Quain Professor is the professorship title for certain disciplines at
University College London
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, England. The title honours
Richard Quain, who became Professor of Anatomy in 1832 at what would become University College, London. Quain left a legacy to the university to endow professorships in four subjects in 1887.
He intended that the funding should recognise his brother,
John Richard Quain, as well as himself.
The Burhop prize for Physics, Applied Physics or Mathematics/Physics is also drawn from these funds.
The Quain professorships cover Botany, English language and literature,
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be. It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values ...
, and Physics.
Botany
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Francis Wall Oliver (1890–1925)
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Edward J. Salisbury (1929–1943)
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William Pearsall (1944–1957)
*Dan Lewis (1958-1978)
*Peter Robert Bell (1979-1985)
*George Russell Stewart (1985-1991)
*Gail Taylor (2024-present)
English
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William Paton Ker (1889–1920)
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Raymond Wilson Chambers (1922–1949)
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Albert Hugh Smith (1949–1963)
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Randolph Quirk
Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and politician. He was the Quain Professor of English language and literature at University College London from 1968 to 1981. He sat as a crossbe ...
(1968–1981)
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Sidney Greenbaum (1983–1990)
*David Trotter (1991–2001)
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Rosemary Ashton (2002–2012)
*Susan Irvine (2013–present)
Jurisprudence
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Augustine Birrell (1896-1899)
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Sir John Macdonell[H. J. Randall, 'Sir John Macdonell and the Study of Comparative Law', Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, Third Series, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1930), 191. (188–202)](1901–1920)
*J. E. G. de Montmorency (1920–32)
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Sir Maurice Amos (1932–1937)
[Negley Harte and John North, ''The World of UCL: 1828–2004'' (London: UCL Press, 2004), pp. 60-61.]
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Glanville Williams
Glanville Llewelyn Williams (15 February 1911 – 10 April 1997) was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University ...
(1945–1955)
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Dennis Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Hampstead (1956–1982)
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William Twining (1983–1996)
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Ronald Dworkin
Ronald Myles Dworkin (; December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at ...
(1998–2005; Bentham Professor until 2008)
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Ross Harrison (2006–2007)
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G. A. Cohen (2008–2009)
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John Tasioulas (2011–2014)
Physics
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George Carey Foster (-1898)
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar (1899-1901)
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Frederick Thomas Trouton (1902–1914)
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William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist and X-ray crystallographer who uniquelyThis is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel Prize (in any fiel ...
(1915–1923)
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Edward Andrade (1928–1950)
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Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (1950–1972)
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Franz Ferdinand Heymann (1975–1987)
*John Finney (1993–1999)
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Gabriel Aeppli (2002–present)
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