Achi news desk-
The 58-year-old was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, where he died of his injuries on Monday, April 29.
The driver of the van, a 40-year-old man, was arrested and released pending further enquiries.
We are very saddened by the death of our friend and colleague, Dr William Noel. A great scholar, his 2019 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography @theUL, stunning: https://t.co/ky2AX29EbX. Our condolences to Will’s family and friends.
— Cambridge University Library (@theUL) May 1, 2024
Dr. Noel was the John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections at the Princeton University Library, and Chair of the Philadelphia Special Collections Libraries Consortium.
Professor Paul Binski, British art historian and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Art History at Cambridge University, paid tribute to Dr Noel, writing: “Although a major scholar, Will was at the forefront of the digital humanities.
“It is most closely associated with the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, published as The Archimedes Codex in 2007 with classicist Reviel Netz, which took the latest technology to decipher the lost work of Archimedes hidden under a later medieval text rediscovered in 1998.
“Will was an energetic and charming force for manuscript studies with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and his death has been greeted with disappointment by the medieval community.
“He was one of the first undergraduate students of the author of this short biography, a valuable friend and a continuation of the Cambridge tradition of studying medieval manuscripts.”
