- Source: Wykeham Professor
The University of Oxford has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham, who founded New College.
Logic
The Wykeham Professorship in Logic was established in 1859, although it was not known as the Wykeham chair until later. Its first chair was Henry Wall.
= List of holders of post
=Henry Wall, 1849?–1870
Thomas Fowler, 1873–1889
John Cook Wilson, 1889–1915
Harold Henry Joachim, 1919–1935
Henry Habberley Price, 1935–1959
Alfred Jules Ayer, 1959–1978
Michael Dummett, 1979–1992
David Wiggins, 1993–2000
Timothy Williamson, 2000–2023
Ancient history
The Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History was established in 1910. It concentrates on Greek history to avoid possible duplication with the far older Camden Professorship of Ancient History, which focuses primarily on Roman history.
= List of holders of post
=J. L. Myres, 1910–1939
Theodore Wade-Gery, 1939–1953
Antony Andrewes, 1953–1977
W. G. (George) Forrest, 1977–1992
Robert Parker, 1996–2016
Nino Luraghi, 2018–present
Physics
The Wykeham Professorship of Physics is the only endowed chair in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford. This professorship is associated with New College.
= List of holders of post
=John Sealy Townsend, 1900–1941
Maurice Pryce, 1946–1955
Willis Lamb, 1957–1962
Sir Rudolf Peierls, 1963–1974
Sir Roger Elliott, 1974–1988
David Sherrington, 1989–2008
Shivaji Sondhi, 2021–present.
= Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics
=In February 2021 The Times reported that the Wykeham Professorship of Physics was to be renamed "Tencent-Wykeham Professorship of Physics" following a donation, but the University later said the Wykeham Professorship of Physics will not be renamed; instead the current holder will also be given a separate post called "Tencent Chair of Theoretical Physics" to run concurrently with his Wykeham post.
References
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- Wykeham Professor
- A. J. Ayer
- Shivaji Sondhi
- Michael Dummett
- Willis Lamb
- Timothy Williamson
- Rudolf Peierls
- List of professorships at the University of Oxford
- Waynflete Professorship
- List of people associated with New College, Oxford
