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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 ...
The University of Edinburgh was also a major supplier of surgeons for the Royal Navy, and Robert Jameson (1774–1854), Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh, ensured that a large number of these were surgeon-naturalists, who were vital in the Humboldtian and imperial enterprise of investigating nature throughout the world.
Edinburgh Medical School was ranked third in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 for Neuroscience and Biological Sciences and top five for Clinical Medicine. Edinburgh University is a member of the Russell Group of universities, receiving a quanta of a third of British research funding. In the last UK-wide Research Assessment ...
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (4 P) Pages in category "History of the University of Edinburgh" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
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 ...
A list of prime ministers of the United Kingdom and the educational institutions they attended. As of July 2024, of the 58 prime ministers to date, 31 were educated at the University of Oxford (including 13 at Christ Church), and 14 at the University of Cambridge (including six at Trinity College).
The University of Edinburgh Wikimedian in Residence Project.; University of Edinburgh, Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year 2018: Following successful collaborations with Wikimedia in 2015, the University of Edinburgh hosted a Wikimedian in Residence from January 2016 to January 2017 as a part-time (0.5) year-long project to advocate and raise awareness of Open Knowledge, working with academic ...