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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Edinburgh University.
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Heads of state and Heads of government


  • Thomas Anderson [r]: (1819 – 1874) Scottish chemist remembered for discovering pyridine. [e]

Sir Michael Atiyah, mathematician, winner of Abel Prize, (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)

  • Alexander Graham Bell [r]: (1847 – 1922) Scottish born scientist credited with inventing the first practical telephone. [e]
  • Joseph Black [r]: (1728 – 1799) Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide [e]
  • William Cullen [r]: (1710-1790) The leading British physician of the 18th century. [e]
  • Charles Darwin [r]: (1809 – 1882) English natural scientist, most famous for proposing the theory of natural selection. [e]
  • Erasmus Darwin [r]: (1731-1802) Physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist; grandfather of Charles Darwin. [e]
  • John Davy [r]: (1790 – 1868) British chemist most noted for his discovery of phosgene. [e]
  • James Dewar [r]: (1842 – 1923) Scottish chemist and physicist best-known for his invention of the Dewar flask. [e]
  • James Hutton [r]: (1726–1797) Scottish farmer and naturalist, who is known as the founder of modern geology. [e]
  • Fleeming Jenkin [r]: (1833 – 1885) Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, known as the inventor of telpherage. [e]
  • Joseph Lister [r]: (1827 – 1912) Surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery. [e]
  • Colin MacLaurin [r]: (1698–1746) Scottish mathematician who published the first systematic exposition of Newton's calculus. [e]
  • James Clerk Maxwell [r]: (1831 – 1879) Scottish physicist best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory and the statistical theory of gases. [e]
  • Alexander Monro primus [r]: (1697 – 1767) Anatomist; the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. [e]
  • Alexander Monro secundus [r]: (1733 - 1817) Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, known as the discoverer of the lymphatic system. [e]
  • Richard Owen [r]: (1804–1892) English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, best remembered for coining the word Dinosauria and for his opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. [e]
  • John Playfair [r]: (1748-1819) Scottish mathematician, best known for his explanation and promotion of the work of James Hutton [e]
  • Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer [r]: (1850 – 1935) Physiologist who coined the words "insulin" and "endocrine" and who demonstrated the existence of adrenaline. [e]
  • James Young Simpson [r]: (1811 – 1870) Scottish doctor who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform and introduced it for general medical use. [e]
  • Thomas Young [r]: (1773-1829) English scientist who showed how the eye's lens focus light, proposed the three-color explanation of color vision, established the wave nature of light, defined energy in the modern sense, improved on Hooke's law, and helped decipher the Rosetta Stone. [e] Young entered the University of Edinburgh in 1794 (as a Quaker he could not study at Oxford or Cambridge). After a year of study he went to the University of Göttingen.

Nobel Laureates

The University is associated with nine Nobel Prize winners (Source: http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/edinburgh/alumni.html)


Writers

Sports


University Officials

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