Professor of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow
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The Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship at the University of Glasgow
which was established in 1727
The Nova Erectio of King James VI of Scotland shared the teaching of Moral Philosophy, Logic and Natural Philosophy among the Regents.
In 1727 separate chairs were instituted.
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
which was established in 1727
The Nova Erectio of King James VI of Scotland shared the teaching of Moral Philosophy, Logic and Natural Philosophy among the Regents.
In 1727 separate chairs were instituted.
Professors of Natural Philosophy
- Robert Dick, Snr MA MD (1727)
- Robert Dick, Jnr MA MD (1751)
- John AndersonJohn H. D. AndersonJohn Anderson was a Scottish natural philosopherand liberal educator at the forefront of the application of science to technology in the industrial revolution, and of the education and advancement of working men and women....
MA (1757) - James Brown MA MD (1796)
- William Meikleham MA LLD (1803)
- William Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron KelvinWilliam Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...
of Largs GCVO MA DCL LLD FRS (1846) - Andrew GrayAndrew Gray (physicist)Andrew Gray was a Scottish physicist and mathematician.Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and studied at the University of Glasgow , where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876...
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)