This list of Nobel laureates affiliated with the University of Edinburgh includes academic staffs and researchers as well as graduates and non-graduate former students of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who were bestowed with the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
As of 2014, 20 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university. They have been affiliated with the university as students, researchers, administrators and professors, and they have won Nobel Prizes in all categories.
It does not include those whose only affiliation with the university is (i) giving the Gifford Lectures (e.g. Niels Bohr, who gave the lecture entitled Causality and Complementarity: Epistemological Lessons of Studies in Atomic Physics in 1949)[2] or (ii) the conferral of an honorary degree (e.g. August Krogh).[3]
Edinburgh Nobel laureates
Nobel Prize in Physics
Name |
Prize & year |
Affiliation |
Reference |
Charles Glover Barkla |
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 |
Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1913–1944 |
[4] |
Edward Victor Appleton |
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 |
Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University, 1949–1965 |
[5][6] |
Max Born |
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 |
Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1936–1953 |
[1] |
Igor Tamm |
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 |
Undergraduate student, 1913–1914 |
[7] |
Peter Higgs |
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 |
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Senior Student 1954–1955, Senior Research Fellow 1955–1956, Lecturer in Mathematical Physics 1960–1970, Reader 1970–1980, Professor 1980–1996, and Emeritus Professor 1996 – present |
[8] |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
See also
References
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