The Simonyi Professorship for the Public Understanding of Science is a chair at the University of Oxford.
[1][2] The aim of the Professorship is 'to communicate science to the public without, in doing so, losing those elements of scholarship which constitute the essence of true understanding'.
[4] [...] if I am asked for a single phrase to characterize my role as Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, I think I would claim Advocate for Disinterested Truth.Richard Dawkins explained the history of the creation of the chair in a chapter of his memoirs, Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science.
[2] In 2008, Dawkins retired and the Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was elected to the chair.
[6][7] Richard Dawkins established an annual "Charles Simonyi Lecture" at the University of Oxford.