Professorship
|
Faculty or Department
|
Benefactor
|
Established
|
Discontinued
|
Notes
|
Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity
|
Divinity
|
Lady Margaret Beaufort
|
1502
|
|
|
Regius Professor of Divinity
|
Divinity
|
Henry VIII
|
1540
|
|
|
Regius Professor of Civil Law
|
Law
|
Henry VIII
|
1540
|
|
|
Regius Professor of Physic
|
Medicine
|
Henry VIII
|
1540
|
|
Ex officio Head of the School of Clinical Medicine
|
Regius Professor of Hebrew
|
Middle Eastern Studies
|
Henry VIII
|
1540
|
|
|
Regius Professor of Greek
|
Classics
|
Henry VIII
|
1540
|
|
|
Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic
|
Middle Eastern Studies
|
Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet
|
1632
|
|
|
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
Henry Lucas
|
1663
|
|
|
Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy
|
Philosophy
|
John Knightbridge
|
1683
|
|
|
Professor of Music
|
Music
|
|
1684
|
|
|
Yusuf Hamied 1702 Professor of Chemistry
|
Chemistry
|
|
1702
|
|
Formerly BP Professor of Chemistry (1991–2019), Professor of Organic Chemistry (1943–1991) and Professor of Chemistry (1702–1943)
|
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
|
Astronomy
|
Thomas Plume
|
1704
|
|
|
Professor of Anatomy
|
Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience
|
|
1707
|
|
|
Regius Professor of History
|
History
|
George I
|
1724
|
|
Formerly Regius Professor of Modern History (1724–2010)
|
Regius Professor of Botany
|
Plant Sciences
|
|
1724
|
|
Formerly Professor of Botany (1724–2009)
|
Woodwardian Professor of Geology
|
Earth Sciences
|
John Woodward
|
1728
|
|
|
Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
Thomas Lowndes
|
1749
|
|
|
Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity
|
Divinity
|
|
1777
|
|
Formed in 1934 by merger of the Norrisian (1777) and Hulsean (1860) Professorships of Divinity
|
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy
|
Physics
|
Rev Richard Jackson
|
1783
|
|
|
Downing Professor of the Laws of England
|
Law
|
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet
|
1800
|
|
|
Downing Professor of Medicine
|
Medicine
|
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet
|
1800
|
1930
|
|
Professor of Mineralogy
|
Mineralogy
|
|
1808
|
1931
|
Replaced by the Professorship of Mineralogy and Petrology in 1931
|
Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic
|
Oriental Languages
|
The Crown, via the Lord Almoner
|
1815
|
1933
|
Preceded by a readership of the same title (1724–1815)
|
Disney Professor of Archaeology
|
Archaeology
|
John Disney
|
1851
|
|
|
Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
Lady Mary Sadleir
|
1860
|
|
Preceded by a lectureship of the same title (1748–1864)
|
Professor of Political Economy
|
Economics
|
|
1863
|
|
Title first granted in 1828, permanent professorship established in 1863
|
Professor of Zoology
|
Zoology
|
|
1866
|
|
Formerly Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1866–1934)
|
Whewell Professor of International Law
|
Law
|
William Whewell
|
1867
|
|
|
Kennedy Professor of Latin
|
Classics
|
Friends and former pupils of Benjamin Hall Kennedy
|
1869
|
|
Formerly Professor of Latin (1869–1911)
|
Slade Professor of Fine Art
|
History of Art
|
Felix Slade
|
1869
|
|
|
Cavendish Professor of Physics
|
Physics
|
William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
|
1871
|
|
|
Professor of Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1875
|
|
Formerly Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics (1875–1934) and Professor of Mechanical Science (1934–1966)
|
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
|
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
|
Joseph Bosworth
|
1878
|
|
|
Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History
|
History
|
Wolstan Dixie
|
1882
|
|
Preceded by fellowships of Emmanuel College established from the same endowment
|
Professor of Physiology
|
Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience
|
|
1883
|
|
|
Professor of Pathology[1] |
Pathology
|
|
1883
|
|
Also ex officio member of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine
|
Ely Professor of Divinity
|
Divinity
|
Canonry of Ely
