Jodrell Chair of Physiology

The Jodrell Chair of Physiology is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly before the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy) by Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell in 1873. The chairs succeeded the previous chair in Anatomy and Physiology.

The endowment was for the sum of £7500 (equivalent to £1,047,091 in 2023), with a further £500 for equipment.^[1][2] This endowment was acknowledged in the final report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction in 1875.^[3]

The first holder was John Burdon-Sanderson after the post received the Jodrell endowment.^[4]

Two Jodrell Professors, Archibald Hill and Andrew Huxley, have gone onto win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Professors of Anatomy and Physiology

• 1831-1836 Jones Quain
• 1836-1874 William Sharpey

Jodrell Professors of Physiology

• 1874-1882 Sir John Burdon Sanderson^[5]
• 1883-1899 Edward Sharpey-Schafer^[6][7]
• 1899-1923 Ernest Starling ^[7][8][9]
• 1923-1925 Archibald Hill ^[10][11]
• 1926-1949 Charles Lovatt Evans ^{[10][12] [11]}
• 1949-1960 Sir Lindor Brown ^{[10][13][better source needed]}
• 1960-1969 Sir Andrew Huxley ^[14][15]
• 1969-1979 Douglas Wilkie
• 1979-1995 Timothy Biscoe ^[16][17]
• 1995- David Attwell^[18]