# List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford

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

## Medicine

| Name | JoinDate | Field of work | Comments |
| Alex Jadad | 1992 | neuroscience | FRS Jadad scale to assess quality of a clinical trial |
| Atul Gawande | 1987 | surgery | Rhodes Scholar The Checklist Manifesto for safer surgery |
| Stephen Grosz | 1975 | psychoanalysis | matriculated Stephen GrossThe Examined Life How We Lose and Find Ourselves |
| Stephen Bergman | 1966 | psychiatry | Rhodes Scholar The House of God under pen name Samuel Shem |
| 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 |
| Sir George Alberti | 1956 | diabetes | FRCPThe Alberti Regime for controlling blood sugar levels |
| 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 |
| Raymond Michael Gaze | 1949 | neuroscience | FRS, FRSEdeputy director of The National Institute for Medical Research |
| Ludwig Guttmann | 1939 | neurology | refugee founder of the Paralympic Games |

## Biology including mathematical biology

| Name | JoinDate | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Beth Shapiro | 1999 | molecular biology | Rhodes scholar, MacArthur Fellowchief science officer of Colossal Biosciences How to Clone a Mammoth | |
| Ewan Birney | 1992 | genomics | FRS | |
| Sir Peter Donnelly | 1980 | biostatistics | Rhodes Scholar FRSCEO Genomics PLC | |
| Philip Maini | 1979 | mathematical biology | FRS | [12] [13][14] |
| Julian Peto | 1964 | epidemiology | FRS | |
| Denis Noble | 1963 | systems biology | FRS, Fellow | |
| Richard Dawkins | 1959 | evolutionary biology | FRS Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, OxfordThe Selfish Genenew atheist | |
| Robert Hinde | 1948 | zoology | FRS ethologist and psychologist | |
| P. A. P. Moran | 1947 | population genetics | FRS"Arithmetic I could not do" | |
| Sir Julian Huxley | 1906 | evolutionary biology | FRS first director of UNESCO | |
| Reginald Farrer | 1898 | plant collecting | My Rock Garden | |
| Thomas Andrew Knight | 1778 | horticulture | FRS | |
| Henry Hawkins Tremayne | 1759 | arboriculture | Created the Lost Gardens of Heligan | |

## Chemistry

| Name | JoinDate | Field of work | Comments |
| Dame Clare Grey | 1990 | electric battery | FRSProfessor, Cambridge University |
| Hagan Bayley | 1970 | chemical biology | FRSOxford Professor founder Oxford Nanopore 2005 |
| Jeremy Knowles | 1955 | enzyme catalysis | FRS, FAAASdean, Arts and Sciences, Harvard |
| Daniel Adzei Bekoe | 1954 | X-ray crystallography | FGA Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana |
| 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 |
| Oliver Smithies | 1943 | genetics | Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: homologous recombination 2007 |
| Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 1941 | molecular science | FRS, FRSE"unfortunate not to receive the Nobel prize for his work" |
| Bill Smythies | 1931 | natural history | "Birds of Burma"uncle of Richard Dawkins |
| Alexander George Ogston | 1929 | biochemistry | FRS, FellowThree-point attachment theory |
| Ronnie Bell | 1924 | physical chemistry | FRS, FRSE FellowProfessor of chemistry, StirlingThe proton in chemistry 1959 |
| Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | 1919 | chemical kinetics | OM, FRS Nobel Prize mechanism of chemical reactions 1956 |
| E. J. Bowen | 1915 | photochemistry | FRSRescued the blackboard used by Albert Einstein |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie | 1834 | peroxides | FRS for analysis of beeswax |

## Mathematics

| Name | JoinDate | Field of work | Comments |
| 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 |
| Dame Frances Kirwan | 1981 | algebraic geometry | FRS Savilian Professor of Geometry |
| Philip Candelas | 1975 | Mathematical physics | FRS, Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford |
| Anand Pillay | 1970 | model theory | Chair of Mathematical Logic, University of Leeds |
| Aubrey William Ingleton | 1967 | Matroids | Fellow |
| Robin Wilson | 1962 | graph theory | Professor, Open Universitypublic mathematician |
| Leslie Colin Woods | 1961 | Thermodynamics | Rhodes Scholar, Fellow |
| Gilbert Strang | 1955 | Linear algebra | Rhodes Scholar |
| Donald Michie | 1945 | artificial intelligence | cryptography at Bletchley Park |
| Sir Wilfred Cockcroft | 1940 | mathematics educator | Mathematics Counts (1983), the "Cockcroft Report" on teaching mathematics. |
| Graham Higman | 1934 | Group theory | FRSFellow |
| Holbrook Mann MacNeille | 1928 | order theory | Rhodes Scholar director, American Mathematical Society |
| Arthur Geoffrey Walker | 1928 | cosmology | FRS, FRSE |
| J. H. C. Whitehead | 1923 | Algebraic topology | FRSOperational Research in WW2 |
| Sir Alexander Oppenheim | 1921 | Quadratic forms | FRSE, Oppenheim conjecture |
| E. C. Titchmarsh | 1917 | number theory | FRSSavilian Professor of Geometry |
| Theodore William Chaundy | 1906 | differential algebra | Differential Calculus |
| Julian Coolidge | 1895 | geometry | Chairman, Harvard Mathematics DepartmentA Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere |
| Charles Howard Hinton | 1874 | four-dimensional space | Coined the term "tesseract" |
| Henry John Stephen Smith | 1844 | matrix theorySmith normal form | FRS, FRSEFellow Savilian Professor of Geometry |
| William Spottiswoode | 1842 | determinants | FRS, FRSE Simultaneously President of Royal Society and the British Association |
| James Stirling | 1711 | Stirling's approximation for factorials | A Snell and Warner exhibitioner, he was expelled in 1715 for his correspondence with JacobitesLater on, he feared assassination for having discovered the glassmakers' secret |
| Noah Bridges | 1613 | cryptography | courtier to King Charles II |
| Cuthbert Tunstall | 1491 | business mathematics | Catholic bishopPublished the first book of mathematics printed in England |

## Physics and astronomy

| Name | Joindate | Field of work | Comments |
| Patrick Hayden | 1998 | quantum information theory | Rhodes ScholarProfessor of Physics, Stanford |
| Sir Anthony James Leggett | 1955 | superconductivity | FRSHonorary Fellow Nobel Prize "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" 2003 |
| Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn | 1950 | atomic spectra | FRSfirst fellow in physics worked on the Manhattan Project |
| R. V. Jones | 1934 | scientific intelligence | FRS "the father of scientific intelligence" Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 1978 |
| Herbert Squire | 1927 | fluid dynamics | FRSZaharoff Professor of Aviation at Imperial College |
| 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 |
| John Keill | 1692 | Newtonian Physics | Keill (FRS) followed his preceptor Gregory from Edinburgh to the Savilian chair of AstronomyAfter conducting experiments in his room at Balliol on Newton's findings, he was the first person to teach the new physics at Hart Hall |
| 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 |