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Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow)
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The Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, which was established in 1727
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The Nova Erectio of King James VI of Scotland shared the teaching of moral philosophy, logic and natural philosophy among the regents.[1]
In 1727 separate chairs were instituted.[2]
In 1986, the departments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy were merged and formed the new department of Physics and Astronomy.[3]
In 2024, Miles Padgett holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.[4]
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Professors of natural philosophy
- Robert Dick Snr MA MD (1727) [5]
- Robert Dick Jnr MA MD (1751)
- John Anderson MA (1757)
- James Brown MA MD (1796)
- William Meikleham MA LLD (1803)
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs GCVO MA DCL LLD FRS (1846)
- Andrew Gray MA LLD FRS (1899)
- Harold Albert Wilson MA DSc FRS (1924)
- Edward Taylor Jones DSc LLD (1926)
- Philip Ivor Dee CBE MA FRS
- Robert Patton Ferrier BSc MA PhD FRSE (1973)[6]
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