Quain Professor
Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College London, England.
Donor[]
The title honours Richard Quain, who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy to the University to endow professorships in four subjects in 1887.[1] He intended that the funding should recognise his brother, John Richard Quain, as well as himself.
Scope[]
The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.[2]
The Quain professorships cover Botany, English language and literature, Jurisprudence, and Physics:
Botany[]
- Francis Wall Oliver (1890–1925)
- Edward J. Salisbury (1929–1943)
- William Pearsall (1944–1957)
- Dan Lewis (1958-1978)
- Peter Robert Bell (1979-?)
English[]
- William Paton Ker (1889–1920)
- Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922–1949)
- Albert Hugh Smith (1949–1963)
- Randolph Quirk (1968–1981)
- Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
- David Trotter (1991–2001)
- Rosemary Ashton (2002–2012)
- Susan Irvine (2013 – present)
Jurisprudence[]
- Augustine Birrell (1896-1899)
- Sir John Macdonell[3](1901–1920)
- J. E. G. de Montmorency (1920-32)
- Sir Maurice Amos(1932–1937)[1]
- Glanville Williams (1945–1955)
- Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956–1982)
- William Twining (1983–1996)
- Ronald Dworkin (1998–2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
- Ross Harrison (2006–2007)
- G. A. Cohen (2008–2009)
- John Tasioulas (2011–2014)
Physics[]
- George Carey Foster (-1898)
- Hugh Longbourne Callendar (1899-1901)
- Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902–1914)
- William Henry Bragg (1915–1923)
- Edward Andrade (1928–1950)
- Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950–1972)
- Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975–1987)
- John Finney (1993–1999)
- Gabriel Aeppli (2002 – present)
Notes[]
- ^ a b Negley Harte and John North, The World of UCL: 1828–2004 (London: UCL Press, 2004), pp. 60-61.
- ^ "Money" University College London (website) 2010. burhop
- ^ H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188–202)
Categories:
- Academics of University College London
- Professorships at University College London