John Robert Leslie 1870-1881

John Robert Leslie was born in 1831 near Timoleague, Co. Cork. He enrolled in Trinity College on 1^st July 1847, aged 16. He graduated BA in 1852, MA in 1856, DD in 1862 and earned Fellowship in 1858. He served as the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy from 1870 to 1881. In 1871 the moderatorship curriculum for physics was improved. Two moderatorships were offered, one in Experimental Science (physics, chemistry, and mineralogy), and another in Natural Science (geology, zoology, and botany). This moderatorship structure persisted until 1955.

Sources

1. Erich Finch (2016), Three Centuries of Physics in Trinity College Dublin, Living Edition
2. Wikipedia (2023), John Robert Leslie, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Leslie_(academic)