage (3 June 1921 – 6 August 2002) was a British historian.

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John H. Coote

John Haven Coote (5 January 1936 – 27 November 2017) is a British physiologist.

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John Henry Muirhead

John Henry Muirhead (28 April 1855 – 24 May 1940) was a British philosopher best known for having initiated the Muirhead Library of Philosophy in 1890.

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John Henry Poynting

John Henry Poynting (9 September 185230 March 1914) was an English physicist.

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John Hick

John Harwood Hick (20 January 1922 – 9 February 2012) was a philosopher of religion and theologian born in England who taught in the United States for the larger part of his career.

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John Knott (scientist)

John Frederick Knott OBE FRS FREng (9 December 1938 – 5 October 2017) was an English metallurgist and materials scientist.

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John McHardy Sinclair

John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 – 13 March 2007) was Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University, 1965 to 2000.

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John Randall (physicist)

Sir John Turton Randall, (23 March 1905 – 16 June 1984) was a British physicist and biophysicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War.

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John Robert Schrieffer

John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity.

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Jonathan Bennett (mathematician)

Jonathan Bennett is a mathematician and Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Birmingham.

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Karin Barber

Karin Judith Barber, (born 2 July 1949) is a British cultural anthropologist and academic, who specialises in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria.

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Keith Hancock (historian)

Sir William Keith Hancock KBE, FBA (26 June 189813 August 1988) was Australia's "most distinguished historian".

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Kenneth Mather

Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS (22 June 1911 – 20 March 1990) was a British geneticist and botanist.

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Kenneth Walton (pathologist)

Major Kenneth Walter William Henry Walton FRCP (6 September 1919 – 26 April 2008) was a leading British experimental pathologist and rheumatologist.

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Klaus Fuchs

Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who, in 1950, was convicted of supplying information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician.

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Lars Onsager Prize

The Lars Onsager Prize is a prize in theoretical statistical physics awarded annually by the American Physical Society.

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Leech

Leeches are segmented parasitic or predatory worm-like animals that belong to the phylum Annelida and comprise the subclass Hirudinea.

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Leonard Huxley (physicist)

Sir Leonard George Holden Huxley (29 May 1902 – 4 September 1988) was an Australian physicist.

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Leroy Cronin

Leroy "Lee" Cronin (born 1 June 1973) is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society)

The Leverhulme Medal is awarded by the Royal Society every three years "for an outstandingly significant contribution in the field of pure or applied chemistry or engineering, including chemical engineering".

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List of University of Birmingham alumni

This is a list of notable alumni related to the University of Birmingham and its predecessors, Mason Science College and Queen's College, Birmingham.

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List of University of Birmingham people

This is a list of notable people related to the University of Birmingham.

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London Mathematical Society

The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)).

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Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Mark Beeson

Mark Beeson (born 1952) is Professor of International Politics at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia.

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Mark Oliphant

Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of nuclear weapons.

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Mason Science College

Mason Science College was a university college in Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of Birmingham University.

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Maureen Perrie

Maureen Perrie (born 1946) is a British historian, Professor Emeritus of Russian History at the University of Birmingham, and a lecturer in Russian History at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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Melville Arnott

Sir William Melville Arnott (14 January 1909 – 17 September 1999) was a Scottish academic.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury

Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury, (born 30 March 1948) is a British economist and public servant who served as the Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013.

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Micaiah John Muller Hill

Micaiah John Muller Hill FRS (1856–1929) was an English mathematician, known for Hill's spherical vortex and Hill's tetrahedra.

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Michael Dummett

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, FBA (27 June 192527 December 2011) was an English philosopher, described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.

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Michael Lyons (BBC chairman)

Sir Michael Thomas Lyons (born 15 September 1949), is the non-executive chairman of the English Cities Fund and Participle Ltd; he is a former Chairman of the BBC Trust.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.

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Nathan Bodington

Sir Nathan Bodington (29 May 1848 – 12 May 1911) was the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Leeds having been Principal and Professor of Greek at the Yorkshire College since 1883.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Ninian Smart

Roderick Ninian Smart (6 May 1927 – 9 January 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.

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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.

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Nora Calderwood

Nora Isobel Calderwood (14 March 1896 – April 1985) was a Scottish professor and mathematician.

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Norman Haworth

Sir (Walter) Norman Haworth FRS.

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Owen Hood Phillips

Owen Hood Phillips (1907 - 1986) was Barber Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Birmingham and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of that university.

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Percy F. Frankland

Percy Faraday Frankland CBE FRS (3 October 1858 – 28 October 1946) was a British chemist.

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Peter Burnham

Peter Burnham is a Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.

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Peter Medawar

Sir Peter Brian Medawar (28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987) was a British biologist born in Brazil, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants.

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Philip Burton Moon

Philip Burton Moon FRS (17 May 1907 – 9 October 1994) was a British nuclear physicist.

