Engineering (1868) Regius Professor of Geology (1871) Regius Chair of Plant Science Regius Professor of Political Science (2013) Regius Professor of Medicine and...
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Regius Professor of Natural History may refer to: Regius Professor of Natural History (Aberdeen), at the University of Aberdeen Regius Professor of Natural...
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Robert Jameson (redirect from Professor Robert Jameson)
Scottish naturalist and mineralogist. As Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor...
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condition. The Regius Professorship, and the museum, was taken over in 1804 by Robert Jameson, a mineralogist whose course covered zoology and geology, who built...
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Chair of Commercial and Political Economy and Mercantile Law (1870) Regius Chair of Geology (1871) Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art (1880) Chair of Celtic...
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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...
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advances at Edinburgh. The Regius Chair in Engineering was established in 1868, and the Regius Chair in Geology in 1871. In 1991 the Faculty of Science was...
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British Regius Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum from 1866 to 1902. He was born in Edinburgh on 17 November...
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limited in duration. The Regius Professorships are "royal" professorships, being created by the reigning monarch. The first five Regius Professorships, sometimes...
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Flood geology (also creation geology or diluvial geology) is a pseudoscientific attempt to interpret and reconcile geological features of the Earth in...
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V. C. Wynne-Edwards (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
him the Regius Professor in Natural History and he continued this until retiral in 1974. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1950...
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Henry Alleyne Nicholson (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
the University of St. Andrews. This last post he held until 1882, when he became Regius Professor of natural history in the University of Aberdeen. In 1870...
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Charles Clough — Geological Survey field geologist 1917-18: Thomas John Jehu — Regius Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh From October to...
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Thomas Thomson (chemist) (category Regius Professors)
1817, Thomson became lecturer in and subsequently Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, retiring in 1841. In 1820, he identified...
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John Walker (natural historian) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
was Regius Professor of Natural history at the University of Edinburgh from 1779 to 1803. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783...
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England and became Regius Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh in 1943. His magnum opus was Principles of Physical Geology, first published...
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first Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh James Hutton, geologist, born in Edinburgh Elsie Inglis, doctor and suffragist, founder of maternity...
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George Frederick Armstrong (category Regius Professors of Engineering in Edinburgh University)
who served as the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Over the course of his life he became a member of many learned societies...
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Joseph Lister (redirect from Joseph, Baron Lister, of Lyme Regis Lister)
inform him of the ill-health of James Adair Lawrie, Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow, believing he was close to death. The anatomist...
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solution. Robert Jameson, Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, was the founder and life president of the Society. In 1800,...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner (category Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
understanding of the history of the Earth.[citation needed] His former student Robert Jameson, who later became Regius Professor at the University of Edinburgh, founded...
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beyond the ordinary (e.g. Chair of English Feudal Law).[citation needed] Regius Chair of Physic (1637). Regius Professor of Laws (1668). Donegall Lectureship...
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Geoffrey Boulton (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded the 2006 Lyell Medal, by the Geological Society. He was awarded...
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Henry Darwin Rogers (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
was appointed Regius Professor of Natural History and Geology at the University of Glasgow. The same year he was also appointed as keeper of the Hunterian...
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Doris Reynolds (category Fellows of the Geological Society of London)
wife, they married in 1939. When Holmes became Regius Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh in 1942, Reynolds became an honorary research...
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David S. Ingram (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Ingram was the Regius Keeper (director) of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. He was concurrently honorary professor in Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities...
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R., The Life of Richard Owen, vol. 1 (1894) p. 296 Wilson, G., Geikie, A., A Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late regius professor of natural history...
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in Edinburgh, a predecessor of the National Museum of Scotland, with chemist George Wilson as its director. In August he is also appointed Regius Professor...
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In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...
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economist, author of The Gorbals Trilogy Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow Philip Hobsbaum...
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