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- ↑ "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (5972). 11 August 2004. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ↑ "Regius Professorship of Physic: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter (6262). 18 April 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- List of Regius Professors of Physic at A Cambridge Alumni Database