Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics
The Arthur Balfour Professorship of Genetics is the senior professorship in genetics at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1912. It is thought to be the oldest Chair of Genetics in the English speaking world.[1]
The chair was endowed by Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, according to whom the money (£20,000) was "placed in [his] hands" by an anonymous benefactor. A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.
Arthur Balfour Professors
- Reginald Punnett (1912–1940)
- Ronald Fisher (1943–1957)
- John Marion Thoday (1959–1983)
- John Robert Stanley Fincham (1984–1991)
- Peter Neville Goodfellow (1992–1996)
- David Moore Glover (1999–2015)
- Anne Ferguson-Smith (2015– )
References
- ^ "History of the University of Cambridge Department of Genetics". gen.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
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- James Maitland Balfour (father)
- Alice Blanche Balfour (sister)
- Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (sister)
- Eustace Balfour (brother)
- Francis Maitland Balfour (brother)
- Gerald Balfour (brother)
- Frances Balfour (sister-in-law)
- James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (grandfather)
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (uncle)
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- Lost in Blunderland (book, 1903)
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