Cavendish Professor of Physics
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The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later. The endowment was granted by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire.
In 1971 it was officially renamed from the 'Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics' to the 'Cavendish Professorship of Physics'.
Cavendish Professors
- James Clerk Maxwell (1871–1879)
- Lord Rayleigh (1879–1884)
- J. J. Thomson (1884–1919)
- Lord Rutherford (1919–1937)
- William Lawrence Bragg (1938–1953)
- Nevill Mott (1954–1971)
- Brian Pippard (1971–1984)
- Sam Edwards (1984–1995)
- Richard Friend (1995–)
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