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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.
Thomas Carlyle, who gave serious attention to Natural History, described Jameson's lecturing style as a "blizzard of facts". Charles Darwin attended Robert Jameson's natural history course at the University of Edinburgh in Darwin's teenage years. Darwin found the lectures boring, saying that they determined him "never to attend to the study of ...
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 ...
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.
Established professorships at the University of Edinburgh. The title of the professorship is followed by the date of foundation. Dates in italics indicate the year of foundation of lectureships on which chairs were based. As of November 2024, the list appears incomplete. Chair of Divinity (1620)
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 ...
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 Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961. [3] Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who established a laboratory at the college, [ 4 ] the building is located on the corner of Prince Consort ...