List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge.

During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted a doctor who taught in the university, a usage that continues to be found in, for example, US universities. However, from the 16th century onwards in Cambridge it was used to denote those holding "chairs" that had been founded by the university in a particular subject or endowed by a benefaction.

On occasion the University of Cambridge creates professorships for the benefit of a single individual, the chair ceasing to exist when that individual resigns, dies, or retires. These "personal" professorships limited to one tenure are not listed here.

The Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships, being created by the reigning monarch. The first five Regius Professorships, sometimes referred to as the Henrician Regius Professors, were granted arms and crests in 1590.

The title of the professorship is followed by the date of founding.

List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

16th century

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, 1502
Regius Professor of Divinity, 1540
Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1540
Regius Professor of Physic, 1540
Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1540
Regius Professor of Greek, 1540

17th century

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic, 1632
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, 1663
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, 1683
Professor of Music, 1684

18th century

BP Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1702
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, 1704
Professor of Anatomy, 1707
Regius Professor of Modern History, 1724
Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic, 1724
Professor of Botany, 1724 (renamed Regius Professor of Botany in 2009)
Woodwardian Professor of Geology, 1728
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, 1749
Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, 1777
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1783
Downing Professor of the Laws of England, 1800

19th century

Professor of Political Economy, 1828
Disney Professor of Archaeology, 1851
Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics, 1860
Whewell Professor of International Law, 1867
Kennedy Professor of Latin, 1869
Slade Professor of Fine Art, 1869
Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1871
Professor of Engineering, 1875 (renamed Regius Professor of Engineering in 2011)
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 1878
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1882
Professor of Physiology, 1883
Ely Professor of Divinity, 1889
Professor of Ancient History, 1898
Drapers Professor of Agriculture, 1899

20th century

Quick Professor of Biology, 1906
Schröder Professor of German, 1909
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, 1911
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, 1912
Serena Professor of Italian, 1919
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, 1919
Drapers Professor of French, 1919
Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, 1919
Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, 1921
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, 1927
Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, 1927
Professor of Economic History, 1928^[1]<
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, 1930
Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, 1930
Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations, 1930
Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science, 1931
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, 1932
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, 1932, discontinued 1968 ^[2]
Professor of Medieval History, 1937
Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, 1944
Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, 1945
Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology 1946
Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, 1950
Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, 1952
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, 1954
Wolfson Professor of Criminology, 1959
Sheild Professor of Pharmacology, 1961
Professorship of Mathematical Statistics, 1961
Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, 1965
Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research, 1966
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction, 1967
Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies, 1968
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Cell Biology, 1968
Rank Professor of Engineering, 1971
Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science, 1971
Alexander Todd Visiting Professor of Chemistry, 1972
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Applied Numerical Analysis, 1975
Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology, 1977
Paul Mellon Professor of American History, 1980
Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, 1982
Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Professor, 1983
KPMG Professor of Management Studies, 1986
Colleen Macleod Professor of Animal Welfare, 1986
Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry, 1988
George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science, 1990
Diageo Professor of Management Studies, 1990
Serono Professor of Molecular Endocrinology, 1990
S. J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, 1991
G. I. Taylor Professorship of Fluid Mechanics, 1992
BBV Foundation Visiting Professor, 1992
John Wilfrid Linnett Visiting Professor of Chemistry, 1993
Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, 1993
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics, 1993
Jim Joel Professor of Equine Reproduction, 1995
Marks & Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science, and Food Safety, 1996
Beckwith Professor of Management Studies, 1996
Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, 1996
Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, 1997
Ursula Zoëllner Professor of Cancer Research, 1997
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, 1997
Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science, 1998
Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management, 1998
Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies, 1998
Unilever Professor of Molecular Sciences Informatics, 1999
BP Professor of Petroleum Science, 1999
Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance, 1999
Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, 1999

21st century

N.M. Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences, 2001
Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, 2001
Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance, 2001
Van Eck Professor of Engineering, 2001
Prince Philip Professor of Technology, 2001
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Developmental Biology, 2001
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology, 2001
Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics, 2002
Visiting Professor of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation, 2002
Bernard Wolfe Professorship of Health Neuroscience, 2003
Herchel Smith Professorship of Pure Mathematics, 2004
Herchel Smith Professorship of Biochemistry, 2005
Sigrid Rausing Professorship of Collaborative Anthropology, 2006
Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology, 2006
His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professorship of Modern Arabic Studies, 2006
Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk, 2007
Hussein Estahri Professorship of Applied Linguistics, 2008
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professorship of Finance, 2008
Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, 2008
Joseph Needham Professorship of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization, 2008
A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, 2008
Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy, 2008
Amir Hosseiny Professor of Cambridge, 2010
LEGO Professorship of Play in Education, Development and Learning ^[3]

References

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