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The '''Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics''' at the [[University of Cambridge]] was established on 10 February 1950, largely from the endowment fund of the proposed Hopkinson Professorship in Thermodynamics and a gift from [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI Limited]] of £50,000, less tax, spread over the seven years from 1949 to 1955. The professorship is assigned primarily to the Faculty of [[Engineering]].<ref name="Venn">[http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/ACAD/lists/index.html Venn Cambridge University database] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120530053211/http://venn.csi.cam.ac.uk/ACAD/lists/index.html |date=2012-05-30 }}</ref>
The chair is named in honour of [[John Hopkinson]], whose widow originally endowed a lectureship in thermodynamics in the hope that it would eventually be upgraded to a professorship.<ref>[http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/125/1950-1975/prof_thermo.html Cambridge University - 125 Years of Engineering Excellence]</ref>
==List of Hopkinson and Imperial Chemical Industries Professors of Applied Thermodynamics==
*1951 - 1980 [[William Hawthorne|Sir William Rede Hawthorne]]<ref name = "Venn"/>
*1980 - 1983 John Arthur Shercliff <ref name = "Venn"/>
*1985 - 1997 [[Kenneth Bray|Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray]]<ref name = "Venn"/>
*1998 - 2015 John Bernard Young <ref name = "Venn"/>
*2015–present Epaminondas Mastorakos
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