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Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College, London, England. The title is derived from Richard Quain (1800-1887) who became professor of anatomy in 1832 at what was to become UCL. He made a provision in his will to the University that endowed professorships for four subjects; intending that funding gave recognition to his brother, John Richard Quain, as well as his own.

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The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.

The Quain professorships are of Botany, English language and literature, Jurisprudence, and Physics.

Botany

  • Francis Wall Oliver (1890-1925)
  • Edward J. Salisbury (1929-1943)
  • William Pearsall (1944-1957)

    • English

  • William Paton Ker (1889-1920)
  • Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922-1949)
  • Albert Hugh Smith (1949-1963)
  • Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
  • Sidney Greenbaum (1983-1990)
  • David Trotter (1991-2001)
  • Rosemary Ashton (2002-2012)
  • Susan Irvine (2013- )
  • Sir John Macdonell（1901-1920）
  • J. E. G. de Montmorency
  • Sir Maurice Sheldon Amos（1932-1937）
  • Glanville Williams (1945-1955)
  • Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956-1982)
  • William Twining (1983-1996)
  • Ronald Dworkin (1998-2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
  • Ross Harrison (2006-2007)
  • Gerald Cohen (2008 - 2009)
  • John Tasioulas (2011-2014)

    • Physics

  • Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902-1914)
  • William Henry Bragg (1915-1923)
  • Edward Andrade (1928-1950)
  • Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950-1972)
  • Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975-1987)
  • John Finney (1993-1999)
  • Gabriel Aeppli (2002-present)

    • References

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