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Website. www .mcgill .ca. McGill University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, [12] the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, [13] whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College.
James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish-Canadian businessman, fur trader, land speculator, and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University in Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal West and appointed to the Executive Council of Lower Canada in 1792.
Lake Placid, New York, U.S. Nationality. Scottish - American. Scientific career. Fields. Psychiatry, Mind Control. Donald Ewen Cameron ( 24 December 1901 – 8 September 1967) [1] was a Scottish -born psychiatrist. He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical ...
Ernest Rutherford. Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, PRS, HonFRSE [7] (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics. Rutherford has been described as "the father of nuclear physics", [8] and "the greatest experimentalist since Michael ...
Maude Abbott (BA 1890) - physician and pathologist, authority on congenital heart disease, co-founder of International Academy of Pathology. Nancy J. Adler – Professor of Organizational Behavior and Samuel Bronfman Chair in Management at McGill University. Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh Shafaroudi – assistant professor in machine design and ...
The coat of arms of McGill University is the official emblem of the university and derives from a heraldic device assumed during the lifetime of the university's founder, James McGill. [1] The first iteration was designed in 1906 by Percy Nobbs, then director of the McGill School of Architecture. [2] The design subsequently varied for decades ...
Noubar Afeyan ( Western Armenian: Նուպար Աֆէեան; born in 1962) is an American-Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. [1] [2] He is best known for co-founding the biotechnology company Moderna, through his venture capital firm, Flagship Pioneering, and for co-founding humanitarian projects such as Aurora Prize and The ...
The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada. 180 candidates are admitted for any given academic year. For the year 2021 class, the acceptance rate was 10%. [4] [5] [6]