adult baseball leagues run by the British Baseball Federation (BBF). The club entered in the lowest division, but after a few years of consolidation, the Mustangs have worked their way up from the lower leagues in the BBF to play in the top-tier league of British baseball, the British National Baseball League (NBL), in the 2010 season.
==== National student championships ====
Throughout its history the university has had a number of successful teams in National student championships.
== Notable people ==
=== Alumni ===
=== Academics ===
Academics working at the university include:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
Wendy Hall, inventor of Microcosm, a predecessor of the World Wide Web, founding director of the Web Science Trust between the University of Southampton and MIT
José Antonio Bowen, President of Goucher College and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Erich Zepler, who made leading contributions to radio receiver development
David Payne, inventor of EDFA for use in fibre optics cables
Sir Barry Cunliffe, a pioneer of modern British archaeology
Ray Monk, the biographer of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Albie Sachs, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Tim Holt, former President of the Royal Statistical Society and Office for National Statistics
== See also ==
Armorial of UK universities
List of universities in the UK
== Notes ==
=== Explanatory notes ===
=== References ===
Nash, Sally; Sherwood, Martin (2002). University of Southampton: An Illustrated History. London: James and James (Publishers). ISBN 9780907383932. OCLC 60493922.
Patterson, A. Temple (1962). The University of Southampton: A Centenary History of the Evolution and Development of the University of Southampton, 1862–1962. Southampton, UK: The Camelot Press. OCLC 8213724.
== Further reading ==
Clarkson, B. L. (March 1971). "The Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, University of Southampton". Review of Physics in Technology. 2 (1): 1–24. Bibcode:1971RvPT....2....1C. doi:10.1088/0034-6683/2/1/301.
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