WELL-KNOWN GRADUATES OF OXBRIDGE

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Teachers: E.V. Yankelevich

M.A. Gryazeva

WELL-KNOWN GRADUATES OF OXBRIDGE

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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”.

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.