The Professorship of Geophysics is a statutory
professorship
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a 'person who professes'. Professors ...
at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...
. It was founded in 1964.
The professorship was established in the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics (now part of the
Department of Earth Sciences.
[Williams, Carol (2010), Madingley Rise and Early Geophysics at Cambridge, Third Millennium Pub Ltd , ] The first incumbent was
Sir Edward Bullard, who was appointed to the chair in 1964.
Professors of Geophysics
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Edward Bullard
Sir Edward Crisp Bullard FRS (21 September 1907 – 3 April 1980) was a British geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics. He developed the theory of the geodynamo, pioneere ...
(1964)
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Jack Jacobs (1974)
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Chris Chapman (1984)
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Bob White (1989)
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Sergei Lebedev (2021)
References
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Professorships at the University of Cambridge
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge