Nicholas Boyle, Schroeder Professor of German and biographer of Goethe Howard Chase, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Helen Cooper, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, a Chair formerly held by three previous Magdalene fellows: C. S. Lewis, J. A. W. Bennett and John Stevens Hannah Critchlow, Outreach Fellow, author, broadcaster and neuroscientist Saul Dubow, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Eamon Duffy, Professor of the History of Christianity and well known Roman Catholic commentator Richard Ellis, Professor of Astrophysics, University College London and former Director of Palomar Observatory, California John Gurdon, former Master, honorary fellow, developmental biologist, begetter of the Gurdon Institute, Nobel prizewinner in 2012 C. S. Lewis, literary critic, author and theologian I. A. Richards, English literary critic and rhetorician, considered one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English David Roberts (1911–82), architect and Director of Studies in Architecture, designer of more student housing in England than any other architect of his generation. Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, director of the Centre for History and Economics Derek Oulton, formerly Permanent Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department