The Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship at the
University of Glasgow
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, in Scotland, which was established in 1727
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Nova Erectio of King
James VI
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of Scotland shared the teaching of moral philosophy, logic and natural philosophy among the regents.
In 1727 separate chairs were instituted.
Professors of natural philosophy
* Robert Dick Snr MA MD (1727)
* Robert Dick Jnr MA MD (1751)
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John Anderson MA (1757)
* James Brown MA MD (1796)
* William Meikleham MA LLD (1803)
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow), Professor of Natural Philoso ...
of Largs GCVO MA DCL LLD FRS (1846)
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Andrew Gray MA LLD FRS (1899)
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Harold Albert Wilson MA DSc FRS (1924)
* Edward Taylor Jones DSc LLD (1926)
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Philip Ivor Dee CBE MA FRS
* Robert Patton Ferrier BSc MA PhD FRSE (1973)
See also
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List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow
References
Physics education in the United Kingdom
Natural Philosophy
Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin ''philosophia naturalis'') is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science.
From the ancient wo ...
Natural Philosophy, Glasgow
1727 establishments in Scotland
Natural philosophy
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