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Rob Williams (UCL Biotechnology 2006) wins gold in the lightweight men鈥檚 four at the World Rowing Championships in 2010. He follows this success with a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

Joshua Hayward (UCL Physics 2006) releases his first album Strange House with his band the Horrors in 2007. The band joins Florence and the Machine on their UK and Ireland tour in 2012.

Julian Baggini (UCL Philosophy 1996) co-founds The Philosophers鈥� Magazine in 1997. His book, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments, is published in 2005.

Justine Frischmann (UCL Bartlett 1992) co-founds Suede with then-boyfriend Brett Anderson in 1989. Her new band, Elastica, releases their first album in 1995.

Brett Anderson (UCL Bartlett 1991) hits number one in the UK album charts as vocalist of Suede in 1993. The band breaks up in 2003 but reforms in 2010.

Douglas Gordon (UCL Slade 1990) wins the Turner Prize in 1996. Zidane, un portrait du 21e si猫cle, a feature-length film following the French footballer during a match, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.

Farshid Moussavi (UCL Bartlett 1989) co-founds Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in 1993. She goes on to design the award-winning Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in 1995.

Rachel Whiteread CBE (UCL Slade 1987) becomes the first woman to be awarded the Turner Prize in 1993.

Lynn Truss (UCL English 1977) completes Eats, Shoots & Leaves in 2003. This guide to punctuation misuse tops the bestseller charts in both Britain and the United States.

Chris Rapley CBE (UCL Astronomy 1976) arranges for a band to perform in Antarctica as part of the Live Earth concert in 2007. In the same year, he is appointed Director of the Science Museum.

Former UCL LLB student Baroness Scotland (UCL Laws 1976) becomes the first female Attorney General since the post was created in 1315.

Jonathan Miller (UCL History of Medicine 1973) directs a Mafia-inspired adaption of Rigoletto in 1982. In 2004, he writes and presents Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, a historical review of atheism for BBC Four.

Patrick Head (UCL Mechanical Engineering 1970; Fellow 2005) co-founds Williams Formula One in 1977. It has since gone on to become one of the most successful teams of the past 20 years.

Junichiro Koizumi (UCL Economics 1968) becomes Prime Minister of Japan in 2001.

Derek Jarman (UCL Slade 1967) writes and directs Sebastiane, a homoerotic interpretation of the life of Saint Sebastian, in 1976. It is the first film to be entirely recorded in Latin. He directs the Pet Shop Boys鈥� UK tour in 1989.

Sir Richard MacCormac (UCL Bartlett 1965) wins national awards for his modernist creations, including the University of Lancaster鈥檚 Ruskin Library in 1998. A year later, he designs Thierry Henry's 拢6 million Hampstead mansion.

Michael Epstein, Yvonne Barr and Bert Achong identify the Epstein-Barr virus (responsible for glandular fever) at the UCL Medical School, Middlesex Hospital.

Andrew Davies (UCL English 1957) writes the television adaption of political thriller House of Cards in 1990. He becomes a household name for his adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth in 1995 and goes on to win an Emmy award for Little Dorrit in 2008.

Raymond Briggs (UCL Slade 1957) completes wordless children鈥檚 book The Snowman in 1978. The film version is nominated for an Academy Award in 1982.

David Lodge (UCL English 1955) completes his Booker Prize-nominated Campus Trilogy, which satirises academic life, in 1988. He adapts Martin Chuzzlewit for the BBC in 1994.

Roger Penrose (UCL Mathematics 1952) proves that black holes can be formed from the collapse of dying stars in 1965. He shares the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to mankind鈥檚 understanding of the universe.

Eduardo Paolozzi (UCL Slade 1947) finishes I was a Rich Man's Plaything, a collage considered one of the earliest examples of pop art, in 1947. In 1984, he makes a lasting contribution to London by designing the colourful mosaic murals in Tottenham Court Road Station.

Ken Adam (UCL Bartlett 1938) works as a production designer for the first James Bond film, Dr. No in 1962. He goes on to design numerous iconic film sets, including the Dr. Strangelove war room in 1964 and, in 1967, the volcanic base in You Only Live Twice.

Isaac Rosenberg (UCL Slade 1913) writes 'On Receiving News of the War' in 1914, one of the earliest poems to criticise World War I. Two years later, he publishes 'Break of Day in the Trenches', which some go on to call the greatest poem of the war. Read more about Rosenberg in the .

