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was a British historian and numismatist.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was Professor of Numismatics at <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University">Cambridge University</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_(Oxbridge)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow (Oxbridge)">fellow</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge" title="Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge">Gonville and Caius College</a> for over seventy years. During his long and extremely prolific academic career, he built the world's foremost representative collection of medieval <a href="/wiki/Coin" title="Coin">coins</a>, wrote very extensively on the subject, brought it to much wider attention in the historical community and filled important curatorial and teaching posts in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, Brussels and <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington DC</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grierson was born in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> to Philip Henry Grierson and Roberta Ellen Jane Grierson. He had two sisters, Janet Grierson and Aileen Grierson . His father was a land surveyor and member of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Land_Commission" title="Irish Land Commission">Irish Land Commission</a> who, after losing his job in 1906, ran a small farm at <a href="/wiki/Clondalkin" title="Clondalkin">Clondalkin</a>, near Dublin. There he gained a reputation for financial acumen, and was appointed to the boards of a number of companies. Grierson's father also built up an important collection of freshwater snails, which now resides at the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Museum" title="Ulster Museum">Ulster Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>. </p><p>Grierson was educated at <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_College" title="Marlborough College">Marlborough College</a>, where he specialised in natural sciences. As a result, he was admitted to read medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1929. Almost immediately, he switched to history, and was to remain with the latter subject for the rest of his life. However, his early interest in the sciences left him with a sound knowledge of the methods and principles of <a href="/wiki/Metallurgy" title="Metallurgy">metallurgy</a>, mathematics, statistics and much more besides that would prove valuable in later years. </p><p>Grierson's performance as a student was exceptional. Graduating with a <a href="/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification" title="British undergraduate degree classification">double first</a>, he took the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lightfoot_Scholarship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lightfoot Scholarship (page does not exist)">Lightfoot Scholarship</a> from the university and also won the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Schuldham_Plate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Schuldham Plate (page does not exist)">Schuldham Plate</a>, his college's highest academic accolade for students. He began <a href="/wiki/Post-graduate_studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Post-graduate studies">post-graduate studies</a> in 1932 on the subject of <a href="/wiki/Carolingian_Empire" title="Carolingian Empire">Carolingian history</a>, and his first publications were to be on the ecclesiastical history of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After being offered a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_(Oxbridge)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow (Oxbridge)">fellowship</a> at <a href="/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge" title="Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge">Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge</a> in 1934, he saw no need to submit his PhD research; he received an honorary PhD from the university in 1971. Grierson went on to hold a number of important posts in college: he was college librarian from 1944 to 1969, and president (second in line to the <a href="/wiki/Master_(college)" class="mw-redirect" title="Master (college)">master</a>) from 1966 to 1976. He remained an active member of the fellowship, and was present at the interview for the master who would be sworn in shortly after Grierson's own death. </p><p>Grierson also had teaching responsibilities within the <a href="/wiki/Faculty_of_History,_University_of_Cambridge" title="Faculty of History, University of Cambridge">Faculty of History, University of Cambridge</a>, which appointed him assistant lecturer in 1938 and full lecturer in 1945. He became <a href="/wiki/Reader_(academic_rank)" title="Reader (academic rank)">reader</a> in numismatics in 1959, and made Professor of Numismatics in 1971. He came to share and later lead teaching on the general introduction to European history, running through the history of continental Europe from the fifth to the fifteenth century. </p><p>Grierson's academic career eventually spread beyond Cambridge when, in 1947, he was invited to take up the vacant, part-time chair of numismatics at <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Libre_de_Bruxelles" class="mw-redirect" title="Université Libre de Bruxelles">Brussels</a>, which he held in addition to his Cambridge posts until his retirement in 1981. Grierson spent parts of the Easter and Christmas vacation in Brussels every year, along with more occasional visits. For many years already Grierson's interests had encompassed the medieval <a href="/wiki/Low_Countries" title="Low Countries">Low Countries</a>, and he had a number of friends in Belgium, not least the great Carolingian scholar <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Louis_Ganshof" class="mw-redirect" title="François-Louis