Heriot-Watt University is a public research university based in Edinburgh,Scotland. It was established in 1821 as the School of Arts of Edinburgh, the world's first mechanics' institute,and was subsequently granted university status by royal charter in 1966. It is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom. The name Heriot-Watt was taken from Scottish inventor James Watt and Scottish philanthropist and goldsmith George Heriot.
Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a public research university in Western Australia. It is named in honour of the first woman to be elected to an Australian parliament,Edith Cowan,and is the only Australian university named after a woman. It is the second-largest university in the state with over 30,000 students in 2023. Gaining university status in 1991,it was formed from an amalgamation of tertiary colleges with a history dating back to 1902 when the Claremont Teachers College was established,making it the modern descendant of the first tertiary institution in Western Australia.
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a performing arts school in Perth,Western Australia. Established in 1980,it is notable for being the most comprehensive performing arts school in Australia by disciplines of study and has produced some of Australia's most prominent graduates in the field.
Claus Adolf Moser,Baron Moser,was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician,and said that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall asked him to teach a course on analysis of variance at the LSE.
Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a British chemist,working on fundamental chemistry,and on developing environmentally acceptable processes and materials. The core themes of his work are supercritical fluids,infrared spectroscopy and lasers. He is a research professor in chemistry at the University of Nottingham. As well as carrying out research at the University of Nottingham,he is a lecturer,teaching a number of modules including green chemistry.
Sir Edmund Langley Hirst CBE FRS FRSE,was a British chemist.
Sir Vito Antonio Muscatelli is the Principal of the University of Glasgow and one of the United Kingdom's top economists.
John Stuart Archer was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1997 to 2006.
Sir David Evan Naunton DaviesDSc FLSW is a British electrical engineer and educator,knighted for services to science and technology in the 1994 New Year Honours.
Sir Alistair George James MacFarlane was a Scottish electrical engineer and leading academic who served as Principal and Vice Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University,Edinburgh,and Rector,University of the Highlands and Islands.
Charles Kemball CBE PRSE FRS FRSC FRIC was a Scottish chemist who served as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1988–91) and as president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (1974-6). He pioneered the use of mass spectrometry. and was a leading expert in heterogeneous catalysis.
Peter Mitchell Grant is Senior Honorary Professorial Fellow,former Regius Professor of Engineering and Head of School of Engineering and Electronics at the University of Edinburgh. In 2004 he was awarded the 82nd Faraday Medal by the Institute of Electrical Engineers for his 'outstanding contributions to signal processing'.
Lesley Jane Yellowlees,is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry,Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy. Yellowlees was also elected as the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role.
Robert Allan Smith CBE FRS PRSE was a British mathematician and physicist.
Evelyn Algernon Valentine Ebsworth,was a British chemist and academic. He was the Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1990,and Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University from 1990 to 1998.
Jeremy K. Nicholson is a professor and pro vice chancellor of Health Sciences at Murdoch University in Perth,Western Australia,where he leads the Australian National Phenome Centre. He is also an emeritus professor of Biological Chemistry at Imperial College London and was the director and principal investigator of the MRC-NIHR National Phenome Centre until 2018.
George Murray Burnett FRSE FRSA FRIC LLD (1921–1980) was a Scottish mathematician and chemist. He served as both Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University from 1974 until 1980. He is largely remembered for his work on polymer reactions.
Neil Campbell FRSE FRSC OBE was a Scottish chemist and amateur athlete. He served as Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1972 to 1975. He was associated with the University of Edinburgh for 74 years of his life.
Sir Harry Work Melville,was a British chemist,academic,and academic administrator,who specialised in polymer research. He spent his early career in academia as a lecturer and researcher,before moving into administration as a civil servant and university college head.
Prof Hugh Bryan Nisbet FRIC FRSE CBE DLit (1902–1969) was a Scottish chemist who served as the first Principal of Heriot-Watt University. He had a specialist knowledge of petroleum.