|
1889
|
1980
|
|
Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy
|
Philosophy
|
|
1896
|
|
Formerly Professor of Philosophy (1934–2010) and Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic (1896–1934)
|
Professor of Ancient History
|
Classics
|
|
1898
|
|
Also ex officio member of the Faculty Board of History
|
Drapers Professor of Agriculture
|
Biology
|
Worshipful Company of Drapers
|
1899
|
1990
|
|
Quick Professor of Biology
|
Determined upon appointment
|
Frederick James Quick
|
1906
|
|
|
Professor of Astrophysics
|
Astronomy
|
|
1909
|
|
|
Schröder Professor of German
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
Messrs J. Henry Schröder and Company
|
1909
|
|
|
King Edward VII Professor of English Literature
|
English
|
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
|
1911
|
|
|
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
|
Genetics
|
Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher
|
1912
|
|
|
Serena Professor of Italian
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
Arthur Serena
|
1919
|
|
|
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History
|
History
|
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere
|
1919
|
|
Formerly Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History (1919–1933)
|
Drapers Professor of French
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
Worshipful Company of Drapers
|
1919
|
|
|
Francis Mond Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
|
Engineering
|
Emile Mond
|
1919
|
|
|
Professor of Physical Chemistry
|
Chemistry
|
|
1920
|
|
|
Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry
|
Biochemistry
|
Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet, of Lakenheath
|
1921
|
|
|
Professor of the History of Political Thought[2][3] |
History
|
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
|
1927
|
|
Formerly Professor of Political Science (1927–2010)
|
Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
W. W. Rouse Ball
|
1927
|
|
|
Rouse Ball Professor of English Law
|
Law
|
W. W. Rouse Ball
|
1927
|
|
|
Professor of Economic History[4][5] |
History
|
|
1928
|
|
Also ex officio member of the Faculty Board of Economics
|
Professor of Modern History
|
History
|
|
1930
|
|
|
Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy
|
Classics
|
Perceval Maitland Laurence
|
1930
|
|
|
Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology
|
Classics
|
Perceval Maitland Laurence
|
1930
|
|
|
Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations
|
Economics
|
Montague Burton
|
1930
|
|
|
Professor of Geography[6] |
Geography
|
|
1931
|
|
|
Professor of Experimental Psychology
|
Psychology
|
|
1931
|
|
|
Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology
|
Earth Sciences
|
|
1931
|
|
Replaced the Professorship of Mineralogy established in 1808
|
John Humphrey Plummer Professors
|
Determined upon appointment
|
|
1931
|
|
|
Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science
|
Materials Science and Metallurgy
|
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
|
1931
|
|
|
William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology
|
Social Anthropology
|
William Wyse
|
1932
|
|
|
Professor of Spanish
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
|
1933
|
|
|
Professor of Comparative Philology[7] |
Classics
|
|
1937
|
|
|
Professor of Medieval History
|
History
|
|
1937
|
|
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
1938
|
|
|
Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions
|
Determined upon appointment
|
Cambridge University Press
|
1944
|
|
|
Professor of Electrical Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1944
|
|
|
Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering
|
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
|
Royal Dutch Shell
|
1945
|
|
|
Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology
|
Oriental Studies
|
Henry Francis Herbert Thompson
|
1945
|
1977
|
Subsequently re-established as a personal professorship (2005–13)
|
Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics
|
Engineering
|
Imperial Chemical Industries
|
1950
|
|
|
Professor of Small Animal Surgery
|
Veterinary Medicine
|
|
1950
|
|
