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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is a beta version of NNDB</font></b></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"><b><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> <nobr>Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> 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Manchester</b></font><p> <font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=red><b>EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION</b></font><p> <p>Established 2004 by the merger UMIST (1824) and the <a href="/edu/691/000111358/">Victoria University of Manchester</a> (1851).<p> <b>Location:</b><br><a href="/geo/879/000069672/" class=proflink>Manchester, England</a><p> <b>Founding Date:</b><br>1824<p><b>Motto:</b><br><i>Cognitio, sapientia, hvmanitas</i><p><b>Enrollment:</b><br>35,500<p><b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/</a><p><p><font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>STUDENTS</b></font><p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000128664/"><font size=-1>Hank Barnette</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>CEO of Bethlehem Steel, 1992-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/679/000119322/"><font size=-1>Margaret Beckett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>UK Foreign Secretary, 2006-07</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/635/000115290/"><font size=-1>Robert Bolt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Playwright</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Man for All Seasons</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000114785/"><font size=-1>Malcolm Bradbury</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The History Man</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000169358/"><font size=-1>Ronald A. Brenneman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1947</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>CEO of Petro-Canada</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000168135/"><font size=-1>R. Hanbury Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical intensity interferometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/512/000022446/"><font size=-1>Anthony Burgess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Feb-1917</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Nov-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A Clockwork Orange</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/915/000160435/"><font size=-1>Terence Burns</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Chairman of Marks & Spencer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/"><font size=-1>Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000401493/"><font size=-1>David Chandler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Constructing Global Civil Society</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000099469/"><font size=-1>John Cockcroft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Split the atom</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/634/000274809/"><font size=-1>Benedict Cumberbatch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>BBC's <i>Sherlock Holmes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000401745/"><font size=-1>Peter Dicken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Global Shift</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/136/000168629/"><font size=-1>W. Roy Dunbar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1961</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>CEO of Network Solutions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/"><font size=-1>Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000168861/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Eglinton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Nov-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Molecular organic geochemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/882/000140462/"><font size=-1>Ben Elton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Comic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Writer, <i>Blackadder</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/482/000114140/"><font size=-1>Norman Foster</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Architect</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Architect of the Gherkin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000160380/"><font size=-1>Robin Freestone</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>CFO of Pearson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000103515/"><font size=-1>Dawn French</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Comic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>French and Saunders</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/123/000099823/"><font size=-1>Hans Geiger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Sep-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1945</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000254077/"><font size=-1>Andre Geim</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/912/000162426/"><font size=-1>觢afur Ragnar Grímsson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-May-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Iceland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000100078/"><font size=-1>Arthur Harden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Enzymes of sugar fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000100116/"><font size=-1>Norman Haworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Carbohydrates and vitamin C</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/300/000169790/"><font size=-1>Raymond Hide</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Earth's rotation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000350558/"><font size=-1>Rob James-Collier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Thomas Barrow on <i>Downton Abbey</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/275/000049128/"><font size=-1>James Prescott Joule</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Dec-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>English physicist, Joule's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000039347/"><font size=-1>Marcy Kaptur</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Politician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Congresswoman, Ohio 9th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/696/000049549/"><font size=-1>Abba Lerner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Oct-1903</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Oct-1982</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Economics of Control</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000206469/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lovell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/283/000024211/"><font size=-1>James Lovelock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jul-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>The Gaia Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/809/000060629/"><font size=-1>Rik Mayall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-2014</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rick on <i>The Young Ones</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000168560/"><font size=-1>Timothy Mott</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1949</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Founder of Macromedia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/720/000162234/"><font size=-1>Said Musa</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Mar-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prime Minister of Belize</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000254078/"><font size=-1>Konstantin Novoselov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Aug-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/198/000099898/"><font size=-1>Rudolf Peierls</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Frisch-Peierls Memorandum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000100368/"><font size=-1>John C. Polanyi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared chemiluminescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000094100/"><font size=-1>Robert Powell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Actor</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jun-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Jesus of Nazareth</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000100132/"><font size=-1>Sir Robert Robinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of alkaloids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/714/000162228/"><font size=-1>Erskine Sandiford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Prime Minister of Barbados, 1987-94</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/"><font size=-1>Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Oct-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/780/000100480/"><font size=-1>Michael Smith</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Oct-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000126494/"><font size=-1>Paul G. Stern</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Business</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Oct-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>CEO of Northern Telecom, 1989-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/186/000396992/"><font size=-1>Gerry Stoker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Transforming Local Governance</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/952/000023883/"><font size=-1>Alan Turing</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jun-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Computing pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000099036/"><font size=-1>Victor W. Turner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Anthropologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Drums of Affliction</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/189/000113847/"><font size=-1>Barry Unsworth</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Novelist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1930</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sacred Hunger</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/726/000099429/"><font size=-1>C. T. R. Wilson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1869</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cloud chamber</td> </tr> </table> <p><font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS</b></font><p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/862/000196274/"><font size=-1>Samuel Alexander</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jan-1859</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Space, Time, and Deity</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000396647/"><font size=-1>Gerald Aylmer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Apr-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Dec-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The King's Servants</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000398038/"><font size=-1>Max Beloff</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1999</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder, University of Buckingham</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000099459/"><font size=-1>Patrick M. S. Blackett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1974</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmic radiation, continental drift</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/419/000398222/"><font size=-1>Sean Dennis Cashman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>America in the Gilded Age</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/"><font size=-1>Thomas George Cowling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cowling model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000401745/"><font size=-1>Peter Dicken</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Mar-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Global Shift</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/182/000399979/"><font size=-1>Terry Eagleton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Critic</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Literary Theory: An Introduction</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000352917/"><font size=-1>David Edgerton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Shock of the Old</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000401169/"><font size=-1>Samuel E. Finer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Sep-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jun-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Theory and Practice of Modern Government</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000254077/"><font size=-1>Andre Geim</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Oct-1958</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Super-thin carbon physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000100078/"><font size=-1>Arthur Harden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Oct-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Enzymes of sugar fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000099935/"><font size=-1>George de Hevesy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jul-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radioisotope researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000108258/"><font size=-1>John R. Hicks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1904</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1989</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Value and Capital</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000126290/"><font size=-1>Archibald V. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jun-1977</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied muscles and nerves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/154/000399951/"><font size=-1>Ian Kershaw</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Apr-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Nazi Dictatorship</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/633/000160153/"><font size=-1>Arthur Lewis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Economist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jan-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jun-1991</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Economics of developing nations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000206469/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lovell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000171327/"><font size=-1>E. Arthur Milne</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Sep-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Kinematic relativity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/104/000099804/"><font size=-1>Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Confirmed importance of atomic number</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/685/000396494/"><font size=-1>Lewis Namier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jun-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>England in the Age of the American Revolution</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/787/000396596/"><font size=-1>Frank O'Gorman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Historian</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Sep-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Voters, Patrons, and Parties</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000100132/"><font size=-1>Sir Robert Robinson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1886</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1975</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researcher of alkaloids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/218/000068014/"><font size=-1>Ernest Rutherford</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1937</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of nuclear physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/186/000396992/"><font size=-1>Gerry Stoker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scholar</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Feb-1955</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Transforming Local Governance</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/459/000100159/"><font size=-1>Alexander R. 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