Ganshof">François-Louis Ganshof</a>. </p><p>Work in the United States began in 1953, when Grierson was one of the founding instructors at the <a href="/wiki/American_Numismatic_Society" title="American Numismatic Society">American Numismatic Society</a>'s annual summer school. He returned the following year, and in 1955 was invited to become honorary adviser and curator at the <a href="/wiki/Dumbarton_Oaks_Research_Library_and_Collection" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection">Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection</a> in Washington DC, managed by the trustees of <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. His brief was to use the centre's considerable resources to build up the world's finest collection of <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_coinage" title="Byzantine coinage">Byzantine coinage</a> and publish it – a task which, by the time he left the post in 1997, he had completed admirably (despite once accidentally dropping a tray of gold coins down a lift shaft). The <i>Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection</i> remains the standard reference work for Byzantine coinage. At the height of his productivity, therefore, Grierson would spend the Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms each year in Cambridge, Christmas and Easter in Brussels and two months of the summer vacation in Washington and at Cornell University. </p><p>Outside of university, he served as director of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">Royal Historical Society</a> (1945–1955), and president of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Numismatic_Society" title="Royal Numismatic Society">Royal Numismatic Society</a> (1961–1966). He gave the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Lectures" title="Ford Lectures">Ford Lectures</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a> during the 1956/57 academic year. He was elected <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London">Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London</a> (FSA) in 1949, and as a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">Fellow of the British Academy</a> in 1958. He was also a member of the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Numismatic_Society" title="Italian Numismatic Society">Italian Numismatic Society</a>. He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Medal_of_the_Royal_Numismatic_Society" title="Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society">medal of the Royal Numismatic Society</a> in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fitzwilliam_Museum">Fitzwilliam Museum</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fitzwilliam Museum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grierson's growing interest in numismatics soon brought him into contact with the coin room at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and he was appointed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Honorary_Keeper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Honorary Keeper (page does not exist)">Honorary Keeper</a> of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Department_of_Coins_and_Medals,_Fitzwilliam_Museum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum (page does not exist)">Department of Coins and Medals</a> in 1949, and served as a <a href="/wiki/Syndic" title="Syndic">syndic</a> of the museum until 1958. Under his influence, the department of coins and medals in the Fitzwilliam became one of the most active and productive research departments in the museum. It contains a room named in his honour, which houses Philip's collection. He remained an almost daily visitor to the coin room, adding new specimens to his collection and meeting visitors, until very shortly before his death. The following Keeper of Coins and Medals, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Blackburn_(numismatist)" title="Mark Blackburn (numismatist)">Mark Blackburn</a>, first came to the department in 1982 as part of the <i>Medieval European Coinage</i> project to publish Philip's burgeoning collection. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Coin_collection">Coin collection</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Coin collection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was pure chance that first drew Grierson's attention to numismatics. A visit to the family home at Christmas 1944 or shortly thereafter produced a bronze <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_coinage" title="Byzantine coinage">coin</a> from one of his father's desk drawers. It was later identified as an issue in the name of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Phocas" title="Phocas">Phocas</a>, and inspired Grierson to visit <a href="/wiki/Spink_%26_Son" title="Spink & Son">Spink's</a> in London. There, he expressed no intention of ever becoming a serious collector, and wished only to purchase £5 of coins to serve as illustrative material in his lectures. </p><p>These good intentions did not last, and by the end of the next year he had 1,500 coins, and 3,500 by the end of 1946. Eventually his collection was to include over 20,000 specimens, worth several million pounds as a whole. It is the finest representative collection for medieval Europe in the world. Although it resided in the <a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam_Museum" title="Fitzwilliam Museum">Fitzwilliam Museum</a> for many years, his collection only passed to the museum upon his death, and was retained in his own name so as to facilitate the selling of old specimens and the purchase of superior ones. </p><p>Grierson was never especially wealthy, and only built the collection by spending most of his modest inheritance and two-thirds of his annual income as an academic on coins. It helped that he started collecting at a time when the