NNDB
This is a beta version of NNDB
Search: for
Royal Society of Edinburgh

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Scottish scientific and literary society, founded 1783.

Official Website:
http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/

Founding Date:
1783

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Louis Agassiz
Paleontologist
28-May-1807 14-Dec-1873 Ichthyologist at Harvard
Edward Victor Appleton
Physicist
6-Sep-1892 21-Apr-1965 Ionosphere, shortwave radio
David Armitage
Historian
1965   The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Michael Atiyah
Mathematician
22-Apr-1929   Atiyah-Singer index theorem
John James Audubon
Naturalist
26-Apr-1785 27-Jan-1851 Illustrated Birds of America
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Father of plastics
Charles Glover Barkla
Physicist
7-Jun-1877 23-Oct-1944 X-ray scattering
Robert Bartlett
Historian
27-Nov-1950   The Making of Europe
Derek Barton
Chemist
8-Sep-1918 16-Mar-1998 Conformational analysis
Sune K. Bergström
Scientist
10-Jan-1916 15-Aug-2004 Prostaglandins
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Jules Bordet
Scientist
13-Jun-1870 6-Apr-1961 Researched antibodies and antigens
Max Born
Physicist
11-Dec-1882 5-Jan-1970 Pioneer of quantum mechanics
Nathaniel Bowditch
Astronomer
26-Mar-1773 17-Mar-1838 American Practical Navigator
Lawrence Bragg
Physicist
31-Mar-1890 1-Jul-1971 Bragg's Law of diffraction
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Naturalist
7-Sep-1707 16-Apr-1788 Histoire Naturelle
James Chadwick
Physicist
20-Oct-1891 24-Jul-1974 Discovered the neutron
Thomas Chalmers
Religion
17-Mar-1780 30-May-1847 Free Church of Scotland
Sydney Chapman
Mathematician
29-Jan-1888 16-Jun-1970 Geomagnetism
A. J. Clark
Scientist
19-Aug-1885 30-Jul-1941 Drug responses
William Cochran
Physicist
30-Jul-1922 28-Aug-2003 Crystallography
John Dalton
Chemist
6-Sep-1766 27-Jul-1844 Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Henrik Dam
Scientist
21-Feb-1895 Apr-1976 Discovered Vitamin K
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
12-Feb-1809 19-Apr-1882 Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
George Darwin
Astronomer
9-Jul-1845 7-Dec-1912 Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system
Paul Dirac
Physicist
8-Aug-1902 20-Oct-1984 The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
E. C. Dodds
Scientist
13-Oct-1899 16-Dec-1973 Diethylstilbestrol
Kenneth Dover
Scholar
11-Mar-1920 7-Mar-2010 Greek Homosexuality
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Chemist
14-Jul-1800 10-Apr-1884 Pioneer of organic chemistry
Arthur Eddington
Astronomer
28-Dec-1882 22-Nov-1944 Eddington luminosity
King Edward VIII
Royalty
23-Jun-1894 28-May-1972 King of England, 1936
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
Gerhard Ertl
Chemist
10-Oct-1936   Auto emissions and the ozone layer
Michael Faraday
Physicist
22-Sep-1791 25-Aug-1867 Discovered electrical induction
Enrico Fermi
Physicist
29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Alexander Fleming
Scientist
6-Aug-1881 11-Mar-1955 Discovered penicillin
Benjamin Franklin
Diplomat
17-Jan-1706 17-Apr-1790 American founding father
T. R. Fraser
Scientist
5-Feb-1841 4-Jan-1920 Made poison and venom into medicine
Maurice Fréchet
Mathematician
2-Sep-1878 4-Jun-1973 Fréchet differential
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician
30-Apr-1777 23-Feb-1855 Perhaps the greatest German mathematician
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
Chemist
6-Dec-1778 9-May-1850 Researched gases, etc.
Stephen Jay Gould
Biologist
10-Sep-1941 20-May-2002 Evolutionary scientist
Richard Gregory
Psychologist
24-Jul-1923 17-May-2010 Optical illusions and "hands-on" science
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard
Mathematician
8-Dec-1865 17-Oct-1963 Prime number theorem
Marshall Hall
Doctor
18-Feb-1790 11-Aug-1857 Theory of reflex action
John Herschel
