EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Cape Town, South Africa

Founding Date:
1829

Official Website:
http://www.uct.ac.za/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Christiaan Barnard	Doctor	8-Nov-1922	2-Sep-2001	Performed the first heart transplant
Adam Clymer	Journalist	27-Apr-1937		The New York Times
John Maxwell Coetzee	Novelist	9-Feb-1940		Reclusive South African novelist, essayist
Allan M. Cormack	Physicist	23-Feb-1924	7-May-1998	Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
Roger Ebert	Critic	18-Jun-1942	4-Apr-2013	Siskel and Ebert
Meyer Feldberg	Educator	17-Mar-1942		Dean of Columbia Business School, 1989-2004
Athol Fugard	Playwright	11-Jun-1932		The Blood Knot
Richard E. Grant	Actor	5-May-1957		Dr. Who, Henry & June
E. Neville Isdell	Business	8-Jun-1943		CEO of Coca Cola, 2004-08
Aaron Klug	Chemist	11-Aug-1926		Structural analysis of viruses
Miles L. Marsh	Business	c. 1948		CEO of Fort James Corporation, 1997-2000
David J. P. Meachin	Business	c. 1941		Cross Border Enterprises
Robin A. Plumbridge	Business	c. 1936		Gold Fields of South Africa
Jonathan D. Smidt	Business	c. 1973		Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Max Theiler	Scientist	30-Jan-1899	11-Aug-1972	Yellow fever vaccination

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
André Brink	Novelist	29-May-1935	6-Feb-2015	A Dry White Season
A. J. Clark	Scientist	19-Aug-1885	30-Jul-1941	Drug responses
John Maxwell Coetzee	Novelist	9-Feb-1940		Reclusive South African novelist, essayist
Allan M. Cormack	Physicist	23-Feb-1924	7-May-1998	Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown	Anthropologist	17-Jan-1881	24-Oct-1955	Father of modern social anthropology

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