List of University of Manchester people

This is a list of University of Manchester people. Many famous or notable people have worked or studied at the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology institutions, which combined in 2004 to form the University of Manchester.

The following list includes the names of all 25 Nobel prize laureates among them (in bold print).

Alumni
See also: List of University of Manchester alumni

Fine and applied arts

Architecture
  • Stephen Hodder, English architect, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 1996
  • Dalibor Vesely, architect (RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education 2006)
  • Paul Waterhouse, son of Alfred Waterhouse. He designed Girton College at Cambridge University as well as the Manchester Museum, Refuge Assurance Building, the Christie Library and the Whitworth Hall in Manchester.

Literature
Francis Thompson, poet

Music

Theatre, cinema and broadcasting

Others

Natural and applied sciences

Psychology

Biology and chemistry
John Dalton, founder of modern chemistry and atomic theory
  • John Dalton, the founder of modern chemistry and atomic theory; one of the founders of UMIST.
  • Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (Lecturer, 1922–1957), phycologist. She is celebrated as the Mother of the Sea in Japan for revolutionising the Japanese seaweed industry.
  • Raymond Dwek, biochemist
  • Sir Edward Frankland, analytical chemist; pioneer in organometallic chemistry
  • Arthur Harden (awarded Nobel prize in 1929), for investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes
  • Walter Haworth (awarded Nobel prize in 1937), for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C
  • John Joule, chemist
  • Charles Gordon Hewitt, pioneering ecologist and conservationist
  • Frederic Jevons, Professor of Liberal Studies in Science, awarded inaugural UNESCO Prize for Science and Technology Policy, 1992
  • Douglas Kell CBE, biochemist; former Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
  • David Leigh FRS, Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry, pioneer of synthetic molecular machines and molecular knots
  • Brian John Marples (1907–1997), Professor of Zoology at the University of Otago 1937–1967[5]
  • Sir Kenneth Mather FRS, botanist and geneticist, Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton 1965–1971
  • Barbara Mawer, biochemist and medical researcher
  • Gareth Morris FRS, Professor of Physical Chemistry
  • Paul O'Brien CBE FRS, Professor of Inorganic Materials
  • Stephen Oliver, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge
  • William Henry Perkin, Jr., planned the new chemical laboratory building at Owens College in 1895.
  • Michael Polanyi, chemist, influential philosopher and noted polymath (father of Nobel laureate John Charles Polanyi). Chair of Physical Chemistry (1933–1948) and Chair of Social Studies (1948–1959).
  • John Charles Polanyi (awarded Nobel prize in 1986), for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
  • G. S. R. Subba Rao, natural product chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
  • Robert Robinson (awarded Nobel prize in 1947), for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
  • Sir Henry Roscoe, chemist who considered the foundations of comparative photochemistry, later Member of Parliament and vice-chancellor of the University of London.
  • Tony Ryan, polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield
  • Merton Sandler (1926–2014), professor of chemical pathology and pioneer in biological psychiatry
  • Carl Schorlemmer, organic chemist and Socialist
  • Michael Smith (awarded Nobel prize in 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.
  • Edwin Southern inventor of the Southern blot which is a method routinely used in molecular biology for detection of a specific DNA sequence in DNA samples. (BSc Hons., 1958)
  • Marie Stopes, botanist and birth control campaigner
  • Sir Thomas Thorpe, investigated the relationship between substances molecular weights and their specific gravities, and his work on phosphorus compounds led to a better understanding of phosphorus trioxide.
  • Alexander Todd (awarded Nobel prize in 1957), for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
  • Chaim Weizmann, discovered how to use bacterial fermentation to produce large quantities of desired substances and is considered to be the father of industrial fermentation.
  • William Crawford Williamson, natural historian and paleobotanist
  • Derek Yalden, zoologist, president of The Mammal Society[6][7][8]

Computer science
Main article: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Statue of Turing by Stephen Kettle at Bletchley Park, commissioned by the American philanthropist Sidney E. Frank[9]

