Wolfson College is a constituent college

Colleges of the University of Oxford

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 of the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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 in England. Located in north Oxford

Oxford

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 along the River Cherwell

River Cherwell

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, Wolfson is an all-graduate college with over sixty governing body fellows, in addition to both research and junior research fellows. It caters to a wide range of subjects, from the humanities to the social and natural sciences. The diversity of the college is reflected in its deeply international character and vibrant student body.

The current president of Wolfson College is Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee, CBE is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.-Biography:Hermione Lee grew up in...

. The liberal philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...

 was the college's first president, and was instrumental in its founding. The college houses The Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust and the annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture.

As of 2006, the college had a financial endowment

Financial endowment

A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution. The total value of an institution's investments is often referred to as the institution's endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust....

 of £33.5 million.

History and character

Presidents

Sir Sir Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...  Isaiah Berlin Isaiah Berlin Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation... , 1967–1975 Sir Sir Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...  Henry Fisher Henry Arthur Pears Fisher Sir Henry "Harry" Fisher was a British High Court judge and President of Wolfson College, Oxford.-Early life and education :He was the eldest of six sons of Geoffrey Fisher, at the time of Harry's birth the headmaster of Repton, later Bishop of Chester and of London, and Archbishop of... , 1975–85 Sir Sir Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...  Raymond Hoffenberg Raymond Hoffenberg Sir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE was an endocrinologist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. Born in South Africa, he was forced to leave in 1968, and settled in the United Kingdom, where he was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1983 to 1989, and President of Wolfson College,... , 1985–93 Professor Professor A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...  Jim Kennedy William James Kennedy Prof. William James "Jim" Kennedy MA, DSc is a British geologist.Jim Kennedy studied at the University of London.Kennedy was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford... , (acting), 1993–1994 Sir Sir Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...  David Smith David Smith (botanist) Professor Sir David Cecil Smith FRS FRSE was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1987 to 1994, and President of Wolfson College, Oxford.... , 1994–2000 Professor Professor A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...  Jon Stallworthy Jon Stallworthy Jon Stallworthy FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.... , (acting), 2000 Sir Sir Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...  Gareth Roberts, 2000–2007 Professor Professor A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...  Jon Stallworthy Jon Stallworthy Jon Stallworthy FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.... , (acting), 2007–2008 Professor Professor A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...  Hermione Lee Hermione Lee Hermione Lee, CBE is President of Wolfson College, Oxford and was lately Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of New College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature.-Biography:Hermione Lee grew up in... , 2008–present

Wolfson's first president Sir Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...

, the influential political philosopher

Political philosophy

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 and historian of ideas, was instrumental in the college's founding in 1965.

The college began its existence with the name Iffley College

Iffley

Iffley is a village in Oxfordshire, England, within the boundaries of the city of Oxford, between Cowley and the estates of Rose Hill and Donnington, and in proximity to the River Thames . Its most notable feature is its original and largely unchanged Norman church, St Mary the Virgin, which has a...

, which offered a new community for graduate students at Oxford, particularly in natural and social sciences. Twelve other colleges of the university provided grants to make the establishment of Iffley possible. As of 1965, the college had neither a president nor a building. Berlin set out to change this, eventually securing support from the Wolfson Foundation

Wolfson Foundation

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 and Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation

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 in 1966 to establish a separate site for the college, which included 'Cherwell', the former residence of J.S. Haldane and his family, as well as new buildings built around it. Isaac Wolfson

Isaac Wolfson

Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS was a businessman and philanthropist. He was managing director of Great Universal Stores 1932-1947 and chairman 1947-1987. He established the Wolfson Foundation to distribute most of his fortune to good causes. Great Universal Stores was a mail order business...

 generously contributed to the foundation of the college. In recognition of his contribution the college's name was changed to Wolfson College.

But Berlin's work as the president of the college was far from over. Formally taking over the reins of the college in 1967, he envisioned Wolfson to be a centre of academic excellence but, unlike many other colleges at Oxford, also bound it to a strong egalitarian and democratic ethos. In Berlin's words, the college would be 'new, untrammelled and unpyramided'.

His ideals were largely achieved. Wolfson is perhaps the most egalitarian college at Oxford, with few barriers between students and fellows. There is no high table, only one common room for all the members of the college, and gowns are worn only on special occasions. Graduate students serve on the college's governing body and participate in General Meetings. Berlin's reputation and presence in the early years also helped shape the intellectual character of the college, attracting many distinguished fellows like Niko Tinbergen, who won a Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 for his studies in animal behavior in 1973. Berlin's own prominence in the humanities helped attract many graduate students like Henry Hardy

Henry Hardy

Henry Robert Dugdale Hardy is a British author and editor.- Career :Hardy was born in London and educated at Lancing College...

