https://uoe.org.uk The University of Edinburgh Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:09:30 +0000 https://uoe.org.uk en http://uoe.org.uk/Alumni Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:09:30 +0000 The University of Edinburgh 380163 The university through alumni and academic staff is associated with some of the most significant intellectual and scientific contributions in human history. As of March 2019, 19 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as alumni, faculty and researchers with 3 additional laureates acting as administrative staff including one of the fathers of quantum mechanics Max Born, theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, supramolecular chemist Sir Fraser Stoddart, biophysicist known for performing electron microscopy on biological molecules Richard Henderson and pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation Robert Edwards. Computer scientists Robin Milner and Leslie Valiant, both Turing Award laureates and mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah, Fields Medallist and Abel Prize winner, are associated with the university. The university is further associated with scientists whose contributions include laying the foundations of Bayesian statistics (Thomas Bayes), nephrology (Richard Bright), the theory of evolution (Charles Darwin), the initial development of sociology (Adam Ferguson), modern geology (James Hutton), antiseptic surgery (Joseph Lister), classical theory of electromagnetism (James Clerk Maxwell) and thermodynamics (William John Macquorn Rankine); the discovery of carbon dioxide, latent heat and specific heat (Joseph Black), the HPV vaccine (Ian Frazer), the Higgs mechanism (Peter Higgs and Tom Kibble), the Hepatitis B vaccine (Kenneth Murray), nitrogen (Daniel Rutherford), chloroform anaesthesia (James Young Simpson) and SARS (Nanshan Zhong); and the inventing of the telephone (Alexander Graham Bell), the hypodermic syringe (Alexander Wood), the kaleidoscope (David Brewster), the telpherage (Fleeming Jenkin), the vacuum flask (James Dewar), the ATM (John Shepherd-Barron) and the diving chamber (John Scott Haldane). Other alumni and academic staff of the university have included signatories to the US Declaration of Independence James Wilson, John Witherspoon and Benjamin Rush, Prime Ministers Gordon Brown, Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell (the latter matriculated at Edinburgh, but did not graduate), Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, astronaut Piers Sellers, biologist Ian Wilmut, geologists Archibald Geikie and William Edmond Logan, physicists Sir David Brewster, John Robison and Peter Guthrie Tait, writers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.M. Barrie, Sir Walter Scott, Aeneas Francon Williams and Alistair Moffat, economists Kenneth E. Boulding, James Mirrlees and John Hardman Moore, historian Sir Tom Devine, actor Ian Charleson, composers Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan, and William Wordsworth, chemists William Henry, David Leigh, Guy Lloyd-Jones and Alexander R. Todd, botanist Robert Brown, surgeon James Barry, mathematician Colin Maclaurin, polymath Thomas Young, philosopher David Hume, pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown, former BP CEO Tony Hayward, former director general of MI5 Stella Rimington, theologians John Dickie and Robert Preus, former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, Spanish Civil War veteran and traditionalist Catholic writer Hamish Fraser, neurosurgeon B. K. Misra. Olympic Games gold medallists from the university include six-times Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, rower Katherine Grainger and runner Eric Liddell. The university through alumni and academic staff is associated with some of the most significant intellectual and scientific contributions in human history. As of... http://uoe.org.uk/History Sun, 02 Aug 2020 00:12:12 +0000 The University of Edinburgh 380159 1583 The University of Edinburgh officially opens 1620 The roles of Principal and Professor of Divinity are separated 1707 The Faculty of Law is founded 1708 The Faculty of Arts is founded 1726 The Faculty of Medicine is founded1745 Classes are suspended as Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army marches on the city1789 The foundation stone is laid at the site of Old College1847 James Young Simpson, Professor of Midwifery, discovers anaesthetic use of chloroform in childbirth1858 The Universities (Scotland) Act grants the University full control of its own affairs1859 W E Gladstone becomes the first Rector to be elected by the student body1893 The University’s first female students graduate1897 The University’s graduating hall, McEwan Hall opens1914 Students and graduates start enlisting in the armed forces during WWI1918 Student and graduate enlistment numbers are recorded after the WWI ends1920 The foundation stone is laid at the site of the King’s Buildings campus1924 Student Eric Liddell wins 400 metres at the Paris Olympics1958 The University appoints its first female professor Elizabeth Wiskemann1973 Edinburgh University Students’ Association is founded1996 Dolly the Sheep is cloned at the Roslin Institute2002 A new Medical School is opened at Little France2011 The University merges with Edinburgh College of Art2013 Emeritus Professor Peter Higgs is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 Ambitious plans to make Edinburgh the data capital of Europe announced 2018 Professor Evelyn Telfer grows human eggs in the lab paving the way for new fertility treatments 2019 Work begins to install £79m supercomputer ARCHER2 at the University  1583 The University of Edinburgh officially opens 1620 The roles of Principal and Professor of Divinity are separated 1707 The Faculty of Law is founded 1708... http://uoe.org.uk/Leadership Sat, 01 Aug 2020 23:52:31 +0000 The University of Edinburgh 380157 The Chancellor The Chancellor confers degrees and enhances the profile and reputation of the University on national and global levels. The position of Chancellor is the highest in the University. The Chancellor is elected by the University’s General Council, and remains Chancellor for life. Degrees are conferred by him/her, or by the Vice-Chancellor.The Principal The Principal is responsible for the overall operation of the University. As Vice-Chancellor he/she confers degrees on behalf of the Chancellor. The Principal is President of the Senatus Academicus and ex-officio, a member of the University Court. He/she is nominated by the Curators of Patronage and appointed by the University Court. As Vice-Chancellor he/she confers degrees on behalf of the Chancellor HRH The Princess Royal. The Rector The primary role of the Rector is to preside at the University Court. The Rector also chairs meetings of the General Council in absence of the Chancellor. They work closely with students and the Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA). The Secretary The University Secretary is Secretary to the University Court, the University’s governing body, and has overall responsibility for a range of central professional services. These include development and alumni, international, communications and marketing, student services, governance and strategic planning, human resources and internal audit. The Chancellor The Chancellor confers degrees and enhances the profile and reputation of the University on national and global levels. The position of Chancellor is... http://uoe.org.uk/Home Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:34:03 +0000 The University of Edinburgh 379441 A:link { COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; font-weight: normal } A:visited { COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none; font-weight: normal } A:active { COLOR: black; TEXT-DECORATION: none } A:hover { COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: none; font-weight: none } <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/ebf708dfc4af350d5038b999121ea0e22918179bf69180bb55a249d6c07568b3/edwh.png" data-mid="963831" border="0" data-scale="28"/>The University of Edinburgh established in 1583 is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the world. It has produced 19 Nobel laureates, 3 Turing Award laureates, 1 Fields Medalist, 1 Abel Prize winner and 4 Pulitzer Prize winners. 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