Engineering
Osborne Reynolds

Mathematics
Paul Erdős
Sir Horace Lamb

Physics
Niels Bohr
Andre Geim, awarded 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering work on graphene
Sir Bernard Lovell, radio-astronomer
  • Mary Almond Physicist, radio astronomer, palaeomagnetist, mathematician and computer scientist. Undergraduate 1946-49 and PhD in radio astronomy 1952.
  • Hans Bethe (awarded Nobel prize in 1967), for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars. Research staff and Temporary Lecturer 1932.
  • Patrick M. Blackett (awarded Nobel prize in 1948), for developing cloud chamber and confirming/discovering positron. Director and Langworthy Professor of Physics (1937–1953).
  • Niels Bohr (awarded Nobel prize in 1922). Research Staff and Schuster Reader 1911–1916. Worked on structure of atom and first theory of quantum mechanics.
  • William Lawrence Bragg (awarded Nobel prize in 1915, along with his father, William Henry Bragg), for X-ray crystallography (their work led to the first discoveries of DNA and protein structures). Director and Langworthy Professor of Physics (1919–1937).
  • Clifford Charles Butler. Co-discovered strange particles in 1947 with George Rochester. Went on to be head of physics department at Imperial College and then vice-chancellor at Loughborough University.
  • James Chadwick (awarded Nobel prize in 1935). Student (BSc & MSc) and Researcher 1908–1913 (under Rutherford). Discovered the neutron.
  • Mrinal Kumar Das Gupta Co-discoverer of the double radio source, Cygnus A, and Head of the Institute if Radio Physics and Electronics and the Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Calcutta. PhD in radio astronomy 1952.
  • Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (awarded Nobel prize in 1951), for his pioneering work with Rutherford and Walton, on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles. Born in Todmorden, he studied mathematics under Horace Lamb in 1914–1915 and received BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering. Later he became Chancellor of UMIST and Director of BAERE (Manhattan Project Hall of Fame).
  • Brian Cox, physicist working at CERN and popularizer of science. Most notable for his physics documentaries on the BBC and as a member of a few popular rock bands.
  • Sir Charles Galton Darwin, (grandson of Charles Darwin) Schuster Reader in Mathematical Physics (1910–1914) working under Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr. He later became Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
  • George de Hevesy (awarded Nobel prize in 1943), for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Research Staff 1910–1913.
  • Sir Arthur Eddington. Graduated in 1902 and became a lecturer in 1905. Founder of modern Astronomy. He made important contributions to the general theory of relativity and led an expedition team to validate it.
  • Tamsin Edwards Climate scientist and science communicator. Undergraduate 1997-2001 and PhD in particle physics 2004.
  • Victor Emery, British specialist on superconductors and superfluidity. His model for the electronic structure of the copper-oxide planes is the starting point for many analyses of high-temperature superconductors and is commonly known as the Emery model.
  • Yvonne Elsworth, BSc (1970) and Phd (1976) now Professor of Helioseismology and Poynting Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham.
  • Wendy Flavell, Professor of Surface Physics at Manchester and Vice-Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
  • Jeff Forshaw, particle physicist and winner of the Maxwell Medal and Prize and the Kelvin Prize, gained his PhD at University of Manchester and is now professor of particle physics there.
  • Gillian Gehring OBE, undergraduate in physics 1959-62 and emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Sheffield. She was the second woman in the UK to become a Professor of Physics.
  • Hans Geiger, Researcher 1906–1914, invented the Geiger counter and did the original "Rutherford scattering" experiment with Marsden (also the Geiger-Marsden experiment). Devised the famous Geiger ionization counter.
  • Andre Geim (awarded Nobel Prize in 2010), for the discovery of graphene
  • Danielle George, Master's degree in Physics at Manchester,[13] now a Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and presenter of the 2014 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
  • Helen Gleeson OBE, BSc in physics 1983, PhD in 1986 and the first woman to hold a chair in the Physics Department at the Victoria University of Manchester, before becoming Head of School in 2008. She specialises in soft matter and liquid crystals and is now Cavendish Professor and Head of the School of Physics at the University of Leeds.
  • James Hamilton, Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist, helped to develop the theory of cosmic-ray mesons
  • Edward Lee, built Britain's first infrared spectrometer and later served as Director of the Admiralty Research Laboratory.
  • Sir John Lennard-Jones, entered Manchester University where he changed his subject to mathematics in 1912. After First World War service in the Royal Flying Corps, he returned to Manchester as lecturer in Mathematics, 1919–1922. Founder of modern theoretical chemistry. Lennard-Jones potential and LJ fluid are named after him.
  • Patricia Lewis, nuclear physicist and arms control expert, who is currently Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR).
  • Henry Lipson CBE, FRS, known for x-ray diffraction and its application to crystallography, professor at UMIST 1954–1977.
  • Sir Bernard Lovell, Professor (1951–1990) and creator of the giant radio-telescope (the first large radio-telescope in the world with a diameter of 218 feet) at Jodrell Bank: pioneered the field of radio astronomy.
  • Sir Ernest Marsden was born in Lancashire in 1888. He won scholarships to attend grammar school and gain entry to Manchester University. It was here he met Rutherford in his honours year. Rutherford suggested a project to investigate the backwards scattering of alpha particles from a metal foil. He did this in conjunction with Hans Geiger (of Geiger counter fame), and it proved to be the key experiment in the demise of the Plum pudding model of the atom leading directly to Rutherford's nuclear atom. Rutherford also recommended Marsden for the position of physics professor at what is now Victoria University of Wellington.
  • Henry Moseley, who identified atomic number as the nuclear charges. He studied under Rutherford and brilliantly developed the application of X-ray spectra to study atomic structure; his discoveries resulted in a more accurate positioning of elements in the Periodic Table by closer determination of atomic numbers . Moseley was nominated for the 1915 Nobel Prize but was killed in action in August 1915 and could not receive the prize.
  • Nevill Francis Mott (awarded Nobel prize in 1977), for his fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
  • Konstantin Novoselov (awarded Nobel prize 2010), for his work on Graphene
  • Tim O'Brien, professor of astronomy and science communicator. PhD in astronomy 1988.
  • Herbert Parker, medical physicist. He was a pioneer of medical radiation therapy and radiation safety, known for introducing the roentgen equivalent physical (rep)
  • Henry Plummer, astronomer who developed a gravitational potential function that can be used to model globular clusters and spherically-symmetric galaxies, known as the Plummer potential; Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • John Henry Poynting. Student 1867–1872; Lecturer 1876–1879. Left to become Professor at Mason College (which became Birmingham University). He wrote on electrical phenomena and radiation and is best known for Poynting's vector. In 1891 he determined the mean density of the Earth and made a determination of the gravitational constant in 1893. The Poynting-Robertson effect was related to the theory of relativity.
  • George Rochester discovered strange particles in 1947 with Clifford C Butler. Went on to become Chair of the Department at Durham University.
Ernest Rutherford, "the Father of Nuclear Physics" discovered the structure of the atom at the University of Manchester
  • Keith Runcorn, PhD 1949, pioneer in the field of paleomagnetism.
  • Ernest Rutherford (awarded Nobel prize in 1908), for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances (he was the first to probe the atom). Langworthy Professor of Physics (1907–1919).
  • Mary Ryan is a Professor of Materials Science at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Undergraduate 1988–91.
  • Sir Arthur Schuster, Langworthy Professor of Physics (1888–1907), who made many contributions to optics and astronomy. Schuster's interests were wide-ranging: terrestrial magnetism, optics, solar physics, and the mathematical theory of periodicities. He introduced meteorology as a subject studied in British universities.
  • Balfour Stewart, Scottish physicist, who devoted himself to meteorology and terrestrial magnetism.
  • Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson (awarded Nobel prize in 1906). Studied and researched 1871–1876 (entered at age 14). Discovered the electron.
  • Charles Thomson Rees (C. T. R.) Wilson (awarded Nobel prize in 1927). Student 1884–1887. Invented the expansion cloud chamber.
  • Evan James Williams worked with Bragg and Blackett in the Physical Laboratories in the 1920s.
  • Sir Arnold Wolfendale, BSc 1948 and PhD 1954 in cosmic rays. Lecturer 1953–1956. 14th Astronomer Royal.

