The College of Science and Engineering is one of the three colleges of the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

. With over 2,000 staff and around 9,000 students, it is one of the largest science and engineering groupings in the UK. The college is largely located at the

King's Buildings 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, ex ...

campus and consists of the separate schools of: * School of Biological Sciences * School of Chemistry *

School of Engineering Engineering education is the activity of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering. It includes an initial education ( bachelor's and/or master's degree), and any advanced education and specializations tha ...

* School of GeoSciences * School of Informatics *

School of Mathematics The Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester is one of the largest unified mathematics departments in the United Kingdom, with over 90 academic staff and an undergraduate intake of roughly 400 students per year (including students ...

* School of Physics and Astronomy

History

Science has been studied at Edinburgh since the university was established as the 'Tounis College' in 1583. In the sixteenth century science was taught as 'natural philosophy'. The seventeenth century saw the institution of the University Chairs of Mathematics and Botany, followed the next century by Chairs of Natural History, Astronomy, Chemistry and Agriculture. During the eighteenth century, the university was a key contributor to the

Scottish Enlightenment The Scottish Enlightenment ( sco, Scots Enlichtenment, gd, Soillseachadh na h-Alba) was the period in 18th- and early-19th-century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments. By the eighteenth century ...

and it educated many of the leading scientists of the time. It was Edinburgh's professors who took a leading part in the formation of the

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 i ...

in 1783. In 1785,

Joseph Black Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glas ...

, Professor of Chemistry and discoverer of

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, founded the world's first Chemical Society. The nineteenth century was a time of huge advances in scientific thinking and technological development. The first named degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Science were instituted in 1864, and a separate 'Faculty of Science' was created in 1893 after three centuries of scientific advances at Edinburgh. The Regius Chair in Engineering in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871, were also founded. In 1991 the Faculty of Science was renamed the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and in 2002 it became the College of Science and Engineering.

Research Institutes

School of Biological Sciences

*Institute of Cell Biology (ICB) *Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) *Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences (IMPS) *Institute of Immunology & Infection (IIIR) *Institute for Stem Cell Research (Centre for Regenerative Medicine) (ISCR) *Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology (IQB3)

School of Informatics

Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science The Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS) is a research institute within the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. It was founded in 1987 and is a community of theoretical computer scientists with i ...

(LFCS) *Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) *Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (CISA) *Institute for Language, Cognition, and Computation (ILCC) *Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) *Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB)

School of Physics and Astronomy

Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics Higgs may refer to: Physics *Higgs boson, an elementary particle *Higgs mechanism, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking *Higgs field, a quantum field People *Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist *Blaine Higgs ...

*Institute for Astronomy (IfA) *Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS) *Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP) *Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

References

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Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

Science and technology in Edinburgh Science and Engineering, School of