List of academics of Queen Mary University of London

The following is a list of notable academics past and present, who have taught or researched at Queen Mary University of London and at the institutions historically merged to from the current university.

Sciences

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Biologists

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  • Fran Balkwill - British oncologist, Professor of Cancer Biology, and author of children's books about scientific topics.
  • Lorna Casselton – British biologist, Professor of Genetics at Queen Mary's College (1989-1991), later Vice-President of the Royal Society (2006-2010).[1]
  • Lars Chittka – German biologist, founded the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary in 2007
  • Maud Godward - British botanist, scientist at Queen Mary College 1940 to 2002[2]
  • Marion Delf-Smith - British botanist, founded Westfield College's botany program in 1906 [3]
  • Sir Richard Owen – British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist[4]
  • Richard A. Nichols - British biologist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
  • P. David Polly - American paleontologist, Lecturer at Barts and London and School of Biological Sciences 1997-2006
  • Denise Sheer – British academic, Professor of Human Genetics

Chemists

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Physicists and material scientists

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  • Edgar Andrews – British physicist and engineer, Emeritus Professor of Materials, having founded the Department of Materials at Queen Mary in 1967.
  • Ted Bastin – British physicist and mathematician
  • Sir Harshad Bhadeshia – Indian-British metallurgist
  • William Bonfield – British material scientist, former Dean of Engineering at the then Queen Mary College, now Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge.[6]
  • Sebastian Doniach – British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University[7]
  • Michael Duff – British physicist
  • Michael Green – British physicist
  • Gwyn Jones – British physicist and curator, Professor of Physics
  • Peter Kalmus – British academic, Emeritus Professor of Physics
  • Ian C. Percival – British theoretical physicist[8]
  • Harold Roper Robinson – British academic, Professor of Physics
  • Sir Joseph Rotblat – Polish physicist, Professor of Physics, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1950–76); awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward nuclear disarmament[9]

Astronomers

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  • Guillem Anglada-Escudé - Catalan astronomer, at QMUL 2013 to 2019.
  • Bernard Carr – British mathematician and astronomer, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Astronomy.
  • Glenn White – British Astronomer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy.

Engineers

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Earth scientists

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Mathematicians

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Computer scientists

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  • Samson Abramsky - British computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at UCL, previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford, from 2000 to 2021. Honorary fellow at QMUL, having completed his PhD there.
  • Jade Alglave - French computer scientist, now a Professor of Computer Science at UCL.
  • Kevin Beurle - British space scientist and programmer who played a key role in the Cassini–Huygens mission to study Saturn and its moons. Died in 2009 in a hot air balloon crash.[17][18][19]
  • Richard Bornat - British computer scientist, Professor Emeritus of Computer Scientist at the University of Middlesex.
  • Mark Jerrum – British computer scientist and computational theorist[20]
  • Peter Landin – British academic, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
  • Ursula Martin – British computer scientist, the first female professor at the University of St Andrews since its foundation in 1411[21]
  • David Turner – British computer scientist

Zoologists

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Medicine

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Physicians

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Surgeons

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  • John Abernethy – British surgeon, lecturer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; founder of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital[23]
  • Karim Brohi - British surgeon, Professor of Trauma Sciences at QMUL, director of the London Major Trauma Network.
  • Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar – British surgeon, Professor of Surgery at University College London, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords[24]

Psychiatrists

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  • W. Ross Ashby – British psychiatrist and pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems
  • Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy – British politician, cross-bench member of the House of Lords; Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London (1995–2006)

Medical scientists

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  • Stephen Bustin - British scientist, Professor of Molecular Sciences at QMUL (2004-2012). Formerly a lecturer and reader in molecular science at Barts. Specialist in the study and research on polymerase chain reactions.

Arts

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Literature

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Film and performance studies

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  • Annette Kuhn – British academic, Emeritus Professor of Film Studies
  • Lois Weaver – British academic, Professor of Contemporary Performance

Language and linguistics

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Humanities

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Historians

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Philosophers

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Social Sciences

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Lawyers and jurists

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Economists, financiers, and business people

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Political scientists

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Social scientists and sociologists

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Educators

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  • David Mowbray Balme - former decorated RAF bomber pilot, classicist, reader (1957-1965) and later Professor of Classics (1965-89) at QMUL, previously the first principal of University College of the Gold Coast, the forerunner of the University of Ghana.[51]

References

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