• Source: List of University of Birmingham academics

This is a list of notable academics related to the University of Birmingham and its predecessors, Mason Science College and Queen's College, Birmingham. This page includes those who work or have worked as lecturers, readers, professors, fellows, and researchers at Birmingham University. Administrators are included only in exceptional cases. Those who are/were academics of the university as well as alumni are included on the list of University of Birmingham alumni.




Nobel Prize recipients


Sir Paul Nurse 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology President of the Royal Society




Science, engineering and medicine






= Biology

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Rupert E. Billingham, former Chair in Zoology
Jack Cohen, a reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.
Steve Busby, Professor of Biochemistry, discovered some of the rules that govern how bacterial genes are expressed
John Berry Haycraft, professor in Physiology at Mason Science College, discovered an anticoagulant created by the leech, which he named hirudin
Lancelot Hogben, Professor of Zoology (1941–1947) and Professor of Medical Statistics (1947–1961)
Sir Kenneth Mather, Professor of Genetics (1948), recipient of the 1964 Darwin Medal, later Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton
Laura Piddock, Professor of Microbiology, specialising in resistance to antibiotics
Bryan M. Turner, Professor of Experimental Genetics
Horace Waring, zoologist, head of the department of zoology (1946–1948) and recipient of the 1962 Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Richard Henry Yapp, botanist
William Brunsdon Yapp, zoologist and author
Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, Professor of Anatomy (1946–1968) and chief scientific adviser to the British government (1964-1971)




= Chemistry

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Leroy (Lee) Cronin, chemist, Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow
Percy F. Frankland, chemist
Sir Fraser Stoddart, chemist, researcher in supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology, Professor of Chemistry (1990–1997)
Sir William A. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry (1880–1894)
Thomas Summers West, analytical chemist (1949–1963)




= Engineering and computing

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Norman Percy Allen, metallurgist (1929–1933)
Adrian John Brown, Professor of Malting and Brewing (1900–1928)
Lord Cadman, mining engineer and petroleum technologist
John Knott, Professor of Metallurgy and Materials, recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal
Sir Richard Redmayne, professor of mining 1902-08, first Chief Inspector of Mines
Aaron Sloman, former Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Thomas Turner, metallurgist
Arnold Tustin, Professor of Engineering (1947–1955)




= Geology

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Charles Lapworth, the first Professor of Geology at Mason Science College
Sir Raymond Priestley, geologist, early Antarctic explorer, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
Frederick William Shotton, geologist whose research into the geological makeup of Normandy beaches helped allied commanders decide which were the best to use on D-Day
William Whitehead Watts, geologist
Sir Alwyn Williams, geologist, Professor of Geology (1974–1976)




= Mathematics and statistics

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Jonathan Bennett, Professor of Mathematics, recipient of the 2011 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
Nora Calderwood, Scottish mathematician and namesake of the Universities Calderwood Prize in mathematics
Henry Daniels, statistician, the first professor of mathematical statistics (1957–1978), recipient of the Guy Medal in Gold in 1984
Micaiah John Muller Hill, English mathematician, known for Hill's spherical vortex and Hill's tetrahedra
Daniela Kühn, Mason Professor of Mathematics, recipient of the 2003 European Prize in Combinatorics and the 2014 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
Deryk Osthus, Professor in Graph Theory, recipient of the 2003 European Prize in Combinatorics and the 2014 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society
Bill Parry, mathematician, lectureship at the university (1960–1965)
Daniel Pedoe, mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (1942–1946)
G. N. Watson, Professor of Mathematics from 1918 to 1951, recipient of the 1946 Sylvester Medal




= Medicine

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Wiebke Arlt, current William Withering Chair in Medicine
Sir Melville Arnott, former William Withering Chair in Medicine
George Augustus Auden, former School Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Health
Ian Brockington, British psychiatrist
Wilfrid Butt, former Honorary Professor of Endocrinology
William Sands Cox, surgeon and the founder of Queen's College, Birmingham
Lord Ilkeston, physician
Douglas Vernon Hubble, former chair in paediatrics and dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Dierdre Kelly, Irish clinician
Ian Calman Muir MacLennan, Professor of Immunology
Dion Morton, Professor of Surgery
Geoffrey Slaney, Barling Chair of Surgery
Kenneth Walton, experimental pathologist and rheumatologist, former Professor of Experimental Pathology
Sir Bertram Windle, Dean of the Medical School
John H. Coote, Bowman Professor of Physiology (1983-2004)




