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The
Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town
This list of
University of Cape Town faculty includes current,
emeritus , former, and deceased professors, lecturers, and researchers. Faculty members who have become Institute Professors, or have earned other significant awards and made significant contributions are listed below.
Commerce
Haroon Bhorat ,
South African Research Chair in economic growth, poverty and inequality
Justine Burns , behavioural economist and head of the School of Economics
Owen Horwood (1916–1998), economist
William Harold Hutt (1899–1988), professor of commerce and theorist of
consumer sovereignty
Murray Leibbrandt ,
South African Research Chair in poverty and inequality research
Nicoli Nattrass , development economist
Hector Menteith Robertson (1905–1984), Jagger Professor of economics
Francis Wilson (1939–2022), founder and director of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit
Ingrid Woolard , professor of economics
Engineering and the Built Environment
George Ekama
OMS , professor of water quality engineering
Sue Harrison ,
South African Research Chair in bioprocess engineering, deputy vice-chancellor
Patricia J. Kooyman ,
South African Research Chair in nanomaterials for catalysis
Alison Lewis , director of the Crystallisation and Precipitation Research Unit
Jo Noero , director of the School of Architecture and Planning
Edgar Pieterse ,
South African Research Chair in urban policy, director of the African Centre for Cities
Pragasen Pillay
OMS , professor of electrical engineering
Abimbola Windapo , professor of construction management
Alphose Zingoni , professor of structural engineering and mechanic
Health Sciences
Frances Ames
SSA (1920–2002), head of neurology, led medical ethics inquiry into the death of
Steve Biko
Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001), professor of surgical science, head surgeon in the first successful human-to-human
heart transplant
Peter Beighton
OMB (1934–2023), professor of human genetics
Linda-Gail Bekker , director of the Desmund Tutu HIV Centre
Eric Crichton (1888–1962), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology
George Daniell (1864–1937), anaesthetist
T. B. Davie (1895–1955),
vice-chancellor , namesake of the
T. B. Davie Memorial Lecture
Wim de Villiers , dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Keertan Dheda , professor of respiratory medicine
Tania Douglas (1969–2021),
South African Research Chair in biomedical engineering and innovation
A. W. Falconer (1880–1954), first professor of medicine
Wieland Gevers
OMS , professor of medical biochemistry
Charles Maclay (1913–1978), senior lecturer in anatomy
Salome Maswime , head of global surgery
Bongani Mayosi
OMS (1967–2018), professor of cardiology, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences
Valerie Mizrahi
OMS , director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine
Elmi Muller , head of general surgery
Daniel Ncayiyana , deputy vice-chancellor
Tim Noakes
OMS , professor of exercise and sports science
Tolullah Oni , epidemiologist
Lionel Opie
OMS (1933–2020), cardiologist
Stuart Saunders
GCOB (1931–2021), professor of medicine,
vice-chancellor
Dan Stein , professor of psychiatry
Kit Vaughan , professor of biomedical engineering
Lee A. Wallis , head of emergency medicine
Anna-Lise Williamson ,
South African Research Chair in virology
Carolyn Williamson , professor of medical virology
Ambroise Wonkam , professor of medical genetics
Heather Zar , director of the School of Child and Adolescent Health
Liesl Zühlke , professor of paediatric cardiology, director of the Children's Heart Disease Research Unit
Humanities
African Studies
Anthropology
Classics
John Atkinson (1938–2022), ancient historian, dean of the Faculty of Arts
Lydia Baumbach (1924–1991), professor of classics
Kathleen Coleman , classicist
Benjamin Farrington (1891–1974), classicist
Margaret Hewett (1934–2022), expert on
Roman-Dutch law
Maurice Pope (1926–2019), professor of classics, dean of the Faculty of Humanities
William Rollo (1892–1960), head of classics, dean of the Faculty of Arts
David Wardle , head of classics
Fine Art
Languages and Literatures
Breyten Breytenbach , visiting professor in the Graduate School of Humanities from January 2000, author
André Brink
OIS (1935–2015), professor of English language and literature
Leslie Casson (1903–1969), professor of medieval literature
J. M. Coetzee
OMG , professor of literature,
2003 Nobel Prize in Literature
Imraan Coovadia , director of creative writing
Johannes du Plessis Scholtz (1900–1990), professor of Afrikaans and Dutch
Yasin Dutton , professor of Arabic
Joan Hambidge , professor of languages and literatures
Peter Horn (1934–2019), head of German language and literature
D. J. Opperman (1914–1985), Afrikaans poet
Tom Raworth (1938–2017), English poet
Tzili Reisenberger , head of Hebrew language and literature
Jenefer Shute , lecturer in English
Kelwyn Sole , professor of English literature
Etienne van Heerden , Hofmeyr Professor of languages and literatures
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Stephen Watson (1954–2011), professor of English
Linguistics
Gender Studies
History
Performance Studies
Philosophy
Political Studies
Psychology
Music
Religious Studies
Sociology
Law
Hugh Corder , professor of public law
Dennis Davis , professor of commercial law, judge president of the
Competition Appeal Court
Pierre de Vos , professor of constitutional law
Raylene Keightley , senior lecturer in law, judge
Rashida Manjoo , professor of public law,
United Nations '
Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
Rob Nairn (1939–2023), professor of law and criminology, Director of the Institute of Criminology
Caroline Ncube ,
South African Research Chair in intellectual property, innovation, and development
Kate O'Regan , senior lecturer in law, honorary professor, justice of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Don Pinnock , research associate at the Centre of Criminology
Philippe-Joseph Salazar , distinguished professor in rhetoric, director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies
David Unterhalter , professor of law, judge
Belinda van Heerden , professor of law, judge
Sciences
Archaeology
Astronomy
Michael William Feast (1926–2019), director of the
South African Astronomical Observatory , honorary professor
Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg , head of astronomy, founder and co-director of the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre
Brian Warner (1939–2023), professor of astronomy, emeritus distinguished professor of natural philosophy
Patricia Whitelock , director of the
South African Astronomical Observatory , honorary professor
Donald Kurtz , professor of astronomy
Biology
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan , vertebrate paleontologist
Robert Compton (1886–1979), Harold Pearson professor of botany, director of the
National Botanic Gardens
John H. Day (1909–1989), marine biologist and invertebrate zoologist, namesake of the John Day Building
Phil Hockey (1956–2013), professor of ornithology, director of the
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975), professor of zoology
Brian Huntley , conservationist
Margaret Levyns (1980–1975), botanist
Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916), Harry Bolus professor of botany, namesake of the H. W. Pearson Building
Edith Layard Stephens (1884–1966), botanist
Thomas Alan Stephenson (1898–1961), professor of zoology
David Thoday (1883–1964), Harry Bolus professor of botany
Jennifer Thomson , professor of biology
Chemistry
Kelly Chibale , professor of chemistry, founding director of the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre
Paul Daniel Hahn (1849–1919), Jamieson professor of experimental physics and practical chemistry, later professor of chemistry, namesake of the P. D. Hahn Building
Harry Irving (1905–1993), professor of analytical science
Janet Scott (1964–2022), lecturer in chemistry
Information Technology
Mathematics
Chris Brink , professor of mathematics
Alexander Brown (1877–1948), professor of mathematics
Doug Butterworth
OMS , professor of applied mathematics
Kathy Driver , professor of mathematics and dean of the Faculty of Science
Peter Dunsby , professor of gravitation and cosmology, co-director of the Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre
George Ellis
OMS , distinguished professor of complex systems, collaborator with
Stephen Hawking and winner of the 2004
Templeton Prize
Francis Guthrie (1831–1899), professor of mathematics
Charles Hellaby , cosmologist, associate professor of mathematics
Daya Reddy
OMB ,
South African Research Chair in computational mechanics
Physics
Carruthers Beattie (1866–1946), professor of applied mathematics and experimental physics,
vice-chancellor , namesake of the Beattie Building
Jean Cleymans (1944–2021), professor of physics
Allan Macleod Cormack (1924–1998), lecturer in physics,
1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Reginald W. James (1891–1964), professor of physics, acting
vice-chancellor , namesake of the R. W. James Building
Johann Rafelski , professor of theoretical physics
Basil Schonland
OMG (1896–1972), professor of physics
Amanda Weltman ,
South African Research Chair in physical cosmology
Other staff
See also
References
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