Strathclyde Wonderwall Flashcards
1
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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’
2
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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)
3
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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.
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