, interested in political philosophy

Political philosophy

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 and the history of ideas

History of ideas

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.

Buildings and grounds

The college owns land on both sides of the River Cherwell

River Cherwell

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 and has a private footbridge bridge across the river. It has one of the most modern buildings of all the Oxford colleges. The construction of the main building of the college was completed in 1974. It was designed by the Powell

Philip Powell (architect)

Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell , usually known as Philip Powell, was a ground-breaking English post-war architect.He was educated at Epsom College and then the Architectural Association....

 and Moya

Hidalgo Moya

John Hidalgo Moya , sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. Moya was a native of California where he was born to an English mother and Mexican father but lived in England since he was an infant. He formed the architectural practice Powell &...

 Architects. The college's main building has three quadrangles: the central quadrangle named the Berlin Quad after Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...

, as well as the Tree Quad built around established trees, and the River Quad into which the Cherwell has been diverted to form a punt harbour. One of the distinctive features of the grounds is the preservation of mature trees around and within the buildings. The main buildings and bridge were grade II listed in June 2011.

The college has student accommodation in the main college building, in three child-friendly courtyards surrounded by family housing, and also has similar accommodation in a scattering of purpose-built blocks, including the Robin Gandy

Robin Gandy

Robin Oliver Gandy was a British mathematician and logician.He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge , where they worked together.Educated at Abbotsholme, Robin Gandy took two years of the Mathematical...

 Buildings, and in existing houses on Linton Road

Linton Road

Linton Road is a road in North Oxford, England.-Location:At the western end is the Banbury Road. At the eastern end is Wolfson College, a graduate college of the University of Oxford. The road also adjoins Northmoor Road, Charlbury Road and Chadlington Road.Linton Lodge Hotel is located in this...

, Chadlington Road and Garford Road. The college also owns the adjacent house and orchard which is currently occupied by the Bishop of Oxford.

Academics

Being a graduate college, it had, as of 2008, 614 students, 454 of whom were DPhils. The remainder were studying for the MPhil, MSc

MSC

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, MSc by Research, MSt

MST

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, MSt by Research, MBA, EMBA

EMBA

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, MLitt, MLitt by Research, BPhil, and Cert

Cert

Cert or CERT may refer to:* Certificate, an official document* Certiorari, a Latin legal term for a court order requiring judicial review of a case...

 degrees. The college does not accept MJur or LLB candidates. It is also home to Oxford's Centre for Korean Studies and the International Association of Tibetan Studies. It was also home to the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, which has now moved to an independent location of the city. The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, which is affiliated with the College and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, has been based at these offices since 2005.

Library

The college library, which occupies both the floors of one wing of the college's main building, has the main library on the first floor, approachable from the side of the dining hall and the lodge, and two other collections, called the Floersheimer Room and the Hornik Memorial Room on the ground floor. A mezzanine floor in the main library has books as well as carrels for individual use of graduate students of the college. The library has already emerged as an extensive collection of books and journals.

Common room and hall

The college has one common room for fellows and graduate students. The common room has two floors: the upper common room, with an attached terrace overlooking the punting harbour, which has a bar and a coffee counter, and the lower common room, which has magazines and newspapers. The college's hall is one of the few in the university to have common table. The 'Haldane

J. B. S. Haldane

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS , known as Jack , was a British-born geneticist and evolutionary biologist. A staunch Marxist, he was critical of Britain's role in the Suez Crisis, and chose to leave Oxford and moved to India and became an Indian citizen...

 Room', a hall adjacent to the dining hall proper, is where formal meals, especially the convocation lunch, are held.

The gardens

The college owns grounds on both sides of the river, including two meadows on the opposite side, towards Marston

Marston

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. It has a small but well maintained garden behind its main building, and beside the river. The garden is landscaped well on the river-bank, with a flight of steps leading up to a green-house and a sundial. The college also has a smaller garden beside the Robin Gandy building, which stands on the banks of the river.

Sports and punting harbour

The college has its own squash court and croquet lawn, and takes part in many university sporting events, including cricket, soccer, and the yearly rowing competition. It is one of the few in Oxford with its own punting harbour, with a well maintained fleet of punts for use by all members of the college community. There is a boat club on the ground floor of 'C' Block, for this purpose, which is under the supervision of the Admiral of Punts, chosen annually from the existing student body of the college.

Academics

• Joe Andrew
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  , Professor of Russian Literature at Keele University
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• Dame Kay Davies
  Kay Davies
  Dame Kay Elizabeth Davies, DBE, FRS is a British human geneticist.She is the Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University and a fellow of Hertford College...
  
  , FRS, Human Geneticist.
• Richard Ellis
  Richard Ellis (astronomer)
  Richard Salisbury Ellis CBE FRS is the Steele Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology ....
  
