Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society building

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science . The number of its members is limited to 1,400. Analogous to membership, the official title FRSE (Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) is awarded. Moreover, subsidies are 500,000 in annual pounds awarded.

history

The Royal Society of Edinburgh was founded in 1783. In 1785 the first volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh appeared , in which u. a. James Hutton's Theory of the Earth was published. In 1832 the publication of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh began.

Prices

The institution awards various prizes, for example the Keith Medal , since 2000 the Royal Medal in various categories, the Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award for Electronics (since 2006), the WS Bruce Medal and the Neill Medal.

Publications

• Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (until 1980 under the title Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences )
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh A: Mathematics
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh B: Biological Sciences (until 1996)
• Royal Society of Edinburgh Directory
• Royal Society of Edinburgh Review

President

• 1783–1812: Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
• 1812-1820: Sir James Hall
• 1820-1832: Sir Walter Scott
• 1832-1860: Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
• 1860–1864: George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)
• 1864-1868: Sir David Brewster
• 1869–1873: Sir Robert Christison (1797–1882)
• 1873-1878: Sir William Thomson
• 1878–1879: Philip Kelland (1808–1879)
• 1879–1884: Lord Moncreiff of Tullibole (1811–1895)
• 1884–1885: Thomas Stevenson
• 1886–1890: Sir William Thomson
• 1890–1895: Sir Andrew Douglas Maclagan (1812–1900)
• 1895-1907: Lord Kelvin
• 1908–1913: Sir William Turner
• 1913–1915: James Geikie
• 1915-1919: John Horne
• 1919–1924: Frederick Orpen Bower
• 1924–1929: Sir James Alfred Ewing (1855–1935)
• 1929–1934: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850–1935)
• 1934–1939: Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860–1948)
• 1939–1944: Sir Edmund Whittaker (1873–1956)
• 1944–1949: Sir William Wright Smith (1875–1956)
• 1949–1954: James Kendall (1889–1978)
• 1954–1958: James Ritchie (1882–1958)
• 1958–1959: James Norman Davidson (1911–1972)
• 1959–1964: Sir Edmund Hirst (1898–1975)
• 1964–1967: James Norman Davidson (1911–1972)
• 1967–1970: Norman Feather (1904–1978)
• 1970–1973: Sir Maurice Yonge (1899–1986)
• 1973–1976: John Cameron, Lord Cameron (1900–1996)
• 1976–1979: Robert Allan Smith (1909–1980)
• 1979–1982: Sir Kenneth Lyon Blaxter (1919–1991)
• 1982–1985: Sir John Atwell (1911–1999)
• 1985–1988: Sir Alwyn Williams (1921–2004)
• 1988–1991: Charles Kemball (1923–1998)
• 1991–1993: Sir Alastair Currie (1921–1994)
• 1993–1996: Thomas L. Johnston (1927–2009)
• 1996-1999: Malcolm Jeeves
• 1999–2002: Sir William Stewart (* 1935)
• 2002-2005: Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
• 2005–2008: Sir Michael Atiyah (1929–2019)
• 2008–2011: David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn (* 1935)
• 2011–2014: John Arbuthnott (* 1939)
• 2014–2018: Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (* 1943)
• since 2018: Dame Anne Glover (* 1956)

literature

• Neil Campbell, R. Martin S. Smellie: The Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1983): The first two hundred years. With a foreword by The Hon. Lord Cameron . Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1983.

Web links

• www.royalsoced.org.uk
• Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002, Part 1, A – J (PDF; 1.57 MB), Part 2, K – Z (PDF; 1.66 MB)