Professors of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry
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1799–1801 Thomas Garnett1801–1803 Thomas Young
Other Professorships
Professor of Science, Culture and Society
2015–2019 Gail Cardew
Professor of History of Science
2004–2019 Frank AJL James
Professors of Mathematics
1983–1995 Erik Christopher Zeeman2000– Christopher J Budd
Professor of Mechanics
1817–1829 John Millington
Professor of Metal Physics
1957–1978 Ronald King
Professor of Natural History
1826–1829 John Harwood
Professor of Science and Enterprise
2002– Al Richardson
Professors of Solid State Chemistry
1986–2000 Anthony Kevin Cheetham2001–2007 Paul Francis McMillan
Professor of Experimental Medicine
1977–1982 Peter Brian Medawar
Professors of Experimental Physics
1977–1988 Charles Alfred Taylor1989–1994 Alfred Brian Pippard1995–2002 Arnold Wolfendale1999– Colin John Humphreys
Readers
Readers in Crystallography
1954–1968 Max Ferdinand Perutz1954–1968 John Cowdery Kendrew
Readers in History of Science
1970–1985 Frank Greenaway1997–2004 Frank AJL James
Professors of Chemistry
1802–1812 Humphry Davy1813–1852 William Thomas Brande1863–1868 Edward Frankland1963–1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham1986–1988 John Meurig Thomas1991–1994 Peter Day1994–2002 John Meurig Thomas
Honorary and Emeritus Professors
1813–1823 Humphry Davy1852–1866 William Thomas Brande1887–1893 John Tyndall1905–1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh1921–1940 Joseph John Thomson1963–1964 John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon1966–1970 William Lawrence Bragg1978–2000 Ronald King1988–2002 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham2000–2011 Leonard Shaw
Professors of Natural Philosophy
1831–1837 William Ritchie1853–1887 John Tyndall1887–1905 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh1905–1920 Joseph John Thomson1921–1937 Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson1938–1953 William Lawrence Bragg1960–1961 Ronald Sydney Nyholm1980–1988 David Phillips1988–2008 Charles Richard Arthur Catlow
Fullerian Professors of Chemistry
1833–1867 Michael Faraday1868–1873 William Odling1874–1877 John Hall Gladstone1877–1923 James Dewar1923–1942 William Henry Bragg1942–1946 Henry Hallett Dale1946–1949 Eric Keightley Rideal1950–1952 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade1954–1966 William Lawrence Bragg1966–1988 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham1988–1994 John Meurig Thomas1994–2008 Peter Day2008–2020 Quentin Pankhurst
Fullerian Professors of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy
1834–1837 Peter Mark Roget1837–1838 Robert Edmond Grant1841–1844 Thomas Rymer Jones1844–1848 William Benjamin Carpenter1848–1851 William Withey Gull1851–1855 Thomas Wharton Jones1855–1858 Thomas Henry Huxley1858–1862 Richard Owen1862–1865 John Marshall1865–1869 Thomas Henry Huxley1869–1872 Michael Foster1872–1875 William Rutherford1875–1878 Alfred Henry Garrod1878–1881 Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer1881–1884 John Gray McKendrick1884–1888 Arthur Gamgee1888–1891 George John Romanes1891–1894 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley1894–1897 Charles Stewart1897–1898 Augustus Désiré Waller1898–1901 Edwin Ray Lankester1901–1904 Allan Macfadyen1904–1906 Louis Compton Miall1906–1909 William Stirling1909–1912 Frederick Walker Mott1912–1915 William Bateson1915–1918 Charles Sherrington1918–1924 Arthur Keith1924–1927 Joseph Barcroft1927–1930 Julian Sorell Huxley1930–1933 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane1933–1935 Grafton Elliot Smith1935–1937 Edward Mellanby1937–1940 Frederick Keeble1941–1944 Jack Cecil Drummond1944–1947 James Gray1947–1953 Edward James Salisbury1953–1957 Harold Munro Fox1957–1961 John Zachary Young1961–1967 Richard John Harrison1967–1973 Andrew Fielding Huxley1973–1979 Max Ferdinand Perutz1979–1985 David Chilton, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere1985–1991 John Bertrand Gurdon1991–1999 Anne Laura McLaren1999–2009 Susan Adele, Baroness Greenfield of Ot Moor