Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
The Chair of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University was founded in 1704 by Thomas Plume (1630–1704, member of Christ's College in Cambridge and Archdeacon of Rochester), who also founded the Plume Library in Maldon, Essex . The chair was one of two major astronomy chairs in Cambridge, the other was the Lowndean Professorship , which was later taken by pure mathematicians.
Chair holders were or are:
- Roger Cotes (1682-1716), English mathematician
- Robert Smith (1716-1760)
- Anthony Shepherd (1760-1796)
- Samuel Vince (1749-1821)
- Robert Woodhouse (1773-1827)
- George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)
- James Challis (1803-1882), English astronomer
- George Howard Darwin (1845–1912), British astronomer and mathematician
- Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944)
- Harold Jeffreys (1891-1989)
- Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
- Martin Rees (* 1942), British astronomer
- Richard Ellis (born 1950)
- Jeremiah P. Ostriker (* 1937), American astrophysicist
- Robert Kennicutt (* 1951), American astronomer
literature
- WT Lynn: Plume and the Plumian Professorship . In: The Observatory . tape 34 , 1911, pp. 341–342 , bibcode : 1911Obs .... 34..341L .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d University of Cambridge: Biographies A - D. Retrieved September 3, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d University of Cambridge: Biographies M - S. Retrieved September 3, 2012 .
- ^ A b University of Cambridge: Biographies T - Z. Retrieved September 3, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d e University of Cambridge: Biographies E -L. Retrieved September 3, 2012 .