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President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society of Edinburgh
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Arms of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Motto Societas Regalis Edinburgi
Founder(s) Colin Maclaurin and Alexander Monro, primus (instrumental in founding the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh)
William Cullen, Alexander Monro, secundus and William Robertson (instrumental in obtaining the royal charter)
Established 1737 – diverged from the Royal Medical Society
1783 – received royal charter
Mission Scotland's National Academy
Focus science and technology
arts
humanities
social science
business
public service
President Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Chief Executive Dr William Duncan
Staff 34
Key people Prof Alan Alexander, General Secretary
Budget £5.9 million
Members Over 1600 Fellows
Subsidiaries RSE Scotland Foundation
RSE Young Academy of Scotland
Owner Registered charity No. SC000470
Formerly called Philosophical Society of Edinburgh
Location New Town, Edinburgh, Scotland
Address 22–26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ
Website rse.org.uk

The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established in 1783. As of 2014 it has more than 1,500 Fellows.

The Society covers a broader selection of fields than the Royal Society of London including literature and history. Fellowship includes people from a wide range of disciplines – science & technology, arts, humanities, medicine, social science, business and public service.

Presidents of the Royal Society of Edinburgh have included:

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh is an award in its own right that entitles fellows to use of the initialism or post-nominal letters FRSE in official titles.

The Royal Medals are awarded annually, preferably to people with a Scottish connection, who have achieved distinction and international repute in either Life Sciences, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences or Business and Commerce. The Medals were instituted in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth II, whose permission is required to make a presentation.

Past winners include:

The Lord Kelvin Medal is the Senior Prize for Physical, Engineering and Informatics Sciences. It is awarded annually to a person who has achieved distinction nationally and internationally, and who has contributed to wider society by the accessible dissemination of research and scholarship. Winners receive a silver medal and are required to deliver a public lecture in Scotland. The award is named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), who was a famous mathematical physicist and engineer, and Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Senior Prize-winners are required to have a Scottish connection but can be based anywhere in the world.

The Keith medal has been historically awarded every four years for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery. It is awarded alternately for papers on Mathematics or Earth and Environmental Sciences. The medal was founded in 1827 as a result of a bequest by Alexander Keith of Dunottar, the first Treasurer of the Society.


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