Andrews Professor of Astronomy

The Andrews Professor of Astronomy is a chair in astronomy in the University of Dublin associated with the director of Dunsink Observatory.[1] It was founded in 1783 by Francis Andrews, under the same endowment as the observatory, and was regulated by a new Statute of Trinity College Dublin, which required the professor to "make regular observations of the heavenly bodies ... and of the sun, moon and planets". The chair was vacant after 1921, abolished in 1966 when the university's statutes were revised, and revived in 1984 as an honorary title for the head of the school of Cosmic Physics of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, who had been director of the observatory since the school's creation in 1947. From 1793, under letters patent of King George III, the Andrews Professor held the title Royal Astronomer of Ireland. This title was also extinguished in 1966 and has not been revived.[2]

List of the professors
  • 1783-1790: Henry Ussher (1741–1790)
  • 1790-1827: John Brinkley (1763–1835)
  • 1827-1865: William R Hamilton (1805–1865)
  • 1865-1874: Franz Brünnow (1821–1891)
  • 1874-1892: Robert Ball (1840–1913)
  • 1892-1897: Arthur Rambaut (1859-923)
  • 1897-1906: Charles Joly (1864–1906)
  • 1906-1912: Edmund Whittaker (1873–1956)
  • 1912–1921: Henry Plummer (1875–1946)
  • 1921–1936: Charles Martin
  • 1936–1947: vacant
  • 1947–1957: Hermann Brück (1905–2000)
  • 1958–1963: Mervyn Ellison (1909–1963)
  • 1964–1992: Patrick Wayman
  • 1993–1994: vacant
  • 1994–2007: Evert Meurs
  • 2007–2018: Luke Drury
  • 2018–2019: Peter Gallagher
  • 2019–present: Luciano Rezzolla

References
  1. Wayman, P. A. (March 1986). "The Andrews' Professors of Astronomy and Dunsink Observatory, 1785–1985". Irish Astronomical Journal. 17 (3): 167–183. Bibcode:1986IrAJ...17..167W.
  2. Andrews Professor of Astronomy Mathematics at TCD 1592–1992
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