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Sidney Poitier KBE (/ ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award ...
The University of Sydney as viewed from Parramatta Road in the early 1870s. The Sydney University Regiment forming a guard of honour for the visit of the Duke of York (later George VI) to the university in 1927. In 1848, William Wentworth, a University of Cambridge alumnus, and Sir Charles Nicholson, a University of Edinburgh Medical School ...
Victor Peter Chang AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991) was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia. His murder in 1991 stunned Australia and is considered one of the most notorious in the country's history. [1][2] Chang was given a state funeral, and in 1999 he ...
Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci MAE (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) [13] [14] was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston . [ 10 ]
The history of the city began with the arrival of a First Fleet of British ships in 1788 and the foundation of a penal colony by Great Britain. From 1788 to 1900 Sydney was the capital of the British colony of New South Wales. The town of Sydney was declared a city in 1842, and a local government was established.
University of Sydney: Worcester: 1905 Australia Chancellor of the University of Sydney (1936–1941) William Rose: Magdalen: 1905 Canada Slavic history professor John Schaeffer: Franklin and Marshall College: Oriel: 1905 United States Classicist Bernadotte Schmitt: University of Tennessee: Merton: 1905 United States Modern European history ...
Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American [1] molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
The Great Hall of the University of Sydney, is one of the principal structures of The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with a public interior used for formal ceremonies, conferences, recitals and dinners. The Hall, located in the Main Quadrangle on the Camperdown campus, is a symbol of the university's stately history and an ...