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Apr 1, 2007 · As a recent winner of the Biosciences Federation Science Communication Award, Dr Smith’s vision ‘is to help people enjoy science as much as we do and, at the same time, to have fun.’. Dr Smith’s work with The Naked Scientists is well supported by the research sponsors, including a £400K grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
Aug 28, 2008 · Radio presenter and Cambridge academic Dr Chris Smith has won the Royal Society's prestigious Kohn Award for his success in bringing science to a wider audience, it was announced today. Communicating science to the public is so crucial for our society and I enjoy every minute of working on the Naked Scientists. Radio presenter and Cambridge ...
Sep 22, 2011 · The research is led jointly byDr Adrain Fisher, Professor Christopher Howe and Professor Alison Smith at Cambridge, and Dr Petra Cameron at Bath. Carlos Peralta said: “The moss table provides us with a vision of the future.
Since its launch in 2011, Cambridge Digital Library (CDL) has had more than 20 million page views from over 2.2million users accessing its collections from every country on the globe. As “ a home for the discovery of digitised material", the Digital Library brings together research and archives from the University of Cambridge and beyond ...
The 162-leaf codex disappeared after Lewis Smith sent it to the international book fair in Leipzig just a few days before the outbreak of the First World War. It returned to Cambridge thanks to the efforts of John Oman (1860–1939), principal of Westminster College from 1922 to 1935 and executor of Agnes’s will, which left the manuscript to Cambridge University Library.
Oct 24, 2001 · Sir John Plumb, former Master of Christ's College and one of the leading British historians of the last century, died this weekend in the early hours of Sunday 21 October, 2001. Neil McKendrick, Master of Gonville and Caius, and a former student of Sir John, here pays tribute to this influential Cambridge academic.
Apr 23, 2015 · Professor Joya Chatterji. Professor Sir Christopher Bayly, described as the single most influential figure in the field of modern Indian history, has died in Chicago aged 69. He was world-renowned for his enormous contributions to the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge and to his subject. He held many positions during his time at ...
Feb 28, 2013 · Professor Christopher Andrew has been working on the history of international relations and the intelligence services for nearly four decades. In 2003 he was appointed to produce the official history Britain’s Security Service MI5, which was published on the occasion of the service’s centennial in 2009 (The Defence Of The Realm: The Authorised History Of MI5).
Jul 17, 2024 · Professor Aston takes over the role from Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, and will begin as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor on 1 September, 2024. An applied statistician, Professor Aston leads research into the use of quantitative evidence in public policy making, works with those in public life to ensure the best methods are used, and aims to improve the use of statistics and other quantitative evidence in public policy debates.
applications,’ says Professor Smith. ‘With current US legislation restricting public funding of human embryonic stem cell research, there is a window of opportunity for the United Kingdom to become a world leader.’ Taking the post of Deputy Director at the Centre, Professor Fiona Watt has recently been appointed Herchel Smith
