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BP Professor of Organic Chemistry

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The BP Professorship of Organic Chemistry is one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge, based in the Department of Chemistry.

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BP Professors of Organic Chemistry

  • Steven V. Ley (1992 to date)

    • History

    Founded in 1702 by the university as simply 'Professor of Chemistry', it was retitled as the Professorship of Organic Chemistry in 1943, and in 1991 was renamed after a benefaction from the oil company British Petroleum.

    Professors of Organic Chemistry

  • Alexander Robertus Todd (1944–1971)
  • Ralph Alexander Raphael (1972–1988)
  • Alan Rushton Battersby (1988–1992)

    • Professors of Chemistry

  • Giovanni Francisco Vigani (1703–1713)
  • John Waller (1713–1718)
  • John Mickleburgh (1718–1756)
  • John Hadley (1756–1764)
  • Richard Watson (1764–1771)
  • Isaac Pennington (1773–1793)
  • William Farish (1794–1813)
  • Smithson Tennant (1813–1815)
  • James Cumming (1815–1861)
  • George Downing Liveing (1861–1908)
  • William Jackson Pope (1908–1939)

    • References

    BP Professor of Organic Chemistry Wikipedia
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