Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
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1965 –<br />
Professor Tavi Murray.<br />
b. Mumbles<br />
Polar explorer <strong>and</strong> an<br />
authority on the study of<br />
glaciers <strong>and</strong> climate change.<br />
1957 –<br />
Sir Chris Evans.<br />
b. Port Talbot.<br />
Entrepreneur <strong>in</strong> the field of<br />
bio<strong>technology</strong> <strong>and</strong> founder<br />
of companies <strong>in</strong> the fields<br />
of genes, enzymes <strong>and</strong><br />
micro-organisms.<br />
1955 –<br />
Michael Moritz.<br />
b. Cardiff.<br />
The <strong>in</strong>ternet search eng<strong>in</strong>es<br />
Google <strong>and</strong> Yahoo! were<br />
developed with fund<strong>in</strong>g from<br />
<strong>Welsh</strong> born Michael Moritz.<br />
1951 –<br />
Richard Parry-Jones.<br />
b. Bangor.<br />
Group Vice-President, Global<br />
Product Development <strong>and</strong><br />
Chief Technical officer, Ford<br />
Motor Company.<br />
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1945 –<br />
Professor Anthony Campbell.<br />
b. Bangor.<br />
Professor <strong>in</strong> Medical<br />
Biochemistry at Cardiff<br />
University <strong>and</strong> an<br />
<strong>in</strong>ternational authority<br />
on <strong>in</strong>tracellular signall<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong><br />
chemi- <strong>and</strong> bio-lum<strong>in</strong>escence.<br />
In 1994 he founded The<br />
Darw<strong>in</strong> Centre for<br />
Biology <strong>and</strong> Medic<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong><br />
Pembrokeshire.<br />
1943 –<br />
Sir Terry Matthews.<br />
b. newbridge.<br />
Telecommunications<br />
entrepreneur <strong>and</strong> founder<br />
of Mitel.<br />
1942 –<br />
Howard Str<strong>in</strong>ger.<br />
b. Cardiff.<br />
Chairman <strong>and</strong> Chief Executive<br />
officer Sony Corporation.<br />
1939 –<br />
Brian Josephson.<br />
b. Cardiff.<br />
nobel prize w<strong>in</strong>ner through<br />
his studies of the phenomena<br />
of low-temperature physics,<br />
especially superconductor<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>sulator comb<strong>in</strong>ations.
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