Quick Professor of Biology
- Quick Professor of Biology
The Quick Professorship of Biology is one of the senior professorships in biology at the University of Cambridge.
Frederick James Quick (1836-1902) was a wealthy coffee merchant who was employed in the London law-firm "Quick, Reek and James" at the time of his death. He bequeathed the majority of his wealth to the University of Cambridge (he had been a law student at Trinity Hall, graduating in 1859) to be used in the 'study of vegetable and animal biology'. After much debate, it was decided that the professorship should primarily cover the field of protozoology, and in 1906 George Nuttall became the first holder of the chair.
Quick Professors
* George Nuttall (1906)
* David Keilin (1932)
* Vincent Brian Wigglesworth (1952)
* Robin Coombs (1966)
* Christopher Craig Wylie (1988)
* Stephen Philip Jackson (1995)
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