Cambridge Contributions

Written primarily for a non-specialist audience, these essays describe contributions made by some of the University of Cambridge's most colourful and able characters in a number of academic disciplines. The essays reveal particularly fertile periods of development and chart voyages of discovery which have occurred all over Cambridge, under group or individual leadership. Approaches vary, from the presentation of historically significant discoveries to the explanation of current research 'contributions' in the making. The interweaving of academic lives of Cambridge figures has done much to enrich understanding within and between disciplines, and to influence their development in particular ways. The enthusiasm with which these figures and disciplines are presented will ensure that readers continue their own investigations into the contributions and contributors included here.

• An entertaining and accessible successor volume to Cambridge Minds, published in 1994
• Includes many distinguished authors from the University of Cambridge, who write generally on their fields of interest
• Addressed to almost anyone with an interest in the history and achievements of the University of Cambridge, and in the progress of learning and education