Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics

Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics

The Arthur Balfour Professorship of Genetics is one of the senior professorships in genetics at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1912.

The chair was endowed by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, according to whom the money (£20,000) was "placed in [his] hands" by an anonymous benefactor. A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.

Arthur Balfour Professors

* Reginald Punnett (1912-1940)
* Ronald Fisher (1943-1957)
* John Marion Thoday (1959-1983)
* John Robert Stanley Fincham (1984-1991)
* Peter Neville Goodfellow (1992-1996)
* David Moore Glover (1999-)

External links

* [http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/About/News/departmenthistory.htm History of the Cambridge genetics department]


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