the England U20 Rugby Union Team and current player for Gloucester Rugby Harold Shipman, general practitioner and convicted serial killer (Medicine, 1970) Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian serial rapist and most prolific rapist in British legal history (Human geography) George Martin Stephen, high master of St Paul's School, London (English and History) Brigadier Mike Stone, Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Defence Marilyn Stowe, divorce lawyer and the first Chief Assessor and Chief Examiner of the Law Society's Family Law Panel (Law, 1970s) Cec Thompson, rugby league player and co-founder of Student Rugby League Paul Watson, Pohnpei State football team coach (Italian, 2005) Staff The following people have been members of staff at the university: Lascelles Abercrombie, poet and literary critic (Professor of English literature, 1923-1929) William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules (Lecturer/Reader in Textile Physics, 1928-1946, Professor of Biomolecular Physics, 1946–61) Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist Maurice Beresford, economic historian, Medieval archaeologist (Economics, 1948-1985) Regina Lee Blaszczyk, professor of business history and leadership chair in the history of business and society Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909-1915) Asa Briggs, historian Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University Librarian, 1997-2000) Selig Brodetsky (1888–1954), mathematician, President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anthony Carrigan (lecturer in postcolonial literature and cultures, 2013–16) Anastasios Christodoulou, Deputy Secretary of Leeds University and Foundation Secretary of the Open University Pit Corder, professor and applied linguist (1961-1964) David Crighton, mathematician (Mathematics, 1974-1985) Norman Greenwood, Australian chemist, and Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Hill, poet (English, 1954-1980) Geoff Hoon, politician (Law, 1976-1981) Jane Ingham, botanist (Research assistant to Joseph Hubert Priestley, 1920-1930) Sir Christopher Ingold, chemist Benedikt Isserlin, semitist and ancient historian Catherine Karkov, art historian Susanne Karstedt, criminologist Percy Fry Kendall, award-winning geologist (Geology 1904-22) Ursula King, scholar of religion and gender G. Wilson Knight, literary critic (English) Owen Lattimore, pioneer in Chinese studies (Professor of Chinese studies, 1963-1970) Irene Manton, botanist and cell biologist (Professor of Biology, 1946-1969) David I. Masson, British science-fiction writer (assistant librarian 1938-1939; curator of the Brotherton Collection 1956-1979) Duncan McCargo, Professor of Political Science (twice Head of School of Politics and International Studies), 1993-2020 John Anthony McGuckin, former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology Sir Roy Meadow, paediatrician Ralph Miliband, political theorist (Professor and Head of Politics department, 1972-1978) David Macey, Intellectual historian Fred Orton, art historian