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Microbiologist, Clare 1961; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 for for his discovery of cyclin and its role in the cell cycle. Filming at Clare College in September 2009 for "Beautiful minds"

Admitted to Clare in 1961 to study Natural Sciences, graduating in 1964 and immediately beginning work in the university Department of Biochemistry

Matriculated at Clare in 1931.

In 1932 Robert S. Hutton was elected the first Goldsmith's Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He sought admission to Clare College and this was granted in 1936. He remained a Fellow until his death in 1970.

Admitted to Clare in 1922
Purchased Gatwick Airport in 1933 and is noted for inventing the concept of the circular airport terminal building, which was subsequently copied all over the world until air travel outgrew it.

Born 1608
Matriculated from Clare College as a pensioner in Michaelmas Term 1626
B.A. 1629, M.A. 1633, M.D. 1657
Fellow 1631-86
Senior Proctor 1643
Died in College 1686

School - Wakefield School
Admitted to Clare College on 22 April 1898
Matriculated Michaelmas term 1898
Scholar and Exhibitioner
BA 3rd Wrangler, 1901
Mathematical Tripos Part II, 1st Class (1902)
MA 1905

Sir Harold Jeffreys was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.

Jeffreys studied for the Mathematical Tripos at St John's College, Cambridge, where he established a reputation as an excellent student: obtaining first-class marks for his papers in Part One of the Tripos, he was a Wrangler in Part Two, and in 1915 he was awarded the prestigious Smith's Prize.

In 1914 he became a Fellow of St John's College, and he retained his Fellowship until his death 75 years later. At the University of Cambridge he taught mathematics, then geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy.

Admitted pensioner at Clare College, 25 May, 1687
B.A. 1690/1
M.A. 1694
Exeter Fellow, 1693-1710.

Ordained priest (Lincoln) 3 June 1694
Vicar of Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, 1708-43
Vicar of Gamlingay, 1710
Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely

Died on 19 February 1742/3, aged 72; buried at Gransden

Born in Goginan, Cardiganshire and educated at Lewis School Pengam and the University of Wales, Aberystwth.
Matriculated at Clare in 1897 to study Natural Sciences.
1899 BA and 1903 MA.

1 August 1912 married Muriel Gwendolen Edwards, a colleague and keen climber. She was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the University of Wales.

1901 - demonstrator to the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Sir James Dewar.
1902 became a Fellow of Clare College and then a lecturer.

1907 - became a keen climber after receiving some tuition in Snowdonia.
1909 - member of the Alpine Club.

Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912 in Italy. Their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier.