Their Royal Highnesses Prince William and Prince Harry were in Cambridge on Tuesday and Wednesday (28 and 29 October) to attend a two-day seminar on the social and ecological challenges facing society.
The importance of risk and the impact it has on our individual and institutional lives will be the subject of a seminar at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to be held on Friday 17 October.
King's College Fellow and Persian scholar Peter Avery OBE, who died on 6 October, was one of the world's foremost experts on the history and literature of Iran.
Ian Jack, FBA, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, who died at home in Fen Ditton on 3 September, aged 84, was author of a series of masterly studies and editions of English writers between 1660 and 1860.
Professor Sir Brian Pippard, who died on September 21 aged 88, was Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1971 to 1984 and the first President of Clare Hall, then a newly founded graduate college, from 1966 to 1973.
“When you look around Cambridge you see signs of history and prestige, and think about the famous people who have worked here, and you go wow! Then you look again and see that the students all around you are just like you, not posh or all from public school.”
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