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THE title of 'professor emeritus' in the University of London has been conferred on the following: Prof. R. H. A. Plimmer, who held the chair of chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School during 1922–42; Sir Owen Richardson, who held the Wheatstone chair of physics at King's College during 1914–24 and the Yarrow Research professorship of the Royal Society attached to King's College during 1924–44; Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, who held the chair of botany at Birkbeck College from 1921 until her retirement in 1944 and was a member of the Senate as a representative of the Faculty of Science during 1929–34; Prof. Eva G. R. Taylor, who held the chair of geography at Birkbeck College from 1930 until her retirement in 1944.
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University of London. Nature 155, 265 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155265d0
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