The Cavendish Development Portfolio - Cavendish Laboratory

The Cavendish Laboratory
Endowment of Professorships
Enabling the Best to do Better
One of the most effective ways of enhancing the research and
teaching programme of the Laboratory is through the
endowment of distinguished chairs. Although these were often
established long ago, the initial endowment has long ceased to
cover even a small fraction of the salary costs of the most
distinguished physicists we seek to attract. The endowment of
Professorships releases resources that can be used to support the
research and teaching programme of the Laboratory in very
substantial ways.
We have identified five chairs for which endowment funds are
sought. Three of these are established chairs:
• Jacksonian Professorship of Natural Philosophy, currently
vacant;
• Professorship of Nanophotonics, currently held by Jeremy
Baumberg;
• 1966 Professorship of Theoretical Physics.
The endowment of three new Professorships is expected to result in
major enhancements of the research and teaching activity:
• Professorship of Thin-Film Magnetism, the area of recent
appointee Professor Russell Cowburn.
John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1951,
Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy
The endowment of Professorships is a major component of the
University’s Development Campaign. The investment sought to
endow a post in perpetuity is about £2.5m for an existing post, and
about £5m for a new post, based on a lump-sum gift made in
2014/15.
Head of the Cavendish: Professor Andy Parker
Andy Parker is Professor of High Energy Physics and Professorial Fellow of Peterhouse. He is a founder of the ATLAS experiment
for the Large Hadron Collider, and for 6 years he was the project leader for the ATLAS Inner Detector. His current research interests
involve experiments to reveal new physics such as extra space dimensions, quantum-sized black holes, and supersymmetry.
To find out more about this initiative please contact, in the first instance:
Madeleine Langford-Allen, Associate Director, email mla38@admin.cam.ac.uk, tel 01223 339810