= Physics

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David Charlton, Professor of Particle Physics, ATLAS Spokesman, CERN (2013-2017), recipient of the 2017 Richard Glazebrook Medal
John Dowell, FRS, Nuclear physicist, Professor of Elementary Particle Physics (1980–2002)
Freeman Dyson, physicist, teaching fellow (1949–1951)
Yvonne Elsworth, Professor of Helioseismology and Poynting Professor of Physics, recipient of the 2011 Payne-Gaposchkin Prize
Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist and atomic spy
Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
J. Michael Kosterlitz, Research Fellow in high energy physics, 1970-1973; lecturer, 1974-1982; recipient of the 2000 Lars Onsager Prize
Philip Burton Moon, former Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1991 Hughes Medal
Sir Marcus Oliphant, Poynting Professor of Physics (1937–1950)
Sir Rudolf Peierls, Professor of Mathematical Physics (1937–1943; 1945–1963), recipient of the 1986 Copley Medal
John Henry Poynting, former Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1893 Adams Prize and the 1905 Royal Medal
Sir John Randall, Royal Society fellow (1937–1943), worked on the cavity magnetron valve, recipient of the 1946 Hughes Medal
James Sayers, physicist who played a crucial role in developing centimetric radar
Tony Skyrme, former research fellow, recipient of the 1985 Hughes Medal
David J. Thouless, Professor of Mathematical Physics from 1965 to 1978, recipient of the 2000 Lars Onsager Prize
William Frank Vinen, Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1980 Rumford Medal




Humanities, management and social sciences



U.R. Ananthamurthy, academic and writer
Edward Arber, academic and writer
Sir William James Ashley, first Dean and the founder of the Birmingham Business School
Sir Granville Bantock, Peyton Professor of Music, conductor and composer, co-founded City of Birmingham Orchestra 1920
Karin Barber, Professor of African Cultural Anthropology and former Director of the Centre of West African Studies
Andrew Barker, Professor of Classics
Sir Charles Raymond Beazley, Professor of History
Mark Beeson, former Head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies
Sir Nathan Bodington, Professor of classics
Lord Borrie, English lawyer, Labour Party life peer, law professor at Birmingham University
Stewart Brown, Reader in African Literature and Director of the Centre of West African Studies
Anthony Burgess, British novelist who taught in the extramural department (1946–50)
Peter Burnham, Professor of Political Science and International Studies
Winifred Cavenagh, Professor of Social Administration and Criminology
John Churton Collins, former Professor of English Literature
Reginald Cline-Cole, Senior Lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies
Thomas Diez, Professor of International Relations Theory
E. R. Dodds, Professor of Greek (1924–1936)
Sir Michael Dummett, philosopher
David Edgar, Professor of Playwrighting Studies
Sir Edward Elgar, Professor of Music, composer
John Fage, former Professor of African History, founder of Birmingham's Centre for West African Studies
Hermann Georg Fiedler, German scholar
David F. Ford, lecturer and senior lecturer of theology, 1976–1991
Frank Hahn, lecturer in economics 1948-1960
Stuart Hall, former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Sir Keith Hancock, Australian historian
William Haywood, Special Lecturer in Town Planning, architect and founder of the Birmingham Civic Society
John Hick, emeritus H.G. Wood Professor of Theology
Rodney Hilton, former Professor of Medieval History
Richard Hoggart, founder of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and former Assistant Director-General of UNESCO
A. G. Hopkins, historian
Bill Hopkins, taught music at the University
Susan Hunston, Professor in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, former professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Governor of the Bank of England
Carenza Lewis, archaeologist
Jeannette Littlemore, Professor in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics
Jerzy Lukowski, Historian
Sir Michael Lyons, Professor of Public Policy from 2001 to 2006
Louis MacNeice, poet and playwright, lecturer in classics (1930–1936)
Anand Menon, Professor of West European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute
John Henry Muirhead, philosopher
Allardyce Nicoll, Head of the English Department and founding director of the Shakespeare Institute
Ronen Palan, Professor of International Political Economy
Maureen Perrie, Professor Emeritus in Russian History
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian who held a research post at the university for a number of years
Owen Hood Phillips, Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Philip Rahtz, British archaeologist
Brinley Rees, lecturer in Classics (1970–1975)
Sir Francis Richards, Director, Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, former de facto Head of State of Gibraltar
Nicola Rollock, Social Scientist and Race Equality Activist
Alan S. C. Ross, Professor of English Language (1948–1951) and Professor of Linguistics (1951–1974)
Ernest de Sélincourt, literary scholar and critic
John McHardy Sinclair, Professor of Modern English Language, founder of the COBUILD project
Ninian Smart, former Professor of Religious Studies
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, classical scholar and writer on Latin grammar and verse
Colin Thain, Professor of Political Science
Sir Alan Walters, Professor of Econometrics and Statistics (1951–1968) and Chief Economic Adviser to the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Sir Ellis Waterhouse, Barber Professor of Fine Art (1952–1970)
Stanley Wells, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies and former Director of the Shakespeare Institute
Tony Wright, lecturer in politics, 1975-1992, before being elected Labour Member of Parliament for Cannock and Burntwood
Gordon Warwick, Reader in Geomorphology
David Yardley, Barber Professor of Law (1974–1978)
Ken Young, Professor and Director of the Institute of Local Government Studies (1987–1990)




See also


List of University of Birmingham people
List of University of Birmingham alumni




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