The Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics at the

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was established on 10 February 1950, largely from the endowment fund of the proposed Hopkinson Professorship in Thermodynamics and a gift from ICI Limited of £50,000, less tax, spread over the seven years from 1949 to 1955. The professorship is assigned primarily to the Faculty of

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The chair is named in honour of

John Hopkinson John Hopkinson, FRS, (27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE (now the IET) twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for ...

, whose widow originally endowed a lectureship in thermodynamics in the hope that it would eventually be upgraded to a professorship.Cambridge University - 125 Years of Engineering Excellence
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List of Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professors of Applied Thermodynamics

*1951 - 1980 Sir William Rede Hawthorne *1980 - 1983 John Arthur Shercliff *1985 - 1997 Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray *1998 - 2015 John Bernard Young *2015–present Epaminondas Mastorakos

References

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