The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the
School of Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
,
UK.
History
It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by the businessman and politician
E. R. Langworthy at
Owens College, Manchester in 1874.
[Charlton, H. B. (1951) ''Portrait of a University, 1851–1951''. Manchester: Manchester University Press; p. 143, 176] Owens College later became the
Victoria University of Manchester (1904) and then the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
(2004).
Langworthy Professors
Several Langworthy Professors have been
Nobel Laureates
The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make ou ...
, including
Ernest Rutherford,
Lawrence Bragg
Sir William Lawrence Bragg, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallography, X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law, Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for t ...
,
Patrick Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. ...
,
Andre Geim
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, birth_place = Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
, death_date =
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, workplaces =
, nationality = Dutch and British
, fields = Condensed matter physics
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and
Konstantin Novoselov
Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov ( rus, Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов,
p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ nəvɐˈsʲɵləf; born 1974) is a Russian-British physicist, and a professor at the ...
.
* 1874–87
Balfour Stewart
* 1887–1907
Sir Arthur Schuster
* 1907–19
Sir Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics.
''Encyclopædia Britannica'' considers him to be the greatest ...
* 1919–37
Sir William Lawrence Bragg
* 1937–53
Patrick Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. ...
* 1955–60
Samuel Devons
Samuel Devons FRS (30 September 1914 – 6 December 2006) was a British physicist and science historian.
Biography
Devons, son of a Lithuanian immigrant, David Isaac Devons 1881-1926 and Edith Edelston from York 1891-1938
Sam was born in ...
* 1961–72
Brian Flowers
Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS (13 September 1924 – 25 June 2010) was a British physicist, academician, and public servant.
Early life and studies
The son of the Rev. Harold Joseph Flowers and Mrs Marian Flowers, Brian Hilton Flowe ...
* 1987–90
Francis Graham-Smith
* 1998–2001
Frank Read
Frank Henry Read (born 6 October 1934) is a British physicist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester.
Research
Read is known for his experimental studies of electron collisions with atoms and molecules, for a ...
* 2001–07
Andrew Lyne
Andrew Geoffrey Lyne (born 13 July 1942) is a British physicist. Lyne is Langworthy Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, as well as an ex-director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Despite retiring ...
* 2007–13
Sir Andre Geim
* 2013–present
Sir Konstantin Novoselov
References
Physics education in the United Kingdom
Professorships in physics
Professorships at the University of Manchester
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