Physiology and medicine

The University of Manchester currently has 28 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[14] Present and historical University of Manchester people notable for their contributions to medicine and physiology include:

  • John Charnley, orthopaedic surgeon, pioneer in hip replacement
  • Hilary Critchley, Professor of Reproductive Medicine/Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Edinburgh
  • Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England
  • Shepherd Dawson FRSE, psychologist
  • Julius Dreschfeld, leading British physician and pathologist at the end of the 19th century
  • Archibald Vivian Hill (awarded Nobel prize in 1922), for his discovery relating to the production of heat in the muscle. One of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research
  • Ian Jacobs, gynaecologist and former vice-president of the University of Manchester
  • Ralph Kohn, British medical scientist and founder of the Kohn foundation. He was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to science, music and charity.
  • Sir Harry Platt, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon
  • Sir John Randall, developer of the cavity magnetron
  • Herchel Smith, a researcher at the University of Manchester, developed an inexpensive way of producing chemicals that stop women ovulating during their monthly menstrual cycle in 1961
  • John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, anatomist; vice-chancellor
  • Sir John Sulston (awarded Nobel prize in 2002), for his discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'. In 2007, Sulston was announced as Chair of the newly founded Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.
  • Raymond Tallis, gerontologist
  • David H.H. Metcalfe Academic General Practitioner, Professor Of General Practice University of Manchester, President Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Nesta Wells was the UKs first female police surgeon

