Sheild Professor of Pharmacology

The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology was originally established by grace of 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. By grace of 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-established on a permanent basis.^[1]

The professorship is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.^[2]

List of Sheild Professors of Pharmacology

• 1946–1962 Ernest Basil Verney
• 1962–1971 Arnold Burgen
• 1973–1978 Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
• 1979–1999 Alan Cuthbert
• 1999 Peter Anthony McNaughton

References

1. ↑ Cambridge University Database
2. ↑ The Man Who Never Was – Walter Ernest Dixon FRS: The Seventh W.D.M. Paton Memorial Lecture by Alan W Cuthbert in The British Journal of Pharmacology (2001) 133, 945–950