Erasmus Smith’s Professors of Natural and Experimental Philosophy

Richard Helsham 1724-1738

Caleb Cartwright 1738-1743

William Clement 1745-1759

Hugh Hamilton 1759-1769

Thomas Wilson 1769-1786

Matthew Young 1786-1799

Thomas Elrington 1799-1807

William Davenport 1807-1822

Bartholomew Lloyd 1822-1831

Humphrey Lloyd 1831-1843

James MacCullagh 1843-1848

Robert Vickers Dixon 1848-1854

Joseph Allen Galbraith 1854-1870

John Robert Leslie 1870-1881

George Francis Fitzgerald 1881-1901

William Edward Thrift 1901-1929

Robert William Ditchburn 1929 -1946

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton 1946-1974

Brian Henderson 1974-1984

Denis Lawrence Weaire 1984-2007

John Michael David Coey 2007-2012

Jonathon Coleman 2022-present
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