Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

Film historian Ian Freer notes that at the time of his death in 1991, his legacy still remained intact:

Punk historian Ian Glasper indicates that " For several months gob-smacked audiences weren't sure whether Napalm Death were actually a serious band any longer, such was the undeniable novelty of their hyper-speed new drummer.

More recently, in his two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler, historian Ian Kershaw uses both ' hubris ' and ' nemesis ' as titles.

According to music historian, Ian McFarlane " made an enormous impact on Australian social life ".

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane described their style as " concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.

According to viol historian Ian Woodfield, there is little evidence that the vihuela de arco was introduced to Italy before the 1490s.

British historian Ian Mortimer has drawn attention to the use of ' anti-sodomite ' smear campaigns in the late 13th and early 14th centuries against Pope Boniface VIII and the Knights Templar.

Film historian Ian Freer calls Wyler a " bona fide perfectionist ", whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance, " became the stuff of legend.

* Ian Watt ( 9 March 1917 – 13 December 1999 ), literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University

She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with " It's a Man's Man's World " Rock historian, Ian McFarlane described her as having a " rich, soulful, passionate and husky vocal delivery ".

In a 2000 journal article, historian Ian McKay argued that Canadian Confederation was motivated by the ideology of liberalism and the belief in the supremacy of individual rights.

Bodley ’ s collecting interests were varied ; according to the library's historian Ian Philip, as early as June 1603 he was attempting to source manuscripts from Turkey, and it was during “ the same year that the first Chinese book was acquired .” In 1610, Bodley made an agreement with the Stationers ' Company in London to put a copy of every book registered with them in the library.

Michael Jecks is a popular speaker at literary festivals and historical meetings, at which he talks with Ian Mortimer, the historian, as well as Medieval Murderers.

* Ian Mortimer, historian

Æthelred then sent an army which forced Cnut to flee back to Denmark, and in the opinion of historian Ian Howard, he left his wife and their baby son, Svein, the future King of Norway, behind with her family.

Since the 1980s Ullans, a portmanteau neologism popularized by the physician, amateur historian and politician Ian Adamson, merging Ulster and Lallans — the Scots for Lowlands — but also an acronym for “ Ulster-Scots language in literature and native speech ” and Ulstèr-Scotch, the preferred revivalist parlance, have also been used.

According to Australian rock historian, Ian McFarlane, they had developed their " own distinctive sound as defined by Kuepper's frenetic, whirlwind guitar style and Bailey's arrogant snarl ".

A sign of the changing times was the rise to prominence of such diplomatic historians such as the Japanese historian Chihiro Hosoya, the British historian Ian Nish, and the Japanese historian Akira Iriye, which was the first time that Asian specialists became noted diplomatic historians.

Ian Watt ( March 9, 1917 – December 13, 1999 ) was a literary critic, literary historian and professor of English at Stanford University.

Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance as having an ambient style of world music that " constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty ; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras, and art-rock.

The historian Gordon S. Wood has noted that many leaders such as Madison and Washington, feared more that the revolution had not fixed the social problems that had triggered it, and the excesses ascribed to the King were being seen in the state legislatures.

The historian Gordon S. Wood says that Lance Banning, as in his Sacred Fire of Liberty ( 1995 ), is the " only present-day scholar to maintain that Madison did not change his views in the 1790s.

The historian Gordon S. Wood argues that Jefferson's political philosophy was a product of his time and his scientific interests.

Although zombie cannibals were inspired by Matheson's I Am Legend, film historian Robin Wood sees the flesh-eating scenes of Night of the Living Dead as a late-1960s critique of American capitalism.

Cedar Rapids has been residence to famous figures for the United States, including American Gothic painter Grant Wood, journalist and historian William L. Shirer, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. Alexander Lippisch.

* Gordon S. Wood, historian and author

According to the historian Simeon Wood the first house in greater Hauppauge dates to 1731, being located on what would be the Arbuckle Estate, and later the southeast corner of the Hauppauge Industrial Park, near the intersection of Motor Parkway and Old Willets Path.

Historian Michael Wood ( historian ) discusses the open field system at Laxton in episode 2 " Domesday to Magna Carta " of his television series Michael Wood's Story of England ( TV series ).

However historian Michael Wood has found an " idiosyncratic " verse in the Theobald adaptation which he believes could only have been written by Shakespeare.

Examples of celebrity speakers include singer TV presenter Adrian Chiles, comedian Jasper Carrott, historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn, the Goodies actor and TV presenter Bill Oddie, rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne ( and all other members of the original Black Sabbath ), Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne ( ELO founders ), Rob Halford ( Judas Priest ), Dave Pegg ( of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull ), broadcaster Les Ross, politician Clare Short, SAS soldier, author John " Brummie " Stokes and many actresses and actors ; Martha Howe-Douglas, Donnaleigh Bailey, Nicolas Woodman, Sarah Smart, John Oliver and Ryan Cartwright.

According to the 17th century historian Anthony Wood Hayman was educated at Exeter College and the college register shows him matriculating on 15 October 1590 ( the register wrongly shows his age as eleven whereas in fact he was fifteen ).

Birmingham historian Dr. Carl Chinn noted that during World War II the boundary between Handsworth and the outlying suburb of Handsworth Wood marked the line between being safe and unsafe from bombing, with Handsworth Wood being an official evacuation zone, despite being at least ten miles away from any countryside that might now qualify as " green belt " land, and being on the periphery of many " high risk " areas.

Other Old Mancunians are John Charles Polanyi ( 1929 -) who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the actors Ben Kingsley, Robert Powell and more recently Ashley Margolis, the historian Michael Wood, the concert organist Daniel Moult, the comic Chris Addison, and cryptographers Clifford Cocks and Malcolm J. Williamson.

* George Arnold Wood ( 1865 – 1928 ), Australian historian

Grey is also a motion picture historian and has written Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), a biography of Ed Wood, the director of notoriously awful films.

Wood, who wrote ' a dark cloud of obscurity again settled over the parish of Cramond, of which I cannot find the smallest memorial in any historian till the year 995.

* Herbert George Wood ( 1879 – 1963 ), theologian and historian ( ODNB entry )

On December 4, 2006, the trust announced the hiring of art historian James N. Wood, the former Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, as the trust's new president and CEO, replacing Barry Munitz, who was forced to step down earlier in the year.

In his 1992 documentary series Legacy, historian Michael Wood walked down a small lane in Kaifeng that he said is known as the " alley of the sect who teach the Scriptures ", that is, of the Jews.

Some modern translators ( including Penguin's Rex Warner, but not Wood ) change Tacitus to match Dio instead of vice versa, even though Tacitus is the more reliable historian.

Kerr and baseball historian Phil Wood fill in for Holliday and Knight as needed.

Birmingham historian Dr. Carl Chinn noted that during WW2 the boundary between Handsworth and Handsworth Wood marked the line between being safe and unsafe from bombing, with Handsworth Wood being an official evacuation zone.