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Notable members of Edinburgh University's School of History, Classics and Archaeology: Lord Abercromby – author of distinguished research on Bronze Age pottery; Abercromby Professors of Archaeology. Vere Gordon Childe – first holder of the Abercromby Chair [3] Stuart Piggott – second holder of the Abercromby Chair
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 ...
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 ]
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.
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). Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892).
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 ...
View of King's Buildings from the Braid Hills. The King's Buildings (colloquially known as just King's or KB) is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.Located in the suburb of Blackford, the site contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, excepting only the School of Informatics and part of the School of Geosciences, which are located at the ...
Old College is a late 18th-century to early 19th-century building of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.It is located on South Bridge, and presently houses parts of the University's administration, the University of Edinburgh School of Law, and the Talbot Rice Gallery.