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unusual facts about The University of St Andrews



B. C. Forbes

After studying at the University of Dundee (then part of The University of St Andrews), in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local newspaper until 1901 when he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked on the Rand Daily Mail under its first editor, Edgar Wallace.


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Albany Park

Albany Park, St Andrews, a halls of residence of the University of St Andrews, Scotland

GAMA202627

by astronomer Dr Aaron Robotham, jointly from the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of St Andrews in Scotland, when he searched for groups of galaxies similar to ours in the most detailed map of the local Universe yet, the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey (GAMA).

James Wilson

After graduating from the University of St. Andrews, he spent two years in Edinburgh and Glasgow studying Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, including Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith.

Patrick Bell

Born in the rural parish of Auchterhouse in Angus, Scotland, into a farming family, Bell chose to study divinity at the University of St Andrews.

Paul Bibire

He co-edited with Gareth Williams a book entitled 'Sagas, Saints and Settlements' from a 1996 interdisciplinary symposium at the University of St. Andrews, exploring the history, culture, and literature of the Viking Age and medieval Iceland and Scandinavia.

Reicher

Steve Reicher, a professor of social Psychology and head of the School of Psychology at the University of St Andrews