Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

The Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an endowed professorship established at Harvard College in 1727 by Thomas Hollis.^[1]

The incumbents have been:

Isaac Greenwood (1727–1737)^[1]
John Winthrop (1737–1779)^[1]
Samuel Williams (1779–1789)^[1]
Samuel Webber (1789–1806)^[1]
John Farrar (1807–1838)^[1]
Joseph Lovering (1838–1888)^[1]
Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1888–1914)^[1]
Wallace Clement Sabine (1914–1919)^[1]
(1919–1921)
Theodore Lyman (1921–1926)
Percy Williams Bridgman (1926–1950)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1951–1969)
Andrew Gleason (1969–1992)
Bertrand Halperin (1992-)

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Quinquennial catalogue of the officers and graduates of Harvard university, 1636–1915. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1915. p. 21. Retrieved 2011-04-17.

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