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William Elwood Byerly Professorship in Mathematics, 1975 Named after William Elwood Byerly 1849-1935
  • Heisuke Hironaka, 1975-
  • Yum Tong Siu
Landon T. Clay Professorship of Mathematics and Theoretical Science, 1969 named after Landon Thomas Clay, 1926-
  • George Whitelaw Mackey, 1969-1985
  • Arthur Michael Jaffe, 1985-
William Caspar Graustein professorship of Mathematics, 1964 named after William Caspar Graustein, 1988-1969
  • Lars Valerian Ahlfors, 1964-1977
  • Raoul Bott, 1976 -
  • Shing-Tung Yau
Perkins Professorship of Mathematics named after James Perkins 1761-1822
  • Benjamin Peirce 1842-1880
  • James Mills Peirce 1885-1906
  • William Osgood Byerly, 1906-1913
  • William Fogg Osgood, 1914-1933
  • George David Birkhoff, 1933-1944
  • Joseph Leonard Walsh, 1946-1966
  • Richard Dagobert Brauer, 1966-1971
  • John Torrence Tate, Jr, 1971-1991
William Petschek Professorship of Mathematics, 1982 named after William Pertschek (1896-1980)
  • Barry Charles Mazur, 1982-
  • Clifford Taubes
George Putnam Professorship of Mathematics, 1969 named after George Putnam, (1889-1960)
  • Garrett Birkhoff , 1969-1981
  • Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, 1977-
Dwight Parker Robinson Professorship of Mathematics named after Dwight Parker Robinson Jr, 1869-1989
  • Oscar Zariski, 1961-1969
  • Lynn Harold Loomis, 1969-1983
  • Phillip Augustus Griffiths, 1983-1984
  • Wilfried Schmid, 1984-
Walter Beverly Pearson Professorship of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, 1976 named after Walter Beverly Pearson, -1917
  • Hillary Whitehall Putnam, 1976 - (Philosophy department)


Source for the information above: Harvard University
History of Named chairs
University Professorships and those of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1721-1991
William Bentinck-Smith, Elizabeth Stouffer
Cambridge, MA 1995


George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics,
  • Persi Diaconis: (1987-1997)
  • Benedict Gross: (1997-


Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics
  • Richard Taylor


Maria Moors Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences
  • Curtis T. McMullen


Higgins Professor of Mathematics
  • Joseph D. Harris


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