Early Life
Born in Glasgow in 1952, Campbell was brought up and educated in Dundee, where he was a pupil at the High School of Dundee, an independent school in the city of Dundee in Scotland. Something of a science prodigy, he first trained in computer programming aged 16 and, whilst still at school, taught computer languages and undertook programming in scientific computers languages. He gained three ‘S’ levels (the old Scottish equivalent to ‘A’ levels) in Physics, Chemistry and Maths, and then an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he achieved a BA First Class Honours Physics in 1973. The following year, Campbell completed a one-year MSc in Operations Research at the University of Sussex; the course included Psychology, Economics, Accountancy and Model Building. He later told The Independent "It was extremely useful. It was not difficult to make the grades, though they'll hate me for saying so".
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