  , CBE
  Order of the British Empire
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  , FRS, extragalactic astronomer, Steele Professor at Caltech and former Director, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
• Artur Ekert
  Artur Ekert
  Artur Ekert is a Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, and a Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and also the Director of CQT...
  
  , one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography
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  , and winner of the Maxwell and Hughes medals, and the Descartes Prize
• Jonathan Foster, leading academic in cognitive neuroscience, consultant neuropsychologist, writer, broadcaster
• Alison Gopnik
  Alison Gopnik
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  , Professor of Psychology, Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
• Henry Hardy
  Henry Hardy
  Henry Robert Dugdale Hardy is a British author and editor.- Career :Hardy was born in London and educated at Lancing College...
  
  , author and editor, publisher of Isaiah Berlin's papers
• Nigel Hitchin
  Nigel Hitchin
  Nigel Hitchin is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics.-Academic career:...
  
  , FRS, British mathematician, winner of the Sylvester Medal
  Sylvester Medal
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• Josef W. Meri
  Josef W. Meri
  Josef Waleed Meri is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic culture, social history, and interfaith relations. He is Ariane de Rothschild Academic Director in Muslim-Jewish Relations at The Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations , The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic...
  
  , leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history
• Michele Mosca
  Michele Mosca
  Michele Mosca is co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, researcher and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and professor of mathematics in the department of at the University of Waterloo...
  
  , quantum scientist known for his work on quantum algorithms and NMR
  NMR
  NMR may refer to:Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:* Nuclear magnetic resonance* NMR spectroscopy* Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance* Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy* Proton NMR* Carbon-13 NMR...
  
   quantum computation
• Iain Pears
  Iain Pears
  Iain Pears is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 and ZDF and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and...
  
  , popular British novelist, art historian

Administration

• Muhammad Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  Muhammad Sohail Anwar Choudhry
  Muhammad Sohail Anwar Choudhry is the National Representative of Wolfson College, Oxford for Pakistan and the chairman of Wolfson's Pakistani Alumni. A civil servant by profession, Muhammad is an Oxford educated social policy analyst working as a Deputy Secretary with Government of the Punjab...
  
  , Senior Official (Deputy Secretary) for Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Law

• Karim Asad Ahmad Khan
  Karim Ahmad Khan
  Karim Ahmad Khan is a British lawyer and specialist in international criminal law and international human rights law. He was called to the bar in 1992 at London's Lincoln's Inn and later attended Wolfson College at Oxford University for doctoral studies in law...
  
  , Prosecutor in the UN International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, counsel before Special Courts in East Timor and Sierra Leone
• Hon. Justice Francisco Rezek
  Francisco Rezek
  José Francisco Rezek is a Brazilian judge who served as a member of the International Court of Justice, based in The Hague, Netherlands, from 1996 to 2006. His surname "Rezek" comes from Czech Republic....
  
  , distinguished Brazilian jurist and member of the International Court of Justice
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   and formerly Foreign Minister
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   of Brazil
• Dame Hazel Genn
  Hazel Genn
  Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, QC , FBA is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world, and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Laws, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London.- Public service :Professor Genn is a...
  
  , DBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , QC (Hon)
  Queen's Counsel
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  , FBA, leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world

Politics

• Simon Upton
  Simon Upton
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  , formerly Minister of Health, Environment and Science and Technology and member of the National Party
  New Zealand National Party
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• Mike Woodin
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  , former principal speaker for the Green Party of England and Wales (later Fellow of Balliol)

See also Former students of Wolfson College, Oxford

Notable fellows

• Samson Abramsky
  Samson Abramsky
  Samson D. Abramsky FRS, FRSE is a computer scientist who currently holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He is well known for playing a leading role in the development of game semantics...
  
  , FRS, computer scientist and developer of domain theory in logic form, game semantics
  Game semantics
  Game semantics is an approach to formal semantics that grounds the concepts of truth or validity on game-theoretic concepts, such as the existence of a winning strategy for a player, somewhat resembling Socratic dialogues or medieval theory of Obligationes. In the late 1950s Paul Lorenzen was the...
  
   and categorical quantum mechanics
• Leonie Archer
  Leonie Archer
  Leonie Jane Archer is an English author and a former Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. Archer graduated from the University of Oxford in 1981, with ancient history honours, and became a Fellow in Jewish Studies of the Graeco-Roman Period, Oxford...
  
  , historian and leading authority on women in Jewish antiquity
• Sir
  Sir
  Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...
  
   Isaiah Berlin
  Isaiah Berlin
  Sir Isaiah Berlin OM, FBA was a British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas of Russian-Jewish origin, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century and a dominant liberal scholar of his generation...
  
