- William Stewart
Sir William Stewart Ph.D., D.Sc., FRS, FRSE, was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999-2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority. He is married to the former Dr. Elizabeth Smales, a senior medical officer at the Scottish Executive. From 1990 to 1995 Sir William was Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office and the first Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology (1992-1995). - Adam Smith
Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. - July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneering political economist. He is a major contributor to the modern perception of economics. One of the key figures of the intellectual movement known as the Scottish Enlightenment, he is known primarily as the author of two treatises: "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), … - Philip Cohen
Sir Philip Cohen, FRS, FRSE (born 22 July 1945) is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Sir Philip Cohen is based in the School of Life Sciences Research Biocentre Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit (PPU). Education: Hendon County Grammar School, University College, London - Alan Langlands
Sir Alan Langlands Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Dundee - David Edward
Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, KCMG, QC, FRSE, (b 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic and sat as a Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities between 1992 and 2004. Sir David read Classics at Oxford and Law at Edinburgh University. After National Service in the Royal Navy he was called to the Scottish Bar in 1962 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974. - Neil MacCormick
Professor Sir (Donald) Neil MacCormick QC (Hon), FBA, FRSE, is the current Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh, where he also holds a personal Leverhulme Research Professorship. He is a vice-president of the Scottish National Party (SNP), and a renowned legal philosopher. - William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and outstanding leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century. He did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. He is widely known for developing the Kelvin scale of absolute temperature measurement. - Hideki Yukawa
Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel prize. Yukawa was born in Tokyo, on January 23, 1907. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto Imperial University he stayed on as a lecturer for four years. After graduation, he was interested in theoretical physics, particularly in the theory of elementary particles. - Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander (R.A.A.) "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born August 24 1948) is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the late 20th century McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction, most widely known as the creator of the The No. - Aubrey Manning
Professor Aubrey William George Manning OBE FRSE FIBiol (born 24 April, 1930 in London, UK) is a distinguished English zoologist and broadcaster. Manning was educated at Strode's School in Egham, University College London and Merton College, Oxford where he completed his DPhil under Niko Tinbergen. After National Service he joined the University of Edinburgh as an assistant lecturer. His main research and teaching interests are on animal behaviour, … - Peter Higgs
Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is now an emeritus professor. Higgs is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson. - Tom Devine
Professor Tom M Devine (Thomas Martin Devine) OBE FRSE FBA (born Motherwell, Scotland 1945) is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian. His main research interest is Scottish history since c.1600. He is widely regarded as the pre-eminent authority on the history of modern Scotland. In April 2005, he was appointed to the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, … - John Playfair
Professor John Playfair FRSE (March 10, 1748 - July 20, 1819) was a Scottish scientist. Playfair was professor of mathematics and later professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is perhaps best known for his book "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth" (1802), which was a summary of the work of James Hutton. It was through this that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, … - Muir Russell
Sir Muir Russell KCB DL FRSE is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, in Scotland. He was born in Glasgow in 1949 and was educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he took a first class honours degree in Natural Philosophy. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000 and holds honorary degrees from the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow. - Michael Berry
Sir Michael Victor Berry, FRS FRSE (born 14 March 1941), is a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1982 and knighted in 1996. From 2006 he has been Editor of the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society A. He is famous among other things for the Berry phase,a phenomenon observed e.g. in quantum mechanics and optics. He specialises in semiclassical physics (asymptotic physics, quantum chaos), … - James W. Black
Sir James Whyte Black, OM, FRS, FRSE, FRCP (born 14 July 1924) is a Scottish pharmacologist who invented Propranolol, synthesized Cimetidine and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for these discoveries. Black was educated at Beath High School, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and the University of St Andrews, Fife, where he studied medicine, spending time in Dundee (where all the clinical medical activity of St Andrews' University took place until 1967). - Hew Strachan
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War. Commissioned by Oxford University Press to write a history of the First World War to replace C.R.M.F Cruttwell's one-volume "A History of the Great War, 1914-1918", Strachan completed the first of three volumes, … - Graeme Catto
Graeme Catto MD DSc FRCP FMedSci FRSE is a Scottish doctor who is currently President of the General Medical Council. He is also currently Professor in Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen and an honorary Consultant nephrologist at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. - Brian Lang
Brian Lang, FRSE, is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Lang was born on 2 December 1945 in Edinburgh and educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh where he studied Social Anthropology, graduating MA in 1968, and PhD in 1974. Following a period in Kenya studying and living among the Kamba people, he lectured in social anthropology for some years at Aarhus University, Denmark. - Owen Chadwick
William Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, FBA, FRSE (born 20 May 1916) is a British professor, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. He is a former Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Brother of the Very Reverend Professor Henry Chadwick, also a distinguished historian of the early Church and a former Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, and of the late Sir John Chadwick, British High Commissioner to Australia. - Anthony Cohen
