The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair at in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by E. R. Langworthy in 1874.[1] It began at Owens College and from 1903/04 to 2004 was a chair at the Victoria University of Manchester.
Previous holders include the Nobel prize winners Ernest Rutherford (1907-19), Lawrence Bragg (1919-37) and Patrick Blackett (1937-1953). Others were Andrew Lyne, Brian Flowers, Arthur Schuster (1888-1907), Samuel Devons. The current holder is Andre Geim, winner of a Nobel Prize in 2010.