1970
Professor Dorothy Hodgkin appointed fifth Chancellor
Nobel Prize-winner Professor Dorothy Hodgkin becomes the fifth Chancellor of the University and the first (non-royal) female chancellor of any British university. She was also the first British woman to win a Nobel Prize, and academic tutor to Margaret Thatcher, the first female British prime minister.
Past and future Chancellors include:
Henry Overton Wills III
Richard Burden Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan
The Right Honourable Winston Churchill MP
Henry Somerset, the 10th Duke of Beaufort
Sir Jeremy Morse
Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond
Students protest
On 8 December students protest against Government plans to change the financing of student unions. At the time Margaret Thatcher was the Secretary of State for Education.
Lab work
Electrical engineering students at work in the lab.
Rehearsal time
Professor Willis Grant leads the Choral Society in rehearsal in a physics lecture theatre.
Varsity rugby match
The Bristol University rugby team put their back into in a Varsity rugby match.
For more sporting photos, see 1921, 1944 and 2002.
Longest-serving member of staff retires
Dan Scully retires after more than 50 years at the University. He started his career as a porter in 1921 and ended it as Head Porter in Senate House. His successor, Pat Sheehan, also worked at the University for 50 years. Today, there are many members of staff who have worked at the University for 40 years or more.
Let's do lunch
Female academics and wives of academics meet regularly for social events organised by the Women's Social Club.
Scientists examine samples of moon rock
Bristol was one of the few universities to receive Russian and American moon samples for analysis.
See how our labs have developed: 1910, 1927, 1930, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1995 and 1999.
New University library building opens
The University's Arts and Social Sciences Library opens on a new site in Tyndall Avenue.
Professor Mott wins the Nobel Prize for Physics
Professor Sir Nevill Francis Mott, who was Professor of Physics at the University between 1933 and 1954, shares the Nobel Prize for Physics with Philip Warren Anderson and John Hasbrouck van Vleck 'for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems'.
Snowman Vice-Chancellor
Students enjoy the seasonal weather by building a snowman Vice-Chancellor on the grass opposite Senate House.
Students through the ages see:
1914, 1968, 1979, 1980, 1987, and 1996.
The Centre for Deaf Studies opens
The University's Centre for Deaf Studies opens. It is Europe's first academic body dedicated to research and education that aims to benefit the Deaf community.
