BP Professor of Organic Chemistry

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

BP Professors of Organic Chemistry

• Steven V. Ley (1992 to date)^[2]

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.

Professors of Organic Chemistry

• Alexander Robertus Todd (1944–1971)^[3]
• Ralph Alexander Raphael (1972–1988)^[4]
• Alan Rushton Battersby (1988–1992)^[5]

Professors of Chemistry

• Giovanni Francisco Vigani (1703–1713)
• John Waller (1713–1718)
• John Mickleburgh (1718–1756)
• John Hadley (1756–1764)
• Richard Watson (1764–1771)
• Isaac Pennington (1773–1793)
• William Farish (1794–1813)
• Smithson Tennant (1813–1815)
• James Cumming (1815–1861)
• George Downing Liveing (1861–1908)^[6]
• William Jackson Pope (1908–1939)^[7]

References

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. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
3. Brown, D. M.; Kornberg, H. (2000). "Alexander Robertus Todd, O.M., Baron Todd of Trumpington. 2 October 1907 -- 10 January 1997: Elected F.R.S. 1942". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 46: 515. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0099.
4. Crombie, L. (2000). "Ralph Alexander Raphael, C.B.E. 1 January 1921 - 27 April 1998: Elected F.R.S. 1962". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 46: 465. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1999.0096.
5. BATTERSBY, Sir Alan (Rushton). Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
6. Pope, W. J. (1925). "Dr. G. D. Liveing, F.R.S". Nature 115 (2882): 127. doi:10.1038/115127a0.
7. Gibson, C. S. (1941). "Sir William Jackson Pope. 1870–1939". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 3 (9): 291. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0004. JSTOR 768891.