Strathclyde Wonderwall Flashcards

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diversity

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this mural of students in a class originally contained only images of white students. this was considered to be unrepresentative of Strathclyde’s diverse student body, so a member of the student union campaigned to add figures in colour, that you see now. the mural is said to be representative of some of today’s students’

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ppl on the wall

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some influential figures on the wall include:

  • john logie baird (inventor of the first working television)
  • james ‘parrafin’ young (a driving force behind today’s oil refinery industry
  • James Blyth (wind energy pioneer)
  • Henry Faulds (originator of fingerprint identification)
  • Andrew Ure (his experiments on corpses are through to have inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)
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Verity Lambert

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producer of Doctor Who, recvived an honourary doctor of law degree by the univerity in 1988, donated her personal archive (writings and props) to strathclyde.
mention tardises

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