University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847)
University Chair of Natural Philosophy, is a professorship in the School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. It was established in 1847.
From 1724 to 1847 the Erasmus Smith's Professorship of Natural and Experimental Philosophy existed at Trinity College Dublin which had a mathematical and theoretical orientation, with many holders being also mathematicians, and several such as Bartholomew Lloyd (1822) and James MacCullagh (1843) having previously held the Chair of Mathematics. Then in 1847 the University Chair of Natural Philosophy was founded and took on the applied mathematics and theoretical physics role, while Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724) became the chair of experimental physics.[1]
List of the professors
- John Hewitt Jellett 1847
- Richard Townsend 1870
- Benjamin Williamson 1884
- Francis Alexander Tarleton 1890
- Frederick Purser 1902
- Matthew Wyatt Joseph Fry 1910
- John Lighton Synge 1925
- Albert Joseph McConnell 1930
- John Stephen Roy Chisholm 1962
- Thomas David Spearman 1966
- Samson Shatashvili 2002
See also
References
- ↑ Spearman, T.D. (1992). "400 years of mathematics: The eighteenth century". Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
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