List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford
This is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, who worked in the fields of science, medicine, technology and mathematics.
Medicine
editImage | Name | Join Date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Alex Jadad | 1992 | neuroscience | FRS Jadad scale to assess quality of a clinical trial |
[1] | |
Atul Gawande | 1987 | surgery | Rhodes Scholar The Checklist Manifesto for safer surgery |
[2] | |
Stephen Grosz | 1975 | psychoanalysis | The Examined Life How We Lose and Find Ourselves |
[3] | |
Stephen Bergman | 1966 | psychiatry | Rhodes Scholar The House of God under pen name Samuel Shem |
[4] | |
George Beadle | 1958 | genetics | Eastman Professor, Fellow Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events 1958 |
[5] | |
Sir George Alberti | 1956 | diabetes | FRCP The Alberti Regime for controlling blood sugar levels |
[6] | |
Baruch Blumberg | 1955 | communicable diseases | Master of Balliol Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases (Hep B virus) 1976 |
[7] | |
Raymond Michael Gaze | 1949 | neuroscience | FRS, FRSE deputy director of The National Institute for Medical Research |
[8] | |
Ludwig Guttmann | 1939 | neurology | refugee founder of the Paralympic Games |
Biology including mathematical biology
editImage | Name | Join Date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Ewan Birney | 1992 | genomics | FRS | [9] | |
Sir Peter Donnelly | 1980 | biostatistics | Rhodes Scholar FRS CEO Genomics PLC |
[10] | |
Philip Maini | 1979 | mathematical biology | FRS | [11] | |
Julian Peto | 1964 | epidemiology | FRS | [14] | |
Denis Noble | 1963 | systems biology | FRS | [15] | |
Robert Hinde | 1948 | zoology | FRS ethologist and psychologist |
[16] | |
P. A. P. Moran | 1947 | population genetics | FRS "Arithmetic I could not do" |
[17] | |
Sir Julian Huxley | 1906 | evolutionary biology | FRS first director of UNESCO |
[18] | |
Reginald Farrer | 1898 | plant collecting | My Rock Garden | [19] | |
Thomas Andrew Knight | 1778 | horticulture | FRS | [20] |
Chemistry
editImage | Name | Join Date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Dame Clare Grey | 1990 | electric battery | FRS Professor, Cambridge University |
[21] | |
Hagan Bayley | 1970 | chemical biology | FRS Oxford Professor founder Oxford Nanopore 2005 |
[22] | |
Jeremy Knowles | 1955 | enzyme catalysis | FRS, FAAAS dean, Arts and Sciences, Harvard |
[23] | |
Daniel Adzei Bekoe | 1954 | X-ray crystallography | FGA Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana |
[24] | |
Linus Pauling | 1947 | valency | Fellow Nobel Prize for Chemistry: nature of the chemical bond 1954 Nobel Peace Prize: for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West 1962 |
[25] | |
Oliver Smithies | 1943 | genetics | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: homologous recombination 2007 | [26] | |
Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 1941 | molecular science | FRS, FRSE "unfortunate not to receive the Nobel prize for his work" |
[27][28] | |
Bill Smythies | 1931 | natural history | "Birds of Burma" uncle of Richard Dawkins |
[29][30] | |
Alexander George Ogston | 1929 | biochemistry | FRS, Fellow Three-point attachment theory |
[31] | |
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | 1919 | chemical kinetics | OM, FRS Nobel Prize mechanism of chemical reactions 1956 |
[32] | |
E. J. Bowen | 1915 | photochemistry | FRS Rescued the blackboard used by Albert Einstein |
[33] | |
Sir Benjamin Brodie | 1834 | peroxides | FRS for analysis of beeswax |
Mathematics
editPhysics and astronomy
editImage | Name | Join date |
Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Sir Anthony James Leggett | 1955 | superconductivity | FRS, Honorary Fellow Nobel Prize "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" 2003 |
[72] | |
Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn | 1950 | atomic spectra | FRS, first fellow in physics worked on the Manhattan Project |
[73] | |
Herbert Squire | 1927 | aerospace engineering | FRS | [74] | |
James Bradley | 1711 | FRS, Astronomer Royal | |||
David Gregory | 1692 | FRS, populariser of Newtonian theory | |||
John Keill | c.1691 | FRS, Newton's chief defender |
Notes
edit- ^ Jadad, Alex. "News and Notes". No. 2023. Balliol College.
