Stephen Hawking to leave prestigious position

By Michael on October 24, 2008 at 11:07 am | In Blog Posts | 1 Comment

Stephen Hawking is retiring from his position as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. I hope he is doing OK. A friend in my local astronomy club forwarded along a list of all of the previous Lucasian Professors:

* 1664 Isaac Barrow
* 1669 Sir Isaac Newton
* 1702 William Whiston
* 1711 Nicholas Saunderson
* 1739 John Colson
* 1760 Edward Waring
* 1798 Isaac Milner
* 1820 Robert Woodhouse
* 1822 Thomas Turton
* 1826 Sir George Biddell Airy
* 1828 Charles Babbage
* 1839 Joshua King
* 1849 Sir George Stokes
* 1903 Sir Joseph Larmor
* 1932 Paul Dirac
* 1969 Sir James Lighthill
* 1979 Stephen Hawking

I wonder who is next?

PS – there’s a new podcast on the feed. Will be posting it here soon.


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  1. There was an article that basically says that he has to retire as Lucasian, but he’s going to stay on to do pretty much what he’s been doing. Just age discrimination.

    Comment by suitti — November 11, 2008 #

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