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10 unusual facts about Wolfson College


A. Michael Mennim

The son is artist Peter Mennim who painted the 40th Anniversary painting of Wolfson College in which his father appears and which hangs in the Combination Room which his father built.

A. Thomas Kraabel

While on the University of Minnesota faculty, Kraabel spent the academic year 1977-78 as a visiting fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University, England, and some months in 1981 as a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

Chad Van Dixhoorn

He retains a visiting fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and has served as associate minister of Cambridge Presbyterian Church and Grace Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Virginia.

Einat Wilf

She then went to Harvard University, receiving a BA in government and fine arts, before being awarded an MBA by INSEAD in France, and subsequently a PhD in political science at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Janusz Kochanowski

During his academic career, Kochanowski was several times Visiting Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute für Ausländisches und Internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg, the University of Augsburg, Jesus College at the University of Oxford, numerous colleges at the University of Cambridge, including Wolfson College, Robinson College, where he became elected senior member, Clare Hall, where he became a life member, and Peterhouse College.

Karen Bowerman

She was accepted at Wolfson College, Oxford, to study for a Ph.D in Theology but deferred her place for a year to try to fund it.

Laura Spence Affair

On Saturday 25 October 2008, Spence graduated from Wolfson College, Cambridge, with a degree in Medicine.

Proctor

The Proctors for 2012-13 are Dr Owen Saxton (Senior Proctor) of Murray Edwards College and Dr Christina Skott (Junior Proctor) of Magdalene College.

University college

Wolfson College, Cambridge was named University College from its foundation in 1965 until its endowment by the Wolfson Foundation in 1972.

Vlatko Vedral

Vlatko Vedral is a Serbian born (and naturalised British Citizen) physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and CQT (Centre for Quantum Technologies) at the National University of Singapore and a Fellow of Wolfson College.


Michael Fourman

He continued to work with Scott as an SRC postdoctoral Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, in Oxford, until 1976, when he moved to the USA, first as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, then, from 1977–1982, as JF Ritt Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University in New York.

Quantum cryptography

In 1990, independently and initially unaware of the earlier work, Artur Ekert, then a Ph.D. student at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, developed a different approach to quantum key distribution based on peculiar quantum correlations known as quantum entanglement.

Roel Sterckx

Sterckx was a pupil at Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege Mol (Belgium) and was educated at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, National Taiwan University, University of Cambridge (Clare Hall; Ph.D 1997) and University of Oxford (Wolfson College).

Simon Saunders

He has previously held permanent posts at Harvard University (1990-1996), and temporary or visiting positions at Wolfson College, Oxford (1985–89), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989-1990), Harvard (2001), École Polytechnique (2004), University of British Columbia (2005), Perimeter Institute (2005), and IMéRA (L’Institut Méditerranéen de

Simon Upton

Upton was educated at Southwell School, St Paul's Collegiate School and the University of Auckland, where he gained degrees in English literature, music and law, and Wolfson College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar.

Sophie Hannah

From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and between 1999 and 2001 a junior research fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.