FRSE

FRSE

Die Royal Society of Edinburgh ist Schottlands nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften. Die Zahl ihrer Mitglieder ist auf 1400 begrenzt. Analog zur Mitgliedschaft wird der offizielle Titel FRSE (Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh) verliehen. Überdies werden jährlich Fördergelder in Höhe von 500.000 Pfund vergeben.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Geschichte

The Royal Society von Edinburgh wurde 1783 gegründet. 1785 erschien der erste Band der Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in dem u.a. James Huttons Theory of the Earth veröffentlicht wurde. 1832 wurde mit der Herausgabe der Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh begonnen.

Publikationen

  • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (bis 1980 unter dem Titel 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 (bis 1996)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Directory
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Review

Präsidenten

  • 1783-1812: Henry Scott, 3. Herzog von Buccleuch (1746-1812)
  • 1812-1820: Sir James Hall
  • 1820-1832: Sir Walter Scott
  • 1832-1860: Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
  • 1860-1864: George Campbell, 8. Herzog von Argyll (1823–1900)
  • 1864-1868: Sir David Brewster
  • 1869-1873: Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882)
  • 1873-1878: Sir William Thomson (später Lord Kelvin)
  • 1878-1879: Philip Kelland
  • 1879-1884: Lord Moncreiff von Tullibole
  • 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 (1832-1916)
  • 1913-1915: James Geikie (1839–1915)
  • 1915-1919: John Horne (1848-1928)
  • 1919-1924: Frederick Orpen Bower (1855-1948)
  • 1924-1929: Sir Alfred Ewing
  • 1929-1934: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
  • 1934-1939: Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • 1939-1944: Sir Edmund Whittaker
  • 1944-1949: Sir William Wright Smith
  • 1949-1954: James Kendall (1889-1978)
  • 1954-1958: James Ritchie
  • 1958-1959: James Norman Davidson (1911-1972)
  • 1959-1964: Sir Edmund Hirst
  • 1964-1967: James Norman Davidson
  • 1967-1970: Norman Feather (1904-1978)
  • 1970-1973: Sir Maurice Yonge (1899-1986)
  • 1973-1976: Lord Cameron von Lochbroom (* 1900)
  • 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
  • 1996-1999: Malcolm Jeeves
  • 1999-2002: Sir William Stewart
  • 2002–2005: Lord Sutherland von Houndwood (* 1941)
  • 2005-XXXX: Sir Michael Atiyah

Literatur

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.

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