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Hugh Robson (educator)
Sir Hugh Norwood Robson (18 October 1917 – 11 December 1977) was a Scottish physician noted as a university administrator in several countries, including Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1966 to 1974 and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1974 to 1977. The Hugh Robson Building in George Square (part of the University of Edinburgh) is named after him, as is the Hugh Robson Computer Laboratory. Life Known as Norrie, Robson was born in 1917 in Langholm, Dumfriesshire, the son of Elizabeth Warnock, a farmer's daughter, and Hugh Robson, a civil servant in the Inland Revenue. He was educated at Langholm Academy then Dumfries Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MB ChB in 1941. He then, as his service during the Second World War, joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve and served in Singapore as a Lieutenant Surgeon. Returning to the University of Edinburgh as a lec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Sheffield
, mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Public research university , academic_staff = 5,670 (2020) - including academic atypical staff , administrative_staff = , chancellor = Lady Justice Rafferty , vice_chancellor = Koen Lamberts , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , endowment = £46.7 million (2021) , budget = £741.0 million (2020–21) , city = Sheffield , state = South Yorkshire , country = England , coor = , campus = Urban , colours = Black & gold , affiliations = Russell Group WUN ACUN8 Group White Rose Sutton 30EQUISAMBAUniversities UK , website = , logo = The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society Of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. , there are around 1,800 Fellows. The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London, including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business, and public service. History At the start of the 18th century, Edinburgh's intellectual climate fostered many clubs and societies (see Scottish Enlightenment). Though there were several that treated the arts, sciences and medicine, the most prestigious was the Society for the Improvement of Medical Knowledge, commonly referred to as the Medical Society of Edinburgh, co-founded by the mathematician Colin Maclaurin in 1731. Maclaurin was unhappy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academics Of The University Of Sheffield
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece. Etymology The word comes from the ''Academy'' in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, ''Akademos''. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning. The sacred space, dedicated to the goddess of wisdom, Athena, had formerly been an olive grove, hence the expression "the groves of Academe". In these gardens, the philosopher Plato conversed with followers. Plato developed his sessions into a method of teaching philosophy and in 387 BC, established what is known today as the Old Academy. By extension, ''academia'' has come to mean the accumulation, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of The University Of Edinburgh
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. The university is associated with 19 Nobel Prize laureates, three Turing Award winners, an Abel Prize laureate and Fields Medallist, four Pulitzer Prize winners, three Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and several Olympic gold medallists. Government and politics Heads of state and government United Kingdom Cabinet and Party Leaders Scottish Cabinet and Party Leaders Current Members of the House of Commons * Wendy Chamberlain, MP for North East Fife * Joanna Cherry, MP for Edinburgh South West * Colin Clark, MP for Gordon * Anneliese Dodds, MP for Oxford East * Kate Green, MP for Stretford and Urmston * John Howell, MP for Henley * Neil Hudson, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principals Of The University Of Edinburgh
Principals of the University of Edinburgh * 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, unable to take the position until 1662) * 1653 Robert Leighton * 1662 William Colvill * 1675 Andrew Cant * 1685 Alexander Monro * 1690 Gilbert Rule * 1703 William Carstares * 1716 William Wishart (primus) * 1730 William Hamilton * 1732 James Smith * 1736 William Wishart (secundus) * 1754 John Gowdie * 1762 William Robertson * 1793 George Husband Baird * 1840 John Lee * 1859 David Brewster * 1868 Alexander Grant * 1885 William Muir * 1903 William Turner * 1916 Alfred Ewing * 1929 Thomas Henry Holland * 1944 John Fraser * 1948 Edward Victor Appleton * 1965 Michael Swann * 1974 Hugh Robson * 1979 John Harrison Burnett * 1987 David Smith * 1994 Stewart Sutherland * 2002 Timothy O'Shea * 2018 Peter Mathieson External links Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harrison Burnett
Sir John Harrison Burnett (21 January 1922 – 22 July 2007) was a British botanist and mycologist, who served as the principal and vice chancellor of Edinburgh University from 1979 to 1987. Early life and education Burnett was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, the son of Rev. T. Harrison Burnett of Paisley Abbey. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath before going up to Merton College, Oxford to read botany in 1940. His studies were interrupted by the Second World War and from 1942 he served as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). He served protecting the Atlantic convoys and in the Mediterranean during the Siege of Malta. He was Mentioned in Dispatches. He later served as a Royal Marine commando. In Yugoslavia, he spent time with Marshall Tito in a cave. He resumed his studies in 1946 and graduated with a first class BSc in botany in 1947. He was awarded the Christopher Welch Research Scholarship and began doctoral research on fungi. He also began teachin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh University Principals
