List of People From Nottingham - Science, Technology and Scholarship

Science, Technology and Scholarship

• (c. 1563) William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame.
• (1724) Robert Darwin, botanist, brother of Erasmus, was born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire.
• (1731) Erasmus Darwin, physician and natural philosopher, was also born at Elston Hall.
• (1793) George Green (of Green's Mill), mathematician and physicist, famed for Green's theorem.
• (1800) Godfrey Howitt, physician, botanist and entomologist, was educated in Mansfield and honorary physician at Nottingham's City Infirmary and General Hospital before emigrating to Australia.
• (1823) John Russell Hind, astronomer and discoverer of several asteroids, was born in Nottingham and attended Nottingham High School.
• (1827) John Medley Wood, the botanist, was born in Mansfield.
• (1863) Frederick Kipping, the celebrated research chemist, was professor of chemistry at University College, Nottingham from 1897 to 1936.
• (1866) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who backed the excavation of Tutankhamun's Tomb, had large estates at Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
• (fl. 1895) Frederick Gibson Garton, grocer who created HP Sauce in 1896.
• (1910) John Pilkington Hudson, horticultural scientist and bomb disposal expert, Nottingham University's first professor of horticulture from 1958.
• (1923) Geoffrey Kirk, classical scholar, was born and bred in Nottingham.
• (1933) Peter Mansfield, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been a professor at Nottingham University since 1964.
• (1934) Clive Granger, the Nobel Prize winning economist, studied and then taught at Nottingham University.
• (c. 1945) Viacheslav Belavkin, a pioneer of quantum probability, is a mathematics professor at Nottingham University.