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List Of Makdougall Brisbane Prize Winners
This is a list of winners of the biennial Makdougall Brisbane Prize for particular distinction in the promotion of scientific research, latterly restyled as the annually awarded Makdougall Brisbane Medal for early career achievement in the physical sciences, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It is not to be confused with the similarly named award given by the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. ;Makdougall Brisbane Prize Sources (to 2002)RSEanRSE*1859 – Roderick Murchison *1860–62 – William Seller *1862–64 – Sir John Denis Macdonald *1864–66 *1866–68 – Alexander Crum Brown and Thomas Richard Fraser (joint) *1868–70 – ''Not awarded'' *1870–72 – George Allman *1872–74 – Joseph Lister *1874–76 – Alexander Buchan *1876–78 – Archibald Geikie *1878–80 – Charles Piazzi Smyth *1880–82 – James Geikie *1882–84 – Edward Sang *1884–86 – Sir John Murray *1886–88 – Archibald Geikie Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makdougall Brisbane Prize
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] |
Hugh Robert Mill
Hugh Robert Mill (28 May 1861 – 5 April 1950) was a British geographer and meteorologist who was influential in the reform of geography teaching, and in the development of meteorology as a science. He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society for 1907/8, and President of the Geographical Association in 1932. Life He was born in Thurso, the son of Dr James Mill. He was educated locally then studied Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1883. In 1884 he was appointed chemist and physicist to the Scottish marine station, and in 1887 became a lecturer for the university extension movement, being at the same time (1893-9) recorder of the geographical section of the British Association. He became president of the geographical section in 1901. In 1892 he was appointed librarian to the Royal Geographical Society in London. From 1902 to 1906, he was honorary secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society, and became its president in 1907. In 1890 he lived on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abercrombie Lawson
Abercrombie Anstruther Lawson (13 September 1870 – 26 March 1927) was a botanist, foundation professor of botany at the University of Sydney. Early life Lawson was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the fourth son of William Lawson, a sailor and shipyard worker, and his wife Janet (Jessie) Kerr, ''née'' Coupar. Abercrombie Lawson's parents had migrated to Hamilton in 1866, then in 1881 moved to Toronto, where Lawson was educated at the Harbord Street Collegiate Institute. When Lawson's father's health failed, his mother wrote novels and worked as a journalist to educate the ten children. After a year at the University of Toronto, Lawson claimed to have studied medicine and botany at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1895-96. Lawson graduated at the University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor of Science, 1897; Master of Science, 1898). After a year as assistant in botany Lawson spent 1901 at the University of Chicago with Professors John Merle Coulter and Charles Joseph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alexander Houstoun
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Robertson Marshall
Charles Robertson Marshall FRSE was an early 20th century British physician. Life In May 1894 he became assistant to Prof John Buckley Bradbury at Cambridge University. He left in 1899 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at St Andrews University. From 1910 to 1930 he was Regius Professor of Materia Medica at Aberdeen University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1909. His proposers were Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Sir James Walker, William Peddie, and Sir Thomas Richard Fraser. He won the Society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize 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 i ... for the period 1912 to 1914. He resigned from the Society in 1928. Publications *''A Textbook of Materia Medica'' (1905) *''The Place of Materia Medica and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brownlee (physician) (born 1952), Scottish footballer
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John Brownlee may refer to: * John Brownlee (baritone) (1900–1969), Australian opera singer * John Brownlee (basketball), retired American basketball player * John Brownlee (statistician) (1868–1927), British statistician * John Brownlee, child abuser at Edinburgh Academy * John Edward Brownlee (1883–1961), Canadian politician, former Premier of Alberta * John L. Brownlee (born 1965), United States attorney and politician * Jonny Brownlee (born 1990), British triathlete * Johnathan Brownlee, film producer See also * John Brownlie John Brownlie (born 11 March 1952) is a Scottish former football player and coach, currently assistant manager of East Stirlingshire. Brownlie played as a right back for Pumpherston Juniors, Hibernian, Newcastle United, Middlesbrough, Hartle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Wedderburn
Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn (3 February 1884 – 3 June 1958) was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh (1922–35), Deputy Keeper of the Signet (1935–54), and Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors (1936–49), the forerunner to the Law Society of Scotland, and chaired the latter 1949/50. He was also an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and first Treasurer then Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Early life Wedderburn was born in Forfar, Forfarshire in 1884, the son of Anne Oglivie and her husband (and cousin), Dr Alexander Stormonth MacLagan Wedderburn of Pearsie. He was one of 14 children, and the younger brother of Joseph Wedderburn, who became Professor of Mathematics at Princeton and conceive the Wedderburn–Etherington number and Artin–Wedderburn theorem. He was distantly related, through h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan
Prof David Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan FRSE FLS MRIA (12 March 1871 – 4 September 1915) was a 20th-century Welsh botanist and botanopalaeolontologist, specialising in fossilised plants (especially ferns). Life He was born on 12 March 1871 at Royston House in Llandovery in Wales, the eldest son of Henry Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan of Cynghordy, and his wife, Elizabeth Thomas. His mother died in 1874 when he was still very young. He was educated at Monmouth School then studied Natural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1893. He then worked for some time at the Jodrell Laboratory in Kew. Academic career After a period of his life, traveling overseas visiting exotic locations with a group of young British academics and adventures, among them his second-cousin "Gwyn" Sir Gwynneth de Candia Vaughan son of Arthur Powys-Vaughan and countess Clelia de Candia, daughter of the famous count Mario the Tenor, David spent the year of 1896 in the Amazon rainforest and in the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm
Jakob Karl Ernst Halm (1866 – 1944) was a pioneer of stellar dynamics and the first person to suggest the existence of a mass–luminosity relation for stars. Early life Halm was born at Bingen am Rhein, Kingdom of Prussia on 30 November 1866. Education Halm went to school in Bingen and studied later at Giessen, Berlin and Kiel. He obtained his PhD at Kiel in 1890 for work on linear differential equations. Career Assistant at the University Observatory, Strasbourg (1889-1895). First Class Assistant at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (1895-1907). Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope (1907-1927). Scientific contributions While at Edinburgh Halm used a heliometer to feed a spectrograph in order to study the differential rotation of the Sun at different latitudes. He discovered that absorption lines near the edge of the Solar disc are displaced towards the red, compared with their positions at the centre. This was not due to obvious effects such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dougall (mathematician)
Dr John Dougall FRSE (June 1867 – 24 February 1960) was "one of Scotland's leading mathematicians".. Two formulas are named Dougall's formula after him: one for the sum of a 7''F''6 hypergeometric series, and another for the sum of a bilateral hypergeometric series. Life Dougall was born in June 1867 in Kippen, a small village near Stirling, Scotland; his father, a watchmaker and postmaster, had nine children, among whom John was the eldest.. He was educated locally at Kippen School. He left school at age 13 to become a post office worker, but a year later entered Glasgow University, from which he earned an M.A. in 1886. (He was later given a doctorate by the same university.) After graduating, he taught mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College before becoming an editor and translator of mathematical publications for Blackie and Son, a Glasgow publisher. He died on 24 February 1960 in Glasgow. Dougall became a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Masterman
Arthur Thomas Masterman FRS FRSE (9 April 1869 – 10 February 1941) was an English zoologist and author. He was an expert on the British fishing industry. Life He was born on 9 April 1869 the son of Thomas W. Masterman of Rotherfield Hall in Sussex. His older brother Howard Masterman, became Bishop of Plymouth. His youngest brother was Charles Masterman. Masterman was educated at University School in Hastings and then Weymouth College. He then won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge studying under Sir Arthur Shipley. He graduated in physiology and zoology in 1893. After graduating he obtained a post assisting at the University of St Andrews and in 1900 became a lecturer in natural history. He began specialising in food fish and oversaw the interpretation of the fishing research vessel "S. S. Garland". He helped to establish the Gatty Marine Laboratory with his senior colleague, William Carmichael McIntosh. In 1900 he also became an extramural lecturer at the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramsay Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Fellow of the Royal Society of London, FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish. Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy. He held posts as Professor of Natural History and Professor of Zoology in England and Ireland, before returning to his native Edinburgh to take up a post at the Royal Scottish Museum, Museum of Science and Art. He spent the rest of his career there, building up a renowned collection of fossil fish over a period of more than three decades. He published extensively on palaeoichthyology, authoring many papers and a series of monographs. His studies of rocks and fossils in Scotland overturned earlier work on fossil fish, establishing new taxonomic classifications. His honours included fellowships from a range of learned societies, including the Royal Society of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
