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Academics of University College London
- Tarnya CooperTarnya Cooper has spent her career bringing Tudor faces back to life. As Chief Curator and eventually Curatorial Director at the National Portrait Gallery in…
- James Graham-CampbellJames Graham-Campbell's 1995 catalogue documented Viking-Age gold and silver found across Scotland, covering a span from AD 850 to 1100.
- 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 Dimitrios Hassapis on the 27th of July 1976, and his very surname carries a story. The original name, Hassapis, means “butcher” in…
- Thomas William Rhys DavidsThomas William Rhys Davids was serving as Magistrate of Galle in Sri Lanka. A document written in an unfamiliar script was brought into his courtroom as…
- 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 Porter died on the 3rd of March 2002 while cycling, five months into a retirement he had barely started. He had moved to St Leonards-on-Sea with plans to…
- 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…