• The Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy is one of the major professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean...
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    Arthur Eddington (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    his chair as the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in early 1913. Later that year, Robert Ball, holder of the theoretical Lowndean...
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  • Thomas Plume (category Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge)
    grant of £67,962 for repairs in February 2021. In 1704 Thomas Plume founded the chair of Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the...
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    Samuel Vince (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    S. Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London...
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    James Challis (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy and the director of the Cambridge Observatory, he...
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    George Biddell Airy (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    February 1828 Plumian professor of astronomy and director of the new Cambridge Observatory. In 1836 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1840...
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  • Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in Cambridge University. In 1967, he became the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical...
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    Robert Smith (mathematician) (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    to 1760 he was Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and he died in the Master's Lodge at Trinity. In February 1719 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...
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    Kingdom and the United States, he was a professor at Sussex University, during 1972–1973. He later moved to Cambridge, where he was the Plumian Professor at...
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  • Christopher S. Reynolds (category Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge)
    currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of Maryland. He was formerly the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the Institute...
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    Harold Jeffreys (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    later. At the University of Cambridge he taught mathematics, then geophysics and finally became the Plumian Professor of Astronomy. In 1940, he married fellow...
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    had been recently appointed the first Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. On 21 May 1709, after speaking to Newton, Bentley announced...
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  • Jeremiah P. Ostriker (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    2001 to 2003, he was appointed as Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. He then returned to...
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    George Darwin (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    became Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, and Earth...
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  • variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by...
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    Roger Cotes (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    at age 26 he became the first Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. On his appointment to professor, he opened a subscription list...
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  • Anthony Shepherd (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    He was the Plumian Professor at the University of Cambridge between 1760 and 1796. He published astronomical tables, and was a friend of Captain Cook...
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    Richard Ellis (astronomer) (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    University of Cambridge as the Plumian Professor and became a professorial fellow at Magdalene College. He served as director of the Institute of Astronomy from...
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  • Robert Woodhouse (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    as the Plumian professor in the university. As Plumian Professor he was responsible for installing and adjusting the transit instruments and clocks at...
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  • This is a list of professorships at the University of Cambridge. During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted...
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    him, and with Newton's consent he appointed Roger Cotes, Plumian professor of astronomy at Trinity, to undertake the editorship for him as a kind of deputy...
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  • theorist, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy Jason Carter- actor, best known for his appearances...
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  • Professor of Physics at the College of Physical Sciences Harold Jeffreys FRS (Armstrong) – Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy...
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    Eddington, Astrophysicist, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy (cremated remains interred in the grave of his mother Sarah Eddington...
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    Retrieved 8 May 2024. Holland, Fiona (8 February 2019). "Professor Dame Sally Davies appointed Master of Trinity". Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 7 May...
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  • Robert Kennicutt (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    currently a professor at Texas A&M University. He is a former Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge...
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    Ladies Dining Society (category Clubs and societies of the University of Cambridge)
    Maud Darwin, the youngest of the group, was married to George Darwin, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. According to her eldest...
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  • 1992 New Year Honours (category 1992 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
    General of Gas Supply. Peter Quennell, CBE, For services to literature. Martin John Rees, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy; Director...
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  • political and public services in the South-East. Fred Hoyle, FRS, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, University of Cambridge...
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    Eddington experiment (category History of science)
    Relativity Theory of Gravitation (1918). Eddington also lectured on relativity at Cambridge University, where he had been professor of astronomy since 1913....
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