Assistants in Research/Assistants to Professors
By grace of 7 June 1894 the appointments of Assistants to Professors were brought under the general regulations for Demonstrators. By grace of 11 December 1948, the old regulations for Assistants to Professors were rescinded and general regulations for what were now known as Assistants in Research were laid down, by which appointments and re-appointments, for periods not exceeding five years, were to be made by the Faculty Board (or, where appropropriate by the Faculty Board on the recommendation of the Head of the relevant Department) subject to the consent of the General Board and the Financial Board.
Aeronautics, Assistant in Research in the Sub-Department of
Established by grace of 22 February 1936 as from 1 October 1935, part of the salary being paid from Sir John Siddeley's gift for aeronautical research.
1935-38 Haslam, James Alexander Gordon
Agricultural Botany, Assistant in Research in
1962-66 Moore, Keith Griffin
Agricultural Engineering, Assistant in Research in
1951-55 Palmer, John [3]
Agricultural Science and Applied Biology, Assistant in Research in
1970-74 Lerman, Philip Michael
Agriculture, Assistant in Research in
1950-53 Perrin, Robert Michael Sumner
Anatomy, Assistant in Research in
1972-74 Brown, Malcolm Watson
Animal Physiology, Assistant in Research in
1951-54 Kirkham, Keith Edwin
Archaeology, Assistant in Research in
1954-54 Wilson, David Mackenzie, Sir
Assistant Director of Magnetic Research at the Cavendish Laboratory
1925 Kapitza, Pyotr Leonidovich (Pierre)
Assyriology, Assistant in Research in
1972-75 Vanstiphout, Herman Lucian Julius
Biochemistry, Assistant in Research in
1945-47 Williams, Ernest Frank
Biology, Assistant to Professor of
Established by grace of 17 December 1908, without stipend from the University.
Appointed (and removable) by the Quick Professor, with the consent of the Vice-Chancellor,
but eligible for re-appointment after the expiry of the Professor's tenure. The
appointment was to terminate on the retirement of Professor Nuttall. The appointment of a
second Assistant was authorised by grace of 16 May 1919.
1909 Fantham, Harold Benjamin
Botany, Assistant in Research in
1950-51 George, Eric Alan
Chemistry, Assistant to Professor of
Formerly appointed by the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate, but by grace of 4
February 1892 appointed (and removable) thereafter by the Professor of Chemistry, subject
to the consent of the Vice-Chancellor. Tenure terminated with the termination of the
tenure of the Professor.
1865-77 Sell, William James (University Lecturer in Chemistry, 1904)
Chinese, Assistant in Research in
1970-76 Hung, Tak-kwan
Classics, Assistant in Research in
1966-71 Martindale, John Robert (Senior Assistant in Research, 1971)
Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Assistant in Research in
1996- Tonks, Paul Nicholas
Colloid Science, Assistant in Research in
1947-54 Gutfreund, Herbert
Community Medicine, Assistant in Research in
1977-80 Roberts, Sarah Jane (Senior Assistant in Research, 1980)
Computer/Mathematical Laboratory, Assistant in Research in
1950-51 Brooker, Ralph Anthony
Crystallography, Assistant in Experimental Research in
Established by grace of 12 May 1933 for F. I. G. Rawlins for three years from 1 April
1933. On his resignation the following year the post was continued by grace of 15 March
1935 as an Assistant Directorship of Research.
1933-34 Rawlins, Francis Ian Gregory
Diagnostic Radiology, Assistant in Research in
1938-41 Berridge, Francis Richard
Dynamical Meteorology, Assistant in Research in
1964-64 Bretherton, Francis Paton (University Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 1964)
Economics and Politics, Assistant in Research in
1955-57 Osborn, Edward
Electron Microscopy, Assistant in Research in
1949-56 Bradfield, John Richard Grenfell
Engineering, Assistant in (Experimental) Research in
Established by grace of 7 May 1927 for H. Quinney for three years; renewed to 30
September 1934. Continued by grace of 16 June 1934 to 30 September 1939, and by grace of 5
August 1939 to 30 September 1944. Discontinued by grace of 25 May 1940, Mr Quinney having
died in December 1939. Subsequently Assistants in Research were appointed in Engineering.
