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This is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, who worked in the fields of science, medicine, technology and mathematics.

Medicine

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Alex Jadad 1992 neuroscience FRS

Jadad scale to assess quality of a clinical trial

 [1]
Atul Gawande 1987 surgery Rhodes Scholar

The Checklist Manifesto for safer surgery

 [2]
Stephen Grosz 1975 psychoanalysis matriculated Stephen Gross

The Examined Life
How We Lose and Find Ourselves

 [3]
Stephen Bergman 1966 psychiatry Rhodes Scholar

The House of God under pen name Samuel Shem

 [4]
George Beadle 1958 genetics Eastman Professor, Fellow

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events 1958

 [5]
Sir George Alberti 1956 diabetes FRCP

The Alberti Regime for controlling blood sugar levels

 [6]
Baruch Blumberg 1955 communicable diseases Master of Balliol

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases (Hep B virus) 1976

 [7]
Raymond Michael Gaze 1949 neuroscience FRS, FRSE

deputy director of The National Institute for Medical Research

 [8]
Ludwig Guttmann 1939 neurology refugee

founder of the Paralympic Games

 [9]

Biology including mathematical biology

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Beth Shapiro 1999 molecular biology Rhodes scholar, MacArthur Fellow

chief science officer of Colossal Biosciences

How to Clone a Mammoth
Ewan Birney 1992 genomics FRS [10]
Sir Peter Donnelly 1980 biostatistics Rhodes Scholar

FRS

CEO Genomics PLC		 [11]
Philip Maini 1979 mathematical biology FRS [12]

[13][14]

Julian Peto 1964 epidemiology FRS [15]
Denis Noble 1963 systems biology FRS, Fellow [16]
Richard Dawkins 1959 evolutionary biology FRS
Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford

The Selfish Gene

new atheist

 [17]
Robert Hinde 1948 zoology FRS

ethologist and psychologist

 [18]
P. A. P. Moran 1947 population genetics FRS

"Arithmetic I could not do"

 [19]
Sir Julian Huxley 1906 evolutionary biology FRS

first director of UNESCO

 [20]
Reginald Farrer 1898 plant collecting My Rock Garden [21]
Thomas Andrew Knight 1778 horticulture FRS [22]
Henry Hawkins Tremayne 1759 arboriculture Created the Lost Gardens of Heligan [23]

Chemistry

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Dame Clare Grey 1990 electric battery FRS

Professor, Cambridge University

 [24]
Hagan Bayley 1970 chemical biology FRS

Oxford Professor

founder Oxford Nanopore 2005

 [25]
Jeremy Knowles 1955 enzyme catalysis FRS, FAAAS

dean, Arts and Sciences, Harvard

 [26]
Daniel Adzei Bekoe 1954 X-ray crystallography FGA

Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana

 [27]
Linus Pauling 1947 valency Fellow

Nobel Prize for Chemistry: nature of the chemical bond 1954

Nobel Peace Prize: for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West 1962

 [28]
Oliver Smithies 1943 genetics Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: homologous recombination 2007 [29]
Christopher Longuet-Higgins 1941 molecular science FRS, FRSE

"unfortunate not to receive the Nobel prize for his work"

 [30][31]
Bill Smythies 1931 natural history "Birds of Burma"

uncle of Richard Dawkins

 [32][33]
Alexander George Ogston 1929 biochemistry FRS, Fellow

Three-point attachment theory

 [34]
Ronnie Bell 1924 physical chemistry FRS, FRSE Fellow

Professor of chemistry, Stirling

The proton in chemistry 1959		 [35]
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood 1919 chemical kinetics OM, FRS

Nobel Prize mechanism of chemical reactions 1956

 [36]
E. J. Bowen 1915 photochemistry FRS

Rescued the blackboard used by Albert Einstein

 [37]
Sir Benjamin Brodie 1834 peroxides FRS for analysis of beeswax

[38]

Mathematics

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Mathematician Vicky Neale 2014 Mathematical research and exposition 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers
James Maynard 2009 Number theorist Fields Medal winner
Nick Trefethen 1997 Numerical analysis FRS
Sarah B. Hart 1993 Mathematical exposition Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature [39]
Dame Frances Kirwan 1981 algebraic geometry FRS

Savilian Professor of Geometry

 [40]
Philip Candelas 1975 [41] Mathematical physics FRS,[42] Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford [43]
Anand Pillay 1970 model theory Chair of Mathematical Logic, University of Leeds [44]
Aubrey William Ingleton 1967 Matroids Fellow [45]
Robin Wilson 1962 graph theory Professor, Open University

public mathematician

 [46]
Leslie Colin Woods 1961 Thermodynamics Rhodes Scholar, Fellow [47]
Gilbert Strang 1955 Linear algebra Rhodes Scholar [48]
Donald Michie 1945 artificial intelligence cryptography at Bletchley Park [49][50]
Sir Wilfred Cockcroft 1940 mathematics educator Mathematics Counts (1983), the "Cockcroft Report" on teaching mathematics. [51][52]
Graham Higman 1934 Group theory FRS

