Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics
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The Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics at the University of Cambridge
was established on 10 February 1950, largely from the endowment fund of the proposed Hopkinson Professorship in Thermodynamics and a gift from ICI Limited
of £50,000, less tax, spread over the seven years from 1949 to 1955. The professorship is assigned primarily to the Faculty of Engineering
.
The chair is named in honour of John Hopkinson
, whose widow originally endowed a lectureship in thermodynamics in the hope that it would eventually be upgraded to a professorship.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
was established on 10 February 1950, largely from the endowment fund of the proposed Hopkinson Professorship in Thermodynamics and a gift from ICI Limited
Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries was a British chemical company, taken over by AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, one of the largest chemical producers in the world. In its heyday, ICI was the largest manufacturing company in the British Empire, and commonly regarded as a "bellwether of the British...
of £50,000, less tax, spread over the seven years from 1949 to 1955. The professorship is assigned primarily to the Faculty of Engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
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The chair is named in honour of John Hopkinson
John Hopkinson
John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882...
, whose widow originally endowed a lectureship in thermodynamics in the hope that it would eventually be upgraded to a professorship.
List of Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professors of Applied Thermodynamics
- 1951 - 1980 Sir William Rede HawthorneWilliam HawthorneSir William R. Hawthorne CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMECHE, FRAES, was a British professor of engineering who worked on the development of the jet engine....
- 1980 - 1983 John Arthur Shercliff
- 1985 - 1997 Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray
- 1998 - John Bernard Young