Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
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The Fullerian Chairs at the Royal Institution
were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
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were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
John 'Mad Jack' Fuller
John Fuller , better known as "Mad Jack" Fuller , was Squire of the hamlet of Brightling, in Sussex , and is well known as a builder of follies, and as a philanthropist, patron of the arts and sciences, and a supporter of slavery...
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Fullerian Professors of Chemistry
- 1833 Michael FaradayMichael FaradayMichael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
- 1868 William OdlingWilliam OdlingWilliam Odling, FRS was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table....
- 1874 John Hall GladstoneJohn Hall GladstoneJohn Hall Gladstone FRS was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society...
- 1877 James DewarJames DewarSir James Dewar FRS was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases...
- 1923 William Henry BraggWilliam Henry BraggSir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics...
- 1942 Henry H. Dale
- 1946 Eric Keightley Rideal
- 1950 Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
- 1953 William Lawrence BraggWilliam Lawrence BraggSir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. He was knighted...
- 1966 George PorterGeorge PorterGeorge Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist.- Life :Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, South Yorkshire. He was educated at Thorne Grammar School, then won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and gained his first degree in chemistry...
- 1988 John Meurig ThomasJohn Meurig ThomasSir John Meurig Thomas FRS is a leading British chemist and educator primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, and surface and materials science. He has authored over one thousand scientific articles and several books, including Principles and Practice of...
- 1994 Peter Day
Fullerian Professors of Physiology
- 1834–1837 Peter Mark Roget
- 1837–1838 Robert Edmond GrantRobert Edmond GrantRobert Edmond Grant MD FRCPEd FRS was born in Edinburgh and educated at Edinburgh University as a physician. He became one of the foremost biologists of the early 19th century at Edinburgh and subsequently the first Professor of Comparative Anatomy at University College London...
- 1841–1844 Thomas Rymer Jones
- 1844–1848 William Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin Carpenter MD CB FRS was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.-Life:...
- 1848–1851 William W. Gull
- 1851–1855 Thomas Wharton Jones
- 1855–1858 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1858–1862 Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
- 1862–1865 John MarshallJohn MarshallJohn Marshall was the Chief Justice of the United States whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches...
- 1865–1869 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1869–1872 Michael FosterMichael Foster (physiologist)Sir Michael Foster was an English physiologist.He was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and educated at University College School, London....
- 1872–1875 William Rutherford
- 1875–1878 Alfred Henry GarrodAlfred Henry GarrodAlfred Henry Garrod FRS was an English vertebrate zoologist.Garrod was born in London, the eldest son of Sir Alfred Baring Garrod , a physician at King's College Hospital, who discovered the abnormal uric acid metabolism associated with gout...
- 1878–1881 Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
- 1881–1884 John Gray McKendrick
- 1884–1888 Arthur GamgeeArthur GamgeeArthur Gamgee FRS was a British biochemist.Arthur Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, an Edinburgh veterinarian, and his wife Mary Ann West. He was born in Florence, Italy, where his father had a practice, but his family moved back to England when he was fourteen years old...
- 1888–1891 George John Romanes
- 1891–1894 Victor HorsleyVictor HorsleySir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was an accomplished scientist and professor. He was born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent and studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin, Germany , and in the same year started his career as a house surgeon and...
- 1894–1897 Charles StewartCharles Stewart (zoologist)Charles Stewart was an English zoologist and comparative anatomist.Stewart was born in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his MRCS in 1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession to William...
- 1897–1898 Augustus Desiré WallerAugustus Desiré WallerAugustus Desiré Waller FRS was a British physiologist and the son of Augustus Volney Waller. He was born in Paris, France.He created the first practical ECG machine with surface electrodes.He died in London.-Further reading:...
- 1898–1901 Ray LankesterRay LankesterSir E. Ray Lankester KCB, FRS was a British zoologist, born in London.An invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist, he held chairs at University College London and Oxford University. He was the third Director of the Natural History Museum, and was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal...
- 1901–1904 Allan Macfadyen
- 1904–1906 Louis Compton Miall
- 1906–1909 William Stirling
- 1909–1912 Frederick Walker MottFrederick Walker MottSir Frederick Walker Mott FRS was one of the pioneers of biochemistry in Britain. He is noted for his work in neuropathology and endocrine glands in relation to mental disorder, and consequently as psychiatrist and sociologist...
- 1912–1915 William BatesonWilliam BatesonWilliam Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge...
- 1915–1918 Charles Scott SherringtonCharles Scott SherringtonSir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal Society in the early 1920s...
- 1918–1924 Arthur KeithArthur KeithSir Arthur Keith was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London...
- 1924–1927 Joseph BarcroftJoseph BarcroftSir Joseph Barcroft CBE, FRS was a British physiologist best known for his studies of the oxygenation of blood....
- 1927–1930 Julian Sorell Huxley
- 1930–1933 John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
- 1933–1935 Grafton Elliot SmithGrafton Elliot SmithSir Grafton Elliot Smith, FRS FRCP was an Australian anatomist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory.-Professional career:Smith was born in Grafton, New South Wales...
- 1935–1937 Edward Mellanby
- 1937–1940 Frederick William Keeble
- 1941–1944 Jack Cecil Drummond
- 1944–1947 James GrayJames Gray (zoologist)- External links :*...
- 1947–1953 Edward James SalisburyEdward James SalisburySir Edward James Salisbury FRS was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc. with a thesis on fossil seeds and was appointed a senior lecturer at East London College...
- 1953–1957 Harold Munro FoxHarold Munro FoxFor the basketball player see Harold Fox Harold Munro Fox FRS was a British zoologist.He was born Harold Munro Fuchs in Clapham, London in 1889 to George Gotthilf Fuchs, a former captain in the Prussian Army, and Margaret Isabella Campbell Munro, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Munro of the...
- 1957–1961 John Zachary YoungJohn Zachary YoungJohn Zachary Young FRS , generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century .....
- 1961–1967 Richard John HarrisonRichard John HarrisonSir Richard John Harrison FRS was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973.-References:...
- 1967–1973 Andrew Fielding Huxley
- 1973–1979 Max Ferdinand Perutz
- 1979–1985 David Chilton PhillipsDavid Chilton PhillipsDavid Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS is considered to be a founding father of the now expanding field of structural biology and was an influential figure in science and government...
- 1985–1991 John Bertrand Gurdon
- 1991–1999 Anne McLarenAnne McLarenThe Hon. Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG was the daughter of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway and Christabel McNaughten. She became a leading figure in developmental biology. Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation...
- 1999–present Susan GreenfieldSusan GreenfieldSusan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Greenfield is...