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The fund has been used to endow a series of professorships in various scientific fields under a number of titles.

John Humphrey Plummer Professors

Colloidal Physics

*1930–1931 Sir

Eric Rideal Sir Eric Keightley Rideal, (11 April 1890 – 25 September 1974)Rideal, Sir Eric Keight ...

Colloid Science

*1931–1946 Sir

Eric Rideal Sir Eric Keightley Rideal, (11 April 1890 – 25 September 1974)Rideal, Sir Eric Keight ...

*1947–1966

Francis Roughton Francis John Worsley Roughton (6 June 1899 – 26 April 1972) was an English physiologist and biochemist. He began to conduct experiments to study the reactions involving haemoglobin and oxygen and went on to make pioneering studies of blood bioc ...

Mathematical Physics

*1932–1944 Sir

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*1946–1958

Douglas Hartree Douglas Rayner Hartree (27 March 1897 – 12 February 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree–Fock equations of atomic physics and the ...

Theoretical Chemistry

*1932–1953 Sir

John Lennard-Jones Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones (27 October 1894 – 1 November 1954) was a British mathematician and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Bristol, and then of theoretical science at the University of Cambridge. He was an imp ...

(elected Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, later

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, in 1953) *1954–1967

Christopher Longuet-Higgins Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins (April 11, 1923 – March 27, 2004) was a British scholar and teacher. He was the Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge for 13 years until 1967 when he moved to the University of Edin ...

Physics

*1960–1971 Sir

Brian Pippard Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, FRS (7 September 1920 – 21 September 2008), was a British physicist. He was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 until 1982 and an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, of which he was the first President. ...

(elected

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in 1971) *1972–1984 Sir

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Biophysics

*1970–1981 Sir

Alan Hodgkin Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (5 February 1914 – 20 December 1998) was an English physiologist and biophysicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles. Early life and education Hodgkin was bo ...

(awarded the

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in 1963)

Applied Numerical Analysis

*1976–2001

Michael J. D. Powell Michael James David Powell (29 July 193619 April 2015) was a British mathematician, who worked in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) at the University of Cambridge. Education and early life Born in London, Pow ...

Cell Biology

*1983–2002 Sir

John Gurdon Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka ...

(awarded the

in 2012)

Magnetic Resonance

*1987–1999

Ray Freeman Raymond Freeman FRS (6 January 1932 – 1 May 2022) was a British chemist and professor at Jesus College, Cambridge who made important contributions to NMR spectroscopy. Education Freeman was educated at Nottingham High School where he won an ...

Theoretical Physics

*1993–2009 Michael Green (elected

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in 2009)

Developmental Biology

*2001–2008 Sir

Jim Cuthbert Smith Sir James Cuthbert Smith (born 31 December 1954) is Director of Science at the Wellcome Trust and Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Education Smith was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from the University of Ca ...

Chemical and Structural Biology

*2001–2017 Sir

Chris Dobson Sir Christopher Martin Dobson (8 October 1949 – 8 September 2019) was a British chemist, who was the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and Ma ...

(elected

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of St John's College in 2007)

Physics of Materials

*2004–2014

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Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine

*2018–present

Mihaela van der Schaar Mihaela van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, where she is director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM), and a Chancellor's Professor of Electri ...

References

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