Dr Lee's Professorships

The Dr Lee's Professorships are three named statutory professorships of the University of Oxford. They were created in 1919, and are named after Dr Matthew Lee (1695-1755) who had endowed three readerships at Christ Church, Oxford in the 19th Century.^[1]

Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford.

• Arthur Thomson (1919 to ?); first incumbent
• Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1934 to ?)
• Ray Guillery (1984 to 1996)
• Dame Kay Davies (1998 to present)

Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford.

• Frederick Soddy (1919 to 1936); first incumbent
• Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1937 to ?)
• Sir Rex Richards (1964 to 1969)
• Sir John Shipley Rowlinson (1974 to 1993)
• Jacob Klein (2000 to 2008)
• Dame Carol Robinson (2009 to present); first female chemistry professor at Oxford

Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics)

This professorship is linked with a fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford.

• Frederick Lindemann (1919 to ?); first incumbent
• Sir Francis Simon (1956); died one month after taking up the professorship
• Brebis Bleaney (1957 to 1977)
• Sir William Mitchell (1978 to ?)
• Roger Cowley (1988 to 2007)^[2]
• Paolo Radaelli (2008 to present)^[3]

References

1. "The Lee's Readers". Christ Church. University of Oxford. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
2. "COWLEY, Roger Arthur (1939 - 2015)". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
3. "RADAELLI, Paolo Giuseppe". Oxford Index. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2016.