Professors of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry
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1799–1801 Thomas Garnett
1801–1803 Thomas Young
Other Professorships
Emeritus Professor of Science, Culture and Society
2015– Gail Cardew
Professor of History of Science
2004–2019 Frank AJL James
Professors of Mathematics
1983–1995 Erik Christopher Zeeman
2000– 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 Cheetham
2001–2007 Paul Francis McMillan
Professor of Experimental Medicine
1977–1982 Peter Brian Medawar
Professors of Experimental Physics
1977–1988 Charles Alfred Taylor
1989–1994 Alfred Brian Pippard
1995–2002 Arnold Wolfendale
1999– Colin John Humphreys
Readers
Readers in Crystallography
1954–1968 Max Ferdinand Perutz
1954–1968 John Cowdery Kendrew
Readers in History of Science
1970–1985 Frank Greenaway
1997–2004 Frank AJL James
Professors of Chemistry
1802–1812 Humphry Davy
1813–1852 William Thomas Brande
1863–1868 Edward Frankland
1963–1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
1986–1988 John Meurig Thomas
1991–1994 Peter Day
1994–2002 John Meurig Thomas
Honorary and Emeritus Professors
1813–1823 Humphry Davy
1852–1866 William Thomas Brande
1887–1893 John Tyndall
1905–1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh
1921–1940 Joseph John Thomson
1963–1964 John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon
1966–1970 William Lawrence Bragg
1978–2000 Ronald King
1988–2002 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
2000–2011 Leonard Shaw
Professors of Natural Philosophy
1831–1837 William Ritchie
1853–1887 John Tyndall
1887–1905 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh
1905–1920 Joseph John Thomson
1921–1937 Ernest, Baron Rutherford of Nelson
1938–1953 William Lawrence Bragg
1960–1961 Ronald Sydney Nyholm
1980–1988 David Phillips
1988–2008 Charles Richard Arthur Catlow
Fullerian Professors of Chemistry
1833–1867 Michael Faraday
1868–1873 William Odling
1874–1877 John Hall Gladstone
1877–1923 James Dewar
1923–1942 William Henry Bragg
1942–1946 Henry Hallett Dale
1946–1949 Eric Keightley Rideal
1950–1952 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
1954–1966 William Lawrence Bragg
1966–1988 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
1988–1994 John Meurig Thomas
1994–2008 Peter Day
2008–2020 Quentin Pankhurst
Fullerian Professors of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy
1834–1837 Peter Mark Roget
1837–1838 Robert Edmond Grant
1841–1844 Thomas Rymer Jones
1844–1848 William Benjamin Carpenter
1848–1851 William Withey Gull
1851–1855 Thomas Wharton Jones
1855–1858 Thomas Henry Huxley
1858–1862 Richard Owen
1862–1865 John Marshall
1865–1869 Thomas Henry Huxley
1869–1872 Michael Foster
1872–1875 William Rutherford
1875–1878 Alfred Henry Garrod
1878–1881 Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
1881–1884 John Gray McKendrick
1884–1888 Arthur Gamgee
1888–1891 George John Romanes
1891–1894 Victor Alexander Haden Horsley
1894–1897 Charles Stewart
1897–1898 Augustus Désiré Waller
1898–1901 Edwin Ray Lankester
1901–1904 Allan Macfadyen
1904–1906 Louis Compton Miall
1906–1909 William Stirling
1909–1912 Frederick Walker Mott
1912–1915 William Bateson
1915–1918 Charles Sherrington
1918–1924 Arthur Keith
1924–1927 Joseph Barcroft
1927–1930 Julian Sorell Huxley
1930–1933 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
1933–1935 Grafton Elliot Smith
1935–1937 Edward Mellanby
1937–1940 Frederick Keeble
1941–1944 Jack Cecil Drummond
1944–1947 James Gray
1947–1953 Edward James Salisbury
1953–1957 Harold Munro Fox
1957–1961 John Zachary Young
1961–1967 Richard John Harrison
1967–1973 Andrew Fielding Huxley
1973–1979 Max Ferdinand Perutz
1979–1985 David Chilton, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere
1985–1991 John Bertrand Gurdon
1991–1999 Anne Laura McLaren