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Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

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The Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an endowed professorship established at Harvard College in 1727 by Thomas Hollis.

The incumbents have been:

  • Isaac Greenwood (1727–1737)
  • John Winthrop (1737–1779)
  • Samuel Williams (1779–1789)
  • Samuel Webber (1789–1806)
  • John Farrar (1807–1838)
  • Joseph Lovering (1838–1888)
  • Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1888–1914)
  • Wallace Clement Sabine (1914–1919)
  • (1919–1921)
  • Theodore Lyman (1921–1926)
  • Percy Williams Bridgman (1926–1950)
  • John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1951–1969)
  • Andrew Gleason (1969–1992)
  • Bertrand Halperin (1992-)
  • References

    Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Wikipedia