List of University of Birmingham academics

Sir Paul Nurse 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology President of the Royal Society

Name	Year	Prize	Affiliation	Reference
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	1937	Nobel Peace Prize	University Chancellor, 1918–1944	[1]
Sir Norman Haworth	1937	Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Professor, 1925–1948	[2]
Sir Peter Medawar	1960	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	Professor of Zoology, 1947–51	[3][4]
John Robert Schrieffer	1972	Nobel Prize in Physics	NSF Fellow at Birmingham University, 1957	[5]
David J. Thouless	2016	Nobel Prize in Physics	Professor of Mathematical Physics, 1965-1978	[6]
John M. Kosterlitz	2016	Nobel Prize in Physics	Fellow, 1970. Professor, 1974-1982	[6]
Fraser Stoddart	2016	Nobel Prize in Chemistry	Head of the School of Chemistry, 1990-1997	[7]

• Rupert E. Billingham, former Chair in Zoology
• Jack Cohen, a reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.
• Steve Busby, Professor of Biochemistry, discovered some of the rules that govern how bacterial genes are expressed
• John Berry Haycraft, professor in Physiology at Mason Science College, discovered an anticoagulant created by the leech, which he named hirudin
• Lancelot Hogben, Professor of Zoology (1941–1947) and Professor of Medical Statistics (1947–1961)
• Sir Kenneth Mather, Professor of Genetics (1948), recipient of the 1964 Darwin Medal, later Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton
• Laura Piddock, Professor of Microbiology, specialising in resistance to antibiotics
• Bryan M. Turner, Professor of Experimental Genetics^[8][9]
• Horace Waring, zoologist, head of the department of zoology (1946–1948) and recipient of the 1962 Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales^[10]
• Richard Henry Yapp, botanist
• William Brunsdon Yapp, zoologist and author
• Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman, Professor of Anatomy (1946–1968) and chief scientific adviser to the British government (1964-1971)

• Leroy (Lee) Cronin, chemist, Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow
• Percy F. Frankland, chemist
• Sir Fraser Stoddart, chemist, researcher in supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology, Professor of Chemistry (1990–1997)
• Sir William A. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry (1880–1894)
• Thomas Summers West, analytical chemist (1949–1963)

• Norman Percy Allen, metallurgist (1929–1933)
• Adrian John Brown, Professor of Malting and Brewing (1900–1928)
• Lord Cadman, mining engineer and petroleum technologist
• John Knott, Professor of Metallurgy and Materials, recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal
• Sir Richard Redmayne, professor of mining 1902-08, first Chief Inspector of Mines
• Aaron Sloman, former Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
• Thomas Turner, metallurgist
• Arnold Tustin, Professor of Engineering (1947–1955)^[11]

• Charles Lapworth, the first Professor of Geology at Mason Science College^[12]
• Sir Raymond Priestley, geologist, early Antarctic explorer, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham
• Frederick William Shotton, geologist whose research into the geological makeup of Normandy beaches helped allied commanders decide which were the best to use on D-Day
• William Whitehead Watts, geologist
• Sir Alwyn Williams, geologist, Professor of Geology (1974–1976)^[13]

• Jonathan Bennett, Professor of Mathematics, recipient of the 2011 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society^[14]
• Nora Calderwood, Scottish mathematician and namesake of the Universities Calderwood Prize in mathematics^[15]
• Henry Daniels, statistician, the first professor of mathematical statistics (1957–1978), recipient of the Guy Medal in Gold in 1984^[16]
• Micaiah John Muller Hill, English mathematician, known for Hill's spherical vortex and Hill's tetrahedra
• Daniela Kühn, Mason Professor of Mathematics, recipient of the 2003 European Prize in Combinatorics and the 2014 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society^[17]
• Deryk Osthus, Professor in Graph Theory, recipient of the 2003 European Prize in Combinatorics and the 2014 Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society^[18]
• Bill Parry, mathematician, lectureship at the university (1960–1965)^[19]
• Daniel Pedoe, mathematician, Professor of Mathematics (1942–1946)
• G. N. Watson, Professor of Mathematics from 1918 to 1951, recipient of the 1946 Sylvester Medal

• Wiebke Arlt, current William Withering Chair in Medicine
• Sir Melville Arnott, former William Withering Chair in Medicine
• George Augustus Auden, former School Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Health
• Ian Brockington, British psychiatrist
• Wilfrid Butt, former Honorary Professor of Endocrinology
• Melanie Calvert, epidemiologist
• John H. Coote, Bowman Professor of Physiology (1983-2004)
• William Sands Cox, surgeon and the founder of Queen's College, Birmingham
• Lord Ilkeston, physician
• Douglas Vernon Hubble, former chair in paediatrics and dean of the Faculty of Medicine
• Dierdre Kelly, Irish clinician
• Ian Calman Muir MacLennan, Professor of Immunology^[20][21]
• Dion Morton, Professor of Surgery
• Geoffrey Slaney, Barling Chair of Surgery
• Kenneth Walton, experimental pathologist and rheumatologist, former Professor of Experimental Pathology^[22]
• George Haswell Wilson, chair of pathology and Olympian^[23]
• Sir Bertram Windle, Dean of the Medical School

• David Charlton, Professor of Particle Physics, ATLAS Spokesman, CERN (2013-2017), recipient of the 2017 Richard Glazebrook Medal
• John Dowell, FRS, Nuclear physicist, Professor of Elementary Particle Physics (1980–2002)
• Freeman Dyson, physicist, teaching fellow (1949–1951)^[24]
• Yvonne Elsworth, Professor of Helioseismology and Poynting Professor of Physics,^[8] recipient of the 2011 Payne-Gaposchkin Prize
• Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist and atomic spy
• Sir Leonard Huxley, physicist
• J. Michael Kosterlitz, Research Fellow in high energy physics, 1970-1973; lecturer, 1974-1982; recipient of the 2000 Lars Onsager Prize
• Philip Burton Moon, former Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1991 Hughes Medal^[25]
• Sir Marcus Oliphant, Poynting Professor of Physics (1937–1950)^[26]
• Sir Rudolf Peierls, Professor of Mathematical Physics (1937–1943; 1945–1963), recipient of the 1986 Copley Medal^[27]
• John Henry Poynting, former Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1893 Adams Prize and the 1905 Royal Medal
• Sir John Randall, Royal Society fellow (1937–1943), worked on the cavity magnetron valve, recipient of the 1946 Hughes Medal
• James Sayers, physicist who played a crucial role in developing centimetric radar
• Tony Skyrme, former research fellow, recipient of the 1985 Hughes Medal^[28]
• David J. Thouless, Professor of Mathematical Physics from 1965 to 1978, recipient of the 2000 Lars Onsager Prize
• William Frank Vinen, Professor of Physics, recipient of the 1980 Rumford Medal^[29]