Professor of Physiology (Cambridge)

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The Professorship of Physiology, also known as the Chair of Physiology (1883), is a chair at the University of Cambridge. In 2006, the Department of Physiology was merged with the Department of Anatomy to form the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience where the chair is now based.

List of Professors of Physiology

Michael Foster (1883–1903)

John Newport Langley (1903–1925)
Joseph Barcroft (1926–1937)^[1]
Edgar Adrian (1937–1951)^[2]
Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews (1952–1973)

Richard Darwin Keynes (1973–1987)
Ian Michael Glynn (1986–1995)

Roger Christopher Thomas (1996–2006)
Ole Paulsen (2010–present)

References

↑ West, John B. (23 September 2004). "Barcroft, Sir Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30580.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Hodgkin, A. L. (23 September 2004). "Adrian, Edgar Douglas, first Baron Adrian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30753.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

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[1] West, John B. (23 September 2004). "Barcroft, Sir Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30580.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Hodgkin, A. L. (23 September 2004). "Adrian, Edgar Douglas, first Baron Adrian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30753.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

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