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Dr Lee's Professorships

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The Dr Lee's Professorships are three named statutory professorships of the University of Oxford. They were created in 1919, and are named after Dr Matthew Lee (1695-1755) who had endowed three readerships at Christ Church, Oxford in the 19th Century.

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Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford.

  • Arthur Thomson (1919 to ?); first incumbent
  • Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1934 to 1962)
  • Ray Guillery (1984 to 1996)
  • Dame Kay Davies (1998 to present)
  • Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry

    This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford.

  • Frederick Soddy (1919 to 1936); first incumbent
  • Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1937 to ?)
  • Sir Rex Richards (1964 to 1969)
  • Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (1974 to 1993)
  • Jacob Klein (2000 to 2008)
  • Dame Carol Robinson (2009 to present); first female chemistry professor at Oxford
  • Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics)

    This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford.

  • Frederick Lindemann (1919 to ?); first incumbent
  • Sir Francis Simon (1956); died one month after taking up the professorship
  • Brebis Bleaney (1957 to 1977)
  • Sir William Mitchell (1978 to ?)
  • Roger Cowley (1988 to 2007)
  • Paolo Radaelli (2008 to present)
  • References

    Dr Lee's Professorships Wikipedia