Fellow

 [53][54]
Holbrook Mann MacNeille 1928 order theory Rhodes Scholar

director, American Mathematical Society

 [55][56][57]
Arthur Geoffrey Walker 1928 cosmology FRS, FRSE [58]
J. H. C. Whitehead 1923 Algebraic topology FRS

Operational Research in WW2

 [59][60]
Sir Alexander Oppenheim 1921 Quadratic forms FRSE, Oppenheim conjecture [61][62]
E. C. Titchmarsh 1917 number theory FRS

Savilian Professor of Geometry

 [63][64]
Theodore William Chaundy 1906 differential algebra Differential Calculus [65][66][67]
Julian Coolidge 1895 geometry Chairman, Harvard Mathematics Department

A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere

 [68]
Charles Howard Hinton 1874 four-dimensional space Coined the term "tesseract" [69]
Henry John Stephen Smith 1844 matrix theory

Smith normal form

 FRS, FRSE

Fellow

Savilian Professor of Geometry

 [70][71]
William Spottiswoode 1842 determinants FRS, FRSE

Simultaneously President of Royal Society and the British Association

 [72][73]
James Stirling 1711 Stirling's approximation for factorials

 A Snell and Warner exhibitioner, he was expelled in 1715 for his correspondence with Jacobites

Later on, he feared assassination for having discovered the glassmakers' secret

 [74]
Noah Bridges 1613 cryptography courtier to King Charles II [75][76]
Cuthbert Tunstall 1491 business mathematics Catholic bishop

Published the first book of mathematics printed in England

 [77]

Physics and astronomy

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Patrick Hayden 1998 quantum information theory Rhodes Scholar

Professor of Physics, Stanford
Sir Anthony James Leggett 1955 superconductivity FRS

Honorary Fellow

Nobel Prize "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" 2003

 [78]
Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn 1950 atomic spectra FRS

first fellow in physics

worked on the Manhattan Project

 [79]
Herbert Squire 1927 fluid dynamics FRS

Zaharoff Professor of Aviation at Imperial College

 [80]
James Bradley 1711 astronomy Bradley (FRS) discovered the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis.

He was placed (after Hipparchus and Kepler) "above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries" by Delambre and was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy, eventually becoming the third Astronomer Royal in 1742

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John Keill 1692 Newtonian Physics Keill (FRS) followed his preceptor Gregory from Edinburgh and succeeded him to the Savilian chair of Astronomy

After conducting experiments in his room at Balliol and was the first person to teach the new physics at Hart Hall

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David Gregory 1691 Newtonian theory Gregory (FRS) was the first to openly teach the doctrines of the Principia in a public seminary and was elected as the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, due in part to the influence of Isaac Newton

He also argued that mathematics should be taught in English rather than Latin

 [84]

