John Aitchison

Scotland
Place of Birth

Hong Kong

United States

Arthur Allison

Northern Ireland
Place of Birth

Hugh Blackburn

Born 2 July 1823. Died 9 October 1909.

Scotland
Place of Birth

Professor Walter Brown

Engineering graduate of the University of Glasgow in 1909, Lecturer at Hong Kong University

Born 29 April 1886. Died 14 April 1957.

Scotland, Glasgow
Place of Birth

Zimbabwe, No Region
Place of Death

Hong Kong, No Region

Horatio Scott Carslaw

Born 12 February 1870. Died 11 November 1954.

Scotland

George Gibson

Born 19 April 1858. Died 1 April 1930.

Scotland

Sir John Currie Gunn

Born 13 September 1916. Died 26 July 2002.

Scotland
Place of Birth

William Jack

Born 29 May 1834. Died 23 March 1924.

England

Scotland

John Kerr

Born 17 December 1824. Died 15 August 1907.

Scotland
Place of Birth

Thomas Murray MacRobert

Born 4 April 1884. Died 1 November 1962.

Scotland
Place of Birth

Colinus McLaurin

Born February 1698. Died 14 June 1746.

Scotland
Place of Birth

Sir Thomas Muir

Born 25 August 1844. Died 21 March 1934.

Scotland

South Africa

Robert Rankin

Born 27 October 1915. Died 27 January 2001.

Scotland
Place of Birth

John Robison

Lecturer of Chemistry at the University (1766-69) Prominent Scottish physicist

Born 4 February 1739. Died 30 January 1805.

Scotland, Boghall
Place of Birth

Scotland, Edinburgh
Place of Death

Canada, Quebec

England, London

Jamaica, No Region

Russian Federation, St Petersburg

William Marshall Smart

Born 9 March 1889. Died 17 September 1975.

Scotland
Place of Birth

James Thomson

Born 13 November 1786. Died 12 January 1849.

Northern Ireland, Ulster, County Down
Place of Birth

Sir William Thomson Baron Kelvin of Largs

Born 26 June 1824. Died 17 December 1907.

Northern Ireland
Place of Birth

Scotland, Ayrshire

Nikolay Alekseevich Umov

Honorary graduate of the University of Glasgow in 1896

Born 23 January 1846. Died 15 January 1915.

Russian Federation, Ulyanovsk
Place of Birth

Russian Federation, Moscow
Place of Death

Ukraine, Odessa

Werner Weiglhofer

Born 1962. Died 12 January 2003.

Austria
Place of Birth

Norway, No Region
Place of Death

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The University of Glasgow has maintained connections with Russia from the early eighteenth century

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Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In addition to the mainland, Scotland constitutes over 790 islands including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

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The University has been welcoming South African-born students since 1822

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