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Li Siguang, also known as J. S. Lee, was a Chinese geologist and politician. He was the founder of China's geomechanics. He made outstanding contributions, which changed the situation of "oil deficiency" in the country, enabling the large-scale development of oil fields to raise the country to the ranks of the world's major oil producers.

Li studied in Osaka Technical College in Japan and the University of Birmingham in UK in his early years. He became a geological professor at Peking University upon his return from abroad in 1920. Li Siguang was Wuhan University building preparatory chairman from July 1928 to April 1938. He was the president of the National Central University (Nanjing University) in 1932.

After the People's Republic of China was established, Li held the positions of vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and minister of geology.

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.

Took a degree in geology and earth sciences at the University of Chicago
1925 - Master of Science in geology
1930 - Ph.D. in geology from Harvard after studying at Radcliffe College, the female-coordinated liberal arts college affiliated with Harvard College

1925-1926 - professor at Goucher College
1926-1928 - professor at Wellesley College
Independent academic engagements and research pursuits excluded her from the educational profession for some time
1957-1961 - professor of Engineering Geology at Harvard University
1963-1970 - research fellow while pursuing her own research and interests in the field of geology

It was through her research that she met her husband and lifelong scientific partner, Karl von Terzaghi, whom she married after receiving her Ph.D. in 1930.

Born in Middlesbrough in 1883
School - Darlington Grammar School
Worked in a chemical laboratory of the Darlington Forge Company

Enrolled in Armstrong College (now Kings College, University of Newcastle upon Tyne), in 1904. B.Sc. (1907), M.Sc. (1909), D.Sc.
from Cambridge (1915).

After taking a fellowship at Armstrong College, Smith moved to Clare College, Cambridge in 1912. He published his first paper on corals there.

1913-1920 - Aberystwyth College, Wales
1920-1921 - Bedford College for Women, London
1921-1922 - Toronto College

1922 - became assistant lecturer in geology at the University of Bristol. Retired in 1948.

From 1913-1930, Dr Smith undertook annual vacations which would include work at the British Museum (now the Natural History Museum) and much of this work was undertaken with Dr W.D. Lang. He and Lang would mentor students from Cambridge, including Dorothy Hill, who was working on her PhD at Cambridge in the 1930s.

During World War II, extensive bombing of the Bristol Museum damaged a number of the collections Smith worked on. Like many academics he was prevented from continuing his research at the Natural History Museum in London, due to the emergency relocation of its collections for preservation during the War.

1947 - awarded the Geological Society of London's Lyell Medal

Each year, the Stanley Smith Prize, named in his honour, is awarded to the best Level 3 student in palaeontology at the University of Bristol.
 

Master of Clare College 1993-2003.

Born in 1934 the son of Alexander Hepple (Leader of the South African Labour Party), and Josephine Zwarenstein.
Educated at Jeppe High School for Boys (1947–1951), the University of the Witwatersrand (B.A.,1954, LLB cum laude and Society of Advocates Prize for Best Law Graduate, 1957), and the University of Cambridge (LLB, 1966, LLD 1993).

1959-1962 - lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand
1962-1963 - Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar

Active as a student leader against racial segregation in the universities, worked as an adviser and assistant in the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and participated in the underground struggle against apartheid. He acted as legal adviser to Nelson Mandela in his trial for incitement in 1962, and was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, with leaders of the African National Congress and Communist Party on 11 July 1963. He was held in 90-day detention without trial. He was discharged on 30 October 1963 and managed to escape to England in November 1963.

1964-1966 - graduate student at Clare College

1966-1968 - lectureship in law at the University of Nottingham

1969-1976 - Fellow of Clare College and university lecturer

1976 - Professor of Social and Labour Law at the University of Kent
1977-1982 (full time), 1974-1977 (part time), 1982–1993 - chairman of Industrial Tribunals

1982-1993 - Professor of English Law at University College London
1989-1993 - Dean and Head of the Faculty of Laws

In 1993 he was elected Master of Clare College and was appointed Professor of Law at the University (1995–2001)

2003 - elected as a Fellow of the British Academy

Awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the University of the Witwatersrand, University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Kent, and the Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy, and was Hon. Professor of Law in the University of Cape Town (1999–2006).

2004 - Knight Bachelor for services to legal studies

2013 - Awarded the first Labour Law Research Network Award for Distinguished Contributions to Labour Law

2014 - received the South African Order of Luthuli (Gold) for his exceptional contribution to the struggle for democracy and human rights

Barrister and Bencher of Gray's Inn
1996 - appointed Queen's Counsel (hon)
1994-1999 - served on the Lord Chancellor's advisory committee on Legal Education and Conduct
2000-2002 - served on the Legal Services Panel
2007-2009 - Judge and senior vice-president of the UN Administrative Tribunal
2000-2003 - member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, chair from 2003 to 2007
2000-2002 - Chaired the council's Working Parties on Genetics and human behaviour and The forensic use of bioinformation (2006–2007)
1986-1990 - member of the Commission for Racial Equality
1989-2007 - trustee of the Canon Collins Educational Trust for South Africa
2001-2007 - Chair of the European Roma Rights Centre
2007-2014 - Chair of the Equal Rights Trust
2012 - elected Hon President of the Industrial Law Society
2014 - elected Hon President of the Equal Rights Trust

He died on 21 August 2015

Educated at Eton, the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and New College, Oxford, also spending some time at Princeton University.

Joined the diplomatic service in 1927 and served in several countries in a junior role, including Iran, Hungary, Japan and Turkey.

He was posted to Tokyo in November 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Ten days after his arrival, when the Ambassador was at the American Embassy, he "was pressed to accept an ideographic Declaration of War".

Whilst serving in Turkey he employed a nursemaid to look after his children. She was a mistress of the Nazi spy Elyesa Bazna and Busk went on to employ Bazna as a valet. He introduced Bazna to Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the ambassador, who went on to employ Bazna as chauffeur and valet from November 1943 to March 1944.

1946-1948 - Served in Iraq.
1952-1956 – He was Britain's Ambassador to Ethiopia (1952-56); Finland (1958-60); and Venezuela (1962-64)

He was a notable mountaineer climbing in all the countries where he was posted.

The Royal Geographical Society, of which he was honorary vice-president, awards an annual Busk Medal named in his honour.

Read economics and law at Clare College and was later made an Honorary Fellow.

Born in Ealing in 1930
Attended Marlborough School and was admitted to Clare College on 23 January 1950 where he read land economy
He was also a member of the Footlights drama club and drew cartoons for the student newspaper Varsity

He was partner of Kemsley, Whiteley and Ferris, chartered surveyors
He was appointed Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (F.R.I.C.S.)
He was appointed Fellow, Chartered Auctioneers' and Estate Agents Insitute (F.A.I.)

Born in Hamburg, Germany and educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago (New Zealand)

1954 - came to the University of Cambridge on a Shell Post-Graduate Scholarship to do his Ph.D. in physics (1956) as student of Sir Nevill Mott

1955 - Fellow of Clare College and

1976 - became a professor and took over as head of the theory group at the Cavendish Laboratory, a position that he held until his retirement in 1997

1974 - elected Fellow of the Royal Society