Lucasian chair
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The Lucasian chair is a professorship in mathematics at the University of Cambridge (UK). It was established by Henry Lucas, who endowed it magnificently, according the standards of the day, with a stipend of £100, more or less. This was in 1663. The first holder, Isaac Barrow, delivered his inaugural series of lectures in 1664, beginning on 14 March. On 29 October 1669 he was succeeded by Isaac Newton, who held the chair until 19 March 1696. The present holder is Stephen Hawking.
Holders of the Lucasian chair
- Isaac Barrow (1630-1677)
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- William Whiston (1667-1752)
- Nicolas Saunderson (1682-1739)
- John Colson (1680-1760)
- Edward Waring (1736-1798)
- Isaac Milner (1750-1820)
- Robert Woodhouse (1773-1827)
- Thomas Turton (1780-1864)
- Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892)
- Charles Babbage (1792-1871)
- Joshua King (1798-1857)
- Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)
- Sir Joseph Larmor (1857-1942)
- P. A. M. Dirac (1902-1984)
- Sir M. James Lighthill (1924-1998)
- Stephen Hawking (1942- )