Gustav Holst (UCL Languages 1909) finishes composition of orchestral suite The Planets in 1916. Five years later, he sets a Cecil Spring-Rice poem to music and in doing so creates the patriotic song 'I Vow to Thee, My Country'.

Alexander Graham Bell (Phonics) is credited with the invention of the telephone. Bell and his associates originally offered to sell the patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000. The company declined, only to offer $25 million two years later. By then, Bell was rich and no longer wished to sell the patent.

A new record for the fastest ever data rate for digital information was set by UCL researchers in the Optical Networks Group. They achieved a rate of 1.125 Tb/s as part of research on the capacity limits of optical transmission systems, designed to address the growing demand for fast data rates.

UCL computer scientists make a groundbreaking transatlantic 'virtual handshake' over the internet with counterparts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002.

UCL's Professor Robin Weiss and colleagues discover that the CD4 molecule on lymphocytes is the binding receptor for HIV, crucial to early understanding of how HIV infects cells.

Under the stewardship of UCL's Professor Peter Kirstein, UCL makes the first network connection to the USA 鈥� a precursor of the modern internet.

Dame Mary Douglas publishes Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, which is later named as one of the 100 most influential non-fiction books since 1945.

The discovery in the 1890s of all five of the noble gases, including neon, later earned UCL's Professor William Ramsay the first Nobel Prize for a British scientist.

Robert Liston performs the first operation under anaesthetic in Europe at University College Hospital. Liston is known for his dexterity with a knife, and is said to be able to amputate a leg in 20 seconds. The patient is anaesthetised with ether before having a limb amputated.

The Institute of Education (IOE) merges with UCL, becoming an 11th faculty. The Institute was founded in 1902, and is today known throughout the world as the UK鈥檚 premier centre of excellence for the education and training of teachers and for the conduct of educational research.

UCL launches the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts and Sciences undergraduate degree programme. All students on the course will be required to study a mix of arts and sciences, as well as a foreign language. They will also be offered the opportunity to study abroad for a year.

The UCL Academy opens its doors to Year 7 and 12 students. UCL is the sole sponsor of the academy, a non-selective, mixed state school. The London Evening Standard described it as "likely to match, or even outstrip, what鈥檚 on offer at the country鈥檚 most outstanding private schools" (10 September 2012).

The School of Pharmacy merges with UCL, becoming part of the Faculty of Life Sciences. The School was founded in 1842 by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain to "elevate the profession of pharmacy by furnishing the means of proper institution".

UCL becomes a founding partner of the Francis Crick Institute, a medical research consortium also involving the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, Imperial and King's College London.

The Yale UCL Collaborative is formally established. Its working mission is to educate to enable positive contribution, interpret complex issues for wider society and solve important issues through collaborative research and its implementation.

UCL Partners is designated as one of the first academic health science partnerships in the UK. As well as UCL, the founding partners include Barts Health NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Mary University of London, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

UCL establishes a Vice-Provost (Enterprise) post to promote collaboration with industry partners and entrepreneurial activity within the university.

" An enterprising community is one that is resourceful, creative, dynamic, and bold 鈥� characteristics that we recognise as part of the fabric of UCL." Professor Stephen Caddick, Vice-Provost (Enterprise)

UCL is given the power to award its own degrees. Previously, it had awarded University of London degrees.

Barrister, environmental lawyer, academic and public servant,听Professor Grant becomes UCL鈥檚 ninth Provost in 2003. Grant's extensive writing covers many subjects including planning and environmental law, biotechnology regulation, finance and political management, central鈥搇ocal government relations and human rights. Professor Grant is awarded a CBE in 2003 for service to planning law and local government, and is knighted for services to higher education in 2013, his final year as Provost.

Smith oversees successful research bids in the Joint Infrastructure Fund and through the Science Research Investment Fund, totaling 拢100 million. However, a worsening deficit and Smith鈥檚 academic restructuring attracts criticism from some, leading to his resignation in 2002 to resume research work. Sir Derek Roberts returns to his previous post on an interim basis until a successor is found.

The University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is established. One of the first of its kind, it includes UCH, and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

• 1999 The Eastman Dental Institute joins UCL
• 1999 The School of Slavonic and East European Studies merges with UCL
• 1997 The Institute of Neurology merges with UCL
• 1986 The Institute of Archaeology becomes part of UCL

With a professional background largely in industrial scientific research, Roberts鈥� appointment marks somewhat of a shift. Expansion during his tenure includes the merger of UCL and the Institute of Child Health in 1996. Roberts retires in 1999.

