page_title: List of University of Nottingham people
section_title: Notable academics
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Nottingham people / Notable academics
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Historiker und Autor
context_page_description: A list of people related to the University of Nottingham or to its predecessor, University College, Nottingham.
context_section_description: Gwen Alston - aerodynamicist and educationalist
  Viacheslav Belavkin – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
  Wilfrid Butt – biochemist and endocrinologist
  George Carey – Archbishop of Canterbury
  Bryan Campbell Clarke – pioneering geneticist, particularly noted for his work on apostatic selection, and work with snails
  Stephen Daniels – cultural geographer
  Robert Edgeworth-Johnstone - first Lady Trent professor of chemical engineering
  Esther Eidinow – ancient historian
  Ivan Fesenko – mathematician
  Sir John Ambrose Fleming – pioneer of electronics
  Hugh Gaitskell – Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the Opposition 1955-1963
  Andre Geim – Nobel Prize–winning physicist
  Clive Granger – Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist
  David Greenaway – economist and Vice Chancellor (2008–)
  Don Grierson – geneticist
  George Garfield Hall – mathematician
  F. B. Hinsley - founder of the School of Mining Engineering
  Susan Howson – first female winner of the Adams Prize (for mathematics)
  Robin Lyth Hudson – mathematician, pioneer of quantum probability
  Luce Irigaray
  Sir Ian Kershaw – historian, one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich
  Graham Kendall - Professor of Computer Science and the Provost and CEO of University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
  Sir Michael Lyons – Chairman, BBC Trust
  Sir Peter Mansfield – physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  David H.H. Metcalfe – President, Royal College of General Practitioners
  Tom Paulin – poet and literary critic
  Monica Partridge - first woman Prof at Nottingham University.
  Ivy Pinchbeck - economic historian
  Lewis Thorpe – translator of Medieval works; Professor of French
  Sir Martyn Poliakoff – chemist
  Prof. John Rich - emeritus professor in the department of Classics
  Sir John Cyril Smith – lawyer
  Vivian de Sola Pinto – poet and literary critic
  W. J. H. Sprott – Professor of Philosophy
  John Webster – mycologist
  Vernon White – formerly special lecturer in theology, now principal of STETS and Canon of Winchester
  Richard G. Wilkinson – public health
  Robert Wood - special professor 1998-2005, psychologist and writer
  Xu Zhihong – President, Peking University
caption: Sir Ian Kershaw, historian
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