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| Location | Edinburgh |
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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 and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This society received a royal charter in 1783, allowing for its expansion. [1]
Around 50 new fellows are elected each year in March. [1] As of 2016 [update] there are around 1,650 Fellows, including 71 Honorary Fellows and 76 Corresponding Fellows. [1] [2]
Fellows are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSE, Honorary Fellows HonFRSE, and Corresponding Fellows CorrFRSE. [3]
The Fellowship is split into four broad sectors, covering the full range of physical and life sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, education, professions, industry, business and public life. [4]
Examples of current fellows include Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. [1] Previous fellows have included Melvin Calvin, Benjamin Franklin, James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Thomas Reid, and Andrew Lawrence. [5]
A comprehensive biographical list of Fellows from 1783–2002 has been published by the Society. [6] [7]
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 and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. As of 2021, there are around 1,800 Fellows.
Richard Laurence Millington Synge FRS FRSE FRIC FRSC MRIA was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin.
Prof Friedrich Stromeyer FRS(For) FRSE was a German chemist. He was the discoverer of cadmium.
George Neville Watson was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions. His collaboration on the 1915 second edition of E. T. Whittaker's A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) produced the classic "Whittaker and Watson" text. In 1918 he proved a significant result known as Watson's lemma, that has many applications in the theory on the asymptotic behaviour of exponential integrals.
Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1947 for his research on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids. In 1947, he also received the Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm.
Alexander Wilson was a Scottish surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to use kites in meteorological investigations.
Sir Charles Maurice Yonge, CBE, FRS FRSE was an English marine zoologist.
John Macnaghten Whittaker FRS FRSE LLD was a British mathematician and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1953 to 1965.
Prof Ian Naismith Sneddon FRS FRSE FIMA OBE was a Scottish mathematician who worked on analysis and applied mathematics.
George Cunliffe McVittie (1904–1988) was a British mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for his contributions towards radio astronomy.
David Kennedy Fraser FRSE FEIS was a Scottish psychologist, educator and amateur mathematician. He was an author of several books looking at the education of the handicapped and was closely associated with the Scottish Association for Mental Health. He campaigned vigorously for the rights of handicapped persons.
Robert Pollock Gillespie FRSE (1903–1977) was a Scottish mathematician. He was twice President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. He published several important books on mathematics.
Archibald Gordon MacGregor MC FRSE FGS was a 20th century geologist of Scots descent. He was Assistant Director of the British Geological Survey. Friends knew him as Archie MacGregor.
Harold Stanley Ruse, MA, DSc, FRSE was an English mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces. He was Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.
Richard Alexander Robb FRSE (1901–1977) was a Scottish mathematician, statistician and astronomer.
James Robert Milne PRSSA FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish physicist. He served as president of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts from 1923 to 1925.
Lt Col Alexander Dron Stewart IMS CIE FRSE FRCPE FRCSE MID LLD (1883–1969) was a 20th-century Scottish physician and public health expert associated with India.
James Watt WS FRSE FRSGS LLD was a 19th/20th-century Scottish lawyer, actuary and geographer.
Rev John Wilson FRSE FEIS (1847–1896) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist.
Prof William Witte FRSE (1907–1992) was a 20th century scholar of the German language and German literature, working in Britain.
