Professor John D. Barrow, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, was today awarded the 2006 Templeton Prize.
African scientists will be able to spend a year in Cambridge developing knowledge and expertise to bring back to the continent, thanks to a new fellowship announced by the Schlumberger Foundation and Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton, the eminent earth scientist, former director of the Godwin Laboratory for Quaternary Research in the Department of Earth Sciences and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, died at the age of 68 on 24 January 2006.
Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, First Lady to the President of the independent nation of East Timor, is to give this year’s Clare Hall Ashby lecture.
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