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page 1Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)
George Howard Darwin
English astronomer, mathematician (1845–1912)
Harold Jeffreys
British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)
Roger Cotes
English mathematician
James Challis
British astronomer (1803-1882)
Samuel Vince
British mathematician, astronomer and physicist
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
American astronomer
Robert Woodhouse
English mathematician
Richard Ellis
British astronomer
Robert Smith
English mathematician and music theorist (1689-1768)
Robert Kennicutt
American astronomer
Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
professorship in Astronomy at Cambridge University, UK