The Donegall Lecturership at Trinity College Dublin, is one of two endowed mathematics positions at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the other being the Erasmus Smith's Chair of Mathematics. The Donegall (sometimes spelt Donegal) Lectureship was endowed in 1668 by The 3rd Earl of Donegall.The Dublin University Calendar 1877
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, it was combined with the previous public Professor in Mathematics position that had been created in 1652 by the Commonwealth parliament. For much of its history, the Donegall Lectureship was awarded to a

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as an additional honour which came with a supplementary income. Since 1967, the lectureship has been awarded to a leading international scientist who visits the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics and gives talks, including a public lecture called the Donegall Lecture.

List of Donegall Lecturers

* 1675–1685: Miles Symner (1610?–1686) * 1685–1692:

St. George Ashe St. George Ashe, D.D. (3 March 1657 – 27 February 1718) was an Irish mathematician and university administrator who, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, served as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne, Clogher and Derry, in succession. Fr ...

(1657–1718) * 1692–1694: Charles Willoughby (1630?–1694) * 1694–1696: Edward Smyth (1665–1720) * 1696–1723: Claudius Gilbert (1670–1743) * 1723–1730: Richard Helsham (1682–1738) * 1730–1731: Charles Stuart (circa 1698–1746) * 1731–1734: Lambert Hughes (1698–1771) * 1734–1735:

Robert Shawe Robert Shawe (circa 1699 to 1752) was an Irish academic who spent his final years as a clergyman. He was Donegall Lecturer of maths at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1734 to 1735. Life and career Shawe was born in near Athenry, in county Galw ...

(1699?–1752) * 1735–1738: Caleb Cartwright (1696?–1763) * 1738–1747: John Pellisier (1703–1781) * 1747–1750: John Whittingham (1712–1778) * 1750–1759: William Clement (1707–1782)William Clements (1733–1763)
/ref> * 1759–1760:

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(1717–1777) * 1760–1762: John Stokes (1720?–1781) * 1762–1764: Richard Murray (1725?–1799) * 1764–1769: Henry Joseph Dabzac (1737–1790) * 1769–1770:

Henry Ussher Henry Ussher (1550 – 2 April 1613) was an Irish Protestant churchman, a founder of Trinity College, Dublin, and Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh. Life The second of five sons of Thomas Ussher by Margaret (d. January 1597), daughter of H ...

(1741–1790) * 1770–1782: Gerald Fitzgerald (1739?–1819) * 1782–1786: Matthew Young (1750–1800) * 1786–1790: Digby Marsh (1750?–1791) * 1790–1795: Thomas Elrington (1760–1835) * 1795–1800: Whitley Stokes (1763–1845) * 1800–1807: Robert Phipps (1765?–1844) * 1807–1820: James Wilson (1774?–1829) * 1820–1827: Richard MacDonnell (1787–1867) * 1827–1832: Henry Harte (1790–1848) * 1832–1847: Thomas Luby (1800–1870) * 1847–1858: Andrew Hart (1811–1890) * 1858–1867: George Salmon (1819–1904) * 1867–1876: William Roberts (1817–1883) * 1876–1884: Benjamin Williamson (1828–1916) * 1884–1904: Arthur Panton (1843–1906) * 1904–1907: Robert Russell (1858?–1938) * 1917–1923: Reginald Rogers (1874–1923) * 1923–1926: Charles Rowe (1893–1943) * 1926–1944: TS (Stan) Broderick (1893–1962) * 1967–1968: Paul Halmos (1916–2006) ''Spinsters, sequences and the Schroeder-Berstein theorem'' * 1969–1970: James Hamilton (1918–2000) ''Discrete symmetry properties and elementary particles'' * 1970–1971: Friedrich Hirzebruch (1927–2012) ''Some relations between topology and number theory'' * 1971–1972:

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(1927–2021) ''Mathematical programming'' * 1972–1973:

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(1926–1999) ''Black holes and the future of astronomy'' * 1976–1977:

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(1925–2016) ''Introduction to catastrophe theory'' * 1978–1979: Dennis Lindley (1923–2013) ''Decision making, probability and the law'' * 1979–1980:

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(1926–2014) ''The formation of mathematical concepts: the vibrating string controversy'' * 1982–1983: Lior Tzafriri (1936–2008) ''New results and problems in the geometry of normed spaces'' * 1983–1984:

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(1949–2014) ''Brownian Motion'' * 1985–1986: Roy Kerr (born 1934) ''Black holes'' * 1986–1987: Wilhelm Kaup ''Jordan algebras and analysis'' * 1988–1989: T. J. Willmore ''Variational problems for surfaces'' * 1989–1990: Jacob Schwartz (1930–2009) ''Mathematical problems in neuroscience and neural nets'' * 1991–1992: Donald Knuth (born 1938) ''Stable husbands'' * 1994–1995: Freeman Dyson (born 1923) ''The evolution of science'' * 1996–1997:

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(born 1944) ''The challenge of quantum gravity'' * 1997–1998:

James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence. Biography J ...

(1924–1998) ''A century of shock waves'' * 1998–1999: Michael Berry (born 1941) ''Seven wonders of physics'' * 1999–2000: Chen Nigh Yang (born 1922) * 2000–2001: Robbert Dijkgraaf (born 1960) ''The unreasonable effectiveness of physics in modern mathematics'' * 2002–2003: David Gross (born 1941) ''The coming revolutions in physics'' * 2003–2004:

Ludwig Faddeev Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also ''Ludwig Dmitriyevich''; russian: Лю́двиг Дми́триевич Фадде́ев; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the ...

(1934–2017) ''Development of physics from a mathematical point of view'' * 2005–2010:

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''A view of theoretical neuroscience and machine learning'' * 2010: Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017)

References

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