1926-39 Quinney, Harold
Estate Management, Assistant in Research in
1956-58 Ostler, Alan
Experimental Psychology, Assistant in Research in
1963-65 Still, Arthur William
Genetics, Assistant in Research in
1949-51 Cavalli-Sforza (Cavalli), Luigi Lucan (listed as Cavalli-Sforza on termination of tenure)
Geodesy and Geophysics, Assistant in Research in
1949-54 Hill, Maurice Neville
Geology, Assistant to Professor of/Assistant in Research in
Established by grace of 7 March 1878, with a stipend of £200 on the proviso that
he take no private pupils. Appointed (and removable) by the Woodwardian Professor, subject
to the consent of the Vice-Chancellor. From the 1960s Assistants in Research were
appointed to the Department.
1878 Tawney, Edward Bernard
Human Ecology, Assistant in Research in
1951-53 Rowland, Eva
Investigative Medicine, Assistant in Research in
1965-67 Craig, Gillian Mary
Land Economy, Assistant in Research in
1960-63 Kolbert, Colin Francis (University Assistant Lecturer, 1963)
Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre, Assistant in Research at
Called the Linguistic Computing Centre until 1967. Assistants in Research were at first
placed in the Department of Other Languages.
1964-66 Bott, Michael Francis (German) (Senior Assistant in Research, 1966)
Medical Psychology, Assistant in Research in
1958-63 Clarke, Cicily Margaret
Medicine, Assistant to the Professor
1894 Marshall, Charles Robertshaw
Metal Physics, Assistant in Research in
1950-52 Lomer, William Michael
Meteorological Physics, Assistant in Research in
1950-52 Pierce, Edward Thomas
Mineralogy and Petrology, Assistant in Research in
1946 Vincent, Herbert Cubitt Gostling
Morbid Anatomy and Histology, Assistant in Research in
1938-41 Day, Thomas Duncan
Natural Philosophy, Assistant to Professor of
Formerly appointed by the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate, but by grace of 4
February 1892 appointed (and removable) thereafter by the Jacksonian Professor, subject to
the consent of the Vice-Chancellor. Tenure terminated with the termination of the tenure
of the Professor.
1875 Scott, Alexander
Observatories, Assistant in Research in the
1970-72 Field, Judith Veronica
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Assistant in Research in
1972-73 Middleton, Bruce
Organic Chemistry, Assistant in Research in
1945-46 Lythgoe, Basil
Other Languages, Assistant in Research in
See also under Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre
1972-74 Alford, Mark Hugh Tankerville
Parasitology, Assistant in Research in the Molteno Institute
By grace of 4 November 1938 the General Board were authorised to appoint E. F. Hartree
for two years from 1 October 1938 with a stipend payable from a grant by the Rockefeller
Foundation to the Quick Professor of Biology, and to make subsequent re-appointments for
periods not exceeding three years, or for so long as the Rockefeller Foundation continued
to finance the post.
1938-48 Hartree, Edward Francis
Pedology, Assistant in Research in
1965-69 Smith, Gordon McLennan
Pharmacology, Assistant in Research in
1947-51 Jewell, Peter Arundel
Physical Chemistry, Assistant in Research in
1950-53 Thrush, Brian Arthur
Physics, Assistant in Research at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory
By graces of 13 March 1936 and 22 January 1938 the title of 'Assistant in Research' was
given to the holder for so long as the Royal Society were to provide a stipend for the
services of a mathematical physicist at the laboratory. From 1958 Assistants in Research
in Physics were appointed as in other departments.
1936-37 Peierls, Rudolf
Physics, Assistant in Research in
1962-66 Ward, Peter Reginald (Assistant Technical Officer, 1966)
Plant Physiology (Agriculture), Assistant in Research in
By grace of 12 May 1939 it was decided that this post be established on 1 October 1939
in the Department of Agriculture, and that the appointment be made by the Faculty Board of
Agriculture for a period of three years in the first instance, but that subsequent
appointments or re-appointments be made by the Appointments Committee of the Faculty for
periods not exceeding five years. The stipend was to be paid from the Rockefeller
Foundation.