Formerly Professor of Comparative Oncology and Genetics (2011–13) and Professor of Veterinary Clinical Studies (1950–2011)
|
Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
|
History
|
|
1952
|
|
Formerly Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth (1952–94)
|
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English
|
English
|
|
1954
|
|
|
Wolfson Professor of Criminology
|
Criminology
|
|
1959
|
|
|
Professor of Manufacturing Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1960
|
|
|
Sheild Professor of Pharmacology
|
Pharmacology
|
|
1961
|
|
|
Professor of Mathematical Statistics
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
|
1961
|
|
|
Professor of Medicine
|
Medicine
|
|
1962
|
|
|
Professor of Applied Mathematics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
|
1964
|
|
|
Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics
|
Economics
|
|
1965
|
|
Formerly Professor of Economics (1965–1994)
|
Professor of English
|
English
|
|
1966
|
|
|
Professor of Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1966
|
|
|
Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering
|
Engineering
|
Kirby Laing Foundation
|
1966
|
|
Formerly Professor of Engineering (1966–2011)
|
Professor of Physics
|
Physics
|
|
1966
|
|
|
Professor of Geophysics
|
Earth Sciences
|
|
1966
|
|
|
Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
Esso Petroleum Company Limited
|
1966
|
|
|
Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization
|
East Asian Studies
|
|
1966
|
|
Formerly Professor of Chinese (1966–2008)
|
Mary Marshall and Arthur Walton Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction
|
Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience
|
Francis Marshall
|
1967
|
|
|
Professor of Mathematical Physics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
|
1967
|
|
|
Professor of Slavonic Studies
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
|
1968
|
|
|
Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies
|
Determined upon appointment
|
Government of Venezuela
|
1968
|
|
|
Professor of Chemistry
|
Physics & Chemistry
|
|
1968
|
|
|
Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry
|
Chemistry
|
|
1970
|
|
|
Professor of Architecture
|
Architecture
|
|
1970
|
|
|
Professor of Economics
|
Economics
|
|
1970
|
|
|
Rank Professor of Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1971
|
|
|
Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science
|
Law
|
Overbrook Foundation
|
1971
|
|
|
Alexander Todd Visiting Professor of Chemistry
|
Physics & Chemistry
|
|
1972
|
|
|
Professor of Law[8] |
Law
|
|
1973
|
|
|
Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
|
Public Health and Primary Care
|
|
1975
|
|
|
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
|
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
|
|
1975
|
|
|
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine
|
Clinical Biochemistry
|
|
1977
|
|
|
Professor of Radiology
|
Radiology
|
|
1977
|
|
|
Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Immunology
|
Medicine
|
Herchel Smith
|
1977
|
|
Formerly Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Tumour Immunology (1977–1988)
|
Professor of Paediatrics
|
Paediatrics
|
|
1978
|
|
|
Professor of Mathematical Physics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
|
1978
|
|
|
Paul Mellon Professor of American History
|
History
|
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
|
1980
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
|
Clinical Medicine
|
American Friends of Cambridge University
|
1982
|
|
|
Charles Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology
|
School of the Biological Sciences
|
Edward J. Bles
|
1982
|
|
Previously established as a personal professorship (1967–1981)
|
Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Professor
|
Determined upon appointment
|
Edward J. Bles
|
1983
|
|
|
Professor of Japanese Studies
|
East Asian Studies
|
Keidanren
|
1984
|
|
|
Professor of Sociology
|
Sociology
|
|
1985
|
|
|
Professor of Haematology
|
Haematology
|
|
1986
|
|
|
KPMG Professor of Management Studies
|
Judge Business School
|
Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell & Co.
