Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
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The Arthur Balfour Professorship of Genetics is one of the senior professorships in genetics
at the University of Cambridge
, founded in 1912.
The chair was endowed by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, according to whom the money (£20,000) was "placed in [his] hands" by an anonymous benefactor. A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour.
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, founded in 1912.
The chair was endowed by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, according to whom the money (£20,000) was "placed in [his] hands" by an anonymous benefactor. A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour.
Arthur Balfour Professors
- Reginald PunnettReginald PunnettProfessor Reginald Crundall Punnett FRS was a British geneticist who co-founded, with William Bateson, the Journal of Genetics in 1910. Punnett is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes...
(1912-1940) - Ronald FisherRonald FisherSir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation...
(1943-1957) - John Marion Thoday (1959-1983)
- John Robert Stanley Fincham (1984-1991)
- Peter Neville Goodfellow (1992-1996)
- David Moore Glover (1999-)