1939 Wager, Harold Geoffrey (resigned 1947)
Psychiatry, Assistant in Research in
1938-41 Paterson, Andrew
Quaternary Research, Assistant in Research in
Department of Botany
1949-54 Walker, Donald
Radio-Physics, Assistant in Research in
1948-53 Falloon, Shirley Waldron Hugh Wolseley
Radiotherapeutics, Assistant in Research in
1947-51 Marrian, Denis Haigh
Soil Microbiology, Assistant in Research in
1951-57 Tribe, Henry Timothy (Senior Assistant in Research, 1957)
Soil Science, Assistant in Research in
Department of Agriculture
1955-58 Bache, Bryon William (University Demonstrator, 1958)
Statistical Research, Assistant in Research in
1947-50 Osborn, William Thompson
Surgery, Assistant to Professor of
Established by grace of 24 May 1888, and terminated on the suspension of the
Professorship in 1896. The duties of the Professorship were, however, performed by Dr
Griffiths, on the authority of a special grace, until the establishment of a Readership in
Surgery in 1898. Appointments after the first listed are of Assistants in Research.
1888-98 Griffiths, Joseph (Reader in Surgery, 1898)
Taxonomy, Assistant in Research in
1953-59 Yeo, Peter Frederick
Theoretical Chemistry, Assistant in Research in
1950-55 Hall, George Garfield
University Library, Assistant in Research in the
1969-71 Smith, Gordon Callum Kennedy
Veterinary Physiology, Assistant in Research in
1951-53 Titchen, Donald Alexander
Zoology, Assistant in Research in
1959-68 Robson, Elaine Alvin
1969-72 Pegington, Christopher John
1958-60 Wilton, Brian
1961-62 Rest, David John van
1963-64 Jewett, David William (University Demonstrator, 1964)
1958-61 Mash (Durham), Vivian Muriel Mary
1965-68 Marks, Kenneth Edward
1974-74 McCabe, Brian John
1954-59 Brush, Michael George
1955-58 Gordon, Ian
1959-65 Morton, John Richard (Senior Assistant in Research, 1965)
1960-60 Heap, Robert Brian
1960-62 Heap (Grant), Marion Patricia
1963-68 Symons, Derek Bryan Alfred
1955-56 Hartley, Brian Rodgerson
1956-63 Higgs, Eric Sidney (Senior Assistant in Research, 1963)
1910-12 Strickland, Cyril
1913 Hindle, Edward
1913-13 Lewin, Kenneth Robert
1917 Keilin, David
1931 Lapsed after the retirement of Professor Nuttall
1877 Robinson, Henry
1893 Brownsword, Harry
1893 Purvis, John Edward (University Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics in their application to hygiene and preventive medicine, 1909)
1909 Read, John
1916 Gibson, Charles Stanley
1920 Vernon, Richard Henry
1922 Mann, Frederick George
1930-35 Janson, Stanley Eric
1936-38 Jones, Francis Stephen Bridson
1948-51 Longmuir, Ian Stewart
1953-56 Lyster, Richard Lumley John
1957-68 Gibson, Patricia May
1959-63 Kernohan, John Clarke (Senior Assistant in Research, 1963)
1960-63 Chipperfield, John Robert (Senior Assistant in Research, 1963)
1950-53 Mutch, Eric Norbury
1952-53 Gill, Stanley
1953-54 Haselgrove, Colin Brian
1958-66 Mutch, Margaret Olive
