page_title: List of Durham University people
section_title: Mathematicians, medics and scientists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Durham University people / Academics / Mathematicians, medics and scientists
caption_attribution_description: English: Ben Moore speaking at the KOSMOS center in Zurich 2017
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with Durham University, divided for user convenience into multiple subcategories. This includes alumni, those who have taught there, conducted research there or played a part in its founding. Durham is a collegiate university, so where known and if applicable, they are shown alongside their associated college. For reasons of brevity, alumni of University College, St Cuthbert's Society and Trevelyan College are written with the shorter, more informal names of Castle, Cuths and Trevs respectively.
  Note that college membership was not always compulsory. From Epiphany term of 1871 the university, as a way of lowering the cost of studying at Durham, began to admit students without the need to join a college or hall – an innovation that may have been influenced by Oxford's decision to admit non-collegiate students in 1868. This change proved popular, and between 1870/71 and 1890/91 the 'Unattached Members' were 28% of entrants. Some students who read for higher degrees, like the geologist Gillian Foulger, did not join a college either. Alumni who did not take up membership of a college or society are therefore listed as Unattached.
context_section_description: Cyril Clifford Addison (Hatfield) – Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at University of Nottingham (1960–78)
  Richard Arculus (Hatfield) – Professor in School of Earth Sciences at Australian National University
  David Axon (Hatfield) – Professor at the University of Hertfordshire and Rochester Institute of Technology
  Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge (Hatfield) – Wolfson Professor of Energy Studies at Newcastle University
  David Barker – zoologist and neurologist, professor emeritus of zoology
  David Bellamy – botanist and environmental campaigner
  Kathleen Bever Blackburn (Armstrong) – botanist
  William Campbell (College of Science) – metallographer to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
  Martyn Chamberlain – Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University; Master of Grey College (2003–2011)
  Temple Chevallier – clergyman, astronomer, and mathematician, founding director of Durham University Observatory
  Geoffrey Coates – Head of the Chemistry Department at Durham University (1953–1968)
  Jacqui Cole – Head of Molecular Engineering at Cavendish Laboratory
  Roger Davies – Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University; President of the Royal Astronomical Society (2010–2012)
  John Frederick Dewey – Professor of Geology at Oxford University (1986–2000)
  H. Martyn Evans – Professor in Humanities in Medicine at Durham University; Principal of Trevelyan College (2008–2019)
  Ian Fells – Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University, Michael Faraday Prize (1993)
  Andrew Fisher – Professor of Physics at University College London
  Gillian Foulger (Unattached) – Professor of Geophysics at Durham University; Price Medal (2005)
  David Gavaghan (Grey) – Professor of Computational Biology at University of Oxford
  Rebecca Goss (Hatfield) – Professor of Organic Chemistry at University of St. Andrews
  Monica Grady (St Aidan's) – Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University
  Ruth Gregory – Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Durham University
  Hans Kronberger – Scientist-in-Chief of the Reactor Group at UKAEA (1962–1969); Leverhulme Medal (1969)
  Peter Kyberd (Hatfield) – Head of the School of Energy and Electrical Engineering at Portsmouth University
  Marie Lebour – marine biologist
  Gordon Manley – Professor of Geography at Bedford College (1948–1964); President of the Royal Meteorological Society (1945–1947)
  Nigel Martin – Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Durham University; Principal of Trevelyan College (2000–2008)
  Rachel McKendry (Trevs) – Professor at London Centre for Nanotechnology
  M. A. Wazed Miah – Chairman of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (–1999)
  Ben Moore – Director of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology at the University of Zürich; Philip Leverhulme Prize (2001)
  Flora Murray, doctor and suffragist – founder of Women's Hospital for Children
  Ruth Nicholson – obstetrician and gynaecologist
  Thomas Horrocks Openshaw – Victorian surgeon and recipient of a Jack the Ripper letter
  Simon Parson – Regius Professor of Anatomy at University of Aberdeen (since 2018); President of the Anatomical Society (since 2019)
  A. W. Pryor – Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics; David Syme Research Prize (1964)
  Caleb Scharf – Director of the Columbia Astrobiology Center at Columbia University
  Joe Smartt (Hatfield) – Reader in Biology at Southampton University (1990–1996)
  Mark A. Smith (Hatfield) – Professor of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University
  Paul Sutcliffe – Professor of Theoretical Physics at Durham University; Whitehead Prize (2006)
  Sarah Thompson – Head of Physics Department at the University of York
  John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant – former President of British Medical Association, General Medical Council and the Royal Society of Medicine
  Stan Woodell (Hatfield) – Lecturer in Botany at Oxford University (1959–1988); Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford (1989–2004)
caption: Ben Moore, Astrophysicist
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