Principals of the University of Edinburgh * 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, unable to take the position until 1662) * 1653 Robert Leighton * 1662 William Colvill * 1675 Andrew Cant * 1685 Alexander Monro * 1690 Gilbert Rule * 1703 William Carstares * 1716 William Wishart (primus) * 1730 William Hamilton * 1732 James Smith * 1736 William Wishart (secundus) * 1754 John Gowdie * 1762 William Robertson * 1793 George Husband Baird * 1840 John Lee * 1859 David Brewster * 1868 Alexander Grant * 1885 William Muir * 1903 William Turner * 1916 Alfred Ewing * 1929 Thomas Henry Holland * 1944 John Fraser * 1948 Edward Victor Appleton * 1965 Michael Swann * 1974 Hugh Robson * 1979 John Harrison Burnett * 1987 David Smith * 1994 Stewart Sutherland * 2002 Timothy O'Shea * 2018 Peter Mathieson External links Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Swann
Michael Meredith Swann, Baron Swann, FRS, FRSE (1 March 1920 – 22 September 1990) was a British molecular and cell biologist. He was appointed chairman of the BBC, awarded a knighthood and subsequently a life peerage. Early life Swann was born in Cambridge, the eldest of three children of pathologist Meredith Blake Robson Swann and his wife, Marjorie Dykes. Swann was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, and then at Winchester College, a boarding independent school for boys in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, where he was an Exhibitioner. He then studied Zoology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA. Life and works He served with the British Army during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and being Mentioned in Dispatches. From 1946 Swann lectured in zoology at the University of Cambridge, his former Alma Mater. He moved to Edinburgh University as Professor of Natural History in 1952. In 1953 he was elected a Fello ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Sims
Geoffrey Donald Sims OBE, FREng (13 December 1926 – 5 August 2017) was a British physicist who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1974 to 1991. Life Sims was born 13 December 1926 in London. He studied at Imperial College, London, gaining a BSc in physics in 1947 and in mathematics in 1948; an MSc in mathematics in 1950 and a PhD in physics in 1954.''IEEE Transactions on Education'', March 1968 page 83 He worked for General Electric Company from 1948 to 1954 then the Atomic Energy Authority until 1956 when he joined the academic staff of the Department of Electronics at the University of Southampton, becoming a professor and head of the Department of Electronics at the same university, a position he held from 1963 to 1974.The University of Southampton: An Illustrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Roy Clapham
Arthur Roy Clapham (24 May 1904 – 18 December 1990), was a British botanist. Born in Norwich and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist (1928–30), and then took a teaching post in the botany department at Oxford University. He was Professor of Botany at Sheffield University 1944–69 and vice chancellor of the university during the 1960s. He coauthored the ''Flora of the British Isles'', which was the first, and for several decades the only, comprehensive flora of the British Isles published in 1952 and followed by new editions in 1962 and 1987. In response to a request from Arthur Tansley, he coined the term ecosystem in the early 1930s. Early life and education Clapham was born in Norwich to George Clapham, an elementary school teacher and Dora Margaret Clapham, ''née'' Harvey. He was the oldest of three children and the only boy. He attended the City of Norwich School, where he sat the Cambridge S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Square, Edinburgh
George Square ( gd, Ceàrnag Sheòrais) is a city square in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is in the south of the city centre, adjacent to The Meadows (park), the Meadows. It was laid out in 1766 outside the overcrowded Old Town, Edinburgh, Old Town, and was a popular residential area for Edinburgh's better-off citizens. In the 1960s, much of the square was redeveloped by the University of Edinburgh, although the Cockburn Association and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, Georgian Group of Edinburgh protested. Most but not all buildings on the square now belong to the university (among the exceptions being the Dominican Order, Dominican St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy, Edinburgh, priory of St Albert the Great). Principal buildings include the Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh University Library, 40 George Square and Appleton Tower. Georgian square The square was laid out in 1766 by the builder James Brown, and comprised modest, typically Georgian architecture, Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Ernest Butler
Hugh Ernest Butler FRSE MRIA FRAS (27 December 1916 – 10 May 1978) was a pioneering Welsh-born astronomer. Wartime work included important contributions to anti-aircraft gunnery followed in peacetime by major contributions to galactic and extragalactic research particularly via ballistic rockets. He promoted the idea of an orbiting space telescope as early as 1958. Life He was born on 27 December 1916 in Llandaff in Glamorganshire in Wales. He was educated firstly at Cardiff High School and then at Whitgift School in Croydon before being awarded a place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship to read Mathematics. In 1940 he received an Isaac Newton Studentship and commenced work on a PhD but the telescope on which he was working was dismantled as a result of the war and the academic work had to be put on hold. In the same year he was asked to join Prof Patrick Blackett to do operational research in anti-aircraft guns in Richmond, in relation to defending th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