London numismatic dealers were awash with material from the enormous collection of <a href="/wiki/John_Richard_Brinsley_Norton,_5th_Baron_Grantley" class="mw-redirect" title="John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley">Lord Grantley</a>. Wartime and post-war conditions meant that these coins were available at a fraction of their pre-war (and equivalent modern) price, with heavy restrictions on the activities of foreign purchasers. Grierson was a careful buyer, but could also be willing to spend significant amounts for particular coins, such as his famous and exceptionally rare portrait <a href="/wiki/French_denier" title="French denier"><i>denier</i></a> of <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a>. Later appointments to additional positions helped further his collection. </p><p>In 1982, Grierson arranged funding to begin a project aimed at publishing his (now very substantial) collection. <i>Medieval European Coinage</i> was initially envisaged as twelve volumes of definitive catalogue and text on the coinage of different parts of Europe. The first volume appeared in 1986, and discussed the coinage of all of western Europe up to the tenth century. It remains the standard catalogue and study of the period. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite his prodigious volume of publications and onerous academic duties, Grierson was extremely sociable. He moved into St Michael's Court in the 1930s, and occupied the same set of rooms overlooking the Market Square in Cambridge after an interlude during the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, when they were used by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture,_Fisheries_and_Food_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)">Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food</a>. These rooms remained a hub of activity in college, constantly receiving visitors. Although he never married, Grierson had a great many friends in Cambridge and elsewhere, and would host sherry parties at the beginning of each year. </p><p>During his time away from study, the cinema was one of Grierson's greatest interests. Evenings with friends in his later years would often begin with pizza (either at <a href="/wiki/Pizza_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="Pizza Express">Pizza Express</a> on Jesus Lane or, in summer, at Don Pasquale in the Market Square) and end with a movie in his rooms. As an undergraduate, he was secretary of the university's film society, and was such a regular cinema-goer that in the 1930s one local newspaper commented that the opening of an eighth cinema in Cambridge would give 'Mr Grierson of Caius the chance to visit a different cinema every day, and two on Sunday'. With the advent of video, he began to build up a collection of films in his rooms, which eventually included 2,000 items on video and DVD. Most had notes attached bearing Grierson's scathing initial thoughts jotted down after watching. Grierson's cinematic and literary tastes always inclined towards the exciting and adventurous: science fiction and horror were among his favourites. </p><p>As a student and young fellow, Grierson had a great interest in and admiration for the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, which led him to spend a summer touring it with a friend in 1932. Subsequently, he published a bibliography of literature on the Soviet Union down to 1942, which he updated annually until 1950. Grierson's distaste with fascist régimes manifested itself in a refusal to visit Spain under <a href="/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Franco</a>, and also in a visit to <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a> in 1938 to aid the release of two Jewish academics. They were the father and father-in-law of <a href="/wiki/David_Daube" title="David Daube">David Daube</a>, a friend of Philip and subsequently regius professor of civil law at Oxford. After being rounded up in <a href="/wiki/Kristallnacht" title="Kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a> (9 November 1938 – 10 November 1938) they had been sent to the <a href="/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp" title="Dachau concentration camp">Dachau concentration camp</a>. Once Grierson and some friends had been alerted to the situation by Daube they moved very fast, obtaining a visa to visit Germany on 14 November and papers for the release under British visa of Daube's relatives expedited by the <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">MP</a> for Cambridge University. After flying to <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a> on 18 November, Grierson arranged the release of Daube's relatives on 20 and 26 November, and travelled with them back to England. </p><p>Grierson's wartime experiences were relatively peaceful. Poor eyesight and a childhood injury left him unfit for military service, and despite being interviewed he was rejected from the <a href="/wiki/Ultra_(cryptography)" title="Ultra (cryptography)">Ultra</a> codebreaking enterprise at <a href="/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park">Bletchley Park</a> because his German was not strong enough. Instead, he remained in Cambridge as part of the reduced history faculty. </p><p>Throughout his life, Grierson remained active and relatively healthy. He played <a href="/wiki/Squash_(sport)" title="Squash (sport)">squash</a> regularly until the age of 80, and enjoyed telling stories of how he had climbed <a href="/wiki/Mount_Etna" title="Mount Etna">Mount Etna</a> in Sicily during its 1949 eruption. Physical challenges appealed to him, such as when on one occasion in 1932 or 1933 he walked home from London one evening – a distance of some forty-four miles – and arrived the following lunchtime. The evening, he was sworn in as fellow of Gonville and Caius in 1935 happened to coincide with an important family party in Dublin the next evening. Grierson was not deterred, and arranged for a friend to fly him from Cambridge to <a href="/wiki/Rugby,_Warwickshire" title="Rugby, Warwickshire">Rugby</a> after leaving dinner at the earliest possible moment. At Rugby, he caught the post train for <a href="/wiki/Holyhead" title="Holyhead">Holyhead</a>, and after catching a ferry the following morning made it to Dublin in plenty of time for his party. Grierson learned to fly himself in his 20s, but never learned to drive. