The Donegall Lecturership at Trinity College Dublin, is one of two endowed mathematics positions at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

(TCD), the other being the Erasmus Smith's Chair of Mathematics. The Donegall (sometimes spelt Donegal) Lectureship was endowed in 1668 by The 3rd Earl of Donegall.The Dublin University Calendar 1877
/ref> In 1675, after the restoration, it was combined with the previous public Professor in Mathematics position that had been created in 1652 by the Commonwealth parliament. For much of its history, the Donegall Lectureship was awarded to a

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

as an additional honour which came with a supplementary income. Since 1967, the lectureship has been awarded to a leading international scientist who visits the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics and gives talks, including a public lecture called the Donegall Lecture.

List of Donegall Lecturers

* 1675–1685: Miles Symner (1610?–1686) * 1685–1692: St. George Ashe (1657–1718) * 1692–1694: Charles Willoughby (1630?–1694) * 1694–1696: Edward Smyth (1665–1720) * 1696–1723: Claudius Gilbert (1670–1743) * 1723–1730: Richard Helsham (1682–1738) * 1730–1731: Charles Stuart (circa 1698–1746) * 1731–1734: Lambert Hughes (1698–1771) * 1734–1735:

Robert Shawe Robert Shawe (circa 1699 to 1752) was an Irish academic who spent his final years as a clergyman. He was Donegall Lecturer of maths at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1734 to 1735. Life and career Shawe was born near Athenry, in county Galw ...

(1699?–1752) * 1735–1738: Caleb Cartwright (1696?–1763) * 1738–1747: John Pellisier (1703–1781) * 1747–1750: John Whittingham (1712–1778) * 1750–1759: William Clement (1707–1782)William Clements (1733–1763)
/ref> * 1759–1760: Theaker Wilder (1717–1777) * 1760–1762: John Stokes (1720?–1781) * 1762–1764: Richard Murray (1725?–1799) * 1764–1769:

Henry Joseph Dabzac Henry Joseph Dabzac (1737–12 May 1790) was an Irish academic.

(1737–1790) * 1769–1770:

Henry Ussher Henry Ussher (1550 – 2 April 1613) was an Irish Protestant churchman, a founder of Trinity College Dublin, and Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh. Life The second of five sons of Thomas Ussher by Margaret (d. January 1597), daughter of H ...

(1741–1790) * 1770–1782: Gerald Fitzgerald (1739?–1819) * 1782–1786: Matthew Young (1750–1800) * 1786–1790: Digby Marsh (1750?–1791) * 1790–1795: Thomas Elrington (1760–1835) * 1795–1800: Whitley Stokes (1763–1845) * 1800–1807: Robert Phipps (1765?–1844) * 1807–1820:

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(1774?–1829) * 1820–1827: Richard MacDonnell (1787–1867) * 1827–1832: Henry Harte (1790–1848) * 1832–1847: Thomas Luby (1800–1870) * 1847–1858: Andrew Hart (1811–1890) * 1858–1867:

George Salmon George Salmon (25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904) was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, Salmon devoted the last forty years of his life to theol ...

(1819–1904) * 1867–1876: William Roberts (1817–1883) * 1876–1884: Benjamin Williamson (1828–1916) * 1884–1904: Arthur Panton (1843–1906) * 1904–1907: Robert Russell (1858?–1938) * 1917–1923: Reginald Rogers (1874–1923) * 1923–1926: Charles Rowe (1893–1943) * 1926–1944: TS (Stan) Broderick (1893–1962) * 1967–1968:

Paul Halmos Paul Richard Halmos (; 3 March 1916 – 2 October 2006) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian-born United States, American mathematician and probabilist who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, operat ...

(1916–2006) ''Spinsters, sequences and the Schroeder-Berstein theorem'' * 1969–1970:

James Hamilton James Hamilton may refer to: Dukes *James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606–1649), heir to the throne of Scotland *James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton (1658–1712), Scottish nobleman *James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton (1703–1743), Sco ...

(1918–2000) ''Discrete symmetry properties and elementary particles'' * 1970–1971:

Friedrich Hirzebruch Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...

(1927–2012) ''Some relations between topology and number theory'' * 1971–1972: Ailsa Land (1927–2021) ''Mathematical programming'' * 1972–1973:

Dennis Sciama Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18 December 1999) was an English physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He was the PhD ...

(1926–1999) ''Black holes and the future of astronomy'' * 1976–1977:

Christopher Zeeman Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman FRS (4 February 1925 – 13 February 2016), was a British mathematician, known for his work in geometric topology and singularity theory. Overview Zeeman's main contributions to mathematics were in topology, partic ...

(1925–2016) ''Introduction to catastrophe theory'' * 1978–1979:

Dennis Lindley Dennis Victor Lindley (25 July 1923 – 14 December 2013) was an English statistician, decision theorist and leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Biography Lindley grew up in the south-west London suburb of Surbiton. He was an only child a ...

(1923–2013) ''Decision making, probability and the law'' * 1979–1980:

Heini Halberstam Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 – 25 January 2014) was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968. Life and career Halber ...

(1926–2014) ''The formation of mathematical concepts: the vibrating string controversy'' * 1982–1983: Lior Tzafriri (1936–2008) ''New results and problems in the geometry of normed spaces'' * 1983–1984:

Marc Yor Marc Yor (24 July 1949 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applicat ...

(1949–2014) ''Brownian Motion'' * 1985–1986:

Roy Kerr Roy Patrick Kerr (; born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. His solution models the gravitational field outside an uncharged ...

(born 1934) ''Black holes'' * 1986–1987: Wilhelm Kaup ''Jordan algebras and analysis'' * 1988–1989: T. J. Willmore ''Variational problems for surfaces'' * 1989–1990: Jacob Schwartz (1930–2009) ''Mathematical problems in neuroscience and neural nets'' * 1991–1992:

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is the 1974 recipient of the ACM Turing Award, informally considered the Nobel Prize of comp ...

(born 1938) ''Stable husbands'' * 1994–1995:

Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrix, random matrices, math ...

(born 1923) ''The evolution of science'' * 1996–1997:

Christopher Isham Christopher Isham (; born 28 April 1944), usually cited as Chris J. Isham, is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London. Research Isham's main research interests are quantum gravity and foundational studies in quantum theory. He was ...

(born 1944) ''The challenge of quantum gravity'' * 1997–1998:

James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report in 1973, which pessimistically stated t ...

(1924–1998) ''A century of shock waves'' * 1998–1999: Michael Berry (born 1941) ''Seven wonders of physics'' * 1999–2000: Chen Nigh Yang (born 1922) * 2000–2001:

Robbert Dijkgraaf Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, (; born 24 January 1960) is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2 ...

(born 1960) ''The unreasonable effectiveness of physics in modern mathematics'' * 2002–2003:

David Gross David Jonathan Gross (; born February 19, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom. ...

(born 1941) ''The coming revolutions in physics'' * 2003–2004: Ludwig Faddeev (1934–2017) ''Development of physics from a mathematical point of view'' * 2005–2010: Tony Bell ''A view of theoretical neuroscience and machine learning'' * 2010:

Ludvig Faddeev Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev (also ''Ludwig Dmitriyevich''; ; 23 March 1934 – 26 February 2017) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist. He is known for the discovery of the Faddeev equations in the qu ...

(1934–2017)

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