Lucasian Professor of Mathematics - List of Lucasian Professors

List of Lucasian Professors

Year appointed Name Speciality
1663 Isaac Barrow Classics and mathematics
1669 Isaac Newton Mathematics and physics
1702 William Whiston Mathematics
1711 Nicholas Saunderson Mathematics
1739 John Colson Mathematics
1760 Edward Waring Mathematics
1798 Isaac Milner Mathematics and chemistry
1820 Robert Woodhouse Mathematics
1822 Thomas Turton Mathematics
1826 George Biddell Airy Astronomy
1828 Charles Babbage Mathematics and computing
1839 Joshua King Mathematics
1849 George Gabriel Stokes Physics and fluid mechanics
1903 Joseph Larmor Physics
1932 Paul Dirac Physics
1969 James Lighthill Fluid mechanics
1979 Stephen Hawking Theoretical physics and cosmology
2009 Michael Green Theoretical physics

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