Cambridge University Reporter


Grace submitted to the Regent House on 2 February 2005

The Council submit the following Grace to the Regent House. This Grace, unless it is withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 105), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 11 February 2005.

1. That the Professorship of Quantum Physics be retitled as the Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physics and that a fund to be called the Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physics Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations.1

Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physics

1. The sums received from Mrs Hazel N. Trapnell in memory of her husband, Mr Roger Leigh Trapnell, formerly of King's College, towards the endowment of the Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physics shall form a fund called the Leigh Trapnell Professorship of Quantum Physics Fund.

2. If and whenever the income of the Fund shall exceed the amount required for the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the Professor payable by the University, the excess of the income over that amount may be applied for the support of teaching or research in Quantum Physics in such manner as shall be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Mathematics.

3. Any unexpended income in a financial year may in any subsequent year be expended in accordance with Regulation 2.

1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 410. The current holder of the Professorship has given his consent to the change in title.