Astronomer
7-Mar-1792 11-May-1871 Discovered many moons of Saturn
Peter Higgs
Physicist
29-May-1929   Higgs boson and Higgs field
George W. Hill
Astronomer
3-Mar-1838 16-Apr-1914 A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn
Carole Hillenbrand
Historian
1943   The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Botanist
30-Jun-1817 10-Dec-1911 Genera Plantarum
Thomas Jefferson
Head of State
13-Apr-1743 4-Jul-1826 3rd US President, 1801-09
James Prescott Joule
Physicist
24-Dec-1818 11-Oct-1889 English physicist, Joule's Law
Jacobus C. Kapteyn
Astronomer
19-Jan-1851 18-Jun-1922 Star streaming
Lord Kelvin
Physicist
26-Jun-1824 17-Dec-1907 Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist
7-Oct-1939   Co-Discovered fullerenes
Samuel P. Langley
Astronomer
22-Aug-1834 2-Feb-1906 Heavier-than-air flying machine
Ernest Lawrence
Physicist
8-Aug-1901 27-Aug-1958 Inventor of the cyclotron
Leopold I
Royalty
16-Dec-1790 10-Dec-1865 First King of the Belgians
Tullio Levi-Civita
Mathematician
29-Mar-1873 29-Dec-1941 Explored tensor calculus and PDE's
Joseph Lister
Doctor
5-Apr-1827 10-Feb-1912 Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Hendrik Lorentz
Physicist
18-Jul-1853 4-Feb-1928 Electrons
John Macleod
Scientist
6-Sep-1876 16-Mar-1935 Helped discover insulin
Peter Medawar
Biologist
28-Feb-1915 2-Oct-1987 Acquired immunological tolerance
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements
Peter Mitchell
Chemist
29-Sep-1920 10-Apr-1992 ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria
Keith Moffatt
Mathematician
12-Apr-1935   Fluid dynamics
Friedrich Mohs
Geologist
29-Jan-1773 29-Sep-1839 Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness
Benjamin Peirce
Mathematician
4-Apr-1809 10-Jun-1880 Idempotent and nilpotent
Max Planck
Physicist
23-Apr-1858 4-Oct-1947 Originator of quantum theory
Henri Poincaré
Mathematician
29-Apr-1854 17-Jul-1912 Poincaré Conjecture
John C. Polanyi
Chemist
23-Jan-1929   Infrared chemiluminescence
George Porter
Chemist
6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes
Lord Rayleigh
Physicist
12-Nov-1842 30-Jun-1919 Why the sky is blue
Lord Robertson
Politician
12-Apr-1946   NATO Secretary General, 1999-2003
Sir Robert Robinson
Chemist
13-Sep-1886 8-Feb-1975 Researcher of alkaloids
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Sir Walter Scott
Author
15-Aug-1771 21-Sep-1832 Ivanhoe
Glenn Seaborg
Physicist
19-Apr-1912 25-Feb-1999 Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Manne Siegbahn
Physicist
3-Dec-1886 26-Sep-1978 X-Ray spectroscopy
Adam Smith
Economist
5-Jun-1723 17-Jul-1790 The Wealth of Nations
Ralph M. Steinman
Biologist
14-Jan-1943 30-Sep-2011 Dendritic cells
Richard L. M. Synge
Chemist
28-Oct-1914 18-Aug-1994 Partition chromatography
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
6-Aug-1809 6-Oct-1892 The Charge of the Light Brigade
D'Arcy Thompson
Biologist
2-May-1860 21-Jun-1948 On Growth and Form
Alexander R. Todd
Chemist
2-Oct-1907 10-Jan-1997 Nucleic acid, nucleotides
Edward Troughton
Inventor
Oct-1753 12-Jun-1835 Early scientific instruments
Vincent du Vigneaud
Chemist
18-May-1901 11-Dec-1978 Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Artturi Virtanen
Chemist
15-Jan-1895 11-Nov-1973 AIV method of fodder preservation
James Watt
Inventor
19-Jan-1736 19-Aug-1819 Invented modern steam engine
Wilhelm Weber
Physicist
24-Oct-1804 23-Jun-1891 Student of electromagnetism
Charles Wheatstone
Physicist
6-Feb-1802 19-Oct-1875 Inventor of the telegraph
Kurt Wüthrich
Chemist
4-Oct-1938   Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Hideki Yukawa
Physicist
23-Jan-1907 8-Sep-1981 Predicted existence of mesons


Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile



Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications

NNDB MAPPER


Rockefeller!


Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.

Bibliographies

NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.