Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)

The Regius Professorship of Physic is one of the oldest professorships at the University of Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1540. "Physic" is an old word for medicine (and the root of the word physician), not physics.

Regius Professors of Physic
  1. John Blyth (1540)
  2. John Hatcher (1554)
  3. Henry Walker (1555)
  4. Thomas Lorkin (1564)
  5. William Ward (1591)
  6. William Burton (1596)
  7. John Gostlin (1623)
  8. John Collins (1626)
  9. Ralph Winterton (1635)
  10. Francis Glisson (1636)
  11. Robert Brady (1677)
  12. Christopher Green (1700–1741)
  13. Russell Plumptre (1741–1793)
  14. Sir Isaac Pennington (1793–1817)
  15. John Haviland (1817)
  16. Henry Bond (1851)
  17. Sir George Paget (1872)
  18. Sir Clifford Allbutt (1892)
  19. Sir Humphry Rolleston, Bt (1925)
  20. Sir Walter Langdon-Brown (1932)
  21. John Ryle (1935–1943)
  22. Sir Lionel Whitby (1945–1956)
  23. J. S. Mitchell (1957)
  24. Sir John Butterfield (1975)
  25. Sir Keith Peters (1987)
  26. Sir Patrick Sissons (2005)[1]
  27. Patrick Maxwell (2012)[2]

References
  1. "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (5972). 11 August 2004. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  2. "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (6262). 18 April 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.