Cavendish Professor of Physics
- Cavendish Professor of Physics
The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later. The endowment was granted by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, in honour of his relative, Henry Cavendish.
In 1971 it was officially renamed from the "Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics" to the "Cavendish Professorship of Physics".
Cavendish Professors
* James Clerk Maxwell (1871 – 1879)
* Lord Rayleigh (1879 – 1884)
* J. J. Thomson (1884 – 1919)
* Lord Rutherford (1919 – 1937)
* William Lawrence Bragg (1938 – 1953)
* Nevill Mott (1954 – 1971)
* Brian Pippard (1971 – 1984)
* Sam Edwards (1984 – 1995)
* Richard Friend (1995 – )
External links, resources, and references
* [http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/cavendish/history/years/ A Hundred Years and more of Cavendish Professors of Physics] — Cavendish Laboratory Web site
* [http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/91 Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor] — Freeview tutorial and interview with Richard Friend by the Vega Science Trust
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