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unusual facts about Professor of Zoology, Cambridge University


Carl Pantin

He was Professor of Zoology, Cambridge University from 1959 to 1966, and President of the Marine Biological Association from 1960 to 1966.


A. W. Lawrence

He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he founded what later became the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board as well as the National Museum of Ghana.

Aharon Shabtai

He studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University.

Artur Ekert

From 2002 until early 2007 he was the Leigh-Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Charles Marriott

Charles ("Father") Stowell Marriott (14 September 1895, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Lancashire – 13 October 1966, Dollis Hill, Middlesex) was an English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Lancashire, Cambridge University and Kent.

Colin Stansfield Smith

His county cricket was played for Lancashire, who capped him in 1957, but he also appeared for Cambridge University (for whom he gained his blue) among a number of other teams.

Daniel Pettit

Having graduated from Quarry Bank High School in 1934, Pettit made a name for himself playing amateur football for Cambridge University, where he was reading History at Fitzwilliam House.

David Nobbs

Following an education at Marlborough College and Cambridge University, Nobbs wrote for many of Britain's comedy performers over the years, including Kenneth Williams, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies.

Donald Nicol

After earning his first Classics degree at Cambridge University, he returned to Greece in 1949–1950 as a member of the British School at Athens.

Eugene V. Rostow

From 1933 to 1934 Rostow studied economics at Cambridge University (where he would return in 1959 as the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions) as a Henry Fellow.

Fair division

Envy-free division was first solved for the 3 player case in 1960 independently by John Selfridge of Northern Illinois University and John Horton Conway at Cambridge University, the algorithm was first published in the 'Mathematical Games' column by Martin Gardner in Scientific American.

Gavin Hastings

He has played for Watsonians, London Scottish, Cambridge University, Scotland and the British and Irish Lions and was one of the outstanding rugby union players of his generation, winning 61 caps for Scotland, 20 of which as captain.

Girton, Cambridgeshire

It lies about two miles to the northwest of Cambridge, and is the home of Cambridge University's Girton College, a pioneer in women's education, which was moved there from a previous site in Hertfordshire in 1872.

Göran Therborn

Göran Therborn (23 September 1941, Kalmar, Sweden) is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University and is amongst the most highly cited contemporary Marxian-influenced sociologists.

Gregory S. Boebinger

With a Churchill Scholarship, he traveled to the Cambridge University for one year of research under Professor Sir Richard Friend, studying the temperature dependent structural changes in one-dimensional organic superconductors.

H. P. Bulmer

In 1889, his elder brother Fred (Edward Frederick Bulmer), coming down from King's College, Cambridge, turned down the offer of a post as tutor to the children of the King of Siam to join Percy in his fledgling cider business.

Harrogate College

It traces its origins to the University Extension movement, which began in 1873 under the auspices of Cambridge University.

Harry Mahon

He also coached Cambridge University to repeated successes in the Boat Race.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Two years later, Osborn took a special course of study in anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bellevue Medical School of New York under Dr. William H. Welch, and subsequently studied embryology under Thomas Huxley as well as Francis Maitland Balfour at Cambridge University, England.

Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell

Though he was trained in preparation for a career in law at Cambridge University, Bell instead chose to study abroad and lived in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France and Madeira.

Hertfordshire Rangers F.C.

Their team were largely composed of players from Cambridge University students, as the university did not have a team at the time, and schools at Aldenham and Elstree.

J. Anthony Movshon

Movshon studied at Cambridge University, obtaining his B.A. in 1972, and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Colin Blakemore in 1975.

James E. Ferrell

With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut, currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University.

Jesse Sheidlower

Sheidlower received an undergraduate degree in English from the University of Chicago and did graduate work at Cambridge University in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic.

Joan A. Steitz

Steitz did her postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge (UK), where she interacted with Francis Crick, Sydney Brenner, and Mark Bretscher.

John Askew

In rugby union, Askew played club rugby for Durham City from 1925–31, Durham County from 1926–31, and Cambridge University from 1929–1931.

John Frazer

His early research was developed at the Architectural Association in London, Cambridge University, the University of Ulster, and at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he was Swire Chair Professor, head of the School of Design and Director of the Design Technology Research Centre.

Jonathan D. C. Turner

Turner was born on 13 May 1958 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England, and educated at Rugby School, Cambridge University (1979 BA, 1982 MA), the Université libre de Bruxelles (1981 Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen) and Queen Mary College, London (1982).

Kim Davies

Davies, who played club cricket for Clydach and who represented Aberavon RFC in rugby, made his first-class cricketing debut during the 1975 season, against Cambridge University.

Lyndon Brook

Brook’s parents sent their son back to England to be educated at Stowe School and then he gained stage experience at Cambridge University.

Manoj Datta

He has visited Stanford University, Harvard University and MIT in the US, Imperial College, Cambridge University and Cardiff University in UK, Tianjin University in China, IHE and TU Delft in Netherlands and Waterloo and McGill Universities in Canada.

May week

May Week, the celebratory week at the end of the academic year at Cambridge University

Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus

The overall project is led by a steering committee of Tinney, Eleanor Robson of Cambridge University, and Niek Veldhuis of the University of California, Berkeley

Oskar Fischer

Michel Goedert of the MRC laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge University uncovered Fischer's significance after his study in the archives of Charles University in Prague in 2008.

Paul Haston

Haston was born in London, England and graduated in 1980 with a Masters Degree in English Literature from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.

Percival Spear

An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Reviel Netz

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied Classics at Christ's Collge, Cambridge University where he obtained his doctorate in 1995.

Russell Ormond Redman

The asteroid 1993 PE (7886 Redman) has been named jointly for him and for Roderick Oliver Redman, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, no relation except that both worked at the DAO during significant parts of their careers.

Scott Symons

Born into a wealthy family, he attended a number of private schools, the University of Toronto, Cambridge University and the Sorbonne.

St John the Evangelist's Church, Cowgill

The foundation stone was laid on 30 June 1837 by Adam Sedgwick, Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.

Szeming Sze

Dr. Sze received degrees in chemistry and medicine at Winchester College and Christ's College (1925 to 1928), Cambridge University and interned in Britain, where he was inspired by his residency at St. Thomas Hospital in a London slum to do public service, before returning to China in 1934.

Terrington St Clement

The magnificent Parish Church, dedicated to St Clement (i.e. Pope Clement I), known as the "Cathedral of the Marshland", was built in the 14th century by Edmund Gonville, Rector of Terrington, who founded Gonville Hall (now Gonville and Caius College) at Cambridge University.

The Indian Clerk

The novel is inspired by the career of the self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, as seen mainly through the eyes of his mentor and collaborator G.H. Hardy, a British mathematics professor at Cambridge University.

Thomas Bridges Hughes

His football career included appearances for Oxford University (when he played against Cambridge University in March 1874), Swifts and Old Wykehamists, but he achieved notability for his exploits with the Wanderers amateur club, who won five of he first seven FA Cup finals.

Tony Lewis

Lewis was born in Swansea, and attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated as BA and later MA, and also played rugby football and cricket for Cambridge University.

W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season

On Thursday, 9 May, Grace was in Cambridge and played for an England XI against Cambridge University at Fenner's.

William Cope, 1st Baron Cope

Cope first came to note as a rugby player when he played for Cambridge University while a student.


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