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  • In 1833 he was appointed to the Fullerian Professorship of Chemistry — a special research chair created for him.

    Faraday, Michael 2009

  • Hughes, these students announced, was “a Fullerian.”

    Hughes at Elmira Dan Ernst 2008

  • Hughes, these students announced, was “a Fullerian.”

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008

  • In 1966 he became Director and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal

    George Porter - Biography 1972

  • London (1915-1925), and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal

    William Bragg - Biography 1967

  • He founded the Fullerian professorships (which he called his two children), and contributed liberally to the Royal Institution; and his musical parties in London were famous.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • During the years 1856, 1857, and 1858, he held the post of Fullerian

    Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

  • During the years 1856, 1857, and 1858, he held the post of Fullerian Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution, choosing as the title of his first two courses of lectures Physiology and Comparative Anatomy, as he still cherished the idea of being in the first place a physiologist.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

  • I remember when I was candidate for the Fullerian professorship some twenty-three years ago, a friend of mine asked a wealthy manager to support me.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • I have been lecturing on Ethnology this year [As Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution.], and shall be again this year, and I would give a good deal to be able to look at the complex facts of Indian Ethnology with my own eyes.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

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