Bell Pettigrew was educated at the University of Glasgow and later the University of Edinburgh to continue his study of medicine. He was an outstanding scholar of anatomy and appointed Croonian lecturer at the Royal Society of London in 1860.
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Katherine Whitehorn was a British journalist and columnist born on March 2nd 1928. She graduated from Newham College in Cambridge, where she worked as a columnist for the Observer from 1960 to 1996. She became known for her wit, humour and observance…
Sir James Colquhoun Irvine was born on May 9th 1877 in Glasgow. At 18 years old, he matriculated and attended the University of St Andrews. While he was there, he worked under Professor Thomas Purdie; himself a notable Scottish chemist who is widely…
Alfred Jack Cole was a Computer Scientist and Mathematician born in 1925. He is credited as one of the main drivers behind the establishment of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. Cole studied Mathematics at University College London,…
Thomas Purdie was born on January 27th 1843 in Biggar, South Lanarkshire. He spent seven years of his youth in South America, where he the abundance of flora and fauna captured his attention, arousing a spirit of inquiry that remained for the rest of…
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) was a biologist, zoologist, classicist, and the head of Natural History at the University of St Andrews for more than 30 years. In his more recognised book, 'On Growth and Form', he deduced that the science…
Agnes Blackadder (4 December 1875 – 12 May 1964) was a Scottish medical doctor and the first female student to earn a degree from the University of St Andrews. Blackadder had an exceptional career in Medicine and she is most known for being one of…
James David Forbes was a Scottish physicist and Principal of the University of St Andrews for 9 years. His most significant contributions to science relate to Physics and Meteorology, for which he won several prizes and medals. He is well known for…