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Philip Rahtz

Philip Arthur Rahtz (11 March 1921 – 2 June 2011) was a British archaeologist.

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Queen's College, Birmingham

Queen's College was a medical school in central Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham.

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Raymond Beazley

Sir Charles Raymond Beazley (1868–1955) was a British historian.

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Raymond Priestley

Sir Raymond Edward Priestley MC (20 July 1886 – 24 June 1974) was a British geologist and early Antarctic explorer.

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Reginald Cline-Cole

Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole (born Freetown, Sierra Leone), is a University lecturer and scholar of Developmental Geography.

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Richard Hoggart

Herbert Richard Hoggart FRSL (24 September 1918 – 10 April 2014) was a British academic whose career covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with emphasis on British popular culture.

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Richard Redmayne

Sir Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne (22 July 1865 – 27 December 1955) was a British civil and mining engineer.

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Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923,As the younger son of a Marquess, Cecil held the courtesy title of "Lord".

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Rodney Hilton

Rodney Howard Hilton, FBA (17 November 1916 – 7 June 2002) was an English Marxist historian of the late medieval period and the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

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Ronen Palan

Ronen Palan (born 1957) is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of International Politics at the City University London.

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Royal Medal

A Royal Medal, known also as The King's Medal or The Queen's Medal, depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award, is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society, two for "the most important contributions to the advancement of natural knowledge" and one for "distinguished contributions in the applied sciences", done within the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Royal Society of New South Wales

The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia.

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Rudolf Peierls

Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in the Manhattan Project and Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme.

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Rumford Medal

The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe".

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Rupert E. Billingham

Rupert Everett Billingham FRS (15 October 1921 – 16 November 2002) was a British biologist who did significant research in the fields of reproductive immunology and organ transplantation.

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Shakespeare Institute

The Shakespeare Institute is a centre for postgraduate study dedicated to the study of William Shakespeare and the literature of the English Renaissance.

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Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman

Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer.

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Stanley Wells

Sir Stanley William Wells CBE (born 21 May 1930) is a Shakespearean scholar, writer, professor and editor who has been honorary president of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, professor emeritus at the University of Birmingham, and author of a number of books about Shakespeare, including Shakespeare Sex and Love, and is general editor of the Oxford and Penguin Shakespeares.

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Stewart Brown

Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK) is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

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Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)

Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist, political activist and Marxist sociologist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1951.

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Supramolecular chemistry

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Susan Hunston

Susan Elizabeth Hunston (born 1953) is a British linguist.

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Sylvester Medal

The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society (London) for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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Thomas Diez

Thomas Diez (born 2 February 1970) is a German professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Science, University of Tübingen.

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Thomas Turner (metallurgist)

Thomas Turner Sc., A.R.S.M., F.R.I.C. (Birmingham, 1861–1951) was the first Professor of Metallurgy in Britain, at the University of Birmingham.

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Tony Skyrme

Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme (5 December 1922, Lewisham – 25 June 1987) was a British physicist.

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Tony Wright (Cannock Chase MP)

Anthony Wayland Wright (born 11 March 1948) is a British Labour Party politician and author, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase from 1997 to 2010.

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U. R. Ananthamurthy

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was a contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered as one of the pioneers of the Navya movement.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow (Oilthigh Ghlaschu; Universitas Glasguensis; abbreviated as Glas. in post-nominals) is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities.

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University of Southampton

The University of Southampton (abbreviated as Soton in post-nominal letters) is a research university located in Southampton, England.

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Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston

Balthazar Walter Foster, 1st Baron Ilkeston PC FRCP (17 July 1840, Cambridge – 3 February 1913, London) was a British physician and politician.

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Whitehead Prize

The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to multiple mathematicians working in the United Kingdom who are at an early stage of their career.

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William A. Tilden

Sir William Augustus Tilden (15 August 1842 – 11 December 1926) was a British chemist.

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William Ashley (economic historian)

Sir William James Ashley (25 February 1860 – 23 July 1927) was an influential English economic historian.

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William Brunsdon Yapp

William Brunsdon Yapp (1909–1990) was a zoologist and author.

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William Haywood (architect)

William Joseph Haywood (November 2,1876 – November 2,1957) was an English architect and Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society for over thirty years, being a founder member in 1918.

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William Sands Cox

William Sands Cox (1802 in Birmingham – 23 December 1875 in Kenilworth) was a surgeon in Birmingham, England.

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William Whitehead Watts

William Whitehead Watts FRS (7 June 1860 – 30 July 1947) was a British geologist.

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Winifred Cavenagh

Winifred Elizabeth Cavenagh, (née Speakman; 12 November 1908 – 7 May 2004) was a British criminologist, social scientist, and academic.

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Yvonne Elsworth

Yvonne Elsworth FRS FInstP FRAS is an Irish physicist, Professor of Helioseismology and Poynting Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Birmingham_academics

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