Social sciences and education

Business

Economics
William Stanley Jevons, father of neoclassical economics
  • Anthony Stafford Beer, British theorist
  • Richard Blundell, British economist, lecturer in Econometrics from 1975–1984, the recipient of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 1995
  • Terence Burns, Baron Burns, British economist and President of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research
  • David Forrest, applied economist and econometrician, Professor of Economics at the Salford Business School
  • John Hicks (awarded Nobel prize in 1972), for his pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
  • Simon Johnson, British American economist, IMF Chief Economist
  • William White, Canadian economist, Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank of International Settlements. Chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  • William Stanley Jevons, father of neoclassical economics, was appointed in 1854 to establish a Chair in Political Economy making Manchester one of the oldest centres for the study of economics in the United Kingdom.
  • Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Bank of England
  • Sir Arthur Lewis (awarded Nobel prize in 1979), for his pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries.
  • Masoud Nili, Iran's economics minister
  • Jim O'Neill, British economist and former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. As of 2014 he is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University.
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz (awarded Nobel prize in 2001), for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, he is famous for his critical view of globalization and international institutions like the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank. Currently, Stiglitz teaches at Columbia University and heads the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester.

Education

Law, public administration and social welfare

Politics
The Rt Hon Margaret Beckett, former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Ian Livingston, Baron Livingston of Parkhead, former Group CEO of BT

Social anthropology

Sociology

Others
  • Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury
  • Sue Biggs CBE, Director General of the Royal Horticultural Society
  • Arthur Whitten Brown, pioneer of flight. He was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight.
  • Andrew Cohen, BBC's current Head of Science (BSc Pharmacology, 1994)[17]
  • Daniel Everett, anthropologist and linguist best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language.
  • Linda Norgrove, Ph.D. (2002), kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and killed in rescue effort
  • David Park, Director of the Courtauld Institute Conservation of Wall Painting Department.
  • Edward Harper Parker (1849-1926), famous sinologist, one of the leading pioneers of Chinese studies, became first chair professor in the field of Chinese studies of the University in 1901.

History
  • T. S. Ashton, economic historian. Served as Lecturer from 1921–1944. He notably turned down a knighthood in 1957.
  • Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, international historian and polemicist.
  • Stefan Berger, professor of Modern German and Comparative European History
  • M. R. D. Foot, historian of the SOE.
  • Sir Ian Kershaw, historian of Nazi Germany and biographer of Hitler, taught in the History department from 1968 to 1987.
  • Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas, historian of the French Revolution and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier, Professor of Modern History 1931–1952.
  • J. E. Neale, historian of the Elizabethan period and of Parliament
  • Maurice Oldfield, head of SIS
  • John Pickstone, historian of science and medicine
  • Walter Eustace Rhodes, historian, killed during the First World War on 13 July 1918
  • A. J. P. Taylor, 1931–1938, renowned English historian of the 20th century. He was one of the best-known British historians of the century and one of the most controversial.
  • James Taylor, author, expert on maritime art
  • K. K. Aziz, Pakistani author and historian.
  • Thomas Frederick Tout, professor of Medieval History.
  • Michael Wood, TV historian appointed as Professor of Public History in 2013.

Religion and philosophy

Sport

Chancellors
Victoria University of Manchester

UMIST

  • Sir Terry Leahy, former CEO of Tesco. Chancellor (2002–04), Co-Chancellor with Anna Ford (2004–08)

University of Manchester

  • Tom Bloxham, British property developer. Chancellor (2008–2015)
  • Lemn Sissay, poet, writer and broadcaster. Chancellor (2015–present)

Vice-Chancellors
  • Joseph Gouge Greenwood, English classical scholar, second Principal of Owens College, Manchester (1857–89), and first Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University (1880–86)
  • Sir Adolphus William Ward, Principal of Owens College (1889–97), Vice-Chancellor (1887–91)
  • Gerald Henry Rendall, University College, Liverpool, Vice-Chancellor (1891–1895)
  • Adolphus William Ward (second term), Vice-Chancellor (1895–1897)
  • Nathan Bodington, Yorkshire College, Leeds, Vice-Chancellor (1897–1901)
  • Sir Alfred Hopkinson, lawyer, academic and politician, Principal of Owens College (1898–1904); afterwards Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester (1903–13)[24]
  • Frederick Ernest Weiss, (1913–15), botanist
  • Sir Henry Alexander Miers, English geologist, Vice-Chancellor (1915–26)
  • Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, Vice-Chancellor (1926–34)
  • John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, Vice-Chancellor (1934–56), anatomist
  • Sir William Mansfield Cooper (1956–70); formerly Registrar; also professor of industrial and commercial law
  • Sir Arthur Armitage, President of Queens' College, Cambridge (1958–70), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (1965–67), Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Manchester (1970–80)
  • Sir Mark Henry Richmond (1981–90)
  • Sir Martin Harris, Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Manchester (1992–2004)
  • Alan Gilbert, historian, Vice-Chancellor (2004–10)
  • Dame Nancy Rothwell, physiologist, Vice-Chancellor (2010–present)

See also
  • Category:People associated with the University of Manchester
  • Natives of Manchester

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