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9 unusual facts about Royal Society of Edinburgh


Bristow Muldoon

On 13 August 2007 it was announced that he had been appointed as the first Scottish Parliamentary Liaison Officer jointly for the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Cartesian oval

An account of his results, titled On the description of oval curves, and those having a plurality of foci, was written by J.D. Forbes and presented to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1846, when Maxwell was at the young age of 14 (almost 15).

David Breeze

David John Breeze, OBE, BA (Dunelm), PhD (Dunelm), Hon DLitt (Glasgow), FSA, FRSE, Hon FSA Scot, Hon MIFA (born 25 July 1944) is a British archaeologist, teacher and scholar of Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall and the Roman Army.

Fergus Gordon Kerr

Fergus Gordon Thomson Kerr, OP, FRSE (born 16 July 1931), a prominent scholar, widely recognized for his contributions in the areas of philosophy and theology, is a Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican Province.

Hughes-Hunter baronets

It was created on 5 December 1906 for Colonel Charles Hughes-Hunter, a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Marjory Kennedy-Fraser

Alec had completed in 1881 his MA with Honours at the University of Aberdeen and in 1885 was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Padma Kant Shukla

He is Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK), a Foreign Member of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an Associate Fellow/Member of TWAS-the World Academy for the Advancement of Sciences in the Developing World (Trieste, Italy).

Stephen Partridge

In 2012 he was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Caledonian European Research Fellowship to study and research in Italy

Tang Siu-tong

In 1974, he received a FRCS from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and his FRCPS from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.


David Edward

Professor Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward, KCMG, QC, FRSE, PC (born 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

Dirk ter Haar

Dirk ter Haar (Dr., B.Sc., M.Sc., MA, D.Sc., FRSE) studied physics at Leiden University, was research fellow of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, and received his Ph.D. in Leiden from Hendrik Kramers for a dissertation on the origin of the solar system.

Douglas Allan

He started working as a lecturer at Armstrong College, University of Durham from 1925 to 1929 and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1927, having been proposed by Thomas James Jehu, Robert Campbell, John Horne, George Walter Tyrrell, going on to serve as a councillor from 1955 to 1958.

Fishing industry in Scotland

A recent inquiry by the Royal Society of Edinburgh found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than it is relative to the rest of the UK.

Hubert Anson Newton

He won the Smith gold medal from the National Academy of Sciences, was elected an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), and was foreign member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

Jannette Anderson

Professor Anderson was a biologist who was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Institute of Biology, Fellow of the Royal College of Chemistry, Fellow of the Scottish Vocational Education Council and was awarded an OBE in 1987 for services to education.

Robert J. T. Bell

On the 6 March 1916, Bell was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers being George Alexander Gibson, Professor of Mathematics, Glasgow; the physicist Andrew Gray, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow; Robert Alexander Houstoun, and Diarmid Noel Paton, Regius Professor of Physiology, Glasgow (and eldest son of the artist Sir Joseph Noel Paton.)

Roger Cowley

Roger Arthur Cowley, FRS, FRSE, FInstPhys (born 24 February 1939) is an English physicist who has specialised in the excitations of solids.

Sally Macintyre

Dame Sally Macintyre DBE FRSE (born 1949) is a Scottish sociologist and scientist.


see also

Denis Hall

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the UK Institute of Physics, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America.

George Matheson

In 1890, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the proposal of Sir William Thomson, Robert Flint, Hugh Macmillan and James Lindsay.

Henry Dewar

He wrote also for the Encyclopædia Britannica, and the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Hugh Alexander Webster

Hugh Webster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE on 2 May 1887 proposed by Sir John Murray, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Gray, Alexander Buchan.

Lord Anderson

Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson (1797–1853), a Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh