100 Notable alumni of
Imperial College London
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Imperial College London is 221st in the world, 77th in Europe, and 15th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Imperial College London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 4 individuals affiliated with Imperial College London won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Brian May
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Graduated with Doctor in astrophysics
- Occupations
- composeractorYouTuberlyricistphysicist
- Biography
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Sir Brian Harold May is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal welfare activist and astrophysicist. He achieved worldwide fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. His guitar work and songwriting contributions helped Queen become one of the most successful acts in music history.
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Rajiv Gandhi
- Occupations
- politician
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Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian politician who was the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, then–prime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. He served until his defeat at the 1989 election, and then became Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, resigning in December 1990, six months before his own assassination.
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Alexander Fleming
- Occupations
- inventorphysicianpharmacologistsurgeonbacteriologist
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Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease". For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain.
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Hassan II
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary leaderentrepreneurchancellordiplomat
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Hassan II was King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. A member of the Alawi dynasty, he was the eldest son of King Mohammed V, and his second wife Princess Abla bint Tahar.
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David Irving
- Occupations
- biographeropinion journalistessayistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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David John Cawdell Irving is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a UK court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case.
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Paul Young
- Occupations
- recording artistmusiciancomposerfilm actorsongwriter
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Paul Antony Young is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s. His hit singles include "Love of the Common People", "Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back and Stay", "Every Time You Go Away" and "Everything Must Change", all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Released in 1983, his debut album, No Parlez, was the first of three UK number-one albums.
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Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
- Occupations
- businessperson
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Cyrus Pallonji Mistry was an Indian-born Irish billionaire businessman. He was the chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group, and only the second (after Nowroji Saklatwala) not to bear the surname Tata. In mid-2012, he was chosen by a selection panel to head the Tata Group and took charge in December that year. In October 2016, the board of Tata Group's holding company, Tata Sons, voted to remove Mistry from the post of chairman. Former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was named as the new chairman a few months later. However, in December 2019, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) declared the appointment of Chandrasekaran as executive chairman illegal, and restored Mistry. However, the Supreme Court stayed NCLAT's order on 10 January 2020. Mistry had filed a cross-appeal in the court, seeking explanations for anomalies in the NCLAT. However, the Supreme Court upheld his dismissal.
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Jessica Hsuan
- Occupations
- actor
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Jessica Hester Hsuan, also known as Suen Huen, is a Hong Kong actress.
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Abdus Salam
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachertheoretical physicist
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Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani and the first scientist from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize, after Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
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Pallonji Mistry
- Occupations
- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry was an Indian-born Irish billionaire businessman. He was chairman of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and a major shareholder of India's largest private conglomerate, Tata Group.
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Valentin Ceaușescu
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Valentin Ceaușescu is a Romanian physicist. He is the eldest and only surviving child of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu.
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Roger Bannister
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- neurologistphysicianautobiographerathletemiddle-distance runner
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Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.
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William Crookes
- Occupations
- photographerpsychicphysicistchemist
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Sir William Crookes was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube, which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics.
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Chen Jining
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- civil engineerpoliticianprofessor
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Chen Jining is a Chinese environmental scientist and politician who has been serving as Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai and member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since October 2022.
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Dan Snaith
- Occupations
- composerrecord producermusiciansingermathematician
- Biography
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Daniel Victor Snaith is a Canadian composer, musician, and recording artist. He has released 11 studio albums since 2000 and has recorded and performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba, and Daphni. His Caribou album Andorra (2008) was awarded the 2008 Polaris Music Prize, and his Caribou album Swim (2010) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize and was named the Best Album of 2010 by Resident Advisor. His follow-up Our Love (2014) was also shortlisted for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
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Layla Moran
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- 2000-2003 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Layla Michelle Moran is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She has served as the Chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee since September 2024, and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon since 2017.
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Conrad Sangma
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Studied Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Conrad Kongkal Sangma is an Indian politician who is the 12th and current Chief Minister of Meghalaya since 2018. He is a member of the National People's Party. His father, P. A. Sangma, was former Chief Minister and former Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Conrad Sangma was also a Member of Parliament from Tura (2016–2018). He has been representing the South Tura constituency since 2018 and had represented Selsella constituency from 2008 to 2013. Sangma was also Minister of Finance, Power and Tourism, Government of Meghalaya from 2008 to 2009. He has served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly. He has also served as the National President of the Nationalist Youth Congress.
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Anna Mani
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- 1918-2001 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- physicistmeteorologist
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Anna Mani was an Indian physicist and meteorologist. She retired as the deputy director general of the Indian Meteorological Department and also served as a visiting professor at the Raman Research Institute. Mani made contributions to the field of meteorological instrumentation, conducted research, and published numerous papers on solar radiation, ozone, and wind energy measurements.
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Dennis Gabor
- Occupations
- inventorholographeracademicuniversity teacherphysicist
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Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.
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Simon Singh
- Occupations
- physicistjournalistwriterfilm directormathematician
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Simon Lehna Singh, MBE is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama). In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society, through which he created the website "Parallel" to help students learn mathematics.
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Winston Wong
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- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Winston Wen-Yang Wong OBE is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), by his second wife. Wong is now a widower with a son and a daughter after his wife died of stomach cancer in 2007. Wong holds degrees in physics, applied optics, and chemical engineering from Imperial College London. His English name was chosen during his study in the United Kingdom.
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Marc Garneau
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- astronautpoliticianengineer
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Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau PC CC CD is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament, retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to October 2021 and minister of transport from November 2015 to January 2021. He was an MP in Westmount, Montreal for 15 years.
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock
- Occupations
- space scientisteducatortelevision presenterastrophysicistscience communicator
- Biography
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Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock DBE is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television programme The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020 she was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in physics. She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.
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Kevin Warwick
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistroboticistartificial intelligence researcherwriter
- Biography
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Kevin Warwick is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done research concerning robotics.
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Sir Trevor Phillips
- Occupations
- businesspersontelevision producerpoliticianjournalistpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Sir Mark Trevor Phillips OBE ARCS FIC is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and from 2002 to 2003. He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday, a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022, and currently presents Sunday Morning on Sky News since 2023.
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Andreas Mogensen
- Occupations
- astronaut
- Biography
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Andreas Enevold " ' is a Danish engineer and ESA astronaut who is best known for being the first Dane to fly in space as part of the European Space Agency's Iriss program. Mogensen has also been involved in a number of other space-related projects throughout his career, including working as a test engineer for ESTEC and as a member of the European Astronaut Corps. In addition to his work with ESA, he has also worked with NASA and other international space agencies. Mogensen returned to space in August 2023 for his second spaceflight to the ISS onboard SpaceX Crew Dragon as the first non-American to serve as a pilot.
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Kavin Bharti Mittal
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Kavin Bharti Mittal is an Indian internet entrepreneur and son of Business Tycoon Sunil Mittal. He is known for his role as the founder and CEO of Hike, the company behind the unicorn Hike Messenger and the Rush Gaming Universe, a mobile gaming application.
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Teo Chee Hean
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teo Chee Hean PPA is a Singaporean politician and former two-star rear-admiral who has been serving as Senior Minister of Singapore since 2019 and Coordinating Minister for National Security since 2015. A member of the governing People's Action Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Pasir Ris West division of Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC since 2001.
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Patrick Geddes
- Occupations
- geographerscientific illustratorbotanisturban plannerecologist
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Sir Patrick Geddes FRSE was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, Comtean positivist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology. His works contain one of the earliest examples of the 'think globally, act locally' concept in social science.
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Karen Bradley
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Dame Karen Anne Bradley DBE is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Staffordshire Moorlands since 2010 and the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2024. She served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019.
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Thomas Kwok
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong is a Hong Kong billionaire, and the former joint chairman and managing director (with his brother Raymond Kwok) of Sun Hung Kai Properties, the largest property developer in Hong Kong. He received a five-year prison sentence for bribery in 2014.
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Dzulkefly Ahmad
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- politiciandocent
- Biography
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Dzulkefly bin Ahmad is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Health for the second term in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2023 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Selangor from March 2008 to May 2013 and again since May 2018. He served his first term as the Minister of Health in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to his resignation and the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a former component party of the former Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Alternatif (BA) opposition coalitions. He has also served as the Vice President of AMANAH since December 2023.
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Kit Armstrong
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Kit Armstrong is an American classical pianist, composer, organist, and former child prodigy of British-Taiwanese parentage.
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Mary Archer
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- physicistchemistscientist
- Biography
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Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare, DBE is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She is married to Jeffrey Archer, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Archer is the current Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
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Chi Onwurah
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Chinyelu Susan "Chi" Onwurah is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West since 2024, and previously for Newcastle upon Tyne Central from 2010 to 2024, when the constituency was abolished. She is a member of the Labour Party.
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Peter Rawlinson
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- engineerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Peter Rawlinson is a British businessman and engineer based in California. He is the chief executive officer, chief technology officer, and board member of Lucid Motors and is known for his work as Chief Vehicle Engineer of the Tesla Model S and the Lucid Air.
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Kamran Daneshjoo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kamran Daneshjoo is an Iranian university professor who was Minister of Science from 2009 to 2013.
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David Warren
- Occupations
- inventorchemistuniversity teacheradviserengineer
- Biography
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David Ronald de Mey Warren AO was an Australian scientist, best known for inventing and developing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (also known as FDR, CVR and "the black box").
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Sunetra Gupta
- Occupations
- translatorepidemiologistuniversity teachernovelistbiologist
- Biography
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Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Naci Görür
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- earth scientistuniversity teachergeologist
- Biography
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Naci Görür is a Turkish seismologist, geologist, and a former professor at the Technical University of Istanbul.
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Feza Gürsey
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicistmathematiciannuclear physicist
- Biography
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Feza Gürsey was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his contributions to theoretical physics, his work on the chiral model and on SU(6) symmetry of the quark model are the most well-known.
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Naomi Oreskes
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- university teacherearth scientistgeophysicisthistorian of science
- Biography
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Naomi Oreskes is an American historian of science. She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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Arthur Holmes
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- geologistgeophysicist
- Biography
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Arthur Holmes FRS FRSE was an English geologist who made two major contributions to the understanding of geology. He pioneered the use of radiometric dating of minerals, and was the first earth scientist to grasp the mechanical and thermal implications of mantle convection, which led eventually to the acceptance of plate tectonics.
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Wu I-ding
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu I-ding is a former Taiwanese politician. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020 and stood-down in January 2024.
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Neil Turok
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astronomerresearcherphysicistnon-fiction writer
- Biography
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Neil Geoffrey Turok OC HonFInstP is a South African physicist. He has held the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh since 2020, and has been director emeritus of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics since 2019. He specializes in mathematical physics and early-universe physics, including the cosmological constant and a cyclic model for the universe.
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Matt Taylor
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Matthew Graham George Thaddeus Taylor is a British astrophysicist employed by the European Space Agency. He is best known to the public for his involvement in the landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta mission (European Space Agency)'s Philae lander, which was the first spacecraft to land on a comet nucleus. He is Project Scientist of the Rosetta mission.
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Yuval Ne'eman
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistpedagogueuniversity teachernuclear physicist
- Biography
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Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi), the Albert Einstein Award, the Wigner Medal, and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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Baey Yam Keng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Baey Yam Keng is a Singaporean politician who has been serving as Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and the Environment since 2022 and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport since 2018. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Tampines North division of Tampines GRC since 2011.
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Jess Wade
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- In 2016 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade BEM is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, specialising in Raman spectroscopy. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Her public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) advocates for women in physics as well as tackling systemic biases such as gender and racial bias on Wikipedia.
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Michael Birch
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Michael Birch OBE is a British computer programmer and entrepreneur. Birch has helped co-found several startups including Blab, BirthdayAlarm.com, Ringo.com, and social networking site Bebo. Birch sold Bebo, his most lucrative business, which he started with his wife, Xochi Birch, was sold to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. Later he purchased the company back for $1 million. Birch has made several large donations to charitable organizations, including charity:water.
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Kenan Malik
- Occupations
- philosopherbiologistjournalistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Kenan Malik is a British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism, and race. These topics are core concerns in The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008).
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Tom Brake
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Anthony Brake is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carshalton and Wallington in London from 1997 to 2019.
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Martin Lowry
- Occupations
- physicistchemist
- Biography
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Thomas Martin Lowry CBE FRS was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society.
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Leslie Valiant
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- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leslie Gabriel Valiant FRS is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father and a translator mother. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. Valiant was awarded the Turing Award in 2010, having been described by the A.C.M. as a heroic figure in theoretical computer science and a role model for his courage and creativity in addressing some of the deepest unsolved problems in science; in particular for his "striking combination of depth and breadth".
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Geoffrey Wilkinson
- Occupations
- non-fiction writeruniversity teacherchemist
- Biography
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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.
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Nick Lane
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Nick Lane is a British biochemist and writer. He is a professor in evolutionary biochemistry at University College London. He has published five books to date which have won several awards.
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Lam Chiu Ying
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- justice of the peaceenvironmentalistmeteorologist
- Biography
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Lam Chiu-ying, SBS, also known by the nickname 'Black Ying' (Chinese: 黑英; pinyin: Hēi Yīng), is a Hong Kong meteorologist, bird-watcher, conservationist and blogger. He was the director of the Hong Kong Observatory 2003 through 2009. He is also an honorary fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, an Honorary University Fellow of the University of Hong Kong as well as the honorary president of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society. Microplanet 64288 Lamchiuying is named after Lam.
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Derek Barton
- Occupations
- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton FRS FRSE was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.
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Frederick W. Lanchester
- Occupations
- entrepreneurnon-fiction writerinventor
- Biography
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Frederick William Lanchester, was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations research.
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Ted Simon
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Ted Simon is a British travel writer noted for circumnavigating the world twice by motorcycle. He was raised in London by a German mother and a Romanian father.
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George McGavin
- Occupations
- entomologisttelevision presenterexplorer
- Biography
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George C. McGavin FLS FRGS Hon. FRSB Hon. FRES is a British entomologist, author, academic, television presenter and explorer.
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Hussain al-Shahristani
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- politiciannuclear physicistengineerchemist
- Biography
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Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.
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J.Y Pillay
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay, also known as J. Y. Pillay DUNU DUT (with Distinction) (born 30 March 1934), is a Singaporean retired civil servant.
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Lewis Wolpert
- Occupations
- engineerembryologistuniversity teacherbiologistcell biologist
- Biography
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Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL FMedSci was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.
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Elliot Colburn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elliot Haydn George Colburn is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carshalton and Wallington from the 2019 general election until he lost his seat in 2024. Colburn also served as councillor for the Cheam ward on Sutton Council from 2018 to 2022.
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Theoharis Theoharis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Haris Theoharis is a Greek politician, member of the Hellenic Parliament for New Democracy, and former head of the department of revenue during the Greek government-debt crisis. He previously served as Minister for Tourism in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He was first elected to parliament in January 2015 representing The River, but left the party in April 2016 and sat as an independent. He co-founded a small liberal party called Democratic Responsibility with former PASOK minister Alekos Papadopoulos in July 2016, but was expelled in October of the same year. He continued to sit in parliament as an independent before joining New Democracy's parliamentary group in December 2018, and was elected on the party's ticket in the 2019 election. He holds a MEng (Hon) in software engineering-first class from Imperial College, London, and has held high-ranking positions in companies of the private sector in Greece and abroad. During 2011-2012, he served as secretary general for information systems and he is known for introducing new digital services to assist the public, helping reduce bureaucracy and its resulting costs. He later (2013–14) served as a secretary general for public revenues at the Greek Finance Ministry. There, he succeeded in meeting budget revenues and producing a fiscal surplus. He is also known for launching the Publicrevenue platform to increase transparency in public administration.
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Fakhruddin Ahmadi Danesh-Ashtiani
- Occupations
- politicianfaculty member
- Biography
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Fakhreddin Ahmadi-Danesh-Ashtiani is an Iranian politician and scholar and the former Minister of Education.
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Roma Agrawal
- Occupations
- structural engineercivil engineer
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Roma Agrawal is an Indian-British chartered structural engineer based in London. She has worked on several major engineering projects, including the Shard. Agrawal is also an author and a diversity campaigner, championing women in engineering.
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Noel Odell
- Occupations
- geologistmountaineer
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Noel Ewart Odell FRSE FGS was an English geologist and mountaineer. In 1924 he was an oxygen officer on the Everest expedition in which George Mallory and Andrew Irvine famously perished during their summit attempt. Odell spent two weeks living above 23,000 feet (7,000 m), and twice climbed to 26,800 feet (8,200 m) and higher, all without supplemental oxygen. In 1936 Noel Odell with Bill Tilman climbed Nanda Devi, at the time the highest mountain climbed.
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Amelia Womack
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amelia Helen Womack is a British Green Party of England and Wales politician. She served as the party's Deputy Leader from 2014 to 2022. She is a co-chair of the People's Assembly Against Austerity, and co-founded Another Europe Is Possible.
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Julius Vogel
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomatscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Sir Julius Vogel KCMG was the eighth premier of New Zealand. His administration is best remembered for the issuing of bonds to fund railway construction and other public works. He was the first Jewish prime minister of New Zealand. Historian Warwick R. Armstrong assesses Vogel's strengths and weaknesses:
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William Penney, Baron Penney
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Studied in 1930-1931
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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William George Penney, Baron Penney, OM, KBE, FRS, FRSE was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the development of High Explosive Research, Britain's clandestine nuclear programme that started in 1942 during the Second World War which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952.
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Lancelot Ware
- Occupations
- politicianmathematicianbarristerbiochemist
- Biography
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Lancelot Lionel Ware OBE was an English barrister and biochemist. He co-founded Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people, with the Australian barrister Roland Berrill in 1946. It was originally called the "High IQ Club".
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John Manzoni
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Sir John Alexander Manzoni KCB is a British senior civil servant and business executive, who served as chief executive of the civil service and the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary from 2014 to 2020.
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Zubaida Rahman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zubaida Rahman is a Bangladeshi physician, and the wife of politician Tarique Rahman.
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Victor Goddard
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard, KCB, CBE, DL was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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C. Lloyd Morgan
- Occupations
- psychologistuniversity teacherethologistphilosopherzoologist
- Biography
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Conwy Lloyd Morgan, FRS was a British ethologist and psychologist. He is remembered for his theory of emergent evolution, and for the experimental approach to animal psychology now known as Morgan's Canon, a principle that played a major role in behaviourism, insisting that higher mental faculties should only be considered as explanations if lower faculties could not explain a behaviour.
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Trygve Reenskaug
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug was a Norwegian computer scientist and professor emeritus of the University of Oslo. He formulated the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern for graphical user interface (GUI) software design in 1979 while visiting the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). His first major software project, "Autokon," produced a successful computer-aided design – computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) program which was first used in 1963, and continued in use by shipyards worldwide for more than 30 years.
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Angela McLean
- Occupations
- zoologistscientific advisorresearcher
- Biography
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Dame Angela Ruth McLean is professor of mathematical biology in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford, and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government.
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David E. H. Jones
- Occupations
- writerscience writerjournalistchemist
- Biography
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David Edward Hugh Jones was a British chemist and writer, who - under the pen name Daedalus - was the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published for 38 years, starting weekly in 1964 in New Scientist. He then moved to the journal Nature, and continued to publish until 2002. Columns from these magazines, along with additional comments and implementation sketches, were collected in two books: The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes (1982) and The Further Inventions of Daedalus (1999).
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Dan Tolkovsky
- Occupations
- fighter pilotmilitary officersoldier
- Biography
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Aluf Dan Tolkowsky is a retired Israeli Air Force officer who served as a major general in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) from 1953 to 1958. A noted investor, he helped start the first Israeli venture capital fund.
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William Gowland
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologistengineer
- Biography
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William Gowland FRAI was an English mining engineer who carried out archaeological work at Stonehenge and in Japan. He has been called the "Father of Japanese Archaeology".
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Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani is a Qatari businessman, politician and a member of the royal family, Al Thani.
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George Band
- Occupations
- geologistmountaineer
- Biography
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George Christopher Band OBE was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascend the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.
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Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar
- Occupations
- surgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Ajay Kumar Kakkar, Baron Kakkar, KG, KBE, PC is an emeritus professor of surgery at University College London and life peer.
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Wolfgang Rindler
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- In 1956 studied theory of relativity
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Wolfgang Rindler was an Austrian physicist working in the field of general relativity where he is known for introducing the term "event horizon", Rindler coordinates, and (in collaboration with Roger Penrose) for the use of spinors in general relativity. An honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and foreign member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, he was also a prolific textbook author.
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Adrian Greenwood
- Occupations
- historianmilitary historian
- Biography
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Adrian Mark Greenwood was a British historian, biographer, author, and art dealer, with a particular interest in nineteenth-century British military history. As well as hundreds of articles on antiques and collecting, he wrote two books on military history.
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Mohammad Shamsuzzoha
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Mohammad Shamsuzzoha was a Bengali writer, professor and proctor at Rajshahi University. Shamsuzzoha was the first university teacher in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who was killed by the Pakistani Military forces at the eve of 1969 revolution movement of East Pakistan, which ultimately became the Bangladesh Liberation War. In 2008, he was awarded the Independence Day Award.
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Sue Ion
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Dame Susan Elizabeth Ion is a British engineer and an expert advisor on the nuclear power industry.
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Lolwah Al-Khater
- Born in
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Qatar - Occupations
- writerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Lolwah Rashid Mohammed Al-Khater is the Qatari Minister of Education and Higher Education since 12 November 2024. She is a diplomat, who was the first Qatari woman to hold the position of Spokesperson for the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Assistant Foreign Minister of Qatar. Between March 2023 and November 2024, she had served as Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Joan Ruddock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Dame Joan Mary Ruddock, DBE, PC is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham Deptford from 1987 to 2015. Ruddock was Minister of State for Energy at the Department of Energy and Climate Change until 11 May 2010. She stood down at the 2015 general election.
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K. P. P. Nambiar
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Kunnath Puthiyaveettil Padmanabhan Nambiar DIC, FIEE (Lond), CEngg (Lond.), more popularly known as K.P.P. Nambiar (15 April 1929 – 30 June 2015), was an Indian industrialist and technocrat, known for his work in the field of industrial development and technology. He was awarded Padma Bhushan by Government of India for his contributions to the field of technology in 2006.
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Kenneth Binmore
- Years
- 1940-.. (age 85)
- Enrolled in Imperial College London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianeconomistphilosopher
- Biography
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Kenneth George "Ken" Binmore, CBE, FBA is an English mathematician, economist, and game theorist, a Professor Emeritus of Economics at University College London (UCL) and a Visiting Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. As a founder of modern economic theory of bargaining (with Nash and Rubinstein), he made important contributions to the foundations of game theory, experimental economics, evolutionary game theory and analytical philosophy. He took up economics after holding the Chair of Mathematics at the London School of Economics. The switch has put him at the forefront of developments in game theory. His other interests include political and moral philosophy, decision theory, and statistics. He has written over 100 scholarly papers and 14 books.
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Geoffrey Page
- Occupations
- soldier
- Biography
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Wing Commander Alan Geoffrey Page, DSO, OBE, DFC & Bar, known as Geoffrey Page, was an officer in the Royal Air Force who served during the Second World War. He participated in the Battle of Britain, and was shot down. He was badly burned when his aircraft was destroyed, and was lucky to survive. He underwent many surgeries on his way to recovery, and was a founding member of the Guinea Pig Club. He eventually passed a medical exam and returned to active service, becoming one of Britain's most successful fighter pilots.
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George E. Davis
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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George Edward Davis is regarded as the founding father of the discipline of chemical engineering.
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Adrian Johns
- Occupations
- naval officer
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns, KCB, CBE, KStJ, DL is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy, serving as Second Sea Lord between 2005 and 2008. He was the Governor of Gibraltar between 2009 and 2013.
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Richard Taylor
- Years
- 1934-2024 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Richard Thomas Taylor was an English medical doctor and politician. He served as an independent Member of Parliament for Wyre Forest between 2001 and 2010. He was co-leader of the National Health Action Party.
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Jonathan Ashmore
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Jonathan Felix Ashmore FRS FMedSci FRSB is a British physicist and Bernard Katz Professor of Biophysics at University College London.
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Colin Humphreys
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Sir Colin John Humphreys is a British physicist and a hobbyist Bible scholar. He is the Professor of Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London.
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George Mercer Dawson
- Occupations
- photographerscientific illustratorpaleontologistexplorerbotanical collector
- Biography
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George Mercer Dawson CMG FRS FRSC was a Canadian geologist and surveyor. He performed many early explorations in western North America and compiled numerous records of the native peoples.
