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University of Sheffield

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Sheffield, England

Founding Date:
1897

Motto:
Rerum cognoscere causas

Enrollment:
26,000

Official Website:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Michael Bentley Historian 8-Dec-1948   The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
David Blunkett Politician 6-Jun-1947   UK Home Secretary, 2001-04
Gavin Bryars Composer 16-Jan-1943   Avant-garde composer
Stephen Daldry Film Director 2-May-1961   The Hours
John T. Dickson Business c. 1946   CEO of Agere Systems, 2000-05
Jessica Ennis Track and Field 28-Jan-1986   Heptathlete
Brian Glover Actor 2-Apr-1934 24-Jul-1997 Lugg on Campion
Joanne Harris Novelist 3-Jul-1964   Chocolat
Penelope L. Hughes Business c. 1960   Former Coca-Cola executive
Sir Harold Kroto Chemist 7-Oct-1939 30-Apr-2016 Co-Discovered fullerenes
Caroline S. Matthews Business c. 1960   Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia
Leon Mirsky Mathematician 19-Dec-1918 1-Dec-1983 Transversal Theory
Steven Mithen Archaeologist 16-Oct-1960   After the Ice
Jim O'Neill Economist c. 1956   Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Richard J. Roberts Scientist 6-Sep-1943   Eukaryotic (split) genes
Rachel Shelley Actor 8-Aug-1969   The L Word
John R. Vane Scientist 29-Mar-1927 19-Nov-2004 Prostaglandins

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Michael Bentley Historian 8-Dec-1948   The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
Bernard Crick Political Scientist 16-Dec-1929 19-Dec-2008 In Defence of Politics
William Empson Critic 27-Sep-1906 15-Apr-1984 Seven Types of Ambiguity
Howard Florey Scientist 24-Sep-1898 21-Feb-1968 Isolated penicillin
Sarah Foot Historian 23-Feb-1961   Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Ian Kershaw Historian 29-Apr-1943   The Nazi Dictatorship
Hans Krebs Scientist 25-Apr-1900 22-Nov-1981 Tricarboxylic acid cycle
Edward Mellanby Doctor 8-Apr-1884 30-Jan-1955 Rickets
R. I. Moore Historian 8-May-1941   The Birth of Popular Heresy
George Porter Chemist 6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes
Edward Vallance Historian 1975   A Radical History of Britain
Bernard Wasserstein Historian 22-Jan-1948   Vanishing Diaspora

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
H. A. L. Fisher Historian 21-Mar-1865 18-Apr-1940 The Medieval Empire
Arthur Pickard-Cambridge Scholar 20-Jan-1873 7-Feb-1952 Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy

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