page_title: List of University of Edinburgh people
section_title: Mathematics, physics and engineering
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Edinburgh people / Natural sciences, engineering and medicine / Mathematics, physics and engineering
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of Robert Stephenson published in Photographic Portraits of Living Contemporaries, July 1856
context_page_description: List of University of Edinburgh people is a list of notable graduates as well as non-graduate former students, academic staff, and university officials of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. It also includes those who may be considered alumni by extension, having studied at institutions that later merged with the University of Edinburgh. The University is associated with 19 Nobel laureates, three Turing Award laureates, an Abel Prize winner and Fields Medalist, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and three UK Prime Ministers.
context_section_description: Alexander Aitken, mathematician, worked in Hut 6 Bletchley Park decrypting the ENIGMA code, known for the Aitken's delta-squared process
  Sir Michael Atiyah FRS, mathematician, Fields Medallist in 1966, winner of Abel Prize in 2004 (Maths' equivalent of the Nobel Prize)
  Charles Glover Barkla, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (1917) for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays)
  Thomas Bayes, mathematician, known for Bayes' theorem
  Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, engineer
  George Thomas Beilby, chemical engineer
  Alexander Graham Bell, engineer and inventor of the telephone
  Isaac Lowthian Bell, metallurgist, businessman and politician
  George Parker Bidder, engineer and calculating prodigy
  James Blyth, electrical engineer and pioneer of wind power generation
  Max Born, Nobel laureate, pioneer in quantum mechanics, Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 to 1953
  David Brewster, scientist and inventor
  J. W. S. Cassels, mathematician
  Cheng Kaijia, physicist and pioneer of nuclear technology in China
  William Fothergill Cooke, engineer, founder of Electric Telegraph Company
  James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
  Klaus Fuchs, theoretical physicist and spy
  Lewis Gordon, civil engineer
  Marion Cameron Gray, mathematician
  Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate, theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor of Physics and discoverer of the Higgs Mechanism
  W. V. D. Hodge, mathematician
  Archie Howie, physicist
  Charles Hutton, mathematician
  James Jardine, civil engineer
  Fleeming Jenkin, engineer, inventor of telpherage
  Mujahid Kamran, theoretical physicist and the current vice-chancellor of the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan
  Philip Kelland, mathematician
  Tom W. B. Kibble, theoretical physicist, Sakurai Prize winner in 2010
  Alexander Carnegie Kirk, marine engineer
  Sir John Leslie, mathematician and physicist
  Colin Maclaurin, mathematician
  James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, "father of electromagnetism"
  James Newlands, civil engineer
  John Playfair, mathematician
  William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer and physicist, early contributor to the development of thermodynamics
  George Rennie, engineer
  John Rennie the Elder, civil engineer
  Marion Ross, physicist
  John Scott Russell, civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder
  John Shepherd-Barron, inventor of the automated teller machine (ATM)
  Robert Stephenson FRS, railway engineer
  Robert Stevenson, civil engineer
  Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
  David Stevenson, lighthouse designer
  Thomas Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
  Charles Alexander Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
  David Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer
  Robert Stirling, inventor of Stirling engine
  William Symington, engineer and inventor
  Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist
  Sheila Tinney, mathematical physicist
  Edmund Whittaker, mathematician
caption: Robert Stephenson
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