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...
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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...
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J. J. Thomson (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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Lawrence Bragg (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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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...
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Brian Pippard (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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Ernest Rutherford (redirect from Father of Nuclear Physics)
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...
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James Clerk Maxwell (redirect from Maxwell of Glenlair)
regarded as a founder of the modern field of electrical engineering. In 1871, Maxwell became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics, serving until his...
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Richard Friend (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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Nevill Mott (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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VinFuture Prize (category Awards by type of recipient)
Council is chaired by Sir Richard Henry Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and includes members from international...
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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...
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Sam Edwards (physicist) (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
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...
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Brian Josephson (category Fellows of the Institute of Physics)
January 1940) is a Welsh theoretical physicist and a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Cambridge. Best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity...
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William Henry Bragg (category Cavendish Professors of Physics)
1885, at the age of 23, Bragg was appointed (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics and Experimental Physics in the University of Adelaide, Australia...
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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...
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Richard Glazebrook (category Presidents of the Institute of Physics)
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...
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Andy Parker (physicist) (category Scientists of the Cavendish Laboratory)
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...
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Clare Hall, Cambridge (category Colleges of the University of Cambridge)
first President, was Cavendish Professor of Physics. Notable current fellows include Michael Green, former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics; John D....
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The Cavendish Astrophysics Group (formerly the Radio Astronomy Group) is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The group operates...
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Ian Ward (physicist) (category Fellows of the Institute of Physics)
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...
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John Habgood (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
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...
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Malcolm Longair (category Scientists of the Cavendish Laboratory)
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Since 2016 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Biographical...
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Philip Burton Moon (category Academics of the University of Birmingham)
He is most remembered for his research work in atomic physics and nuclear physics. He is one of the British scientists who participated in the United...
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John A. McClelland (category Alumni of the University of Galway)
University of Ireland and spent 1896–1900 at Cavendish Laboratory, while pursuing a research degree at Cambridge. In 1900 he was appointed Professor of Experimental...
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Mete Atatüre (category Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge)
"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...
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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...
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fellow of St John's College, Cambridge Ian G. Macdonald, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge James Clerk Maxwell, Cavendish Professor of Physics 1871-1879...
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Valerie Gibson (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
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...
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Prize-winning physicist, chemist (Cavendish Professor of Physics, 1909–1915) Asa Briggs, historian Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of British Library (University...
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