|
1986
|
|
|
Professor of Clinical Gerontology
|
Public Health and Primary Care
|
|
1987
|
|
|
Professor of Medicine
|
Medicine
|
|
1987
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Organic Chemistry
|
Chemistry
|
American Friends of Cambridge University
|
1988
|
|
|
Professor of Neurology
|
Clinical Neurosciences
|
|
1988
|
|
|
Professor of English and Applied Linguistics
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
|
1988
|
|
|
Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science
|
Materials Science and Metallurgy
|
|
1988
|
|
Formerly Professor of Materials Science (1988–2012)
|
Professor of Theoretical Geophysics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
|
1989
|
|
|
George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science
|
Archaeology
|
|
1990
|
|
|
Professor of Neurosurgery
|
Clinical Neurosciences
|
|
1990
|
|
|
Diageo Professor of Management Studies
|
Judge Business School
|
|
1990
|
|
|
Professor of Molecular Endocrinology
|
Clinical Biochemistry
|
|
1990
|
|
Formerly Serono Professor of Molecular Endocrinology (1990–2014)
|
Professor of Land Economy
|
Land Economy
|
|
1991
|
|
|
Professor of Virology
|
Pathology
|
|
1991
|
|
|
S. J. Berwin Professor of Corporate Law
|
Law
|
S. J. Berwin and Co.
|
1991
|
|
|
GlaxoSmithKline Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis
|
Medicine
|
Glaxo Holdings
|
1991
|
|
|
Professor of Histopathology
|
Pathology
|
|
1992
|
|
|
G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
Gladys Davies
|
1992
|
|
|
BBV Foundation Visiting Professor
|
Determined upon appointment
|
BBV Foundation, Bilbao
|
1992
|
|
|
John Wilfrid Linnett Visiting Professor of Chemistry
|
Cambridge
|
|
1993
|
|
|
Professor of Geography
|
Geography
|
|
1993
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law
|
Law
|
American Friends of Cambridge University
|
1993
|
|
|
Professor of Statistical Science
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
|
1994
|
|
|
Professor of Computer Science
|
Computer Science and Technology
|
|
1994
|
|
|
Professor of European Law
|
Law
|
|
1994
|
|
|
Professor of Information Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1994
|
|
|
Professor of Immunology
|
Pathology
|
|
1995
|
|
|
Marks & Spencer Professor of Farm Animal Health, Food Science, and Food Safety
|
Veterinary Medicine
|
Marks & Spencer
|
1996
|
|
|
Professor of Surgery
|
Surgery
|
|
1996
|
|
|
Beckwith Professor of Management Studies
|
Judge Business School
|
Peter Beckwith
|
1996
|
|
|
Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations
|
Politics and International Studies
|
British American Tobacco
|
1996
|
|
|
Professor of Medical Genetics
|
Medical Genetics
|
|
1997
|
|
|
Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
|
History and Philosophy of Science
|
|
1997
|
|
|
Ursula Zoëllner Professor of Cancer Research
|
Oncology
|
F. A. Zoëllner
|
1997
|
|
|
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
1997
|
|
|
Professor of Computer Technology
|
Computer Science and Technology
|
|
1997
|
|
|
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management
|
Judge Business School
|
Sinyi Foundation
|
1997
|
|
|
Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science
|
Computer Science and Technology
|
Robert Sansom
|
1998
|
|
|
Professor of Endocrinology
|
Medicine
|
|
1998
|
|
|
Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management
|
Judge Business School
|
Dennis Gillings
|
1998
|
|
|
Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies
|
Judge Business School
|
Margaret Thatcher Foundation
|
1998
|
|
|
Unilever Professor of Molecular Sciences Informatics
|
Chemistry
|
Unilever
|
1999
|
|
|
BP Professor of Petroleum Science
|
Earth Sciences
|
|
1999
|
|
|
Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance
|
Land Economy
|
|
1999
|
|
|
Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
|
1999
|
|
|
Professor of Chemical Engineering
|
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
|
|
1999
|
|
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
2000
|
|
Formerly Professor of Primary Education (2000–2005)
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
2000
|
|
Formerly Professor of Educational Leadership (2000–2007)
|
Professor of Linguistics
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
|
2000
|
|
|
Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences
|
Psychology
|
|
2000
|
|
|
Professor of Plant Ecology
|
Plant Sciences
|
|
2000
|
|
|
Professor of Physical Geography
|
Geography
|
|
2000
|
|
|
Professor of Human Geography
|
Geography
|
|
2000
|
|
|
Professor of Psychiatry
|
Psychiatry
|
|
2000
|
|
|
N. M. Rothschild & Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences
|
|
N. M. Rothschild & Sons
|
2001
|
|
Ex officio Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
|
Marconi Professor of Communications Systems
|
Computer Science and Technology
|
Marconi Communications
|
2001
|
|
|
Professor of Oncological Pathology
|
Pathology
|
|
2001
|
|
|
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
|
Surgery
|
|
2001
|
|
|
Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance
|
Judge Business School
|
|
2001
|
|
Formerly Robert Monks Professorship of Corporate Governance (2001–11)
|
Professor of English
|
English
|
|
2001
|
|
|
Van Eck Professor of Engineering
|
Engineering
|
Fred van Eck
|
2001
|
|
|
Prince Philip Professor of Technology
|
Engineering
|
|
2001
|
|
Established to mark the 80th birthday of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the 25th anniversary of his election as Chancellor
|
Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics
|
Physics
|
Hitachi Ltd
|
2002
|
|
|
Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics
|
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
|
Hazel N. Trapnell
|
2002
|
|
|
Professor of Accounting
|
Judge Business School
|
|
2002
|
|
|
Sandra Dawson Visiting Professor of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation
|
Judge Business School
|
- Gianni Montezemolo
- Joan Montezemolo
|
2002
|
|
Formerly Visiting Professorship of Marketing, Strategy, and Innovation (2002–2013)
|
Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis
|
Geography
|
|
2003
|
|
|
Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution
|
Plant Sciences
|
|
2003
|
|
|
Professor of Gastroenterology
|
Medicine
|
|
2003
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professorship of Pure Mathematics
|
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
|
Herchel Smith
|
2004
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics
|
Genetics
|
Herchel Smith
|
2004
|
|
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
2004
|
|
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
2004
|
2017
|
|
Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience
|
Determined upon appointment
|
Woco Foundation of Canada
|
2004
|
|
|
Professor of Information Engineering
|
Engineering
|
|
2004
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics
|
Physics
|
Herchel Smith
|
2004
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry
|
Biochemistry
|
Herchel Smith
|
2005
|
|
|
Professor of Family Research
|
Psychology
|
|
2005
|
|
|
French Government Visiting Professor
|
Modern and Medieval Languages
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Professor of Education
|
Education
|
|
2005
|
|
|
Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Biology
|
Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience
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Herchel Smith
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2006
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Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology
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Social Anthropology
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Sigrid M. Rausing
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2006
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Formerly Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology (2006–11)
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Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology
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Zoology
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Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund
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2006
