Waynflete Professorship, the Glossary

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1. 41 relations: Arthur Lee Dixon, Ben Green (mathematician), Charles Scott Sherrington, Christopher Peacocke, Colin Blakemore, Daniel Quillen, David Whitteridge, Dorothy Edgington, Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Edwin Bailey Elliott, Ewart Jones, Francis Gotch, George Lindor Brown, Gero Miesenböck, Gilbert Ryle, Graham Higman, Henry Longueville Mansel, Henry William Chandler, J. H. C. Whitehead, Jack Baldwin (chemist), John Alexander Smith, John Burdon-Sanderson, John Hawthorne, Magdalen College, Oxford, Ofra Magidor, P. F. Strawson, R. G. Collingwood, Raphaël Rouquier, Robert Robinson (chemist), Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet, Stephen G. Davies, Thomas Case (cricketer, born 1844), University of Oxford, Véronique Gouverneur, Waynflete Professorship, Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy, William Henry Perkin Jr., William Odling, William Waynflete, Wykeham Professor.

Arthur Lee Dixon

Arthur Lee Dixon FRS (27 November 1867 — 20 February 1955) was a British mathematician and holder of the Waynflete Professorship of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

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Ben Green (mathematician)

Ben Joseph Green FRS (born 27 February 1977) is a British mathematician, specialising in combinatorics and number theory.

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Charles Scott Sherrington

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist.

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Christopher Peacocke

Christopher Arthur Bruce Peacocke (born 22 May 1950) is a British philosopher known for his work in philosophy of mind and epistemology.

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Colin Blakemore

Sir Colin Blakemore,, Hon (1 June 1944 – 27 June 2022) was a British neurobiologist, specialising in vision and the development of the brain.

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Daniel Quillen

Daniel Gray Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.

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David Whitteridge

David Whitteridge FRS FRSE FRCP (1912–1994) was a 20th-century British physician and physiologist.

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Dorothy Edgington

Dorothy Margaret Doig Edgington FBA (née Milne, born 29 April 1941) is a philosopher active in metaphysics and philosophical logic.

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Dyson Perrins Laboratory

The Dyson Perrins Laboratory is in the science area of the University of Oxford and was the main centre for research into organic chemistry of the University from its foundation in 1916 until its closure as a research laboratory in 2003.

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Edwin Bailey Elliott

Edwin Bailey Elliott FRS (born 1 June 1851, Oxford, England; died 21 July 1937 in Oxford, England) was a mathematician who worked on invariant theory.

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Ewart Jones

Sir Ewart Ray Herbert Jones FRS (16 March 1911 – 7 May 2002) was a Welsh organic chemist and academic administrator, whose fields of expertise led him to discoveries into the chemistry of natural products, mainly steroids, terpenes and vitamins.

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Francis Gotch

Francis Gotch (13 July 1853 – 15 July 1913) was a British neurophysiologist who was professor of physiology at University College Liverpool and Oxford University.

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George Lindor Brown

Sir George Lindor Brown CBE FRS (9 February 1903, Liverpool – 22 February 1971) was an English physiologist and secretary of the Royal Society, of which he was elected a Fellow in 1946.

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Gero Miesenböck

Gero Andreas Miesenböck (born 15 July 1965) is an Austrian scientist.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems.

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Graham Higman

Graham Higman FRS (19 January 1917 – 8 April 2008) was a prominent English mathematician known for his contributions to group theory.

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Henry Longueville Mansel

Henry Longueville Mansel (6 October 1820 – 30 July 1871) was an English philosopher and ecclesiastic.

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Henry William Chandler

Henry William Chandler (31 January 1828 – 16 May 1889) was an English classical scholar.

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J. H. C. Whitehead

John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904 – 8 May 1960), known as "Henry", was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory.

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Jack Baldwin (chemist)

Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (8 August 1938 – 5 January 2020) was a British chemist.

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John Alexander Smith

John Alexander Smith (21 April 1863 – 19 December 1939) was a British idealist philosopher, who was the Jowett Lecturer of philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford from 1896 to 1910, and Waynflete Professor of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, carrying a Fellowship at Magdalen College in the same university, from 1910 to 1936.

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John Burdon-Sanderson

Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1st Baronet, FRS, HFRSE D.Sc. (21 December 182823 November 1905) was an English physiologist born near Newcastle upon Tyne, and a member of a well known Northumbrian family.

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John Hawthorne

John Patrick Hawthorne (born 25 May 1964) is an English philosopher, currently serving as Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.

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Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Ofra Magidor

Ofra Magidor is a philosopher and logician, and current Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at University of Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College.

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P. F. Strawson

Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford.

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R. G. Collingwood

Robin George Collingwood (22 February 1889 – 9 January 1943) was an English philosopher, historian and archaeologist.

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Raphaël Rouquier

Raphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier (born 9 December 1969) is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at UCLA.

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Robert Robinson (chemist)

Sir Robert Robinson (13 September 1886 – 8 February 1975) was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids.

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Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy

The White's Chair of Moral Philosophy was endowed in 1621 by Thomas White (c. 1550–1624), Canon of Christ Church as the oldest professorial post in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Waynflete Professorship and Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy are Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford and professorships at the University of Oxford.

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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 2nd Baronet FRS (5 February 181724 November 1880) was an English chemist.

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Stephen G. Davies

Stephen Graham Davies (born 24 February 1950) is a British chemist and was, until his retirement, the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.

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Thomas Case (cricketer, born 1844)

Thomas Case (b Liverpool 14 July 1844 – d Falmouth 31 October 1925) was an English academic, philosopher, sportsman and author.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Véronique Gouverneur

Véronique Gouverneur (born 8 November 1964 in Geel, Belgium) is the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Waynflete Professorship

The Waynflete Professorships are four professorial fellowships at the University of Oxford endowed by Magdalen College and named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete, who had a great interest in science. Waynflete Professorship and Waynflete Professorship are 1857 establishments in England, Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford and professorships at the University of Oxford.

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Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy

The Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy is a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Waynflete Professorship and Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy are Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford and professorships at the University of Oxford.

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William Henry Perkin Jr.

William Henry Perkin Jr., FRS FRSE (17 June 1860 – 17 September 1929) was an English organic chemist who was primarily known for his groundbreaking research work on the degradation of naturally occurring organic compounds.

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William Odling

William Odling, FRS (5 September 1829 in Southwark, London – 17 February 1921 in Oxford) was an English chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table.

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William Waynflete

William Waynflete (11 August 1486), born William Patten, was Headmaster of Winchester College (1429–1441), Provost of Eton College (1442–1447), Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486) and Lord Chancellor of England (1456–1460).

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Wykeham Professor

The University of Oxford has three statutory professorships named after William of Wykeham, who founded New College. Waynflete Professorship and Wykeham Professor are Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford and professorships at the University of Oxford.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waynflete_Professorship

Also known as Wainfleet Professorship, Wayneflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, Waynflete Chair of Chemistry, Waynflete Professor, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy, Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics, Waynflete Professors, Waynflete Professors of Chemistry, Waynflete Professorship (version 2), Waynflete Professorships.