Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics
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The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Department at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball. A similar position was simultaneously created at Oxford.
[edit] Rouse Ball Professors:Cambridge
- John Edensor Littlewood (1928-1950)
- Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1950-1958)
- Harold Davenport (1958-1969)
- John G. Thompson (1971-1993)
- Nigel Hitchin (1994-1997)
- William Timothy Gowers (1998-present)
[edit] Rouse Ball Professors:Oxford
- E. A. Milne (1929-1950)
- C. A. Coulson (1952-1972)
- Roger Penrose (1973-present)
- Philip Candelas (1999-present)
- See also: Rouse Ball Professor of English Law
