List of science, technology and mathematics people associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, who worked in the fields of science, medicine, technology and mathematics.

Medicine ImageNameJoinDateField of workCommentsRefsAlex Jadad1992neuroscienceFRS Jadad scale to assess quality of a clinical trialAtul Gawande1987surgeryRhodes Scholar The Checklist Manifesto for safer surgery Stephen Grosz1975psychoanalysismatriculated Stephen GrossThe Examined LifeHow We Lose and Find Ourselves Stephen Bergman1966psychiatryRhodes Scholar The House of God under pen name Samuel ShemGeorge Beadle1958geneticsEastman Professor, Fellow Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events 1958 Sir George Alberti1956diabetesFRCPThe Alberti Regime for controlling blood sugar levelsBaruch Blumberg1955communicable diseases Master of Balliol Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases (Hep B virus) 1976Raymond Michael Gaze1949neuroscienceFRS, FRSEdeputy director of The National Institute for Medical Research Ludwig Guttmann1939neurology refugee founder of the Paralympic Games

Biology including mathematical biology ImageNameJoinDateField of workCommentsRefsBeth Shapiro1999molecular biologyRhodes scholar, MacArthur Fellowchief science officer of Colossal Biosciences How to Clone a MammothEwan Birney1992genomicsFRS Sir Peter Donnelly1980biostatistics Rhodes Scholar FRSCEO Genomics PLCPhilip Maini1979mathematical biologyFRS Julian Peto1964epidemiologyFRSDenis Noble1963systems biologyFRS, FellowRichard Dawkins1959evolutionary biologyFRSProfessor for the Public Understanding of Science, OxfordThe Selfish Genenew atheist Robert Hinde1948zoology FRS ethologist and psychologist P. A. P. Moran1947population geneticsFRS"Arithmetic I could not do"Sir Julian Huxley1906evolutionary biology FRS first director of UNESCO Reginald Farrer1898plant collectingMy Rock GardenThomas Andrew Knight1778horticultureFRSHenry Hawkins Tremayne1759arboricultureCreated the Lost Gardens of Heligan

Chemistry ImageNameJoinDateField of workCommentsRefsDame Clare Grey 1990electric batteryFRSProfessor, Cambridge University Hagan Bayley1970chemical biology FRSOxford Professor founder Oxford Nanopore 2005Malcolm Green1963inorganic chemistry FRS, FRSCOxford Professor co-founder of the Oxford Catalysts Group plc 2006Jeremy Knowles1955enzyme catalysisFRS, FAAASdean, Arts and Sciences, Harvard Daniel Adzei Bekoe1954X-ray crystallography FGA Vice-Chancellor, University of GhanaLinus Pauling1947valencyFellow Nobel Prize for Chemistry: nature of the chemical bond 1954 Nobel Peace Prize: for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West 1962Oliver Smithies1943geneticsNobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine: homologous recombination 2007 Christopher Longuet-Higgins1941molecular scienceFRS, FRSE"unfortunate not to receive the Nobel prize for his work" Bill Smythies1931natural history"Birds of Burma"uncle of Richard Dawkins Alexander George Ogston1929biochemistryFRS, FellowThree-point attachment theory Ronnie Bell1924physical chemistryFRS, FRSE FellowProfessor of chemistry, StirlingThe proton in chemistry 1959 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood1919chemical kineticsOM, FRS Nobel Prize mechanism of chemical reactions 1956E. J. Bowen1915photochemistryFRSRescued the blackboard used by Albert EinsteinSir Benjamin Brodie1834peroxidesFRS for analysis of beeswax

Mathematics ImageNameJoinDateField of workCommentsRefsVicky Neale2014Mathematical research and exposition2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime NumbersJames Maynard2009Number theoristFields Medal winnerNick Trefethen1997Numerical analysisFRSSarah B. Hart1993Mathematical expositionOnce Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and LiteratureDame Frances Kirwan1981algebraic geometry FRS Savilian Professor of GeometryPhilip Candelas1975 Mathematical physics FRS, Rouse Ball Professor at OxfordAnand Pillay1970model theoryChair of Mathematical Logic, University of Leeds Aubrey William Ingleton1967Matroids FellowRobin Wilson1962graph theoryProfessor, Open Universitypublic mathematicianLeslie Colin Woods1961ThermodynamicsRhodes Scholar, FellowGilbert Strang1955Linear algebraRhodes ScholarDonald Michie1945artificial intelligence cryptography at Bletchley ParkSir Wilfred Cockcroft1940mathematics educator Mathematics Counts (1983), the "Cockcroft Report" on teaching mathematics.Graham Higman1934Group theoryFRSFellowHolbrook Mann MacNeille1928order theoryRhodes Scholar director, American Mathematical SocietyArthur Geoffrey Walker1928cosmologyFRS, FRSEJ. H. C. Whitehead1923Algebraic topologyFRSOperational Research in WW2Sir Alexander Oppenheim1921Quadratic formsFRSE, Oppenheim conjectureE. C. Titchmarsh1917number theoryFRSSavilian Professor of GeometryTheodore William Chaundy1906differential algebraDifferential CalculusJulian Coolidge1895geometryChairman, Harvard Mathematics DepartmentA Treatise on the Circle and the SphereCharles Howard Hinton1874 four-dimensional spaceCoined the term "tesseract"Henry John Stephen Smith1844matrix theorySmith normal formFRS, FRSEFellow Savilian Professor of GeometryWilliam Spottiswoode1842determinantsFRS, FRSE Simultaneously President of Royal Society and the British AssociationJames Stirling1711 Stirling's approximation for factorials</p> A Snell and Warner exhibitioner, he was expelled in 1715 for his correspondence with JacobitesLater on, he feared assassination for having discovered the glassmakers' secretNoah Bridges1613cryptographycourtier to King Charles IINo college record but he had been a student at Oxford per FostersCuthbert Tunstall1491business mathematics Catholic bishopPublished the first book of mathematics printed in England

Physics and astronomy ImageNameJoindateField of workCommentsRefsPatrick Hayden1998quantum information theoryRhodes ScholarProfessor of Physics, StanfordSir Anthony James Leggett1955superconductivityFRSHonorary Fellow Nobel Prize "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" 2003Heinrich Gerhard Kuhn1950atomic spectra FRSfirst fellow in physics worked on the Manhattan ProjectR. V. Jones1934scientific intelligenceFRS "the father of scientific intelligence"Most Secret War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939–1945 1978 Herbert Squire1927fluid dynamicsFRSZaharoff Professor of Aviation at Imperial CollegeJames Bradley1711astronomy Bradley (FRS) discovered the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis.He was placed (after Hipparchus and Kepler) "above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries" by Delambre and was appointed Savilian Professor of Astronomy, eventually becoming the third Astronomer Royal in 1742 John Keill1692 Newtonian PhysicsKeill (FRS) followed his preceptor Gregory from Edinburgh to the Savilian chair of AstronomyAfter conducting experiments in his room at Balliol on Newton's findings, he was the first person to teach the new physics at Hart HallDavid Gregory1691Newtonian theory Gregory (FRS) was the first to openly teach the doctrines of the Principia in a public seminary and was elected as the Savilian Professor of Astronomy, due in part to the influence of Isaac Newton He also argued that mathematics should be taught in English rather than Latin

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