Professor of Mineralogy, Cambridge University
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The Professorship of Mineralogy was a professorship at the University of Cambridge
. It was founded in 1808 and discontinued when its final holder retired in 1931.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It was founded in 1808 and discontinued when its final holder retired in 1931.
Professors of Mineralogy
- Edward Daniel ClarkeEdward Daniel ClarkeEdward Daniel Clarke was an English naturalist, mineralogist and traveller.-Life:Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Tonbridge....
(1808) - John Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens HenslowJohn Stevens Henslow was an English clergyman, botanist and geologist. He is best remembered as friend and mentor to his pupil Charles Darwin.- Early life :...
(1822) - William WhewellWilliam WhewellWilliam Whewell was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.-Life and career:Whewell was born in Lancaster...
(1828) - William Hallowes MillerWilliam Hallowes MillerWilliam Hallowes Miller FRS , British mineralogist and crystallographer.- Life and work :Miller was born in 1801 at Velindre near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1826 as fifth wrangler. He became a Fellow there in 1829...
(1832) - William James LewisWilliam Lewis (mineralogist)William James Lewis F.R.S. was a Welsh mineralogist.-Biography:Lewis was born in Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire, the second son of clergyman John Lewis, and educated at Llanrwst grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1865. He obtained first-class degrees in mathematics ...
(1881) - Arthur Hutchinson (1926-1931)