Ted Bastin

Edward William "Ted" Bastin was a physicist and mathematician who held doctorate degrees in mathematics from Queen Mary College, London University and physics from King's College, Cambridge, to which he won an Isaac Newton studentship. For a time, he was visiting fellow at Stanford University, California and a research fellow, King's College, Cambridge, England.
The boats stored at the River Cam boathouse, King's College, Cambridge, include "Ted", the lightweight wooden scull named after Ted Bastin, who won races in it for King's from 1950 to 1953.