1961-63 Maybrey, Margaret Ann
1963-69 Bayley (Houston), Alison Alexandra
1964-66 Smith, George William (Technical Officer, 1966)
1965-65 Gray, John Crispin (Technical Officer, 1967)
1965-66 Hallinan, Kay Olive
1965-66 McIntyre, Laurence John Denis
1966-67 Guy, Michael John Thirian (Technical Officer, 1967)
1967-69 France, Michael John
1967-69 Linington (née Richards), Janet Wynne (Technical Officer, 1969)
1968-69 Skilling, Jennifer Aileen
1968-69 Woodsford, Peter Alfred (Technical Officer, 1969)
1969-69 Mutch, Margaret Olive
1969-71 Fairbairns, Robin (Technical Officer, 1971)
1969-72 Parkins, Richard Peter
1940-45 Lipson, Henry Solomon
1946-49 Megaw, Helen Dick
1957-60 Langdon, John
1960-62 Pratten, Clifford Frederick
1962-64 Armstrong, Alan Gordon
1965-67 Panic, Milivoje accent: acute on 'c'
1968-69 Fuller, Michael Frederick
1969-70 Rao, Siripurapu Kesava
1970-72 Harris, Robert Francis
1972-76 Mackie, Myles Lawrence
1976-78 Saith, Ashwani
1978-79 Dastoor, Naorayex
1980-88 Evans, Robert Andrew (University Lecturer, 1988)
1989-91 Samiei, Seyed Hossein (Senior Assistant in Research, 1991)
1993-95 Robertson, Donald
1955-58 Morris, Roger Brian
1956-60 Chigier, Nehemiah Abraham
1956-61 Birch (née Christ), Gina Margaret (Senior Assistant in Research, 1961)
1957-58 Martin, Phyllis Moira Edgcumbe
1957-59 Lawrence, Peter John
1958-60 Foster, Keith
1958-60 Vermeulen, Peter James
1960-61 Lieberknecht, Mary Beth
1960-62 Jefferis, John Anthony
1960-62 Munro, Robert Gordon (Senior Assistant in Research, 1962)
1962-64 Bott, Michael Francis (moved to Linguistic Computing Centre, 1964)
1962-64 Franklin, John Lees
1964-65 Workman, Lannon Kern, Mrs
1964-67 Barton (Bourne), Elisabeth Anne (University Demonstrator, 1967)
1965-65 Patel, Virendra
1965-66 Williams, Caroline Gaenor
1965-68 Quayle, Margaret Christine
1966-67 Bentall, Richard Hugh
1966-67 Harrison, Sally Ann
1966-68 Coleby, Ivan Frank
1966-69 Britton, Rachel Anne (Senior Assistant in Research, 1969)
1968-70 Nicholls, Trudy Denise Morton
1969-72 Middleton, Michael David
1969-73 Tovey, Norman Keith
1973-75 Whitehead, Paul Geoffrey
1974-78 Kouvaritakis, Basil
1978-83 Vardulakis, Antonios Ioannis
1956-58 Stewart, Vivien Francis (University Assistant Lecturer, 1958)
1959-59 Howe, Bernard Robert
1960-61 Godfrey, Mary
1960-61- Kolbert, Colin Francis
1965-71 Morgan, Michael John (University Lecturer, 1971)
1950-52 Wallace, Margaret Elise
1954-55 Brandt, Jane
1955-56 Bennett, John Henry
1959-60 Parsons, Peter Angas (University Demonstrator, 1960)
1960-63 Gibson, John Bryan (Senior Assistant in Research, 1963)
1966-70 Ashburner, Michael (University Demonstrator, 1970)
1970-74 Martinelli, Sylvia Dorothy
1883 Roberts, Thomas
1892 Reed, Frederick Richard Cowper
1919 Nicholas, Tressilian Charles
1920-30 King, William Bernard Robinson
1931 Lapsed after the retirement of Professor Marr
1932-60 ....
