Editing University College London (section)

== Notable people ==
{{Main list|List of people associated with University College London}}
{{Further|List of people associated with University College London in the Law|School of Slavonic and East European Studies#Notable alumni and staff|The Bartlett#Notable alumni|Slade School of Fine Art#Notable alumni}}

UCL alumni include [[Francis Crick]] (co-discoverer of the structure of [[DNA]]),<ref name=Crick>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/5796359/Francis-Crick-OM.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/medicine-obituaries/5796359/Francis-Crick-OM.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituary: Francis Crick, OM |access-date=20 April 2013 |work=The Telegraph |date=30 July 2004}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell|Lord Herschell]] ([[Lord Chancellor]] of Great Britain),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1886londuoft/page/286/mode/1up|page=286|title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench|publisher=Dean & Son|location=London|author=Robert Henry Mair|year=1886 }}</ref> [[William Stanley Jevons]] (an early pioneer of modern economics),<ref name=Jevons>{{cite book |title=The World of UCL |pages=39, 116|author1=Negley Harte |author2=John North |author3=Georgina Brewis |publisher=UCL Press |date=2018}}</ref> [[Charles K. Kao]] ("Godfather of [[broadband]]"),<ref name=Kao>{{cite journal |title=Sir Charles Kuen Kao. 4 November 1933—23 September 2018 |publisher=The Royal Society |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |author=John Midwinter |year=2021 |volume=70 |pages=211–224 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0006 |s2cid=226291122 |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Jomo Kenyatta]] (considered the [[Father of the Nation|"Founding Father"]] of [[Kenya]])<ref>{{cite news |url=http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/6/20/the-big-read |title=Jomo Kenyatta: emblematic figure of the Independence Movement |access-date=20 April 2013 |work=Daily Observer |date=20 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530222404/http://observer.gm/africa/gambia/article/2008/6/20/the-big-read |archive-date=30 May 2013}}</ref> and [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]] (pioneer in the use of antiseptics in surgery).<ref>{{cite book|last=Godlee|first=Sir Rickman John|title=Lord Lister|date=October 1924|edition=3rd, Revised|publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1333634315|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/j6yczh59/items|pages=15–22}}</ref> Notable former staff include [[Hugh Gaitskell]] ([[leader of the Labour Party (UK)|leader of the Labour Party]] 1955–63),<ref>{{cite book |title=The World of UCL |page=195|author1=Negley Harte |author2=John North |author3=Georgina Brewis |publisher=UCL Press |date=2018}}</ref> [[Otto Hahn]] (pioneer of [[nuclear chemistry]], discoverer of [[nuclear fusion]] and Nobel laureate),<ref name="Nobel">{{cite web |date=11 January 2018 |title=History |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/about/who/history |access-date=3 November 2022 |publisher=UCL}}</ref> [[Peter Higgs]] (proposer of the [[Higgs mechanism]], which predicted the existence of the [[Higgs boson]], and Nobel laureate),<ref name=Nobel/> [[A. E. Housman]] (classical scholar and poet, who wrote ''[[A Shropshire Lad]]'' while a professor at UCL),<ref>{{cite book |title=The World of UCL |pages=125, 127|author1=Negley Harte |author2=John North |author3=Georgina Brewis |publisher=UCL Press |date=2018}}</ref> [[William Ramsay|Sir William Ramsay]] (discoverer of all of the naturally occurring noble gases)<ref>{{cite book |title=The World of UCL |pages=108–111|author1=Negley Harte |author2=John North |author3=Georgina Brewis |publisher=UCL Press |date=2018}}</ref> and [[Klaus Roth]] (mathematician and [[Field's Medal]] winner).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-1958| title=Fields Medals 1958|website=International Mathematical Union|access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>

Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 32 UCL academics (including visiting academics) and alumni (16 in [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]], eight in [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], six in [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] and one each in [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] and [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Economic Sciences]]) as well as three [[Fields Medal]]s in Mathematics.<ref name=Nobel/><ref name=Fields/>

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File:Francis Crick crop.jpg| [[Francis Crick]]
File:Picture of jevons.jpg| [[William Stanley Jevons]]
File:Lister Joseph.jpg| [[Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister]]
File:Otto Hahn (Nobel).jpg| [[Otto Hahn]]
File:Nobel Prize 24 2013.jpg| [[Peter Higgs]]
File:Charles K. Kao cropped 2.jpg| [[Charles K. Kao]]
File:Jomo Kenyatta.jpg| [[Jomo Kenyatta]]
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In the 19th century UCL operated as a college, with many students taking individual lecture courses rather than studying for degrees.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f-cKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11|work =University Colleges, Great Britain – Grant in Aid| page=11|title=University College, London|author1= [[Herbert Warren|T.H. Warren]]|author2 =[[George Downing Liveing|G.D. Liveing]]|publisher=[[HMSO]]|date=1897}}</ref>
These included well-known alumni such as [[Mahatma Gandhi]], who took English classes with [[Henry Morley]] in 1888–89,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://indiacurrents.com/my-experiment-with-truth/|title=My Experiment with Truth|author=Swapnajit Mitra|date=12 October 2014|work=[[India Currents]]}}</ref> and [[John Stuart Mill]], who attended lectures on jurisprudence by [[John Austin (legal philosopher)|John Austin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2006/mar/ucl-marks-place-british-intellectual-history-john-stuart-mill-0|title=UCL marks a place in British intellectual history for John Stuart Mill|date=23 March 2006|website=UCL|access-date=12 January 2023}}</ref>