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===Notable staff=== <gallery class="center"> File:Harold Kroto 1c389 8471.sweden.jpg|[[Sir Harold Kroto]], 1996 [[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] File:Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony James Leggett in 2007.jpg|[[Anthony Leggett|Sir Anthony Leggett]], 2003 [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] File:John Maynard Smith.jpg|[[John Maynard Smith]], 1999 [[Crafoord Prize]] for Biosciences </gallery> In the sciences, Sussex counts among its past and present faculty five Nobel Prize winners: Sir [[Anthony Leggett]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Anthony J. Leggett|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/leggett.html|publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref> Sir [[Paul Nurse]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Paul M. Nurse|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2001/nurse.html|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref> [[Archer John Porter Martin|Archer Martin]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Archer John Porter Martin|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1952/martin.html|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=18 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{ODNBweb|id=77176|title=Martin, Archer John Porter}}</ref> Sir [[John Cornforth]]<ref>{{cite web|title=John Warcup Cornforth|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1975/cornforth.html|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=18 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015194720/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1975/cornforth.html|archive-date=15 October 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Sir [[Harold Kroto|Harry Kroto]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Harold W. Kroto|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/kroto.html|publisher=Nobel Foundation|access-date=18 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214222305/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/kroto.html|archive-date=14 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[John Maynard Smith]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], founding father of Sussex Biology was honoured with the [[Crafoord Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.crafoordprize.se/press/arkivpressreleases/thecrafoordprize1999.5.32d4db7210df50fec2d800018201.html|title=Crafoord Prize 1999|access-date=31 January 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182257/http://www.crafoordprize.se/press/arkivpressreleases/thecrafoordprize1999.5.32d4db7210df50fec2d800018201.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Kyoto Prize]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.sussex.ac.uk/news/press-releases/media/media148.html|title=University of Sussex Media Release Japan's "Nobel Prize" for Sussex University biologist|website=archive.sussex.ac.uk}}</ref> for his contributions to Evolutionary Biology. The university has 15 [[Fellows of the Royal Society]]. These include [[Geoffrey Cloke]] (Inorganic Chemistry); [[Michael F. Land]] (Animal Vision β [[Frink Medal]]); [[Michael Lappert]] (Inorganic Chemistry); [[John Murrell (chemist)|John Murrell]] (Theoretical Chemistry); [[Laurence Pearl]] (Structural Biology) and [[Guy Richardson]] (Neuroscience). Additionally, two of its faculty have received the [[Leontief Prize]]: [[Michael Lipton]] and [[Mariana Mazzucato]]. In the Humanities and Social sciences, there are ten members of faculty who have the distinction of being Fellows of the [[British Academy]]. Staff with FBAs include [[Donald Winch]] (economics), [[Peter Burke (historian)]], [[Craig Clunas]], [[Peter France]], [[Barry Supple]], [[Margaret Boden]], [[Pat Thane]], [[John Barrell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/search-results?keyword=sussex&content_types%5B%5D=fellows|title=Search results β British Academy|website=British Academy}} {{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Other prominent academics on the staff of the university have included: [[Geoffrey Bennington]]; [[Homi K. Bhabha]] (postcolonialism); [[Ranajit Guha]] (founder of Subaltern studies); [[Jonathan Dollimore]] (Renaissance literature, gender and queer studies); [[Katy Gardner]] (social anthropology); [[Gabriel Josipovici]] (Dante, the Bible); [[Jacqueline Rose]] (feminism, psychoanalysis); [[Nicholas Royle]] (modern literature and theory; deconstruction); [[Alan Sinfield]] (Shakespeare, sexuality, queer theory); [[Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow]] (Cosmologist); [[Brian Street]] (anthropology); [[John D. Barrow]] (Cosmologist); [[Leon Mestel]] (Astronomer); [[Gavin Ashenden]] (Senior Lecturer in English, University Chaplain, broadcaster and Chaplain to [[Queen Elizabeth II]]);<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/people/peoplelists/person/79 |title=Rv Ca Dr Gavin Ashenden : School of English |publisher=University of Sussex |access-date=20 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228091318/http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/people/peoplelists/person/79 |archive-date=28 December 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Keith Pavitt]] (science and technology policy), and [[Christopher Freeman]] (Economist). Current notable staff (in addition to a number of those mentioned above) include philosopher [[Andy Clark]], economist [[Richard Tol]], psychologist [[Andy Field (academic)|Andy Field]], neuroscientist [[Anil Seth]], biologist [[Dave Goulson]], sociologist [[Gerard Delanty]], development economist Sir [[Richard Jolly]], astrophysicist and writer [[John Gribbin]], historian [[Robin Milner-Gulland]], scholar [[Edward Timms]], author [[Gabriel Josipovici]], geographer [[Melissa Leach]], psychologist Dame [[Lesley Fallowfield]], psychologist [[Brian Bates (psychologist)|Brian Bates]], biologist [[Laurence Pearl]], historian [[Maurice Howard]], sociologist [[Jennifer Platt]], Dame [[Denise Holt]], policymaker [[Andy Stirling]], political economist [[Mick Moore (political economist)|Mick Moore]], pharmacist [[Bugewa Apampa]], anthropologist [[Philip Proudfoot]] and experimental physicist [[Antonella De Santo]].
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