Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy [SEP] named after
Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
The Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an endowed professorship established at Harvard College in 1727 by Thomas Hollis.
The incumbents have been:
- Isaac Greenwood (1727–1737)
- John Winthrop (1737–1779)
- Samuel Williams (1779–1789)
- Samuel Webber (1789–1806)
- John Farrar (1807–1838)
- Joseph Lovering (1838–1888)
- Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1888–1914)
- Wallace Clement Sabine (1914–1919)
- (1919–1921)
List of Harvard University named chairs
This is a list of named chairs at Harvard University.
- Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
- Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
- Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages
- Hollis Chair of Divinity
- Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
- McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History
- Perkins Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics
- Wales Professor of Sanskrit
- Winn Professorship of Ecclesiastical History