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Classics, formerly split between the departments of Humanity (Latin) and Greek, have been taught at the University since its foundation in 1583. The school has the oldest established Chair in Scottish History. Several well-known archaeologists have graduated and taught at the school.
Robert John Morris, FRHistS (1943 – 26 November 2022), known professionally as R. J. Morris, was an English historian and Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Life and career
This is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh.
Academic members of staff at Edinburgh were known as 'Regents' until William Carstares restructured the University in 1708, although five Chairs predate these reforms. The University can also create 'personal' chairs, that is, professorships awarded to an individual which come to an end when the individual dies or retires, which are not listed ...
From 1963, the building was home to the University’s Department of Artificial Intelligence, researching Machine Intelligence and Experimental Programming. [23] Freddy the Robot I was developed there between 1969 and 1971, and its brother, Freddy II, is now housed at the National Museum of Scotland . [ 24 ]
London: Hurst and Blackett, Ltd., Paternoster House, E.C. – Biography of Sir Leander Starr Jameson, which notes that Starr's '...chief Gamaliel, however, was a Professor Grant, a man of advanced age, who had been a pupil of his great-uncle, the Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh.' (p. 53).
Principals of the University of Edinburgh. Robert Rollock Sir David Brewster Sir Edward Appleton. 1586 Robert Rollock (Regent from 1583 to 1586) 1599 Henry Charteris; 1620 Patrick Sands; 1622 Robert Boyd; 1623 John Adamson (died in office in 1652 but the original successor, William Colvill, was unable to take the position until 1662) 1653 ...
Edinburgh University Mountaineering Club at the cairn on Ciste Dhubh, 1964. Student sport at Edinburgh consists of clubs covering the more traditional rugby, football, rowing and judo, to the more unconventional korfball, gliding and mountaineering. In 2021, the university had over 65 sports clubs run by Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU ...