Obituary

A political scientist who made a major contribution to criminology and the study of public order has died

A prominent and wide-ranging archaeologist has died

High-profile literary critic once described as “Australia’s most distinguished woman” was the first female chancellor of the University of Sydney

A leading researcher in the use of supercritical fluids and superheated water in industry, who founded one of the University of Leeds' first spin-out companies, has died

A neuroscientist and philosopher who offered many sharp insights into how our brains generate perceptions of the world has died

A geographer who radically reformed the discipline has died

A ‘legendary’ lecturer in psychology has died

A leading physics educator has died

A highly influential and wide-ranging sociologist has died

A skilful and charismatic ‘drug hunter’ has died

A leading authority on the British landscape has died

One of the leading radical geographers of her generation has died

A leading economic psychologist who led [!Soas, University of London!] for almost a decade has died

A historian who transformed our understanding of the origins of ‘print culture’ has died

A renowned topologist who established the University of Warwick’s Mathematical Institute as a major centre has died

A leading Marxist political theorist has died

A prominent academic expert on banking, mortgages and insurance has died

A ‘radical’ and ‘prolific’ British Germanist has died.

The founding leader of a major polytechnic has died

A cancer researcher who greatly enriched our understanding of the processes of tumour formation has died

One of Britain’s leading organisational psychologists has died

An expert on postcolonial literature turned acclaimed memoirist has died

‘A tremendously important and empathetic scholar’ who transformed our understanding of nationalism has died

A lecturer in law who played a prominent role in the University and College Union has died.

A leading researcher on diseases spread by insects and ways of combating them has died

A leading expert on Samuel Beckett and French 20th-century writing has died.

‘One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation’ has died

One of the leading ecological researchers of his generation has died

A prominent academic activist has died

A leading historian of modern European history has died

A poet and leading 18th-century literary scholar has died

A ‘genuinely public historian’ and charismatic lecturer has died

Leading Renaissance scholar hailed as polymath and iconoclast following her death

An electrical engineer who pioneered major developments in signal processing has died

A key figure in today’s higher education information landscape has died

A pioneering engineer known as ‘the father of aeroacoustics’ has died

A leading expert on medieval French language and lexicography has died

An economic historian who ‘almost single-handedly’ transformed our understanding of technological change has died

A pioneering computer scientist who offered many powerful insights into the nature of complex adaptive systems has died

A scholar, novelist and photographer whose work drew on her past as a Jewish émigré from the Soviet Union has died

A leading campaigner for justice in South Africa who went on to become master of a Cambridge college has died.

A linguist who helped radically transform the BBC Russian-language courses has died

A researcher who made a major contribution to our understanding of cancer – and paved the way for several new classes of drug – has died

A scholar who transformed our understanding of early Islam has died

A scholar who pioneered the study of the economies of Japan and East Asia – and comparative organisational structures across the world – has died.

The longest-serving master of Selwyn College, Cambridge and a distinguished historian and theologian has died

A leading expert on electronic circuit theory who spent his whole career at Berkeley has died

A major authority on management and leadership, particularly within the National Health Service, has died

A scholar and translator who broke through glass ceilings at Oxford has died

A leading legal scholar notable for his “taste for the absurd” as well as his erudition has died

A leading scientist and industrialist who served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Nottingham has died

A leading expert in how scientific research can best be used to promote environmental causes has died

An independent scholar who became one of the world’s leading authorities on Lord Byron has died

A British geographer who played a major role in opening up his discipline to more aesthetically and culturally focused approaches has died

A leading scholar of religion and literature best known for his translation of the Chinese epic The Journey to the West has died

A talented physicist who moved into finance and then returned to academia to create major programmes at Essex Business School has died

A leading figure in the pharmaceutical sciences has died

An eminent geneticist who ran the department where DNA fingerprinting was discovered has died

A leading social and cultural historian of 19th- and 20th-century Britain has died

One of the most innovative archaeologists of his generation has died