Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

The Provisions of Oxford, that had been forced on the king, were repudiated, and it was made clear that the appointment of ministers was entirely a royal prerogative.

His father-in-law made him several large loans, and Elizabeth granted Oxford a £ 1, 000 annuity, to be continued at her pleasure or until he could be provided for otherwise.

In June Oxford wrote to Burghley reminding him that he made an agreement with Elizabeth to relinquish his claim to the Forest of Essex for three reasons, one of which was the Queen's reluctance to punish Skinner's felony, which had caused Oxford to forfeit £ 20, 000 in bonds and statutes.

One of Anderson's early short films, Thursday's Children ( 1954 ), concerning the education of deaf children, made in collaboration with Guy Brenton, a friend from his Oxford days, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954.

Mere Christianity is a theological book by C. S. Lewis, adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1942 and 1944, while Lewis was at Oxford during World War II.

Applications must be made at least three months early, and, with only minor exceptions ( e. g., Organ Scholars ), are mutually exclusive for first undergraduate degrees so, in any one year, candidates may only apply to Oxford or Cambridge, not both.

Looney's Shakespeare Identified ( 1920 ) began the modern Oxfordian movement and made Oxford the most widely accepted anti-Stratfordian candidate.

Critics of this view argue that Oxford nor any other writer is not here identified as a concealed writer, but as the first in a list of known modern writers whose works have already been " made public ", " of which number is first " Oxford, adding to the publicly acknowledged literary tradition dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer.

* At 12, Oxford was made a royal ward and placed in the household of Lord Burghley, who was the Lord High Treasurer and Queen Elizabeth I's closest and most trusted advisor.

Often this point was made by referring to " ordinary English ," since the school of philosophy that most vigorously promoted this meta-philosophy was Oxford.

In 1939, Australian scientist Howard Florey ( later Baron Florey ) and a team of researchers ( Ernst Boris Chain, Arthur Duncan Gardner, Norman Heatley, M. Jennings, J. Orr-Ewing and G. Sanders ) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford made significant progress in showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

for being " the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex " At the age of eighteen, during a three-week celebration at Oxford, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.

The first recorded usage of the term in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was made by John Wycliffe in 1380, where the form subarbis was used.

In 1939, in response to a question from the Oxford English Dictionary, the Admiralty made up the story that it stood for ' Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ', and this is still widely believed, though no committee bearing this name has been found in the Admiralty archives.

During the next four years at Oxford, Adorno made repeated trips to Germany to see both his parents and Gretel, who was still working in Berlin.

A resurrection of the Inklings in Oxford was made in 2006 ; the group still meets every Sunday evening, currently at St Cross College nearby the Eagle and Child.

John Buchan was, in preparation for his appointment as governor general, made the Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in the County of Oxford by King George V, six months before Buchan was sworn in as viceroy.

He was made a life peer in 1965 as Baron Florey, of Adelaide in the State of South Australia and Commonwealth of Australia and of Marston in the County of Oxford.

This parliament first met in March in Oxford but Charles dissolved it only after a few days when he made an appeal to the country against the Whigs and intended to rule without Parliament.

In 1943, at the age of eighteen, Richard Burton ( who had now taken his teacher's surname but would not change it by deed poll for several years ), was allowed into Exeter College, Oxford for a special term of six months study, made possible because he was an air force cadet obligated to later military service.

With Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford ( who was then the secretary of the treasury and not a peer ), he produced the Tory Examiner, and Arbuthnot made their acquaintance and began to provide " hints " to them.

He is eventually released but, still poor, falls in with an old Oxford acquaintance, Watson, who introduces him to his gambling crowd.

He renewed acquaintance with Evelyn Waugh, whom he had known at Oxford and was a frequent guest for Sunday supper at Waugh's parents ' house.

* Viscount " Boy " Mulcaster-An acquaintance of Charles from Oxford.

In 1667 he had made the acquaintance of Anthony Wood at Oxford, and when Wood began to gather materials for his Athenae Oxonienses, Aubrey offered to collect information for him.

Haller then visited London, making the acquaintance of Sir Hans Sloane, William Cheselden, John Pringle, James Douglas and other scientific men ; next, after a short stay in Oxford, he visited Paris, where he studied under Henri François Le Dran and Jacob Winslow ; and in 1728 he proceeded to Basel, where he devoted himself to the study of higher mathematics under John Bernoulli.

At Oxford he made the acquaintance of Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland, through whom, he says in the dedication to Caius Marius, he first learned to love books.

At Oxford he also made the acquaintance of William Jones, the famous Orientalist, who induced him to study Arabic.

The two made an excellent acquaintance and the Crown Prince of Sikkim, Sidkeong Tulku was sent to study at Oxford University.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Henry John Stephen Smith ( 2 November 1826 Dublin, Ireland – 9 February 1883 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith – Minkowski – Siegel mass formula in number theory.

* Peter Donnelly, FRS — current Fellow ( 1996 —), Australian mathematician and statistician, and current director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University.

Bradwardine was a precocious student, educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a fellow by 1321 ; he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound scholar, a skilful mathematician and an able theologian.

Another dissenter, Charles Seife, has said, " Penrose, the Oxford mathematician famous for his work on tiling the plane with various shapes, is one of a handful of scientists who believe that the ephemeral nature of consciousness suggests a quantum process.

John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797.

Joseph Betts was an English mathematician: he held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765.

His early education was in the hands of private tutors, before he attended Brasenose College, Oxford to study classics, though his scientific interests may have been cultivated by mathematician Baden Powell.

Augustus Edward Hough Love FRS ( 17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare – 5 June 1940, Oxford ), often known as A. E. H. Love, was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity.

He was descended in the fifth generation from those whom Arthur had sent to inhabit these lands, and he related that in the year 1360 a certain Minorite, an Englishman from Oxford, a mathematician, went to those islands ; and leaving them, advanced still farther by magic arts and mapped out all and measured them by an astrolabe in practically the subjoined figure, as we have learned from Jacobus.

Peter Donnelly, FRS ( born 15 May 1959 ) is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford.