Langworthy Professor


The Langworthy Professor is the holder of an endowed chair in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, England.
It was founded by a bequest of £10,000 for the purpose of endowing a professorship of experimental physics by E. R. Langworthy in 1874. It began at Owens College and from 1903/04 to 2004 was a chair at the Victoria University of Manchester, now The University of Manchester.
Previous holders include the Nobel prize winners:
Ernest Rutherford
Lawrence Bragg
Patrick Blackett
Andre Geim
Konstantin Novoselov
Others holiders were:
Balfour Stewart
Arthur Schuster
Samuel Devons
Brian Flowers
Francis Graham-Smith
Frank Read
Andrew Lyne
The current holder is Konstantin Novoselov.