John Terence Coppock 1921–2000

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Clout
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
World Food ◽  
Geographical Union ◽  
University College London ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Agricultural Geography

Terry Coppock FBA was a pioneer in three areas of scholarship – agricultural geography, land-use management and computer applications – whose academic career was at University College London and the University of Edinburgh, where he was the first holder of the Ogilvie Chair in Geography. He received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographic Society and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976. Coppock, who was Secretary and then Chair of the Commission on World Food Problems and Agricultural Productivity of the International Geographical Union, served as Secretary Treasurer of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Obituary by Hugh Clout FBA.

scholarly journals Obituary notice

1929 ◽  
Vol 124 (795) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Indian Mutiny ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
The University

Micaiah John Muller Hill was the eldest son of the Rev. Samuel John Hill and was born at Berhampore, Bengal, on February 22, 1856, during the stormy days of the Indian Mutiny, in which he narrrowly escaped death. He was educated at the School for the Sons of Missionaries, Blackheath, and entered University College, London, as a student in October, 1872. His academic career in London was one long sequence of brilliant successes and at the same time an arduous struggle against financial difficulties which he could overcome only by winning such scholarships as the College and the University of London had to offer in those days—rare and coveted distinctions which fell to the lot of very few. In 1874 he took his B. A. degree in London, obtaining the first place in the Mathematical Honours List, a feat he accomplished in only two years and which he followed up in 1876 by winning the Gold Medal in the M. A. Examination. By this time he had entered as an undergraduate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1879 he was Fourth Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman. He then returned to University College for a few months as assistant in the Department of Mathematics, and in 1880, at the age of twenty-four, was elected to the Chair of Mathematics at Mason College, as it then was, now the University of Birmingham.

Alfred William Porter, 1863 - 1939

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
University College ◽  
University College London ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
Oliver Lodge ◽  
The University ◽  
Serious Injuries

Alfred William Porter died on 11 January 1939 at West Kirby, Cheshire, to which place he had removed after partial recovery from serious injuries sustained about a year earlier in a street accident in London, where he had spent most of his life. He was born on 12 November 1863, and in his early years lived in Liverpool. He began training as an architect, but, his interest in physics having been stimulated by association with Oliver Lodge, he began to study this subject seriously and entered upon an academic career at the age of twenty-seven. He was a student first at Liverpool University College and later at University College, London, graduating there in 1890. In the same year he became a demonstrator in the Physics Department, and thus began an association with University College, London, which was uninterrupted until his retirement in 1928 with the title of Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of London. During this long association he served under four Professors— Carey Foster, H. L. Callendar, F. T. Trouton and W. H. Bragg —as Assistant Professor. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1897, and was appointed University Reader in Thermodynamics in 1912. It was not until 1923 that he himself became Professor in the Department to which he had devoted so much of his energy.

John Smith Flett, 1869-1947

1948 ◽  
Vol 5 (16) ◽  
pp. 688-696
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Geological Museum ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Short Time

John Smith Flett, who died on 26 January 1947, at the age of seventy-seven, has left an abiding mark on British geology, both as a scientific investigator and as an official administrator. His scientific contributions dealt mainly with petrography and many of them were necessarily of a routine and official character. His greatest services to his science were undoubtedly those given during his fifteen years as Director of His Majesty’s Geological Survey. In the unsettled and transitional period between the wars, it was indeed fortunate for the Survey and for geology that a man of Flett’s stamp—in intellect keen and acute, in character resolute and virile—should be at the helm. Under his guidance there arose the magnificent Geological Museum at South Kensington —a monument to a vision persistently followed. When we contemplate the outstanding part that the geologists of this small island have played in the foundation and evolution of their science, we must rejoice that at last an exhibition worthy of that record can be made. Flett was born in Kirkwall, Orkney, and received his early education at the Burgh School of that town. He passed to George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and thence to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A., B.Sc. (with honours in Natural Science), in 1892 and M.B., C.M., in 1894. During his academic career he gained an extraordinary variety of prizes, medals and scholarships. This was no ephemeral brilliance or inclination, and he maintained an interest in subjects outside his professional orbit all his life; he was especially attracted to literature of a somewhat caustic or satiric cast. After graduation, Flett was for a short time in medical practice but, in 1895, he forsook that career and turned himself for good to geology.

scholarly journals First person – Ralitsa Madsen

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. dmm048939
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Tgfβ Signalling ◽  
Human Disorders ◽  
Cellular Context ◽  
Pi3k Signalling ◽  
University College London ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ralitsa Madsen is first author on ‘NODAL/TGFβ signalling mediates the self-sustained stemness induced by PIK3CAH1047R homozygosity in pluripotent stem cells’, published in DMM. Ralitsa conducted the research described in this article while a member of Prof. Robert Semple's lab, initially as a PhD student at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Laboratories at Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK, and then as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is now a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Bart Vanhaesebroeck at University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK, investigating the cellular context-dependent PI3K signalling code, and its reprogramming in human disorders such as cancer and benign overgrowth.

John Robertson Henderson (1863–1925): Scotland, India and anomuran taxonomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Christian College ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
The University ◽  
Crustacean Taxonomy

John Robertson Henderson was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified as a doctor. His interest in marine natural history was fostered at the Scottish Marine Station for Scientific Research at Granton (near Edinburgh) where his focus on anomuran crustaceans emerged, to the extent that he was eventually invited to compile the anomuran volume of the Challenger expedition reports. He left Scotland for India in autumn 1885 to take up the Chair of Zoology at Madras Christian College, shortly after its establishment. He continued working on crustacean taxonomy, producing substantial contributions to the field; returning to Scotland in retirement in 1919. The apparent absence of communication with Alfred William Alcock, a surgeon-naturalist with overlapping interests in India, is highlighted but not resolved.

The training of a polar scientist: Patrick Geddes and the student career of William Speirs Bruce

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. SWINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Future Career ◽  
New Information ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT: The university career of the polar scientist William Speirs Bruce (1867–is examined in relation to new information, discovered amongst the Bruce papers in the University of Edinburgh, which elucidates the role played by Patrick Geddes in shaping Bruce's future career. Previous accounts of Bruce's university years, based mainly on the biography by Rudmose Brown (1923), are shown to be in error in several details.

Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Smith
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The University

Adam Ferguson was a Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a leading member of the Scottish Enlightenment. A friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, Ferguson was among the leading exponents of the Scottish Enlightenment’s attempts to develop a science of man and was among the first in the English speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society, and political science. This book challenges many of the prevailing assumptions about Ferguson’s thinking. It explores how Ferguson sought to create a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising with a view to supporting the virtuous education of the British elite. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a nostalgic republican sceptical about modernity, and instead is one much closer to the mainstream Scottish Enlightenment’s defence of eighteenth century British commercial society.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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