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	Cavendish Professor of Physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later.
		The endowment was granted by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire.
		In 1971 it was officially renamed from the 'Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics' to the 'Cavendish Professorship of Physics'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cavendish_Professor_of_Physics (118 words)

	Cavendish Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics, and is part of the university's School of Physical Sciences.
		The Department is named after Henry Cavendish, a famous physicist, and a member of the Dukes of Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family.
		For their work while in the Cavendish Laboratory, they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962, together with Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, himself a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cavendish_Laboratory (346 words)

	Board Members \| thebulletin.org
		Cavendish Professor Emeritus for Theoretical Physics and former pro-vice chancellor at Cambridge University; former chairman of the Defence Scientific Council and chief scientific adviser of the Energy Department (United Kingdom); recipient of the Boltzmann Medal, 1995; recipient of the Royal Medal, 2001.
		Professor of cosmology and astrophysics and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge; former director of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy; former president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; recipient of the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council.
		Professor emeritus of the Institute of Physics and former head of the Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; former president of the Brazilian Society of Physics; honorable president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science.
	www.thebulletin.org /about_us/board_sponsors.htm (2998 words)

	Corpus Christi College
		Professor Warner was born in New Zealand and attended school in Auckland.
		D on the theoretical physics of polymers and on problems in stochastic dynamics with Professor Sir Edwards, former Cavendish Professor of Physics.
		Physics, and Mathematics for Natural Sciences and Computer Sciences are looked after by Professor Warner in his capacity as a Fellow and Director of Studies in Corpus.
	www.corpus.cam.ac.uk /fellowship/directory.php?contid=213 (271 words)

	James Clerk Maxwell
		He was summoned from his seclusion in 1871 to become the first holder of the newly founded professorship of Experimental Physics in Cambridge; and it was under his direction that the plans of the Cavendish Laboratory were prepared.
		Henry Cavendish, from which it appeared that Henry Cavendish, already famous by many other researches (such as the mean density of the earth, the composition of water, etc.), must be looked on as, in his day, a man of Maxwell's own stamp as a theorist and an experimenter of the very first rank.
		Professor: Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge University (1871-79)
	www.nndb.com /people/430/000072214 (1040 words)

	Professor Jim Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Professor Gwynne James Morgan graduated from the University of Manchester in 1961.
		In 1969 he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Leeds.
		In 1973 he was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics and in 1995 to the Cavendish Chair of Physics.
	www.stoner.leeds.ac.uk /people/gjm.htm (197 words)

	Plastic Logic
		Professor Friend has been Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge since 1995, following in the footsteps of giants like Maxwell, J.J. Thomson, Rutherford and Bragg.
		Professor Friend, aged 50, is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
		Professor Friend has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the 2002 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his outstanding personal contribution to British engineering.
	www.plasticlogic.com /news-detail.php?id=93 (508 words)

	Dirac Medal for Sir Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Medal is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to theoretical physics and mathematics and is named in memory of the distinguished physicist PAM Dirac.
		He returned to Cambridge in 1972 and, in 1984, was appointed Cavendish Professor of Physics, a post previously held by JJ Thomson and Ernest Rutherford.
		Professor Lee and Sir Sam were awarded the Medal on 8 August, the anniversary of PAM Dirac’s birthday.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2005081103 (243 words)

	Cambridge Physics - Splitting the Atom
		Many other major discoveries were also made while he was Professor, including Thomson's discovery of isotopes, Aston's development of the mass spectrograph and Wilson's invention of the cloud chamber.
		Thomson received the Nobel physics prize in 1906 for his 'investigations of the passage of electricity through gases', and was knighted in 1908.
		He was President of the Royal Society from 1914-1916, President of the Institute of Physics from 1921-1923, and Master of Trinity College from 1918 until his death.
	www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk /camphy/physicists/physicists_thomson.htm (634 words)

	Search Results for Physics
		She was a physics student there but the happiness was soon repaced by much pain for she fell ill with cancer and died in 1937 less than a year after the marriage.
		Weber, the professor of physics at Gottingen and a close collaborator of Gauss, was one of seven professors at the university to sign a protest and all seven were dismissed.
		He was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Tokyo in 1958 and led a small research group in the physics department, while his colleague Kosaku Yosida was building a group within mathematics studying related topics.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=Physics&CONTEXT=1 (17851 words)

	Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory
		A slate plaque in Free School Lane commemorates the first hundred years of the Cavendish, from its foundation by the first Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, James Clerk Maxwell, to the move of the Physics department to a green field site in West Cambridge.
		It is one of the hazards of allowing the greatest freedom to first-class staff that their ideas may not always tally with conventional definitions of physics.
		This policy, summed up in the motto “Physics is what physicists do”, made the Cavendish thirty years ago the nursery of Molecular Biology, and then gave justification (if any were needed) for the presence of a thriving Energy Research Group whose techniques are nearer economics than physics.
	www.phy.cam.ac.uk /cavendish/history/years/westcam.php (865 words)

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		His interest in solid-state physics began in 1938 when he was appointed to a Chair at the University of Bristol.
		Named Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge in 1954, the leading position in physics in Britain, he was also president of the International Union of Physics.
		Public acknowledgment of his contributions to Physics as well as to science education in Britain came in 1962 when he was Knighted, and again in 1995 when he was appointed Companion of Honour.
	www.worldscibooks.com /physics/2727.txt (263 words)

	Ernest Rutherford Bio from Thin Film Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rutherford returned to England in 1907 to become Langworthy Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester, succeeding Sir Arthur Schuster, and in 1919 he accepted an invitation to succeed Sir Joseph Thomson as Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.
		At Manchester, Rutherford continued his research on the properties of the radium emanation and of the alpha rays and, in conjunction with H. Geiger, a method of detecting a single alpha particle and counting the number emitted from radium was devised.
		From the independence of the rate of transformation of chemical and physical agencies, it was recognized that the transformation was atomic and not molecular in character.
	www.tfainc.com /library.asp (6179 words)

	Sir Nevill Mott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1954 he was appointed Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge, a post he held until 1971.
		Mott’s appointment as Cavendish Professor inevitably led to a greater involvement in administration both in the laboratory and the university and he assumed a number of positions nationally and internationally, both within the scientific community and more widely, for example, in the field of education.
		The work for which he shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in the area of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems was begun in the 1960s, while in his final years he was engaged in investigations of high temperature superconductivity.
	www.bath.ac.uk /ncuacs/rslp-nfm.htm (946 words)

	Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt
		Later he considered physics as a field of work in itself and investigated wave theory, light scattering, electrodynamics, hydrodynamics, viscosity and photography.
		Lord Rayleigh was an excellent instructor and, under his active supervision, a system of practical instruction in experimental physics was devised at Cambridge, developing from a class of five or six students to an advanced school of some seventy experimental physicists.
		All of this was overshadowed by his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904 for the isolation of the inert gas argon.
	www.ob-ultrasound.net /rayleigh.html (866 words)

	Cambridge Display Technology - Your Partner in Light Emitting Polymers
		Under the terms of the move Professor Friend will be responsible for guiding the direction of commercial research and development of Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) technology.
		Professor Friend is expected to spend approximately one fifth of his time with the company.
		Since graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1974 with first class honours in theoretical physics, Professor Friend has become recognised as a leading global authority in the electronic and optical properties of polymers and in the fabrication and measurement of polymer semiconductor devices.
	www.cdtltd.co.uk /press/archive_press_release_index/1999_and_before/172.asp (587 words)

	Thomson, Sir Joseph John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From 1884 to 1919 he was Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge.
		Thomson was one of the founders of modern physics.
		In addition to his own research, Thomson made a significant contribution during his long tenure as director of the Cavendish Laboratory in making it a leading center for atomic research where many important developments in modern physics occurred.
	encyclopedia.com /html/t/thmsnj1j1.asp (363 words)

	ICTP Dirac Medal 2005
		Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards, Emeritus Cavendish professor of physics, University of Cambridge, UK, and Patrick A. Lee, William and Emma Rogers professor of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, are the winners of the 2005 Dirac Medal.
		Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards, one of the founding fathers of condensed matter physics, is being honoured for his fundamental contributions to polymer physics, spin glass theory and the physics of granular matter.
		Established in 1985 by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the Dirac Medal, which is now recognized as one of the world's most prestigious prizes in physics, is given to scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics and mathematics.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-08/asic-idm080805.php (256 words)

	Stanford Applied Physics Faculty and Research Interests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PHILIP H. Professor of Applied Physics, of Physics, and of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
		Associate Professor of Physics, 1968-74; Professor of Physics 1974-94; Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics, 1994-present, Stanford University.
		Professor of Applied Physics, of Physics, and of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/app-physics/ar/facname.html (3783 words)

