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The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated Aberd. in post-nominals; Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Obar Dheathain) is a public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland.It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, petitioned Pope Alexander VI on behalf of James IV, King of Scots to establish King's College, [4] making it one of Scotland's four ancient ...
List of Principals of the University of Aberdeen. 1865—76 The Very Reverend Peter Colin Campbell. 1876—85 The Very Reverend William Robinson Pirie. 1885—1900 Sir William Duguid Geddes. 1900—09 The Very Reverend John Marshall Lang. 1909—35 Sir George Adam Smith. 1936—48 Sir William Hamilton Fyfe. 1948—62 Sir Thomas Murray Taylor.
The University of Aberdeen has produced leading figures in the UK, Scottish, and foreign governments, including the Lord Chancellor George Gordon, [1] former Counsellor of State William Barclay, the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Alistair Carmichael, former Secretary of State for Scotland, George Mackenzie, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, the former Paymaster ...
Rector of the University of Aberdeen. The Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen is the students' representative and chairperson in the University Court of the University of Aberdeen. The position is rarely known by its full title and most often referred to simply as "Rector". The rector is elected by students of the university and serves a ...
The Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen is the titular head of the institution and President of the General Council. The Chancellor is elected by the university's graduate body, the General Council, and the role may be held for life. The main responsibilities of the role are to be an ambassador for the university, and to undertake other ...
Sir Harry Platt Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery. Chair of Paediatric Surgery. Regius Chair of Pathology. Regius Chair of Physiology. Chair of Physiology & Pharmacology Education. NHS Grampian Chair of Primary Care. Chair of Public Health. GHB Chair of Public Health Medicine. Roland Sutton Chair of Radiology.
This page lists alumni of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, including the predeceding constituent institutions King's College and Marischal College. "Alumni" (see Alumnus/a) is used here in the (correct) broad sense, to include people who have spent a notable period of their career studying at the institution, not in a narrower, legal sense ...
The Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, one of the school's teaching hospitals. Today, the school is based in the Polwarth Building on the Foresterhill campus in Aberdeen, as well as the Suttie Centre for Teaching & Learning, the Institute of Medical Science, Dental Institute, Biomedical Physics Building, Health Science Building, Polwarth Building, Rowett Institute (all on the Foresterhill ...