Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)
The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540. "Physic" is an old word for medicine (and the root of the word physician), not physics.
Regius Professors of Physic[]
- (1540)
- (1554)
- (1555)
- Thomas Lorkin (1564)
- (1591)
- (1596)
- John Gostlin (1623)
- (1626)
- Ralph Winterton (1635)
- Francis Glisson (1636)
- Robert Brady (1677)
- Christopher Green (1700–1741)
- (1741–1793)
- Sir Isaac Pennington (1793–1817)
- John Haviland (1817)
- Henry Bond (1851)
- Sir George Paget (1872)
- Sir Clifford Allbutt (1892)
- Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt (1925)
- Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (1932)
- John Ryle (1935–1943)
- Sir Lionel Whitby (1945–1956)
- J. S. Mitchell (1957)
- Sir John Butterfield (1975)
- Sir Keith Peters (1987)
- Sir Patrick Sissons (2005)[1]
- Patrick Maxwell (2012)[2]
References[]
- ^ "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (5972). 11 August 2004. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (6262). 18 April 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- List of Regius Professors of Physic at A Cambridge Alumni Database
Categories:
- Professorships at the University of Cambridge
- School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
- 1540 establishments in England
- Regius Professorships
- Professorships in medicine