The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK.

History[edit]

It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by the businessman and politician E. R. Langworthy at Owens College, Manchester in 1874.^[1] Owens College later became the Victoria University of Manchester (1904) and then the University of Manchester (2004).

Langworthy Professors[edit]

Several Langworthy Professors have been Nobel Laureates, including Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Patrick Blackett, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov.

• 1874–87 Balfour Stewart
• 1887–1907 Sir Arthur Schuster
• 1907–19 Sir Ernest Rutherford
• 1919–37 Sir William Lawrence Bragg
• 1937–53 Patrick Blackett
• 1955–60 Samuel Devons
• 1961–72 Brian Flowers
• 1987–90 Francis Graham-Smith
• 1998–2001 Frank Read
• 2001–07 Andrew Lyne
• 2007–13 Sir Andre Geim
• 2013–present Sir Konstantin Novoselov

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