Lighthill is Lucasian Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cambridge University at the time of his appointment to Provost. Faced with substantial government cuts to higher education during the 1980s, UCL dramatically increases its funding from non-governmental organisations, thus maintaining its growth during this difficult time. Lighthill remains Provost for 10 years.

Wates House (UCL Bartlett) opens to accommodate the Faculty of the Built Environment.

UCL establishes the Department of Physics and Astronomy, an amalgamation which becomes the College鈥檚 largest department. Space research had begun in the Department of Physics in 1956 led by Sir Robert Boyd.

Against a backdrop of diminishing funds and student unrest, Lord Annan exerts strong diplomacy during his time as Provost and oversees a number of major building projects. The last major building to be opened during his tenure is Wates House, home of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, in 1975, thanks in large part to a substantial donation from the Wates Foundation. Annan retires in 1978.

Bentham House, in Endsleigh Gardens, is purchased to house the Faculty of Laws. It had previously been the offices of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

A former English student at the university, Evans is Education Director of the British Council during the war. During his time at UCL he retains a strong public presence as a well-known literary critic, writer and broadcaster. He oversees a period of great expansion at the university, retiring in 1966.

Pye oversees a tumultuous time for the university after substantial damage is endured during the Second World War. In 1943, he remarks: 鈥淭here was hardly a square foot of glass.鈥� Previously an engineer, Pye had worked on the development of jet propulsion while Director of Scientific Research for the Air Ministry. He remains Provost until 1951.

The Lunch Hour Lecture series begins, commencing UCL's proud tradition of public engagement by offering lectures open to all.

UCL is seriously damaged in a Second World War bombing raid. The bombing entirely destroys the Great Hall and guts much of the library. Fortunately, all departments had been evacuated from London at the onset of war in 1939.

Sir Gregory Foster retired from his post as Provost in 1929 to focus on becoming Vice-Chancellor under the university鈥檚 new Statutes. He was replaced by Sir Allen Mawer, a former graduate student of UCL who had also become a Professor of English at Newcastle and Liverpool. Mawer held the position until 1942.

• 1928 Charles Spearman becomes the first chair of Psychology
• 1921 UCL establishes a chair in Phonetics

The Cruciform Building is completed. It houses the University College Hospital until 2000.

It was decided in 1900 that there should once again be a salaried head of the university, with the title of Principal. In order to avoid confusion with the newly formed Principal of the University of London, Foster鈥檚 title was renamed Provost. Formerly a student and teacher at the university in the late 19th century, Foster was also President of the Union before taking up his post as UCL鈥檚 first Provost, a role he held until 1929.

Poet and classicist A. E. Housman publishes A Shropshire Lad, while Professor of Latin at UCL. It has remained in print ever since.

UCL becomes the first university in England to establish a students鈥� union. It is founded without the permission of the UCL Council, in part to protest the inadequacies of sports facilities.

UCL becomes the first university in England to welcome women to university education:

" The officers of the College are not aware that objections have ever been made by any of the students to this combined instruction.鈥澨�(UCL Annual Report)

" I need not say how strongly I feel that it is the business of the U.C. (UCL) to be boldly first in recognising fully any new and real want of the time.鈥澨�Henry Morley, Professor of English, discussing the admission of female students to the university

Robert Liston performs the first operation under anaesthetic in Europe at University College Hospital.

The first chair of Civil Engineering in the country is established. The first professor, C. B. Vignoles, is a leading railway engineer who comes to UCL having lost 拢80,000 in shares while Chief Engineer of Sheffield and Manchester Railway.

J. J. Sylvester, one of the century鈥檚 great mathematicians, joins UCL as a professor. He had previously been expelled for threatening another student with a refectory knife.

UCL is the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion at a time when this is a radical departure from tradition. It is heavily attacked by the traditional establishment and the conservative press. As a non-residential university, UCL makes higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society than before. The new university mainly attracts young men and boys (some as young as 14 years old) from London鈥檚 professional classes.

UCL establishes the first academic departments in Chemistry, English, German and Italian in England. The new modern languages were taught by refugees from their respective countries, including Antonio Panizzi, who had escaped from a death sentence in his native Italy.

In the early nineteenth century London is the largest city in Europe but almost the only capital without a university. The first English university outside the ancient establishments of Oxford and Cambridge, UCL is founded by a group of progressive and liberal reformers, some of whom take inspiration from the philosopher听Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832).