Organisation Contribution Involved in which fields of scholarship? Medicine, Photography Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship/inventions/… 1 (i.e. in geology): Shorter exposure times for photographs Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship/inventions/… 2 (i.e. in philosophy): First calotype in Scotland in 1840: note that Talbot patented the process in 1839 Misc Other societies/groups in St Andrews? St Andrews Literary and Philosophical Society Curator of Literary and Philosophical Society Museum from 1838 until his death Other societies/groups elsewhere? Edinburgh Calotype Club Associated places in St Andrews: (e.g. home, lab, favourite spot) Madras College School: taught His house: nowadays the Restaurant “The Adamson” Possible human interest story 1: He encouraged his younger brother to become a photographer and was the teacher of both his brother and Thomas Rodger Possible human interest story 2: Part of the circle of Brewster, making experiments on photography Possible human interest story 3: Meetings of the Literary and Philosophical society were the occasion for the exhibition and discussion of the photographs taken by William Henry Fox Talbot, Hugh Lyon Playfair, the Adamson brothers and others. Connected to other people in St Andrews or elsewhere?: Sir David Brewster Thomas Rodger Biographical sources: (e.g. OxDNB, family memoir, other...) https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/john-adamson#:~:text=Wikipedia%20entry,portrait%20in%20Scotland%20in%201841. https://digital.nls.uk/pencilsoflight/biography.cfm Available images of the person: St Andrews University Photographic Collections Available images of places/objects associated with the person: House with his family: St Andrews University Photographic Collections Could take photograph of plaquette on Adamson’s house as well as of house and restaurant Himself with his dog: National Galleries of Scotland (https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/john-adamson#:~:text=Wikipedia%20entry,portrait%20in%20Scotland%20in%201841) Biographical Text D.O.B: 1809 D.O.D: 1870 Family origins: Father: Alexander Adamson (tenant farmer at Burnside, 5 miles from St Andrews) mother: Rachael Melville Education: Studied medicine in St Andrews and Edinburgh Private life/family life: Married Esther Christina Alexander 1850; many children (Professional) Role in St Andrews: Practitioner of Medicine Taught Chemistry and Natural Science at Madras College school (1837-1840) Years in St Andrews: Almost entire life End Date 1870 Wikidata ID Q6218245 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dr John Adamson Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived history,photography Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 190 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Description An account of the resource Profession: Physician Chemist Subject The topic of the resource Medicine,Photography Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1809 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adamson_(physician)