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University of Edinburgh

Established	1583
Location	Edinburgh , Scotland , United Kingdom
Campus	Urban

The University of Edinburgh is a university in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Old College, University of Edinburgh

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he coat of arms of the University of Edinburgh, displayed on St Leonard's Land
King James's College, c. 1647
The university's Old College
The University's McEwan Hall
The university's New College building
The building that houses the university's Institute of Geography was once part of the Royal Infirmary.
The Edinburgh College of Art forms (since 2011) part of the 'central' university campus
layfair Library
Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre in George Square.
St Leonard's Hall, Pollock Halls of Residence
Moray House main quadrangle
he English Literature department, the longest-established centre of literary education in Britain, was founded in 1762 when Rev. Hugh Blair was appointed the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres by George III.
The Edinburgh Medical School's historical main building on Teviot Place
[Informatics Forum]], University of Edinburgh
Outside McEwan Hall on graduation day
Peter Higgs, physicist and emeritus professor, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 2013
Former British Prime Minister and consecutive 10-year-long Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is an alumnus and former rector of the University of Edinburgh.
James Barry, surgeon
Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor
Joseph Black, chemist
Mona Chalmers Watson, head of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer
Charles Darwin, naturalist
David Hume, philosopher
James Hutton, geologist
W. D. Ross, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
James Clerk Maxwell, mathematical physicist
George Murray, Secretary of State for War
George Newman, Chief Medical Officer for England
Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister
Sir Walter Scott, novelist and poet
Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist
Bill Gates (2006), Principal founder of Microsoft Corporation
Louise Richardson (2018), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Susan Hockfield (2009), 16th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Armstrong (2007), First person to walk on the Moon
Liu Yandong (2017), Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
Justin Trudeau (2017), 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
Michael D. Higgins (2015), 9th President of Ireland
Alan Greenspan (2004), 13th Chair of the Federal Reserve
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2013), 11th President of India
Pascal Lamy (2011), 5th Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Irina Bokova (2010), 9th Director-General of UNESCO
The Roslin Institute
Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art

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