Below are directors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with date of appointment.
Director of the Laboratory1801 Humphry Davy1825 Michael Faraday1867 John Tyndall1887 James DewarDirector of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory1896 James Dewar1896 Lord Rayleigh1923 William Bragg1942 Henry Hallett Dale1946 Eric Rideal1950 Edward Andrade1954 Lawrence Bragg2008 Quentin PankhurstDirector1965 William Lawrence Bragg1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham1986 David Philips (acting)1986 John Meurig Thomas1991 Peter Day1998 Susan Adele, Baroness Greenfield of Ot Moor