We are the home of Britain’s oldest literary
awards, the James Tait Black Prizes and Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be
cloned from an adult somatic cell.
It was also here at the University of Edinburgh
that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired to create his notorious character,
Sherlock Holmes and James Young Simpson pioneered anaesthetics through his
discovery of the properties of chloroform.
More recently, theoretical physicist and Professor
Emeritus Peter Higgs was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his
1964 prediction of the Higgs Boson.
Through the many achievements of its staff and
students, the University has continued to present cutting-edge research,
inspirational teaching and innovative thinking as its central ethos, attracting
some of the greatest minds from around the globe.