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 Harold Henry Joachim, FBA (; 28 May 1868 – 30 July 1938) was a British idealist philosopher. A disciple of Francis Herbert Bradley, whose posthumous papers he edited, Joachim is now identified with the later days of the British idealist mov ...

, 1919–1935 * Henry Habberley Price, 1935–1959 *

Alfred Jules Ayer Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (; 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989), usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books ''Language, Truth, and Logic'' (1936) an ...

, 1959–1978 * Michael Dummett, 1979–1992 * David Wiggins, 1993–2000 * Timothy Williamson, 2000–present

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 Sir John Linton Myres Kt OBE FBA FRAI (3 July 1869 in Preston – 6 March 1954 in Oxford) was a British archaeologist and academic, who conducted excavations in Cyprus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Life He was the son of the ...

, 1910–1939 * Theodore Wade-Gery, 1939–1953 * Antony Andrewes, 1953–1977 * W. G. (George) Forrest, 1977–1992 * Robert Parker, 1996–2016 *

Nino Luraghi Nino Luraghi (born 30 November 1964) is an Italian historian of ancient Greece, who holds the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford University. Life Luraghi is the son of Raimondo Luraghi (1921–2012), an Italian resistance fighte ...

, 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 Shivaji Lal Sondhi is an Indian-born theoretical physicist who is currently the Wykeham Professor of Physics in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, known for contributions to the field of quantum cond ...

, 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.

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