John Humphrey Plummer Professor
The John Humphrey Plummer Professorships were established in 1931 from a bequest of £200,000 under the will of John Humphrey Plummer, an estate agent of Southport, to the University of Cambridge for the advancement of science. The fund has been used to endow a series of professorships in various scientific fields under a number of titles.
John Humphrey Plummer Professors
Colloidal Physics
- 1930–1931 Sir Eric Rideal
Colloid Science
- 1931–1946 Sir Eric Rideal
- 1947–1966 Francis Roughton
Mathematical Physics
- 1932–1944 Sir Ralph H. Fowler
- 1946–1958 Douglas Hartree
Theoretical Chemistry
- 1932–1953 Sir John Lennard-Jones
- 1954–1967 Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Physics
- 1960–1971 Sir Brian Pippard
- 1972–1984 Sir Sam Edwards
Biophysics
- 1970–1981 Sir Alan Hodgkin
Applied Numerical Analysis
- 1976–2001 Michael J. D. Powell
Cell Biology
- 1983–2002 Sir John Gurdon
Magnetic Resonance
- 1987–1999 Ray Freeman
Theoretical Physics
- 1993–2009 Michael Green
Developmental Biology
- 2001–2008 Sir Jim Cuthbert Smith
Chemical and Structural Biology
- 2001–2017 Sir Chris Dobson
Physics of Materials
- 2004–2014 Ullrich Steiner
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine
- 2018–present Mihaela van der Schaar