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His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professor of Modern Arabic Studies
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Middle Eastern Studies
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Qaboos bin Said al Said
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2006
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Professor of Applied Mathematics
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Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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2006
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Professor of Physics
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Physics
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2006
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Professor of Comparative Pathology
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Veterinary Medicine
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
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2006
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Formerly Professor of Veterinary Science (2006–07)
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Genzyme Professor of Experimental Medicine
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Medicine
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Genzyme Corporation
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2006
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development
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Geography
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- James Wilson
- Jane Wilson (née Hepburne Scott)
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2006
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Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life
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Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
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Winton Charitable Foundation
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2006
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Formerly Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk (2006–2020)
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Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise
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Judge Business School
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High Commission of India
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2007
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Li Ka Shing Professor of Oncology
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Oncology
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Li Ka Shing Foundation
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2007
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Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Zoology
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2007
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Established to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the installation of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as Chancellor
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Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance
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Judge Business School
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Eranda Rothchild Foundation
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2007
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Professor of Experimental Astrophysics
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Physics
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2008
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Professor of Education
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Education
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2008
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A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture
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Classics
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A. G. Leventis Foundation
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2008
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Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy
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Materials Science and Metallurgy
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Tata Steel (UK) Ltd
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2008
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Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology
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Veterinary Medicine
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2009
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Formerly Professor of Diagnostic Veterinary Pathology (2009)
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Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies
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Politics and International Studies
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Carl Djerassi
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2009
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Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor of Urban Design
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Architecture
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D. G. Marshall of Cambridge Trust
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2010
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Formerly Sir Arthur Marshall Visiting Professor of Sustainable Urban Design (2010–15)
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Visiting Professor of Architecture
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Architecture
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2010
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Professor of Photonic Systems and Displays
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Engineering
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2010
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Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance
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Judge Business School
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2010
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BP Foundation McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences
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Earth Sciences
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BP Foundation
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2010
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Humanitas Visiting Professors
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue
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2010
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Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography
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Geography
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2011
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Formerly Professor of Demography (2011–14)
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Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values
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Divinity
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Qaboos bin Said al Said
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2011
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Professor of Education
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Education
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2011
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Dyson Professor of Fluid Mechanics
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Engineering
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Dyson Technology Limited
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2011
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Regius Professor of Engineering
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Engineering
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2011
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Established to commemorate the retirement of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as Chancellor
