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Paul Wellings (academic)
Professor Paul William Wellings CBE DL FRSN FRSA FAICD is an Australian/British ecologist and long serving university leader. He is notable for his past service as Vice-Chancellor of University of Wollongong (2012-21), Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University (2002-12) and Deputy Chief Executive of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1999-2002). Education Wellings was born in Nottingham on 1 November 1953 and grew up in India and Nigeria. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, King's College London (BSc Joint Hons, Zoology and Botany), Durham University (MSc Advanced Ecology) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) (PhD, 1980). His PhD "Qualitative changes in the regulation of Sycamore aphid numbers" was supervised by Professor Tony Dixon. Career He was awarded a NERC Personal Fellowship on life-history theory at UEA. In 1981 Wellings resigned his fellowship to take up a position in Australia as a research ecologist at the ...
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King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (in 1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's has five campuses: its historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' and Waterloo) nearby and one in Denmark Hill in south London. It also has a presence in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, for its professional mi ...
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British Ecologists
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Alumni Of The University Of East Anglia
This List of University of East Anglia alumni includes graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of East Anglia. The list includes one current monarch and former Prime Minister, two de facto heads of state, one Vice President, one Deputy Prime Minister, and two former Leaders of the House of Lords. The list also includes two Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, one President of the Royal Society, two Lasker Award winners, and a further 11 Fellows of the Royal Society. Literary alumni include one Nobel laureate in Literature, three Booker Prize winners, 11 Costa Book Award (formerly Whitbread Award) winners, and three Caine Prize winners. Politics and government Heads of state and government United Kingdom Europe Middle East Asia Oceania Americas Africa Diplomats Science and academia Science and public health ...
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Alumni Of King's College London
This list of King's College London alumni comprises notable graduates as well as non-graduate former, and current, students. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions later merged with King's College London. It does not include those whose only connection with the college is (i) being a member of the staff or (ii) the conferral of an honorary degree or honorary fellowship. Government and politics Heads of state and government United Kingdom Current Members of the House of Commons *Imran Ahmad Khan – Independent MP *Alex Burghart – Conservative MP *Mark Francois – Conservative MP * John Glen – Conservative MP *Dan Jarvis – Labour MP and also Mayor of the Sheffield City Region * Fay Jones – Conservative MP *Brandon Lewis – Conservative MP *Gagan Mohindra – Conservative MP *Matthew Offord – Conservative MP *Sarah Olney – Liberal Democrat MP *Dan Poulter – Conservative MP *Lucy Powell – Labour MP *Bo ...
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People Educated At Lancaster Royal Grammar School
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Living People
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1953 Births
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yugoslavia. ** The CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill the Ruck family (father, mother, and six-year-old son). ** Leader of East Germany Walter Ulbricht announces that agriculture will be col ...
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Patricia M
Patricia is a female given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word ''patrician'', meaning "noble"; it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. The name Patricia was the second most common female name in the United States according to the 1990 US Census. Another well-known variant of this is "Patrice". According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the United States, after which it dropped in popularity, sliding to #745 in 2016.Popularity of a NameSocial Security Administration''ssa.gov'', accessed June 26, 2017 From 1928 to 1967, the name was ranked among the top 11 female names. In Portuguese and Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries, the name Patrícia/Patricia is common as well, pronounced . In Catalan and Portuguese it is written Patrícia, while in Italy, Germany and Austria Patrizia is the form, pronounced . In Polish, the variant is Patrycja. It is also used in ...
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Mark Smith (academic)
Mark Edmund Smith, is a British physicist, academic, and academic administrator. He specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. Since October 2019, he has been the President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Southampton, having previously held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University, and Professor of Solid State NMR in its Department of Chemistry since 2012. He has previously lectured at the University of Kent and the University of Warwick. Early life and education Smith was born and brought up in Suffolk, England. studied natural sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He undertook postgraduate research in physics at the University of Warwick, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Smith began his career as an application scientist and worked for Bruker Analytische Messtechnik (part of the Bruker Corporation) in Germany. He then w ...
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William Ritchie (academic)
William Ritchie may refer to: * William Ritchie (barrister) (1817–1862), Advocate-General of Bengal * William Ritchie (editor) (1781–1831), editor of ''The Scotsman'' * William Ritchie (footballer) (1895–?), Scottish footballer * William Ritchie (moderator) (1758–1830), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland * William Ritchie (physicist) (1790–1837), physicist * William E. Ritchie (died 1943), trick bicyclist * William Gordon Ritchie (1918–1998), Manitoba politician * Sir William Johnstone Ritchie (1813–1892), Chief Justice of Canada * William Thomas Ritchie (1873–1945), Scottish cardiologist * Bill Ritchie (1931–2010), cartoonist * Bill Ritchie (politician) (1927–2014), Canadian politician * Billy Ritchie (1936–2016), footballer * Billy Ritchie (musician) William Edward Ritchie (born 20 April 1944, Lanark, Scotland) is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of The Satellites, The Premiers, 1-2-3, and Clouds. ...
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