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Heriot-Watt University, 1997 "John Napier." Math & Mathematicians: The History of Math Discoveries around the World. 2 vols. U*X*L, 1999; John Napier Archived 8 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine The History of Computing Project; John Napier—Short biography and translation of work on logarithms Archived 28 December 2008 at the Wayback ...
In June 2019, Durham Students' Union assembly voted to lobby for the college to be named after the late politician and Durham graduate Mo Mowlam. [12] On 1 April 2020, Durham's student newspaper Palatinate published an April Fools' Day joke that South College was to be named Vine College after broadcaster and Durham alumnus Jeremy Vine. Vine ...
It’s one thing for your GPS voice to stumble around Raleigh — pronounced RAH-lee, without the Durham (DURM) appendage — mispronouncing streets and place names. It’s just a dumb machine.
Julian Besag FRS – Professor of Mathematics at Durham University; Guy Medal (1983) [55] Ed Corrigan FRS – Professor of Mathematics at the University of York, Principal of Collingwood College (2008–11) [56] H. Martyn Evans – Professor in Humanities in Medicine at Durham University; Principal of Trevelyan College (2008–2019)
Napier was an orthopedic surgeon at the University of London before being invited by Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark to join him in his paleoanthropology research. [1] Napier then dedicated his life afterward to primatology, becoming the founder of the Primate Society of Great Britain, and was among the group, with Louis Leakey and Philip Tobias, that named Homo habilis in the 1960s.
Paul Sutcliffe, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham; Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford (2002–2021) Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem (MA, 1984), Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem [29] Thomas Charles Thompson, Liberal Party politician [30] Maurice Tucker, Professor of Geology and Master of University College, Durham ...
Ushaw College (formally St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw) is a former Catholic seminary, which until 2011 was also a licensed hall of residence of Durham University near the village of Ushaw Moor, County Durham, England, which is now a heritage and cultural tourist attraction. The college is known for its Georgian and Victorian Gothic architecture ...
University College was formed upon the creation of University of Durham in 1832. It was the first college of the university, and is therefore known as the "foundation college", but the university was founded explicitly on the Oxbridge model; the intention was already for the university to develop along collegiate lines in the manner of Oxford and Cambridge, as it has.