- ^ Gawande, Atul Atmaran. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 553.
- ^ Grosz, Stephen. "Balliol College Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Balliol College Annual Report 2018.
- ^ Bergman, Stephen Joseph. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 345.
- ^ Beadle, George Wells. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 246.
- ^ Martin, Elizabeth A. (25 February 2010). "The Alberti Regime". Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-955714-1. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ Blumberg, Baruch Samuel. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 210.
- ^ Gaze, [Raymond] Michael. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 150.
- ^ Birney, Ewan. "Balliol e-News". No. September 2012. Balliol College.
- ^ Donnelly, Peter James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 498.
- ^ Maini, Philip (August 18, 2024). "WATCH: Prof. Philip Maini gives 2nd Year Student Lecture: Mathematical Modelling in Biology: Enzyme Kinetics & Perturbation Theory" (video). youtube.com. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
- ^ Philip, Maini. "Dr Vicky Neale hosts Maths + Cancer podcast". Balliol College. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ Maini, Philip Kumar. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 490.
- ^ Peto, Julian. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 327.
- ^ Noble, Denis. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 628.
- ^ Hinde, R A. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 607.
- ^ Moran, P A P. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 625.
- ^ Huxley, Julian Sorrell. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 112.
- ^ Farrer, R J. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 408.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Grey, Clare. "Balliol College e-News". No. May 2011. Balliol College.
- ^ Balliol College Register. 1983. p. 457.
- ^ Knowles, Jeremy Randall. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 290.
- ^ Bekoe, Daniel Adzei-Obianyo. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 276.
- ^ Bekoe, Daniel Adzei-Obianyo. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 276.
- ^ Smithies, Oliver. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 172.
- ^ Longuet-Higgins, Christopher (10 June 2004). "Obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 159.
- ^ Smithies, Bill. Birds of Burma (PDF) (Second ed.).
- ^ Dawkins, Richard. An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist : A Memoir. Bantam Press, London. ISBN 9780593070895.
- ^ Ogston, Alexander George. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 62.
- ^ Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 192.
- ^ Bowen, Edmund John. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 177.
- ^ Brodie, B C. Balliol College Register (Second ed.). p. 1.
- ^ Hart, Sarah (May 2023). "Events Newsletter". Balliol College.
- ^ Kirwan, F C. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 614.
- ^ Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). 1983. p. 504.
- ^ "2010 - New Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
- ^ Who's Who. Online: OUP. 2024.
- ^ Pillay, Anand. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 400.
- ^ Ingleton, A W. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 610.
- ^ Wilson, Robin James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 306.
- ^ Tee, Garry; Wake, Graeme (7 June 2007). "Leslie Woods". The Guardian.
- ^ Strang, [William] Gilbert. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 217.
- ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin. "Michie, Donald (1923–2007)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98955. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Michie, Donald. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 113.
- ^ Crilly, A. J. "Cockcroft, Sir Wilfred Halliday [Bill] (1923–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72961. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Cockcroft, Wilfred Halliday. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 85.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Graham Higman", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Higman, Graham. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 46.
- ^ Who's Who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States. A. N. Marquis Company. 1965. p. 598.
- ^ University of Oxford (1950). Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945. Oxford University Press. p. 212.
- ^ MacNeille, Holbrook Mann. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 57.
- ^ Hitchin, Nigel J. (January 2006). "Arthur Geoffrey Walker. 17 July 1909 — 31 March 2001: Elected FRS 1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 413–421. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0028.
- ^ James, I. M. (16 May 2014). Differential Geometry: The Mathematical Works of J. H. C. Whitehead. Elsevier. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-4831-6473-1.
- ^ Nye, Mary Jo (2004). Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-674-01548-7.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexander Oppenheim", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Oppenheim, Alexander. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 229.
- ^ Titchmarsh, Edward Charles. "Titchmarsh, Edward Charles (1899–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36526. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Oppenheim, Alexander. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 187.
- ^ "Papers of Theodore William Chaundy, 1889-1971". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. JISC.
- ^ Donagi, Ron; Shaska, Tony (2 March 2020). Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-108-71577-5.
- ^ Chaundy, Theodore William. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 110.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Smith, H J S. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 389.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Smith, H J S. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 389.
- ^ "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Stermont-Synge, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Newcombe, D. G. "Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert (1474–1559)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27817. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Leggett, Anthony James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 214.
- ^ Kuhn, H G. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 615.
- ^ Squire, Herbert Brian. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 284.