EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Sheffield, England

Founding Date:
1897

Motto:
Rerum cognoscere causas

Enrollment:
26,000

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Bentley	Historian	8-Dec-1948		The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
David Blunkett	Politician	6-Jun-1947		UK Home Secretary, 2001-04
Gavin Bryars	Composer	16-Jan-1943		Avant-garde composer
Stephen Daldry	Film Director	2-May-1961		The Hours
John T. Dickson	Business	c. 1946		CEO of Agere Systems, 2000-05
Jessica Ennis	Track and Field	28-Jan-1986		Heptathlete
Brian Glover	Actor	2-Apr-1934	24-Jul-1997	Lugg on Campion
Joanne Harris	Novelist	3-Jul-1964		Chocolat
Penelope L. Hughes	Business	c. 1960		Former Coca-Cola executive
Sir Harold Kroto	Chemist	7-Oct-1939	30-Apr-2016	Co-Discovered fullerenes
Caroline S. Matthews	Business	c. 1960		Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia
Leon Mirsky	Mathematician	19-Dec-1918	1-Dec-1983	Transversal Theory
Steven Mithen	Archaeologist	16-Oct-1960		After the Ice
Jim O'Neill	Economist	c. 1956		Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Richard J. Roberts	Scientist	6-Sep-1943		Eukaryotic (split) genes
Rachel Shelley	Actor	8-Aug-1969		The L Word
John R. Vane	Scientist	29-Mar-1927	19-Nov-2004	Prostaglandins

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Bentley	Historian	8-Dec-1948		The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929
Bernard Crick	Political Scientist	16-Dec-1929	19-Dec-2008	In Defence of Politics
William Empson	Critic	27-Sep-1906	15-Apr-1984	Seven Types of Ambiguity
Howard Florey	Scientist	24-Sep-1898	21-Feb-1968	Isolated penicillin
Sarah Foot	Historian	23-Feb-1961		Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England
Ian Kershaw	Historian	29-Apr-1943		The Nazi Dictatorship
Hans Krebs	Scientist	25-Apr-1900	22-Nov-1981	Tricarboxylic acid cycle
Edward Mellanby	Doctor	8-Apr-1884	30-Jan-1955	Rickets
R. I. Moore	Historian	8-May-1941		The Birth of Popular Heresy
George Porter	Chemist	6-Dec-1920	31-Aug-2002	Rapid chemical and biological processes
Edward Vallance	Historian	1975		A Radical History of Britain
Bernard Wasserstein	Historian	22-Jan-1948		Vanishing Diaspora

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
H. A. L. Fisher	Historian	21-Mar-1865	18-Apr-1940	The Medieval Empire
Arthur Pickard-Cambridge	Scholar	20-Jan-1873	7-Feb-1952	Dithyramb: Tragedy and Comedy

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