Fellows
The late Lord Ashby was elected as the first honorary fellow of Clare Hall in 1975, on his retirement from the Mastership of Clare College.
Present honorary fellows include two former visiting fellows, Kim Dae-Jung, former President of the Republic of Korea, and Lee Bollinger, who later became President of the Universities of Michigan and Columbia. They also include the retired Presidents of the College, together with Ralph Erskine, architect of the early buildings, and Richard Eden, one of the founding fellows.
Clare Hall has a strong tradition in theoretical physics. Brian Pippard, its first President, was Cavendish Professor of Physics. Notable current fellows include Michael Green, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and John D. Barrow, a Templeton Prize laureate. Past fellows include Stephen Adler of the Institute for Advanced Study, Michael R. Douglas of Stony Brook University, J. David Jackson of the University of California, Berkeley, William Paul of Harvard University.
Other American academics who were past fellows include Andreas Acrivos (fluid dynamics) of Stanford, Leila Ahmed (divinity) of Harvard, David Epel (marine biology) of Stanford, Elizabeth Gavis (molecular biology) of Princeton, Robert Glaeser (biochemistry and molecular biology) of Berkeley, Jeanne C. Marsh (social service administration) of Chicago Christine Shoemaker (civil and environmental engineering) of Cornell, Robert Socolow (mechanical and aerospace engineering) of Princeton.
Roy Martin Haines, sometime Professor of Medieval History in Dalhousie University, was a Visiting Fellow in 1987/8 and in 1990 was appointed a life member of the college.
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