John Humphrey Plummer Professor
Introduction 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 (elected Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, later Keele University, in 1953)*1954–1967 Christopher Longuet-Higgins===Physics===*1960–1971 Sir Brian Pippard (elected Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1971)*1972–1984 Sir Sam Edwards===Biophysics===*1970–1981 Sir Alan Hodgkin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963)===Applied Numerical Analysis===*1976–2001 Michael J. D. Powell===Cell Biology===*1983–2002 Sir John Gurdon (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012)===Magnetic Resonance===*1987–1999 Ray Freeman===Theoretical Physics===*1993–2009 Michael Green (elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 2009)===Developmental Biology===*2001–2008 Sir Jim Cuthbert Smith===Chemical and Structural Biology===*2001–2017 Sir Chris Dobson (elected Master of St John's College in 2007)===Physics of Materials===*2004–2014 Ullrich Steiner===Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine===*2018–present Mihaela van der Schaar
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