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Grierson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Selected publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>[with <a href="/wiki/L._Travaini" class="mw-redirect" title="L. Travaini">L. Travaini</a>] <i>Medieval European Coinage, vol. 14: Italy (3). South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia</i> (Cambridge, 1998)</li> <li><i>Coins of Medieval Europe</i> (London, 1991)</li> <li>[with M. A. S. Blackburn] <i>Medieval European Coinage, vol. 1: the Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries)</i> (Cambridge, 1986)</li> <li><i>Byzantine Coinage</i> (London and Berkeley, CA, 1982)</li> <li><i>Bibliographie numismatique</i>, 2nd ed. (Brussels, 1979)</li> <li><i>Dark Age Numismatics: Selected Studies</i> (London, 1979) [collected papers]</li> <li><i>Later Medieval Numismatics (11th–16th centuries)</i> (London, 1979) [collected papers]</li> <li><i>Monnaies du Moyen Âge</i> (Fribourg, 1976)</li> <li><i>Numismatics</i> (Oxford, 1975)</li> <li>[with A. R. Bellinger <i>et al.</i>] <i>Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection</i>, 9 vols. 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href="/wiki/Julian_Budden" title="Julian Budden">Julian Budden</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/David_Brown_(musicologist)" title="David Brown (musicologist)">David Brown</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Strohm" title="Reinhard Strohm">Reinhard Strohm</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/John_Stevens_(academic)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Stevens (academic)">J. E. Stevens</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Cairns_(musicologist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Cairns (musicologist) (page does not exist)">David Cairns</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Holman" title="Peter Holman">Peter Holman</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Peter_Walls_(musicologist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Walls (musicologist) (page does not exist)">Peter Walls</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Janice_Stockigt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Janice Stockigt (page does not exist)">Janice Stockigt</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Colin_Timms" title="Colin Timms">Colin Timms</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Philip_Bohlman" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Bohlman">Philip V. 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Kent</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/C%C3%A9cile_Morrisson" title="Cécile Morrisson">Cécile Morrisson</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Gert_Hatz" class="mw-redirect" title="Gert Hatz">Gert Hatz</a></li> <li>2005: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Philip Grierson</a></li> <li>2008: Emeritus <a href="/wiki/Michael_Metcalf" title="Michael Metcalf">Michael Metcalf</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Mark_Blackburn_(numismatist)" title="Mark Blackburn (numismatist)">Mark Blackburn</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Reece" title="Richard Reece">Richard Reece</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Crawford_(historian)" title="Michael Crawford (historian)">Michael Crawford</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Burnett" title="Andrew Burnett">Andrew Burnett</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Cribb" title="Joe Cribb">Joe Cribb</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Celtic Studies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_H._Jackson" title="Kenneth H. Jackson">Kenneth Jackson</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Brian_%C3%93_Cu%C3%ADv" title="Brian Ó Cuív">Brian Ó Cuiv</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/J._E._Caerwyn_Williams" title="J. E. Caerwyn Williams">J. E. Caerwyn Williams</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Edouard_Bachellery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edouard Bachellery (page does not exist)">Edouard Bachellery</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/w/index.php?title=K._H._Schmidt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="K. H. Schmidt (page does not exist)">K. H. Schmidt</a></li> <li>1994: Emeritus <a href="/wiki/Eric_P._Hamp" title="Eric P. Hamp">Eric P. Hamp</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Proinsias_Mac_Cana" title="Proinsias Mac Cana">Proinsias Mac Cana</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Derick_Thomson" title="Derick Thomson">Derick Thomson</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1draig_%C3%93_Riain" title="Pádraig Ó Riain">Pádraig Ó Riain</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Huws" title="Daniel Huws">Daniel Huws</a></li> <li>2009: Yr Athro <a href="/wiki/Dafydd_Jenkins_(legal_scholar)" title="Dafydd Jenkins (legal scholar)">Dafydd Jenkins</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/Fergus_Kelly" title="Fergus Kelly">Fergus Kelly</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Yves_Lambert" title="Pierre-Yves Lambert">Pierre-Yves Lambert</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1ire_Herbert" title="Máire Herbert">Máire Herbert</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_A._Griffiths" title="Ralph A. Griffiths">Ralph A. 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