famous as author of A Shropshire Lad Dan Jacobson – Professor of English; author; winner of the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award Sir Frank Kermode – Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature (1967–74); literary critic Tomáš Masaryk – Inaugurated the London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), now part of UCL; later became the first President of Czechoslovakia David Masson – Professor of English Literature; Scottish writer Karl Miller – Lord Northcliffe Professor of English Literature (1976–92); first editor, The London Review of Books Arnaldo Momigliano – Professor of History (1951–75) Henry Morley – Professor of English Literature Dadabhai Naoroji – Professor of Gujarati (1856–1865) credited as the first British Asian UK Member of Parliament, also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" Sir Anthony Panizzi – Professor of Italian Stephen Spender – Lecturer in English; Gresham Professor of Rhetoric; English poet John Sutherland – Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature; columnist for The Guardian Jeremy Treglown – Professor of English; editor, The Times Literary Supplement; author D. P. Walker – Reader in French, musicologist, composer (1945–61) Stanley Wells – Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Moira Yip – Professor of Linguistics Law Mathematical, physical, and space sciences Jim Al-Khalili – post-doctoral Fellow Alan Baker, (mathematics) – winner of the 1970 Fields Medal Charles Bungay Fawcett – Professor of Geography Jocelyn Burnell, (astronomy) – discovered radio pulsars Paul Cohn – Astor Professor of Mathematics Marianna Csörnyei – Professor of Mathematics Harold Davenport – Astor Professor of Mathematics, number theory Philip Dawid – Professor of Statistics, President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis Augustus DeMorgan – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his law of sets Sir Francis Galton – 'Father of fingerprinting' Tim Gowers – Professor of Mathematics; winner of the 1998 Fields Medal Peter Higgs – Theoretical Physicist and winner of the 2004 Wolf Prize in Physics James Joseph Sylvester – Professor of Mathematics, algebra and matrix theory Norman Lloyd Johnson – Reader in Statistics Sir James Lighthill – Lecturer; predecessor to Stephen Hawking as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University Dennis Lindley, statistician Sir Harrie Massey – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic and molecular collisions Egon Pearson – Professor of Statistics Karl Pearson – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics; founder of the Department of Applied Statistics Eugene Rabinowitch – worked in the Manhattan