Gresham Professor of Astronomy
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Outreach Officer at the Institute of Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Professor Carolin Crawford is one of Britain's foremost science communicators.
After receiving her PhD from Newnham College, Cambridge, Professor Crawford went on to a series of fellowships from Balliol College, Oxford, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the Royal Society. In 2004 she was appointed as a Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College,...
Past professors
| 1 Edward Brerewood - 1596 2 Thomas Williams - 1613 3 Edmund Gunter - 1619 4 Henry Gellibrand - 1626 5 Samuel Foster - 1636 6 Mungo Murray - 1637 7 Samuel Foster - 1641 8 Lawrence Rooke - 1652 9 Sir Christopher Wren - 1657 10 Walter Pope - 1660 11 Daniel Man - 1687 12 Alexander Torriano - 1691 13 John Machin - 1713 14 William Romaine - 1751 15 William Cockayne - 1752 16 Peter Sandiford - 1795 17 Joseph Pullen - 1833 18 Edmund Ledger - 1875 |
19 Samuel Arthur Saunder - 1908 20 Arthur Robert Hinks - 1913 21 William Herbert Steavenson - 1946 22 Sir John Carroll - 1964 23 Sir Martin Ryle - 1968 24 Roger Tayler - 1969 25 Sir Lord Rees of Ludlow FRS - 1975 26 David W Dewhirst - 1976 27 Michael Rowan-Robinson - 1981 28 Andrew Fabian - 1982 29 Raymond Hide - 1984 30 Lord Porter of Luddenham OM FRS - 1990 31 Heather Couper FRAS - 1993 32 Colin Pillinger FRS - 1996 33 Frank Close OBE - 2000 34 John D Barrow FRS - 2003 35 Ian Morison - 2007 35 Carolin Crawford - 2011 |
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Further information
Did you know... It was after a Gresham College astronomy lecture that the first ever meeting of The Royal Society took place?
Immediately following Sir Christopher Wren's lecture as Gresham Professor of Astronomy on the 28th November 1660, there was the first ever recorded meeting of The Royal Society. This is now the date celebrated as the founding of the Society. The report from this meeting reads:
"Memorandum November 28, 1660. These persons following according to the usual custom of most of them, met together at Gresham College to hear Mr Wren's lecture, viz. The Lord Brouncker, Mr Boyle, Mr Bruce, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paule Neile, Dr Wilkins, Dr Goddard, Dr Petty, Mr Ball, Mr Rooke, Mr Wren, Mr Hill. And after the lecture was ended they did according to the usual manner, withdraw for mutual converse."
As a taster of what you could learn in an astronomy lecture at Gresham College, here is a short extract from a recent lecture by Professor Carolin Crawford:
This is an extract from the lecture The Sounds of the Universe, which took place in November 2011.
