Regius Professor of Physics 👑 Langworthy Professor of Physics #NotMyKing

A Regius Professor is a university professor who has royal patronage or appointment. The monarch giving their patronage is appointed by God using a special hat. Does that sound ridiculous? That's because it is.

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ELIZABETH THE SECOND

BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND & OF OUR OTHER REALMS & TERRITORIES QUEEN, HEAD OF THE COMMONWEALTH, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

 

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!

 

WHEREAS we are desirous that a mark of Our Royal Grace and Favour should be conferred upon the Professorship of Physics in the the University of Manchester in recognition of outstanding teaching and research to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Our Reign.

 

AND WHEREAS it has been represented to us by Our Secretary of state that there be a Professorship of Physics in the University of Manchester amongst a number of Professorships, upon whom Our Royal Grace and Favour shall be conferred

 

NOW KNOW YE that we for divers good causes and and considerations and by our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion do hereby for ourselves, Our herr's and successors give and grant unte the Ofice or Place of Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester a mark of Our Royal Gruce and Favour

 

AND it is Our Will and Pleasure therefore that the said Office or Place of Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester shall hereafter be known during Our Pleasure and that of Our heirs and successors by the style and title of Regius Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester

 

GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James's the Twenty-sixth day of July Two Thousand and Thirteen in the Sixty-second year of Our Reign.

 

BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND

 

The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK. It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by the businessman and politician E. R. Langworthy at Owens College, Manchester in 1874. Owens College later became the Victoria University of Manchester in 1904 and then the University of Manchester in 2004. Holders of the chair include:

 

👑 1874–87 Balfour Stewart

 

👑 1887–1907 Sir Arthur Schuster

 

👑 1907–19 Sir Ernest Rutherford

 

👑 1919–37 Sir William Lawrence Bragg

 

👑 1937–53 Patrick Blackett

 

👑 1955–60 Samuel Devons

 

👑 1961–72 Brian Flowers

 

👑 1987–90 Francis Graham-Smith

 

👑 1998–2001 Frank Read

 

👑 2001–07 Andrew Lyne

 

👑 2007–13 Sir Andre Geim

 

👑 2013–present Sir Konstantin Novoselov

 

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