The Jodrell Chair of Physiology is a chair at

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, endowed (shortly before the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy) by

Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = Bristol , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coor ...

in 1873. The chairs succeeded the previous chair in Anatomy and Physiology. The endowment was for the sum of , with a further £500 for equipment. This endowment was acknowledged in the final report of the

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in 1875. The first holder was

John Burdon-Sanderson Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 182823 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family. Biography He was born at Jesmond ...

after the post received the Jodrell endowment. Two Jodrell Professors, Archibald Hill and Andrew Huxley, have gone onto win the

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Professors of Anatomy and Physiology

*1831-36

Jones Quain Jones Quain (pronounced "kwan") (November 1796 – 31 January 1865) was an Irish anatomist, born at Mallow. Quain was Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of London. He was author of ''Elements of Anatomy'', of which the first e ...

*1836-74

William Sharpey William Sharpey FRS FRSE LLD (1 April 1802 – 11 April 1880) was a Scottish anatomist and physiologist. Sharpey became the outstanding exponent of experimental biology and is described as the "father of British physiology". Early life Sharpe ...

Jodrell Professors of Physiology

*1874-82 Sir John Burdon Sanderson *1883-99 Edward Sharpey-Schafer *1899-23

Ernest Starling Ernest Henry Starling (17 April 1866 – 2 May 1927) was a British physiologist who contributed many fundamental ideas to this subject. These ideas were important parts of the British contribution to physiology, which at that time led the world. ...

*1923-25

Archibald Hill Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), known as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research. He shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or M ...

*1926-49 Charles Lovatt Evans *1949-60 Sir Lindor Brown *1960-69 Sir Andrew Huxley *1969-79 Douglas Wilkie *1979-95 Timothy Biscoe *1995-

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* * {{cite book , title=British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary, first=W.J. , last=O'Connor , publisher=Manchester University Press , date=1991, isbn=9780719032820 Academics of University College London Professorships at University College London