	Education \| Cambridge professors knighted in birthday honours
		No fewer than three Cambridge professors receive knighthoods and another was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's birthday honours announced today, compared with one knighthood each for Oxford and Warwick and one dame at Imperial College.
		The Cambridge trio are Professor John Hamilton Baker QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, Professor Patrick F Bateson RS, professor of ethology and Professor Richard Henry Friend FRS Cavendish professor of physics.
		Professor of Rural Economy and Founder of the Centre for Rural Economy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4690968-108229,00.html (519 words)

	Dirac Medal goes to condensed matter physicists (August 2005) - News - PhysicsWeb
		Edwards wins the prize for "his fundamental contributions to polymer physics, spin glass theory and the physics of granular matter", while Lee is recognized for "his pioneering contributions to our understanding of disordered and strongly interacting many-body systems".
		Edwards' work in condensed matter physics began in 1958 when he showed that disordered systems like glasses and gels could be described by quantum field theory, and he revolutionised polymer physics in the 1960s with the introduction of the Edwards Hamiltonian and, later, the concept of polymer entanglement.
		Edwards, who was knighted in 1975, is presently emeritus Cavendish professor of physics at Cambridge University.
	physicsweb.org /archive/news/9/8/5/1?rss=2.0 (289 words)

	J.J. Thomson \| Biography \| atomicarchive.com
		His professor of mathematics recognized his brilliance, and he was encouraged to apply for a scholarship at Trinity College in Cambridge.
		He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 and was knighted in 1908.
		His importance in physics is recognized almost as much for those he inspired as for his own experimental work.
	www.atomicarchive.com /Bios/Thomson.shtml (331 words)

	A Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Most importantly, he originated the concept of electromagnetic radiation and his field equations (1873) led to Einstein's special theory of relativity, It is ironic that when in 1860 the University of Aberdeen was formed by a merger between King's College and Marischal College where he held a post, Maxwell was "redundant".
		In 1871, Maxwell was appointed the first Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge.
		John Henry Poynting (1852-1914), one of Maxwell's students, was a professor of physics at Mason Science College, now the University of Birmingham, England.
	www.ee.umd.edu /~taylor/frame6.htm (375 words)

	J.J. Thomson - Biography
		He became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1880, when he was Second Wrangler and Second Smith's Prizeman, and he remained a member of the College for the rest of his life, becoming Lecturer in 1883 and Master in 1918.
		Lord Rayleigh, from 1884 to 1918 and Honorary Professor of Physics, Cambridge and Royal Institution, London.
		Sir George Paget Thomson, Emeritus Professor of Physics at London University, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1937, and one daughter.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html (680 words)

	Joseph John Thomson
		He was Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, where he succeeded Lord Rayleigh, from 1884 to 1918 and Honorary Professor of Physics, Cambridge and Royal Institution, London.
		His Application of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry appeared in 1886, and in 1892 he had his Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism published.
		Thomson co-operated with Professor J. Poynting in a four-volume textbook of physics, Properties of Matter and in 1895 he produced Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, the 5th edition of which appeared in 1921.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Biographies/ThomsonBio.htm (709 words)

	Department of Materials Science and Engineering -- Cornell University
		Richard Friend has been on the Faculty in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, since 1980, where he is the Cavendish Professor of Physics.
		Professor Friend has pioneered the study of organic polymers as semiconductors, and has demonstrated that these materials can be used in a wide range of semiconductor devices, including light emitting diodes, transistors and photocells.
		The Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professorship was established in 1966 through the bequest of the widow of the late Maxwell M. Upson, who graduated from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1899 and was a member of the Board of Trustees for thirty-five years.
	www.mse.cornell.edu /materials_science_news/UpsonVisitingProfessor.html (758 words)

	Lawrence Bragg - Biography
		Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and from this year to 1919, W. Bragg served as Technical Advisor on Sound Ranging to the Map Section, G.H.Q., France, receiving the O.B.E. and the M.C. in 1918.
		He was appointed Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester University in 1919, and held this post till 1937.
		W. Lawrence Bragg, who had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921, was Director of the National Physical Laboratory in 1937-1938 and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, from 1938 to 1953.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1915/wl-bragg-bio.html (528 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Maxwell, James Clerk
		After graduating (1854) with a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge, he held professorships at Marischal College in Aberdeen (1856) and at King's College in London (1860) and became the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge in 1871.
		Maxwell also calculated that the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic field is approximately that of the speed of light.
		He retired in 1865 to carry on his experimental work but returned to Cambridge in 1871 to plan the famous Cavendish laboratory and was its first professor of physics.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/MAXWELL_BIO.html (1438 words)

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