1961-63 Clarkson (née Cowie), Cynthia Margaret
1963-66 Rickards, Richard Barrie (University Lecturer, 1966)
1967-71 Hughes, Christopher Paul (Senior Assistant in Research, 1971)
1973-79 Orchard, Michael James
1979-84 Kelly, Simon Richard Appleton
1954-57 Hollingsworth, Thomas Henry
1958-60 Pye, Barbara Gillian
1961-62 Petrie (née Young), Ann (Senior Assistant in Research, 1962)
1962-65 Dalton, Elizabeth Rosemary
1965-66 Saunders, Cynthia Ruth Gwendolin (Senior Assistant in Research, 1966)
1967-72 Nixon, Janice Margaret
1967-71 Eden, Mary Ann Mackay
1972-78 Kuan, Pei Liang
1963-66 Bliss (Midmer), Heather
1963-68 McKie, Robert Lanceley Gordon (Senior Assistant in Research, 1968)
1966-67 Turner, David Michael (University Assistant Lecturer, 1967)
1967-80 Piddington, Helen Rosamund
1969-70 Dye, Anthony Osborne
1969-72 Evans, Martin Charles
1969-72 Fordham, Richard Charles
1969-75 Drudy, Patrick Joseph
1971-75 Jackson, Roslynn Anita
1976-85 Cathie, John (Senior Assistant in Research, 1985)
1967-70 Heal, John Gauntlett Benedict (Other Languages) (Senior Assistant in Research, 1970)
1971-74 Porter, Martin Frederick
1899 Dixon, Walter Ernest
1899 Tuckett, Ivor Lloyd
1920 Cow, Douglas Vernon
1921 Inchley, Orlando
1924 Copeland, Alexander John
1926 Holmes, Eric Gordon
1930 Lapsed on the death of the Downing Professor
1948-55 Scoon, John Hodgson
1885 Ruhemann, Siegfried (University Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, 1891)
1892 Scott, Alexander (again)
1896 Spivey, William Thomas Newton
1901-12 Jones, Humphrey Owen
1912-22 Mills, William Hobson
1923 Lapsed after the death of the Jacksonian Professor
1973-77 Williams, David Clive
1977-81 Matcham, George William John
1981-86 Hart, Graham John (Senior Assistant in Research, 1986)
1949-51 Haszeldine, Robert Neville
1956-63 Tatchell, Roger John
1963-68 Crompton, David William Thomasson (University Lecturer, 1968)
1969-72 Rotheram, Susan Mayvis
1972-75 Lackie (née Lingard), Ann Margaret
1954-55 Christie, Margaret Isabella
1956-57 Erhard, Karl Hans Ludwig
1957-58 Hurle, Ian Roy
1959-60 Oldershaw, Geoffrey Arthur
1961-63 Husain, David (University Demonstrator, 1963)
1964-66 Ogilvie, John Franklin
1967-68 Robiette, Alan Gerald (University Demonstrator, 1968)
1968-70 Bordass, William Trotman
1971-72 Lambert, Richard Michael (University Demonstrator, 1972)
1972-76 Davies, Paul Brett (Senior Assistant in Research, 1976)
1938-44 Allen, John Frank
1958-61 Woodcock, Alan Thomas
1949-50 Plant, M. S. C., Miss (resigned 1950)
1954-56 West, Richard Gilbert (University Demonstrator, 1956)
1957-60 Pearson, Ronald George
1961-65 Dickson, James Holms (Senior Assistant in Research, 1965)
1965-69 Hibbert, Frederick Alan (Senior Assistant in Research, 1969)
1971-73 Birks, Harry John Betteley (Senior Assistant in Research, 1973)
1985-88 Bennett, Keith David (Senior Assistant in Research, 1988)
1953-57 Thomas, John Orion (Senior Assistant in Research, 1957)
1951-57 Reuss, Irmelin Simon- (Senior Assistant in Research, 1957)
1955-60 Seed, John
1959-60 McGowan, Michael
1961-65 MacLeod, Donald Angus (University Demonstrator, 1965)
1951-53 Mallett, Sheila Yvonne
1953-55 Fisk, Peter Reginald
1967-69 Kelly, Monica Mary
1957-60 Murrell, John Norman
1960-63 Carrington, Alan (Assistant Director of Research in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, 1963)
1969-72 Seymour, Carol Adams (Senior Assistant in Research, 1972)
1969-72 Urquhart, John Andrew
1972-75 Gilder, Lesley Patricia
1972-76 Cooper, Alan
1973-73 Nicholson, Jennifer
1961-63 Grimstone, Albert Victor
1967-70 Mullinger, Ann Margaret (Senior Assistant in Research, 1970)