• The Challis Professorship are professorships at the University of Sydney named in honour of John Henry Challis, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner...
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  • Civil Engineering, English Literature, History and philosophy (see Challis Professorship) Carlyle Greenwell Research Fund in Anthropology and Archaeology...
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  • Philosophy is one of the major professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean Professorship (which is now mainly held by mathematicians)...
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    John Irvine Hunter (category Challis professor)
    Professor Wilson, who had taken great interest in Hunter, resigned the Challis Professorship of Anatomy at Sydney, to become Regius Professor of Anatomy at the...
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    to discover the planet Neptune in 1846. Challis was born in Braintree, Essex where his father, John Challis, was a stonemason. After attending various...
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  • allowed for the establishment of the Challis Professorships. Challis was born in England, the son of John Henry Challis, sergeant in the 9th Regiment, and...
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  • James Crawford (jurist) (category Challis professor)
    He remained in Adelaide until 1986, when he was appointed to the Challis Professorship of International Law at the University of Sydney. He served as Dean...
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  • William Aitcheson Haswell (category Challis professor)
    Bryozoa, but also did other work covering a wide field. When the Challis professorship of biology was founded in 1889, Haswell was given the position and...
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    including 2016 and 2020. Google Scholar citations 1998 with V Filippenko, P Challis, A Clocchiatti, A Diercks, et al., Observational evidence from supernovae...
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    returning to Cambridge for the Lowndean professorship of astronomy and geometry. Two years later he succeeded Challis as director of the Cambridge Observatory...
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