List of famous people from Imperial College London
This list includes known current or former members of Imperial College London .
Nobel Prize Winner
- Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1969
- Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1948
- Sir Ernst Boris Chain - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945
- Sir Alexander Fleming - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945
- Dennis Gabor - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1971
- Sir Walter Norman Haworth - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1937
- Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1956
- Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1929
- Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1963
- Sir George Porter - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1967
- Rodney Robert Porter - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1972
- Abdus Salam - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1979
- Sir George Paget Thomson - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1937
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1973
Further alumni and lecturers
Politician Julius Vogel (before 1877) was Premier of New Zealand from 1873
Arthur Holmes (picture from 1912)
Writer HG Wells before 1922
Medic and middle distance runner Roger Bannister (2009)
Physicist William Penney , father of the British atomic bomb
David Warren with the prototype of the flight recorder he developed
Author David Irving (2003), history reviser
Manager Chew Choon Seng , CEO Singapore Airlines
Author and physicist Simon Singh
Surname | Life dates | profession | power |
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Louis Attrill | * March 5, 1975 | athlete | Gold medalist in rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics |
Mustafa Djamgoz | * 1952 | Neurobiology and Cancer Research | |
Sir Jack Baldwin | August 8, 1938 - January 4, 2020 | Chemist | Discoverer of the Baldwin rules |
Sir Roger Bannister | March 23, 1929 - March 3, 2018 | athlete | British middle distance runner, sports official and neurologist |
Richard Maling Barrer | June 16, 1910 - September 12, 1996 | Chemist | Developer of the zeolite |
Baron Richard Beeching | April 21, 1913 - March 23, 1985 | Engineer, physicist | Chairman of British Railways |
William Thomas Blanford | October 7, 1832 - June 23, 1905 | Geologist , biologist | Basic biogeographical works |
Michael Birch | Founder of Bebo | ||
Alan Blumlein | June 29, 1903 - June 7, 1942 | Electrical engineer | Made inventions in telecommunications , sound recording , stereophony , records , television and radar . He obtained 128 patents. |
Chew Choon Seng | Manager | Singapore Airlines CEO | |
Iain Conn | * October 22, 1962 | economist | Chief Executive (Refining and Marketing) of BP |
Charles Coutelle | * September 5, 1939 | Doctor and biologist | Research in human genetics |
Michael Cowpland | * April 23, 1943 | Founder of Corel | |
Sir William Crookes | June 17, 1832 - April 4, 1919 | Physicist, chemist, science journalist and parapsychologist | Crookes made the cathode rays visible, discovered the fundamentals of luminescence and isotopes and developed methods for detecting radioactive radiation. |
Donald Watts Davies | June 7, 1924 - May 28, 2000 | physicist | One of the pioneers in information technology. |
George Mercer Dawson | August 1, 1849 - March 2, 1901 | (Canadian) geographer, geodesist and paleontologist | Measured several mountains and was the first to excavate dinosaur fossils in Canada. |
Simon Dennis | athlete | Gold medalist rowing, 2000 Summer Olympics | |
Keith Duckworth | August 10, 1933 - December 19, 2005 | Mechanical engineer | Founder of Cosworth Engineering , designer of motors in motor sport (called "Motor Pope") |
Colin Dyer | CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle | ||
James H. Ellis | September 25, 1924 - November 25, 1997 | engineer | designed the asymmetric cryptosystem |
Jonni Fulcher | * September 22, 1974 | athlete | Scottish pool and snooker player |
Rajiv Gandhi | August 20, 1944 - May 21, 1991 | Indian politician | former Prime Minister of India (1984-1989). Like his mother Indira Gandhi, he died in an assassination attempt. His father Feroze Gandhi was Parse . |
Marc Garneau | * February 23, 1949 | Canadian electrical engineer | first Canadian astronaut . From November 2001 he was President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), from 2006 he is a politician of the Liberal Party of Canada and a member of the House of Commons. He received his PhD from Imperial College. |
Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland | * June 3, 1967 | English biologist | Professor of Conservation Biology at Imperial College |
Judah deer tassel | October 2, 1899 - October 15, 1987 | Biochemist and neuroscientist | |
Adam Holloway | * July 29, 1965 | Journalist and politician | |
Arthur Holmes | January 14, 1890 - September 20, 1965 | English geologist | Extension of Alfred Wegener's knowledge of plate tectonics. Holmes received his PhD from IC in 1910. |
Sir Stanley Hooker | September 30, 1907 - May 24, 1984 | Engineer, mathematician | Hooker was a developer for rocket technology at Rolls-Royce (development of the Welland and Derwent) and later at Bristol Aero Engines (Proteus and Olympus) and finally developed the Pegasus. He studied mathematics at the Imperial. |
Leslie Hudson | (CEO of DOV Pharmaceutical ) | ||
Sean Patrick Francis Hughes | * December 2, 1941 | Mediciners | From 1991 professor at the Medicine School of the Imperialist for Orthopedic Surgery. |
Thomas Henry Huxley | May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895 | Biologist and author | |
David Irving | * March 24, 1938 | British author | History revisionist and Holocaust denier. He wrote about 30 books about the time of National Socialism. In 1977 he denied Adolf Hitler's initiative in World War II and his knowledge of the Holocaust until 1943. He studied a. a. Economics at the Imperial, but dropped out. |
Branislav Ivković | Politician | Ivković founded the Socialist People's Party of Serbia, a small political party. | |
Frederick W. Lanchester | October 23, 1868 - March 8, 1946 | Universal engineer | Lanchester was a diverse researcher, engineer, and entrepreneur. He made significant contributions to automotive engineering, aviation, and military tactics. He studied engineering at the Imperial, but left the university without a degree. |
Richard Lang | * 1956 | Chess programmer | from 1984 to 1990 consecutive world champion in microcomputer chess |
Sir Reginald Patrick Linstead | August 28, 1902 - September 22, 1966 | Chemist | Discovered the phthalocyanine dye |
Danny Lui | Jan. 7, 1957 - July 1, 2012 | Lenovo founder | |
John Manzoni | * 1960 | Group Managing Director of BP | |
Kenneth Michael | * April 12, 1938 | Politician | Governor of Western Australia |
Derek Pannell | CEO of Noranda | ||
William George Penney | June 24, 1909 - March 3, 1991 | British physicist | Penney is considered the "father" of the British atomic bomb. |
William Henry Perkin | March 12, 1838 - July 14, 1907 | British chemist and industrialist | Perkin discovered the first synthetic aniline -dye that Mauvein . He founded a major dye company and developed syntheses for the preparation of cinnamic acid and cumari |
Alec Harley Reeves | March 10, 1902 - October 13, 1971 | British engineer | In 1937 he devised and formulated the principles of pulse code modulation (PCM) and applied for over 80 other patents. Reeves studied engineering at Imperial. |
- Donald H. Perkins (physicist)
- Trevor Phillips (journalist and politician)
- David E. Potter (Founder and Chairman of Psion , Chairman of Symbian )
- Sir Ralph Robins (CEO of Rolls-Royce )
- Simon Singh (popular science writer)
- Gary Tanaka (founder of Amerindo )
- Nikolas Tombazis (chief designer at Scuderia Ferrari)
- Sir Julius Vogel (former Prime Minister of New Zealand )
- David Warren AO (inventor of the flight recorder )
- Joan Woodward (organizational and industrial sociologist)
- HG Wells (writer)
- Winston Wong (businessman)