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Academics of University College London
- Tarnya CooperTarnya Cooper received her MA in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1996. Her studies focused on Dutch and Flemish art during that period.
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell entered the world on the 7th of February 1947. This date marks the beginning of a life that would eventually reshape our understanding…
- John Lynch (historian)John Lynch was born on the 11th of January 1927 in Boldon, a small town in County Durham, in the north of England. By the time he died on the 4th of April…
- Demis HassabisDemis Hassabis was born on the 27th of July 1976 in North London. He began playing chess at the age of four and reached a master standard by thirteen.
- Thomas William Rhys DavidsThomas William Rhys Davids entered the world on the 12th of May 1843 in Colchester, Essex. His father served as a Congregational clergyman from Wales and…
- James HeckmanJames Joseph Heckman was born on the 19th of April 1944, and he would go on to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000 for a statistical…
- A. J. AyerA. J. Ayer was 26 years old when he published a book that told most of philosophy to sit down and be quiet. Language, Truth, and Logic, which appeared in…
- Roy PorterRoy Sydney Porter entered the world on the 31st of December 1946. He grew up in South London and attended Wilson's School in Camberwell.
- Frank KermodeFrank Kermode was born on the 29th of November 1919 on the Isle of Man, the only son of a delivery truck driver and a former waitress, in a family he later…
- Henry MorleyHenry Morley was born in Hatton Garden, London, on the 15th of September 1822, and by the time he died in 1894, he had helped invent the very idea of…