Cavendish Professor of Physics

The Cavendish Professorship is one of the senior Professorships in Physics at Cambridge University and was founded by grace of 9 February 1871 alongside the famous Cavendish Laboratory which was completed three years later. The endowment was granted by William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire.

Cavendish Professors

• James Clerk Maxwell (1871–1879)
• Lord Rayleigh (1879–1884)
• J. J. Thomson (1884–1919)
• Lord Rutherford (1919–1937)
• William Lawrence Bragg (1938–1953)
• Nevill Mott (1954–1971)
• Brian Pippard (1971–1984)
• Sam_Edwards (1984–1995)
• Richard Friend (1995–)