Academics of the University of Manchester

The list Academics of the University of Manchester includes Alan Turing, Brian Cox, Martin Amis, Darwin Caldwell and Konstantin Novoselov. The list consists of 660 members and 4 sublists.

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University of Manchester

Public research university in Manchester, England

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Alan Turing

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

Overview: Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential ...

Date of birth: 23 June 1912

Date of death: 7 June 1954

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Mathematician

Gender: Male

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British artificial intelligence researchers 35T

Scientists with secret work 4T

English gay sportsmen 35T
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Martin Amis

English novelist

Overview: Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He was best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the ...

Date of birth: 25 August 1949

Date of death: 24 June 2010

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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2023 deaths 2,584T

20th-century English screenwriters 295T

20th-century travel writers 86T
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Darwin Caldwell

Northern Irish, Engineer

Overview: Professor Darwin Caldwell (born Ballymena, Northern Ireland) is a noted international researcher and academic in Robotics who is currently Research Director at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa ...

Nationality: Northern Irish

Occupation: Engineer

Gender: Male

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British roboticists 10T

Industrial robotics 22T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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Brian Cox

English physicist and musician (born 1968)

Overview: Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and former musician who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester ...

Date of birth: 3 March 1968

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Physics education in the United Kingdom 25T

Advocates of the European Union 109T

Fellows of the Explorers Club 53T
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Selina Todd

British historian

Overview: Selina Todd (born 1975) is an English historian and writer. From 2015, she has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Todd's research focuses on the history of the working-class ...

Date of birth: 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: British

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Female

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Historians of the University of Oxford 16T

Feminist historians 82T

Fellows of St Hilda's College, Oxford 30T
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Andre Geim

Russian physicist

Overview: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim FRS HonFRSC HonFInstP (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Scientist,Scientist

Gender: Male

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Dutch nanotechnologists 3T

British nanotechnologists 11T

Russian nanotechnologists 3T
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Sheila Jeffreys

English-Australian activist and author (born 1948)

Overview: Sheila Jeffreys (born 13 May 1948) is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne. An English expatriate and lesbian feminist scholar, she analyses the history and politics of ...

Date of birth: 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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English women academics 7T

Australian lesbian writers 18T

British lesbian writers 32T
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Bernard Lovell

British astronomer

Overview: Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell (LUV-əl; 31 August 1913 – 6 August 2012) was an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980 ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1913

Date of death: 6 August 2012

Age: 98 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Dalton Medal 15T

People from Bitton 10T

People educated at King's Oak Academy 10T
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Cary Cooper

British academic and psychologist (born 1940)

Overview: Sir Cary Lynn Cooper, CBE FAcSS (born 28 April 1940), is an American-born British psychologist and 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School ...

Date of birth: 28 April 1940

Age: 85

Nationality: American

Occupation: Psychologist

Gender: Male

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Organizational psychologists 16T

English people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent 29T

American emigrants to England 337T
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Lisa Adkins

Australian economic sociologist

Overview: Lisa Adkins is a sociologist and academic. As of 2018, she holds a professorship at the University of Sydney, where she is also head of the School of Social and Political Sciences; since 2015, she has ...

Occupation: Sociologist

Partner: Scott Adkins (Married)

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David Olusoga

British, Historian

Overview: David Adetayo Olusoga OBE (born January 1970) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. He has presented ...

Date of birth: January 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

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Writers from Tyne and Wear 77T

Television personalities from Lagos 20T

21st-century British male writers 849T
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James MacMillan

Scottish composer and conductor

Overview: Sir James Loy MacMillan, TOSD (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.

Date of birth: 16 July 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Partner: Lynne Frew (Married)

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British male opera composers 66T

Catholic liturgical composers 40T

Alumni of Durham University Graduate Society 50T
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Rupa Huq

English writer and Academic

Overview: Rupa Asha Huq MP (Bengali: রাবেয়া "রূপা" আশা হক; born 2 April 1972) is a British Labour Party politician, columnist and academic. She was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Central and Acton ...

Date of birth: 2 April 1972

Age: 53

Nationality: English

Occupation: Columnist

Gender: Female

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21st-century English women writers 392T

21st-century British women politicians 516T

UK MPs 2019– 636T
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Konstantin Novoselov

British physicist

Overview: Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov FRS FRSC FInstP (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов, born 1974) is a Russian-British physicist, and a Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Physicist

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Dalton Medal 15T

British nanotechnologists 11T

Russian nanotechnologists 3T
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Matthew Goodwin (academic)

British, Academic

Overview: Matthew James Goodwin (born December 1981) is a far-right British political commentator and former academic whose last academic post was as professor of politics in the School of Politics and International ...

Date of birth: 17 December 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: British

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Male

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Chatham House people 73T

Academics and writers on far-right politics 44T

British political scientists 212T
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James Wiegold

Welsh mathematician

Overview: James "Jim" Wiegold (15 April 1934 – 4 August 2009) was a Welsh mathematician.

Date of birth: 15 April 1934

Date of death: 4 August 2009

Age: 75 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Mathematician

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Academics of Cardiff University 167T

Welsh mathematicians 25T

People from Caerphilly 83T
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K. R. Parthasarathy (Probabilist)

Indian mathematician

Overview: Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy (born 25 June 1936) was professor emeritus at the Indian Statistical Institute and a pioneer of quantum stochastic calculus.

Date of birth: 25 June 1936

Date of death: 14 June 2023

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Mathematician

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Scientists from Chennai 85T

21st-century Indian mathematicians 46T

20th-century Indian mathematicians 205T
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Ursula Martin

British computer scientist

Overview: Ursula Hilda Mary Martin CBE FRSE FREng (born 3 August 1953) is a British computer scientist, with research interests in theoretical computer science and formal methods. She is also known for her activities ...

Date of birth: 3 August 1953

Age: 71

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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British women computer scientists 51T

21st-century women engineers 252T

Female Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering 59T
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Brian Runnett

British musician

Overview: Henry Brian Runnett (1935–1970) was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire in 1935. He was educated at the Liverpool Matthay School of Music, during which time he obtained the FRCO diploma with both Limpus and ...

Date of birth: 1935

Date of death: 1970

Age: 34 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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British male organists 680T

20th-century British male musicians 895T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
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Grace Jantzen

Canadian philosopher

Overview: Grace Marion Jantzen (24 May 1948 – 2 May 2006) was a feminist philosopher and theologian. She was professor of religion, culture and gender at Manchester University from 1996 until her death from cancer ...

Date of birth: 24 May 1948

Date of death: 2 May 2006

Age: 57 (age at death)

Gender: Female

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Canadian women philosophers 30T

Feminist theologians 57T

Feminist theory 65T