Dr Lee's Professorships

The Dr Lee's Professorships are three named statutory professorships of the University of Oxford. They were created in 1919, and are named after Matthew Lee (1695–1755) who had endowed three readerships at Christ Church, Oxford, in the 19th century.^[1]

Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy

See also: Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Anatomy

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford.

• Arthur Thomson (1919–?); first incumbent
• Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1934–1962)^[2]
• Ray Guillery (1984–1996)
• Dame Kay Davies (1998–present)

Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry

See also: Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford.

• Frederick Soddy (1919–1936); first incumbent
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1937–?)
• Sir Rex Richards (1964–1969)
• Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton (1970–1973)^[3]
• Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (1974–1993)
• John Simons (1993–1999)
• Jacob Klein (2000–2008)
• Dame Carol Robinson (2009–present); first female chemistry professor at Oxford

Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics)

See also: Category:Dr Lee's Professors of Experimental Philosophy

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford.

• Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1919–?); first incumbent
• Sir Francis Simon (1956); died one month after taking up the professorship
• Brebis Bleaney (1957–1977)
• Sir William Mitchell (1978–?)
• Roger Cowley (1988–2007)^[4]
• Paolo Radaelli (2008–present)^[5]