The 58-year-old man was taken to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, the place he died from his accidents on Monday 29 April.
The van driver, a 40-year-old man, was arrested and launched pending additional enquiries.
We’re deeply saddened by the passing of our pal and colleague, Dr. William Noel. A superb scholar, his 2019 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography @theUL, have been sensational: https://t.co/ky2AX29EbX. My condolences to Will’s household and buddies.
— Cambridge College Library (@theUL) May 1, 2024
Dr Noel was the John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Affiliate College Librarian for Particular Collections on the Princeton College Library and Chair of the Philadelphia Consortium of Particular Assortment Libraries.
Professor Paul Binski, British artwork historian and emeritus professor of medieval artwork historical past on the College of Cambridge, paid tribute to Dr Noel, writing: “Whereas Will was a outstanding scholar, he was on the forefront of the digital humanities.
“He’s most related to the Archimedes Palimpsest undertaking, revealed as The Archimedes Codex in 2007 with classicist Reviel Netz, who used the newest expertise to decipher Archimedes’ misplaced work hidden beneath a later medieval textual content rediscovered in 1998.
“Will was an lively and charming power for the examine of manuscripts with a robust entrepreneurial spirit and his loss of life was greeted with dismay by the medieval neighborhood.
“He was one of many first undergraduate college students of the writer of this temporary monograph, a valued pal and successor to the Cambridge custom of medieval manuscript research.”
