was attacked by a group of fifteen men outside a pub in Dagenham, London. The victim blamed speeches of then-Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron for causing the attack. During the same month in Belfast, there were seven attacks on Polish homes within ten days; stones and bricks were thrown at the windows. Notable persons The following persons are notable Poles who have lived in the United Kingdom, or notable Britons of Polish descent. Science and technology Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz – Polish-British developmental biologist. Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology at Cambridge University. Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) – sociologist Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (born 1951) – physician, immunologist and scientific administrator, the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (in office since 2010). Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) – Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author, poet and inventor. Presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man Stefan Buczacki (born 1945) – botanist, horticulturalist, broadcaster and writer Maria Czaplicka (1884–1921) – cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism. Helen Czerski, (born 1978) – physicist and oceanographer Eva Frommer (1927–2004) – pioneering child psychiatrist Waclaw Korabiewicz (1903–1994) – physician, ethnographer, prolific writer and administrator Józef Kosacki (1909–1990) – inventor of the Polish mine detector, first used in Second Battle of El Alamein. Margaret Lowenfeld (1890–1973) – physician and pioneer of Play therapy Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942) – one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists Mark Miodownik (born 1969) – materials scientist, engineer and populariser of science Sir Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) – physicist, participant in the Manhattan Project and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Nobel Peace Prize 1995 Tomasz Schafernaker – meteorologist and broadcaster Hanna Segal – Kleinian psychoanalyst Karol Sikora (born 1948) – oncologist Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952) – SOE agent Władysław Świątecki (1895–1944) – invented a bomb-release system, the most successful to be used in the Second World War. Paweł Strzelecki (1797–1873) – explorer and geologist who in 1845 also became a British subject. Zbigniew Szydlo, (born 1949) – chemist and specialist in alchemy Stefan Tyszkiewicz (1894–1976) – automotive pioneer, engineer and inventor Halszka Wasilewska (1899–1961) – London-born military officer who developed women's army training in Interbellum Poland Helena Rosa Wright (1887–1982) – physician, missionary and pioneer of Contraception John Zarnecki (born 1949) - astronomer, past President of the Royal Astronomical Society Written word Sebastian Baczkiewicz (born 1962) - playwright Janina