Staff
The following people have been members of staff at the University:
- Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929)
- William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Textile physics, 1928-1961)
- Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist
- Emeritus Professor Maurice Beresford, Economic historian/ Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985)
- Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winning physicist/chemist (Physics, 1909-1915)
- Asa Briggs, historian
- Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000)
- Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University
- David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1986)
- Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor
- Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980)
- Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981)
- Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist
- Benedikt Isserlin, Semitist and ancient historian
- Percy Fry Kendall, Award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22)
- Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970)
- John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology
- Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist
- David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979)
- Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician
- Ralph Miliband, political theorist
- Leonard James Rogers, mathematician (Mathematics 1889-1919)
- Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize winner
- J. I. M. Stewart (Michael Innes), writer (English, 1930-1935)
- E. P. Thompson, historian (Extra Mural, 1948-1965)
- Professor J. R. R. Tolkien, writer (English, 1920-1925)
- Stephen Turnbull, military historian
- Professor Philip Wilby, composer, School of Music until 2006
- Verna Wright, Professor of Rheumatology
- G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English)
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Famous quotes containing the word staff:
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
—Thomas Tusser (c. 1520–1580)
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)
“We achieve “active” mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying to hospitals. But hospitals serve the convenience of staff not patients: we cannot be properly ill in a hospital, nor die in one decently; we can do so only among those who love and value us. The result is the institutionalized dehumanization of the ill, characteristic of our age.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)