Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
- Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Cambridge [ [http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/so/so_ch12.pdf Statutes of the University of Cambridge Chapter XII] p.855] and the University of Oxford. The two positions were founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball.
Rouse Ball Professors:Cambridge
*John Edensor Littlewood (1928-1950)
*Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1950-1958)
*Harold Davenport (1958-1969)
*John G. Thompson (1971-1993)
*Nigel Hitchin (1994-1997)
*William Timothy Gowers (1998-present)
Rouse Ball Professors:Oxford
* E. A. Milne (1929-1950)
* Charles Coulson (1952-1972)
* Roger Penrose (1973-1999) presently Rouse Ball Professor Emeritus.
* Philip Candelas (1999-present)
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