Jodrell Chair of Physiology
{{Short description|Chair of physiology at UCL}}
The Jodrell Chair of Physiology is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly before the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy) by Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell in 1873. The chairs succeeded the previous chair in Anatomy and Physiology.
The endowment was for the sum of {{inflation|UK|7500|1889|orig=yes|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}, with a further £500 for equipment.{{cite journal |journal=Nature|doi=10.1038/009371a0 |title=Notes |date=12 March 1874| volume=9 |issue=228 |pages=371–373}}{{Inflation/fn|UK-GDP}} This endowment was acknowledged in the final report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction in 1875.{{cite web |url=http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/devonshire/devonshire.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402074903/http://www.educationengland.org.uk/documents/devonshire/devonshire.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |title=Reports of the Devonshire Commission (1871-5) |access-date=28 Oct 2021}}
The first holder was John Burdon-Sanderson after the post received the Jodrell endowment.{{sfn |Harte|North|Brewis|2018|pages=95–97}}
Two Jodrell Professors, Archibald Hill and Andrew Huxley, have gone onto win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Professors of Anatomy and Physiology
- 1831-1836 Jones Quain
- 1836-1874 William Sharpey
Jodrell Professors of Physiology
- 1874-1882 Sir John Burdon Sanderson{{EB1911|noprescript=1 |wstitle=Burdon-Sanderson, Sir John Scott|volume=4|page=811}}
- 1883-1899 Edward Sharpey-Schafer{{cite archive|item-url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ub9wsehw|item=Appointment to Jodrell Professorship|date=Feb 1883|collection=Archives and manuscripts |institution=Wellcome Collection}}{{sfn|O'Connor|1991|page=122}}
- 1899-1923 Ernest Starling {{sfn|O'Connor|1991|page=122}}{{sfn|O'Connor|1991|page=134}}{{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=145}}
- 1923-1925 Archibald Hill {{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=165}}
- 1926-1949 Charles Lovatt Evans {{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=165}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/1968|title=David Henry Smyth FRS|work=Dictionary of Ulster Biography|access-date=27 November 2021}} {{Cite journal |author1=I. de Burgh Daly |author2=Gregory, R. A. |year=1970 |title=Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans. 1884-1968 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.1970.0008 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |publisher=Royal Society |volume=16 |pages=233–252|doi=10.1098/rsbm.1970.0008 |url-access=subscription }}
- 1949-1960 Sir Lindor Brown {{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=165}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/printPerson/1968|title=David Henry Smyth FRS|work=Dictionary of Ulster Biography|access-date=27 November 2021}}{{better source needed|date=November 2021}}
- 1960-1969 Sir Andrew Huxley {{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=237}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2007/oct/huxley-90th-birthday-symposium |title=Huxley 90th birthday symposium|date=9 October 2007 |access-date=27 November 2021}}
- 1969-1979 Douglas Wilkie
- 1979-1995 Timothy Biscoe {{sfn|Harte|North|Brewis|2018|p=275}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Biscoe_Tim|title=Academy of Europe: Biscoe Tim|access-date=27 November 2021}}
- 1995- David Attwell{{cite web |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/attwell-david|title=attwell-david | UCL Division of Biosciences - UCL – University College London|access-date=26 November 2021}}
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