Historical figures in University of St Andrews
The atlas holds 4 people and 4 moments here, from 1923 to 1955. The most recorded lives are J. R. R. Tolkien, Rudyard Kipling and Maurice Wilkins. Among them Writers, Educators and Historians, across the Interwar Period and World War II.
Notable people
Alan MacDiarmid
in 1955
1 moment here
New Zealand-American chemist and 2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, known for co-developing conductive polymers.…
J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1939
1 moment here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Maurice Wilkins
in 1945
1 moment here
New Zealand-born British physicist and biophysicist whose career ran from solid-state physics and wartime atomic research to X-ray diffraction…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1923
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Moments
- 1923 Rector at the University of St Andrews Rudyard Kipling
- 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture at St Andrews J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1945 Assistant lecturer at St Andrews Maurice Wilkins
- 1955 Teaching at Queen's College, St Andrews Alan MacDiarmid