Director of the Royal Institution explained

Below are directors of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with date of appointment.

Director of the Laboratory

• 1801 Humphry Davy
• 1825 Michael Faraday
• 1867 John Tyndall
• 1887 James Dewar

Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory

• 1896 James Dewar
• 1896 Lord Rayleigh
• 1923 William Bragg
• 1942 Henry Hallett Dale
• 1946 Eric Rideal
• 1950 Edward Andrade
• 1954 Lawrence Bragg
• 1998 Richard Catlow
• 2008 Quentin Pankhurst

Director

• 1965 William Lawrence Bragg
• 1966 George, Baron Porter of Luddenham
• 1986 David Philips (acting)
• 1986 John Meurig Thomas
• 1991 Peter Day
• 1998 Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
• 2017 Sarah Harper
• 2018 Shaun Fitzgerald
• 2022 Katherine Mathieson

External links

• Management of the Royal Institution