University of Leicester

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University of Leicester

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Leicester, England

Founding Date:
1921

Motto:
Ut Vitam Habeant

Enrollment:
18,000

Official Website:
http://www.le.ac.uk/

STUDENTS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Malcolm Bradbury Critic 7-Sep-1932 27-Nov-2000 The History Man

J. H. Plumb Historian 20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 England in the Eighteenth Century

C. P. Snow Author 15-Oct-1905 1-Jul-1980 The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution

Henry D. G. Wallace Business c. 1946 CFO of Ford Motor, 2000-01

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Anthony Giddens Sociologist 18-Jan-1938 New Rules of Sociological Method

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Michael Atiyah Mathematician 22-Apr-1929 Atiyah-Singer index theorem

Alan L. Hodgkin Scientist 5-Feb-1914 20-Dec-1998 Electrical impulses in nerves

Philip Larkin Poet 9-Aug-1922 2-Dec-1985 The Whitsun Weddings

Tom McKillop Business 19-Mar-1943 Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland

George Porter Chemist 6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes

Stephen Reno Educator c. 1943 Chancellor, University System of New Hampshire

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