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Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy
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Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
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Estate Management Development Fund
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2012
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Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development
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Politics and International Studies
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Chong Hua Educational Foundation
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2012
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Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering
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Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
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2012
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Professor of Politics
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Politics and International Studies
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2012
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Professor of Engineering
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Engineering
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2012
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John Harvard Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
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Alternating between institutions in the Schools of Arts and Humanities, and of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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2013
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Stephen W. Hawking Professor of Cosmology
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Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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Avery–Tsui Foundation[9] |
2014
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Professor of History of Art
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History of Art
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2015
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LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning[10] |
Education
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The LEGO Foundation[11] |
2015
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Janeway Professor of Financial Economics
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Economics
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Weslie and William Janeway
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2015
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Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics
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Engineering
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2015
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El-Erian Professor of Economics
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Economics
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Mohamed El-Erian
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2016
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Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law
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Law
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Sir David Li, Li family, Robinson College and anonymous benefactors[12] |
2016
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Professor of Public Policy
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Politics and International Studies
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2016
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Russell R. Geiger Professor of Crop Science
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Plant Sciences
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Russell R. Geiger
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2016
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Professor of Information and Communications
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Engineering
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2016
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Professor of Computer Science
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Computer Science and Technology
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2016
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Al-Kindi Professor
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Genetics
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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2017
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Bennett Professor of Public Policy
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Politics and International Studies
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Peter W. Bennett
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2017
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Dr John C. Taylor Professor of Public Innovation
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Engineering
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John Taylor
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2017
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Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa
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Archaeology
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Jonathan and Jennifer Oppenheimer Foundation
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2017
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Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology
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Medicine
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Versus Arthritis
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2018
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Formerly ARUK Professorship of Rheumatology (2018–2019)
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Professor of Digital Humanities
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Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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2018
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Professor of Accounting
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Judge Business School
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2018
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DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning
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Computer Science and Technology
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DeepMind[13] |
2019
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Nanjing Professor of Technology and Innovation
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Engineering
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Nanjing Healthcare Investment Area and Development Company
|
2019
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Caroline Humphrey Professor of the Anthropology of Inner Asia
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Social Anthropology
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Sigrid Rausing Trust
|
2020
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Sheila Joan Smith Professor of Medicine
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Medicine
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Herchel Smith[14] |
2020
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Professor of Autism Research
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Psychiatry
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Autism Research Trust[14] |
2021
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Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics
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Psychiatry
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Goldman Sachs Gives UK on behalf of Richard and Kara Gnodde[15] |
2021
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Andreas von Hirsch Professor of Penal Theory and Ethics
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Criminology
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Andreas von Hirsch[16] |
2021
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