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The Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship at the
University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow (abbreviated as ''Glas.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals; ) is a Public university, public research university in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded by papal bull in , it is the List of oldest universities in continuous ...
, in Scotland, which was established in 1727 The Nova Erectio of King
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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. In 1986, the departments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy were merged and formed the new department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2024, Miles Padgett holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.


Professors of natural philosophy

* Robert Dick Snr MA MD (1727) * Robert Dick Jnr MA MD (1751) * John Anderson MA (1757) * James Brown MA MD (1796) * William Meikleham MA LLD (1803) *
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, he was the Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow), professor of Natur ...
of Largs GCVO MA DCL LLD FRS (1846) * Andrew Gray MA LLD FRS (1899) * Harold Albert Wilson MA DSc FRS (1924) * Edward Taylor Jones DSc LLD (1926) * Philip Ivor Dee CBE MA FRS * Robert Patton Ferrier BSc MA PhD FRSE (1973)


See also

* 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, while ignoring any supernatural influence. It was dominant before the develop ...
Natural Philosophy, Glasgow 1727 establishments in Scotland Natural philosophy 1727 in science {{intell-hist-stub