Notes

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  1. ^ Jadad, Alex. "News and Notes". No. 2023. Balliol College.
  2. ^ Gawande, Atul Atmaran. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 553.
  3. ^ Grosz, Stephen. "Balliol College Annual Report 2018" (PDF). Balliol College Annual Report 2018.
  4. ^ Bergman, Stephen Joseph. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 345.
  5. ^ Beadle, George Wells. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 246.
  6. ^ Martin, Elizabeth A. (25 February 2010). The Alberti Regime. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-955714-1. Retrieved 18 August 2024. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. ^ Blumberg, Baruch Samuel. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 210.
  8. ^ Gaze, [Raymond] Michael. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 150.
  9. ^ Guttmann, Ludwig (6 September 2012). "Oxford's part in the birth of the Paralympics". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  10. ^ Birney, Ewan. "Balliol e-News". No. September 2012. Balliol College.
  11. ^ Donnelly, Peter James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 498.
  12. ^ Maini, Philip (August 18, 2024). "WATCH: Prof. Philip Maini gives 2nd Year Student Lecture: Mathematical Modelling in Biology: Enzyme Kinetics & Perturbation Theory" (video). youtube.com. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
  13. ^ Philip, Maini. "Dr Vicky Neale hosts Maths + Cancer podcast". Balliol College. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  14. ^ Maini, Philip Kumar. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 490.
  15. ^ Peto, Julian. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 327.
  16. ^ Noble, Denis. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 628.
  17. ^ Hinde, R A. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 263.
  18. ^ Hinde, R A. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 607.
  19. ^ Moran, P A P. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 625.
  20. ^ Huxley, Julian Sorrell. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 112.
  21. ^ Farrer, R J. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 408.
  22. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Knight, Thomas Andrew" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  23. ^ Tremayne, Henry Hawkins (2004). "Tremayne Family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97938. Retrieved 21 May 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  24. ^ Grey, Clare. "Balliol College e-News". No. May 2011. Balliol College.
  25. ^ Balliol College Register. 1983. p. 457.
  26. ^ Knowles, Jeremy Randall. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 290.
  27. ^ Bekoe, Daniel Adzei-Obianyo. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 276.
  28. ^ Pauling, L C. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 630.
  29. ^ Smithies, Oliver. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 172.
  30. ^ Longuet-Higgins, Christopher (10 June 2004). "Obituary". The Guardian.
  31. ^ Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 159.
  32. ^ Smithies, Bill. Birds of Burma (PDF) (Second ed.).
  33. ^ Dawkins, Richard (2013). An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist : A Memoir. Bantam Press, London. ISBN 9780593070895.
  34. ^ Ogston, Alexander George. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 62.
  35. ^ Albery, John (18 January 1996). "Obituary: Professor R. P. Bell". The Independent. UK. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  36. ^ Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 192.
  37. ^ Bowen, Edmund John. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 177.
  38. ^ Brodie, B C. Balliol College Register (Second ed.). p. 1.
  39. ^ Hart, Sarah (May 2023). "Events Newsletter". Balliol College.
  40. ^ Kirwan, F C. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 614.
  41. ^ Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). 1983. p. 504.
  42. ^ "2010 - New Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
  43. ^ Who's Who. Online: OUP. 2024.
  44. ^ Pillay, Anand. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 400.
  45. ^ Ingleton, A W. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 610.
  46. ^ Wilson, Robin James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 306.
  47. ^ Tee, Garry; Wake, Graeme (7 June 2007). "Leslie Woods". The Guardian.
  48. ^ Strang, [William] Gilbert. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 217.
  49. ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin. "Michie, Donald (1923–2007)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98955. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  50. ^ Michie, Donald. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 113.
  51. ^ Crilly, A. J. "Cockcroft, Sir Wilfred Halliday [Bill] (1923–1999)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72961. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  52. ^ Cockcroft, Wilfred Halliday. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 85.
  53. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Graham Higman", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  54. ^ Higman, Graham. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 46.
  55. ^ Who's Who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States. A. N. Marquis Company. 1965. p. 598.
  56. ^ University of Oxford (1950). Register of Rhodes Scholars, 1903-1945. Oxford University Press. p. 212.
  57. ^ MacNeille, Holbrook Mann. Balliol College Register (Fifth ed.). p. 57.
  58. ^ Hitchin, Nigel J. (January 2006). "Arthur Geoffrey Walker. 17 July 1909 — 31 March 2001: Elected FRS 1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 413–421. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0028.
  59. ^ James, I. M. (16 May 2014). Differential Geometry: The Mathematical Works of J. H. C. Whitehead. Elsevier. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-4831-6473-1.
  60. ^ Nye, Mary Jo (2004). Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-674-01548-7.
  61. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexander Oppenheim", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  62. ^ Oppenheim, Alexander. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 229.
  63. ^ Titchmarsh, Edward Charles. "Titchmarsh, Edward Charles (1899–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36526. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  64. ^ Oppenheim, Alexander. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 187.
  65. ^ "Papers of Theodore William Chaundy, 1889-1971". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. JISC.
  66. ^ Donagi, Ron; Shaska, Tony (2 March 2020). Integrable Systems and Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-108-71577-5.
  67. ^ Chaundy, Theodore William. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 110.
  68. ^ Chaundy, Theodore William. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 491.
  69. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Hinton, Charles Howard" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  70. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Smith, Henry John Stephen" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  71. ^ Smith, H J S. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 389.
  72. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Spottiswoode, William" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  73. ^ Smith, H J S. Balliol College Register (First ed.). p. 389.
  74. ^ "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Stermont-Synge, British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk.
  75. ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bridges, Noah" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  76. ^ No college record but he had been a student at Oxford per Fosters
  77. ^ Newcombe, D. G. "Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert (1474–1559)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27817. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  78. ^ Leggett, Anthony James. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 214.
  79. ^ Kuhn, H G. Balliol College Register (Sixth ed.). p. 615.
  80. ^ Squire, Herbert Brian. Balliol College Register (Third ed.). p. 284.
  81. ^ Bradley, James (8 October 2009). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15256. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  82. ^ Jones, John (10 July 1997). Balliol College: A History, Second Edition: Reissue, with revisions. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199201815. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  83. ^ Keill, John (23 September 2010). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15256. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  84. ^ Gregory, David (3 January 2008). "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). OUP. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15256. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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