The John Humphrey Plummer Professorships were established in 1931 from a bequest of £200,000 under the will of John Humphrey Plummer, an estate agent of Southport, to the University of Cambridge for the advancement of science.[1][2] The fund has been used to endow a series of professorships in various scientific fields under a number of titles.
John Humphrey Plummer Professors edit
Colloidal Physics edit
- 1930–1931 Sir Eric Rideal
Colloid Science edit
- 1931–1946 Sir Eric Rideal
- 1947–1966 Francis Roughton
Mathematical Physics edit
- 1932–1944 Sir Ralph H. Fowler
- 1946–1958 Douglas Hartree
Theoretical Chemistry edit
- 1932–1953 Sir John Lennard-Jones[2] (elected Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, later Keele University, in 1953)
- 1954–1967 Christopher Longuet-Higgins[2]
Physics edit
- 1960–1971 Sir Brian Pippard (elected Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1971)
- 1972–1984 Sir Sam Edwards
Biophysics edit
- 1970–1981 Sir Alan Hodgkin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963)
Applied Numerical Analysis edit
- 1976–2001 Michael J. D. Powell
Cell Biology edit
- 1983–2002 Sir John Gurdon (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012)
Magnetic Resonance edit
- 1987–1999 Ray Freeman
Theoretical Physics edit
- 1993–2009 Michael Green (elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 2009)
Developmental Biology edit
- 2001–2008 Sir Jim Cuthbert Smith
Chemical and Structural Biology edit
- 2001–2017 Sir Chris Dobson (elected Master of St John's College in 2007)
Physics of Materials edit
- 2004–2014 Ullrich Steiner
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine edit
- 2018–present Mihaela van der Schaar
References edit
- ^ The Staits Times, 16 March 1929
- ^ a b c Venn Cambridge University database Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine