The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior faculty positions in physics at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on 9 February 1871 alongside...

The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was...

the graves of Sir Isaac Newton and his former student Ernest Rutherford. Rutherford succeeded him as Cavendish Professor of Physics. Six of Thomson's research...

British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1982 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first...

University of Adelaide at the age of 16 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908. In the same year his father accepted the Cavendish chair...

original on 13 June 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023. "The Cavendish Professorship of Physics". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013...

regarded as a founder of the modern field of electrical engineering. In 1871, Maxwell became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics, serving until his...

Cambridge's physics laboratory was named the Cavendish Laboratory by Maxwell, the first Cavendish Professor of Physics and an admirer of Cavendish's work. Cavendish...

who was the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge from 1995 until 2020 and is Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National...

Physics and Director of the Henry Herbert Wills Physical Laboratory at Bristol. In 1954 he was appointed Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, a post...

June 1873. Rayleigh was the second Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge (following the death of James Clerk Maxwell) from 1879 to...

1984 and 1995 was Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge University. He was a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...

1885, at the age of 23, Bragg was appointed (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics and Experimental Physics in the University of Adelaide, Australia...

Christopher Longuet-Higgins 1960–1971 Sir Brian Pippard (elected Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1971) 1972–1984 Sir Sam Edwards 1970–1981 Sir Alan Hodgkin...

1940) is a Welsh condensed matter physicist and a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity...

Rayleigh as Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1884, but was surprisingly (given that he was also Rayleigh's choice) passed over in favour of Sir J.J. Thomson...

University of Cambridge in 1989, becoming a fellow of Peterhouse. He was appointed Professor of Physics in 2004 and became head of the Cavendish Laboratory...

Cavendish Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds where he was also chairman of the School of Physics and...

first President, was Cavendish Professor of Physics. Notable current fellows include Michael Green, former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics; John D....

This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted...

The Cavendish Astrophysics Group (formerly the Radio Astronomy Group) is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The group operates...

research student in the Cavendish Laboratory under Ernest Rutherford. From 1928 to 1931 he worked with Mark Oliphant on the collision of atoms with solids....

X-ray crystallography, becoming the new Cavendish professor of physics in 1938. Bragg became a major supporter of Perutz and his group in those early days...

fellow of St John's College, Cambridge Ian G. Macdonald, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge James Clerk Maxwell, Cavendish Professor of Physics 1871-1879...

platforms. Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend, Chairman of the VinFuture Prize Council and the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge...

Science) A Cavendish Professor of Physics and Nobel Laureate, Nevill Mott, has cited this book: "I am impressed too by the point of view of the present...

Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909–1915) Asa Briggs, historian Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University...

is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and former Head of the High Energy Physics group of the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Gibson...

"nu quantum Ltd". "Professor Mete Atatüre is taking on the role of Head of Department at the Cavendish Laboratory, succeeding Professor Andy Parker". 2 October...

associated with physics. The first holder of the position was the mathematician and chemist Isaac Milner, elected to the post in 1783. One result of the bequest...