Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
Erasmus Smith's Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy is a chair in physics at Trinity College Dublin. It was founded in 1724 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by Erasmus Smith, who lived 1611–1691.
From 1724 to 1847 the chair had a mathematical and theoretical orientation, with many holders being also mathematicians, and several such as Bartholomew Lloyd (1822) and James MacCullagh (1843) having previously held the Chair of Mathematics. Then in 1847 the University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847) was founded and took on the applied mathematics and theoretical physics role, while Erasmus Smith's Professorship became the chair of experimental physics.[1]
List of the professors
- Richard Helsham 1724
- Caleb Cartwright 1738
- William Clement 1745
- Hugh Hamilton 1759
- Thomas Wilson 1769
- Matthew Young 1786
- Thomas Erlington 1799
- William Davenport 1807
- Bartholomew Lloyd 1822
- Humphrey Lloyd 1831
- James MacCullagh 1843
- Robert Dixon 1848
- Joseph Allen Galbraith 1854
- John Robert Leslie 1870
- George Francis FitzGerald 1881
- William Thrift 1901
- Robert William Ditchburn 1929
- Ernest Walton 1946
- Brian Henderson 1974
- Denis Weaire 1984
- Michael Coey 2007
See also
References
- ↑ Spearman, T.D. (1992). "400 years of mathematics: The eighteenth century". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
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