The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent...
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Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science...
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The Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh was a learned society based in Edinburgh, Scotland "for the cultivation of the physical sciences". The society was...
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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed...
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The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland. The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school...
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The Royal Edinburgh Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Morningside Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. The "foundational myth"...
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While the area around modern-day Edinburgh has been inhabited for thousands of years, the history of Edinburgh as a definite settlement can be traced...
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Daniel Rutherford (category Founder fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1787. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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Duke of Edinburgh KG Kt OM GBE FRS Statute 12", Royal Society, archived from the original on 24 November 2015 Longair, Malcolm (2021), "His Royal Highness...
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fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE)....
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Alexander Wood (physician) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
hypodermic syringe. He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1858 to 1861. The son of Dr John Wood and his wife Mary Wood...
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antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in 1866 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, renamed in 1904, and for the...
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Robert William Thomson (category Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees)
Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. see...
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Royal Society of British Artists 1823 Royal Society of Chemistry 1980 Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 Royal Society of St George 1894 Royal Society of...
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Christopher Bishop (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)...
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by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and later in 1795 as two book volumes. Hutton recognized that rocks record the evidence of the past action of processes...
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public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter from King James VI in 1582...
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William Smellie (encyclopedist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also a naturalist and antiquary. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the...
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in Edinburgh at the junction of The Mound and Princes Street. The RI shared the premises with other cultural organisations, the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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1993 Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X...
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Matthew Stewart (mathematician) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
required.) Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X...
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John Hutton Balfour (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh. Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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Neil. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X...
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James Murray (biologist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
species and forma of rotifer and 66 species of tardigrade. In July 1907, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were...
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Thomas Charles Hope (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1815–19), and as vice-president of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1823–33) during the presidencies of Walter...
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William McCrea (astronomer) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. During his time in Edinburgh (in 1931) he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were...
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Hutton's Unconformity (category Isle of Arran)
Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1 (Part 2). Royal Society of Edinburgh: 209–304. doi:10...
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E. T. Whittaker (category Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
300 Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. p. 990. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5...
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William Alison (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
professor of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He served as president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh (1833), president of the Royal College...
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Geoffrey Michael Gadd (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
environmental microbiology) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2007) Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)...
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