# Lista de presidentes do Instituto de Física

O Presidente do Instituto de Física é o chefe do conselho governativo do Instituto de Física. A história do instituto, de sua fundação como Physical Society of London em 1874 até o atual Instituto de Física, fez com que a denominação do posto tenha variado. O atual presidente é Frances Saunders.

## Presidentes da Physical Society of London

* 1874-1876 John Hall Gladstone
* 1876-1878 George Carey Foster
* 1878-1880 William Grylls Adams
* 1880-1882 William Thomson
* 1882-1884 Robert Bellamy Clifton
* 1884-1886 Frederick Guthrie
* 1886-1888 Balfour Stewart
* 1888-1890 Arnold William Reinold
* 1890-1892 William Edward Ayrton
* 1892-1893 George FitzGerald
* 1893-1895 Arthur William Rucker
* 1895-1897 William de Wiveleslie Abney
* 1897-1899 Shelford Bidwell
* 1899-1901 Oliver Lodge
* 1901-1903 Silvanus Phillips Thompson
* 1903-1905 Richard Glazebrook
* 1905-1906 John Henry Poynting
* 1906-1908 John Perry
* 1908-1910 Charles Chree
* 1910-1912 Hugh Longbourne Callendar
* 1912-1914 Arthur Schuster
* 1914-1916 Joseph John Thomson
* 1916-1918 Charles Vernon Boys
* 1918-1920 Charles Herbert Lees

## Presidentes da Physical Society

* 1920-1922 William Henry Bragg
* 1922-1924 Alexander Russell
* 1924-1926 Frank Edward Smith
* 1926-1928 Owen Willans Richardson
* 1928-1930 William Eccles
* 1930-1932 Arthur Stanley Eddington
* 1932-1934 Alexander Oliver Rankine
* 1934-1936 Robert John Strutt
* 1936-1938 Thomas Smith
* 1938-1941 Allan Ferguson
* 1941-1943 Charles Galton Darwin
* 1943-1945 Edward Andrade
* 1945-1947 David Brunt
* 1947-1949 George Finch
* 1949-1950 Sydney Chapman
* 1950-1952 Leslie Fleetwood Bates
* 1952-1954 Richard Whiddington
* 1954-1956 Harrie Massey
* 1956-1958 Nevill Francis Mott
* 1958-1960 John Ashworth Ratcliffe

## Presidentes do Instituto de Física

* 1920 - 1921 Richard Glazebrook
* 1921 - 1923 Joseph John Thomson
* 1923 - 1925 Charles Algernon Parsons
* 1925 - 1927 William Henry Bragg
* 1927 - 1929 Frank Dyson
* 1929 - 1931 William Eccles
* 1931 - 1933 Ernest Rutherford
* 1933 - 1935 Henry George Lyons
* 1935 - 1937 Alfred Fowler
* 1937 - 1939 Clifford C Paterson
* 1939 - 1943 William Lawrence Bragg
* 1943 - 1946 Frank Edward Smith
* 1946 - 1948 Arthur Mannering Tyndall
* 1948 - 1950 Francis C Toy
* 1950 - 1952 William Edward Curtis
* 1952 - 1954 Charles Sykes
* 1954 - 1956 John Cockcroft
* 1956 - 1958 Oliver W Humphreys
* 1958 - 1960 George Paget Thomson

## Presidentes do Instituto de Física e da Physical Society

* 1960 - 1962 John Cockcroft
* 1962 - 1964 Alan Geoffrey Wilson
* 1964 - 1966 Gordon Sutherland
* 1966 - 1968 James Taylor
* 1968 - 1970 Malcolm R Gavin

## Presidentes do Instituto de Física

* 1970 - 1972 James Woodham Menter
* 1972 - 1974 Brian Hilton Flowers
* 1974 - 1976 Brian Pippard
* 1976 - 1978 Basil John Mason
* 1978 - 1980 Bas Pease
* 1980 - 1982 Denys Wilkinson
* 1982 - 1984 Robert Clayton
* 1984 - 1986 Alec Merrison
* 1986 - 1988 Godfrey Stafford
* 1988 - 1990 Cyril Hilsum
* 1990 - 1992 Roger Blin-Stoyle
* 1992 - 1994 Clive A. P. Foxell
* 1994 - 1996 Arnold Wolfendale
* 1996 - 1998 Brian W. Manley
* 1998 - 2000 Gareth Roberts
* 2000 - 2002 Peter Williams
* 2002 - 2004 David Wallace
* 2004 - 2006 John Enderby
* 2006 - 2008 Peter Saraga
* 2008 - 2010 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
* 2010 - 2011 Marshall Stoneham
* 2011 - 2011 Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Interina)
* 2011 - 2013 Peter Knight
* 2013 - atualidade Frances Saunders