The Dr Lee's Professorships are three named statutory professorships of the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...

. They were created in 1919, and are named after Matthew Lee (1695–1755) who had endowed three readerships at Christ Church, Oxford, in the 19th century.

Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy

This professorship is linked with a

fellowship A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher educationa ...

Hertford College, Oxford Hertford College ( ), previously known as Magdalen Hall, is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on Catte Street in the centre of Oxford, directly opposite the main gate to the Bodleian Library. The col ...

. * Arthur Thomson (1919 to ?); first incumbent * Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1934 to 1962) *

Ray Guillery Rainer Walter "Ray" Guillery FRS (28 August 1929 – 7 April 2017) was a British physiologist and neuroanatomist. He is best known for his discovery that in Siamese cats with certain genotypes of the albino gene, the wiring of the optic chia ...

(1984 to 1996) * Dame Kay Davies (1998 to present)

Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry

This professorship is linked with a

Exeter College, Oxford (Let Exeter Flourish) , old_names = ''Stapeldon Hall'' , named_for = Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter , established = , sister_college = Emmanuel College, Cambridge , rector = Sir Richard Trainor ...

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Frederick Soddy Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also pro ...

(1919 to 1936); first incumbent * Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1937 to ?) * Sir Rex Richards (1964 to 1969) *

Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Kt, FRS, FRSE (11 November 1914 – 5 December 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was successively Professor of Physical Chemis ...

(1970 to 1973) * Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (1974 to 1993) * Jacob Klein (2000 to 2008) * Dame Carol Robinson (2009 to present); first female chemistry professor at Oxford

Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics)

This professorship is linked with a

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Doroth ...

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Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, ( ; 5 April 18863 July 1957) was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. Lindemann was a brilliant intellectual, who cut through bureau ...

(1919 to ?); first incumbent * Sir Francis Simon (1956); died one month after taking up the professorship *

Brebis Bleaney Brebis Bleaney (6 June 1915 – 4 November 2006) was a British physicist. His main area of research was the use of microwave techniques to study the magnetic properties of solids. He was head of the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Ox ...

(1957 to 1977) * Sir William Mitchell (1978 to ?) *

Roger Cowley Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstP (24 February 1939 – 27 January 2015) was an English physicist who specialised in the excitations of solids. Biography Cowley was born in Woodford Green, Essex, on 24 February 1939. His father, Cecil ...

(1988 to 2007) *

Paolo Radaelli Paolo Giuseppe Radaelli, FInstP (born 11 October 1961) is an Italian physicist and academic. He is the Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics) at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.'RA ...

(2008 to present)

References

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