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)

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