Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
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The Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an endowed
professor
ship established at Harvard College
in 1727 by Thomas Hollis
.
The incumbents have been:
Financial endowment
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professor
Professor
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ship established at Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
in 1727 by Thomas Hollis
Thomas Hollis (1659-1731)
Thomas Hollis was a wealthy English merchant and benefactor of Harvard University. In 1721, he established the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard, with a salary of £80 per year. In 1726, he also endowed a chair in mathematics with the same amount....
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The incumbents have been:
- Isaac GreenwoodIsaac GreenwoodProfessor Isaac Greenwood was the first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College....
(1727–1737) - John Winthrop (1737–1779)
- Samuel Williams (1779–1789)
- Samuel Webber (1789–1806)
- John FarrarJohn Farrar (scientist)John Farrar was an American scholar. He first coined the concept of hurricanes as “a moving vortex and not the rushing forward of a great body of the atmosphere”, after the Great September Gale of 1815. Farrar remained Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard University between...
(1807–1838) - Joseph LoveringJoseph LoveringJoseph Lovering was an American scientist and educator.He graduated from Harvard in 1833. In 1838 he was named Hollis Professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Harvard. He held this chair until 1888, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus, after 50 years service...
(1838–1888) - Benjamin Osgood PeirceBenjamin Osgood PeirceBenjamin Osgood Peirce was an American mathematician and a holder of the Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard from 1888 until his death in 1914.-References:...
(1888–1914) - Wallace Clement SabineWallace Clement SabineWallace Clement Sabine was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1886 at the age of 18 before joining Harvard University for graduate study and remaining as a faculty member...
(1914–1919)(1919–1921) - Theodore LymanTheodore LymanTheodore Lyman was a U.S. physicist and spectroscopist, born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, from which he also received his Ph.D. in 1900. He became an assistant professor in physics at Harvard, where he remained, becoming full professor in 1917, and where he was also director of...
(1921–1926) - Percy Williams BridgmanPercy Williams BridgmanPercy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science.- Biography :Bridgman entered Harvard University in 1900,...
(1926–1950) - John Hasbrouck Van VleckJohn Hasbrouck van VleckJohn Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician, co-awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electrons in magnetic solids....
(1951–1969) - Andrew GleasonAndrew GleasonAndrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem and the Greenwood–Gleason graph. After briefly attending Berkeley High School he graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, then Yale University in 1942, where he became a Putnam Fellow...
(1969–1992) - Bertrand HalperinBertrand HalperinBertrand I. Halperin is the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the physics department of Harvard University.He grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. He attended Harvard University , and did his graduate work at Berkeley with John J. Hopfield .In the 1970s, he, together with...
(1992-)