  , OM, CBE
  CBE
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  , regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal philosophers
• Kanti Bajpai
  Kanti Bajpai
  Kanti Bajpai is an Indian academic-analyst and the former headmaster of The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India, and is noted as a popular international affairs analyst on Indian television.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Former Headmaster, The Doon School
  The Doon School
  The Doon School is an independent school located in Dehradun in the state of Uttarakhand in India. Established in 1935, it was founded by Satish Ranjan Das. Its first Headmaster was Arthur E...
  
  , India
• John Barnes
  John Barnes (computer scientist)
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  , developer of the Ada programming language
• William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw
  William Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw
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  , Member
  Member of Parliament
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   of the House of Lords
  House of Lords
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• Donald Broadbent
  Donald Broadbent
  Donald Eric Broadbent FRS was an influential English experimental psychologist. His career and his research work bridged the gap between the pre-Second World War approach of Sir Frederic Bartlett and its wartime development into applied psychology, and what from the late 1960s became known as...
  
  , experimental psychologist
• Sebastian Brock
  Sebastian Brock
  Sebastian Paul Brock is generally acknowledged as the foremost and most influential academic in the field of Syriac language today. He is a former Reader in Syriac Studies at the University of Oxford's Oriental Institute and currently a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College...
  
  , leading expert in Syriac language
• Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...
  
  , Novelist
• Norman Davies
  Norman Davies
  Professor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...
  
  , noted English historian of Welsh descent
• Simon Digby
  Simon Digby (oriental scholar)
  Professor Simon Everard Digby MA was an English oriental scholar, translator, writer and collector who was awarded the Burton Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society and was a former Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, the Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Assistant Keeper in the...
  
  , oriental scholar
• Sir
  Sir
  Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...
  
   Anthony Epstein
  Anthony Epstein
  Sir Michael Anthony Epstein CBE, FRS is one of the discoverers of the Epstein-Barr virus.Epstein was educated at St. Paul's School in London, Trinity College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Epstein was Professor of Pathology, 1968-85 , and Head of Department, 1968-82 at the...
  
  , CBE
  Order of the British Empire
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  , FRS, discovered the Epstein-Barr virus
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• Robin Gandy
  Robin Gandy
  Robin Oliver Gandy was a British mathematician and logician.He was a friend, student, and associate of Alan Turing, having been supervised by Turing during his PhD at the University of Cambridge , where they worked together.Educated at Abbotsholme, Robin Gandy took two years of the Mathematical...
  
  , mathematician and logician
• Sir
  Sir
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   Raymond Hoffenberg
  Raymond Hoffenberg
  Sir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE was an endocrinologist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. Born in South Africa, he was forced to leave in 1968, and settled in the United Kingdom, where he was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1983 to 1989, and President of Wolfson College,...
  
  , KBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , endocrinologist and medical scientist and prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa
• Sir
  Sir
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   Tony Hoare, FRS, computer scientist, developer of Quicksort the widely used sorting algorithm
• Roger Moorey
  Roger Moorey
  Peter Roger Stuart Moorey, FBA, FSA was a British archaeologist and historian of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, and former Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford...
  
  , British archeologist and keeper of antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
• Sir
  Sir
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   Gareth Roberts, FRS, physicist and influential figure in shaping British policy on the sciences
• Sumit Sarkar
  Sumit Sarkar
  -Background:He belongs to one of Bengal's most enlightened and progressive Brahmo families. His father was Professor Susobhan Chandra Sarkar, a Head of Department of History at Presidency College, Calcutta and the founder Head of Department of the Department of History, []...
  
  , Indian historian, former Professor of history, Delhi University
• Erich Wolf Segal
  Erich Segal
  Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story , a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit....
  
  , American author and screenwriter, wrote the screenplay for The Beatles' 1968 motion picture Yellow Submarine
• Steven Schwartz
  Steven Schwartz (vice-chancellor)
  Steven Schwartz is an American and Australian academic and the current Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia....
  
  , Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
• Jon Stallworthy
  Jon Stallworthy
  Jon Stallworthy FBA FRSL is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow and Acting President of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic....
  
  , Professor Emeritus of English, University of Oxford, UK
• Bryan Sykes
  Bryan Sykes
  Bryan Sykes is a former Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford and a current Fellow of Wolfson College.Sykes published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone...
  
  , world renowned human geneticist
• Niko Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist and Nobel prize winner
• Geza Vermes
  Geza Vermes
  Géza Vermes or Vermès is a British scholar of Jewish Hungarian origin and writer on religious history, particularly Jewish and Christian. He is a noted authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient works in Aramaic, and on the life and religion of Jesus...
  
  , Christian and Jewish historian and leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls

See also Fellows of Wolfson College, Oxford

External links

• Wolfson College website
• Virtual Tour of the College
• Wolfson College wiki from Wikia
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