Admitted as a sizar to Clare College in 1633
B.A. 1637/8; M.A. 1641; LL.D 1648
Fellow of Clare College
Admitted advocate of Doctor’s Commons, London 1648
Died 1656
Born in Forshalla near Gothenburg the son of the chemist and oceanographer Otto Pettersson.
Studied Sciences at Uppsala University, graduating in 1909.
He then studied atomic physics as a postgraduate at the Institute for Radium Research, Vienna.
1913 he joined the staff of the Swedish Hydrographic-Biological Commission.
1914 he began lecturing in Oceanography at University of Gothenburg.
He became the first full professor of oceanography in Sweden and in 1938 founded the Institute of Oceanography in Gothenburg remaining as its head until 1956. He also was the head of the Bornö Hydrographic Field Station on Stora Bornö.
In 1956, aged 68, he became Professor of Geophysics at the University of Hawaii.
He wrote many popular scientific texts which helped disseminate progress in oceanography to the general audience.
In July 1947, the Albatross expedition started its around the world voyage with Pettersson as leader of the expedition.
He died in Gothenburg on 25 January 1966.
Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.
Born in 1927, the daughter of Edgar Walter Savours (civil engineer) and Margaret (a poet and teacher)
1949 - Bachelor's degree with honours from the Royal Holloway College, University of London
Studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a diploma in French civilization in 1950
1950-1951 - Studied art at the Burslem School of Art
1952-1954 – worked as a library assistant at the University of Aberdeen
1954-1966 - assistant librarian and curator of manuscripts at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University
1970 - assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum
1973 - appointed custodian of manuscripts
1977 – retirement in 1987 - in charge of the Arctic gallery
1955 - member of the Cambridge Spitsbergen Physiological Expedition
1960 – member of the Australian National Antarctic Expedition
1960-1961 - honorary research fellow at the Australian National University
1978-1980 - member of the council of the Royal Geographical Society
She was also a member of the council and a vice president of the Hakluyt Society (from 2002) and of the Society for Nautical Research
Prime Minister of Finland from March 1943 to August 1944. One of the seven politicians sentenced to five and a half years in prison as responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union. He was paroled in 1948. He was a prominent academic, pro-rector (administrative head) of the University of Helsinki 1932 to 1943, rector 1956 to 1962, and the government's Chancellor of the University from 1962 until his death.
Professor Susan Alcock is an American archaeologist specialising in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
She was educated at Yale University (1979-1983) and then studied Classics at Clare College (first class BA in 1985; MA 1989; PhD 1989).
She was Special Counsel for Institutional Outreach and Engagement and Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan and became the Interim Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Michigan - Flint in July 2018.
She is now the inaugural holder of the Barnett Family Professorship of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oklahoma-Norman where she teaches courses in the Department of Classics & Letters.
She was made an Honorary Fellow of Clare College in 2012.
Dr David Hartley is a chartered engineer in computing and information technology, who has combined many years as a senior manager in the
university environment with a wide range of consulting and advisory positions for government, education, research and industry. He worked in the Computer Laboratory on the early pioneering computers making contributions in programming languages, operating systems and other services. He was Director of the University Computing Service from 1970 to 1994, and was responsible for the University’s broadband facility linking all Colleges and Departments throughout Cambridge.
From 1994 to 1997 he was Chief Executive of the company developing the JANET national network, and from 1997 to 2002 was Executive Director of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. He was then Steward of Clare College for three years, and worked with Toby Wilkinson to reform alumni relations into the force that it is today. He was President of the British Computer Society in millennium year 1999-2000.
Among external roles, he has advised many bodies including government departments. In the 1980’s he was a member of the Computer Board for Universities and Research Councils, and the Prime Minister’s Information Technology Advisory Panel, also spending a sabbatical year at the Department of Industry.
MA, Mathematics, 1959
Diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing, 1959
PhD, Computer Science, 1963
FBCS, CEng, CITP
Medal of Merits, Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland, 1984
Donald Hearn served as Bursar of Clare from 2001 until 2013.
Prior to his appointment as Bursar, Donald was Finance Director at the Royal Horticultural Society for fifteen years. Following his retirement from Clare he continues to be actively involved with a number of charities, University Committees and pension schemes.
Admitted to Clare College in 1950
1964 - made a Fellow
Among his many interests, Dr Knewstubb was an expert on the Clare College silver who organised exhibitions of the College treasures, and he was an enthusiastic singer.
Son of J.P. Hooper (Electrical Engineer) of London
Admitted to Clare on 14 July 1905