Anthony P. Cohen FRSE is a British social anthropologist. Cohen was born in London in 1946. Educated at Whittingehame College, Brighton, the University of Geneva and the University of Southampton, he is a social anthropologist with specialist interests in personal, social and national identity. He conducted fieldwork in Springdale, Newfoundland (1968-70) on local-level politics; and in Whalsay (1973-90), … - Kenneth Murray
Sir Kenneth Murray FRS FRSE is a British molecular biologist. His wife is Noreen Murray (nee Parker), also a biologist. The team of Kenneth Murray developed the vaccine against hepatitis B and he is one of the founders of Biogen. This was the first vaccine made using genetic engineering. Kenneth Murray is also founder and Chairman of the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh, charity supporting young biologists in their doctoral studies. - Kenneth Dover
Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA (born March 11, 1920) is a distinguished British academic who was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005. - Struther Arnott
Struther Arnott CBE, FRS, FRSE, (born 25 September, 1934) is a Scottish academic and was former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Educated at the University of Glasgow, he worked with the Biophysics Unit of King's College London, before his appointment as Professor of Molecular Biology at Purdue University, Indiana. At Purdue he served as Vice-President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. - Richard Gregory
Richard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS (born July 241923) is a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol. In 1967, with Prof. Donald Michie and Prof. Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS, he founded the Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception, a forerunner of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He was Head of the Bionics Research Laboratory, Professor of Bionics, … - John Randall
Sir John Randall,FRSE, (March 23, 1905 - June 16, 1984) was a British physicist, credited with radical improvement of the cavity magnetron, an essential component of centimetric wavelength radar, which was one of the keys to the Allied victory in the Second World War. It is also the key component of microwave ovens. He also led the King's College London team which worked on the structure of DNA; a member of his staff, Maurice Wilkins, … - John Mallard
John Mallard OBE FRSE was Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Aberdeen from 1965 until his retirement in 1992. He is known for his and his colleague's work in the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and, in particular, positron emission tomography (PET). - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas (Broun) Smith, QC, FBA, FRSE (3 December 1915 - 15 October 1988) was a lawyer, soldier and academic. Smith was the son of John Smith, DL, JP, and Agnes Smith. He married in 1940, Ann Dorothea Tindall. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, (MA 1937, Boulter exhibitioner, Eldon Scholar). He was called to the English Bar in 1938 and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1947. - Christopher Smout
Professor Thomas Christopher Smout CBE, MA, Ph.D., FBA, FRSE, (Born 1933) has been the Historiographer Royal in Scotland since 1993 and is Professor Emeritus in History at St Andrews University. He has taught and researched in the field of British Environmental History and Scottish Social History. He was the founder of the Institute for Environmental History. Professor Smout was educated at The Leys School and Clare College, University of Cambridge. - John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson, Ph.D, CC, OBE, D.Sc, FRS, FRSC, FRSE (October 24, 1908-April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, the idea that the rigid outer layers of the Earth (crust and part of the upper mantle), the lithosphere, are broken up into numerous pieces or "plates" that move independently over the weaker asthenosphere. - Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington FRS FRSE (1905 - 1975) was a developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology. He had wide interests that included poetry and painting, as well as left-wing political leanings. - Neil Mackie
Professor Neil Mackie CBE, CStJ, FRSE, FRCM, FRSAMD is a Scottish tenor. Born in Aberdeen, Neil studied piano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and later as a postgraduate singer at the Royal College of Music in London. He is currently Head of Vocal Studies at the Royal College of Music and at the Benjamin Britten International Opera School. - Colin Kidd
Professor Colin Craig Kidd MA, D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S, F.S.A.Scot, FRSE, is a historian specialising in American and Scottish history. He is the current Chair of Modern History and Deputy Head of Department, at the School of Historical Studies, University of Glasgow. Professor Kidd is holder of the prestigious British Petroleum Prize Lectureship in the Humanities and currently teaches in the department's division of Scottish History. - Stewart Sutherland Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, KT, FRSE, FBA (born 25 February 1941) is a Scottish academic and public servant. Educated at the University of Aberdeen and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was appointed assistant lecturer in Philosophy at the University College of North Wales, and three years later returned to Scotland as a lecturer at the University of Stirling. - John Campbell Brown
Professor John Campbell Brown FRSE (born 4 February 1947) currently holds the following positions: * Astronomer Royal for Scotland (since 1995) * Honorary Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh * Regius Professor of Astronomy, University of Glasgow He is involved in the teaching programme at the University of Glasgow, teaching first year astronomy stellar physics amongst other subjects. - John Fincham
John Robert Stanley Fincham FRS FRSE (11 August 1926 - February 9 2005) was a noted British geneticist who made important contributions to biochemical genetics and microbial genetics. Perhaps most notably, he obtained the first direct evidence for the "one gene-one enzyme" hypothesis. He accomplished this considerable feat using mutants of Neurospora crassa deficient in a specific enzyme. Fincham was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences. - William Eric Kinloch Anderson
Sir William Eric Kinloch Anderson, KT FRSE (born 27 May 1936) is Provost of Eton College. Dr Eric Anderson was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh and gained a first class honours degree in English at the University of St. Andrews, where he was awarded an Honorary DLitt in 1981. He studied for a B.Litt at Balliol College, where his thesis was on the novels of Sir Walter Scott. - James Hough
James Hough FRS FRSE FInstP FAPS FRAS, also known as Jim Hough, is a British physicist and an international leader in the search for gravitational waves. - G. W. S. Barrow
Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow DLitt FBA FRSE is a British historian and academic, born at Headingley in Leeds. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, and arguably the most prominent Scottish medievalist of the last century. He began his work by studying the nature of feudalism in Anglo-Norman Britain, but moved on to specialize more thoroughly on Scottish feudalism. His work has tended to focus on Normanization in High Medieval Scotland, … - Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray FRSE FLS (19 February 1812–10 January 1878) was a Scottish botanist.
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