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The BP Professorship of Organic Chemistry is one of the senior professorships at the University of Cambridge, based in the Department of Chemistry. [1]

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BP Professors of Organic Chemistry

History

Founded in 1702 by the university as simply 'Professor of Chemistry', it was retitled as the Professorship of Organic Chemistry in 1943, and in 1991 was renamed after a benefaction from the oil company British Petroleum.

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  1. ↑ Archer, Mary D.; Haley, Christopher D. (2005), The 1702 chair of chemistry at Cambridge: transformation and change, Cambridge University Press, ISBN   0521828732
  2. ↑ LEY, Prof. Steven Victor. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Closed Access logo alternative.svg (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Brown, D. M.; Kornberg, H. (2000). "Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 46: 515. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0099.
  4. ↑ Crombie, L. (2000). "Ralph Alexander Raphael". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 46: 465. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0096.
  5. ↑ BATTERSBY, Sir Alan (Rushton). ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Closed Access logo alternative.svg (subscription required)
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