Savilian Professor of Astronomy

Savilian Professorship of Astronomy er et professorat i astronomi ved Oxfords Universitet. Det blev instiftet i 1619 af Henry Savile, som samtidigt også instiftede stillingen som Savilian Professor of Geometry.

Indehavere

  • 1619 John Bainbridge
  • 1643 John Greaves
  • 1649 Seth Ward
  • 1661 Christopher Wren
  • 1673 Edward Bernard
  • 1691 David Gregory
  • 1708 John Caswell
  • 1712 John Keill
  • 1721 James Bradley
  • 1763 Thomas Hornsby
  • 1810 Abraham Robertson
  • 1827 Stephen Peter Rigaud
  • 1839 George Henry Sacheverell Johnson
  • 1842 William Fishburn Donkin
  • 1870 Charles Pritchard
  • 1893 Herbert Hall Turner
  • 1932 Harry Hemley Plaskett
  • 1960 Donald Eustace Blackwell
  • 1988 George Petros Efstathiou
  • 1999 Joseph Ivor Silk
  • 2012 Steven A. Balbus