Erasmus Smith’s Professors of Natural and Experimental Philosophy
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Richard Helsham 1724-1738
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Caleb Cartwright 1738-1743
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William Clement 1745-1759
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Hugh Hamilton 1759-1769
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Thomas Wilson 1769-1786
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Matthew Young 1786-1799
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Thomas Elrington 1799-1807
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William Davenport 1807-1822
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Bartholomew Lloyd 1822-1831
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Humphrey Lloyd 1831-1843
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James MacCullagh 1843-1848
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Robert Vickers Dixon 1848-1854
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Joseph Allen Galbraith 1854-1870
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John Robert Leslie 1870-1881
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George Francis Fitzgerald 1881-1901
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William Edward Thrift 1901-1929
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Robert William Ditchburn 1929 -1946
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton 1946-1974
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Brian Henderson 1974-1984
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Denis Lawrence Weaire 1984-2007
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John Michael David Coey 2007-2012
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Jonathon Coleman 2022-present
Sources
- Wikipedia, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental philosophy, Wikipedia (Accessed July 2023 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Smith%27s_Professor_of_Natural_and_Experimental_Philosophy
- D. Spearman (Last updated 2019), 400 years of Mathematics https://www.maths.tcd.ie/about/400Hist/7.php
- Mathematics Ireland (Last updated 23 Feb 2023), Mathematical Professorships at Trinity College, Mathematics Ireland http://www.mathsireland.ie/blog/2019_11_cm
- Thomas Ulick Sadlier (1935), Alumni Dublinenses: a register of students, graduates, professors, and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860), Thom Co Ltd, https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/70795b624