WELL-KNOWN GRADUATES OF OXBRIDGE

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1. WELL-KNOWN GRADUATES OF OXBRIDGE
2. Lewis Carroll He was
3. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
4. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John
5. Roger Bacon Roger Bacon known as
6. John Milton John Milton was a
7. John Locke John Locke was an
8. John Harvard Harvard entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge
9. Sir Isaac Newton The son of
10. Lord George Byron Lord George Byron
11. Charles Robert Darwin Charles Robert Darwin studied
12. Francis Crick and James Watson
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Lewis Carroll He was a left-handed, deaf in one ear student of Christ Church College. He was a

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Слайд 1By: Andrew Erzhenin
Vyacheslav

Papoyan
Teachers: E.V. Yankelevich

M.A. Gryazeva

WELL-KNOWN GRADUATES OF OXBRIDGE

By: Andrew Erzhenin Vyacheslav PapoyanTeachers: E.V. Yankelevich

Слайд 2 Lewis Carroll

He was a left-handed,

deaf in one ear student of Christ Church College.

He was a famous writer, logician, mathematician and a photographer. One of his famous works is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.

Lewis Carroll He was a left-handed, deaf in one ear student of Christ

Слайд 3Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

Wilde

studied at Magdalene College. He was the author of the

famous novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, the play “The Importance of Being Earnest” and various poems and fairy tales.

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde Wilde studied at Magdalene College. He was the

Слайд 4John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

came to Oxford as a student in 1911. He

invented Elfin languages and the whole magical world of Middle-Earth. His beautiful worlds and languages have nourished modern literature throughout the years.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien came to Oxford as a student in

Слайд 5Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon known as Doctor Mirabilis, was

an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis

on the study of nature through empirical methods. Bacon's Greater Work, “the Opus Majus” , contains treatments of mathematics, optics, alchemy, and astronomy.

Roger Bacon Roger Bacon known as Doctor Mirabilis, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who

Слайд 6John Milton

John Milton was a student of Christ’s

College from 1625. He achieved both B.A. and M.A.

degrees. He had become famous on his own account before creating his masterpiece Paradise Lost, as an activist for freedom of speech and press, fighting for common sense and religious tolerance.

John Milton John Milton was a student of Christ’s College from 1625. He achieved both B.A.

Слайд 7John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher and

physician commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism». Considered one

of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy.

John Locke John Locke was an English philosopher and physician commonly known as the

Слайд 8John Harvard

Harvard entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1627.
he

studied for seven years and earned an A.B. and an

A.M. Little is known about the short life of John Harvard (1607-1638). He is thus remembered for a generous endowment. Harvard is often described as the "principal founder" of Harvard University.

John Harvard Harvard entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1627. he studied for seven years and earned an

Слайд 9Sir Isaac Newton
The son of a peasant he

set off for Trinity College at the age of 17.

Ten years later he became a professor of mathematics, and fifteen years later he was honoured with a knighthood. His book “Philosophie Naturalis Principia Mathematica” became the basis of mathematics.

Sir Isaac Newton The son of a peasant he set off for Trinity College at the

Слайд 10Lord George Byron
Lord George Byron was

an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic

movement. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty".

Lord George Byron Lord George Byron was an English poet and a leading figure in

Слайд 11Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin studied theology at Cambridge.

He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence

and Attributes of the Deity , which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature. During these years he collected materials for the revolutionary book “On the Origin of Species”.

Charles Robert Darwin Charles Robert Darwin studied theology at Cambridge. He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences

Слайд 12Francis Crick and James Watson

James D.

Watson and Francis Crick were the two co-discoverers of the

structure of DNA in 1953. They used x-ray diffraction data collected by Rosalind Franklin and proposed the double helix or spiral staircase structure of the DNA molecule. They were, with Maurice Wilkins, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.