Curated playlist
Academics of King's College London
- James Clerk MaxwellEinstein once corrected a host who said he stood on Newton's shoulders. He said he stood on the shoulders of Maxwell.
- Cliff EisenCliff Eisen studies where Leopold Mozart's works end and his son Wolfgang's begin.
- Andrew LambertHistorian Andrew Lambert holds a chair named for the scholar whose reputation he worked to restore.
- Janet NelsonAfter her 1967 PhD, Janet Nelson's supervisor reportedly told a colleague not to speak of her.
- Adrian GoldsworthyA historian of ancient Rome began writing novels about Wellington's army. Goldsworthy's first novel came out in 2011.
- Howard Hayes ScullardHistorian Howard Hayes Scullard wrote chapters that were published only after he died.
- Richard GombrichRichard Gombrich, a British Indologist born on the 17th of July 1937, did something unusual as a student for a future scholar of ancient India. While still an undergraduate, he helped edit a volume of papers by the philosopher Karl Popper,…
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin died one day before her virus model went on show at the Brussels world's fair.
- Henry MorleyCharles Dickens read Henry Morley's satirical articles and invited him to London in 1850.
- Roger PenroseRoger Penrose received half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that the formation of black holes is a robust prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The citation sounds like the summit of a single, tidy career.…