The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair at in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester

The School of Physics and Astronomy, formed by the merger of the Departments of Physics at the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST in 2004 when the universities merged to form the University of Manchester, is one of the largest and most active physics departments in the United Kingdom and...

. It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by E. R. Langworthy in 1874. It began at Owens College and from 1903/04 to 2004 was a chair at the Victoria University of Manchester

Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...

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Previous holders include the Nobel prize winners Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...

 (1907-19), Lawrence Bragg (1919-37) and Patrick Blackett (1937-1953). Others were Andrew Lyne

Andrew Lyne

Andrew G. Lyne FRS is a British physicist. Lyne is Langworthy Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, as well as an ex-director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Despite retiring in 2007 he remains an active researcher within the Jodrell Bank Pulsar...

, Brian Flowers

Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers

Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS was a British physicist and academican.-Early life and studies:The son of Reverend Harold Joseph Flowers, he was educated at the Bishop Gore School in Swansea and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts...

, Arthur Schuster

Arthur Schuster

Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster FRS was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics...

 (1888-1907), Samuel Devons

Samuel Devons

Samuel Devons FRS was a British physicist and science historian.-Biography:Devons, son of a Lithuanian immigrant, was born in Bangor, Wales. When he turned 16, he was awarded a scholarship for physics at Trinity College in Cambridge...

. The current holder is Andre Geim

Andre Geim

Andre Konstantin Geim, FRS is a Dutch-Russian-British physicist working at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene...

, winner of a Nobel Prize in 2010.