Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at University College, London, England. The title is derived from Richard Quain (1800-1887)

Richard Quain (1800-1887)

Richard Quain was an English anatomist and surgeon, born at Fermoy, Ireland, a brother of Jones Quain. He studied medicine in London and in Paris...

 who became professor of anatomy in 1832 at what was to become UCL. He make a provision his will to the University that endowed professorships for four subjects; intending that funding gave recognition to his brother, John Richard Quain

John Richard Quain

Sir John Richard Quain , judge, youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Andrew Mahoney, was born at Ratheahy in 1816. Jones Quain and Richard Quain were his half-brothers. He was educated at Göttingen, and at University College, London, where...

, as well as his own.

The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.

The Quain professorships are of Botany, English language and literature, Jurisprudence, and Physics.

Botany

• Francis Wall Oliver
  Francis Wall Oliver
  Francis Wall Oliver FRS was a British botanist. He was Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1890-1925 and then Professor of Botany at the University of Cairo 1929–1935. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1925.- References :...
  
   (1890-1925)
• Edward J. Salisbury
  Edward James Salisbury
  Sir 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...
  
   (1929-1943)

English

• William Paton Ker
  William Paton Ker
  William Paton Ker was a Scottish literary scholar and essayist.-Life:He was born in Glasgow in 1855. He studied at Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford....
  
   (1889-1920)
• Raymond Wilson Chambers
  Raymond Wilson Chambers
  Raymond Wilson Chambers was a British literary scholar, author, and academic; throughout his career he was associated with University College London .-Life:...
  
   (1922-1949)
• Albert Hugh Smith
  Albert Hugh Smith
  Albert Hugh Smith OBE was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages and played a major part in the study and publication of English place-names....
  
   (1949-1963)
• Randolph Quirk (1968-1981)
• Sidney Greenbaum
  Sidney Greenbaum
  Sidney Greenbaum was a British scholar of the English language and of linguistics. He was Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1983 to 1990 and Director of the Survey of English Usage, 1983-96...
  
   (1983–1990)

Jurisprudence

• Sir John Macdonell
  John Macdonell (jurist)
  Sir John Macdonell K.C.B. was a British jurist. He was King's Remembrancer and a Knight Commander in the Order of the Bath.-External links:...
  
  （1901-1920）
• J. E. G. de Montmorency
• Sir Maurice Sheldon Amos
  Maurice Amos
  Sir Percy Maurice Maclardie Sheldon Amos KBE KC was a British barrister, judge and legal academic who served as an Egyptian judge, advisor to the Egyptian government and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence....
  
  （1932-1937）
• Glanville Williams
• Ronald Dworkin
  Ronald Dworkin
  Ronald Myles Dworkin, QC, FBA is an American philosopher and scholar of constitutional law. He is Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, and has taught previously at Yale Law School and the...
  
  
• Gerald Cohen
  Gerald Cohen
  Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen was a Marxist political philosopher, formerly Visiting Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College, London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford...
  
   (2008 - 2009)
• John Tasioulas
  John Tasioulas
  John Tasioulas is the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in theFaculty of Laws, University College London.-Biography:...
  
  

Physics

• William Henry Bragg
  William Henry Bragg
  Sir 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...
  
   (1915-1923)
• Edward Andrade
  Edward Andrade
  Edward Neville da Costa Andrade FRS was an English physicist, writer, and poet.-Background:Andrade was a Sephardi Jew and is a descendant Moses da Costa Andrade...
  
   (1928-1950)
• Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950-1972)
• Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975-1987)
• John Finney (1993-1999)
• Gabriel Aeppli (2002-present)