Lucasischer Chair of Mathematics
The Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics is a professorship at Cambridge University . It is considered one of the most prestigious university chairs ever.
It was donated by Henry Lucas (around 1610–1663), a member of the university in the English House of Commons , in 1663 by transferring land to the university to finance the chair at Trinity College .
The first Lucasischer professor was the mathematician Isaac Barrow , whose successor was Isaac Newton in 1669 .
List of chair holders
| # | Year of appointment | portrait | Surname | area | Term of office (years) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1663 |
|
Isaac Barrow (1630--1677) |
Classics and Math | 6th |
| 2 | 1669 |
|
Sir Isaac Newton (1642--1726) |
mathematics and physics | 33 |
| 3 | 1702 |
|
William Whiston (1667--1752) |
mathematics | 9 |
| 4th | 1711 |
|
Nicholas Saunderson (1682--1739) |
mathematics | 28 |
| 5 | 1739 |
|
John Colson (1680--1760) |
mathematics | 21st |
| 6th | 1760 |
|
Edward Waring (1736--1798) |
mathematics | 38 |
| 7th | 1798 |
|
Isaac Milner (1750-1820) |
Math and chemistry | 22nd |
| 8th | 1820 |
|
Robert Woodhouse (1773-1827) |
mathematics | 2 |
| 9 | 1822 |
|
Thomas Turton (1780--1864) |
mathematics | 4th |
| 10 | 1826 |
|
Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) |
astronomy | 2 |
| 11 | 1828 |
|
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) |
Mathematics and computer science | 11 |
| 12 | 1839 |
|
Joshua King (1798-1857) |
mathematics | 10 |
| 13 | 1849 |
|
Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) |
Physics and Fluid Mechanics | 54 |
| 14th | 1903 |
|
Sir Joseph Larmor (1857-1942) |
physics | 29 |
| 15th | 1932 |
|
Paul Dirac (1902-1984) |
physics | 37 |
| 16 | 1969 |
Sir Michael James Lighthill ( 1924-1998 ) |
Fluid mechanics | 10 | |
| 17th | 1979 |
|
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) |
Theoretical physics and cosmology | 30th |
| 18th | 2009 |
|
Michael Green (born 1946) |
String theory | 6th |
| 19th | 2015 |
|
Michael Cates (born 1961) |
Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter | Officiating |
See also
- Savilian Chair of Geometry (Oxford)
literature
- Kevin Knox, Richard Noakes: From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2003, ISBN 0-521-66310-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Cambridge University, list of professors emeritus as of December 24, 2013
- ↑ Latest news . In: University of Cambridge . ( cam.ac.uk [accessed March 14, 2018]). Latest news ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
