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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.

Fellow at Clare, d. 5 July 2004

Rosalind (Polly) O'Hanlon, Clare 1972, Fellow 1982, Lecturer 1988, Director of Studies 1992, Senior Tutor 2000-2006

HAG Parsons retired in 1949 as kitchen manager after over 50 years at Clare

William Brian Reddaway 1913-2002, Economist, Fellow of Clare

Came up to Clare in 1952 to read law.

One of three Sassoon brothers who came to Clare (1905). NB He lived at 4 Market Hill, Cambridge during his time at Clare.