The Jodrell Chair of Physiology is a chair at University College London, endowed (shortly before the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy) by Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell in 1873. The chairs succeeded the previous chair in Anatomy and Physiology.
The endowment was for the sum of , with a further £500 for equipment. This endowment was acknowledged in the final report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction in 1875.
The first holder was John Burdon-Sanderson after the post received the Jodrell endowment.
Two Jodrell Professors, Archibald Hill and Andrew Huxley, have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Professors of Anatomy and Physiology 1831-1836 Jones Quain 1836-1874 William Sharpey
Jodrell Professors of Physiology 1874-1882 Sir John Burdon Sanderson 1883-1899 Edward Sharpey-Schafer 1899-1923 Ernest Starling 1923-1925 Archibald Hill 1926-1949 Charles Lovatt Evans 1949-1960 Sir Lindor Brown 1960-1969 Sir Andrew Huxley 1969-1979 Douglas Wilkie 1979-1995 Timothy Biscoe 1995- David Attwell
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