The '''John Humphrey Plummer Professorships''' were established in 1931 from a bequest of £200,000 under the will of John Humphrey Plummer, an estate agent of Southport, to the University of Cambridge for the advancement of science.<ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19290316-1.2.64 The Staits Times, 16 March 1929]</ref><ref name="Venn">[http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/ACAD/lists/aciff.html Venn Cambridge University database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614112122/http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/ACAD/lists/aciff.html |date=2010-06-14 }}</ref> The fund has been used to endow a series of professorships in various scientific fields under a number of titles.

==John Humphrey Plummer Professors==

===Colloidal Physics=== *1930–1931 Sir Eric Rideal

===Colloid Science=== *1931–1946 Sir Eric Rideal *1947–1966 Francis Roughton

===Mathematical Physics=== *1932–1944 Sir Ralph H. Fowler *1946–1958 Douglas Hartree

===Theoretical Chemistry=== *1932–1953 Sir John Lennard-Jones<ref name ="Venn" /> (elected Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire, later Keele University, in 1953) *1954–1967 Christopher Longuet-Higgins<ref name ="Venn" />

===Physics=== *1960–1971 Sir Brian Pippard (elected Cavendish Professor of Physics in 1971) *1972–1984 Sir Sam Edwards

===Biophysics=== *1970–1981 Sir Alan Hodgkin (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963)

===Applied Numerical Analysis=== *1976–2001 Michael J. D. Powell

===Cell Biology=== *1983–2002 Sir John Gurdon (awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012)

===Magnetic Resonance=== *1987–1999 Ray Freeman

===Theoretical Physics=== *1993–2009 Michael Green (elected Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 2009)

===Developmental Biology=== *2001–2008 Sir Jim Cuthbert Smith

===Chemical and Structural Biology=== *2001–2017 Sir Chris Dobson (elected Master of St John's College in 2007)

===Physics of Materials=== *2004–2014 Ullrich Steiner

===Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Medicine=== *2018–present Mihaela van der Schaar

==References== <references/>

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