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Back to SearchProfessor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, chemist
Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu has dedicated her career to studying nanoparticles, finding ways to carry medicines to parts of the body that are notor…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Dietmar Mueller-Elmau, entrepreneur
Dietmar Mueller-Elmau is the owner of Schloss Elmau, a resort hotel in the Bavarian Alps, 60 miles from Munich. It was set up in 1916 by his grandfat…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, poet and novelist
The American writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths creates poetry that resonates with music: she writes about her mother cleaning the house while ‘Pavarotti …
3 months ago
Francis Spufford, writer
Francis Spufford is an award-winning writer who loves to inhabit different worlds and vividly bring them to life: Golden Hill, which won the Costa Fi…
3 months, 1 week ago
Sir Ian Blatchford, Science Museum director
Sir Ian Blatchford has been the Director of the Science Museum in London for more than 15 years – the longest serving director in its history.
He als…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
George Saunders, writer
The American writer George Saunders won the 2017 Booker Prize with his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. It’s a moving exploration of the grief of P…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Penny Woolcock, film director
The writer and film-maker Penny Woolcock can’t be pigeonholed: she’s worked as a director at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and made a film about…
4 months ago
Peter Hamlyn, neurosurgeon
Peter Hamlyn is the founder and president of the Brain and Spine Foundation, after working as a neurosurgeon for 40 years.
He is perhaps best-known f…
4 months, 1 week ago
Asif Khan, architect
Asif Khan is a world-renowned architect and designer whose work inspired a recent headline – ‘is there anything Asif Khan can’t transform?’.
His cur…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory has been called the ‘Queen of Historical Fiction’. The English royal court has inspired many of her best-selling titles, and she’s w…
4 months, 3 weeks ago